Colloquium: Oxford Roman Economy Project

THE OXFORD ROMAN ECONOMY PROJECT Directors: Alan Bowman, Andrew Wilson

APPROACHES TO QUANTIFYING THE ROMAN ECONOMY
Colloquium, Wednesday 27 September, 2006
Classics Centre, Old Boys' School, George Street

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
9:00 Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson: "Growth,
Integration, Decline?"
9:30 Elio Lo Cascio: "Urbanisation as a proxy
of demographic and economic growth."
Respondent: Roger Bagnall
10:30 Tea / Coffee

11:00 Lisa Fentress: "Peopling the countryside:
Roman demography in the Albegna Valley and Jerba."
Respondent: David Mattingly
12:00 Alan Bowman: "Quantifying Egyptian
Agriculture."
Respondent: Chris Wickham

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Andrew Wilson: "Approaches to quantifying
Roman trade"
Respondent: William Harris
15:00 Dominic Rathbone: "Earnings and costs:
living standards and the Roman economy."
Respondent: Bob Allen
16:00 Tea / Coffee

16:30 Matthew Ponting: "Roman silver coinage:
mints, metallurgy, and production."
Respondent: Chris Howgego
17:30 Closing remarks
18.00 Drinks


The colloquium is an open event, free of charge, although numbers are
restricted to about 60. If you would like to attend, please register as soon
as possible by email to alan.bowman@classics.ox.ac.uk and copy to
myrto.malouta@classics.ox.ac.uk

Source: Papy-L 8/1/06