Coord.: Dirce MARZOLI (DAI-Madrid), Laurent CALLEGARIN (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid)
Org.: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Madrid), École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid)
Coll.: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
Workshop venue:
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Madrid)
Casa de Velázquez (Madrid)
See description in french, spanish, german.
Presentation
The doctoral workshop is organized in the context of the scientific collaboration that for several years now, involves the German Archaeologic Institute at Madrid and l’École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), permitting young investigators to benefit from an area for exchanges. The theme of this new session focuses on the long distance trade, local exchanges and means of payment in the West during Antiquity.
The presentation of the workshop is intentionally open in order to promote an interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue. It comes here to treat Trade in Antiquity in a multiscalar approach, i.e. both Mediterranean and European-wide local. Will be considered strategies and commercial networks, the actors and the terms of trade, as well as places and means of trade. The study of these different aspects will require to ask about the nature of the economy practiced in ancient times.
Thematic fields
-The commercial Network. Trade routes sea and land; sea shipping / road network; the terms of trade at long distance (commercial relays, mansiones); strategies for multiscalar trade (private companies, the role of the State, the service of the Annone, trade treaties and contracts...).
-Exchange actors. Traders and business people (Phoenicians, Greeks, Etruscans, Iberians, Romans, Celts...); professions of trade (brokers, dealers, bankers...); Who sponsors? Who performs? Who buys?
-Exchange places. Merchant contact places; bulk breaking places; Exchange places (emporia, port, city, market, sanctuaries and temples...) and the terms of trade (neutrality of places, asylia); the commercial infrastructures (from the exploitation places to places of storage and sale).
-Products and instruments trade. Products researched and exchanged; trade in raw, semi-finished and finished products; the relationship between trade and transfer of technology (innovations); the terms of trade; the units of account and weight units, pre-monetary and monetary values (currency in weight, minted currency, monetary parity), the status of metals (gold / silver / bronze)
The purpose of this workshop is to raise a scientific and methodological thought about economy in the antique World. This workshop is especially dedicated to doctoral students in history, archaeology and in historic anthropology, from universities and research centres of all Europe and the Maghreb. In addition, through a multidisciplinary approach, it aims to create an area for exchanges, experiences and analysis of the investigation practices in many different geographical contexts.
This way, each participant will have the opportunity to become actively involved in the enrichment of the exchanges presenting their doctoral research, working as a group and participating in a collective thought, with the support of international prestigious experienced colleagues.
Participants
Supervisors:
María Paz García Bellido, CSIC, Madrid
Carlos Fabião , Universidade de Lisboa
Pierre-Yves Milcent, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
David Wigg-Wolf, Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Frankfurt a.M.
Number of places: 15
Practical working conditions
There is no registration fee.
The candidates will have to fill out the on line registration form before April 17th 2016 (midnight).
The coordinators will inform them by mail on April 22th whether or not they are accepted. The Casa de Velázquez will accommodate the 15 retained candidates from 12 to 17 June, offering (to those who don’t live in Madrid) an accommodation in a sharing double room (with breakfast), lunch and visits. Travelling expenses and dinners are to be paid by the participants.
The Casa de Velázquez and the DAI-Madrid offer 3 scholarships of 300 € each one to students who are enrolled in a higher educational establishment of the Maghreb.
Workshop languages: spanish, french, german, english, portuguese and italian.
