This workshop and conference will be held virtually from October 11-14, 2021 via Zoom. Registration for the conference closed on October 5th. Registered participants and panelists will receive login details via email by Saturday, October 9.
The purpose of this workshop is to create an analytical framework for understanding the complex and interconnected economies of the Ptolemaic and Roman Eastern Desert of Egypt in their geographical, social, and material contexts. The scale and extent of archaeological and historical work in the Eastern Desert of Egypt has increased exponentially in the past several decades. Major survey and excavation projects focused on all periods of Egyptian history, but especially the Ptolemaic and Roman eras, have produced vast quantities of textual and material data that has reshaped our understanding of the broader economy of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, while also raising new questions about ancient institutions, material practices and the role of different kinds of evidence in our assessment of the history of the Eastern Desert over the long term.
To this end, we are bringing together researchers who can present new syntheses of archeological data on a regional scale, while contextualizing that analysis through conversation with scholars working on other material categories and periods in the Eastern Desert’s history. The organizers are seeking papers that offer methodological, theoretical, or analytical approaches to material datasets, and avoid field reporting.
Presenters include:
Laura Aguer, Collège doctoral, Université Paris-Sorbonne – Paris IV; ERC Desert Networks Project, CNRS
Julien Cooper, Research Centre for History and Culture, Beijing Normal University & UIC
Maël Crépy, Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques/ERC Desert Networks, CNRS
Jennifer Gates-Foster, ERC Desert Networks, CNRS; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Jordi Pérez González
Joan Oller Guzmán, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Laurel Hackley, ERC Desert Networks, CNRS; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Mariola Hepa, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich; French Archaeological Mission to the Eastern Desert
Despina Iosif, Hellenic Open University, Patras
Bryan Kraemer, California State University-San Bernardino
Kate Liszka, California State University-San Bernardino
Julie Marchand, Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques, CNRS; French Archaeological Mission to the Eastern Desert
T. O. Moller, Ancient World Research Cluster, Wolfson College Oxford
Ryan Reynolds, University of California, Berkeley
Katia Schörle, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CCJ, Aix-en-Provence, France Centre Camille Jullian
Steven Sidebotham, University of Delaware
Roberta S. Tomber, British Museum
Meredith Brand, American University in Cairo
This event a is a collaboration between the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the “ Desert Networks ” project, hosted by the CNRS at the HiSoMA laboratory (Lyon, France), and which is funded by the European Research Council, ERC, within the framework of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program - grant agreement no. ° 759078.
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