Voordracht in het kader van de studiedag 'Romeinse Beschaving', georganiseerd door IFESE VZW (Instituut voor Filosofische en Sociaalwetenschappelijke Educatie'

https://youtu.be/1QLxc9tWZbc?feature=shared 

ontwerpen van infopaneel en educatief pakket over de voormalige archeologische site 'Gent Hogeweg' (28 maart tot 1 april 2022)

Lezing voor 'Uitstraling Permanente Vorming VZW' (Gent, Het Geuzenhuis 19/02/2020)

VUB Uitstraling Permanente Vorming (Brussel, 17/01/2019)

Workshop met antieke munten gehouden tijdens de Verbondsdag van het Nederlands Klassiek Verbond, Gent 14 mei 2022

lezing voor het Koninklijk Belgisch Genootschap voor Numismatiek 16/10/2021

Blogbericht over een veronderstelde nieuwe Romeinse keizer die ontdekt zou zijn.

Blogpost over een veronderstelde nieuw ontdekte Romeinse keizer

Nicolas Solonakis, Surplus, subsistence and shortage. The grain supply of the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean, be-tween agrarian economy, markets and civic institutions, UGent, 22 September 2017

Miriam Groen-Vallinga, The Roman World of Work. Social Structures and the Urban Labour Market of Roman Italy in the First Three Centuries AD, University of Leiden, 24 May 2017

Ruben Menten-Plesters, Weaving the Threads. The Patterns of the Textile Industry in Roman Egypt, VUB, 9 May 2017

Mick Stringer, Words, numbers and economic rationalism: The influence of language and accounting frameworks on agricultural decision making in Ancient Rome from Cato to Pliny the Younger, University of Reading, 16 December 2016

Loonis Logghe, The tribuni plebis and the end of the Roman Republic, Ghent University, 27 September 2016

Takashi Hasegawa, Les commerçants et les transporteurs dans la société des provinces gauloises et germaniques de l’Empire Romain (Ier siècle avant n.è. – III siècle de n.è.), Thèse de doctorat en « Histoire, langues, littératures anciennes », Université de Bordeaux Monteigne, 27 novembre 2015.

4 week research stay as part of a one year sabbatcal (2022-2023)

2 term research stay as part of a one year sabbatcal (2022-2023)

Lezing voor symposium naar aanleiding van die viering van het 100-jarig bestaan van het Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis

The diversity of ancient associations is well known and various classifications have been proposed to study the phenomenon. Many have noted, explicitly or not, the major difference between collegia and informal groups of ‘friends’ or worshippers of the same deity, viz. the existence of formal rules to distinguish members from non-members and to regulate in-group relations and interactions. A collegium endures because it has a regulatory framework that transcends the individual members. Few, however, have questioned this distinctive feature of collegia. It is noted but taken mostly taken for granted. But can we really? Any regulatory framework requires efforts: to devise the rules and roles, to abide by them, to punish rule-breakers. Why bother? Why did ancient Greek and Roman commoners join or create collegia?

Talk at international conference Trust as an Economic Resource in the Ancient Market Economy (Trier)

International Conference, Managing Asymmetric Information in the Roman Economy, 

Sevilla 18-19 October 2018

This paper studies the role of information as a determinant of the performance of the Roman financial system. I extend the traditional transaction cost approach by using a broader concept borrowed from organisation sciences: ‘Information Governance System’ (IGS). Information governance comprises all socially or formally instituted processes that regulate the production, circulation, valuation, storage, retrieval, and processing of information. The concept of IG system denotes how these processes are structured and which rule sets define them. I argue that the institutional framework of the Roman empire offered procedures for information governance that supported the development of a market for financial services. This public order IGS, however, required considerable knowledge and skills. As in late medieval Europe it led to the emergence of financial specialists. As such it was a positive determinant for the economic growth we see documented in the material record.

2016/04/21-22, Toronto: “Workplace cultures”, at: A Cultural History of Work in Antiquity

Dr. John Creighton’s research centres upon Later Iron Age and Early Roman NW Europe. His books include: ‘Silchester: changing visions of a Roman Town’ (2016); ‘Britannia: the creation of a Roman Province’ (2005); ‘Coins & Power in Late Iron Age Britain’ (2000), Celti: the archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica (with Simon Keay and Jose Remesal, 2001), and he has co-edited the volume Roman Germany: Studies in Cultural Interaction (1999).

His fieldwork has included work in Britain, France, Germany and Spain. Including projects with Colin Haselgrove and Tom Moore, examining the landscape in the vicinity of the Iron Age oppidum of Mont Beuvray (Bibract) and the Roman town of Autun in Burgundy; and also a large fieldsurvey and digitisation project of the Roman town and hinterland of Silchester (Hampshire) leading to a major reinterpretation and synthesis of the site.

John is currently engaged on a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2020-22) ‘Money and the rise of inequality and the market in northern Europe‘ which sees him returning to writing about the nature of coinage and society in the Iron Age and Roman period.

He was Director the Society of Antiquaries of London (2010-16) and has been a trustee of the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and has sat on the grant awarding committees of all those organisations.

Luigi Oddo is a PhD candidate in Economics and Political Economy and a Research Fellow in Monetary Economics at the University of Genoa. Previously visiting PhD student at the University of Zagreb, he attended several specialization courses, among others a Summer School on long-run economic development at the London School of Economics and at Barcelona GSE on time series methods for macroeconomic analysis.
He is majored in Economic Development in pre-industrial societies, covering a period form the Roman world to the early modern age. Applying quantitative approaches as VAR macro-econometrics models and Wavelet non-linear analysis, he studies the emergence of different models of economic growth in the preindustrial world.
He has two ongoing research projects. In the first one, starting from the works of Angus Maddison he analyses the role of long-distance trade in the early Roman Empire, showing that Roman economy owned high level of markets integration and labour specialization to overcome the Malthusian Trap. In his second working paper, he studies the economic consequences of the Antonine Plague in Roman Egypt using a non-linear empirical approach. Results show how extra-economic measures adopted by landowners in league with roman officers and administrators, might have biased markets’ self-regulated system, preventing strong fluctuations in production and in labour market during the “Great Pestilence”.
His working paper Did long-distance trade trigger Smithian growth in the Roman world? An extension of Maddison’s estimates was presented at the 61st Annual Conference of the Italian Economic Association, 20-23 October 2020.
He is author of the article Pandemie e rivoluzioni: il caso della “Peste” Antonina (2020) and of the book review (actually in print) Capital, Investment and Innovation in the Roman world edit by Oxford University Press.
About monetary economics he is author of the article A comparative analysis of the monetary policy transmission channels in the U.S: a wavelet-based approach (2021), published on “Applied Economics”.

Taco Terpstra is a socioeconomic historian of ancient Rome. His core research focuses on Roman long-distance trade, specifically on the question of how merchants organized their business to overcome the problems posed by preindustrial conditions. He is the author of Trading Communities in the Roman World: A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective (Brill, 2013) as well as a number of articles on Roman trade. His teaching includes courses on Roman economic history and the archaeology of Roman Campania. In 2015-16 he will be a Fellow at Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, where he will be working on a second book project. He has been awarded a Loeb Classical Library Fellowship for 2016-17.

Dr. Paola Tomasi is a Latin Epigrapher at Università degli Studi di Pavia. She has been a Visiting Research Student at UCL (2012), Visiting Research Associate at King's College (2013) in London, Visiting Fellow at BBAW -Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum in Berlin (2013) and at the Institute of Classical Studies-School of Advanced Studies, University of London (2014). Her research interests encompass multiple aspects of Roman civilization on which she published various contributions: Baths and water management, Pharmacology, Cosmetics and Drug Lore, Indigenous cults and their Roman interpretatio in the epigraphic habit of Cisalpine Gaul, and Collegia and labour organization.

During the autoptic survey of Laus Pompeia's epigraphic corpus, she rediscovered an unpublished fragment of a tabula patronatus, which she successfully identified as a matching part of AE 1987, 464. Thanks to this discovery, she was awarded the Géza Alföldy-Stipend, funded by AIEGL and she chose the RSRC as host institution for the awarded research period, in order to partake in the multifarious activities undertaken within the framework of the Structural Determinants of Economic Performance in the Roman World’s project.

Cam Hawkins specializes in the social and economic history of the Roman world, with a particular interest in the urban economy and the organisation of craftsmen workshops. He has a forthcoming book on Work in the City: Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy that explores the nature of the urban economy in which artisans in the Roman world sought to earn a living and the strategies they adopted in order to stay in business. His research is broadly comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing on the economic history of medieval and early modern Europe, economic anthropology and transaction cost theory.