Key note
Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine)
Paper: Cashlessness, Ancient and Modern
List of speakers
Lorenz Rahmstorf (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)
Paper: Entangled conceptions of value, weight and money in Copper and Bronze Age societies: examples from Europe and Western Asia
Suzanne Frey-Kupper (University of Warwick)
Paper: Coin finds from classical sites: the coffee grounds of numismatics?
Scott Fitzpatrick (University of Oregon)
Paper: Traditional Money in Oceania
Hans Ulrich Vogel (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Paper: "Coment le Grant Kaan fait despendre chartre por monoie": Currencies under Kublai Khan (1215-1294) as Reported by Marco Polo and in Chinese Sources
Lynn H. Gamble (University of California Santa Barbara)
Paper: The Entangled Life of Shell Beads in North America
Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of York) & Jeffrey Fleisher (Rice University)
Paper: Aspects of value in Swahili coinage
Mark A. Hall (Perth Museum and Art Gallery)
Paper: Pennies from Heaven: Money in Ritual in Medieval Europe
Josephus Platenkamp (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Paper: Money alive and money dead. On the cosmology of money transfers in the North Moluccas (Indonesia)
All are welcome. There is no formal registration, but indication of intent to attend would be useful for planning purposes.
Exhibition
A special exhibition of traditional monies from Africa, Asia and Oceania which illustrate the broad workshop’s theme can be visited at the Institut für Klassische Archäologie during the workshop.
Arranged in association with:
Universitätsbund Tübingen e.V.
The Leverhulme Trust
Tracing Networks Programme, University of Leicester
Baden-Württembergische Bank
The Strathmartine Trust
Contact
For more information or to register your intent to attend, please contact the co-organiser, Stefan Krmnicek, Universität Tübingen:
Stefan.Krmnicek@uni–tuebingen.de