Friday, April 4
MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer Street, Room 115
6:00 pm Keynote Presentation
The Legacy of Ancient Paths: Roads and the Globalization of the Roman World
Bruce Hitchner (Tufts University)
Saturday, April 5
MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer Street, Room 115
9:00 am: Beyond the Mediterranean
1. From the Indus Countries to the Mediterranean: Administration and Logistics on the High Roads of the Achaemenid Empire
Pierre Briant (Collège de France, Paris)
2. Trans-Saharan Trade in African History and Historiography
Pekka Masonen (University of Tampere, Finland)
11:00 am: Imperial Networks
3. Linking the Realm: the Gokaido Highway Network in Early Modern Japan (1603-1868)
Constantine Vaporis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
4. Roads in Late Antiquity: Graph-theoretic Techniques for Quantitative Comparative History
Michael Maas and Derek Ruths (Rice University)
12:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm: Private and Public
5. Privatising the Network: Private Contributions towards Infrastructure Maintenance in China from the Tenth Century
Nanny Kim (Heidelberg University, Germany)
6. Jews and News: the Interaction of Private and Official Communication-networks in Jewish History
Adam Silverstein (University of Oxford, U.K.)
4:30 pm: Imperial Comparisons
7. On Inca and Roman Roads
Catherine Julien (Western Michigan University)
8. Roads Not Featured: a Roman Failure to Communicate?
Richard Talbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Sunday, April 6
MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer Street, Room 115
9:00 am: Memory and Pathways
9. The Well-remembered Path: Roadways and Cultural Memory in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Jennifer Gates-Foster (University of Texas, Austin)
10. Road Deities and Road Cults in the Early Empires in China
Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
11. Obliterated Itineraries: Moving Through the Pueblo Landscape
James Snead (George Mason University)
11:30 am: Round Table Discussion
Sue Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard Talbert, presiding