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Guest lecturer
Managing the Economy of Roman and Late Antique Egypt
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The 4 conferences, originally scheduled for June 2021, have been postponed to the 2021-2022 academic year:
- may 10, 2022: The Shape of the Labor Force
- may 13, 2022: Forming the Managerial Class
- may 18, 2022: Identifying the Managers
- may 25, 2022: The Manager at Work
This lecture series will focus on economic management in Roman-Byzantine Egypt. It aims to reconstruct the functioning and organization of the economy (agriculture, crafts, trade), taking into account its social and cultural aspects (in particular, the formation of the managerial class, which new documents, recently discovered or identified, provide a better understanding of). This will be the first systematic synthesis on this subject, covering such a wide chronological arc and taking into account the important papyrological discoveries made in this field in recent decades (among others, in the oases of Egypt's western desert, where the lecturer has directed excavations).
Roger S. Bagnall is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Jean-Luc Fournet.
