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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, April 17, 2026 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
  \n 100 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St. George Street, Toronto\
 , ON M5R 2M8 \n\nDescription: \nSlavery was a ubiquitous feature of the pr
 emodern Mediterranean world, and its impacts were equally extensive, aff
 ecting not only slave societies, but also shaping peripheral communities 
 from which people were taken, traded, and transformed into property. “Ne
 w Approaches to Slaving and Slave-Trading in the Roman World” attempts to 
 grapple with this wide history of premodern Mediterranean slavery. The con
 ference assembles a group of historians, archaeologists, and paleogeneti
 cists to think about how to view and understand the fuller impacts of Medi
 terranean slaving prior to the opening of the Transatlantic world. Papers 
 move from the Bronze and Iron Age through the Roman Empire and the Medieva
 l period, and concentrate on both the core and peripheral areas, from It
 aly to the Viking North, Syria to Spain, and beyond. Recently developed 
 methodologies, especially paleogenetics, are now present exciting new wa
 ys of thinking about human movement, and when placed in dialogue with his
 torical and archaeological approaches can yield new insights on the routes
  and impacts of premodern slave-trading. Thus, the conference hopes to de
 epen understanding of slavery’s full impacts on the premodern Mediterranea
 n region and development a new, multi-disciplinary approach to its study.
  This conference is supported by the JHI's Program for the Arts.APRIL 15 4
 :00 – 6:00 Remarks followed by opening receptionAPRIL 16Historical and Arc
 haeological Approaches9:00-9:30 Conference Introduction: Elizabeth Fentres
 s, “How do we know they were slaves?” 9:30-10:00 Sarah C. Murray, “Peopl
 e as Property in Prehistoric Greece” 10:00-10:30 Bettina Arnold and Manuel
  Fernandez-Götz, “Slavery in Iron Age temperate Europe” 10:30-10:45 Discu
 ssion 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:30 David Lewis, “Syria and the 
 Hellenistic Slave Trade” 11:30-12:00 Adam Rabinowitz, “The elusive Black 
 Sea slave in the Greek world: a portage around the historiographical rapid
 s” 12:00-12:30 Seth Bernard, “Complexity Science and the Origins of Roman
  Slavery” 12:30-1:00 Discussion 1:00 – 2:30 Lunch 2:30-3:00 Christer Bruun
 , “New insights on slaving in the Roman Empire from Epigraphy” 3:00-3:30 
 Rebecca Redfern, “Bioarchaeological perspectives on captive taking and en
 slavement in the Roman empire” 3:30-3:45 Discussion 3:45-4:15 Eduardo Manz
 ano, “To what extent were early Islamic societies based on slavery?” 4:15
 -4:45 Craig Perry, “Slaving, State Formation, and Political Economy in 
 Northeast Africa and the Islamic Middle East” 4:45-5:30 DiscussionAPRIL 17
 The Role of Archeogenetics9:00-9:30 Ben Raffield, “Slavers from the North
 : The Dynamics of Raiding, Slaving, and Trading in the Viking World” 9:3
 0-10:00 Hannah Moots, “Slavery in the Roman, Late Antique, and Medieval
  Mediterranean: Insights from Interdisciplinary Ancient DNA Research” 10:0
 0-10:15 Discussion 10:15-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-11:15 Eugenia D’Atanasio
 , Ileana Micarelli, Beniamino Trombetta, 'What ancient DNA can and cann
 ot tell us about past mobility and slavery: examples from Medieval Italy” 
 11:15-11:45 Samantha Cox, Margaret Andrews, Francesca Candillio, Elizab
 eth Fentress, and David Reich, “The genetic background of infant burials
  from the slave barracks on the Imperial estate of Villa Magna (Italy)” 11
 :45-12:00 Discussion 12:00-12:30 Zuzanna Hofmanova, “Ancient DNA and Mobi
 lity in Early Medieval Europe: Implications for the Study of Slave Trading
 ” 12:30-1:00 Michael McCormick, Response on Archaeogenetics and Ancient S
 lavery: “Thinking about the enslaved in a time of discovery” 1:00-1:15 Dis
 cussion 1:15-3:00 Lunch 3:00-5:30 Roundtable, Closing Discussion: Michael
  Dietler Kyle Harper Alice Rio Paul Lovejoy \n\nSponsors \nJackman Humanit
 ies Institute, University of Toronto \n170 St. George Street, Toronto, 
 ON M5R 2M8 \n\nCategories \n ConferenceJHI Event \n\nAudiences \n Graduate
  StudentsPostdocsResearchersFacultyStudents
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T090000
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LOCATION:170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
SUMMARY:New Approaches to Slaving and Slave-Trading In The Ancient and Medi
 eval Mediterranean (Day 3)
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/new-approaches-slavi
 ng-and-slave-trading-ancient-and-medieval-mediterranean-day-3
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