Antiquities to Compare? From the Mediterranean to China

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Program

FRIDAY, 10^th OF JUNE, 2022

9:00-9:30

Introduction: LIN Zhipeng 林志鹏 and Julien ZURBACH

9:30-11:15

SESSION 1.
Agricultural transformations and urbanization in the first millennium BC
Moderator: HUANG Yang 黄洋 (Fudan University)
Commentator: LIN Zhipeng 林志鹏 (Fudan University)

ZHOU Ligang 周立刚 (Henan Provincial Institute of Culture Heritage and Archaeology) and TIAN Chengfang 田成方 (Zhengzhou University)

中国东周时期（770-221BC）城市化对农业结构的影响.
The Effect of Urbanization on Agricultural Structure in the Eastern Zhou period (770-221BC), China.

Julien FAGUER (École française d’Athènes)

Cities and the Transformation of Agrarian Economies in the Aegean in the First Millenium BCE.
公元前一千纪爱琴海地区的城市与农业经济变迁

Discussion on session 1

11:30-13:15

SESSION 2.
Metal economy in the Bronze age
Moderator: Olivier VENTURE 风仪诚 (EPHE)
Commentator: ZHU Jiping 朱继平  (Shanghai University)

YI Desheng 易德生 (Hubei Academy of Social Sciences)

商王朝对青铜原料的控制与交通线（“金道锡行”）的形成
Methods of Controlling Bronze Raw Materials and the Formation of Transportation Routes (“Copper-Tin Routes”) of the Shang Dynasty.

Julien ZURBACH (ENS)

Bronze in the Late Bronze age palace economy.
青铜时代晚期雅典宫廷经济中的青铜

Discussion on session 2

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SATURDAY, 11^th OF JUNE, 2022

8:00-9:45

SESSION 3.
Roads
Moderator: OUYANG Xiaoli 欧阳晓莉 (Fudan University)
Commentator: WANG Jinfeng 王进锋 (East China Normal University)

Jordan CHRISTOPHER (Munster University)

Establishing the Arteries of Empire: A Comparison of the Development of Roadbuilding Traditions in Ancient Rome and Early China.
铺设帝国之路：古罗马和早期中国道路建设传统的对比研究

Louise DORSO (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Routes, Itineraries and Outlets between Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula (9^th-6^th centuries BCE).
美索不达米亚平原和阿拉伯半岛间（公元前9-6世纪）的路线、行程和关.

Discussion on session 3

10:00-11:45

SESSION 4.
Networks to state
Moderator: JIN Shoufu 金寿福  (Fudan University)
Commentator: MA Menglong 马孟龙 (Fudan University)

Maxim KOROLKOV (Heidelberg University)

From Connectivity to Conquest: Trajectories from Interaction Space to Territorial State to Empire in East Asia, ca. 1000–200 BCE.
从联通到征服：公元前约1000年至公元前200年的东亚——从互动空间、领土型国家到帝国的发展轨迹. 

Juan Carlos MORENO GARCÍA (CNRS)

Regions and State-building in Ancient Egypt during the Bronze Age: An Uncomfortable Balance.
青铜时代古埃及的地区和国家建构：不安定的平衡

Discussion on session 4

12:30-13:45

SESSION 5.
Broader perspectives
Moderator: Julien ZURBACH (ENS)
Commentator: WANG Zhongxiao 王忠孝 (Fudan University)

YOU Yifei 游逸飞 (Chung Hsing University)

西周与罗马——从殖民、分裂与郡县的发展阶段看中西历史异同.
Western Zhou and Rome: Historical Similarities and Differences between China and the West in Colonization, Division, and the Development of the Commandery-county System.

Conclusions and general discussion