Conference papers
‘4,000 years of wages and well-being’
International Francqui
Colloquium Quantification in the long run in Mediterranean ancient history,
tbd
International conference on
ancient maritime technology,
tbd
Conference on early empires
and belief systems,
‘Comparing
International conference Tributary empire –
comparative histories,
‘Why and how to compare
ancient empires’
Presidential panel Promises and pitfalls of comparative and crossdisciplinary histories of the ancient world, Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 9, 2009
‘Interaction and peripheries: response’
International conference on Xiongnu archaeology,
‘The economic consequences of the Antonine Plague: further considerations’
International conference L’impatto della
“peste antonina”,
‘Agriculture, settlement systems, and urban studies: comments on economic performance’
International
conference Too much data? Generalizations and model-building
in ancient economic history on the basis of large corpora of documentary
evidence,
‘
International seminar Perspectives
on empire: local power and global comparisons, Saxo
Institute, University of
‘Monogamy and polygyny
in
International conference Cross-cultural
approaches to family and household structures in the ancient world,
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,
‘Cultural evolution and the historian’
Workshop The role of variation in cultural change: updates in cultural
evolution, Santa Fe Institute,
‘How to make ancient history programs less ancient’
Panel on Graduate
training for the ancient historian: or how best to study ancient history in the
21st century?, Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association,
‘The ancient economy since Moses Finley’
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,
‘Demography and human development in the Roman world’
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,
‘Empire and the Great Divergence’
Ancient and modern
imperialisms: Workshop II,
‘Epigraphy and demography: birth, marriage, family, and death’
Plenary lecture, XIII International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford (UK), September 4, 2007
‘Roman population size: the logic of the debate’
International conference Peasants, citizens and soldiers: the social, economic and demographic background to the Gracchan land reforms, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Leiden (NL), June 29, 2007
‘The monetary economies of the Roman and Han empires’
Annual
Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians,
‘Contextualizing disease in the ancient world’
Keynote address, International
conference Disease in global environmental history,
‘
Golden Jubilee Conference Aspects of empire, Classical Association of South Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (South Africa), July 3, 2007
Berkeley-Stanford colloquium New
approaches to ancient imperialism,
International conference Universal
empire and historical sociology,
‘Introduction: wages and costs’
International conference Approaches
to quantifying the Roman economy,
[with V. Skirbekk and H.-P. Kohler] ‘From large, wealthy families to childless success?’
Annual Meeting of the Social
Science History Association,
European population conference 2006, Liverpool (UK), June 22, 2006
‘Estimating population sizes’
International Studies Association
workshop Measuring and modeling cycles of
state formation, decline and upward sweeps since the Bronze Age,
Conference Imperial republics? Ancient
‘Towards a comparative study of monarchical succession and dynastic continuity’
International conference Royal
courts and capitals,
‘The monetary systems of the Han and Roman empires’
Third International Conference
on Ancient History,
International conference Institutions
of empire: comparative perspectives on ancient Chinese and Mediterranean
history,
International conference The nature of ancient money, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 8, 2005
‘Military commitments and political bargaining in ancient Greece’
Workshop on Military organization and political regimes in classical Greece, Yale University, New Haven, CT, December 5, 2004
‘The economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world: a comparative approach’
International conference Slave
systems, ancient and modern, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and
Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway (
‘The demography of Roman state formation and culture change in Italy’
International
conference Herrschaft ohne
Integration? Rom und Italien in republikanischer Zeit,
Technical University of Dresden (
‘Is Darwinian history possible?’
Annual Meeting of the Human
Behavior and Evolution Society,
[with B. Rogers] ‘“Actually, no-wheeling is more my specialty:” why Buffy doesn’t drive’
Slayage
Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
‘Coercion,
capital, and ancient Mediterranean states’
European Social Science
History Conference,
‘War-making and state-making
in the ancient
International workshop on ‘Cosmic’
empire and the sociology of heterogeneous power, Department of History,
‘The
interdependence of demographic and economic development in the Greco-Roman
world’
Annual Meeting of the American
Philological Association,
‘Stratification, deprivation
and quality of life’
International conference Poverty
in the Roman world, Cambridge (UK), July 24, 2003
‘How to be
incestuous: the emotional context of sibling marriage in Roman Egypt’
Annual Meeting of the
American Philological Association,
‘Creating a metropolis: a
comparative demographic perspective’
International conference Ancient Alexandria: between Greece and Egypt, Center for
the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 11, 2002
‘Demography’
International conference The
‘How to be
incestuous: towards an explanation of full sibling marriage in Roman Egypt’
Annual meeting of the Human
Behavior and Evolution Society, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, June 20,
2002
Annual Meeting of the
Association of Ancient Historians,
‘The scale of mobility’
Symposium on The
corrupting sea,
‘Demographic change and
economic development: the case of Roman Egypt after the ‘Antonine
plague’’
26th Annual Meeting of the
Social Science History Association,
‘The demographic background
of the Greek expansion’
International workshop Griechische Archaik zwischen Ost und West: interne
und externe Impulse,
‘The demography of the
Spartan helots’
International workshop Helots
and their masters in
‘Brother-sister and
parent-child marriage in pre-modern societies’
International conference Human mate choice and prehistoric marital
networks,
‘Money and finance in the
Greco-Roman world: views and controversies’
25th Anniversary Meeting of the
Social Science History Association,
‘Ancient empires and sexual
exploitation: a Darwinian perspective’
International conference Empire and exploitation in the ancient
Mediterranean,
‘Death and disease in
pre-modern
Médecine et démographie dans
le monde antique: colloque international d’Arras, Université d’Artois,
‘The slave population of
Roman Italy: speculation and constraints’
International conference Comparative approaches to ancient slavery,
Cambridge (UK), July 17, 1999
Journée d’Etude: Rôle des dépendants dans l’économie romaine antique, Université
de Lille 3,
‘Agriculture, health and
population size in
Incontro internazionale di studio: Demografia, sistemi agrari, regimi alimentari nel mondo antico, Università
degli studi di
‘When a free labourer is like a slave:
International conference Kerdos: the economics of gain in the ancient Greek
world, Cambridge (UK), May 30, 1997
[with
P. Garnsey] ‘The demography of some ancient cemetery
populations near
International conference Population size and demographic structure in
the ancient world, Cambridge (UK), May 24, 1997
‘The demography of Roman
slavery and manumission’
International conference Population size and demographic structure in
the ancient world, Cambridge (UK), May 24, 1997
Premier colloque international de démographie historique antique, Université
d’Artois,
‘Grain cultivation in the
villa economy of Roman Italy’
International conference Landuse in the Roman empire,
‘Feldarbeit
von Frauen in der antiken Landwirtschaft’
Meeting of Austrian Ancient
Historians,
Invited lectures
‘Rome, China, and the end of the past’
Istituto Italiano
di Storia Antica,
‘The wolf and the dragon: empire
in ancient
Settle-Cadenhead Memorial Lecture, Department of History, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, November 6, 2008
‘Fachwissenschaftlicher
Kurs 2008: Antike Demographie’
Kommission für
Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik
des Deutschen Archäologischen
Instituts,
‘No laughing matter either: income, growth and inequality in the Roman economy, or why the Romans needed a sense of humor’
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Graduate
Group,
‘Sex and empire, monogamy and polygyny’
Department of Classics,
‘New currents in the study of the ancient economy’
Department of Economic
History,
‘Ancient demography and
human wellbeing’
Department of Economics,
‘Imperial state formation in
eastern and western
Santa Fe Institute,
‘The relative durability of
the Roman and Chinese empires’
School of Global Studies,
‘Continuity and change in
human demography: the contribution of ancient history’
Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies,
‘
Department of Classics,
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
Department of Classics,
Department of Classics,
‘The ‘Golden Age’ of Roman
Italy’
Departement Klassieke
Studies, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Leuven (
Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Leiden (NL), February 10, 2006
‘The nature of money in
ancient
Department of History,
Department of History,
‘Brother-sister and
parent-child marriage in world history’
College of History and Culture,
Department of History,
‘Disease and demography in
the ancient world’
College of History and Culture,
Department of History,
[with R. Saller] ‘Biology or culture? Understanding the ancient family’
Harper Lecture, University of Chicago Alumni Association, San Francisco, CA, May 4, 2002, and Palo Alto, CA, May 5, 2002
‘Death on the
Department of Classics,
Department of History,
‘How to be incestuous’
Human Genetics Society of
Australasia,
Community and Identity in
Greco-Roman Egypt, Annual colloquium of the Chicago Consortium in Ancient History,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 6, 2001
‘Sex and empire: a Darwinian
view’
Ancient Societies Workshop, Department of Classics,
‘Continuity and change in
Mediterranean demography from antiquity to the modern period’
Department of Demography,
Demography Workshop,
‘“The most excellent thing
of all“: brother-sister and parent-child marriage in the ancient world’
Classical Society of Otago,
Department of Classics,
Departments of History, Classics,
and Sociology, and Initiative in Population Research,
‘Modelling
Roman slavery’
Ancient Societies Workshop:
Ancient slavery,
‘Demography and statistics
in ancient history’
Department of Classics,
‘Death on the Tiber, death
on the
Department of Classical
Studies,
Department of Classics,
Department of History,
Departments of Classics and
History,
‘Komparative
und interdisziplinäre Ansätze
in der Alten Geschichte’
Habilitationskolloquium Karl-Franzens-Universität
‘Future,
what future? Evidence and models, fashions and choice’
Ancient Societies Workshop:
The ancient economy, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA,
November 11, 1999
Dutch National Seminar in
Ancient History, De toekomst
van de antieke economie –
The future of the ancient economy, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Leiden (NL), September 22, 1997
‘Brother-sister and
parent-child marriage in Roman Egypt and Zoroastrian
Bloomsbury Summer School,
Department of History,
Cambridge Group for the
History of Population and Social Structure,
‘Incest in biology and
history’
PCT Society,
‘Sexualität,
Ehe und Sklaverei: zu einem zentralen
Aspekt persönlicher Unfreiheit’
Akademie der
Wissenschaften und der Literatur in
‘Darwinian history, or History as sex’
Humanities and Social
Sciences Group,
‘Papyri, Magi, and genes: an
interdisciplinary view of brother-sister and parent-child marriage in the
ancient world’
Department of History,
Centre for Research in East Roman
Studies, University of
Department of History,
Department of Classical
Studies,
Departments of Classics and
History,
‘Rural labour
and the stereotype of women’s life in the Graeco-Roman
world’
Department of History,
Department of History,
‘Die wirtschaftlichen
Funktionen von Sklavinnen’
Institut für
Alte Geschichte, Universität
‘Die Stellung
der Frau in der antiken Landwirtschaft’
Department of History,