Final program – Law, Trade and the Sea: Discovering Maritime Trade in the Roman World

Thursday, 12th of September

12:00-12:45 Lunch (Helsinki collegium common room (3rd floor, fabianinkatu 24A, for speakers and organisers)

12.45-13.00 Welcome and opening words: Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz and Peter Candy

Session 1. Contracts in the Maritime World

13:00-14: 00, Keynote: Roberto Fiori (“Tor Vergata” University, Rome)

Title: “The allocation of risk in carriage-by-sea contracts”.

14:00-14:30 Coffee break

Chair: TBD

14:30-14:50. Nikol Žiha (University of Osijek, Croatia) “Insuring the risky business of Roman maritime trade”

10 min discussion

15:00-15:20. Valerio Massimo Minale (Universita Bocconi, Milan) “D. 14.2.9: Volusius Maecianus on the Lex Rhodia de iactu”
10 min discussion

Session 2. Ports and Trade Infrastructure

15:30-16:30. Keynote: Peter Campbell (British School at Rome)

Title: “Ships and ports: Contingent movement in maritime landscapes”

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

Chair: Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz (Helsinki Collegium for advanced studies)

17:00-17:20. Lyuba Radulova (University of Sofia) “Maritime and Land Import – Notes on the Caunus Customs Regulation”
10 min discussion
17:30-17:50. Gabriele Cifani (École normale supérieure – Paris) “The origins of Roman maritime trade (6th-4th century BC): technology and institutions”
10 min discussion
18:00-18:20. Nicolas Solonakis (Universite Bordeaux-Montaigne) “Imperial interventions on overseas supply and the role of the patrimonium
Caesaris : a sectorial dirigisme ?”
10 min discussion

19:00. Dinner (for keynotes, organisers and speakers)

Friday, 13^th of September

Session 3. Human Context of Trade

9:30-10:30. Keynote: Annalisa Marzano (University of Reading, UK)

Title: The personal infrastructure of maritime trade

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Chair: Peter Candy (University of Edinburgh)

11:00-11:20. Philip De Souza (University College Dublin) “Maritime Security in the Roman World: Ideals and Realities”
10 min discussion
11:30-11:50. Ido Israelowich (Tel Aviv University) “Legal remedies for shipping by sea: materia medica and nutriments as a case in point”
10 min discussion
12:00-12:20. Stamatia Galata (University of Liverpool) “Mare Clausum”: Sailing during wintertime”
10 min discussion

12: 30-13:30. Lunch (collegium common room, for speakers and organisers)

Session 4. Financing Maritime trade

13:30-14:30. Keynote: Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)

Title: Loans and Securities: A Rational Framework for Maritime Trade

14:30-15:00 coffee break

Chair: Kaius Tuori (University of Helsinki)

15:00-15:20, Peter Candy (University of Edinburgh) ” The Historical development of Roman merchant law”
10 min discussion
15:30-15:50, Joachim Karmaat (University of Bonn) “Golden Era, Golden Opportunities. Roman maritime Trade from India to Egypt during the Reign of Augustus”
10 min discussion

16:00h: Last reflections and end of the conference.