INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE JUSTINIANIC PLAGUE.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Lawrence I. Conrad
Asia-Africa Institute
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
lawrence_conrad@hotmail.com
Paper title: The Plague in Early Islamic Society : An Overview
from an Abbasid Consolation Treatise

Michel Drancourt
Univerisity of La Méditeranée
Marseilles, France
Michel.Drancourt@medecine.univ-mrs.fr
Paper title: Ancient Plague Epidemics in Southern France from Anthropological and Historical Data to Biomolecular Identification.

Olivier Dutour
Univerisity of La Méditeranée
Marseilles, France
Olivier.Dutour@medecine.univ-mrs.fr
Paper title: Ancient Plague Epidemics in Southern France from Anthropological and Historical Data to Biomolecular Identification.

Jo N. Hays
Department of History
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL
Jhays@wpo.it.luc.edu
Paper title: Historic Perceptions of Epidemics: Simple Questions, Complex Answers

Hugh N. Kennedy
Professor of Middle Eastern History
St Andrews
Fife, UK
mailto:hnk@st-andrews.ac.uk
Paper title: Is there Archaeological Evidence for Demographic Decline in Late Sixth-Century Syria?

Michael Kulikowski
Assistant Professor
Department of History
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
mkulikow@utk.edu
Paper title: Plague in Spanish Late Antiquity

Lester K. Little
Director
American Academy in Rome &
Professor of Medieval History
Smith College
Northampton, MA
l.k.little@aarome.org
Paper title: Plague at Either End of the Middle Ages

John Maddicott
Exeter College
Oxford, UK
john.maddicott@exeter.oxford.ac.uk
Paper title: Plague in Seventh-Century England

Michael McCormick
Dept of History
Harvard University
Tel 617 495 2556
Fax: 617 496 3425
medieval@fas.harvard.edu
Paper title: A Historian's Questions for Molecular Biologists

Michael G. Morony
Associate Professor
Department of History,
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
morony@history.ucla.edu
Paper title: For Whom Does the Writer Write?: The First Bubonic Plague Pandemic According to Syriac Sources

Robert Sallares
Institute of Science and Technology
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
RobertSallares@compuserve.com
Paper title: Ecology, Evolution, and Early
History of Plague

Peter Sarris
Lecturer in Medieval History
Fellow, Trinity College and All Souls College Oxford
pavs2@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Paper title: Bubonic Plague in Byzantium: The Evidence of the Non-Literary Sources

Dionysios Stathakopoulos
University of Vienna
dionysios.stathakopoulos@univie.ac.at
Paper title: Crime and Punishment: The Plague in the Byzantine Empire 541-749

Alain J. Stoclet
Professor
Université Lyon 2 - Lumière
Lyon, France
Alain.stoclet@univ-lyon2.fr
Paper title: Consilia humana, Ops Divina, Superstitio ( (Livy 7,2): Seeking Succour and Solace in Times of Plague,
with Particular Reference to Gaul in the Early Middle Ages.

David B. Whitehouse
Director of the Corning Museum of Glass
Corning, NY
WhitehouDB@cmog.org
Paper title: So Far, So Fast: Communications and the Spread of the Plague