INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE JUSTINIANIC PLAGUE.

December 13-15, 2001

Thursday, December 13
Evening Session

18:00 Lester K. Little
American Academy in Rome, Smith College
Introduction: Plague at Either End of the Middle Ages

18:45 Jo N. Hays
Loyola University, Chicago
Historic Perceptions of Epidemics: Simple Questions, Complex Answers

19:30 Welcome Reception

Friday, December 14
Morning Session

Ingrid D. Rowland
American Academy in Rome
Presiding

9:00 Lawrence I. Conrad
University of Hamburg
The Plague in Early Islamic Society: An Overview from an Abbasid
Consolation Treatise

9:45 Michael Morony
University of California, Los Angeles
For Whom Does the Writer Write?: The First Bubonic Plague
Pandemic According to Syriac Sources

10:30 Coffee Break

10:50 Hugh N. Kennedy
University of St. Andrews
Is there Archaeological Evidence for Demographic Decline in Late
Sixth-Century Syria?

11:35 Dionysios Stathakopoulos
University of Vienna
Crime and Punishment: The Plague in the Byzantine Empire 541-749

12:20 Peter Sarris
Trinity College, Cambridge; All Souls, Oxford
Bubonic Plague in Byzantium: The Evidence of the Non-Literary Sources

Friday, December 14
Afternoon Session

Carmela V. Franklin
Columbia University
Presiding

15:00 David Whitehouse
The Corning Museum of Glass
So Far, So Fast: Communications and the Spread of the Plague

15:45 Alain Stoclet
University of Lyons II
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

16:30 Tea Break

16:50 Michael Kulikowski
University of Tennessee
Plague in Spanish Late Antiquity

17:35 John Maddicott
Exeter College, Oxford
Plague in Seventh-Century England

Saturday, December 15
Morning Session

Barbara H. Rosenwein
Loyola University, Chicago
Presiding

9:00 Robert Sallares
Institute of Science and Technology, University of Manchester
Ecology, Evolution, and Early History of Plague

9:50 Michel Drancourt
Faculty of Medicine, University of La Méditerranée
Ancient Plague Epidemics in Southern France from Anthropological
and Historical Data to Biomolecular Identification.

10:40 Coffee Break

11:00 Michael McCormick
Harvard University
A Historian's Questions for Molecular Biologists

11:45 Round Table Discussion with Profs. Sallares, Drancourt,
and McCormick

The conference will take place December 13-15, 2001 at the American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina, 5, 00153 Rome, Italy and will be open to the public at no charge. All papers will be published in a single volume following the conference. For further information on the Academy or the conference, please see the Academy's website, www.aarome.org, or contact Milena Sales: Tel. 39-06-584-64-70, Fax 39-06-581-0788, m.sales@aarome.org.

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