Seminars

SS 2012 "Adel und Bauern im archaischen und  klassischen Griechenland", (32-stündiges Hauptseminar), Freie Universitaet Berlin

SS 2012 „Familien in der römischen Welt,“ (32-stündiges Hauptseminar), Freie Universität Berlin

WS 2011/12 „Familien in der griechischen Welt,“ (32-stündiges Hauptseminar), Freie Universität Berlin

SS 2011 “Einführung in die Papyrologie,” (32-stündiges Proseminar; BA, Modul 7: Regionale Perspektiven der Geschichte, Teil 1), Freie Universität Berlin

November 2009 “La belle-fille dans l’antiquité gréco-romaine,” Forschungsseminar an der École Normale Supérieure, Paris

April 1, 2009 “Epigraphy and the Study of Family Organization – A Critical Approach,” De Pauw University, Indiana

March 31, 2009 "Fatherless America? - Looking at a modern problem from an ancient perspective," De Pauw University, Indiana

WS 2007 Senior Seminar: Hellenistic-Roman Egypt: “The Roman Egyptian Census Returns,” Columbia University New York

WS/SS 2006-7 “Old Age and Aging in the Greek and Roman World” (4-stündiges wöchentliches Pro-/Hauptseminar) an der Columbia University, New York

WS 2003-4 “Die Stadt in der Spätantike” (4-stündiges wöchentliches Proseminar) an der Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena

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Organisation von Konferenzen

Vorlesungen/Vorträge

• June 14, 2012 "Family Systems in the Ancient Mediterranean", Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock

 

• February 24, 2012 "'Und alle gingen hin, sich aufschreiben zu lassen...' - Die umstrittene Datierung der Weihnachtsgeschichte und die Anfaenge des roemischen Provinzialzensus in Aegypten", Universitaet Basel

 

• February 7, 2012 "Die Familie im roemischen und frühbyzantinischen Aegypten", Universitaet Bamberg

 

• November, 18, 2011 Chair and organizer of Panel: "Old Age Care and Family Systems in Antiquity", Annual Conference of the Social Science and History Association, Boston, MA

•    November 17, 2011 “Intergenerational Contracts – A Case Study from the Ancient Mediterranean", Annual Conference of the Social Science and History Association, Boston, MA

•    August 3-5, 2011 "Adoption and Fosterage in the Greco-Roman East", University of Manchester

•    June 9, 2011 "In-law relations in Roman Egypt - Conflict and Solidarity on the Household Level", Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock

•    May 30, 2011 "Extended Families in the Ancient World", Seminaire "Histoire et droit", Universite de Paris VIII

•    May 12-13, 2011 "Joint Family Systems in the Ancient World", N.W. Posthumus Conference, Antwerp

•    May 13, 2011 "Kontinuität und Wandel der Familie in der Spaetantike - Quellenstudien zum spaetroemischen und fruehbyzantinischen Aegypten", Universitaet Eichstaett

•    November 25, 2010 “The Family in Early Byzantine times,” Corpus Christi College, Oxford University

•    November 18-21, 2010 "Demography and Power Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean (ca. 500 BCE - 500 CE)" Ancient Demography, Annual Meeting Social Science and History Association, Chicago

•    November 8-9, 2010 "“But if you don’t behave, I will cast you out naked… naked with your debts” - Remarriage and its consequences for family life in the Byzantine world," L'Histoire de la famille à Byzance en memoire A. Laiou et E. Patlagean, Collège de France, Paris

•    August 2010 “Intergenerational Contracts in the Papyri (P.Mich. 5.322),” 26th International Congress of Papyrology, Geneva (Aug. 16 - 21, 2010)

•    April 8, 2010 “Household structures and compositions in the Roman world,” Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock

•    March 31, 2010 “Family and household in Roman Egypt,” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

•    December 8, 2009 “The Family and Society in the Greco-Roman Eastern Mediterranean,” University of St. Andrews, UK

•    May 9, 2009 "Inscribed Lives: Epigraphy in Roman studies", Stanford University, California

•    November 12, 2008 “Household and Family in Past Time: The Roman East and West”, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York

•    May 9-10, 2008 "Household Formation and Norms of Succession and Old Age Support in Roman Egypt and Tang China," Conference on Cross-Cultural Approaches to Family and Household Structures in the Ancient World, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU       http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/householdconference.htm

•    April 3-5, 2008 „The role of the local clergy in municipal politics,“ Conference on "Statehood and State Formation in Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period," Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities http://www.zaw.uni-heidelberg.de/hps/sag_nachwuchs/

•    March 31, 2008 "Brother-Sister Marriage in Roman Egypt in Cross-Cultural Perspective", Università di Bologna, Italy

•    March 19, 2008 "Therapeuteria and Female Circumcision in Roman Egypt," I Papiri tra Testo e Contesto: Inedita da Ossirinco e da Tebtynis. Giornata di Studio all' Università di Parma, Italy

•    January 3-6, 2008 „The In-Marrying Son-In-Law - Perspectives on a Family Strategy and Old Age Support in Roman Egypt“ (Panel on „Culture and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt“, Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago)http://www.apaclassics.org/Newsletter/2006newsletter/1006programinsert.pdf

•    September 2-8, 2007 „Christian Greek Epigraphy and Later Roman Society“ (XIIIth International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences. University of Oxford) http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/

•    June 4-5, 2007 „Förderung von wissenschaftlichem Nachwuchs in Ägypten und Deutschland“  (DAAD-Alumni-Meeting at the German University of Cairo)

•    March 22-25, 2007 „Currencies of Power - How to Succeed in the Eastern Roman Clergy“, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VII: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (University of Colorado at Boulder) http://www.colorado.edu/Classics/events/Program.htm

•    November 16, 2006 „The Codex Theodosianus as Mirror of Social and Economic Realities?” (Université de Neuchâtel)

•    January 23, 2006  „The Clergy in Later Roman Society - The Economic Situation” (Exeter University)

•    June 28, 2005 „Generationenverträge im hellenistisch-römischen Ägypten“ (Universität Hannover)

•    November 5, 2004 „Die Zusammensetzung des Klerus als Zeichen der sozialen Mobilität in der Spätantike?“   (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

•    May 4, 2004 „Kleriker in Kleinasien – Rechtlicher Status und soziale Stellung“ (Friedrich-Schiller- Universität Jena)

•    April 2, 2004 „Orthodoxe und häretische Kleriker in Kleinasien“ (Freie Universität Berlin)

•    February 23, 2003 „Johannes, Subdiakon und Apfelmosthändler – Leitbild oder Steuerflüchtling?“ (Mitteldeutsches Althistorikertreffen, Dresden)

•    December 19, 2002 „Der Klerus im spätantiken Kleinasien“ (Friedrich-Schiller- Universität Jena)

•    December 18, 2002 „Kleinasiatische Klerus-Inschriften“ (Freie Universität Berlin)

•    December 13, 2001 „Spiegel und soziale Gestaltungskraft alltäglicher Lebenswelt: Der Kult des Men in Lydien und Phrygien“ (SFB-Symposium „Region und Religion“, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

 

•    July 7, 2001 „Men Axiottenus und seine Mutter – Eine neue Inschrift aus dem Museum in Manisa“ (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)