INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND, May 21/22, 2024
Egypt at the Crossroads: People, Products, and Pathogens
This conference will investigate the aspects that stimulated Roman Egypt’s progression to regional nexus and economic giant, the ways in which that evolution contributed to its Middle Imperial deterioration and eventual annexation in the later third century CE, and how this all reshaped the region for late antiquity. We are inviting historians, archaeologists, papyrologists, epidemiologists, and palaeoclimatologists to discuss topics that evaluate how a well-connected Egypt affected (for better or worse) societies within the region itself, as well as those linked to it in the Mediterranean, Africa, Arabia, and western Indian Ocean.
