Dipartimento di Studi Storici

14.30 - 15 G. Cuniberti (Univ. of Turin), Welcome
E. Devecchi and M. Valente, Introduction to the Topic of the Conference

Session 1
Chair: S. De Martino (Univ. of Turin)

• 15 - 16 W. Scheidel (Univ. of Stanford), Keynote: Price and Prejudice: the Valuation and Profitability of Enslavement in Comparative Perspective
• 16 - 16.30 coffee break
• 16.30 - 17.00 S. Richardson (Oriental Institute, Chicago), Trafficking, Valuation, Instrument: Slave Bodies at the Intersection of Forms of Exploitation
• 17 - 17.30 E. Devecchi (Univ. of Turin), Slavery in Kassite Babylonia and its Socio-Economic Implications
• 17.30 - 18.00: M. Viano (Univ. of Turin), Degrees of Dependency in Late Bronze Age Emar: Some Aspects

Session 2
Chair: N. Luraghi (Univ. of Oxford)

• 9.30 - 10 E. Karev (Turin Humanities Programme, Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura, Compagnia di San Paolo), Comparative Pricing of Slaves and Other Commodities in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Ptolemaic Period (c. 1200–30 BC)
• 10 - 10.30 M. Valente (Univ. of Eastern Piedmont), Slaves as Fixed Capital in Ancient Greece
• 10.30 - 11 D. Marchiandi (Univ. of Turin), Female Slavery in Classical Athens
• 11.00 - 11.30 coffee break
• 11.30 - 12 K. Vlassopoulos (Univ. of Crete), Were There Ancient Equivalents of the Early Modern Slave Plantation of Commercial Agriculture?
• 12.00 - 12.30 M. Balbo (Univ. of Turin), Slave Trade in the Roman Republic: Cheap Labour or Luxury Good?

Session 3
Chair: E. Belligni (Univ. of Turin)

• 14.30 - 15.00 A. Fiore (Univ. of Turin), Slavery and Economic Structures in the Carolingian Period (750 c - 900 c)
• 15.00 - 15.30 P. Delpiano (Univ. of Turin), The Foundations of Pro-Slavery Thought in the Age of Enlightenment
• 15.30 - 16.00 coffee break
• 16.00 - 16.30 L. Kamel (Univ. of Turin), Slavery and "The Man of His Time"
• 16.30 - 17 A. Tuccillo (Univ. of Turin), The Cost of Slavery in the 18th Century Antislavery Debate

Session 4
Chair: S. Bellezza (Univ. of Eastern Piedmont)

• 9.30 - 10 F. Motta and F. Bonansea (Univ. of Turin), Slavery, Economy, Nature in 18th-Century Debates
• 10.00 - 10.30 V. Fusari (Univ. of Turin), The Maid Trade: Working and Life Trajectories from the Horn of Africa to the Gulf States (20th and 21st Centuries)
• 10.30 - 11 M. Flamigni (Scuola Normale of Pisa), Manumission in the Age of Emancipation. Practices of Freedom in the Caribbean Space (1807-1868)
• 11.00 - 11.30 coffee break
• 11.30 - 12 C. Bernardi (Univ. of Perugia) "The Slaves We Rent": Questioning the Legacy of Enslavement for Mexican Labor in XX Century USA

12.00 - 12.30 E. Devecchi and M. Valente, Concluding Remarks