Program

Program “ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURES, CONCEPTS, APPROACHES, AND COMPARISONS” Nov. 27-29, 2014, Universität Hamburg
Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014
	Arrival in Hamburg
7.00 pm	Inaugural reception of our project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work -The View from the Regions Toward the Center”, Edmund-Siemers-Allee (ESA) 1, Rm 11.
Friday, Nov. 28, 2014	Senatssitzungssaal (AS-Saal), ESA 1
10.00 am	Stefan Heidemann, Universität Hamburg Introduction to the Conference “Administration Holding the Empire Together”
11.30 am	Coffee Break
12.00 am	Philippe Depreux, Universität Hamburg „The Carolingian Empire and the Legacy of Roman Administration“
1.00 pm	Lunch
3.00 pm	Simon Samuel Ford, University of Oxford “Continuity and Change among post-Sasanian Religious Elites”
4.00 pm	Hugh Kennedy, SOAS “Military and Economy in the Administration of the Empire”
5.00 pm	Coffee Break
6.00 pm	Dinner (optional)
Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014	Senatssitzungssaal (AS-Saal), ESA 1
10.00 am	Michael Lecker, Hebrew University, Jerusalem “An Empire Built on Individuals and their Networks - Prosopography at Work”
11.00 am	Kurt Franz, Universität Tübingen “Tribes, Regions, and the Early Islamic Empire”
12.00 am	Jürgen Paul, Universität Halle “ʿAbbāsid Administrative Legacy in the Seljūq World: Where Khidma and Niʿmat Ruled”
1.00 pm	Lunch
2.30 pm	Lucian Reinfandt, Universität Wien “The Administrative Structures in Egypt and Samarra, Based on Papyrology”
3.30 pm	Peter Verkinderen, Universität Hamburg “Geography and Administrative Structures of the Early Islamic Empire”
4.30 pm	Coffee Break
4.45 pm	Panel Discussion
6.30 pm	Dinner
Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014
10.00 am	Visit to the Islamic collection of the ‘Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe’