To register for the event, please contact: sabine.r.huebner@gmail.com.

Program:

March 21, 2013 (Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot - 75005 Paris):

9:00 Welcome and introduction

Session 1 : Greece
9:30 - 10:00 Heinz Barta (Innsbruck) “Genese des griechischen Erbrechts und des Testaments”
10:00 -10:30 Martin Steinrueck (Fribourg) “Le dernier souper du Cyclope” L'iambe archaïque grec comme expression d'un groupe de jeunes hommes sans héritage”
10:30- 11:00 Beate Wagner-Hasel (Hannover) “Inheritance conflicts in classical Athenian society”

coffee break 11:00 - 11 :30

11:30 – 12:00 Brenda Griffith-Williams (University College London) Matrilineal kinship in Athenian inheritance disputes: two case studies
12:30- 13:00 Maria H. Dettenhofer (München) “Inheritance conflicts in Sparta”

13:00 - 14:30 lunch

Session 2 : Rome
14:30- 15:00 Inge Kroppenberg (Regensburg) Unwelcome competitors. Hereditary conflicts between agnate and cognate kin in Ancient Rome
15:00- 15:30 Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto (Trier) “Sklavenfreilassungen und die Interessen der Erben
15:30-16:00 Tiziana J. Chiusi (Saarland): “Inheritance conflicts in Roman law”
16:00-16:30 Christiane Kunst (Osnabrück) „Erbrecht und Erbpraxis in republikanischer und Kaiserzeit“

coffee break 16:30-17:00

17:00 -17:30 Coen van Galen (Nijmegen) Keeping the family spirit alive: Roman women and inheritance conflict
17:30-18:00 Amber Gartrell (Oxford) "Unequal Brothers: An Exploration of the Inheritance and Succession Strategies of Imperial Heirs under Augustus"

dinner 19:00

March 22, 2013:

session 3 : Antiquité tardive : Christianisme et Zoroastrianisme 9:00 – 9:30 Sabine Huebner (Rome): “It is a difficult matter to be wronged by strangers, but to be wronged by kin is worst of all - Inheritance and Conflict in Graeco-Roman Egypt”
09:30-10:00 Carlos Sanchez-Moreno Ellart (Trier) “Late Antique Law on inheritance”
10:00-10:30 Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory) "Illegitimacy and Inheritance in late Roman law"

coffee break 10:30- 11:00

11:00- 11:30 Maria Nowak (Warszaw) The Non-Normative Family in the Wills from Greco-Roman Egypt
11:30 -12:00 Richard Payne (Princeton) “Inheritance law and practice among the Sassanids”

lunch 12:00 - 14:00

session 4 : Judaism
14:00- 14:30 Giles Rowling (Macquarie University, Sydney) “Babatha’s Archive: Inheritance disputes in Second Century Roman Arabia"
14:30- 15:00 Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros (Athens) Towards the Allegory of Idealized Oikos: The Nuclear and Extended Family Versions, Their Succession and Inheritance Issues and Their Cognates in Philo Judaeus

coffee break 15:00-15:30

Session 5 Islam
15:30-16:00 F. Bauden (Liège) "Biens de mainmorte familiaux ou comment éviter la division de la propriété à l'époque mamlouke"
16:00-16:30 Lahcen Daaif «L’égalité entre hommes et femmes dans les actes de waqfs mamelouks. Un défi à la loi?»
16:30-17:00 Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading) Inheritance conflicts in Christian families under Arabic rule

March 23, 2013

Session 5 : Byzantium
09:00 - 09:30 James Howard-Johnston (Paris) « Partitive inheritance in principle and practice in eleventh-century Byzantium »
09:30 – 10:00 Jean-Claude Cheynet (Paris) Les dossiers de Chomatianos sur les conflits familiaux
10:00 - 10:30 Thierry Ganchou (Paris) "L'héritage Goudélès à Gênes: deux siècles de conflit familial (ca. 1423-1639)

coffee break 10:30-11:00

11:00 -11:30 Beatrice Caseau (Paris) “Conflict between families and monasteries : Inheritance and religious life in early Byzantine times (4th-7th c.)”
11:30- 12:00 Olivier Delouis (Paris) "Distraire l'héritage : monastères et héritiers à Byzance".

12:00 - 13:30 lunch

Session 6 Middle Ages
13:30 - 14:00 Gerhard Lubich (Bochum) “Incestuous marriage, family murders and civil wars: Becoming an heir in Merovingian times”
14 :00 - 14:30 Ellen Widder (Tübingen) Schicksalsschlag oder Strukturproblem? Dynastische Brüche und Herrschaftssukzession im Spätmittelalter
15:00 - 15:30 Cameron Sutt (Austin Peay State University) Patrimony, estates and the kindred. Dividing the goods in Árpád-era Hungary

15:00 - 16:00 coffee break

16:00-16:30 Yves Sassier (Paris 4) "Un conflit entre héritières devant la justice royale au coeur du XIIIe siècle : la dislocation du grand comté de Nevers-Auxerre-Tonnerre."

16:30 Plenary discussion - conclusions