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The departments of history of the universities of Ghent and Antwerp are happy to invite you to a three day international conference onLong-Distance Trade in Greco-Roman and premodern European and Muslim Eurasia and Mediterranean Thu. 15 – Sat. 17 September 2016Antwerp and GhentA conference and publication project of the international research network ‘Structural Determinants of Economic Performance in the Roman World' (Flanders Research Foundation)Organised by Koenraad Verboven (UGent), Wim Broekaert (UGent), Peter Stabel (UAntwerp), Jeroen Puttevils (UAntwerp).For more information please check our website:http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/SDEPactivities/LongDistanceTradeParticipation is free but registration is required (otherwise we will not be able to guarantee that there will be enough coffee, tea and biscuits …). Please do so by sending an email to Koen.Verboven@ugent.be or  Jeroen.Puttevils@uantwerpen.be. If you wish the participate in the lunches please contact the same *before 1 September 2016*Provisional programme:Thursday, 15 Sept. 2016Antwerp, City Campus, room D015, Grote Kauwenberg, 21, 2000, Antwerpen10:00 K. Verboven and P. Stabel, Welcome and introductionSession 1 Institutions and institutional change 10:15 Alain Bresson, Transacting in the Ancient Greek World 10:45 Kai Ruffing, Market Systems in the Roman Empire 11:15 Discussion11:45 coffee break 12:15 Jean-Jacques Aubert, The Roman jurists on long-distance trade 12:45 Discussion13:00 lunch 14:00 Ulf Christian Ewert, Simple, but efficacious: Institutions of trade at the periphery of late medieval Europe 14:30 Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini, Epidemic Trade 15:00 Discussion15:30 coffee break 16:00 Jessica Goldberg, Business organization and the economy in the Medieval Mediterranean 16:30 DiscussionFriday, 16 Sept. 2016Ghent, Plateauzaal, Joseph Plateaustraat, 9000 GentSession 2 Mercantile communities, networks and organisations 10:00 Wim Broekaert, Occupational associations and monopolies in the Roman economy 10:30 Jeroen Puttevils and Peter Stabel, Florentine Traders in Bruges and Antwerp 11:00 Discussion11:30 coffee 12:00 Travis Bruce, Translating the Divide: Dragomans as Cultural Mediators in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean 12:30 Discussion12:45 lunch 14:00 Francisco Apellaniz, Malacca to Antwerp : Late Mamluk-Venetian Networks and the Twilight of Medieval Eurasian Trade, c.1500 14:30 Roxani Margariti, Wakil al-tujjar: Go-Betweens in the maritime trade of the medieval Indian Ocean15:00 coffee 15:30 DiscussionSaturday, 17 Sept. 2016Ghent, Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, Koningstraat 18, 9000 GentSESSION 3. Information tools and management 10:00 Koenraad Verboven, Bankers and other financial intermediaries as information trustees and managers in the Roman world 10:30 Yadira Gonzalez de Lara, The Impact of Formal Monitoring on Financial Development: From Debt to Equity in Late Medieval Venice11:00: coffee 11:30 Discussion12:00 General discussion with Peter Fibiger Bang Oscar GelderblomThe full programme is available on our website:http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/SDEPactivities/LongDistanceTrade