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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#000099'>Forschungsschwerpunkt</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#000099'>Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft aus</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#000099'>historisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333399;letter-spacing:-4.5pt'>=================================</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#000099'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;page-break-after:avoid'><a name=Vortragsreihe><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'>FSP-Vortragsreihe<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></a><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'>Staat und Arbeit</span></i><o:p></o:p></h2><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;page-break-after:avoid'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#231DA3'>Walter Scheidel (Stanford University)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#231DA3'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div><h3 style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;page-break-after:avoid'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#231DA3'>Building for the State: A World-Historical Perspective</span></span><o:p></o:p></h3><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style='margin-left:1.0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-1.0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div style='margin-left:1.0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-1.0cm'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Zeit: Mittwoch, 27. November, 17:00-18:00</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Ort: Aula am Campus, Hof 1.11, Spitalgasse 9, 1090 Wien</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Keynote Lecture on occasion of the 4th International Conference of the National Research Network “Imperium & Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom” (Vienna, 27–29 November 2013)</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Large-scale public building in Antiquity is frequently assessed from a point of view that reflects Moses I. Finley’s influential distinction (as expressed in his <i>Ancient Economy</i>) between the Ancient Near East’s coerced mass labour regime on the one hand and the coexistence of slave and free wage labour in the Greek and Roman societies of the Mediterranean World on the other. Our conference proposes to nuance this model by examining case studies that shed light on official, liturgical, entrepreneurial and other duties in the realm of public construction activities in imperial contexts, with a view towards evaluating the bearing of these issues on the overall assessment of the nature of political, ideological and economic power in the states under discussion.</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Walter Scheidel</span></i></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>, Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History at the Department of Classics, Stanford University, Catherine R. Kennedy and Daniel L. Grossman Fellow in Human Biology, focus of research: ancient social and economic history, with particular emphasis on historical demography, labor, and state formation, interest in comparative and transdisciplinary approaches of the study of the pre-modern world</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;page-break-after:avoid'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-weight:normal'>Das Programm der Vortragsreihe finden Sie </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>auf der Website des FSP unter <a href="http://fsp-wi-ge.univie.ac.at/aktuell">Aktuelles</a>.</span></span><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>