Following the roundtable on 12 November, the ClassDem Project hosts an intensive all-day workshop exploring class formation in the context of labour relations and economic structures in the ancient Greek world.
Event Details
Date: Friday 13 November 2026
Time: 9:00–18:00
Location: St Trinnean’s Room, St Leonard’s, 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh EH16 5AY
Programme
9:00 — Charlotte Van Regenmortel (Liverpool)
On Wages and Class
10:30 — Stephan Nitu (New Hampshire)
Household Composition, Consumption Baskets, Incomes: Athenian Economic Livelihoods
11:30 — Maeve McHugh (Birmingham)
Making and Dedicating at the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia
14:00 — Julien Zurbach (Paris)
How many ‘moral economies’? and what do they tell us?
15:00 — Alain Bresson (Chicago)
Labour, Power, and Capital in the Ancient World: Some Exploratory Views
16:30 — Michele Faraguna (Milan)
Class, Distribution of Wealth and (In)Equality: from Social Dynamics to the Anonymus Iamblichi
About the Workshop
This workshop forms the first major research gathering for the project’s strand on Class and the Economy. Papers will address how occupational structures, conditions of labour, and economic life shaped class identities and class struggle in Greek democracies.
Key themes include:
- The occupational structure of Greek cities and its role in class formation
- Labour relations and conditions of dependency
- Economic complexity and redistributive mechanisms
- Exploitation and resistance in ancient economic systems
The workshop aims to develop a more integrated understanding of how economic structures underpinned the political and social dynamics of Greek democracy.
Registration
Registration is required for this workshop due to limited capacity.
To attend, please contact:
Prof. Mirko Canevaro — mirko.canevaro@ed.ac.uk
Panayiotis Karageorgopoulos — pkarageo@ed.ac.uk