Program

16 March 2017

  • 8h30 Registration – Coffee
  • 9h00 Introduction by Jan Driessen (UCLouvain) & Joachim Bretschneider (UGent)

First Session: Modern Perspectives

  • 9h15 Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University): A Migration Crisis? Displacement, materiality, and experience
  • 9h55 Elena Isayev (Exeter University): Displaced Agency: self-determination in a liminal space
  • 10h35 coffee break
  • 10h50 Maja Gori (IRISS–CNR and University of Heidelberg) and Martina Revello Lami (University of Amsterdam): From Lampedusa to Trieste: Tracing Forced Migrations to understand Identity Patterns
  • 11h30 Jean-Pierre Legendre (Service Régional de l’Archéologie d’Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes): The Remains of the Spanish republican Exodus in France : An Archaeology of the ‘Retirada’
  • 12h10 Dimitris Dalakoglou (VU-University of Amsterdam): Borderisation of the city and the Urban Materialities of the End of Europe
  • 12h50 lunch break

Second Session: Literary sources

  • 14h00 Claude Obsomer, Jan Tavernier & Johanne Garny (UCLouvain), The Treaty of Kurustama et the Data of the reign of Ramses II
  • 14h40 Robert Garland (Colgate College): The Theme of Forced Migration in Livy Books 1-5
  • 15h20 Coffee break

Third Session: Regional Perspectives: The Aegean

  • 15h35 Krzysztof Nowicki (Polish Academy of Sciences): The Late 13th Century BC Crisis in the East Mediterranean: Why the case of Crete matters?
  • 16h15 Sophia Michalopoulou & Leonidas Votokopoulos (Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports): Megali Koryphi on Aigina and the fortified citadels of the 13th/12th c. BC
  • 16h55 Stéphanie Martin (University of Arizona): Relocation Decisions during Forced Movement Events
  • 17h30 General discussion on the 1st day (moderator: Eric Cline)
  • 18h00 Break & drinks
  • 18h30 Key-note lecture: Sandra Dudley, Exilic Bodies and Things: The Material Experience of Involuntary Displacement
  • 19h30 Reception

17 March 2017

  • 8h30 Coffee & Registration

Fourth Session: Regional Perspectives: The East

  • 8h45 Alexander Pruss (Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz): The Amuq Region in the Early Iron Age
  • 9h25 Michael Brown (University of Heidelberg): Forced Migration in the Middle Euphrates Valley: Ancient Empires and Modern Perspectives
  • 10h05 Coffee break
  • 10h20 Assaf Yassur Landau (University of Haifa): The Accidental Migrant : The Archaeology of the Story of Sinuhe and other high Status refugees of the Bronze and Iron Ages
  • 11h00 Ann Killebrew (Pennsylvania State University): The Levant in Crisis: The Materiality of Migrants, Refugees and Colonizers at the End of the Bronze Age
  • 11h40 Stefania Mazzoni (University of Florence): In Search of a Land. The Age of migrations, exodus and diasporae across the Eastern Mediterranean (13th -11th c. B.C.)
  • 12h20 Lunch break

Fifth Session: Regional Perspectives: The South

  • 13h30 Shirly Ben Dor Evian (Israel Museum, Jerusalem & Tel Aviv University): Egyptian Historiography on the Mobility of (Sea) People at the End of the Late Bronze Age
  • 14h10 Aaron A. Burke (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA): The Decline of Egyptian Empire, Forced Migration, and Social Change in the Southern Levant, ca. 1200–1050 B.C.
  • 14h50 Coffee break
  • 15h05 Rachel Mittelman (Columbus State University): Determining Libyan Influence in Egypt during and after the Late Bronze Age Collapse

Sixth Session: Regional Perspectives: The West

  • 15h45 Bartek Lis (Polish Academy of Sciences): Potters in captivity? An alternative explanation for the Italo-Mycenaean pottery of the 13th century BC
  • 16h25 Reinhard Jung (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften OREA): Push and Pull Factors of the Sea Peoples between Italy and the Levant
  • 17h00 General discussion on the 2nd day (moderator: Eric Cline)
  • 18h00 Goodbye drink