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)