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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

LECTURES / CONFERENCES

  • FEBRUARY 2011
  • TUE 1
  • WED 2
  • THU 3
    Greece, Athens - 19:00

    From necessity to enjoyment: dietary habits in Bronze Age Thera

    Megaron - The Athens Concert Hall, The Nikos Skalkotas Hall

    Lecture

    Prof. Christos Doumas

    Organised by the Society for the Promotion of Studies on Prehistoric Thera.
    Invitation
  • FRI 4
    Belgium, Louvain-La-Neuve - 10:00 - - 12:00

    Dréros: Cité et sanctuaires

    Université Catholique de Louvain, Salle du conseil PSP, Place Cardinal Mercier 10, B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve

    La naissance des cités crétoises

    Vasiliki Zographaki (24th Ephorate of Prehistorical and Classical Antiquities) & Alexandre Farnoux (Université de Paris-Sorbonne- Paris IV)

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    Contact: {encode="jan.driessen@uclouvain.be" title="jan.driessen@uclouvain.be"}
  • SAT 5
  • SUN 6
  • MON 7
    France, Paris - 14:00 - - 14:00

    Archéologie d’une cité en Créte: Dréros (Mirambello)

    Salle 115 (1er étage), Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie (3, rue Michelet)

    Conférence-séminaire

    Vasiliki Zographaki (24th Ephorate of Prehistorical and Classical Antiquities) & Alexandre Farnoux (Université de Paris-Sorbonne- Paris IV)

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  • TUE 8
    Greece, Athens - 17:00

    Investigating Palaeolithic plant exploitation using phytolith analysis: The example of Theopetra Cave in Thessaly, Greece

    American School of Classical Studies (Loring Hall)

    Fitch-Wiener Seminar

    Georgia Tsartsidou (Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology of Southern Greece)

    Greece, Athens - 19:00

    Η ζωή της Σοφίας Σλήμαν στο Ιλίου Μέλαθρον

    Numismatic Museum, Panepistimiou 12

    Themis Basaka & Eleni Bobou-Protopapa

    United Kingdom, London - 17:15

    Annual Open Lecture of the BSA

    BRITISH ACADEMY, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

    Prof. Catherine Morgan (Director of the British School at Athens), 'The Work of the British School at Athens in 2010',
    &
    Prof. Todd Whitelaw (Professor of Aegean Archaeology, University College London), 'Surveying the Labyrinth: the Knossos Urban Landscape Project'
    Invitation
  • WED 9
  • THU 10
  • FRI 11
    United Kingdom, Glasgow - 16:00

    The Work of the British School at Athens 2008-2010

    University of Glasgow (Department of Archaeology, Gregory Building)

    Lecture

    Prof. Catherine Morgan (British School at Athens)

    USA, New York - 18:30

    From Bronze Age to Iron Age: Linguistic Continuities and Discontinuities in the Aegean

    The Institute of Fine Arts (One East 78th Street)

    The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

    Richard Janko

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    Please R.S.V.P. 212-992-5803 or,
    {encode="IFA.events@NYU.edu" title="IFA.events@NYU.edu"}
    Greece, Athens - 19:00 - - 21:00

    Experimental archaeology – Minoan double axe

    Swedish Institute, Mitseon 9

    Maria Lowe Fri (Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University and Swedish Institute at Athens)

    Map
    Greece, Athens - 19:00

    Telltale Depictions: A Contextual View of Mycenaean Wall-Paintings

    ASCSA, Gennadius Library, Cotsen Hall (9 Anapiron Polemou St.)

    Lecture

    John Bennet (University of Sheffield)

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  • SAT 12
    Greece, Athens 2011/02/12 - 2011/02/13

    Mycenaean Wall-Paintings in Context: New Discoveries and Old Finds Reconsidered

    Cotsen Hall (ASCSA, 9 Anapiron Polemou St.) & National Research Foundation (48 Vassileos Constandinou Ave.)

    Workshop

    Friday, February 11, 2011
    Cotsen Hall, ASCSA, 9 Anapiron Polemou St.

    19.00 Opening Lecture John Bennet (Centre for Aegean Archaeology, University of Shefeld), ‘Telltale Depictions: A Contextual View of Mycenaean Wall-Paintings’

    Wine and Cheese Reception at ASCSA.

    Saturday, February 12, 2011
    National Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constandinou Ave.

    9.00-9.20 Jack Davis (The American School of Classical Studies at Athens), ‘Welcome’

    Chair: Vassilis Aravantinos, 9th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Thebes

    9.20-10.00 Andreas G. Vlachopoulos (Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina), ‘Detecting “Mycenaean” Elements in the “Minoan” Wall-Paintings of a “Cycladic” Settlement. The Wall-Paintings of Thera and their Iconographic Koine’

    10.00-10.40 Adamandia Vasilogamvrou (5th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Sparta), ‘Preliminary Study of the First Mycenaean Fresco Fragments from Laconia’

    10.40-11.20 Michael B. Cosmopoulos (University of Missouri-St. Louis and Athens Archaeological Society), ‘A Group of New Mycenaean Frescoes from Iklaina, Pylos’

    11.20-11.40 Coffee break

    Chair: Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, 3rd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Athens

    11.40-12.10 Sharon Stocker (Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. Jack Davis, ASCSA), ‘Land and Sea: The Stratigraphic Context for the Wall-Paintings from Hall 64 of the “Palace of Nestor” at Pylos’

    12.10-12.50 Hariclia Brecoulaki (KERA, The National Research Foundation), Sharon Stocker (Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati), Jack Davis (ASCSA), Emily Egan (Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati), ‘An Unprecedented Naval Scene from Hall 64 of the “Palace of Nestor” at Pylos’

    12.50-13.20 Katie Demakopoulou (Former Director of the National Archaeological Museum at Athens, Director of the Midea Excavations) & Christos Boulotis (Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Antiquity), ‘Evidence for Mycenaean Wall-Paintings at Midea’

    13.20-15.00 Lunch break

    Chair: Efi Sakellaraki, Honorary Ephor of Antiquities

    15.00-15.30 †Yannis Sakellarakis (Honorary Ephor of Antiquities), Iphigenia Tournavitou (Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly) & Hariclia Brecoulaki (KERA, The National Research Foundation), ‘A Preliminary Presentation of the Mycenaean Wall-Paintings from Argos’

    15.30-16.10 Alcestis Papadimitriou (4th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Nauplion), Joseph Maran (Institute for Prehistory, Early History, and Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Heidelberg) & Ulrich Thaler (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), ‘A New Wall-Painting Scene from Tiryns’

    16.10-16.50 Christos Boulotis (Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Antiquity), ‘Flying Blue Birds on an Ofering Table from Tiryns’

    16.50-17.10 Coffee break

    Chair: Anna Michailidou (KERA, The National Research Foundation)

    17.10-18.10 Discussion

    Sunday, February 13, 2011
    National Research Institute, 48 Vassileos Constandinou Ave.

    Chair: Eleni Papazoglou-Manioudaki, National Archaeological Museum

    9.00-9.40 Iphigenia Tournavitou, Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly. Sport, Prestige, and Ritual Outside the Palaces: Pictorial Frescoes from the West House at Mycenae.

    9.40-10.20 Kim Shelton (Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley), ‘LH IIIA Frescoes from Petsas House, Mycenae: Splatters, Patterns and Scenes’

    10.20-11.00 Diana Wardle (Department of Archaeology, University of Birmingham), ‘The Wall-Painting from the “Room with the Fresco” at Mycenae: Context and Content’

    11:00-11.20 Coffee break

    Chair: Spyros Iakovidis, Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Antiquity

    11.20-11.50 Eleni Palaiologou (4th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Nauplion), ‘A Female Painted Plaster Figure from Mycenae’

    11.50-12.30 Elena Kountouri (Head of the Secretariat of Central Archaeological Council), ‘Bits and Pieces: New Evidence Unfolds. Wall-Painting Fragments from the Stratifed Context on the Spourlis Property in Thebes’

    12.30-13.10 Theodoros Spyropoulos (Honorary Ephor of Antiquities), ‘Mural Paintings from the Mycenaean Palace of Boeotian Orchomenos’

    13.10-13.50 Christos Boulotis (Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Antiquity), ‘A Dolphin Frieze and Nautili (?) from the Mycenaean Citadel of Gla, Boeotia’

    13.50-15.20 Lunch break

    Chair: Maria Vlazaki-Andreadaki, Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Tourism

    15.20-17.00 Closing discussion

    Closing discussion will take place at the foundation “The Other Arcadia”, where there will also be an exhibition of contemporary Greek painting (Christos Bokoros and Chronis Botsoglou) from Sotiris Felios’ Collection (16 Fokionos Negri St., Kypseli. Tel. 210 88 24 681).

    Invitation (.pdf 656kb)
    Programme (.pdf 795kb)
    Cotsen Hall (map)
    National Research Foundation (map)
    Foundation “The Other Arcadia” (map)
  • SUN 13
    Germany, Heidelberg - 11:00

    “Die eilenden Rosse des Meeres” (Homer) – Schifffahrt während der ‘Dunklen Jahrhunderte’

    Antikenmuseum und Abguss-Sammlung des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Heidelberg - Marstallhof 4 - 69117 Heidelberg

    Lecture

    Yasemin Leylek

    Greece, Athens 2011/02/12 - 2011/02/13

    Mycenaean Wall-Paintings in Context: New Discoveries and Old Finds Reconsidered

    Cotsen Hall (ASCSA, 9 Anapiron Polemou St.) & National Research Foundation (48 Vassileos Constandinou Ave.)

    Workshop

    Friday, February 11, 2011
    Cotsen Hall, ASCSA, 9 Anapiron Polemou St.

    19.00 Opening Lecture John Bennet (Centre for Aegean Archaeology, University of Shefeld), ‘Telltale Depictions: A Contextual View of Mycenaean Wall-Paintings’

    Wine and Cheese Reception at ASCSA.

    Saturday, February 12, 2011
    National Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constandinou Ave.

    9.00-9.20 Jack Davis (The American School of Classical Studies at Athens), ‘Welcome’

    Chair: Vassilis Aravantinos, 9th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Thebes

    9.20-10.00 Andreas G. Vlachopoulos (Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina), ‘Detecting “Mycenaean” Elements in the “Minoan” Wall-Paintings of a “Cycladic” Settlement. The Wall-Paintings of Thera and their Iconographic Koine’

    10.00-10.40 Adamandia Vasilogamvrou (5th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Sparta), ‘Preliminary Study of the First Mycenaean Fresco Fragments from Laconia’

    10.40-11.20 Michael B. Cosmopoulos (University of Missouri-St. Louis and Athens Archaeological Society), ‘A Group of New Mycenaean Frescoes from Iklaina, Pylos’

    11.20-11.40 Coffee break

    Chair: Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, 3rd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Athens

    11.40-12.10 Sharon Stocker (Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. Jack Davis, ASCSA), ‘Land and Sea: The Stratigraphic Context for the Wall-Paintings from Hall 64 of the “Palace of Nestor” at Pylos’

    12.10-12.50 Hariclia Brecoulaki (KERA, The National Research Foundation), Sharon Stocker (Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati), Jack Davis (ASCSA), Emily Egan (Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati), ‘An Unprecedented Naval Scene from Hall 64 of the “Palace of Nestor” at Pylos’

    12.50-13.20 Katie Demakopoulou (Former Director of the National Archaeological Museum at Athens, Director of the Midea Excavations) & Christos Boulotis (Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Antiquity), ‘Evidence for Mycenaean Wall-Paintings at Midea’

    13.20-15.00 Lunch break

    Chair: Efi Sakellaraki, Honorary Ephor of Antiquities

    15.00-15.30 †Yannis Sakellarakis (Honorary Ephor of Antiquities), Iphigenia Tournavitou (Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly) & Hariclia Brecoulaki (KERA, The National Research Foundation), ‘A Preliminary Presentation of the Mycenaean Wall-Paintings from Argos’

    15.30-16.10 Alcestis Papadimitriou (4th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Nauplion), Joseph Maran (Institute for Prehistory, Early History, and Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Heidelberg) & Ulrich Thaler (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), ‘A New Wall-Painting Scene from Tiryns’

    16.10-16.50 Christos Boulotis (Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Antiquity), ‘Flying Blue Birds on an Ofering Table from Tiryns’

    16.50-17.10 Coffee break

    Chair: Anna Michailidou (KERA, The National Research Foundation)

    17.10-18.10 Discussion

    Sunday, February 13, 2011
    National Research Institute, 48 Vassileos Constandinou Ave.

    Chair: Eleni Papazoglou-Manioudaki, National Archaeological Museum

    9.00-9.40 Iphigenia Tournavitou, Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly. Sport, Prestige, and Ritual Outside the Palaces: Pictorial Frescoes from the West House at Mycenae.

    9.40-10.20 Kim Shelton (Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley), ‘LH IIIA Frescoes from Petsas House, Mycenae: Splatters, Patterns and Scenes’

    10.20-11.00 Diana Wardle (Department of Archaeology, University of Birmingham), ‘The Wall-Painting from the “Room with the Fresco” at Mycenae: Context and Content’

    11:00-11.20 Coffee break

    Chair: Spyros Iakovidis, Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Antiquity

    11.20-11.50 Eleni Palaiologou (4th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Nauplion), ‘A Female Painted Plaster Figure from Mycenae’

    11.50-12.30 Elena Kountouri (Head of the Secretariat of Central Archaeological Council), ‘Bits and Pieces: New Evidence Unfolds. Wall-Painting Fragments from the Stratifed Context on the Spourlis Property in Thebes’

    12.30-13.10 Theodoros Spyropoulos (Honorary Ephor of Antiquities), ‘Mural Paintings from the Mycenaean Palace of Boeotian Orchomenos’

    13.10-13.50 Christos Boulotis (Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Antiquity), ‘A Dolphin Frieze and Nautili (?) from the Mycenaean Citadel of Gla, Boeotia’

    13.50-15.20 Lunch break

    Chair: Maria Vlazaki-Andreadaki, Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Tourism

    15.20-17.00 Closing discussion

    Closing discussion will take place at the foundation “The Other Arcadia”, where there will also be an exhibition of contemporary Greek painting (Christos Bokoros and Chronis Botsoglou) from Sotiris Felios’ Collection (16 Fokionos Negri St., Kypseli. Tel. 210 88 24 681).

    Invitation (.pdf 656kb)
    Programme (.pdf 795kb)
    Cotsen Hall (map)
    National Research Foundation (map)
    Foundation “The Other Arcadia” (map)
  • MON 14
    Greece, Athens - 19:00

    Υπό το σκήπτρον του Νέστορος. Οι ανασκαφές στην Ίκλαινα και η ομηρική αρχαιολογία της Πύλου

    Archaeological Society, 22 Panepistimiou

    Lecture

    Prof. Michalis Cosmopoulos (University of Missouri)

  • TUE 15
    Greece, Athens - 19:00

    Annual Open Meeting of the British School at Athens

    Archaeological Society at Athens, 22 Panepistimiou

    Prof. Catherine Morgan (Director of the British School at Athens), 'The Work of the British School at Athens in 2010',
    &
    lecture by Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi (Director of the Fitch Laboratory, BSA): "Voyage to Kythera: surveying the island's past, 1998-2010"
    Invitation
    Map

  • WED 16
    United Kingdom, London - 15:30

    Domesticating the periphery: new research in the Neolithic of Northern Greece

    Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

    Mycenaean Seminar

    Kostas Kotsakis (Thessaloniki)

    Map
  • THU 17
    Greece, Athens - 19:30

    The Role of Religion in State Formation in the Argolid in the Late Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean Periods

    Norwegian Institute at Athens (Tsami Karatasou 5)

    Lecture

    Prof. Helène Whittaker (University of Tromso)

    Map
    Greece, Thessaloniki - 19:00

    Annual Open Meeting of the British School at Athens

    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Old Ceremonial Hall)

    Prof. Catherine Morgan (Director of the British School at Athens), 'The Work of the British School at Athens in 2010',
    &
    lecture by Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi (Director of the Fitch Laboratory, BSA): "Ταξίδι στα Κύθηρα:ερευνώντας το παρελθόν ενός μεσογειακού νησιού, 1998-2010" (Voyage to Kythera: surveying the island's past, 1998-2010)
    Invitation
  • FRI 18
    Germany, Heidelberg 2011/02/18 - 2011/02/20

    Early Seafaring of the Mediterranean Sea – From the Beginning until the late Bronze Age 800 BC

    Institute of Classical Archaeology of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

    Αnnual Conference

  • SAT 19
    Germany, Heidelberg 2011/02/18 - 2011/02/20

    Early Seafaring of the Mediterranean Sea – From the Beginning until the late Bronze Age 800 BC

    Institute of Classical Archaeology of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

    Αnnual Conference

  • SUN 20
    Germany, Heidelberg 2011/02/18 - 2011/02/20

    Early Seafaring of the Mediterranean Sea – From the Beginning until the late Bronze Age 800 BC

    Institute of Classical Archaeology of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

    Αnnual Conference

  • MON 21
  • TUE 22
    Greece, Athens - 18:00

    How much is enough? Aspects of trade in Late Bronze Age Aegean

    German Archaeological Institute Athens (Fidiou 1)

    ΑΙΓΕΙΡΟΣ lecture series

    Angelos Papadopoulos (University of Athens)

    Response by: Kostas Kalogeropoulos (Akademy of Athens) and Christian Vonhoff (German Archaeological Institut Athens)
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    United Kingdom, London - 17:00

    ‘Mycenaeans’ overseas? Matertial connections and mobility in Late Bronze Age Mediterranean

    Senate House South Block G 22 / 26

    ICS-BSA Spring Lecture

    Evangelia Kiriatzi (Athens)

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  • WED 23
  • THU 24
    Greece, Athens - 18:00 - - 20:00

    Annual Open Meeting of the Swedish Institute at Athens

    Swedish Institute, Mitseon 9

    Dr. Arto Penttinen (Director), 'The Work of the Swedish Institute in 2010'
    &
    Professor Lars Karlsson (Uppsala University), 'Recent Swedish Excavations in the Sanctuary of Zeus with the Double Axe at Labraunda in Karia'
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  • FRI 25
    Greece, Athens - 19:30

    House of Muksas: Aegean Origins of an Iron Age Cilician Dynasty

    Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies (51a Odos Notara, Exarcheia)

    Lecture

    Hüseyin Çınar Öztürk (University of Cincinnati)

    Map
    Greece, Athens - 18:30

    A few new thoughts on old Knossos: the Prepalatial era

    Archaeological Society, 22 Panepistimiou

    Minoan Seminar

    Gerald Cadogan

    Map

  • SAT 26
  • SUN 27
  • MON 28
    Greece, Athens - 19:00

    Ioannis Fappas, «Μια πρόσφατη ανασκαφή μυκηναϊκών ανακτορικών κτηρίων στη Θήβα. Ερμηνεία των δεδομένων» & Athina Papadaki, «Ανακτορικά ελεφαντουργήματα από τη μυκηναϊκή Θήβα»

    Museum of Cycladic Art (4, Neophytou Douka str.)

    Lecture

    Greece, Athens - 19:00

    Ανασκάπτοντας τη φιλόξενη χώρα της Ιορδανίας

    National Museum (Tositsa 1)

    Lecture

    Athanasios Papadopoulos (Emeritus Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Ioannina)

    Please confirm with the Society of the Friends of the National Museum.
    http://www.namuseum.gr