Mediterranean Identities

FRIDAY

9:00-9:45 Registration

9:45-10:00 Greetings and Introduction

PANEL: Mobility (Chair: Constantina Katsari)

10:00-10:20: Tamar Hodos (Bristol):  Globalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean

10:20-10:40: David Engels (ULB): Mediterranean Identities and the Idea of Thalassocracy

10:40-11:00 Almut-Barbara Renger (Berlin): Mapping Europa and her Family: Migration across the Mediterranean. On Narrative Construction of Identity in Mythological Topography

11:00-11:30: Discussion

11:30-12:00 Coffee

PANEL: Group Community Identities (Chair: Jim Roy)

12:00-12:20: Paola Ceccarelli (Durham): Topical identities

12:20-12:40: Bill Cavanagh (Nottingham): Territory and Identity: some archaeological observations

12:40-12:55: Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Cambridge): Group Identities and the Community 

12:55-13:10: Philippa M. Steele (Cambridge): Identity in a Multilingual Island: The Case of Ancient Cyprus

13:10-13:40: Discussion

13:40-15:00: Lunch

PANEL: Art (Chair: Mark Bradley)

15:00-15:30: Robin Osborne (Cambridge): The Art of Identity

15:30-15:45: Discussion

15:45-16:15: Coffee

PANEL: Artifacts (Chair: Bill Cavanagh)

16:15-16:35: Melissa Vetters (Leicester) and  Ann Brysbaert (Leicester): Practicing identity – a crafty ideal?

16:35-16:50: Nick Ray (Leicester): Consumer Durables, Roman Households, and Identity

16:50-17:05: Justin St. P. Walsh (Louisiana State University): Consumption, Preference, and Identity

17:05-17:30: Discussion

End of First Day