International Workshop

"CULTURAL CONTACTS IN THE ANCIENT EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN STRUCTURES (3RD – 1ST MILLENIUM B.C.)"


Münster, 19 – 20 November 2010

Venues:
Lecture room H2, Schlaunstr. 2 (building in the back, entrance from Rosenstraße).
Only the evening lecture on 19 November (starting at 19.15h) will be held in lecture room F6 of Fürstenberghaus, Domplatz 20-22.

Organisers
Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriot Studies, University of Münster und European Research Centre for Ancient East-Mediterranean Cultures (CAMC), University of Tartu (Estonia) – in close cooperation with the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Münster
 

 Sponsored by the German Research Founcation   Dfg Schwarz


PROGRAMMe

Friday 19 November 2010

  • 9.00-9.30     Welcome and introduction
  • 9.30-10.15    Michel al-Maqdissi (Department of Antiquities, Syria):
    "Nouvelles recherches sur les villes circulaires en Syrie occidentale au IIIème millénaire av. J.-C."
  • 10.15-11.00    Valérie Matoïan (University of Lyon, France):
    "Excavations at Ras Shamra-Ugarit (Syria)"
  • 11.00-11.30    Coffee break
  • 11.30-12.15    Joachim Bretschneider (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium):
    "Influence or immigrants: Cult activity in Tell Tweini and Kition in the Early Iron Age"
  • 12.15-13.00    Karin Nys (Free University of Brussels, Belgium):
    "Tell Tweini and Cyprus in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: the ceramic view"
  • 13.00-14.30    Lunch break
  • 14.30-15.15    Andreas Schachner (German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul Department, Turkey):
    "From an Anatolian town to an international metropolis – the evolution of the Hittite capital Hattusha"
  • 15.15-16.00    Dirk Wicke (University of Mainz, Germany):
    "Assyria in Anatolia. The Assyrian impact on the Upper Tigris Region"
  • 16.00-16.30    Coffee break
  • 16.30-17.15    Reinhard Dittmann (University of Münster, Germany):
    "Glyptic and Patterns of Urbanisation – a Humble Approach"
  • 17.15-18.00    Jan Driessen (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium):
    "Architecture and Political Geography in the Bronze Age Aegean"
  • 19.00 c.t.    Public evening lecture:
    Peter Pfälzner (University of Tübingen, Germany):
    "Der Königspalast von Qatna - neue Ergebnisse der Grabungen"



Saturday, 20 November 2010:

  • 9.15-10.00    Gebhard J. Selz (University of Vienna, Austria):
    "Trade posts and encampments as corner stones of exchange"
  • 10.00-10.45    Karel van Lerberghe (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium):
    "A new Nippur in the Post-Samsuiluna period"
  • 10.45-11.00    Coffee break
  • 11.00-11.45    Thomas Kämmerer (University of Tartu, Estonia):
    "Urbanism – Myth and Reality in Ancient Near-Eastern Literature"
  • 11.45-12.30     Manfried Dietrich (University of Münster, Germany):
    "The Orientation of Sancturies. A Comparative Study of Cult Topography and Provincial Culture in Late Bronze Age Syria (Ugarit, Alalach, Ain Dara, Ekalte)"
  • 12.30-14.00    Coffee break
  • 14.00-14.45    Anne Lill (University of Tartu, Estonia):
    "Towns and their social value in Greek tragedy"
  • 14.45-15.30    Mait Kôiv (University of Tartu, Estonia):
    "Urbanisation and political community in Archaic Greece (8th until 6th century B.C.)"
  • 15.30-16.00    Coffee break
  • 16.00    Round table discussion

Free entrance