Past Events

Ειρήνη Λεγάκη (Αρχαιολόγος της Εφορείας Αρχαιοτήτων Κυκλάδων, Υπ.Πο.Α.), “Νεώτερα αρχαιολογικά δεδομένα για τη Νάξο και τις Μικρές Κυκλάδες”

Τα τελευταία χρόνια έχουν έρθει στο φως στη Νάξο και τις Μικρές Κυκλάδες νέα στοιχεία είτε για άγνωστες έως σήμερα θέσεις προϊστορικών και ιστορικών χρόνων, είτε για ήδη γνωστές, τα οποία συνεισφέρουν στη γνώση για την προϊστορία και την ιστορία των παραπάνω νησιωτικών περιοχών. Κάποια δε από τα στοιχεία αυτά ενδεχομένως επαναπροσδιορίζουν τη θέση ορισμένων από τα παραπάνω νησιά στον ευρύτερο χώρο της Ευρωπαϊκής Προϊστορίας.

Lana Radloff (Homer and Dorothy Thompson Fellow, The Canadian Institute in Greece; Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics, University at Buffalo, S.U.N.Y.), “Ideology, Identity, and Power: Harbor-Agora Connectivity at Hellenistic Miletos”

Sacked by the Persians in 494 BC, Miletos was rebuilt on a regular orthogonal grid, prospering once again in the 4th century BCE and Hellenistic period, when extensive building took place around the Lion Harbor and North and South Markets. Coinciding with the rise of the Macedonian kingdoms after the death of Alexander the Great, the fact that building focused on harbors and marketplaces demonstrates their fundamental role as physical spaces. In order to establish Asiatic cities as military and economic power bases, Alexander’s successors exchanged royal patronage for civic goodwill at cities such as Miletos. Consequently, urban environments became a mechanism for negotiating socio-political relationships between the Hellenistic kings and local inhabitants.

In terms of connectivity, I view the agora and harbor as liminal spaces that function as nodes within the ‘maritime cultural landscape,’ connected with each other, the broader settlement, sea, and outside world. Drawing on scholarship from urbanism, the maritime environment, and social space theory, I examine the harbor-city matrix of Hellenistic Miletos in order to explore the physical relationship between the agoras at Miletos and the role its harbors played as nodes of connectivity and separation in the negotiation of socio-political relationships within the city and between the city and the outside world.

2015 Biannual Graduate Student Conference of the Canadian Institute in Greece: “Reproduction and Repurposing in Antiquity”

Dr. Timothy Winters, Professor of Classics at Austin Peay State University and the current Gertrude Smith Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, will deliver a keynote talk on the evening of Friday 6 February on the archaeology and history of the island of Salamis and his research there, titled: ‘“There’s Nothing Out There”: A Survey of the Archaeological Sites on the Island of Salamis’.

Tina Ross (MA, University of Victoria), current archaeological illustrator and publication artist at projects such as Mitrou, Pylos, Eleon, Kenchreai, and Aigeira will be conducting a professional workshop on drawing archaeological ceramics and understanding pot sherds (http://www.tinaross.ca/archaeologicalillustrationworkshopinfo ross.pdf).  There are still a few places available in the two sessions of 4 hours each, limited to 10 persons per session.  Interested parties should reserve their place as soon as possible by contacting conference coordinator, Jeff Banks (banksjn@mail.uc.edu).  One session will be held in the afternoon of Friday 6 February, the second on Saturday 7 February.  There is a nominal fee to reserve a place at this professional workshop.  Illustration instruments will be available to the participants and they will have the opportunity to handle and engage with actual antiquities.

Friday 6 February 2015      

12:00–4:00 PM           Tina Ross: Archaeological Illustration Workshop (Session I)

4:15–5:00 PM             Reception                                     

5:00–6:15 PM             Opening remarks

Keynote Address, Tim Winters:

“There’s Nothing Out There”: A Survey of the Archaeological Sites on the Island of Salamis

Saturday 7 February 2015

12:00–4:00 PM           Tina Ross: Archaeological Illustration Workshop (Session II)

10:00 AM                    Krista Banks, Wilfrid Laurier University

                                    Repurposing Akrotiri: The Minoanization of a Cycladic Town

10:30 AM                    Rebecca Bennett and Wendy Chennette, Wilfrid Laurier University

Minoan Metamorphosis: Repurposing at Palaikastro

11:00 AM                    Sarah Schofield-Mansur, Brandeis University

From Birth to Burial: Connections to Fertility and Maternity in the IntramuralInfant Container Burials of Late Bronze Age Crete

1:00 PM                      Victoria Newson, Wilfrid Laurier University

                                    The Non-Locals of Grave Circle A

1:30 PM                      Rachel Dewan, University of Oxford

Recycled Religion: The Mycenaean Adoption, Integration, and Manipulation of Minoan Religious Symbols and Practices

2:00 PM                      Anna Belza, Brandeis University

Reexamining the Philistine Question: Continuity or Imitation of Mycenaean Material Culture?

3:00 PM                      Jill Simmons, University of Georgia

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Wine-Dark: The πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης from Homer to Hesiod

3:30 PM                      Gino Canlas, University of Alberta

Approaches to Monumentality in Thessalian Religion

4:00 PM                      Caitlin Diddams and James Gawley, University at Buffalo SUNY

Quasi Anhelans: Orality and Intertextuality between Cicero De Oratore 3.41 and Augustine De Doctrina Christiana 4.13

4:30 PM                      Closing Remarks

David W. Rupp, "Canadians Take the Field: Over 30 Years of Archaeological Discoveries by the Canadian Institute in Greece"