Tuesday 28 June
Registration from 9.00
Welcome and First Key Note Speaker
Stora Hörsalen
9.50-11.00 / Jorit Wintjes, University of Würzburg,The Command and Control Conundrum - or Why We Believe We Understand Ancient Naval Operations, but Don’t11.00-11.20 / Coffee Break
Session 1
RoomD 404
11.20-12.00 / Margaretha Kramer, Indiana University, Of Ships and Shields: The Dipylon Shield and the Mycenaean Galley at the Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition
12.00-12.40 / Yasmina Benferhat, University of Lorraine,Blockade on the Seas
12.40-14.10 / Lunch
14.10-14.50 / Geoff Lee, TBC
14.50-15.30 / Amy Down, University of Exeter,Rhodes as a Significant Power in the Early Hellenistic Period
15.30-15.50 / Coffee Break
15.50-16.30 / Johan Ling, University of Gothenburg, Rock Art, Warfare and Long Distance Trade
16.30-17.10 / Luisa Fizzarotti, University of Bologna,The Role of Theramenes in the Battle of Cyzicus
17.10-17.50 / Aimee Schofield, University of Leicester, Women Waging War: Women’s Roles in Classical Greek Siege Warfare
Session 2
Room D 411
11.20-12.00 / Rasmus Birch Iversen, Moesgaard Museum,Changing Weapons, Changing Warfare, Changing Rituals and Changing Society in Southern Scandinavia from the pre-Roman to the Migration Period and Beyond.
12.00-12.40 / Željka Bedić, Anthropological Centre, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Anthropological Analysis of Perimortem Trauma in the Skeletal Sample from Udbina - St. Jacob site, Croatia (1490s)
12.40-14.10 / Lunch
14.10-14.50 / T. Fernández-Crespo, University of Oxford & J. Ordono, University of the Basque Country,The 300 of San Juan ante Portam Latinam. New Radiocarbon Dates and Socio-Paleodemographic Implications of a Possible Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic Massacre in the Mid-Upper Ebro Valley (North-Central Spain).
14.50-15.30 / Stuart McCunn, University of Nottingham,Supply and Command: The Quaestor Exercitus
15.30-15.50 / Coffee Break
15.50-16.30 / Jeroen Wijnendaele, Ghent University, Kingship in the Late Antique West (c. 400 - 500 CE). Ethnic Leaders, Territorial Rulers or Military Managers?
16.30-17.10 / Shi-CongFan Chaing, Kyle, Virgins and the Persians: Sexual Violence against the Captured Roman Women in the Romano-Persian Wars
17.10-17.50 / David Colwill, Cardiff University, So Contrary to his Mild and Generous Nature: Aemilius Paullus’ Mass Enslavement of the Molossians
Wednesday 29 June
Second Key Note speaker
Stora Hörsalen
10.00-11.00 / Ioannis Georganas HISA, How Militaristic were Aegean Bronze Age Societies?11.00-11.20 / Coffee Break
Session 3
Room D 404
11.20-12.00 / Maria Helena Trindade Lopes, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Universidade dos Açores & Ronaldo Gurgel Pereira, Univer:sidade NOVA de Lisboa,War and the Egyptian Concept of Universal Empire: from Megiddo to Kadesh
12.00-12.40 / Peter M. Fischer, Gothenburg University,Cyprus in the Centre of the Storm: The 12th Century’s BCE Crisis Years on Cyprus
12.40-14.10 / Lunch
14.10-14.50 / Lucia Alberti, Istituto Di Studi Sul Mediterraneo Antico, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR-ISMA),Peaceful ‘Minoans’ vs. Warlike ‘Mycenaeans’? The Meaning of Weaponry found in the Knossian Tombs of the Late Bronze Age: Roles, Status and Multiple Identities
14.50-15.30 / Václav Smrčka, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages, Prague,Claudius Galenus, Surgeon of Gladiators and Marcomannic Wars
15.30-15.50 / Coffee Break
15.50-16.30 / Pietro Maria Militello and Thea Messina, University of Catania,War in the Early Bronze Age Sicily
16.30-17.10 / Cat Quine, University of Nottingham,Fortresses and Politics in 7th Century BCE Judah
Reception in the Museum of Antiquities 17.30-19.00
Session 4Room D 411
11.20-12.00 / Fernando Echeverria, Complutense University (Madrid),Epistrateia: Rethinking Greek Siege Warfare in the pre-Artillery Era
12.00-12.40 / Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg, Uppsala University, Wars and Gendered Voices
12.40-14.10 / Lunch
14.10-14.50 / Roel Konijnendijk, Institute of Historical Research,Playing Dice with the City at Stake
14.50-15.30 / Owen Rees, Manchester Metropolitan University, Resurrecting the Classical Greek Siege
15.30-15.50 / Coffee Break
15.50-16.30 / Matthew Lloyd (presented for Matthew by Cezary Kucewicz), Walls Come Tumbling Down! The Destruction of Settlements in Early Greece
16.30-17.10 / Josho Brouwers, Editor Ancient Warfare Magazine, Fear and Fortifications in Ancient Greece
Reception in the Museum of Antiquities 17.30-19.00
Thursday 30 June
Session 5Room D 411
9.30-10.10 / Evgeny Teytelbaum, Centre for Advanced Education “Youth Academy” Kazan, Between History, Rhetoric and Tragedy: Battle Descriptions in Polybius
10.10-10.50 / Elizabeth Pearson, University of Manchester,Decimation: A Reinforcement or Inversion of Unit Cohesion?
11.00-11.20 / Coffee Break
11.20-12.00 / Ioan McAvoy, Cardiff University,Pompey the Greek:Orientalising the Exemplary After Actium
12.00-12.40 / Helène Whittaker, University of Gothenburg, The Temple to Ares in the Agora in its Athenian Context
12.40-14.10 / Lunch
14.10-14.50 / Cezary Kucewicz, University College London, TheRise of the Greek Citizen Army or the Real ‘Hoplite Revolution’
14.50-15.30 / Wawrzyniec Miścicki, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Hoplite Warfare in the City of Images. Representations of the Phalanx in Archaic Greek Iconography.
15.30-16.00 / Coffee Break
16.00-16.40 / Hilary Becker, University of Mississippi, Inscribed Etruscan Helmets: Mapping Function and Meaning for the Etruscan Soldier
16.40-17.20 / No paper
17:20 – 18:00 / End of Conference Review
Session 6
Room D 411
9.30-10.10 / Mary Fragkaki, University of Athens, IG II2 844: A Re-examination
10.10-10.50 / Marek Verčík, German Archaeological Institute Istanbul, Testimony of the Identity or the Internationality? Archaic Greek Mercenaries and their Reflection in the Sanctuaries of Ionia
11.00-11.20 / Coffee Break
11.20-12.00 / Alessandro Brambilla, Universita Degli Studi Di Roma,How to Shape a Federal Army: Variety of Methods in the Historical and Socio-Political Frame
12.00-12.40 / Tine Scheijnen, Ghent University,Pictures of Death in Ancient Greek Epic
12.40-14.10 / Lunch
14.10-14.40 / Stephen O’Connor, California State University, Fullerton,Military Rates of Pay and Food Prices in the Classical Greek World
14.40-15.20 / Jesse Obert, University of California, Berkeley,The Role of Attendants in Classical Greek Combat
15.20-16.00 / Coffee Break
16.00-16.40 / Andrea Scarpato, University of Leicester,The Limits of Realism: Sparta in the Early Third Century
16.40-17.20 / Anna Busetto , Independent Researcher,προτρεπειν εισ φιλονικιαν: Strategies and Functions of Military Emulation between the Greek and Roman world. To be confirmed.
17:20 – 18:00 / End of Conference Review