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27 May 2025 - 27 May 2025

1:00PM - 5:00PM

CL007, Classics and Ancient History Department / Online

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Work-in-progress seminar for early career researchers

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Join us for a series of lightning talks and work-in-progress papers by PhDs and Postdocs working on topics that broadly cover the Late Bronze, Early Iron or Archaic Aegean region.

To receive the link to join online, please e-mail Michael Loy

13:00 – Introductory Remarks
(Alexander J. Heath and Flo Lloyd James)
 
Speed Meetings / Lightening Presentations
 
13:10 - E. Maylla Bisson (University of Edinburgh): ‘Metallurgists at Work in the Greek Sanctuaries, What Were They Up To? Initial Questions and Methodological Choices’.
 
13:20 – Alexandros Drosinakis (University of Tartu): ‘From “Strongholds” to Poleis? Continuities and Discontinuities in Pols Formation in the Cyclades’
Full Presentations
13:30 -  Alexis Lamb (Kings College London): ‘The Idols of the Cyclades: Bronze Age Art and Modern Reception’
 
13:00 – Renee Trepagnier (University of Bristol and the Ashmolean Museum): ‘From the Ruins of Archival Catastrophe: The Case of the North-East House at Knossos’
 
14:40   Break
 
15:10 – Sarah Lidwell-Durnin (University of Bristol): ‘Measuring the Minoans: Anthropometry and Contemporary Scientific Thought in Sir Arthur Evans’s Engagement with the Minoans at Knossos’
 
15:50 - Alexander J. Heath (Cardiff University): ‘Early Archaic Thebes, a Conbibial Community? Creating and Exercising Communal Cultural Memories Through Cult Commensality’
 
16:30 – Flo Lloyd James (University of Bristol, Cardiff University, and the British School at Athens): ‘Power and Space at Κnossos: Understanding Urbanism over 6000 years’
 
17:10 – Concluding Remarks;

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