Conference "Destruction in Archaeology" (24-25 noviembre, Louvain-la-Neuve, Bélgica)

The next 24 to 26 November will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve a conference about Destruction in Archaeology.

Destruction.
Archaeological, philological and historical perspectives.

International Round Table organised by CEMA

La destruction.
Perspectives archéologiques, philologiques et historiques.

Table ronde internationale organisée par le CEMA

24-25-26 NOVEMBER 2011

Sénat académique
1, place de l'université
Louvain-la-Neuve

PROGRAMME

Première Journée / First Day Thursday 24th of November 2011

9h-9h30 : Accueil et inscription / Registration
9h30-9h45 : Introduction par l’ancien président d’INCAL, R. Brulet, et le responsable de CEMA M. Cavalieri / Introductions by the previous head of the Research Institute INCAL R. Brulet and by M. Cavalieri, head of the Research centre CEMA
Morning session - Chairperson: Marco Cavalieri
9h45-10h15 : Jan DRIESSEN (UCL) : Time Capsules? Destructions as Archaeological Phenomena
10h15-10h45 : Laurent OLIVIER (Musée d’Archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye) : L’âge de la Destruction
10h45-11h : Coffee break K
11h-11h30 : Alfredo GONZÁLEZ-RUIBAL (Heritage Laboratory/National Research Council, Spain) : Destruction and memory
11h30-12h : Tim F. CUNNINGHAM (UCL) : Deconstructing Destruction: a contextualizing approach to methodology and meaning in Archaeology
12h-12h30 : Sharon ZUCKERMANN (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) : Understanding Destructions: On Crisis Architecture and Termination Rituals in the Ancient Near East and Beyond.
12h30-14h: Lunch break
Afternoon session - Chairperson: Laurent Olivier
14h-14h30 : Ruth TRINGHAM (Dept of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley) : Destruction of Places by Fire: Domicide, or Domithanasia
14h30-15h : Christina TSORAKI (Univ. Sheffield/UCL) : Breaking ground (stone): acts of deliberate destruction in Late Neolithic Makriyalos, Greece
15h-15h30h : Anna STROULIA (University of Southern Indiana) and Danai CHONDROU (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) : Destroying the Means of Production: The Case of Ground Stone Tools from Kremasti, Greece
15h30-16h : Coffee break K
16h-16h30 : Peter TOMKINS (KULeuven) : Making, mending and breaking. Contextualising and interpreting the intentional destruction (and curation) of houses at Neolithic Knossos, Crete.
16h30-17h : Simona TODARO (University of Catania) and Luca GIRELLA (UniNettuno University of Rome/UCL) : Living through destructions: deliberate vs. accidental manipulation of human remains and grave goods in Western Mediterranean rock cut-chamber tombs of the IV and III millennium BC
17h-17h30 : Dario PUGLISI (UCL) : The view from the day after: some observations on the Late Bronze Age I final destructions in Crete
17h30-18h : General discussion
18h-20h : Reception in the University Hall

Deuxième Journée / Second Day Friday 25th of November 2011

8h45-9h : Accueil et inscription/Registration
Morning session - Chairperson: Ruth Tringham
9h-9h30 : Simon JUSSERET (FNRS, UCL), Charlotte LANGOHR (FNRS, UCL) and Manuel SINTUBIN (KULeuven) : Archaeoseismology: a conceptual framework for assessing the seismic origin of archaeological destruction layers
9h30-10h : Louise HITCHCOCK (University of Melbourne) : Destruction and Identity: Trauma, Migration, and Performativity in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean
10h-10h30 : Arianna RIZIO (Università del Molise) : Evidence of destructions from the Peloponnese during the Late Helladic period: an archaeological domestic perspective
10h30-11h : Manolis MIKRAKIS (Department of Antiquities, Cyprus) : The destruction of the Mycenaean palaces and the construction of the epic world: Archaeological and philological perspectives
11h-11h15 : Coffee break K
11h15-11h45 : Mario DENTI (Université de Rennes 2) : La notion de «destruction» entre oblitération, conservation et pratiques rituelles. Le cas des opérations réalisées à Incoronata au VIIe siècle avant J.C.
11h45-12h15 : Alexandra ALEXANDRIDOU (Open University, Cyprus) : Destructions at the Grave. Ritual burning and breaking in 7th-century BC Attica
12h15-12h45 : Donald C. HAGGIS (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) : Destruction and the formation of static and dynamic settlement structures
12h45-14h15 : Lunch break
Afternoon session - Chairperson : Jan Driessen
14h15-14h45 : Florence GAIGNEROT-DRIESSEN (Université de Paris IV) : Le meurtre de la cité : la destruction par abandon forcé
14h45-15h15 : Athanasia KYRIAKOU and Alexandros TOURTAS (Univ. of Thessaloniki) : After destruction: Taking care of remains in the Sanctuary of Eukleia at Aegae (Vergina)
15h15-15h45 : Ryan BOEHM (Brown University) : Synoikism and Destruction in the Hellenistic World
15h45-16h : Coffee break K
16h-16h30 : Ludovic THÉLY (Université d'Angers) : Les séismes comme cause de destruction : étude du vocabulaire des inscriptions aux époques hellénistique et romaine
16h30-17h : Stavros OIKONOMIDIS (Arcadia Center, Athens/College for Education Abroad, Philadelphia) : Spolia and spoilage of the archaeological environment. Construction-destruction-reconstruction: the case of the historic center of Athens
17h-17h30 : Laure MEULEMANS et Sylvia PIERMARINI (UCL) : La destruction cyclique en contexte cultuel: « mort » et « renaissance » pour assurer le continuum ?
17h30-18h : General discussion

Troisième Journée / Third Day Saturday 26th of November 2011
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8h45-9h : Accueil et inscription/Registration
Morning session - Chairperson : Alain Meurant
9h-9h30 : Michele SCALICI (Università degli Studi della Basilicata) and Alessia MANCINI (Soprintendenza Archeologica della Basilicata) : Construction and Destruction: the case of Timmari (South Italy)
9h30-10h : Pierre ASSENMAKER (FNRS, UCL) : Des convergences et divergences entre les récits de destruction et les traces archéologiques : les sacs d’Athènes et d’Ilion durant la première guerre mithridatique
10h-10h30 : Matteo CADARIO (Università degli Studi di Milano) : La damnatio politique et religieuse des statues
10h30-11h : V. GASSNER, E. STEIGBERGER and B. TOBER (Vienna/Salzburg) : Destruction or Demolition? The Case study of the sanctuary of Iuppiter Heliopolitanus at Carnuntum.
11h-11h15 : Coffee break K
11h15-11h45 : Sébastien POLET (UCL) : Destruction et conservation des monuments libyco-romains de Tripolitaine : perspectives de recherches
11h45-12h15 : Marco CAVALIERI (UCL) : Destruction, transformation et refonctionalisation : le passage de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge en Toscane entre IVe et VIIe s. ap. J.-C.
12h15-12h45 : Aude BUSINE (FNRS, ULB) : Les récits de destruction de temples et l’identité civique chrétienne
12h45-14h15 : Lunch break
Afternoon session - Chairperson : Françoise Van Haeperen
14h15-14h45 : Rocco PALERMO (Università di Napoli Federico II / Universitè de Paris I) : Evidence of destruction in a residential area at Tell Barri (II-X AD)
14h45-15h15 : Ine JACOBS (KULeuven) : Forging a community of true believers. Violence and Identity in Early Christianity
15h15-15h30 : Coffee break K
15h30-16h : Final discussion: chairperson: Robert Laffineur
16h : Closure: J. Driessen

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