Programme
Thursday 27th November
KMKG-Kleine Conferentiezaal
16.00: Registration at the Royal Museums of Art and History
17.30: Welcome
Eric GUBEL
Head of the Dept of Antiquity - Royal Museums of Art and History
Karin NYS
Head of the research group MARI – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
18.00: Opening lecture
Jean Paul VAN BENDEGEM
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
18.30: Keynote Lecture
Priscilla KESWANI
Storage and Political Economy in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
20.00: Reception at the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus
Friday 28th November
VUB – Building D, room 2.01
8.30: Morning coffee
SESSION 1 chaired by Alison SOUTH
9.00: Sam HARDY
Treatment of Cultural Heritage in Cyprus, 1963-1974
9.25: Michelle GAMBLE
A Bioarchaeological Study of Souskiou-Laona Chalcolithic Cemetery: Preliminary Results
and Future Directions
9.50: Stella DIAKOU
Aspects of Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
10.15: Jan COENAERTS & Melissa SAMAES
Regional Exchange in South-East Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age
10.40: COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 2 chaired by Eric GUBEL
11.15: Matteo VIGO
The Economic Role of the Troodos Area and Links between Cyprus and Hatti during the Late Bronze Age
11.40: Viola LEWANDOWSKI
The Berlin Collection of Finds from the Necropolis of Marion
12.05: Joachim BRETSCHNEIDER
The Excavation of Tell Tweini in Syria: Architecture and Stratigraphy
12.30: LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 3 chaired by Thomas KIELY
14.30: Elizabeth CORY-LOPEZ
Technological and Material Approaches to Cypriot Middle Chalcolithic Picrolite
14.55: Daisy KNOX
Figurines and Identity in Bronze Age Cyprus
15.20: Katarzyna ZEMAN-WISNIEWSKA
Dancing with the Goddess. Some Remarks about Different Ways to Interpret ‘Goddesses with Upraised Arms’
15.45: COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 4 chaired by Demetrios MICHAELIDES
16.15: Aurélie CARBILLET
Some Aspects of the Hathoric Figure in Amathous during the Cypro-Archaic Period
16.40: Takashi FUJII
Imperial Cult and Imperial Statues in Roman Cyprus
17.05: Konstantinos RAPTIS & Styliani VASSILIADOU
Early Christian Marble Tables in Cyprus: Typology, Origin and Distribution
17.30: Iosif HADJIKYRIAKOS
Islamic ‘Proskinitaria’ in Christian Churches
Saturday 29th November
VUB – Building D, room 2.01
8.30: Morning coffee
SESSION 5 chaired by Karin NYS
9.00: Maria DIKOMITOU
Red Polished fabrics across the Island! Considering Issues of Ceramic Production, Technology, and Provenance
9.25: Luca BOMBARDIERI & Francesca CHELAZZI
Sourcing of Pottery Fabrics for Coarse Wares in the Kouris River Valley Area
9.50: Ariane JACOBS & Barbara BORGERS
Understanding Ceramic Variability: Some Techniques of the Alassa Potters
10.15: Virginie RENSON
Using Lead Isotopes for Provenance Determination of Pottery from Cyprus
10.40: Roald DOCTER
The Cypriot Facies of Carthage
11.05: COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 6 chaired by Louise MAGUIRE
11.35: Anna GEORGIADOU
Les dialogues du « Bronze »
12.00: Sidonie LEJEUNE
How Cyprus Entered the Ptolemaic Era: Scripts, Languages and Political Organization in Cyprus in the 3rd century BC
12.25: Mia Gaia TRENTIN
Latin Commemorative Epigraphs in Venetian Cyprus
12.50: LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 7 chaired by Priscilla KESWANI
14.30: Dimitris VITAS
In Search of the Gymnasium of Nea Paphos
14.55: Skevi CHRISTODOULOU
Water Supply and Distribution during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods in Cyprus. Spatial and Social Considerations
15.20: COFFEE BREAK + Poster Session
15.50: Closing Lecture
Paul ÅSTRÖM†
Cypriote Archaeology: A Prospering Story
16.50: Closing of POCA 2008
City-promenade through the historical centre of Brussels
19.00: Conference Dinner
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