Regional Mobilities and the Making of the Ancient Greek World

6-8th June 2024, University of Vienna

This conference highlights how local and regional mobilities contributed to the making of the wider Greek world.

The ancient Greek world was a culturally integrated but geographically dispersed entity, comprising over a thousand autonomous communities scattered across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Scholarship has usually focused on long-distance migration as the key to its formation, characterising this either as colonisation or in terms of trade and interaction. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to the role played by local and regional mobilities in the formation of new settlements and settlement systems c.1200-500 BCE.

This conference will seek to redress the balance. Using insights from landscape archaeology in particular, we will compare evidence for urbanisation, population circulation, changing settlement patterns, and variation in landscape use, and consider how these contributed to the making of the early Greek world.

To attend the conference, please contact: bettina.bernegger@univie.ac.at

Programme

In the lists on the right, contributors are listed in alphabetical order by surname.

The complete programme can be downloaded here.

The flyer can be downloaded here.

  • Morning: Italy and Sicily

    Peter Attema, University of Groningen

    Rodolfo Brancato, University of Naples Federico II

    Lieve Donnellan, University of Melbourne

    Antonino Facella, University of Genoa, and Gianfranco Adornato and Federico Figura, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

    Fabrizio Mollo and Marco Sfacteria, University of Messina

    Marco Pacciarelli and Alessandro Naso, University of Naples Federico II

    Francesco Quondam, University of Vienna

    Afternoon: the Western Mediterranean

    Anna Depalmas, University of Sassari

    Elisa de Sousa, University of Lisbon

    Linda Gosner, Texas Tech University, and Jessica Nowlin, University of Texas

    Carolina López-Ruiz, University of Chicago

    Francesco Quondam, University of Vienna

    Evening: PUBLIC LECTURE

    The work of the MIGMAG project - Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna

  • Morning: Anatolia and the Black Sea

    Owen Doonan, California State University

    Bilge Hürmüzlü and Semih Togan, Süleyman Demirel University

    Elif Koparal, Miman Sinan University

    Christina Luke and Chris Roosevelt, Koç University

    Michele Massa, Bilkent University, and Christoph Bachhuber, University of Oxford

    Jana Mokrišová, University of Cambridge

    Anja Slawisch, University of Edinburgh, and Toby Wilkinson, University of Cambridge

    Martin Steskal, ÖAW/ÖAI

    Afternoon: the Eastern Mediterranean

    Maria Iacovou, University of Cyprus

    Tom Maltas, Universities of Oxford and Vienna, and Naoise Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna

    Mirko Novák, University of Bern

    James Osborne, University of Chicago

    Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu, Mimar Sinan University, and Anna Collar, University of Southampton

    Elif Ünlü, Boğaziçi University

  • Morning: Mainland Greece

    Birgitta Eder, ÖAW/ÖAI Athens

    Sylvian Fachard, University of Lausanne

    Anastasia Gkadolou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports

    Stefanos Gimatzidis, ÖAW/ÖAI

    Efi Karantzali, Ephorate of Antiquities of Fthiotida and Eurytania

    Eleni Kopanaki, University of Vienna

    Sarah Murray, University of Toronto

    Maximilian Rönnberg, University of Freiburg

    Katja Sporn, DAI, and Petros Kounouklas, Ephorate of Antiquities of Fthiotida and Eurytania

    Afternoon: WORKSHOP ON MYTHS OF MIGRATION