Identity and Otherness among the Barbarians in Late Antiquity and
Early Medieval Europe
The difficult relationship between textual and archaeological record
One of the main objectives of this conference is to implement the need
to use, from a critical perspective, all types of sources available to
approach the study of so-called “barbarian societies”, without
prioritizing one kind or another type of record, particularly when it
is studied the complex question of socio-political identities. In this
sense it has been shown in numerous occasions the limits, conceptual
and methodological, of Archaeology to address issues related to
Identity through the analysis of the funerary world. Just as the close
dependence of the archaeological record regarding the information
provided by narrative sources about the “barbarian world”. Moreover,
the texts provide a picture of the “barbarians” from an exclusive
Roman perspective, which serves the interests and geopolitical
strategies of the Roman Empire in the management of their relationship
with the gentes barbarae. From a series of studies, conducted by
renowned experts on various European areas and under different
research perspectives, we intend to lay the foundations for a
constructive dialogue on a key topic in the study of the Late Antique
and Early Medieval societies in Europe.
Coord.: Vujadin IVANISEVIC (Archaeological Institute, Belgrade),
Michel KAZANSKI (UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée, Paris), Jorge LÓPEZ
QUIROGA (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Org.: École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de
Velázquez, Madrid), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UMR 8167 (Orient &
Méditerranée, Paris)
Coll.: Vicerrectorado de Cooperación y Extensión Universitaria
(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée,
Paris), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Proyecto
HAR2011-15748-E)
Celebration place:
Casa de Velázquez
C/ de Paul Guinard, 3
28040 Madrid
30/31 October 2013
Program
WEDNESDAY 30th OCTOBER
9h-13h45
Opening
Jean-Pierre ÉTIENVRE
Director de la Casa de Velázquez
Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
BARBARIAN IDENTITIES AND ALTERITIES THROUGH THE NARRATIVE SOURCES
Chairwoman
Anna MASTIKOVA
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)
Peter HEATHER
King’s College (London)
Predatory Migration and the First Millennium
Michael KULIKOWSKI
Penn State University (Pennsylvania, USA)
Being a Barbarian in the Later Roman Empire: Alterity, Ideology, and
Practice from the Severans to the Theodosians
Luis A. GARCÍA MORENO
Real Academia de la Historia/Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid)
Parentesco y linaje entre los Godos (Visigodos y Ostrogodos) de las
Españas, Galias e Italias (anonaria y suburbicaria)
Michel ROUCHE
Université Paris IV
Le refus de l'altérité dans le Bréviaire d'Alaric
Discussion
16h-20h
ARCHAEOLOGY, IDENTITIES AND ALTERITIES AMONG THE BARBARIANS I
Chairman
Vujadin IVANISEVIC
Archaeological Institute of Belgrade
Susanne HAKENBECK
University of Cambridge
Memories of Empire: constructions of Identity along the Danube in the
early medieval period
Tivadar VIDA
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest)
The many Identity of Barbarians in the middle Danube in the Early Middle Ages
Michel KAZANSKI
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)
and Anna MASTYKOVA
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)
Identité et Altérité des populations barbares dans la région
nord-pontique à l’époque des Grandes Migrations (fin du IVe- milieu du
VIesiècles)
Discussion
THURSDAY 31th OCTOBER
9h-14h
ARCHAEOLOGY, IDENTITIES AND ALTERITIES AMONG THE BARBARIANS II
Chairman
Michel KAZANSKI
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)
Dawn HADLEY
University of Sheffield
Ethnic identity in Viking-Age England: when two worlds collide
Cristina LA ROCCA
Università degli studi di Padova
and Annamaria PAZIENZA
Università Ca'Foscari di Venezia
Gender, kinship and social identity in the funerary dimensions of the
kingdom of the Lombards (568-774)
Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Identité et ethnicité dans les « Espagnes » de l'Antiquité Tardive :
déconstruction d'un paradigme archéologique
Jörg KLEEMANN
Uniwersytet Szczeciński (Szczecin)
Did the Goths really come from Poland? Changing interpretations in
changing political situations
Falko DAIM
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Mainz)
Byzantium and the others: Archaeological case studies
Discussion
16h-19h30
ARCHAEOLOGY, IDENTITIES AND ALTERITIES AMONG THE BARBARIANS II
Chairman
Peter HEATHER
King’s College (London)
Sebastian BRATHER
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
The Archaeology of Identities and Alterities: perspectives for the
Early Middle Ages
Luis RÍOS FRUTOS
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology: How it can help to Identity
and Otherness problematic
Vujadin IVANISEVIC
Archaeological Institute of Belgrade
Michel KAZANSKI
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)
and Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Construire une « feuille de route » sur la question de l'Identité et
de l'Altérité chez les Barbares
Discussion and conclusions
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