Dear Colleagues,
Please, find below details on a very informal 1-day workshop that will take
place at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, Saturday February 16th.
No formal registration or related costs required.
Regards,
Corinna Riva
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Corinna Riva
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PY
Tel: 020 7679 7536
MIGRATIONS AND LARGE-SCALE MOVEMENTS IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
People’s movements and migration across the ancient Mediterranean have been on
the scholarly agenda for a long time, particularly so in more recent times as
cultural and ethnic interaction have become the latest catchphrase of
archaeological and ancient historical research. As a result, now more than ever
much attention is brought upon situations of migration involving the encounter
of different ethnic groups and/or groups coming from distinct cultural regions:
Phoenician colonial settlements and Greek new settlements across the
Mediterranean have taken the lion’s share of interest, and with them
Greek/non-Greek and Phoenician colonial/indigenous interaction. This has led to
radically new views on Archaic Greek colonization, which have problematized and
questioned the concept of colony, on one hand; on the other, studies on
Phoenician colonization have begun to throw light upon colonial landscapes and
the nature of Phoenician colonial settlements vis-ŕ-vis cultural hybridity. All
this, however, has curtailed interest for an important phenomenon, of which
Phoenician colonial settlements and Greek settlements outside the Aegean are
only two of several other examples: the large-scale movement of population
within single regions, not just across different regions, and the
archaeological manifestation of such movements. Greek new settlements of areas
settled by other Greek residents are yet to be properly explored. Other
similarly new settlements in Italy, which are defined by sudden material
culture transformations, are all too easily interpreted as colonies, and the
role of people’s migration in creating these transformations is largely left
unproblematized.
In order to re-address the balance, the aim of the workshop is to shift
attention towards migrations within as well as across regions, and provide
alternative perspectives for understanding them. In order to do this, dilating
the chronological spectrum of migrations that are by no means confined to the
Iron Age is essential: the archaeological evidence speaks eloquently of other
large-scale and archaeologically visible movements of people in prehistory, but
these examples have hardly been looked at comparatively with later ones; at the
same time, fresh light could be thrown upon later examples of people’s
migrations for which we have textual evidence such as Roman coloniae.
Ultimately, a comparative analysis of large-scale migrations will benefit our
understanding of colonization itself by providing a new perspective upon new
settlements within a colonial context.
This workshop is meant to be a very informal gathering where papers that
speakers have been invited to present are meant to be a catalyst for discussion
and may be work-in-progress themselves. We very much hope that there will be
plenty to discuss throughout the day.
The organiser wishes to thank the Accordia Resesarch Centre, University of
London for collaboration and generous support.
Speakers: C. Roth-Murray (Lampeter), V. Izzet (Southampton), C. Riva (UCL), P.
van Dommelen (Glasgow), B. Knapp (Glasgow), J. Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez
(Valencia), E. Isayev (Exeter).
Chair: R. Osborne; discussants: C. Broodbank, R. Whitehouse
PROGRAMME (SATURDAY 16th FEBRUARY 2008):
9:30 am Arrival & welcome – Robin Osborne
10 am Bernard Knapp: Hellenisation, Colonization and Hybridization: Cyprus at
the End of the Late Bronze Age
10:30 Q&A
10:45 Corinna Riva: ‘Villanovan’ movements between the Tyrrhenian and the
Adriatic?
11:15 Q&A
11:30 Tea
11:40 Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez: Whose movements? Phoenician trade diaspora
in East Iberia
12:10 Discussion – Ruth Whitehouse (discussant)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Carrie Roth-Murray: ‘Colonization’ at Marzabotto: The effects of expansion
on the Padana area
14:30 Q&A
14:45 Vedia Izzet: Questions of Mediterranean migration: the case of Spina
15:15 Q&A
15:30 Peter van Dommelen: Local connections and colonial hegemony in the Punic
world of the western Mediterranean
16:00 Q&A
16:15 Tea
16:25 Elena Isayev: How is the concept of 'displacement' applicable to the
Ancient Mediterranean
16:55 Discussion – Cyprian Broodbank (discussant)
17:30 Final conclusion – Robin Osborne
VENUE:
Room 209(2nd floor)
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PY
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