Destruction. Archaeological, philological and historical perspectives

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
Programme provisoire/preliminary programme
Première Journée/First Day (Thursday 24th of November 2011)
9h-9h30 : Accueil et inscription/Registration
9h30-9h45: Introduction par le président d’INCAL et le responsable de CEMA/ Introductions by the
head of the Research Institute INCAL and the Research centre CEMA
9h45-10h15: J. 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
11h-11h30: Alfredo GONZÁLEZ-RUIBAL (Heritage Laboratory -National Research Council,
Spain): Destruction and memory
11h30-12h00: Tim F. CUNNINGHAM (UCL): Deconstructing Destruction: a contextualizing
approach to methodology and meaning in Archaeology
12h-12h30: Sharon ZUCKERMANN (Un. Of Jeruzalem): Understanding Destructions: On Crisis
Architecture and Termination Rituals in the Ancient Near East and Beyond.
12h30-14h: lunch break
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
16h-16h30: Peter TOMKINS (KUL): 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: Barry MOLLOY (University of Sheffield) and Jo DAY (Trinity College Dublin): Wars,
Waves, Pirates, Fires and Feet: Five Thousand Years of Destruction at Priniatikos Pyrgos, Crete
17h30-18h: General discussion
Deuxième Journée/ Second Day (Friday 25th of November 2011)
9h-9h30: Anna SIMANDIRAKI-GRIMSHAW (University of Kent) and Fay STEVENS (University
College London): Destroying the Snake Goddess: a re-examination of figurine fragmentation
at the Temple Repositories of the Palace of Knossos
9h15-9h45: Dario PUGLISI (University of Catania; UCL) The view from the day after: some
observations on the Late Bronze Age I final destructions in Crete
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9h45-10h15: Simon JUSSERET (UCL), Charlotte LANGOHR (UCL) and Manuel SINTUBIN (KUL),
Archaeoseismology: a conceptual framework for assessing the seismic origin of
archaeological destruction layers
10h15-10h45: Louise HITCHCOCK (University of Melbourne): Destruction and Identity: Trauma,
Migration, and Performativity in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean
10h45-11h: coffee break
11h-11h30: Arianna RIZIO (Università del Molise): Evidence of destructions from the
Peloponnese during the Late Helladic period: an archaeological domestic perspective
11h30-12h00: Manolis MIKRAKIS (Department of Antiquities, Cyprus): The destruction of the
Mycenaean palaces and the construction of the epic world: Archaeological and philological
perspectives
12h-12h30: Donald C. HAGGIS (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Destruction and
the formation of static and dynamic settlement structures
12h30-14h: lunch break
14h-14h30: 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.
14h30-15h: Alexandra ALEXANDRIDOU (Open University, Cyprus): Destructions at the Grave.
Ritual burning and breaking in 7th-century BC Attica
15h-15h30: Athanasia KYRIAKOU and Alexandros TOURTAS (Un. of Thessaloniki): After
destruction: Taking care of remains in the Sanctuary of Eukleia at Aegae (Vergina)
15h30-16h: coffee break
16h-16h30 : Florence GAIGNEROT-DRIESSEN (Université de Paris IV): Le meurtre de la cité : la
destruction par abandon forcé
16h30-17h: Ryan BOEHM (University of Berkeley): Synoikism and Destruction in the Hellenistic
World
17h-17h30: Stavros OIKONOMIDIS (Athens): Spolia and spoilage of the archaeological
environment. Construction-destruction-reconstruction: the case of the historic center of
Athens
17h30-18h: General discussion
Troisième Journée/ Third Day (Saturday 26th of November 2011)
9h-9h30 : Laure MEULEMANS et Sylvia PIERMARINI (UCL), La destruction cyclique en contexte
cultuel: "mort" et "renaissance" pour assurer le continuum ?
9h15-9h45: Michele SCALICI (Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Scuola di Specializzazione
in Archeologia) and Alessia MANCINI (Soprintendenza Archeologica della Basilicata) :
Construction and Destruction: the case of Timmari (South Italy)
9h45-10h15: Pierre ASSENMAKER (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
10h15-10h45 : Matteo CADARIO (Università degli Studi di Milano) : La damnatio politique et
religieuse des statues
10h45-11h: coffee break
11h-11h30: V. GASSNER, E. STEIGBERGER and B. TOBER (Vienna): Destruction or Demolition? The
case study of the sanctuary of Iuppiter Heliopolitanus at Carnuntum.
11h30-12h00: Ludovic THELY (Université d'Angers) : Les séismes comme cause de destruction :
étude du vocabulaire des inscriptions aux époques hellénistique et romaine
12h-12h30: Sébastien POLET (UCL), Destruction et conservation des monuments libycoromains de Tripolitaine : perspectives de recherches
12h30-14h: lunch break
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14h-14h30: Marco CAVALIERI (UCL), Destruction, transformation et refonctionalisation : le
passage de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge en Toscane entre IVe et VIIe s. ap. J.-Ch.
14h30-15h: : Aude BUSINE (FNRS, ULB) : Les récits de destruction de temples et l’identité
civique chrétienne
15h-15h30 : Rocco PALERMO (Università di Napoli Federico II/Universitè de Paris I): Evidence
of destruction in a residential area at Tell Barri (II-X AD)
15h30-16h: coffee break
16h-16h30 : Ine JACOBS (KULeuven) : Forging a community of true believers. Violence and
Identity in Early Christianity
16h30-17h : Marco V. García QUINTELA (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) : La
destruction du paysage païen entre la mémoire et l’oubli (Galice 500-1000 AD)
17h-17h30: Giusto TRAINA (Université de Rouen): Christianisation et destruction : Saint
Grégoire et les sanctuaires de l’Arménie païenne
17h30-18h: discussion
18h: closure
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