Destruction programme final

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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
Conference Hall: Salle du Sénat, Halles universitaires, Place de l’Université 1, Louvain-la-Neuve (the
University is conveniently located above the train station), about 15 minutes’ walk from the Hotel
Mercure (see map accompanying this message).
Papers are 20 minutes with 10 minutes discussion;
Conference fee for non-speakers: 15 €/ 5 € for students (includes programme, coffee and reception)
Since the conference hall can only seat a 100 people, registration for non-speakers is compulsory at
http://www.uclouvain.be/368586.html
Programme final/final programme
Première Journée/First Day (Thursday 24th of November 2011)
9h-9h30 : Accueil et inscription/Registration
9h30-9h45: Introduction par l’ancien président d’INCAL, R. Brulet, et le responsable de CEMA M.
Cavalieri/ Introductions by the previous head of the Research Institute INCAL R. Brulet and by
M. Cavalieri, head of the Research centre CEMA
Morning session - Chairperson: Marco Cavalieri
9h45-10h15: Jan 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
Afternoon session - Chairperson: Laurent Olivier
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
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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: Dario PUGLISI (University of Catania; UCL) The view from the day after: some observations
on the Late Bronze Age I final destructions in Crete
17h30-18h: General discussion
18h-20h: Reception in the University Hall
Deuxième Journée/ Second Day (Friday 25th of November 2011)
8h45-9h00 : Accueil et inscription/Registration
Morning session - Chairperson: Ruth Tringham
9h-9h30: Simon JUSSERET (UCL), Charlotte LANGOHR (UCL) and Manuel SINTUBIN (KUL),
Archaeoseismology: a conceptual framework for assessing the seismic origin of archaeological
destruction layers
9h30-10h00: Louise HITCHCOCK (University of Melbourne): Destruction and Identity: Trauma,
Migration, and Performativity in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean
10h00-10h30: Arianna RIZIO (Università del Molise): Evidence of destructions from the Peloponnese
during the Late Helladic period: an archaeological domestic perspective
10h30-11h00: Manolis MIKRAKIS (Department of Antiquities, Cyprus): The destruction of the
Mycenaean palaces and the construction of the epic world: Archaeological and philological
perspectives
11h00-11h15: coffee break
11h15-11h45 : 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.
11h45-12h15: Alexandra ALEXANDRIDOU (Open University, Cyprus): Destructions at the Grave. Ritual
burning and breaking in 7th-century BC Attica
12h15-12h45: Donald C. HAGGIS (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Destruction and the
formation of static and dynamic settlement structures
12h45-14h15: lunch break
Afternoon session - Chairperson : Jan Driessen
14h15-14h45: Florence GAIGNEROT-DRIESSEN (Université de Paris IV): Le meurtre de la cité : la
destruction par abandon forcé
14h45-15h15: Athanasia KYRIAKOU and Alexandros TOURTAS (Un. of Thessaloniki): After destruction:
Taking care of remains in the Sanctuary of Eukleia at Aegae (Vergina)
15h15-15h45: Ryan BOEHM (Brown University): Synoikism and Destruction in the Hellenistic World
15h45-16h: coffee break
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16h-16h30: Ludovic THÉLY (Université d'Angers) : Les séismes comme cause de destruction : étude du
vocabulaire des inscriptions aux époques hellénistique et romaine
16h30-17h: Stavros OIKONOMIDIS (Athens): Spolia and spoilage of the archaeological environment.
Construction-destruction-reconstruction: the case of the historic center of Athens
17h-17h30: Laure MEULEMANS et Sylvia PIERMARINI (UCL), La destruction cyclique en contexte cultuel:
"mort" et "renaissance" pour assurer le continuum ?
17h30-18h: General discussion
Troisième Journée/ Third Day (Saturday 26th of November 2011)
8h45-9h00 : Accueil et inscription/Registration
Morning session - Chairperson : Alain Meurant
9h-9h30 : 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)
9h30-10h00: 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
10h00-10h30: Matteo CADARIO (Università degli Studi di Milano) : La damnatio politique et religieuse
des statues
10h30-11h00 : V. GASSNER, E. STEIGBERGER and B. TOBER (Vienna): Destruction or Demolition? The case
study of the sanctuary of Iuppiter Heliopolitanus at Carnuntum.
11h00-11h15: coffee break
11h15-11h45: Sébastien POLET (UCL), Destruction et conservation des monuments libyco-romains de
Tripolitaine : perspectives de recherches
11h45-12h15: 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.
12h15-12h45: Aude BUSINE (FNRS, ULB) : Les récits de destruction de temples et l’identité civique
chrétienne
12h45-14h15: lunch break
Afternoon session - Chairperson : Françoise Van Haeperen
14h15-14h45: Rocco PALERMO (Università di Napoli Federico II/Universitè de Paris I): Evidence of
destruction in a residential area at Tell Barri (II-X AD)
14h45-15h15: Ine JACOBS (KULeuven) : Forging a community of true believers. Violence and Identity in
Early Christianity
15h15-15h30 : coffee break
15h30-16h: Final discussion: chairperson: Robert Laffineur
16h: closure: J. Driessen
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