Melammu Workshop Tartu 2019, 7-9 June 2019

Dear list members,

On 7-9 June 2019, Melammu Workshop Tartu 2019 will take place at the University of Tartu, Estonia. The topic of the workshop is "Responses to the 12th Century BC Collapse: Recovery and Restructuration in the Early Iron Age Near East and Mediterranean". Everyone is welcome! Please have a look at https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaemc.ut.ee%2Fmelammu-workshop-tartu-2019&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C1c82c29f08c440a1067d08d6e1ded0e1%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C636944744451778982&sdata=D5mkmmtJM9y8kFMUrXCRdB%2BSYmclVgxthEfoCWNUySk%3D&reserved=0 and write to [email protected] to register (there is no attendance fee but seats are limited) or for more information on practicalities.

Speakers include Carol Bell, Sebastian Fink, Ayelet Gilboa, Tim Harrison, Maria Iacovou, Raz Kletter, Mait Kõiv, Kathryn Lomas, Kurt Raaflaub, Corinna Riva, Vladimir Sazonov, Joanna Töyräänvuori, Andres Nõmmik, Urmas Nõmmik, Saro Wallace, Hans van Wees, and Julien Zurbach.

PROGRAMME:

Friday, 7 June

9.00–9.20 Opening Levant and Mesopotamia. Chair: Raz Kletter
9.20–10.00 Ayelet Gilboa (Haifa), From Ugarit to Tyre via Dor: An outline of Commercial hubs along the Levantine coast through the 13th to 9th centuries BCE
10.00–10.40 Tim Harrison (Toronto), Continuity and Change in the Early Iron Age Northern Levant

10.40–11.00 Coffee pause Chair: Peeter Espak

11.00–11.40 Vladimir Sazonov (Tartu) / Sebastian Fink (Helsinki), The 12th century collapse and Assyria: turning point or “usual crisis”
11.40–12.20 Joanna Töyräänvuori (Helsinki), Rebuilding Society: Changes in the Political Organisation of Northern Syria following the Bronze Age Collapse

12.20–14.00 Lunch

Phoenicia and Palestine. Chair: Amar Annus
14.00–14.40 Carol Bell (London), Reflections on the westward expansion of the Phoenicians in the Early Iron Age: the search for silver and technology transfer
14.40–15.20 Andres Nõmmik (Helsinki), Differences in the development of the Early Iron Age cities in Philistia
15.20–16.00 Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spano (Warsaw), Canaan in the Early Iron Age: Different strategies and circumstances. The case of the Sea Peoples, Canaanites, and Israelites (ca. 1150–850)

16.00–16.20 Coffee pause

16.20–17.00 Urmas Nõmmik (Tartu), Any Use of Biblical Sources? Biblical Narrative Texts and Early Iron Age Political Relations in Israel 17.00–17.40 Raz Kletter (Helsinki), The Case of Judah

19.00 Reception

Saturday, 8 June
Cyprus and Aegean. Chair: Ivo Volt
9.00–9.40 Maria Iacovou (Univ. of Cyprus), The Cyprus response “from within”: A region specific landscape approach to the island’s political geography (12th–6th c. BC
9.40–10.20 Saro Wallace (Manchester), Exploring crisis technologies: insights from Crete
10.20–11.00 Julien Zurbach (Paris), Forms and means of labor mobilization from palaces to city-states: a view from the fields and a view from the workshops

11.00–11.20 Coffee pause

11.20–12.00 Mait Kõiv (Tartu), From collapse to monarchy: the social and political developments in the Argive plain in the 12th–6th centuries BC
12.00–12.40 Hans van Wees (London), ‘Aristocrats’ and slaves: the (re-)emergence of a stratified society in the eighth century BC

12.40–14.20 Lunch

Aegean and Western Mediterranean. Chair: Raz Kletter
14.20–15.00 Kurt Raaflaub (Providence), A Greek Response to Collapse, Crisis, and Recovery: The Invention of Citizen-Communities
15.00–15.40 Corinna Riva (London), Sovereign power, agricultural production and sacrifice in the Archaic city-states of Southern Tyrrhenian Etruria

15.40–16.00 Coffee pause

16.00–16.40 Kathryn Lomas (Durham), Inscriptions and public display: Literacy and representations of power in south-east Italy
16.40–17.20 End discussion. Chair: Mait Kõiv, Raz Kletter, Urmas Nõmmik

Sunday, 9 June
8.00 or 9.00 Bus trip to Tallinn


Best regards,

Ivo Volt
University of Tartu, Estonia