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List of Participants and Registrants
On Friday, September 17 Thomas G. Palaima will deliver the keynote address, "The Mycenaeans, Up and Down, Inside and Out". Click here for articles of interest relating to the lecture.
Program & Schedule
Conference registration will take place beginning at 10:00am on
Friday morning in the foyer outside the reception hall on the 3rd floor
of the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Friday, September 17
2:30 pm, Welcome & Opening Remarks
3:00–5:30 pm, Sacred Interactions, Session Chair, Ian Rutherford
1) Ian Rutherford (Florida State University), Introductory Remarks (15 mins)
2) Sanno Aro (Helsinki University), “Archaic Greek Funerary Monuments: Roots in Syro-Hittite Traditions?” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
3) Jared Miller (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz), “Setting up the Deity of the Night Separately” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
4:00–4:15 pm coffee break
4) Doris Prechel (University of Mainz), “Cult and Cultural Contact” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
5) Massimo Cultraro (Istituto per i Beni Archeologici - CNR, Catania), “The Child and the Foreign God: A Silver Hittite Figurine from Cyprus” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
6:00 pm - Keynote Address:
Thomas G. Palaima (University of Texas at Austin)
“The Mycenaeans, Up and Down, Inside and Out”
7:30 pm - Reception
Saturday, September 18
8:00–9:30 am, The Anatolian-Mycenaean Periphery: Historical Perspectives, Session Chair, Trevor Bryce (University of Queensland)
6) Hugh Mason (University of Toronto), “Hittite Lesbos?” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
7) Christofilis Maggidis (Dickinson College), “Historical and Archaeological Contextualization of the Mycenaean Presence” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
8) Itamar Singer (Tel Aviv University), “Rulers, Raiders and Tributaries across the Western Anatolian Interface” (30 mins + 10 mins discussion)
9:45 am–11:45 pm, Feasting, Session Chair, Sandra Blakely (Emory University)
9) Yoram Cohen and Assaf Yasur-Landau (Tel Aviv University), “The Socio-Political Role of Feasting in Palatial Societies: Hatti, Emar” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
10) Jasper Gaunt (Emory University), “A Griffin Cauldron and its Relations” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
10:40–10:50 am coffee break
11) Susanne Ebbinghaus (University of Toronto), “Patterns of Elite Interaction in 8th/7th-Century Anatolia: The Case of the Animal Head Vessels” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
12) John Franklin (University of Sydney), “Lydia, Assyria and the Asiatic Kithara” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
11:45 optional tour of Carlos Museum New Galleries of Greek and Roman Art
12:15–1:30 pm lunch
1:30–3:00 pm, Linguistic Changes and Exchanges, Session Chair, Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia)
13) Calvert Watkins (University of California, Los Angeles), “Hermit Crabs, or New Wine in Old Bottles: Anatolian-Hellenic Connections from Homer and Before to Antiochus I and After” (30 mins + 10 mins discussion)
14) Oguz Soysal (University of Chicago), “On the Origin of the Royal Title Tabarna/Labarna” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
15) H. Craig Melchert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Greek molybdos as a Loanword from Lydian” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
3:00–5:00 pm, Anatolia East and West, Session Chair, Mary Bachvarova (Willamette University)
16) Mark Munn (Pennsylvania State University), “Kybele as Kubaba in a Lydo-Phrygian Context” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
17) Patrick Taylor (Houghton Mifflin Co.), “The GALA and the Gallos” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
4:25–4:40 pm coffee break
18) Maya Vassileva (Metropolitan Museum), “Midas in Southeastern Anatolia” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
19) Francis Breyer (University of Basel), “We speak hittite - we speak Egyptian! Linguistic Contact between the Nile Valley and Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C.” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
7:00 pm dinner, Sycamore Grill, Stone Mountain, Georgia (invitation only)
Sunday, September 19
8:00 am–10:15 pm, Myth and Literature, Session Chair, Gary Beckman (University of Michigan)
20) Carolina Lopez-Ruiz (University of Chicago), “A Revision of the Northwest Semitic Background of Greek Cosmo-theogonic Traditions” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
21) Anna Maria Polvani (University of Florence), “Hittite Mythology and Mesopotamia” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
9:00–9:15 am coffee break
22) Dennis Campbell (University of Chicago), “The Hurrian Hedammu Myth: An Examination of KBo 12.80+” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
23) Trevor Bryce (University of Queensland), “Homer at the Interface” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
10:30 am–11:45 pm, Language Contact and Convergence, Session Chair, H. Craig Melchert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
24) Ilya Yakubovitch (University of Chicago), “Luwian Migration in Light of Linguistic Contacts” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
25) Carol Justus (University of Texas, Austin), “Hittite hatugatar and Cross-Cultural Interaction” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
26) Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia), “Possessive Constructions in Anatolian, Hurrian and Urartean as Evidence for Language Contact” (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)
11:45–1:15 pm lunch
1:15–3:30 pm, Ethnic Identity and Cultural Exchange, Session Chair, Oded Borowski (Emory University)
27) Eric Cline (George Washington University), “Troy as a 'Contested Periphery': Archaeological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Concerning Bronze Age Anatolia” (30 mins + 10 mins discussion)
28) Amir Gilan (University of Tübingen), “Hittite Ethnicity?– Constructions of Identity in Hittite Literature” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
2:25–2:35 pm coffee break
29) Stavroula Nikoloudis (University of Texas at Austin), “Multiculturalism in the Mycenaean World” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
30) Annick Payne (University of Würzburg), “Writing Systems and Identity” (25 mins + 5 mins discussion)
3:30 pm Closing Remarks
4:00 pm Closing Reception
