International Workshop

"Patterns of Urbanisation and Cultural Exchange in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Regions from the 3rd to the 1st Millenium B.C."


Münster, 21 November 2008
Room H2 (Hofgebäude), Schlaunstr. 2, 48143 Münster

PROGRAMME

9.15:

Start of  Workshop
Address of welcome

9.30-10.15:

Dr. Michel al-Maqdissi (Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de la Syrie): "Tell Sianu (Syrie) et la deuxième révolution urbaine au IIIe millénaire av. J.C."

10.15-11.00:

Prof. Dr. Joachim Bretschneider (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): "Excavations at Tell Tweini (Syria)"

11.00-11.30:

Coffee break

11.30-12.15:

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Dittmann (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): "Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (Iraq)"

12.15-13.00:

Prof. Dr. Jan Driessen (Université Catholique de Louvain): "Excavations at Sissi (Crete). In the shadow of the Minotaur ..."

13.00-14.30:

Lunch

14.30-15.15:

Dr. Giorgos Georgiou (Cyprus Department of Antiquities): "Settlement patterns in Eastern Cyprus during the first half of the 2nd millenium B.C."

15.15-16.00:

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Matthäus (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): "Urbanisation in late Bronze Age Cyprus"

16.00-16.30:

Coffee break

16.30-18.30:

Round-table discussion on further possible research projects (e.g. excavation and survey in the Northern Levant)

Organisers:

Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriot Studies, University of Münster (Dr. Sabine Rogge, Schlaunstr. 2, 48143 Münster, Germany, Tel.: +49 / [0]251 / 8329850,
e-mail: zypern@uni-muenster.de)
and Chair for Ancient Oriental Languages and Cultures, University of Tartu (Prof. Dr. Thomas Kämmerer, Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia, Tel.: +372 5118151 [mobile],
e-mail: thomas.kaemmerer@ut.ee)
in cooperation with the Baltic Branch of the Fondazione Mediterraneo