Programme
The programme can be downloaded here.
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THURSDAY 11 November – DAY 1 |
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12.00-12.35 |
Welcome and introduction |
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SESSION I (Chair: Céline Murphy) |
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12.40-13.20 |
Diamantis PANAGIOTOPOULOS, Powerless Images (?). (Mis-)reading Gestures and Stances in Aegean Iconography |
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13.25-14.05 |
Katerina GIANNAKI, The Function of Minoan Cheironomy |
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14.10-14.50 |
Anna SIMANDIRAKI-GRIMSHAW, Overt and Covert Bodily Communication in Bronze Age Crete |
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14.50-15.20 |
BREAK |
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SESSION II (Chair: Susan Ferrence) |
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15.20-16.00 |
Fritz BLAKOLMER, Beyond the Body: Facial Expression, Human Interaction and Narrativity in Aegean Iconography |
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16.05-16.45 |
Maria MINA, Kept in the Dark: Bodily Movement as Multisensorial Experience in Minoan Cavernous Spaces |
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16.50-17.30 |
Nanno MARINATOS, Gestures in Minoan and Egyptian Art |
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17.30-18.00 |
BREAK |
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18.00-18.55 |
POSTER SESSION I: flash talks followed by a general poster discussion (Chair: Diamantis Panagiotopoulos) 18.00-18.05 – Stephanie AULSEBROOK, Vessel-Based Gestures in Aegean Bronze Age Iconography 18.05-18.10 – Tina BOLOTI, do-ra pe-re: Bodies in Ritual Action(s) in the Aegean 2nd Millennium B.C. 18.10-18.15 – Filip FRANKOVIĆ & Uroš MATIĆ, The Last Man Standing – Body Poses of Defeated Warriors in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Iconography and Their Egyptian Comparanda 18.15-18.20 – Massimiliano CARBONARI, Gesture, Action and Conflict: Hunters and Prey in Mycenaean Wall Paintings
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FRIDAY 12 November – DAY 2 |
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11.00-11.55 |
POSTER SESSION II: flash talks followed by a general poster discussion (Chair: Ute Günkel-Maschek) 11.00-11.05 – Sotiria KIORPE, Talking from the Grave: Communicative Gestures and the Creation of Communal Ties in EBA Burials from the Petras Cemetery, Siteia, Crete 11.05-11.10 – Jacob E. HEYWOOD, Funeral or ‘Biography’? Re-considering the Potential Identities of Figures on the LM III Hagia Triada Sarcophagus 11.10-11.15 – Louise A. HITCHCOCK and Madaline HARRIS-SCHOBER, From the Here and Now, to the There and Then: The Most Powerful Woman in Minoan Crete? 11.15-11.20 – Lucie VALENTINOVÁ, Non-Narrative Rendering of Individual Identity: Absorption and Distance Susan E. POOLE, Does the Analysis of Gesture in Minoan and Mycenaean Art Contribute to our Understanding of Gender Roles and Relations in the Pre-historic Aegean? |
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SESSION III (Chair: Caroline Tully) |
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12.00-12.40 |
Paz RAMÍREZ-VALIENTE, Gesturing Age, Posturing Gender. The Neolithic Antecedents of Bodily Comportment in the Aegean |
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12.45-13.25 |
Christos KEKES, “Hands on Abdomen”: Unveiling the Polysemy of an Aegean Gesture |
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13.30-14.10 |
Diana WOLF, Ariadne’s Dance: Staging Female Gesture in Neopalatial Soft Stone Glyptic |
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14.10-14.40 |
BREAK |
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SESSION IV (Chair: Eleni Drakaki) |
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14.40-15.20 |
Michele MITROVICH, The Human Body as a Shrine or the Breast of Both Worlds: Applying Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology to the Iconography of the Human and the Divine in Bronze Age Crete |
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15.25-16.05 |
Bernice JONES, The Iconography of the Knossos Snake Goddesses Based on their Gestures, Stances, Movements and Attributes |
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16.10-16.50 |
Philip P. BETANCOURT, Did the Goddess with Upright Arms have a Bench Shrine in the Inatos Cave? |
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16.50-17.20 |
BREAK |
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SESSION V (Chair: Robert Koehl) |
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17.20-18.00 |
Alexia SPILIOTOPOULOU, The Gesture of the Male Bronze Figurine from Katsambas |
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18.05-18.45 |
Céline MURPHY, Tense Upper Bodies and Formal Salutes: Examining Representations of the Male Torso |
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18.50-19.30 |
Susan C. FERRENCE, Philip P. BETANCOURT, Alessandra GIUMLIA-MAIR & James D. MUHLY, Two Embracing Men: A Mysterious Gold Pendant from the Cemetery of Petras, Siteia, Crete |
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SATURDAY 13 November – DAY 3 |
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SESSION VI (Chair: Louise Hitchcock) |
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12.00-12.40 |
Caroline TULLY, Against Nature: Tree-Shaking Action in Minoan Glyptic Art as Agonistic Behaviour |
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12.45-13.25 |
Laetitia PHIALON, A Simple Touch? Reassessing Aegean Bronze Age Depictions of Human and Animal Figures Interacting with a Tree or a Column |
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13.30-14.10 |
Eleni DRAKAKI, “It’s in the Hands”: A Gesture of Reverence or Strength? |
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14.10-14.40 |
BREAK |
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SESSION VII (Chair: Diana Wolf) |
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14.40-15.20 |
Ute GÜNKEL-MASCHEK, Expressions of Grief and Performances of Lament in the Neopalatial Period |
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15.25-16.05 |
Anastasia DAKOURI-HILD, Image and Affect: The Curious Case of Tanagra |
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16.10-16.50 |
Veronika VEREŠOVÁ, Triumph and Defeat. Emulating Postures of Near Eastern Rulers in Aegean Iconography |
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16.50-17.20 |
BREAK |
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SESSION VIII (Chair: Fritz Blakolmer) |
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17.20-18.00 |
Robert B. KOEHL, The Mycenaean Lunge and Thrust |
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18.05-18.45 |
Angelos PAPADOPOULOS & Vassiliki PAPPA, The Stages of Death in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: Before, During and After the Moment of Dying |
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18.45-END |
CONCLUDING REMARKS AND DISCUSSION |
