PEOPLE IN MOTION IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD
International Conference
DATES
May 17th-18th, 2021
LOCATION
Complutense University of Madrid
Faculty of Geography and History
C/ Profesor Aranguren s/n. 28040
CALL FOR PAPERS
Although people in Antiquity have traditionally been thought of as deeply rooted into their homelands and reluctant to changes, recent studies have successfully shown as it the ancient world experienced a high level of human mobility. In the Greek world, the state-led institutional migrations known as “colonizations” are probably the most obvious example of such displacements; however, they were not the only one. Beyond them, there was a broad spectrum of people in motion, acting either individually or as part of a community. Traders, refugees, pilgrims, scientists, travellers, warriors and exiles are just some of the actors possibly involved in these movements.
In the spirit of debating and discussing the topic of mobility in the Greek World and dealing with it from a multidisciplinary perspective, we are proud to announce the International Conference titled “People in Motion in the Ancient Greek World”. Submissions from a wide range of disciplines regarding the ancient world are welcome, especially – but not exclusively - those falling into the following research topics:
Travels and movements in Greek written sources;
Repercussions of mobility: creation, exchanges, production and consumption habits;
Individual and collective human mobility phenomena;
Paths and routes;
Travelers’ social status;
Political discourses that could either encourage or discourage the transfer of people;
Travelers and pilgrims (including the movement of objects with their human counterparts);
People in motion’s representation in art;
Modern methods of understanding and displaying mobility in the Greek world.
Keynote Speaker: Troels M. Kristensen - Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
Proposals should include a 500-word abstract (in English, French, Italian or Spanish) along with a few words about the applicant – their research interests, university affiliation and / or status, etc. They should be sent to motiongreekworld@gmail.com no later than March 15th, 2020. Papers should last 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion.
TIMELINE & PROGRAM
TIMELINE
- Abstracts deadline: March 15th, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: April
- Conference: May 17th-18th, 2021
PROGRAM
MONDAY 17TH
09:00-09:30 – Reception and Welcome Notes by the UCM Authorities
09:30-10:30 - Keynote speaker: T. M. Kristensen (Aarhus Univ.): Beyond Theoria: Greek Pilgrims in Motion
ARTS & KNOWLEDGE
10:30-10:45 – B. Bednarek (Warsaw Univ.): Selling imported gods: An Itinerant Religious Specialist at Work
10:45-11:00 – F. Giudice & I. Giudice (Catania Univ.): Naukleroi, Emporoi, Kerameis ed il Problema della Cronologia dei Vasi Attici Rinvenuti nel Relitto del El Sec.
11:00-11:15 – M. Serino (Torino Univ.): Mobility of Craftsmen in the Red-Figure Pottery Production of Magna Graecia and Sicily
11:15-11:45 - Coffee Break
11:45-12:00 – M. V. García Quintela (USC): Filósofos en Movimiento y Complejidad Social: Fragmentos para una Sociología de los Intelectuales en la Grecia Clásica
12:00-12:15 – M. Haake (WWU): Between Sicily and Bactria, from the Black Sea to the Nile: Philosophers on the Move (7th – 1st cent. BCE)
12:15-12:30 – G. Ottone (UFC): Mobilità Individuale e Circolazione del Sapere: Lo Storico “Itinerante” nel IV Secolo a.C.
12:30-13:00 - Discussion
13:00-15:00 - Lunch
SOCIETY, ECONOMY & WAR
15:00-15:15 – D. Plácido Suárez (UCM): Viajes Profesionales entre Arcaísmo y Clasicismo
15:15-15:30 – S. Celestino Pérez, E. Rodríguez González & P. Miguel Naranjo (CSIC): Comercio Griego hacia el Interior Peninsular. El Valle del Guadiana
15:30-15:45 – Ph. De Souza (UCD): People in Motion in Naval Warfare during the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
15:45-16:00 – A. Fernández Prieto (UCM): “[...] Y no Digas a Nadie, Varón ni Mujer, que has Llegado Vagabundo hasta aquí” (Hom. Od., 13. 309-10): Errancia y Vagabundeo en el Mundo Griego
16:00-16:15 – N. Terceiro Sanmartín (USC): Lisias: de Meteco Errante a Ciudadano Malogrado
16:15-16:30 – T. R. Langley (Cambridge Univ.): Elite Mobility in Fourth Century AD Greek Political Thought
16:30-17:00 - Discussion
17:00-17:30 - Coffee Break
TRAVELLERS & BORDERS
17:30-17:45 – M. C. Cardete del Olmo (UCM): El Viaje y la Construcción de la Tradición: Pausanias y la Arcadia
17:45-18:00 – S. Dimopoulou (Münster Univ.): Pausanias in Arcadia: a traveller, a pilgrim, a journalist or a researcher of the Antiquity?
18:00-18:15 – A. Lampinen (FIA): Barbarians on the Move: The Literary Topoi of Gentes Vagae
18:15-18:30 – G. Pasquariello (Edinburgh Univ.): Celts in motion. The Greek response to the Galatian migration
18:30-18:45 – U. Iriarte (US): Paths and Routes to Peisistratos Tyranny
18:45-19:00 – A. Querci (Pisa Univ.): The Minoans abroad: a discussion on the existence of a direct sea-route linking Crete to Egypt during the Late Bronze Age
19:00-19:30 - Discussion
TUESDAY 18TH
COLONISATION & POLITICS
09:00-09:30 - Reception
09:30-09:45 – D. Bursich (UNISA): People in Motion at Selinus, Routes and Carts
09:45-10:00 – C. De Mitri (VU Amsterdam): Messapians beyond the Messapia: Mobility and Trade Networks in the Late Hellenistic Age (End of 3rd-1st BC)
10:00-10:15 – F. De Stefano (Sapienza Univ.): Dinamiche Insediative e Processi Culturali nella Siritide all’Epoca della Migrazione Ionica
10:15-10:30 – J. M. Puebla Morón (UCM): Movimientos de Población en la Sicilia Griega y su Reflejo en la Moneda Local
10:30-10:45 – E. Santagati (Messina Univ.): Zancle/Messene: Una Storia di Lestai, Apoikoi, Fuggiaschi ed Indesiderati
10:45-11:00 – M. R. Luberto (SAIA): Da Sibari a Locri. Circolazione e circolarità prima e dopo la “colonizzazione”
11:00-11:30 - Discussion
11:30-12:00 - Coffee Break
12:00-12:15 – E. Duce (ICAC): ¿A Quién se Parece más, a Mamá o a Papá? Identidades Mixtas en las Primeras Generaciones de Colonos Griegos en Época Arcaica
12:15-12:30 – A. Novello & A. Savino (UNISA): Viaggi e Fondazioni nelle Politeiai d’Asia Minore di Aristotele
12:30-12:45 – L. Iancu (Bucharest Univ.): East Greeks in Motion between the Levant and Pontos Euxeinos
12:45-13:00 – N. Phiphia (TSU): Greeks on the East Coast of Black Sea Littoral (settlement and migration patterns)
13:00-13:30 - Discussion
13:30-15:30 - Lunch
RELIGION & MYTHOLOGY
15:30-15:45 – E. Stewart (Nottingham Univ.): Theoria: Pilgrims and Sanctuaries in Greek Tragedy
15:45-16:00 – A. Patay-Horváth (ELTE): Visitors of Early Olympia: Greedy Farmers, Pious Pilgrims or Aristocratic Sportsmen?
16:00-16:15 – A. Nagel (FIT): Ascending to and Moving in Cave Sanctuaries in Classical Greece: A Multidisciplinary Approach
16:15-16:30 – M. A. Ristorto & S. S. Reyes (UNR): Adonis, Afrodita y Arsínoe, Alejandría en el Idilio 15 de Teócrito
16:30-16:45 – M. A. Valdés Guía (UCM): Viajando a Delfos: la Theoria de las Mujeres Atenienses al Oráculo
16:45-17:15 - Discussion
17:15-17:30 - Coffee break
17:30-17:45 – F. J. González García (USC): Autoctonía vs. Inmigración: Una Aproximación a la Lógica de los Procesos Míticos de Fundación Política en el Mundo Griego Antiguo
17:45-18:00 – A. Luz Villafranca (UAM): La Leyenda de Pérdicas: Patrones de Movilidad en la Macedonia anterior a Filipo
18:00-18:15 – C. Fornis (US) & J. Jara (USAL): El Oráculo de Delfos en la Aventura Colonial de Dorieo de Esparta
18:15-18:30 – K. A. Stratiki (EAP): Mobilité Humaine et Culte Héroïque dans la Périégèse de Pausanias
18:30-19:00 – Final Discussion and Closure of the Conference
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chiara Maria Mauro - Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Complutense University of Madrid
Diego Chapinal-Heras - RCC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Miriam Valdés Guía - Professor, Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Complutense University of Madrid
ESCHATIA - Territories and Frontiers: the Role of Religion in Struggles among Poleis
CONTACT
Should you have any further question or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us:
motiongreekworld@gmail.com