Program

Thursday 8th of March 2018

8:30 - REGISTRATION
9:15 - Cut Stone Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. Exploring Forms, Techniques and Building Processes - Maud Devolder (UCLouvain), Igor Kreimerman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Jan Driessen (UCLouvain)
9:50 - Ashlar Masonry in Mycenaean Greece: An Overview - James C. Wright (Bryn Mawr College)
10:40 - Coffee break
11:00 - A Game of Stones: An Inventory and Distributional Analysis of the Consumption of Worked Stone within Neopalatial North Central Crete - Emilie Hayter (University College London)
11:40 - Ashlar in Ras Shamra-Ugarit. Uses, Functions, and Techniques - Valérie Matoïan (UMR 7192, CNRS - Collège de France) and Jean-Claude Bessac (UMR 5140, CNRS, Montpellier)
12:30 - Accommodations to Building Design and Labor Organization for Cut Stone Masonry in Mycenaean Greece - Kyle A. Jazwa (Duke University)
13:10 - Lunch break
14:20 - The Materiality of Ashlar Masonry on Late Bronze Age Cyprus - Kevin Fisher (University of British Columbia)
15:10 - The Ruling Stones? Early Appearance of Ashlar Masonry in the Southern Levant - Nurith Goshen (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
15:50 - Coffee break
16:10 - Building in Stone and Mudbrick: The Monumental Architecture of Ebla in Middle Bronze I-II - Frances Pinnock (Sapienza University of Rome)
17:00 - Ashlar as a Marker of Disruption: A Case Study at Gournia (Crete) - D. Matthew Buell (Concordia University) and John C. McEnroe (Hamilton College)

8:30 - REGISTRATION
9:00 - ‘Mycenaean’ Façade Construction in the Western Mesara (Crete) - Joseph Shaw (University of Toronto)
9:50 - On the Walls of Akrotiri in the Late Bronze Age - Erika Notti (IULM University)
10:30 - Cutting a New Cultural Mosaic? Reassessing the Adoption and Adaptation of Ashlar Masonry in the Southern and Eastern Aegean - Rodney D. Fitzsimons (Trent University)
11:10 - Coffee break
11.30 - Tool Traditions and Ashlar Masonry in Late Bronze Age Cyprus and Mycenaean Greece - Nick Blackwell (Indiana University)
12:20 - Stone Tools and Cut Stone Masonry Techniques in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. Materials, Technology and Transfers - Athina Boleti (CNRS, UMR 7041, ArScAn, Protohistoire égéenne)
13:00 - Lunch break
14:00 - Poetics of Architectonics, Politics of Stone: Ashlar Masonry in the Borderlands of the Hittite Empire - Ömür Harmanşah (University of Illinois at Chicago)
14:50 - Materiality of Power through Orthostates at Mycenaean Kalamianos - Daniel J. Pullen (Florida State University) and Phil Sapirstein (University of Nebraska)
15:30 - Coffee break
15:50 - Approaching Ashlar Masonry through Minoan and Mycenaean Iconography: Architectural Functions, Urban Contexts and the Problem of Color and Material - Fritz Blakolmer (University of Vienna)
16:30 - 18:00 - General discussion