Archaeology of Forced Migration

16 March 2017

Introduction by Jan Driessen (UCLouvain) & Joachim Bretschneider (UGent)

First Session: Modern Perspectives

Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University): A Migration Crisis? Displacement, materiality, and experience

Maja Gori (IRISS–CNR and University of Heidelberg) and Martina Revello Lami (University of Amsterdam): From Lampedusa to Trieste: Tracing Forced Migrations to understand Identity Patterns

Jean-Pierre Legendre (Service Régional de l’Archéologie d’Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes): The Remains of the Spanish republican Exodus in France : An Archaeology of the ‘Retirada’

Second Session: Literary sources

Claude Obsomer, Jan Tavernier & Johanne Garny (UCLouvain), The Treaty of Kurustama et the Data of the reign of Ramses II

Robert Garland (Colgate College): The Theme of Forced Migration in Livy Books 1-5

Third Session: Regional Perspectives: The Aegean

Krzysztof Nowicki (Polish Academy of Sciences): The Late 13^th Century BC Crisis in the East Mediterranean: Why the case of Crete matters?

Sophia Michalopoulou & Leonidas Votokopoulos (Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports): Megali Koryphi on Aigina and the fortified citadels of the 13^th/12^th c. BC

Stéphanie Martin (University of Arizona): Relocation Decisions during Forced Movement Events

Key-note lecture: Sandra Dudley, Exilic Bodies and Things: The Material Experience of Involuntary Displacement

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Fourth Session: Regional Perspectives: The East

Alexander Pruss (Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz): The Amuq Region in the Early Iron Age

Michael Brown (University of Heidelberg): Forced Migration in the Middle Euphrates Valley: Ancient Empires and Modern Perspectives

Assaf Yassur Landau (University of Haifa): The Accidental Migrant : The Archaeology of the Story of Sinuhe and other high Status refugees of the Bronze and Iron Ages

Ann Killebrew (Pennsylvania State University): The Levant in Crisis: The Materiality of Migrants, Refugees and Colonizers at the End of the Bronze Age

Stefania Mazzoni (University of Florence): In Search of a Land. The Age of migrations, exodus and diasporae across the Eastern Mediterranean (13^th -11^th c. B.C.)

Fifth Session: Regional Perspectives: The South

Shirly Ben Dor Evian (Israel Museum, Jerusalem & Tel Aviv University): Egyptian Historiography on the Mobility of (Sea) People at the End of the Late Bronze Age

Aaron A. Burke (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA): The Decline of Egyptian Empire, Forced Migration, and Social Change in the Southern Levant, ca. 1200–1050 B.C.

Rachel Mittelman (Columbus State University): Determining Libyan Influence in Egypt during and after the Late Bronze Age Collapse

Sixth Session: Regional Perspectives: The West

Bartek Lis (Polish Academy of Sciences): Potters in captivity? An alternative explanation for the Italo-Mycenaean pottery of the 13^th century BC

Reinhard Jung (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften OREA): Push and Pull Factors of the Sea Peoples between Italy and the Levant