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Fight or Flight: The archaeology of space, mobility, and violence

Apr 24, 2024 - Apr 26, 2024

Conference about the intertwining of violence, space, and movement

The conference takes place from 24 to 26 April 2024 and is organised by the project of the same name. The event is part of our annual theme 2023/24 "Conflicts and how to deal with them".

Program

24.04.2023

10:00 – 10:15
Registration

10:15 – 10:30
Welcome and Introduction
Ilia Heit, Jana Eger, Vera Egbers

Chair: Susan Pollok

10:30 – 11:00
Conflict Potential and Conflict Resolution in Prehistory – Searching for Preconditions and Archaeological Proxies
Ilia Heit

11:00 – 11:30
Conflict Mediation and Syncretic Pottery of Serednii Stoh and Cucuteni-Trypillia in the Southern Buh Area (2nd Half of the 5th Millennium BCE)
Mariia Lobanova

11:30 – 11:50
Coffee Break

11:50 – 12:20
"War and Peace" in the Weinviertel, Lower Austria: Dynamics of the Complex Bandkeramik Fortification of Asparn/Schletz
Franz Pieler

12:20 – 12:50
"Tu Felix Austria Nube" – (Female) Mobility as a Means of Conflict Avoidance in the LBK
Julia Längauer

12:50 – 13:50
Lunch Break

Chair: Reinhard Bernbeck

13:50 – 14:20
Yamna Culture – Conquerors or Peaceful Neighbors?
Svitlana Ivanova

14:20 – 14:50
Pressed against the Wall? Trypillian Para-Urbanisaton and Agricultural Frontier
Dmytro Kiosak

14:50 – 15:10
Coffee Break

15:10 – 15:40
Homo Hominis Lupus Est? (Based on Materials of the Sintashta Culture)
Polina Fricke

15:40 – 16:10
Extreme Spaces and Ethnicity in Roman Thought – Can an Archaeology of Extreme Spaces Bridge the Gaps?
Pascal Hoffmann

16:10 – 16:30
Discussion

18:30
Dinner

25.04.2023

Chair: Jana Eger

10:00 – 10:30
Native or Trophy: Swords from the Chervony Mayak Necropolis
Olena Dzneladze, Denys Sikoza, and Oleksandr Symonenko

10:30 – 11:00
Violence against Memory: Communicative Strategies of Scythian Burial Destructions
Alisa Demina

11:00 – 11:20
Coffee Break

11:20 – 11:50
Mobility and Politics in Ancient Syria: Some Theoretical Considerations
Alejandro Mizzoni

11:50 – 12:20
Forced\Voluntary Conversion or Migration? The Hasmonean Conquest of Idumea between Historical Sources and the Archaeological Finds
Orit Peleg-Barkat

12:20 – 13:20
Lunch Break

Chair: Vera Egbers

13:20 – 13:50
Roadblocks and Passport Controls: Reflections on the History of Flight and Resistance in Rwandan History up to the Tutsicide
Anne D. Peiter

13:50 – 14:20
Archaeological Investigation of Refugee Boats at Lampedusa
Geesche Wilts

14:20 – 14:40
Coffee Break

14:40 – 15:10
The Old Central Bus Station: Art and Violence at the Edge
Yarden Stern

15:10 – 15:30
Final Discussion

26.04.2023

10:15
Excursion with guided tour to the The Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation for all participants (https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/home). Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin; near Anhalter Bahnhof

Organization

Ilia Heit (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut)
Jana Eger (CEZA Mannheim)
Vera Egbers (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)

Time & Location

Apr 24, 2024 - Apr 26, 2024

Freie Universität Berlin
Seminarzentrum
Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26
14195 Berlin
Room L115