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)