Dr. Daniella Bar-Yosef (The Steinhardt Museum of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University)
Seminario «Introduction to Archaeomalacology»
8, 10, 12, 15, 17 e 19 maggio 2023
Ore 10:00-12:00
Gabinetto degli Specchi, 4° piano, Palazzo
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Dimitrios BOSNAKIS
University of Crete
New evidence on primary cremations from Early Iron Age Kos
GIOVEDÌ 11 MAGGIO 2023 - ore 15.00
Napoli, Piazza S. Domenico Maggiore 12 Palazzo Corigliano – II piano
Sala Conferenze
Per informazioni e il link di accesso alla conferenza in remoto su Teams contattare:mdacunto@unior.it
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Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, The Steinhardt Museum of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University
Per info: egiancristofaro@unior.it
Ciclo di conferenze "Valle del Nilo e dintorni. Archeologia, storia e società
Organizzatore: Andrea Manzo, segreteria organizzativa: Enrico Giancristofaro
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From November 6 to 8, the conference Dance in the Ancient World: From the Mediterranean Sea to the Sea of Japan will be held in the Conference Hall of Palazzo Du Mesnil.
Through the diverse expertise of the speakers (Archaeology, Iconography, Philology, Ethnography), the conference explores the theme of dance as a central aspect of the functioning of ancient societies and its multiple meanings and manifestations, fostering dialogue between different cultures across the wide geographic span from the Mediterranean Sea to the Sea of Japan.
Due to its high scientific and cultural value, the conference is organized in synergy with ISMEO and under the patronage of the National Academy of Dance and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
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The Students and Colleagues for Fabrizio Pesando: Archaeological Research between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas
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Dipartimento di Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo - Palazzo Corigliano
Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, 12 - 80134 Napoli
Studio 2 / II piano
Tel.: +39 081 6909628
email: ceisma@unior.it
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/P9TLUHj3foFBTyQe8
The Newsletter is the quarterly information bulletin of the Study Centre for Interactions and Exchanges in the Ancient and Medieval World. The Centre designs and implements scientific and educational initiatives within the framework of the Department of Excellence Project of the Department of Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean (DAAM) at the University of Naples L’Orientale.
The CEISMA schedules lecture series led by foreign professors and researchers, specialists in the Centre’s areas of interest, aimed at students and PhD candidates.
In the academic years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24, CEISMA hosted as Visiting Professors Marie Cronier, Hariclia Brecoulaki, Asnu Bilbam Yalçin, Michael Alram, Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, John R. Baines, Nicolas Garnier, Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, and Giorgos Sanidas. They conducted well-attended 12-hour courses for students and PhD candidates.
Marie Cronier is a researcher at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS), Section Grecque et de l’Orient Chrétien in Paris. She specialises in palaeography, codicology, philology and the history of Greek texts. She is an expert in manuscripts with scientific content, especially in the fields of medicine and botany, and more specifically in the area of plants for pharmaceutical use. She is working on a project to review and analyse Arabic and Syriac manuscripts of Dioscorides' works as part of the ERC Floriental project (http://www.orientmediterranee.com/spip.php?article1136), as well as working on a critical edition of the Greek text of Dioscorides' De materia medica. She is also participating in the ANR I-Stamboul project (http://i-stamboul.irht.cnrs.fr/) concerning the history of the library of the monastery of the Holy Trinity on the island of Chalki from the 16th to the 20th century. More broadly, she is the author of numerous publications concerning the history and transmission of scientific texts in Byzantium, as well as their Latin, Arabic and Syriac translations. During her stay in Naples in November 2021, she delivered a course on the tradition of illustrated herbals entitled 'Around Dioscorides' treatise On Materia Medica: Greek herbals from antiquity to the Renaissance and their transmission in the East and West', which was attended in person and followed online by numerous students.
Hariclia Brecoulaki is a leading specialist in ancient Greek painting and an internationally recognised authority on the subject. She has conducted research at the Greek and Roman Antiquities Section of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens since 2009, becoming a Senior Researcher there in 2017. She studied at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she obtained her PhD in Archaeology with a thesis entitled La peinture funéraire en Macédoine'. Emplois et fonctions de la couleur IVe-IIe s. av. J.-C. (Funeral Painting in Macedonia: Uses and Functions of Colour in the 4th–2nd Centuries BC), published by De Boccard in 2006. This remains a seminal work on painted Macedonian tombs. She is currently the Principal Investigator on the HFRI research project, The Hunt Frieze of Tomb II at Vergina, Greece: A Novel Interdisciplinary Approach for the Scientific Investigation and Revisualisation of a Painted Masterpiece of the Classical World (2022–2025). She has published contributions on the main pictorial contexts of the ancient Mediterranean, ranging from the Mycenaean world (Mycenaean Painting in Context: New Discoveries, Old Finds Reconsidered, co-edited with J. Davis and S. Stocker, 2015), to pre-Roman Italy (L'Esperienza del colore nella pittura funeraria dell'Italia preromana, Naples, 2001). Her work promotes an approach that values technical investigations into pigments and how they were used, as well as pictorial supports, as an indispensable basis for historical, artistic, and contextual evaluations. Of particular note is the volume she edited which is currently in press: Archaeology of Colour'. Technical Studies in Greek and Roman Painting and Polychromy, Institute for Historical Studies, HNRF, Athens, 2021.
Asnu Bilbam Yalçın graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome, having written a thesis on Byzantine art under the supervision of Prof. Fernanda De Maffei. She then moved to Istanbul University, where she obtained a research position and completed her PhD on the Great Imperial Palace of Constantinople, based on written sources. She was an associate professor of Byzantine art from 2003 to 2009. Since 2009, she has been a full professor in the Department of Art History. She teaches Byzantine art history. She maintains strong links with Italian academic institutions.
Her main research interests are sculpture and the topography of Constantinople. She directs archaeological excavations at the Middle Byzantine fortress of Yoros on the Bosphorus, paying particular attention to the ancient and medieval topography of the suburbs of the Byzantine capital. She has been a consultant on restoration work at Hagia Sophia for 10 years, and much of her research focuses on this building. She is also a consultant for Kariye. She has taught as a visiting professor at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and has delivered seminars at the universities of Thessaloniki and Rome.
Michael Alram was Director of the Medal Cabinet at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and Vice-President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2013 to 2021. A scholar of ancient numismatics, he specialises in the Iranian and Central Asian regions, and his studies on the coinage of the Iranian Huns and Western Turks are particularly noteworthy. His studies cover the period from the founding of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC to the Islamic conquest of Central and South Asia. He has contributed to numerous international research projects involving several important European and Asian museums and institutions. Furthermore, his work is closely linked to archaeology and cultural history in general, fostering fruitful interdisciplinary exchanges. Dr Alram is a member of numerous national and international institutions and has received several prestigious awards, including the Royal Numismatic Society Prize (2013), the Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte Prize (2014) and the Archer M. Huntington Medal of the American Numismatic Society (2016).
Programma corso Alram 2022.pdf
Daniella E. Bar-Yosef is one of the world's leading archaeomalacology specialists. She is employed at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University, where she heads the palaeontological and archaeomalacological collections. She obtained her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2000. Since 1992, she has been affiliated with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and since 2015, she has been a research associate at the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. In 2003, she established a working group on archaeomalacology within the International Council for Archaeozoology.
Having trained in zooarchaeology, she specialised in the study of molluscs as a food resource and in their use in various production areas. Consequently, she has conducted extensive research into the diverse and multifaceted use of shells in the production of tools and personal adornments. This research interest has also led her to broaden her focus to include the study of stone necklace beads.
Her current research projects include studying the use of molluscs and shell artefacts in the Palaeolithic cave of Manot in western Galilee, and the Epipalaeolithic shellfish gatherers of Dureijat in the Jordan Valley.
Professor John Robert Baines is a retired British Egyptologist and academic. From 1976 to 2013, he held the Chair of Egyptology at Queen's College, Oxford. He is currently Professor Emeritus and Fellow of Queen's College, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). He is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the German Archaeological Institute, as well as being an honorary member of the American Oriental Society.
He has held visiting positions in the Egyptology, Anthropology, Art History, Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies departments at universities in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Throughout his career, he has integrated the study of ancient Egypt into the broader discourse of the humanities and social sciences.
He has served on national and international archaeological research committees and continues to sit on the editorial boards of journals and book series.
He is the author of over 200 publications on ancient Egypt, including articles and monographs. His wide-ranging research interests cover art, religion, literature and the role of writing in Egyptian society, including issues of literacy, education and the ideology of the elite. In recent years, he has focused particularly on analysing the self-representation of officials through autobiographical texts and the figurative programmes of their tombs.
His most significant recent works include Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2009); High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt (Equinox Publishing, 2013); and Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World (edited in collaboration with H. van der Blom, Yi Samuel Chen, and Tim Rood) (Equinox Publishing, 2020).
Nicolas Garnier is the Scientific Director and founder of the N. Garnier Private Laboratory in Vic-le-Comte, France. He is also an associate researcher at the AOROC laboratory (CNRS UMR 8546) at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Ulm in France. He is an associate researcher at the Miniaturisation for Synthesis, Analysis and Proteomics Laboratory (MSAP – UAR 3290 – University of Lille, France). He is also an associate researcher at the Centre Camille Jullian for Mediterranean and African Archaeology at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme in Aix-en-Provence (UMR CNRS 6573).
He has extensive experience of university teaching as a lecturer in chemistry at the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Paris VI – Jussieu (1999–2003) and as a lecturer in physical chemistry for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INP), Paris.
His research and publications mainly focus on developing analytical methods using mass spectrometry to identify ancient organic materials preserved in trace amounts that are degraded and mixed in archaeological objects. Having developed new methods for analysing non-volatile lipids using MALDI-TOF and electrospray, he turned his attention to the organic fraction that is difficult to extract from clay, glass and metal because it is strongly bound. Developing a new extraction protocol in an acidic, anhydrous environment has opened up a new avenue of research, particularly for detecting traces of grapes, wine, and fermented beverages in general. At his laboratory, which has been equipped with high-resolution mass spectrometry since 2019, Garnier is seeking to shift the focus of chemical analysis in archaeology towards a more comprehensive metabolomic approach by working with minor compounds such as sterols and triterpenes.
He has organised and spoken at many international conferences and participated in numerous E-U funded projects.
Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian is Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece). He is one of the world's leading experts on Greek archaeology and architecture from the Early Iron Age and Archaic periods, as well as on Homeric archaeology, ancient Greek religion and sanctuaries from the Geometric to the Classical periods. His extensive publications include two monographs: From Rulers' Dwellings to Temples: Architecture, Religion and Society in Early Iron Age Greece (1100–700 BC) (1997), and Όμηρος και Αρχαιολογία (2000). He has also edited several important volumes, including the international conference proceedings Oropos and Euboea in the Early Iron Age (2007); The 'Dark Ages' Revisited: In Memory of W.D.E. Coulson (2007/2010); Regional Stories: Towards a New Perception of the Early Greek World (2017); and most recently, Les sanctuaires archaïques des Cyclades (2017). He is the director of the University of Thessaly's archaeological missions in Oropos (Boeotia), Kythnos (Cyclades), and Lathouriza (Attica).
He has delivered extensive lectures at universities, museums, and European institutions, as well as at leading universities and museums in the United States, Canada and Australia. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Paris IV-Sorbonne for three years and was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Giorgos Sanidas is a leading specialist in metallurgical and ceramic activities in the Greek world of the northern Aegean. His research focuses on archaeological evidence of production sites and contexts, as well as the technological aspects of producing metal objects, ceramics, and coroplastic products. He completed his entire education at the University of Lille 3, obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Archaeology and a Master's degree in Ancient History before going on to obtain his PhD in Ancient Sciences, specialising in Greek Archaeology (2004). He is an HDR lecturer in Greek archaeology at the University of Lille, where he has taught since 2006, and an associate researcher at the École française d'Athènes. He is also a permanent member of the Halma research centre (UMR 8164). He is the coordinator of the HeMEN (Habitat and Metallurgy in the Northern Aegean) research programme. (Halma (UMR 8164) – École française d'Athènes, 2012–). He is also co-director of the ThANAr (Thasos – Northern Approach to Artemisia) excavation programme in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Kavala–Thasos and the École française d'Athènes. He conducts ongoing archaeological investigations on the island of Thasos from the Early Iron Age (pre-colonial period) to the Proto-Byzantine period (late antiquity).
Pubblicazioni selezione Sanidas.pdf
Anton Bierl is Emeritus Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Basel. He studied at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig. He is recognised as one of the leading specialists in the field of hexametric poetry, melic poetry and classical theatre, as well as one of the foremost experts on Dionysus, to whom he dedicated his doctoral thesis (Dionysos und die griechische Tragödie. Politische und “metatheatralische” Aspekte im Text, Tübingen: Narr-Verlag 1991). He is the author of over one hundred scientific contributions and editor or co-editor of numerous volumes on various aspects of Greek culture, such as Der Chor in der Alten Komödie. Ritual und Performativität (Leipzig: Teubner 2000), an essential reference point for studies on ancient Greek comedy; Die Orestie des Aischylos auf der modernen Bühne. Theoretische Konzeptionen und ihre szenische Realisierung (Stuttgart: Metzler 1996) and the annotated edition of Sappho, published by Reclam (Stuttgart, 2019/2020). He is also co-editor of the new reference commentary on the Iliad, the Homer Basler Kommentar. He has received prestigious academic awards, including a Senior Fellowship at the Harvard Centre for Hellenic Studies and a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. He has been and continues to be a member of important scientific networks, including the Core Group of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song. He is also the founder and editor of the MythosEikonPoiesis series, published and distributed by de Gruyter. He is currently working on a monograph focusing on the figure of the hero in Greek literature and culture.
Dr Ilya Yakubovich is a linguist and Iranist specialising in the study of the Indo-European and Hurro-Urartian languages of ancient Anatolia. His research focuses particularly on linguistic contact in protohistory, Iranistics, and Indo-European studies. His academic career has spanned four countries: Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
After studying Indo-European studies, Indology, Anatolian studies and Semitic studies at the Russian State Humanitarian University in Moscow, he received a scholarship to study Iranian philology and language history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. In 2001, a further scholarship enabled him to join the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, where he pursued his interest in Anatolian studies. His doctoral thesis (2008), published in Brill's series Studies in Indo-European Languages and Linguistics, analyses the sociolinguistic situation of ancient Anatolia. Particular attention is given to the role of Luwian, and a new methodology is proposed for studying linguistic coexistence in the absence of direct sources.
During a stay at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in 2002, he conducted research on the Sogdian language, analysing Buddhist manuscripts. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a Jill Hart Early Career Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology at the University of Oxford.
In 2013, he moved to Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany, where he created the Annotated Corpus of Luwian Texts (ACLT) with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He subsequently contributed to the Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Ancient Anatolian Corpus Languages. From 2018 to 2021, he was the co-PI of the international project Luwili, together with Alice Mouton (Paris, CNRS). This project resulted in a new edition of an important group of Luwian cuneiform texts. From 2022 to 2024, he led a research project with Elisabeth Riekens.
Pubblicazioni principali Yakubovich.pdf
Locandina seminari Yakubovich.pdf
Institutional page with extended biography and publications: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb10/iksl/faecher/vergleichende-sprachwissenschaft/fach/personalia/dr-habil-ilya-yakubovich-1
Contact information:
Dr. Ilya Yakubovich
Philipps-Universität Marburg
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