Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age (FSU)
The Department of Classics at The Florida State University is pleased to announce the 2007 Langford Conference on "Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age", 22-24 February 2007, in Tallahassee. Speakers and their titles include:Peter Day and Maria Relaki (Sheffield University) – Living from Pots: Ceramic Perspectives on the Political Economies of Prepalatial Crete
Jan Driessen (Université catholique de Louvain) – Spirit of Place: Identifying Minoans in the Field
Mike Galaty (Millsaps College) – Wedging Clay: Combining Competing Models of Mycenaean Pottery Industries
Donald Haggis (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) – Stability and the State: A Diachronic Perspective on Pre-State Society in the Aegean
Carl Knappett (University of Exeter) – Making Political Economies: Knossian Material Culture in the First and Second Palace Periods
Joanne Murphy (University of Akron) – Political Economies in Ritual: A Comparative Study of the Rise of the State in Pre and Proto-Palatial Knossos and Phaistos
Dimitri Nakassis (Trinity University) – Financing the State in the Aegean Bronze Age
William Parkinson (The Florida State University) – Beyond the Peer: Social Interaction and Political Evolution in the Bronze Age Aegean
Ilse Schoep (Université catholique de Louvain) – Making Elites: Political Economy and Elite Ideology in Middle Minoan Crete
Thomas Tartaron (University of Pennsylvania) – Between and Beyond: Political Economy in Non-palatial Mycenaean Worlds
Sofia Voutsaki (University of Groningen) – From the Kinship Economy to the Palatial Economy: the Argolid in the 2nd Millennium BC
Cheryl Ward (The Florida State University) – Evaluating Long-Distance Trading Patterns for Minoan and Mycenaean Polities
Todd Whitelaw (University College, London) – Scale and Administrative Integration in Prehistoric Aegean Polities
James Wright (Bryn Mawr College) - Respondent
For more information, please contact:
Daniel J. Pullen
Department of Classics
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
850/644.4259
dpullen@fsu.edu
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