King’s College London-UNC Conference

Please join us Sept. 5-7 for the first King’s College London-UNC Graduate Student Conference: Classical Archaeology. The department would like to thank The Graduate School for its generous support of the conference.

The complete schedule is as follows:

Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, Murphey Hall 104
5-6 pm keynote address
Dr. Hugh Bowden, KCL: “‘The Mysteries of Mithras: Networks, Ideas and Experiences’.”

Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, Murphey Hall 104
8:45-9 am, coffee

9-11 am, first section: Mortuary Archaeology

9-10 am, Cicek Beeby (UNC): “Archaeological Time and Mortuary Site Formation: the 7th-century Kerameikos as a Case Study”
Respondent John Pearce (KCL, Classics)

10-11 am, Kaja Stemberger (KCL): “Reconstructing female identities from the cemeteries of Colonia Iulia Emona”
Respondent Jen Gates-Foster (UNC, Classics)

11-11:30 am, coffee break

11:30-3 pm, second section: Archaeology of Greek Religious Spaces

11:30 am to 12:30 pm, Helena Meskanen (KCL): “Dedications and the aspect of war in Greek sanctuaries”
Respondent Fred Naiden (UNC, History)

12:30-2 pm, lunch break

2-3 pm, Sarah Hilker (UNC); “The Function of Frescoes at Mycenae”
Respondent Hugh Bowden (KCL, Classics)

3-3:15 pm, break

3:15-5:30 pm, third section: Epigraphy and Iron Age

3:15-4:15 pm, Claire Millington (KCL): “Not written in stone: what can epigraphy tell us about Roman auxiliary commanders’ garrison households across the western provinces in the first three centuries AD?”
Respondent Jodi Magness (UNC, Religious Studies)

4:15-4:30 pm, break

4:30-5:30 pm, Catharine Judson (UNC): “Early Iron Age Knossos: Approaching a Fragmented Archaeological Record”
Respondent Irene Polinskaya (KCL, Classics)

5:30-6:30, reception, Murphey Hall

Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, Murphey Hall 104

8:45-9 am, coffee

9-11:15 am, fourth section: Identity in the Archaeological Record

9-10 am, Emma Buckingham (UNC): “Identity and Material Culture in the Interplay of Locals and Greek Settlers in Early Archaic Palike”
Respondent Irene Polinskaya (KCL, Classics)

10-10:15 am, break

10:15-11:15 am, Alessandra Esposito (KCL): “Talking to the gods. A journey through religious identities in Roman Britain”
Respondent Mary Sturgeon (UNC, Art)