A conference of the ERC project: 'MIGMAG'
6-8th June, 2024
This conference highlights how local and regional mobilities contributed to the making of the wider Greek world.
The ancient Greek world was a culturally integrated but geographically dispersed entity, comprising over a thousand autonomous communities scattered across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Scholarship has usually focused on long-distance migration as the key to its formation, characterising this either as colonisation or in terms of trade and interaction. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to the role played by local and regional mobilities in the formation of new settlements and settlement systems c.1200-500 BCE.
This conference will seek to redress the balance. Using insights from landscape archaeology in particular, we will compare evidence for urbanisation, population circulation, changing settlement patterns, and variation in landscape use, and consider how these contributed to the making of the early Greek world.
Further informations:
https://www.migmag-erc.eu/conference-2024
Funerary Rituals in Archaic Southern Italy and Sicily
(late VIII-VI c. BCE)
A workshop of the ERC project: 'MIGMAG'
June 5th 2024
(University of Vienna, Senatssaal, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna)
Morning
9.15-9.30
Introduction
9.30-10.00
Teresa Cinquantaquattro (Direttrice del Segretariato Regionale MIC per la Campania): Pithekoussai
10.00-10.30
Alessandra Sperduti (Museo delle Civiltà, Roma): An anthropological perspective on Archaic burial practises
10.30-11.00
Daniela Costanzo (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria): Funerary rituals of the Archaic poleis of Calabria
11.00-11.30
Coffee break
11.30-12.00
Francesco Quondam & Ilaria Gullo (Universität Wien, Universität Basel): The Archaic communities in the Sibaritide and Locride regions
12.00-12.30
Fabrizio Mollo, Marco Sfacteria (Università di Messina): The Archaic communities of the Gulf of Policastro
12.30-14.30
Lunch break
Afternoon
15.00-15.30
Clara-Maria Hansen – Francesco Quondam (Universität Wien): Metauros
15.30-16.00
Annunziata Ollà (Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina): Mylai
16.00-16.30
Coffee break
16.30-17.00
Reine-Marie Berard (CNRS-UMR, Centre Camille Julian, Aix-en-Provence): Funerary rituals of the Archaic poleis of Eastern Sicily
17.00-17.30
Claudia Lambrugo (Università Statale di Milano): Funerary rituals of the Archaic poleis of Central and Southern Sicily
17.30-18.30
Discussion
Myths of Foundation and Migration
A workshop of the ERC project: 'MIGMAG'
14:00-17:00, 8th June 2024
(Institute of Classical Archaeology, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190 Vienna)
While ancient Greek myths of migration and foundation can sometimes reflect real human mobilities, it is now understood that they often tell us more about the times in which they were written than the times they were written about. In particular, they are testament to complex and changing ideas about identity, affiliation, and mobility.
The MIGMAG project has collated a corpus of foundation and migration myths pertaining to settlements in five case study regions of the ancient Greek world, and is using tools from digital humanities to identify patterns in this mythic corpus. This has allowed us to identify trends in the rhetoric of foundation and migration, both chronological and geographic.
Join us for a presentation of this work, with contributions from expert discussants.
Discussion with:
Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge)
Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago)
Martin Mauersberg (University of Innsbruck)
Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv University)
