A conference of the ERC project: 'MIGMAG'
6-8th June, 2024

Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna

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.

SCHEDULE

Thursday 6th June

9:00-13:30 – Italy and Sicily
Gianfranco Adornato, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Peter Attema, University of Groningen
Rodolfo Brancato, University of Naples
Lieve Donnellan, University of Melbourne
Antonino Facella, University of Genoa
Fabrizio Mollo, University of Messina
Alessandro Naso, University of Naples
Marco Pacciarelli, University of Naples
Francesco Quondam, University of Vienna

15:00-17:30 – The Western Mediterranean
Anna Depalmas, University of Sassari
Elisa de Sousa, University of Lisbon
Linda Gosner, Texas Tech University
Carolina López-Ruiz, University of Chicago
Jessica Nowlin, University of Texas

18:30-19:30 – The Work of the MIGMAG Project
Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna

Friday 7th June

9:30-13:30 – Anatolia and the Black Sea
Christoph Bachhuber, University of Oxford
Owen Doonan, California State University
Bilge Hürmüzlü, Süleyman Demirel University
Elif Koparal, Mimar Sinan University
Michele Massa, Bilkent University
Jana Mokrišová, University of Cambridge
Anja Slawisch, Edinburgh University
Martin Steskal, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Semih Togan, Süleyman Demirel University

15:00-17:30 – The Eastern Mediterranean
Anna Collar, Southampton University
Maria Iacovou, University of Cyprus
Naoise Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna
Tom Maltas, University of Vienna and Oxford
Mirko Novák, University of Bern
James Osborne, University of Chicago
Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu, Mimar Sinan University
Elif Ünlü, Boğaziçi University

Saturday 8th June

9:00-13:00 – Greece
Birgitta Eder, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Athen)
Sylvian Fachard, University of Lausanne
Stefanos Gimatzidis, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Efthymia Karantzali, Ephorate of Antiquities of Fthiotida and Eurytania
Eleni Kopanaki, University of Vienna
Petros Kounouklas, Ephorate of Antiquities of Fthiotida and Eurytania
Sara Murray, University of Toronto
Maximillian Rönnberg, University of Tübingen
Katja Sporn, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

Further informations:
https://www.migmag-erc.eu/conference-2024

Myths of Foundation and Migration

A workshop of the ERC project: 'MIGMAG'
14:00-17:00, 8th June 2024

Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of 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.

Poster-download for Conference and Workshop