MONDAY, 8 JUNE 

9:30-10:30: Registration 

10:30-11:50: OPENING SESSION 

Welcoming remarks 

10:30-10:35: Bonna WESCOAT 

10:35-10:50: Organizers 

Wise Jack Davis’ career and achievements 

10:50-11:10: Kathleen LYNCH 

11:10-11:30: Michael GALATY 

11:30-11:50: Discussion 

11:50-12:20 Coffee break 

12:20-1:25: SESSION 1 – ICONOGRAPHY (1) (Chair: Robert LAFFINEUR) 

12:20-12:35: Fritz BLAKOLMER, The Mycenaean or Minoan Character of the Arts in the Shaft Grave Period in the Light of Recent Finds and Research 

12:35-12:50: Lyvia MORGAN, Heroic and Mythic Action: Warriors, Hunters, Lions and Griffins 

12:50-1:05: Eleni MANTZOURANI and Giorgos VAVOURANAKIS, Wild Versus Domesticated Fauna in Prehistoric Cyprus: Iconography and the Zooarchaeological Record 

1:05-1:25: Discussion 

1:25-3: Lunch

3-4:35: SESSION 2 – ICONOGRAPHY (2) (Chair: Natalie ABELL) 

3-3:15: Marisa MARTHARI, Swallows and Fleets: Iconographic Correlations between Akrotiri, Thera, and Pylos, and Transmission of Artistic Ideas in the Aegean

3:15-3:30: Robert LAFFINEUR, Some Reflections on Nestor’s Ceremonial Fleet 

3:30-3:45: Hariclia BRECOULAKI and Emily EGAN, “Reed” the Room: A Recycled Wall-Painting Fragment from the Palace of Nestor 

3:45-4: Wolf-Dietrich NIEMEIER, The Master of the Combat Agate from Pylos 

4-4:15: Maria ANASTASIADOU, The Birth of Mycenaean Glyptic on the Greek Mainland in LH I-IIA 

4:15-4:35: Discussion 

4:35-5:05: Tea break 

5:05-5:55: SESSION 3 – HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY (Chair: Jan DRIESSEN) 

5:05-5:20: Dimitri NAKASSIS, Ὄπως ἡμεῖς περίπου: Modern Analogies and Analogical Arguments in Tsountas 

5:20-5:35: Emilia ODDO, Methodological Questions in the Publication of the Knossian Northwest Treasure House 

5:35-5:55: Discussion 

5:55-6:20: Jack Davis in Greece. Collaboration and Discovery. (ASCSA film) 

6:20-7:30: Reception at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

 

TUESDAY, 9 JUNE 

9:15-11:05: SESSION 4 – MYCENAEAN PALACES AND SOCIETY (Chair: Ada KALOGIROU) 

9:15-9:30: Konstantinos NIKOLENTZOS 

9:30-9:45: Kim SHELTON and Lynne KVAPIL, Beyond the Scepter: Prehistory in the Nemea Valley 

9:45-10: Salvatore VITALE, Resetting the Mycenaean Palaces: A Plea for the Reconsideration of Cultural and Social Variation in the States of Mainland Greece, circa 1375 to 1175 B.C.E. 

10-10:15: Sofia VOUTSAKI and Nektarios KARADIMAS, Agios Vasileios, Laconia: First Thoughts on the Rise and Fall of a Mycenaean Palatial Centre 

10:15-10:30: Cynthia SHELMERDINE, A Fresh Look at Mycenaean Perfumes 

10:30-10:45: Marwan KILANI, The Language of Luxury: Foreign Terms for Imported Goods in Mycenaean Sources 

10:45-11:05: Discussion 

11:05-11:35 Coffee break 

11:35-1:10: SESSION 5 – PELOPONNESE (Chair: Kostas PASCHALIDIS) 

11:35-11:50: Susan LUPACK, Barbora WEISSOVA, Sarah JAMES, Matthew SKUSE, and Panagiota KASIMI, Mycenaeans in the Perachora Landscape 

11:50-12:05: Walter GAUSS, Jeremy RUTTER, and Ioulia TZONOU, A Tale of Three Understudied Bronze Age Ceramic Stages at Corinth and Korakou 

12:05-12:20: Ioulia TZONOU, Jack Davis and Korakou: How Did Mycenaean Corinth Become Wealthy? 

12:20-12:35: Lena PAPAZOGLOU-MANIOUDAKI, The House of the Bronzes at Mygdalia, near Patras, in Achaea: The Architecture of the Local Elites in the Early Mycenaean World 

12:35-12:50: Björn FORSÉN, Early Sanctuaries and Tribes in Southern Arcadia 

12:50-1:10: Discussion 

1:10-2:30: Lunch

2:30-4:05: SESSION 6 – MESSENIA (Chair: Tom BROGAN) 

2:30-2:45: Calla MCNAMEE, Salvatore VITALE, Sharon R. STOCKER, and Evangelia MALAPANI, Archaeological Research and Heritage Preservation: A Case Study Illustrating the Benefits of Land Use Mapping to Rescue Excavation at the Site of Romanou, Southwestern Messenia 

2:45-3: Efthymia TSIOLAKI, Surveying Messenia: Challenges and Opportunities of Working with Legacy Surface Survey Data 

3-3:15: Birgitta EDER, Kakovatos in Context: Tracing Early Mycenaean Networks 

3:15-3:30: Michael COSMOPOULOS, Social Memory and the Homeric Topography of Messenia 

3:30-3:45: Evangelia MALAPANI, Beyond the Mycenaean Horizon: Later Finds from the Cemetery at Antheia-Hellinika, Messenia 

3:45-4:05: Discussion 

4:05-4:35: Tea break 

4:35-6:10: SESSION 7 – PYLOS (Chair: Sharon STOCKER) 

4:35-4:50: Shannon LAFAYETTE HOGUE, The Palace of Nestor Main Building from the Trenches 

4:50-5:05: Michael LOY, A GIS-archival Approach to Locating the Vayenas Grave Circle at Pylos 

5:05-5:20: Robert SCHON, Promoting Regional Authority at Pylos: Soft Power and the Palace of Nestor 

5:20-5:35: Eleni KOUNTOURI and Andreas VLACHOPOULOS, In the Shadow of the Palace. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Volimidia (c. 1600-1050 BC) 

5:35-5:50: Julie HRUBY, Beyond the Survey Horizon: Demographic Resilience after the Collapse of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos 

5:50-6:10: Discussion

 

WEDNESDAY, 10 JUNE 

9:15-11:05: SESSION 8 – AEGEAN ISLANDS (Chair: Emily EGAN) 

9:15-9:30: Maria ANDREADAKI-VLAZAKI, Neopalatial Khania (Kydonia) 

9:30-9:45: Cyprian BROODBANK, Evangelia KIRIATZI, and Toby WILKINSON, Late Bronze Age Small-scale Farmers as Analytical Individuals: The Micro-dynamics of Ceramic Production, Acquisition and Consumption among the Farmsteads of Second Palace Period Kythera 

9:45-10: Tracey CULLEN and Lauren TALALAY, Hitting the JackPot: A Curious Vessel from Neolithic Plakari 

10-10:15: Paschalis ZAFEIRIADIS, Separate Ways (But Not Worlds Apart): Southern Euboea in Cycladic Prehistoric Context 

10:15-10:30: Chris HALE, Potsherds from a Different Edge: Alternative North-South Connectivity in the Middle Bronze Age Aegean 

10:30-10:45: Nikolas PAPADIMITRIOU, Iro MATHIOUDAKI, Anthi BALITSARI, Sylviane DÉDERIX, and Robert LAFFINEUR, Thorikos and the Cyclades in the Mid-2nd Millennium BCE: The Western String from an Attic Perspective 

10:45-11:05: Discussion 

11:05-11:35 Coffee break 

11:35-12:55: SESSION 9 – CYCLADES (Chair: Irene NIKOLAKOPOULOU) 

11:35-11:50: Todd WHITELAW, A Tally of Two "Cities": The Island Towns of Ayia Irini and Phylakopi in Comparative Perspective 

11:50-12:05: Jim NEWHARD and Charleston BURTON, Developing Cross-Comparative Frameworks for Land Use Histories. Northwestern Kea in Context

12:05-12:20: Rodney D. FITZSIMONS, Anna BELZA, David WILSON, and Carol HERSHENSON, Water Management at Ayia Irini: A Diachronic View 

12:20-12:35: Kalliopi EFKLEIDOU and Evi GOROGIANNI, Guarding the Bounty: Agricultural Harvests and Storerooms of Ayia Irini, Kea 

12:35-12:55: Discussion 

12:55-2:45: Lunch 

2:45-4:20: SESSION 10 – NORTH AEGEAN, ALBANIA, AND THE BALKANS (Chair: Lynne SCHEPARTZ) 

2:45-3: Michael GALATY, Applying Greek Survey Methods Outside of Greece: Part One, the Western Balkans 

3-3:15: William PARKINSON, Applying Greek Survey Methods Outside of Greece: Part Two, the Carpathian Basin 

3:15-3:30: Lorenc BEJKO, Maria Grazia AMORE, Skënder ALIU, and Helena TOMAS, Landscape Archaeology of the Upper Devoll Valley in Southeastern Albania 

3:30-3:45: Iris POJANI, New Discovery of the Circuit Wall: Insights into the Boundaries of Archaic and Hellenistic Epidamnos- Dyrrhachion 

3:45-4: David HERNANDEZ, On the Origins of Bouthrotos 

4-4:20: Discussion 

4:20-4:50: Tea break 

4:50-5:55: Session 11 – BRONZE AGE CULTURE (Chair: Dimitri NAKASSIS) 

4:50-5:05: Eleni HASAKI and Lauren ALBERTI, Bull-Leaping Spectacles: Performance and Politics in Bronze Age Palaces 

5:05-5:20: Eberhard ZANGGER, Celestial Symbolism and Lunisolar Timekeeping in Bronze Age Cultures 

5:20-5:35: Tom PALAIMA, Testing First Principles in Mycenology: Epistemology, Palaeography and Textual Interpretation 

5:35-5:55: Discussion 

7:30-8:30: Reception at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens, Agras 23 (only for presenters)

 

THURSDAY, 11 JUNE 

9:30-11:05: SESSION 12 – DISCIPLINES, METHODS, AND TECHNIQUES (1) (Chair: William PARKINSON) 

9:30-9:45: Susan BUCK SUTTON, Field Notes: Observations on Jack’s Role in Bridging Disciplines 

9:45-10: Natalie ABELL, Theo NASH, Jami BAXLEY CRAIG, and Myrto GEORGAKOPOULOU (†), Bullets from Ayia Irini and Their Possible Implications for the Military History of Modern Kea 

10-10:15: Efie ATHANASSOPOULOS and Christian CLOKE, Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Methodological Innovations and Generational Impact of the Kea, Nemea, and Pylos Surveys 

10:15-10:30: Mary K. DABNEY, Problems in Interpreting Archaeological Survey Site Function 

10:30-10:45: Cristiano PUTZOLU, Calla MCNAMEE, and Sharon R. STOCKER, From Sketches to 3D models: The Benefits of Low-cost LiDAR Sensors for Documenting Archaeological Stratigraphies 

10:45-11:05: Discussion 

11:05-11:35 Coffee break 

11:35-1:10: SESSION 13 - DISCIPLINES, METHODS, AND TECHNIQUES (2) (Chair: Clairy PALYVOU)

11:35-11:50: Myrsini GKOUMA, Panagiotis KARKANAS, and Walter GAUSS, From Combustion to Construction: Fire Use and Spatial Organization in Late Helladic Aigeira 

11:50-12:05: Laura MAGNO, From Objects to Sediments: A Micromorphology Study of Pebble Surfaces at Sissi (Crete) 

12:05-12:20: Lynne SCHEPARTZ and Sari MILLER-ANTONIO, Challenges and Rewards of Restudying Human Skeletal Collections from Archaeological Contexts in Greece 

12:20-12:35: Deborah RUSCILLO, The Anatomy of a Boar’s Tusk Helmet: Identifying the Chaîne Opératoire of a Mycenaean Warrior Status Symbol through Experimental Archaeology 

12:35-12:50: Paul HALSTEAD and Valasia ISAAKIDOU, Τα αφεντικά πρόβατα της Κυράς Μαρίας 

12:50-1:10: Discussion 

1:10-2:30: Lunch 

2:30-3:35: SESSION 14 – ARCHIVES, INSTITUTIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS (1) (Chair: Shannon LAFAYETTE HOGUE) 

2:30-2:45: Jim WRIGHT, Two Treasures from the Archives: The Works of James Ferguson at the ASCSA and His Association with Heinrich Schliemann 

2:45-3: Natalia VOGEIKOFF-BROGAN, From the Cold War to Classical Studies: John McCloy and the Ford Foundation's Funding of the Athenian Agora 

3-3:15: Jeffrey L. KRAMER, All of Blegen’s Men: The Representation of Workers at the UC Excavations at Troy and Pylos 

3:15-3:35: Discussion 

3:35-4:05: Tea break 

4:05-5:10: SESSION 15 – ARCHIVES, INSTITUTIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS (2) (Chair: Florence GAIGNEROT-DRIESSEN) 

4:05-4:20: Tom BROGAN and Eleanor J. HUFFMAN, The Study Center for East Crete: A Review of Its First Three Decades 

4:20-4:35: Jennifer SACHER, From Corinth to the Grave of the Griffin Warrior: Hesperia and the Publication of Prehistoric Greece 

4:35-4:50: Kostas PASCHALIDIS and Katerina VOUTSA, American Indian Hunters at Athens: The Fascinating Chronicle of an Unknown Exchange of Artefacts between the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum in the Interwar Period 

4:50-5:10: Discussion 

5:30-6:15: Keynote lecture 

John BENNET, The Tyranny of Text: Reflections on Interweaving Material, Textual and Visual Data in the Context of Regional Studies in the Aegean 

6:15-6:30: Closing address (organizers)