In search of the neo-hittites - 31/03-01-02-03/04/2019, Monte Verità Ascona (Switzerland)
The workshop will consider the material culture and linguistic situation of “Neo-Hittite” and neighbouring states – with a dominant Luwian or Aramaean identity – with a clear focus on the exchange across different scholarly disciplines. To be questioned are ways and dynamics that determine local and chronological differences, to approach the bigger question of how and why these aspects contribute to forging an identity. What is the significance of differences / similarities for any given local identity, and can we detect a programme behind it, i.e. is there a purpose to be fulfilled, and if we can detect such a driving force, to whose benefit is it employed? Another topic to be addressed concerns the methodology used and the question of whether it can be borrowed from other fields of study or needs to be newly minted.
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LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Monte Verità Ascona (Switzerland)
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Sunday, 31st March
16.00–17.00 Arrival & Registration
17.00–17.45 Welcome Apéro
17.45–19.15 Key Note Lectures Transition. Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions 1200-1000 B.C. (Hawkins) The archaeological chronology of the Iron Age in Northern Syria and Southern Anatolia (Mazzoni) Neo-Hittite and the post-imperial period (Orthmann)
19.15–20.30 Dinner Monday,
1st April
08.00–09.00 Breakfast
09.00 Welcome
09.15–10.30 Topic 1: Continuity and discontinuity after 1200 BCE: Settlement patterns, art, scripts Chair: Tudeau Introduction: • Settlement Patterns (Osborne) • Luwian Hieroglyphs and Cuneiform (Weeden)
10.30–11.00 Coffee Break
11.00–12.30 Topic 2: Languages and scripts: development and influences Chair: Lippke Introduction: • Luwian (Yakubovich) • Aramaic / Phoenician (Lemaire)
12.30–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.30 Topic 3: Ethnogenesis and identity: markers, designations, outside perspectives Chair: Overmann Introduction: • Aramaean Ethnogenesis and Identity (Younger) • Immigrants from the Aegean and their Acculturation (Lehmann)
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break
16.00–17.30 Topic 4: Urbanism, monumental architecture and art as expressions of identity, power and legitimation Chair: Suter Introduction • Urbanism and Architecture (Hermann) • Art (Bonatz) 19.00–20.30 Dinner
Tuesday, 2nd April
08.00–09.00 Breakfast
09.00–10.30 Topic 5: Current and Future Research: Perspectives & Limitations Chair: Rutishauser Introduction • New Inscription Finds (Peker) • Current Archaeological Work (Harrison)
10.30–11.00 Coffee Break
11.00–12.30 Topic 6: Afterlife concepts, burial practices and ancestor cult Chair: Bonatz Introduction • Ancestor Cult (Lange) • Burial Practices (Sollee)
12.30–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.30 Discussion 1: Networks / Modes of communication and knowledge transfer Chairs: Pucci – Mönninghoff
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break 1
6.00–17.30 Discussion 2: Development, context and interdisciplinary methodology Chairs: Kulemann-Ossen – Harrison
19.00–20.30 Dinner
Wednesday, 3rd April
08.00–09.00 Breakfast
09.00–10.30 Discussion 3: The vertical and horizontal expansion and the limits of the “Neo-Hittite” culture with introduction paper by Aro-Valjus Chairs: Aro-Valjus – Osborne – Payne
10.30–11.00 Coffee Break
11.00–12.30 Final Discussion: Is there a “Neo-Hittite” culture and how do we define it? Concepts / Strategies Chairs: Novák– Payne
12.30–14.00 Lunch Departure