11th AEGEAUM Conference: FINAL PROGRAM

Thursday April 20

Evening event hosted by Department of Classics, UCLA

(Westwood hotel shuttle to Dickson Plaza/flagpole, or walk through campus)

7 pm Royce Hall 314 (UCLA Campus: parking in Lot #5)

Welcome and opening: J. Papadopoulos, R. Laffineur, S. Morris

Opening address: Stanley Lombardo – “Homeric Performance” Reception (Royce 306 and terrace): sponsored by Classics Department

Friday April 21

Site: The Getty Villa, Malibu

7:45 am Buses leaves Westwood for Malibu (Getty Villa)

8:30 Coffee, pastries outside auditorium at Getty Villa

9:00 Welcome (Kenneth Lapatin, Getty Museum)

I. Epos and Logos: Homer and Troy

CHAIR YANNIS HAMILAKIS (U. of Southhampton, Getty Research Institute)

9:10-9:35 Malcolm Wiener (Greenwich, Connecticut),

The Historicity of Homer

9:35-10:00 Marianna Nikolaidou (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA),

and Dimitra Kokkinidou (University of Madrid)

Epos, History, Meta-history in Aegean Bronze Age Studies

10:00 Questions

10:15 Coffee break

10:45 Maureen Basedow (Miami University, Ohio),

Troy without Homer: The Transition from the Bronze Age

to the Iron Age

11:10 Sarah P. Morris (UCLA)

The Iron Curtain: Homer, Finley and the Bronze Age

11:35 Discussion

12:00 Lunch in Founders Room for speakers, volunteers, and chairs;

luncheon available in Café or coffee cart for conference guests

1-3 pm Visit the J. Paul Getty Museum exhibitions

II. Epos and Eikon: Art and Poetry

CHAIR: Kenneth Lapatin (J. Paul Getty Museum)

3 pm John Younger (University of Kansas),

The Mycenaean Bard: The Evidence for Sound and Song

3:25 Robert Laffineur (University of Liège),

Homeric Similes: A Bronze Age Background?

3:50 Edmund F. Bloedow (University of Ottawa, Canada),

Homer and the Depas Amphikypellon

4:15 Refreshments break

4:45 L. Vance Watrous (State University of New York at Buffalo),

The Thera Frescoes: Oral Literacy and Epic Poetry

5:10 Andreas Vlachopoulos (Akrotiri excavations, Greece),

Motifs of Early Greek Poetry and the Wall Paintings of Xeste 3, Akrotiri

5:35 Marie Louise Bech Nosch (University of Copenhagen, Denmark),

Minoan, Mycenaean, and Homeric Textiles

6:00 Discussion

6:30 Reception at the Getty Villa

8:00- 8:30 Bus returns to Westwood hotels

Saturday April 22

Site: UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles Young Drive: SEQUOIA ROOM

(walk or shuttle from Westwood)

8:30 a.m. Coffee, registration

III.Wanax and Basileus: Rulership in Homer and Archaeology

CHAIR: JOHN K. PAPADOPOULOS (UCLA)

9:00 Pierre Carlier (Université de Paris X – Nanterre, France),

Are the Homeric basileis Big Men ?

9:25 Thomas G. Palaima (University of Texas at Austin),

Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono?

A Counter-Speculative and Homeric View

9:50 Bryan E. Burns (University of Southern California),

Epic Reconstructions: Homeric Palaces and Mycenaean Architecture

10:15 Discussion

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Brendan Burke (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada),

Gordion of Midas and the Homeric Age

11:25 Eric H. Cline (George Washington University)

and Assaf Yasur-Landau (Tel Aviv University, Israel),

Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative at Kabri

11:55 Discussion

12:15 pm Buffet luncheon (UCLA Faculty Center, Sierra Room)

IV. Beyond Elites: Homeric Society and Archaeology

CHAIR: SARAH P. MORRIS (UCLA)

2:00 Barbara A. Olsen (Vassar College),

The World of Penelope: Women in Palatial Society in Homer and Linear B

2:25 Kim Shelton (University of California, Berkeley),

Foot Soldiers and Cannon Fodder: The Underrepresented Majority

of the Mycenaean Civilization

2:50 Helene Whittaker (University of Tromsø, Norway),

Sacrificial Practice in Homer and in the Bronze Age

3:15 Discussion

3:30 Coffee break

4:00 Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy (University of Salzburg, Austria),

Mycenaean Elements in Homer: A View from the Post-Palatial Period

4:25 Andrea Guzzetti (Bryn Mawr College),

Homer and the Dorians: The Reasons of a Missed Encounter

4:50 Discussion

5:00 RESPONDENT: Carol THOMAS (University of Washington)

Evening free for dinner in Westwood, etc.

Sunday April 23 - HOST: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA

Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum of Cultural History

(walk or shuttle from Westwood Hotel)

8:30 a.m. Coffee, registration

V. Epos and Mythos

CHAIR: CHARLES STANISH (Director, Cotsen Institute)

9:00 Ernestine S. Elster (Cotsen Institute, UCLA),

Odysseys before Homer: Trade and Adventure in Aegean Prehistory

9:25 Cynthia S. Colburn (Pepperdine University),

The Symbolic Significance of Distance in the Homeric Epics

and the Bronze Age Aegean

9:55 Questions

10:00 Break

10:30 Olga Polychronopoulou (Athens),

Myth and Archaeology. A still Persisting Interaction

10:55 Fritz Blakolmer (University of Vienna, Austria),

Fighting Heroes on Minoan Palace Walls at Knossos ?

11:25 Massimo Perna (Istituto Universitario “Suor Orsola Benincasa” Napoli),

Homère et les tablettes “de bois replié”

11:50 Discussion

12:00 Luncheon in amphitheater of Fowler Museum; visit Museum

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology publications for sale at discount!

VI. Epos and Topos: Homeric Landscapes

CHAIR: ROBERT LAFFINEUR (University of Liège)

2 p.m. Oliver Dickinson (University of Durham),

Aspects of Homeric Geography

2:25 Philip P. Betancourt (Temple University, Philadelphia),

Homer's Description of Amnissos and the Eileithyia Cave:

Poetry and Reality

2:50 Questions

3:00 Break

3:30 Anne P. Chapin (Brevard College) and Louise A. Hitchcock

(University of Melbourne), Homer and Laconian Topography: This Is What the Book Says, and This Is What the Land Tells Us

3:55 Aleydis Van De Moortel (University of Tennessee),

The Site of Mitrou and the North Euboean Gulf in Homeric Times

4:15 Final discussion

4:30 CLOSING REMARKS

Evening: Greek Easter Celebration (for speakers, chairs, and volunteers)