International Workshop, “From the Pleistocene to Anthropocene: Navigating The Challenges of Representing Long-Term History”

PROGRAM

09:00 – 09:15 Opening Remarks (Carter & Crewson)
09:15 – 12:15 Panel 1 – Theorizing & Representing Deep-Time (Chair: Tristan Carter)
09:15 – 09:45 – Ian Hodder: ‘’What goes around comes around’: towards a wave theory of the long-term’
09:45 – 10:15 – Shannon Crewson: ‘Meeting the challenges of representing long-term histories: A Middle Pleistocene to Anthropocene case study from Stelida, Naxos (Greece)
10:15 – 10:45 – Coffee / tea break
10:45 – 11:15 – John Bintliff: ‘Seeing with your feet: Landscape Archaeology in layered and compressed time’
11:15 – 11:45 – Rebecca Wragg Sykes: ‘Archaeological Imaginaries: Thinking Through Writing About the Past’
11:45 – 12:15 – Giorgos Vavouranakis: ‘Can Deep Time be considered an active constituent of Minoan society?’
12:15 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 17:25 Panel 2 – Engaging Deep Time (Chair: Shannon Crewson)
14:00 – 14:30 – Dimitris Gavriil: ‘What is it to be a Cypriot? A Humanocentric Interpretation of Bronze Age Cypriot Settlements in the Longue Durée’
14:30 – 15:00 – Helen Dawson: ‘Keeping time: The multi-temporal histories of small Mediterranean islands’
15:00 – 15:30 – Demetris Athanasoulis: ‘Showcasing the Cycladic past’
15:30 – 15:45 – Coffee / tea break
15:45 – 16:15 – Mina Dragouni: ‘Working with stakeholder communities in heritage research’
16:15 – 16:45 – Tristan Carter: ‘Sources of history: Lithic quarries & archaeology of the long-term, the case of Göllü Dağ (Türkiye)
16:45 – 17:15 – Todd Whitelaw: ‘To make a long story short: addressing the changing character and role of Knossos in Crete over nine millennia’
17:15 – 17:25 – Closing remarks and next steps (Carter & Crewson)