Colloquium: Medieval Urban Ecology between matter and mind
May 25, 2023 from 10:30 AM
Kiel University,Olshausenstraße 80a,Seminar room
Towns are socio-ecosystems consisting of the environment (soils, water, plants, animals etc.) and human society with its values, knowledge, beliefs, technology and social organization. This system is constantly changing. Population, resources, and microbes are coming to towns; waste is going out, buildings and infrastructure are deteriorating, and the weather is changing. Humans and the environment constantly interact. These interactions are mutual, not determined by one of the sides. Human society and environment are entangled, although the decisive factor differentiating human ecosystems from biological ecosystems is culture - a set of beliefs, traditions, cosmologies, and knowledge that shapes human behaviours. As a result, change in landscape and built environment, human social practices, and change in environment are driven by the interaction between material and mental processes. How interaction between mental and material processes is pivotal to the transformation of past urban sites/settlements/agglomerations/societies poses the most significant challenge for studies of past urban sites.
The colloquium aims to explore the relationship between matter and mental processes. It focuses on (1) the way the perception of the environment, knowledge and beliefs profoundly influenced human decision processes in facing long-term environmental changes; (2) the theoretical background of studies of past urban ecologies; (3) the health and welfare of the urban population as a result of human environment entanglement. The colloquium focuses on towns in Europe during Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
The colloquium will take place on the 25th of May from 10:30 a.m. in seminar room Olshausenstrasse 80a.
Dr Paweł Cembrzyński
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Archäologisches Kolloquium: Dr. Irina A. Arzhantseva (Moskau), The beginnings of aerial photography in the archaeology of Soviet Central Asia
May 25, 2023 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel / hybrid*
Das Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte in Kiel lädt im Rahmen des Archäologischen Kolloquiums im Sommersemester 2023 zu folgenden Vorträgen mit anschließender Diskussion ein:
Dr. Irina A. Arzhantseva, Moskau:
"The beginnings of aerial photography in the archaeology of Soviet Central Asia"
Programm: here
*Die Zugangsdaten für die Vorträge werden wir Ihnen – rechtzeitig vor den jeweiligen Veranstaltungen – auf unserer Homepage www.ufg.uni-kiel.de zur Verfügung stellen.
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Archäologisches Kolloquium: Prof. Dr. Axel Christophersen (Trondheim), Why does she act that way? An oblique look at interdisciplinary cooperation, opportunities and limitations in archaeological observation, documentation and analysis work
May 15, 2023 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel / hybrid*
Das Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte in Kiel lädt im Rahmen des Archäologischen Kolloquiums im Sommersemester 2023 zu folgenden Vorträgen mit anschließender Diskussion ein:
Prof. Dr. Axel Christophersen, Trondheim:
"Why does she act that way? An oblique look at interdisciplinary cooperation, opportunities and limitations in archaeological observation, documentation and analysis work."
The citation is taken from a book of Astrid Lindgren, where a subterranean being wonders why two human legs are sticking out of the ceiling of her earth cave. In interdisciplinary projects, one can be confronted with such questions: What is this? Why is it done this way, etc.? Urban archeology in the Nordic countries has always
been much about experimenting and working with natural sciences methods, old and new once. In the wake of such collaborative relationships, notorious challenges
have arisen about how different scientific practice traditions are explained (or not) and assumed (or not) by the collaborative partners. Often this theme is reduced
to a question of weak communication and a lack of insight into cross-disciplinary routinized practice patterns. But there are more than misunderstanding and
superficial communication generating this challenge. It is worth thinking of the fact that in the last instance interdisciplinary cooperation is not about what one intends to do, but what one do. So, what do we do?
Poster: here
Programm: here
*Die Zugangsdaten für die Vorträge werden wir Ihnen – rechtzeitig vor den jeweiligen Veranstaltungen – auf unserer Homepage www.ufg.uni-kiel.de zur Verfügung stellen.
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Archäologisches Kolloquium: Dr. Judith Thomalsky (Berlin), Proximity and discontinuity in the Neolithisation process in Iran
Apr 24, 2023 from 06:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel / hybrid*
Das Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte in Kiel lädt im Rahmen des Archäologischen Kolloquiums im Sommersemester 2023 zu folgenden Vorträgen mit anschließender Diskussion ein:
Dr. Judith Thomalsky, Berlin
"Proximity and discontinuity in the Neolithisation process in Iran"
The recent decade of archaeological research in the highlands of Iran provided important and very detailed information about the development towards sedentism and farming societies. Braidwood’s basic outline of a core area of neolithization along the »Zagros flanks« appears clearly supported though we can demonstrate a certain diversity in regard of time and reflection of specific steps towards the Neolithic way of life between 9500 – 7500 cal BC. In addition, important investigations came from a
re-evaluation program that is currently realized in the North Iran. Here, the »seven caves« in the Behshahr rocky limestone ranges, can be regarded as another »core area« where neolithization took place. Briefly examined by Carlton S. Coon in the early 1950ies, a team of the Tehran University undertakes archaeological soundings in Hotu Cave, Kamarband Cave, and they also continued substantial excavations in the vicinity of Komishani Cave. Occupation deposits at these sites start with the so-called Caspian Mesolithic and continue into the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, respectively from 15.000 – 8500/8000 cal BC, and the Pottery Neolithic (7000 – 5500 cal BC). All three sites exhibit
prominent »breaks« in the sequence in form of colluvial deposits followed by occupational gaps. The events of interruption coincide with remarkable periods of transition: 1) at the dawn of the Neolithic era, and 2) shortly before the first pottery appears in the region. The subsequent cultural development, in regard on the pottery production, then continued until the earlier Chalcolithic period (5th mill. cal BC), after which most of the sites were abandoned until a re-occupation during the Iron Age. In a rather hypothetical perspective, due to not yet well-defined data sets, we will discuss whether and how we can link these indices to possible climatic events and environmental impacts on the cultural developments but also, we try to reach out beyond the »Braidwood Zagros fringes«, towards adjacent North-eastern neighbours of the »Behshahr Neolithic«.
Dr. Judith Thomalsky Vortragsposter: here
Programm: here
*Die Zugangsdaten für die Vorträge werden wir Ihnen – rechtzeitig vor den jeweiligen
Veranstaltungen – auf unserer Homepage www.ufg.uni-kiel.de zur Verfügung stellen.
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International Conference on Archaeological Prospection (ICAP)
Mar 28, 2023
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Apr 01, 2023
Kiel University
International Conference on Archaeological Prospection (ICAP).
For more information, please visit the official website of the conference.
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Conference: Urban Knowledge Transfer in Serial Sources. Administration, Routines and Society in Europe's Late Medieval Towns
Mar 30, 2023
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Apr 01, 2023
Internationales Begenungszentrum Kiel (IBZ)
"Innerstädtischer Wissenstransfer in seriellen Quellen. Verwaltung, Alltag und Gesellschaft in den spätmittelalterlichen Kommunen Europas"
The Late Middle Ages have received numerous apt characterisations – amongst others ‘age of the explosion of scripturality’. Since the 12th century, urban Western and Central Europe had emerged as a place of a highly productive scripturality.The availability of new writing materials as well as a change in the perception of the benefits of scripturality played an important role which enabled the aspiring cities and towns of Western Europe to face the challenges of self-organisation and administration. Scripturality, as a medium detached from persons and individual memory to store information and to cope with everyday challenges, has been considered a productive field of medieval studies.
The international conference on ‘Knowledge Transfer in Serial Sources. Administration, Experience / Everyday Life and Society in Europe’s Late Medieval Towns’ to be held in Kiel aims at reflecting the results of the statistical analyses of the last decades, comparing methods and perspectives from different European regions as well as discussing future developments.The three main topics of interest concern the formation of entries in serial sources, possible processes of knowledge transfer and change, as well as potential law (s) of seriality.
Registration:
Participation free of charge.
!!! Registrations until March 25, 2023 to Mrs. Göldner: wiso-sekretariat@histosem.uni-kiel.de !!!
Contact:
Max Grund: mgrund@histosem.uni-kiel.de
Marie Jäcker: mjaecker@histosem.uni-kiel.de
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Kiel Conference
Mar 13, 2023
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Mar 18, 2023
Kiel University Campus
Kiel Conference "Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies"
For more information, please visit the official website of the Kiel Conference: Kiel Conference Website
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Amber – a Connector of Knowledge and Societies
Feb 23, 2023
09:00 AM
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Feb 25, 2023
02:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, R. 105
Amber in prehistory is still a big and important topic. Therefore, we would like to invite you to a joint workshop on amber as a "link between knowledge and societies" in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS in Kiel.
The aim of the workshop is to gain an overview of the European amber trade from the Late Neolithic to the Iron Age, less with regard to possible exchange routes than to the social aspect of the people who had access to amber. The main topic will be the social context of amber.
Symposia on amber have a long tradition since the analysis of Baltic amber by C.W. Beck. Much has been discussed about origin, exchange and possible course of exchange routes. We know in which regions amber appears in the archaeological find context and about its frequency in the individual regions. But what was its importance for the societies of that time and which group of people really had access to this strange stone from the north. Is amber just as important in the north at its source as it was in far away Mycenae? Who wore the large amber necklaces, who wore only pendants, who had access to raw amber? Who worked it? Were its flammable and electrostatic properties known? These are all questions we want to explore together in this workshop in order to gain as comprehensive a Europe-wide understanding as possible of the importance of amber in different societies.
Individual presentations will provide an overview of the social environments in which amber occurs. Does it occur primarily in dumps, in graves, or in settlements? Is it socialized with women and children or different age groups, or is it only encountered in rich graves or special burials? What does this say about the appreciation of amber in each society? Is it possible to find uniform patterns across Europe and do they differ depending on how close they are to the resource amber (succinite/simetite/ruminite)? Do we know which groups of people were involved in the amber trade or its processing and which group of people or region benefited from it?
We will try to answer the following questions in our workshop.
- - What was the social status of the bearers of the amber?
- - Can age, gender or wealth differences be determined?
- - Is it possible to identify traders or the buyers?
- - Is there a change in the knowledge about amber (origin, use, function)?
- - What new methods for determining origin do we know?
The workshop is scheduled for 3 days, February 23-25, 2023. An excursion to one of the amber-rich coasts on the North Sea with a museum visit is planned.
This Workshop is organised by the subcluster Knowledge in the context of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS of Kiel University.
Contact and Organisation:
Benjamin Serbe bserbe@roots.uni-kiel.de und Dr. Jutta Kneisel jutta.kneisel@ufg.uni-kiel.de
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You can also join the workshop online: Zoom link
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Archaeological Colloquium: Botanik in flagranti – Das pflanzliche Inventar eines durch Brand zerstörten, spätantik-frühbyzantinischen Stadtquartiers in Ephesos (PD Dr. Andreas Heiss, Wien)
Feb 06, 2023 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel
PD Dr. Andreas G. Heiss (Wien) spricht zum Thema:
Botanik in flagranti – Das pflanzliche Inventar eines durch Brand zerstörten, spätantik-frühbyzantinischen Stadtquartiers in Ephesos
In den Jahren 2011 bis 2018 wurden im Zentrum des spätantiken Ephesos etwa 2.000 m² eines ehemaligen Stadtviertel ergraben. Das einem heutigen Wohnblock (bzw. einer römischen insula) ähnelnde Areal ist aus mehreren unabhängigen Einheiten aufgebaut und umfasst u.a. einen repräsentativen Wohnbau, einige dem Handel dienende Räumlichkeiten, Werkstätten, sowie Betriebe wohl großmaßstäbiger Lebensmittelverarbeitung (etwa von Trauben, Getreide und Oliven). Mitte des 7. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. wurde das Viertel ein Raub der Flammen. Danach folgte zwar eine Weiternutzung des Areals bis ins 12. Jahrhundert, ein Großteil des Brandschutts blieb jedoch als »Schnappschuss« des Brandereignisses vor Ort und dient heute als wertvolle Wissensressource zur Erforschung der Lebensweise in Ephesos. Die 2014 begonnenen archäobotanischen Analysen stützen sich auf die hochauflösende Beprobung des Areals. Sie konnten im Herbst 2022 nach teils COVIDbedingten Unterbrechungen wiederaufgenommen werden und haben inzwischen Tausende identifizierte Pflanzenreste geliefert. Im Vortrag werden Highlights des aktuellen Forschungsstandes und deren Interpretation unter den Gesichtspunkten Holzkonstruktion, Möblierung, Landwirtschaft und Ernährung präsentiert.
Veranstaltungsort:
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel
Es gelten die zum Zeitpunkt des Vortrags aktuellen Regelungen lt. Hochschulen-Coronaverordnung.
Zugangsdaten Zoom-Meeting:
https://uni-kiel.zoom.us/j/63825209126?pwd=OWthc3BTNE5TMmFieGYrTFRPZlRjUT09
Meeting-ID: 638 2520 9126
Kenncode: 693713
Downloud Poster: here
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Archaeological Colloquium: Bernsteincolliers und Schmuckscheiben – Neue Hortfunde und Überlegungen zur sozialen Struktur der mitteldeutschen Aunjetitzer Kultur (Prof. Dr. Harald Meller, Halle)
Jan 23, 2023 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel
Prof. Dr. Harald Meller (Halle) spricht zum Thema:
Bernsteincolliers und Schmuckscheiben – Neue Hortfunde und Überlegungen zur sozialen Struktur der mitteldeutschen Aunjetitzer Kultur
In den letzten Jahren wurden in Domsen, Burgenlandkreis, und Teicha, Saalekreis,
zwei Hortfunde mit Schmuck- und Ausstattungselementen geborgen, die wohl
Frauen zuzuschreiben sind. Durch die sorgfältige Bergung und minutiöse Ausgrabung
im Labor konnten unter anderem bedeutende Erkenntnisse zur Zusammengehörigkeit
von Nadeln, Spiralröllchen und Bernsteinperlen gewonnen werden,
die aufwendige, mit Nadeln befestigte Colliers bildeten. Damit wird zunehmend
klar, dass es auch in der mitteldeutschen Aunjetitzer Kultur sozial hochstehende
Frauen gab, die im archäologischen Befund lange wenig präsent waren.
Ein weiterer neuer Hortfund aus Teicha enthält Würdezeichen und Waffen, die
hochrangigen Männern gehört haben, aber nicht als Beigaben in Gräber gelangten.
Dies zeigt einmal mehr die strikte Kontrolle über die Bewaffnung und letztlich
die Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft, die von den herrschenden Fürsten ausgeübt wurde.
Veranstaltungsort:
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel
Es gelten die zum Zeitpunkt des Vortrags aktuellen Regelungen lt. Hochschulen-Coronaverordnung.
Zugangsdaten Zoom-Meeting:
https://uni-kiel.zoom.us/j/65107546939?pwd=dVg4UzRwOEoxL1NXNHJvcVhnaFFTUT09
Meeting-ID: 651 0754 6939
Kenncode: 286915
Poster: here
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Über Parrhesia - ein Workshop mit Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Jan 20, 2023 from 05:15 PM
Leibnizstr. 1, R 204
‘Wo es Gehorsam gibt, kann es keine parrhesia geben’, sagt Michel Foucault - in seiner Vorstellung setzen sich Parrhesie und Demokratie gegenseitig voraus und sind in der antiken Mittelmeerwelt verwurzelt. Der Althistoriker und Leibnizpreisträger, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin, teilt mit uns seine Forschungserkenntnisse aus seinem neuen Buch Paradoxe der Parrhesie - Eine antike Wortgeschichte und erzählt, wie die Praxis der intellektuellen Verflechtung verschiedener Akteursgruppen den Grundstein für die freie Meinungsäußerung legte.
Organisation: Subcluster Knowledge ROOTS,
Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwab, Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde
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Dr. Wong Tsz
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Archaeological Colloquium: Nomaden zwischen Wüste und Hochgebirge: ethnoarchäologische Forschungen zu den Ait Atta in Marokko (Dr. Thomas Reitmaier, Zürich)
Jan 09, 2023 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel
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Workshop: Online discussion on archaeological cultures in present-day Belarus
Dec 13, 2022 from 06:00 PM
Virtual via ZOOM
What are the hypotheses about the origin and distribution of archaeological cultures on the territory of present-day Belarus in the first millennium AD? This question will be the subject of an online discussion moderated by ROOTS member Dr Jens Schneeweiß on 13 December. The event entitled "Slavs, Balts and Germans on the territory of Belarus in the 1st millennium: an archaeological panorama" is part of the Science At Risk Lecture Series of the Science at Risk Emergency Office and is organised in cooperation with the Centre for Baltic and Slavic Archaeology Schleswig, with the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at Kiel University and the Chair of Archaeology at Warsaw University.
Three Belarusian historians from the Chair of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw, who were forced to stop their scientific activities in Belarus due to political repression, will give presentations. Topics of the presentations:
Dr. Vadzim Beliavets
Hypothesis of the "Paliessie white spot" today: the state of the study of the problem of the genesis of the Prague culture in Belarusian archeology
Vital Sidarovich
Hoards of the Early Migration Period from the territory of Belarus as evidence of migrations of East German peoples
Dr. Mikalai Plavinski
Burial sites of the Krivichi people of Northern Belarus in the 8th - early 11th centuries
The working language will be English and Belarusian (with consistent translation into English).
Interested people can visit the event through the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/94477765034?pwd=MWxxeFE1YlZySnJrZEh2WlE0M0NJUT09
Meeting ID: 944 7776 5034
ID code: 273487
Background information:
The Science At Risk Emergency Office and the Science at Risk Lecture Series
The Science at Risk Emergency Office - founded by Akademisches Netzwerk Osteuropa e. V. in August 2020 and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office - supports students and academics threatened and demonstrably endangered by the war in Ukraine by bundling and providing offers of assistance and support. Specifically, it places those affected from the target countries in study and doctoral positions as well as teaching and research assignments at German universities and research institutions and in a mentoring programme initiated by the Science At Risk Office.
In addition, it organises a virtual lecture series, the Science at Risk Lecture Series, with the participation of scientists at risk from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. This enables colleagues to present and continue their academic work in a secure online environment. The aim is to bring together scientific voices from different scientific systems, which can lead to fruitful collaborations in the future.
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Archaeological Colloquium: Pannonier am Wetteraulimes? – Das Tumulusgrab eines römischen Militäroffiziers am Limeskastell Arnsburg (Dr. Julia Koch, Gießen)
Dec 12, 2022 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel
Dr. Julia Koch, Gießen spricht zum Thema:
Pannonier am Wetteraulimes?
Das Tumulusgrab eines römischen Militäroffiziers am Limeskastell Arnsburg
Nach den Untersuchungen der Reichs-Limeskommission vor über einem Jahrhundert
fanden am Obergermanischen Limes im Gräberfeld des Limeskastells Arnsburg
„Alteburg“ (Lkr. Gießen) von 2020 bis 2022 erstmals erneut Ausgrabungen statt.
Im Zuge dieser Ausgrabungen, die in Kooperation der JLU Gießen mit dem
Hessischen Landesamt für Denkmalpflege durchgeführt wurden, gelang die
Entdeckung einer exzeptionellen Bustumbestattung, deren Grabbeigaben in der
südlichen Wetterau eindrücklich die antike Bade- und Jagdkultur am Ufer von
Welsbach und Wetter bezeugen.
Anhand der Grabbeigaben und Grabarchitektur wird im Rahmen des Vortrags
das Bestattungsritual für einen hochrangigen Offizier der cohors I Aquitanorum
rekonstruiert, das uns die Multikulturalität, Migration und Mobilität von
Gemeinschaften sowie deren Strategien zur Ausbildung von Resilienz in imperialen
Grenzgebieten exemplarisch nachvollziehen lässt.
PDF: here
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Urban Water Conference
Dec 07, 2022
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Dec 09, 2022
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Urban Water Conference.
Water is a resource, element of natural environment, but also part of urban culture and social life. The colloquium "Urban Water II", organized by the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Subcluster "Urban ROOTS", in Kiel from 7 to 9 December 2022, deals with the question how urban actors perceived and interacted with their dynamic social, environmental, and cultural settings related to water in pre-modern times. Experts from eight countries will present current research on bathing, narratives around water, water and social topography, and water (healing) cults. At the same time, the topics of the colloquium reflect the orientation of various working groups in the ROOTS subcluster "Urban ROOTS", whose results will be exchanged and deepened with the international experts during the colloquium. From history and archaeology to literary studies and philosophy, a wide variety of disciplines are represented, allowing for a comprehensive view of the aforementioned topics.
Flyer: here
For more information please contact Annette Haug Email or Paweł Cembrzyński Email
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Workshop on Environmental conditions in prehistory (c. 10,000 BP - present) - ecology, carrying capacity, and the landscape: integrating regional models and developing global databases
Dec 09, 2022 from 09:00 AM to 06:00 PM
Seminarraum 105 a+b, Leibnizstraße 1, 24118 Kiel
Workshop on "Environmental conditions in prehistory (c. 10,000 BP - present) - ecology, carrying capacity, and the landscape: integrating regional models and developing global databases".
Organizers: Oliver Nakoinz, Søren Wichmann, Laurenz Hillmann
Short description:
The modeling of past environments and demography is of importance to the understanding of past societies in archaeology and social science. In order to develop simulation models some basic environmental parameters are often needed. Moreover, spatial distributional analyses of archaeological may extract explanatory variables from environmental datasets. However, heterogenic data availability, different approaches, and the increasingly growing magnitude of data make comparative work difficult. Pertinent questions range from what data is most suitable for different time frames, what methods can be used in local and global research areas, and what are the minimally necessary environmental components of simulation models for prehistory. These are some of the questions that we would like to address during this one-day workshop. Its purpose is to generate ideas, to develop a good understanding of what comparative data is available globally for the study of prehistory and how it may be integrated, as well as to stimulate future collaboration.
Preliminary programme:
9:30-10:00 Laurenz Hillmann, Oliver Nakoinz, Søren Wichmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel): Introduction
10:00-10:30 Kees Klein Goldewijk (Utrecht University): "12,000 years of global land change: The History of the Global Environment Database (HYDE)"
10:30-11:00 Martin Hinz (Universität Bern): "Collection and processing of data for global demographic estimates for prehistory"
11:00-11:30 Margaux Depaertmentier (University of Basel), Gerrit Günther (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel), Michael Kempf (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel): "Long Day’s Journey into Night: The ‘Divergence Problem’ of Global Explanatory Models in Archaeology"
11:30-12.00 Ezra Zubrow (University at Buffalo): TBA
Lunch
13:30-14:00 Alessio Palmisano (University of Turin): "Comparing Regional Demographic and Climatic Trends: a Case Study from Prehistoric Italy"
14:00-14:30 Carsten Lemmen (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon): TBA
14:30-15:00 Václav Fanta (Czech University of Life Sciences): "Human carrying capacity in the times of the Thirty Years’ War and statistical approach in historical geography"
Coffee/tea break
15:30-16:00 Julian Laabs (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel): "From Pergamon to … where ever? A reproducible approach to assess the agricultural carrying capacity of a landscape"
16:00-16:30 Joaquim Fort (Universitat de Girona): "The spread of the Neolithic. General laws in prehistory?"
16:30-17:00 Søren Wichmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel): "Simulating language dynamics in time and space—past experiences and future desiderata"
17:00-17:30 Oliver Nakoinz (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel): "Populations in a social landscape -- how environment and society interact"
17:30-18:00 Closing remarks / discussion
19:00 Dinner
Please find the abstracts of contributions here
If you are interested in attending the workshop please send an email to Laurenz Hillmann (Email)
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International Workshop: "Medieval accounting books and digital humanities"
Dec 02, 2022
03:00 PM
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Dec 03, 2022
02:00 PM
Room 227, Leibnizstr. 8, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel
International Workshop: "Medieval accounting books and digital humanities".
Abstract:
Aktuell ist die Forschung zu mittelalterlichen Rechnungsbüchern und den digital humanities sehr produktiv. Rechnungsbücher, die einst mit dem Ziel der Wissenssicherung und Wissensspeicherung angelegt wurden, werden durch das Methodenspektrum digitaler Quellenbearbeitung vermehrt analysiert. Neue Programme, effiziente Modelle und eine rapide wachsende Zahl digitalisierter Vorlagen führt zu einer großen Zahl an Studien. Dennoch entwickeln sich zu den Ergebnissen auch stets neue Fragen über digitale Anwendungen, Umgang und nicht zuletzt der Frage der Repositorien. Ziel des Workshops wird das Zusammenbringen der aktuell Forschenden zu Rechnungsbüchern und dem Austausch über die Schwierigkeiten einer KI-gestützten Auswertung sein.
Research on medieval account books and the digital humanities is currently very productive. Account books, which were once created with the aim of preserving and storing knowledge, are increasingly being analyzed through the methodological spectrum of digital source processing. New programs, efficient models and a rapidly growing number of digitized originals are leading to a large number of studies. Nevertheless, new questions about digital applications, handling and, last but not least, the question of repositories are constantly developing in addition to the results. The aim of the workshop will be to bring together current researchers on account books and to exchange views on the difficulties of an AI-supported evaluation.
Organisation: Gerald Schwedler und Hiram Kümper
gschwedler@histosem.uni-kiel.de; hiram.kuemper@uni-mannheim.de
Program:
2. Dezember 2022
15.00 -17.00
Begrüßung durch Vertreter des Exzellenz Clusters: Knowledge Roots
Wissen anlegen: Die Diversität von Rechnungsmaterial )
4 x 20 Min. = 80 Min. + 50 Min. Diskussion || 2,0 Std.
Monika Gussone, Mannheim: Rechnungen städtischer, kirchlicher und karitativer Provenienz – Möglichkeiten (und Schwierigkeiten) der Auswertung und Darstellung
Max Grund, Kiel: Vermischte Stadtbücher zwischen zeitgenössischer Reduktion und Prozesswissen
Marie Jäcker, Kiel: Omnibus receptis et expensis factis in fabrica – Einblicke in das Potential englischer Kathedralbaurechnungen für die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
Jessica Bruns, Kiel: Klar und oprecht reckenong dohen. Wissensorganisation in den mittelalterlichen Rechnungsbüchern von Soest
Sebastian Pößnicker, Regensburg: Viele Seiten: Die seriellen Rechnungsbuchüberlieferungen in der Reichsstadt Regensburg ab 1354 als Quelle für den materiellen Lebensstandard. Technischer und methodischer Zugriff
Kaffeepause
17.30-20.00Uhr
Wissen kontextualisieren und anreichern:
Wissen und Komplementärdaten
5 x 20 Min. = 100 Min. + 50 Min. Diskussion || 2,5 Std
Max-Quentin Bischoff, Antwerpen: Spekulieren zwischen Pest und Kriegen: Konkrete Beobachtungen und generelle Einschätzungen zu Preisbewegungen in den Tucher-Briefen (ca. 1520–1560)
Oliver Volckart, London (digital): Vormoderne Getreidepreisreihen: Aufbereitung, Publikation und Nutzung
Herbert Krammer, Wien: Grundbücher der Stadt Klosterneuburg aus dem 15. Jahrhundert. Paläographie, Topographie und GIS. Ein Werkstattbericht
Harm von Seggern, Kiel: Kaufen, Liefern, Abrechnen. Zur Einbettung adliger Höfe in die kaufmännischen Netzwerke im 15./16. Jahrhundert im Spiegel ausgewählter Rechnungen.
Gemeinsames Abendessen
3. Dezember 2022
9.00 -9.15
Gerald Schwedler, Kiel: Zusammenfassende Beobachtungen
Wissen modellieren und darstellen
Christian Speer, Halle: Stadtbuchforschung als Service und Herausforderung: Die Datenbank des Index Librorum Civitatum
Jörg Rogge, Mainz: Rechnungslegung und "Rekning". Beobachtungen zur Sprache der Finanzverwaltung in Aberdeen und Augsburg im späten Mittelalter
Gemeinsame Diskussion
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For more information please contact Gerald Schwedler here.
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Archaeological Colloquium: Bringt dat Watt? Interdisziplinäre Forschungen im Nordfriesischen Wattenmeer (Dr. Ruth Blankenfeldt, Schleswig)
Nov 28, 2022 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28), 24118 Kiel
Das Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Kiel, lädt im Rahmen des Archäologischen Kolloquiums im Wintersemester 2022/23 zu folgendem Vortrag mit anschließender Diskussion ein:
Dr. Ruth Blankenfeldt, Schleswig,
spricht zum Thema:
Bringt dat Watt?
Interdisziplinäre Forschungen im Nordfriesischen Wattenmeer
Das nordfriesische Wattenmeer, heute als Nationalpark und UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe geschützt, unterliegt durch Umwelteinflüsse seit Jahrtausenden einem ständigen Wandel. Zudem griff der Mensch spätestens ab dem Mittelalter intensiv in die Gestaltung der Landschaft mit ein. Nach verheerenden Fluten konnten zwar manche Areale wieder zurückgewonnen werden. Viele Warften und landwirtschaftliche Nutzflächen versanken dagegen für immer im Meer, sind aber in ihren Resten unter der heutigen Oberfläche des Wattenmeeres erhalten.
Ein aktuelles, DFG-teilfinanziertes Forschungsprojekt kombiniert nun erstmals geophysikalische, geoarchäologisch und archäologische Methoden zur Untersuchung ausgewählter Bereiche im nordfriesischen Wattenmeer. Ziel ist die systematische Erfassung und Dokumentation der hier untergegangenen Kulturlandschaft.
Veranstaltungsort:
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal,
Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss,R. 28),
24118 Kiel
Es gelten die zum Zeitpunkt des Vortrags aktuellen Regelungen lt. Hochschulen-Coronaverordnung.
Frau Dr. Blankenfeldt wird vor Ort sein. Eine Online-Teilnahme ist möglich.
Zugangsdaten Zoom-Meeting:
Zoom-Link
Meeting-ID: 646 8802 2932
Kenncode: 281269
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FGMSA VI- Material analysis workshop
Nov 07, 2022 from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Kiel University/Technical Faculty/Kaiserstraße 2/ Room A-239/24143 Kiel
Khurram Saleem
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Excellence Workshop "Cultural and Biological Evolution"
Nov 04, 2022 from 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Seminarraum 105 a+b, Leibnizstraße 1, 24118 Kiel
Workshop on Biological and Cultural evolution organized by ROOTS and PMI.
Please find the program of the workshop here.
René Ohlrau
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Archaeological Colloquium: Can we dismiss a case of early agriculture in Northeast India? Insights from on-going research in the Mimi caves, Nagaland (Prof. Dr. Tiatoshi Jamir, Nagaland University Kohima)
Oct 24, 2022 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2–6 (Eingang 4, Erdgeschoss, R. 28)
Prof. Dr. Tiatoshi Jamir, Nagaland University Kohima
Spricht zum Thema:
Can we dismiss a case of early agriculture in Northeast India? Insights from on-going research in the Mimi caves, Nagaland
Amidst claims for early dates of early human migration to Northeast India, there is lack of well-excavated sites with reliable dating evidence. Our understanding of early human presence in the region and the emergence of cultural complexities is, therefore, a subject that still warrants more empirical data augmented by prolonged field investigations. While there are considerable efforts over decades to improve the datasets of Northeast India’s prehistory, research continue to be directed towards the region’s cultural history relying on limited excavations. Aside early Palaeolithic, we are encountered with yet another challenging issue – the beginning of agriculture and the emergence of complex societies that today form the ethnic profiles of Northeast indigenous communities. It is still poorly understood whether agriculture, particularly rice and millet were introduced as a result of incursive waves of farming communities from further east or an autochthonous process with cultural continuity beginning from a hunting-gathering subsistence pattern to agriculture and animal domestication. Therefore, our on-going research in the caves and rockshelter sites of the Mimi region around the Naga Metamorphics and the adjoining Naga Hills Ophiolite Belt bordering Myanmar seek to address a pertinent and long-standing concern – do we observe a regional transition from predominantly hunting- gathering and foraging to agriculture with localised neolithisation process from the region’s archaeological dataset?
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Anthropogenic Dark Earth Colloquium (ADEC)
Oct 04, 2022
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Oct 08, 2022
The term ‘Anthropogenic Dark Earth’ (ADE) is not well defined, although since the 1980s, thick and homogeneous dark soil layers with little sign of stratification were described as ADE. They are rich in organic material and charcoal, which gives them a characteristic dark colour. Such soils appear in ancient rural and urban settlements, in many chronological and geographical contexts.
Despite similar character, ADEs were formed by diverse social practices and environmental processes. Since the first description, development of research, especially in geoarchaeological analysis, has pointed out a great variety of possible origins of ADE. Today it is well known that the ADE phenomenon is widespread far beyond Northwestern Europe. They are an archive of information concerning environmental and social change, subsistence and resilience strategies. While a growing number of case studies examining the ADE phenomenon appeared, there is still a lack of coherent research methodology hindering the possibility of comparative studies on the global scale.
Independent from cultural and environmental conditions, all types of ADE apparently developed by intensive utilization of settlement space as a result of deposition of waste, charred residues, and biomass ashes. A comparative study of ADE in different environmental and chronological settings can be an important step forward towards a general understanding of the ADE phenomenon, which may generate contributions to today’s issues like increasing urbanization, climatic crisis and circular economy. In this regard, the interdisciplinary workshop Anthropogenic Dark Earth Colloquium (ADEC) wants to make a first step towards a comprehensive understanding of the Dark Earth phenomenon from a comparative global perspective. Leading specialists in this field will come together and discuss the development of a coherent interdisciplinary research methodology for both, approaches to sample analysis and interpretations in social and environmental contexts. The ADEC will take place in Kiel from 4th to 8th October, including excursions to Hedeby and Lübeck, two UNESCO World Heritage sites connected to the Dark Earth Phenomenon in Schleswig-Holstein. The event is partly hold in a hybrid format.
Programm: hier
Poster: hier
Organizing team
- Jens Schneeweiß
- Eileen Eckmeier
- Paweł Cembrzyński
Coordination and contact:
Caterina Schneider, Email
Caterina Schneider
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ROOTS Project workshop „The Forest Finns as a Model for the Early Slavic Migration“ in Svabensverk, Dalarna, Sweden.
Sep 19, 2022
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Sep 23, 2022
Ethnohistorical-geoarchaeological studies on the subrecent Forest Finns in Sweden and Norway serve as a model for method development of analytical approaches on the archaeological visibility of mobile groups, their subsistence and materiality, as well as on their socio-cultural dynamics and crisis management in the context of climatic changes. The early Slavic migration in the southern Baltic region in the middle of the 1st millennium AD provides an example to verify this model approach. At an international project workshop with experts from various disciplines in the natural sciences and humanities, the work done so far in the project will be discussed and evaluated, and the next steps will be discussed. The workshop will take place in the traditional environment of the Forest Finns in the Swedish province of Dalarna.
Organization:
- Jens Schneeweiß
- Eileen Eckmeier
- Wiebke Kirleis
- Henny Piezonka
- Vesa Arponen
Jens Schneeweiß
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Internationales Kolloquium zur Gräzistik und Wissensforschung der Antike und ihrer Rezeption
Jul 01, 2022
09:15 AM
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Jul 02, 2022
12:00 PM
IBZ, Kiellinie 5 (Eingang nur von der Kiellinie)
Für weitere Informationen und zur Anmeldung (bis zum 26. Juni) kontaktieren Sie bitte Dr. Wong-Tsz:
wong-tsz@email.uni-kiel.de
Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwab
Professur für Klassische Philologie, Gräzistik, DFG Heisenberg-Professur und Subcluster Knowledge ROOTS
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Internationale Tagung: Stadterweiterungen
Jun 09, 2022
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Jun 11, 2022
Internationales Begegnungszentrum (IBZ), Kiellinie 5, 24105 Kiel
Die Vielzahl und Dimensionierungen der Stadterweiterungen im späteren Mittelalter lassen Aufbruchstimmung und Zukunftsoptimismus erkennen. Trotz geringer Ressourcen wurden Vergrößerungen und Erweiterungen großflächig und auf erheblichen Zuwachs angelegt. Bis auf wenige Ausnahmen wurden nahezu alle hochmittelalterlichen Stadtringe erweitert. Der materielle „Fußabdruck“ dieser komplexen Vorgänge sind neue Mauern, Straßen und Gebäude, mitunter sogar Gebäudetypen. Politisch und rechtlich erforderten Stadterweiterungen vor allem die Integration des „Neuen“ und die jeweilige Aushandlung von Rechtspositionen. Altstädte, Altstadterweiterungen oder auch „Neustädte“ mussten politisch, sozial und ökonomisch funktional interagieren können. Ziel der Tagung ist es, Perspektiven auf Topographie, Architektur, Verfassung, Wirtschaft und Alltagskultur auf die Stadterweiterungen interdisziplinär zusammenzuführen, sowie in größere Konjunkturen und Aufschwungsphasen einzuordnen.
Anmeldung:
Teilnahme kostenlos. Anmeldungen bis zum 25.05.2022 an Frau Göldner wiso-sekretariat@histosem.uni-kiel.de
Anreise:
Internationales Begegnungszentrum (IBZ)
Kiellinie 5, 24105 Kiel
Anfahrt mit dem Bus zum IBZ, Kiellinie 5:
Vom Hauptbahnhof ab B3; Linie 41/42 bis „Kunsthalle“
und Fußweg etwa 300 Meter bis zum IBZ folgen.
Organisation: Ulrich Müller, Gerald Schwedler
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Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Urban Design
Mar 21, 2022
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Mar 23, 2022
Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel (Siemens-Saal)
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Annette Haug und Dr. des. Adrian Hielscher.
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Kiel Conference 2023 – Scales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies
Conference: Inequalities in Supra-Regional Eurasian Exchange Networks (8000 – 2000 BP)
Dec 02, 2021
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Dec 04, 2021
Hybrid: Audimax CAP2 – Hörsaal C at Kiel University and on ZOOM
Exchange networks structure and development are essential for explaining social and economic inequalities. The conference aims to detect those inequalities within the distribution of sourced raw materials over time and space. It centres on large-scale exchange networks from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
For access to the zoom conference please contact: Linda Seifert stu227208@mail.uni-kiel.de
For all other questions: Johanna Hilpert jhilpert@roots.uni-kiel.de or Tim Kerig tkerig@roots.uni-kiel.de
The event will be held in a hybrid form at Audimax CAP2 – Hörsaal C at Kiel University and virtually on ZOOM* (Due to the pandemic, access to the conference venue is currently restricted to the speakers. External audiences are welcome to attend the meeting via ZOOM and to participate in the discussion.)
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Colloquium: "Boas Talks"
Nov 18, 2021
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Nov 21, 2021
For the speakers: Room 209 and Klaus-Murmann-Lecture Hall, Leibnizstraße 1, Kiel University, Germany.
For the audience: All the sessions will be opened for the public to join virtually via zoom (see zoom-link below the programme), only the keynote lecture will be held with personal attendance of the audience on the basis of the 3G rule.
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Scientific colloquium commemorating the 140th anniversary of Franz Boas‘ doctorate at Kiel University
140 years after Franz Boas‘ doctorate, we renew Kiel‘s early connection to this outstanding scholar with a scientific colloquium. Drawing on his later seminal works, we will discuss developing trends, recent advancements, and enrich points of contact between the archaeological and anthropological frameworks. In keeping with Boas‘ advocacy of close collaboration between archaeology, cultural, and social anthropology, the colloquium will bridge viewpoints from fields such as prehistory and early history, historical and contemporary archaeology, ethnography, social and cultural anthropology, and philosophical reflection.
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Programme
18 NOVEMBER 2021
15:00 “Boas Walks – Tracking Franz Boas through Kiel” (student initiative) / meeting point is bus stop "Hospitalstraße" at 15:00 h
19 NOVEMBER 2021
9:00 Introduction
Boas and Germany
Session Chair: Jens Schneeweiß (Kiel, Germany)
9:30 Susan Pollock (Berlin, Germany) and Reinhard Bernbeck (Berlin, Germany)
Franz Boas: Between Anti-Racism and Reification
10:00 Hans Peter Hahn (Frankfurt, Germany)
The Mixed Fate of Franz Boas’ Cultural Relativism. Notes on the Itinerary of a German-American Concept
10:30 Coffee Break
At the Crossroads of Anthropology and Archaeology
Session Chair: Maria Wunderlich (Kiel, Germany)
11:00 Charlotte Damm (Tromsö, Norway)
Between the Unique and the General: The Contribution of Historical and Anthropological Archaeology to the Wider Field of Anthropology
11:30 Andrei Golovnev (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Anthropology of Movement on the Crossroads of Ethnography and Archaeology
12:00 Alexander Gramsch (Frankfurt, Germany)
Death and the Human Body: Finding a Common Ground for Archaeology and Anthropology
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Stefanie Samida (Heidelberg, Germany / Zürich, Switzerland)
Teaching Anthropology: Remarks from a German Perspective
14:30 Martin Furholt (Oslo, Norway / Kiel, Germany)
Narratives, Concepts and Data: The Relevance of Franz Boas for European Archaeology
15:00 Coffee Break
“Boas for the 21st Century“: Case Studies
Session Chair: Nils Müller-Scheeßel (Kiel, Germany)
15:30 Christian Jeunesse (Strasbourg, France)
The Cohabitation of Rich Villages and Poor Villages in Egalitarian and Acephalous Agrarian Societies. How to Understand This Paradox? The Case of Faunal Assemblages in the LBK
16:00 Colin Grier (Pullman, USA)
Boas for the 21st Century: In Pursuit of Context and History in Northwest Coast Archaeology
20 NOVEMBER 2021
09:30 Engdawok Assefa (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and Johannes Müller (Kiel, Germany)
Forging Networks and Identities in Non-literature Societies: Southwest Ethiopian Konso Smiths
10:00 Francesca Lugli (Rome, Italy)
Steppe Nomads Strategies Facing Climate Changes and Variability – Ethnoarchaeological Observation
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Vasa Ditamulü (Kohima, India)
Understanding Naga Pottery Use & Meaning: A Case Study of the Phoms of Nagaland
11:30 Tiatoshi Jamir (Kohima, India)
Decolonising Archaeological Practice in Northeast India: Views from Community Archaeology Initiatives in Nagaland
12:00 Lunch
From Cultural Relativism to Post-Colonial Imperative
Session Chair: Vesa Arponen (Kiel, Germany)
13:30 Bill Angelbeck (New Westminster, Canada)
Boas Refracted through His Local Collaborators (James Teit, George Hunt, and William Beynon): Implications for Contemporary Interpretation, Collaboration, and Decolonisation
14:00 Peter Jordan (Groningen, Netherlands)
From Cultural Traits to Inherited Social Traditions: “Re-activating” the Anthropological Legacy of Franz Boas
14:30 Martin Porr (Perth, Australia)
Nature, Culture, Human Nature: Reflections on Franz Boas’ “Anthropology and Modern Life”
15:00 Discussion and Resume
15:30 Coffee Break
Keynote lecture
Chair: Henny Piezonka
18:00 Tracy Teslow (Cincinnati, USA)
A Historian Contends with Hagiography: Perceptions of Franz Boas and His Relevance Today
21 NOVEMBER 2021
Departure of participants
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Download: Abstracts link and Programme link
Find more information on "Boas Walks" (18 November)
For more information please visit the colloquium’s webpage
You can join a ZOOM webinar by clicking the following link
Kenncode: 106724
Organizers (all members of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS)
/ Henny Piezonka
Division of Anthropological Archaeology /
Ethnoarchaeology Kiel University
Johanna-Mestorf-Strasse 2-6, 24118 Kiel
/ Vesa Arponen
/ Nils Müller-Scheeßel
/ Jens Schneeweiß
/ Maria Wunderlich
Coordination and contact
/ Anastasia Khramtsova
Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University
Leibnizstrasse 3, 24118 Kiel
akhramtsova@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Conference: “Medical Knowledge and its 'Sitz im Leben': Body and Horror in Antiquity”
Nov 18, 2021
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Nov 20, 2021
Hybrid: Kiel University, Room 105, Leibnizstr. 1, 24118 Kiel + Zoom Videoconference
Conference: “Medical Knowledge and its 'Sitz im Leben': Body and Horror in Antiquity”
This conference explores ancient and modern concepts of horror with reference to the human body. The aim is to examine how the body is processing, affectively as well as cognitively, horrifying experiences as well as how it can turn itself into a source of horror, e.g. in contexts of sickness and death.
While we are firmly aware of the fact that ‘horror’ as a largely post-Romantic concept is not unproblematic when applied to Greek and Latin texts, we will try to show that its classical antecedents and roots must be considered as they might shed light on the ways in which the horrific, as a category that shapes our encounter with various forms of art but also with life itself, is understood today.
Programme:
18 November 2021
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee/Registration
11:00 - 11:20 Welcome/Introductory Remarks / Chiara Thumiger and Georgios Kazantzidis
Thinking about beginnings
11:20-12:00 A Terrible History of Classical Horror / Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
Epic
12:00-12:40 Hot and Cold Blood in Lucan’s Civil War / Dunstan Lowe (University of Kent, UK)
13:00-15:00 Lunch
Tragedy
15:00-15:40 The Horrific Body in Sophocles / Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy / Committee on Social Thought, Chicago,USA)
15:40-16:20 Heracles’ Automatic Body: Madness, Horror and Laughter in Euripides’ Hercules Furens / Maria Gerolemou (University of Exeter, UK)
16:20-17:00 The Visceral Thrills of Tragedy: Flesh, Blood and Guts Off and On the Tragic Stage / Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
18:00 Dinner
19 November 2021
10:20-10:40 Coffee
Horror between disgust and the sublime
10:40-11:20 Enargeia, Disgust and Visceral Abhorrence / Dimos Spatharas (University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece)
11:20-12:00 Fearful Laughter: Bodily Horror in Roman Sexual Humor / Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College, Clinton, USA)
12:00-12:40 Apocalypse: Horror and Divine Pleasure / Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Manchester, UK)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Horror and the natural world
14:30-15:10 Roots of Horror: Environment, Bodies, Societies / Lutz Käppel (Kiel University, Germany)
15:10-15:50 Horror and the Body in Early Greek Paradoxography / George Kazantzidis (University of Patras, Greece)
Horror, demons, and (real) monsters
15:50-16:30 Naming the Monster: A Practice of Forensic Horror in Cicero’s Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino / Sophia Luise Häberle (Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany)
16:30-17:10 Demon Hordes and the Coming Apocalypse: The Limits of the Human in Chinese Late Antiquity / Michael Puett (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
20 November 2021
10:40-11:00 Coffee
Horror and modern medical science
11:00-11:40 The Thrilling Forces Behind Horrific Experiences: A Neuroscientific Approach / Rodrigo Sigala (independent researcher, Germany)
11:40-12:20 Overcoming Horror: Faintness and Medical Agents. Some Tentative Thoughts on Antiquity and Today / Lutz Alexander Graumann (University Hospital, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany)
Horror, ancient medicine, magic
12:20-13:00 Recipes for Horrors / Sean Coughlin (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
13:00-13:40 At the Borders of Horror and Science: The Social Contexts of Roman Dissection / Claire Bubb (New York University, USA)
13:40-14:00 Concluding Remarks / Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Germany)
14:00 Lunch
Date: 18-20 November 2021
Venue: The conference will take place as a hybrid meeting in Kiel (venue tba) and on zoom.
Link to webpage
Download programme here
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Contact:
Georgios Kazantzidis (University of Patras, Greece) kazanbile@gmail.com
Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University) c.thumiger@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Conference: "The Dynamics of Neighbourhoods and Urban Quarters"
Nov 10, 2021
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Nov 13, 2021
Organised by Annette Haug and Christian Beck.
Programme:
THURSDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2021
9.30 Welcome and Introduction / Annette Haug and Christian Beck
Section 1:
City Quarters (Chair: Stefan Feuser)
10.00 Regiones, Vici, and Grassroots Organization at Roman Ostia / Christer Bruun (Toronto)
10.45 Urban Infrastructure and the Perception of Neighbourhood / Eric Poehler (Amherst Massachusetts)
11.30-12.00 coffee break
12.00-12.45 Materializing inequality: Houses, Neighbourhoods and the Imperialization of Italy Miko Flohr (Leiden)
12.45– 14.15 lunch break
14.15 Neighbourhood on Water: Life at Two Harbours in Rome / Simon Malmberg (Bergen)
15.00 The Green Neighbourhood of the Amphitheatre at Pompeii / Pia Kastenmeier (Rome)
16.00 Guided tour through the collection of the ‘Antikensammlung’ by the curator Manuel Flecker
17.00 Reception, ‘Antikensammlung’
FRIDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2021
Section 2:
Neighbourhoods: Shared Infrastructures and Resources (Chair: Annette Haug/Christian Beck)
09.30 Reconfiguring Roman Space: Urban Investment and the Sharing of Resources in the Porta Stabia Neighbourhood at Pompeii / Steven Ellis (Cincinnati)
10.15 Neighbourhood Dynamics, Neighbourhood Character, and the Persistence of Shared Infrastructure: Impressions from an Urban Quarter in Athens, 5th cent. BC to 3rd cent AD / Patric-Alexander Kreuz (Kiel)
11.00 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30 The Development of a Water-rich Neighbourhood in Late Antique Ostia (IV, III-IV) / Ginny Wheeler (Bern)
12.15– 14.00 lunch break
Section 3
Neighbourhoods and Shared Aesthetics (Chair: Patric-Alexander Kreuz)
14.00 Rebuilding Houses in the Insula IX 5: Neighbourhood Relations in the Transition of Time / Christian Beck (Kiel)
14.45 The Crossroads of Mercury: Decoration and Development in Regio VI at Pompeii / Taylor Lauritsen (Kiel)
15.30 – 16.00 coffee break
16.00 Final discussion / Ulrich Müller (Kiel)
19.00 Conference dinner
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Conference: "State of the Art in Urban History"
Oct 28, 2021
03:00 PM
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Oct 29, 2021
12:30 PM
For more information and if you are interested in attending this conference, please send a message to Max Grund Mgrund@histosem.uni-kiel.de by 26 October 2021.
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Einsteinsaal, Wissenschaftspark, Fraunhoferstraße 13, Kiel
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International Colloquium: Built Ritual Space
Oct 21, 2021
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Oct 23, 2021
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The Use and Perception of Religious Cult Buildings in Ancient (City/Polis) Sanctuaries
This interdisciplinary colloquium explores the utilisation of enclosed roofed cult buildings (temples, churches) in ancient societies and their significance in the context of ritual and social practices in urban contexts.
The main focus will be on the Mediterranean area and the neighbouring regions and chronologically ranging from Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The geographical and chronological framework is intentionally wide to grasp the specific problem of dealing with enclosed cult buildings, usually called temples, in all their diversity.
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Organizers/Contact: Philipp Kobusch kobusch@klassarch.uni-kiel.de and Jan-Henrik Hartung hartung.janhenrik@gmail.com
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Early career symposium "Homo homini lupus est? Menschenbilder und das Fremde: Interaktion und Wahrnehmung"
Sep 17, 2021
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Sep 18, 2021
online / virtual event
Time schedule: tba
For more information and details please contact:
Sascha Boelcke sboelcke@roots.uni-kiel.de, Catharina Müller-Liedtke cmuellerliedtke@roots.uni-kiel.de, Gido Lukas glukas@roots.uni-kiel.de, Lisa Pannek pannek@muthesius.de, or Dana Zentgraf dzentgraf@root.uni-kiel.de
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12th International Meeting for Phytolith Research (IMPR) Conference
Sep 08, 2021
12:00 AM
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Sep 11, 2021
11:55 PM
tbd
The 12th International Meeting for Phytolith Research (IMPR).
For further information: www.12impr.uni-kiel.de/en
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Conference: "Mentale Konzepte der Stadt in Bild- und Textmedien der Vormoderne"
Jun 10, 2021
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Jun 12, 2021
Virtual
Conference: "Mentale Konzepte der Stadt in Bild- und Textmedien der Vormoderne"
For more Information and the Program of the Conference here
If you are interested in attending the conference, please send a message to Frau Wiebke Witt (witt@germsem.uni-kiel.de).
We ask for registration until 1 June 2021.
The Conference will be held in German.
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ROOTS Communication Platform Workshop “Public participation in archaeological research: Opportunities and Limitations”
Jun 07, 2021
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Jun 08, 2021
Virtual
ROOTS Communication Platform Workshop “Public participation in archaeological research: Opportunities and Limitations”
More information will follow.
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Workshop Soothing Gardens
May 12, 2021 from 01:30 PM to 06:15 PM
virtual meeting
This is a workshop within the collaborative project ‘Gardens and Eudaimonia’ link (Reflective Turn Forum and the Subcluster Knowledge ROOTS)
It is organised by Chiara Thumiger cthumiger@roots.uni-kiel.de and Dana Zentgraf.
The workshop will take place on Zoom.
Download Programme and Abstracts here
https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/fieldwork-and-activities/soothing-gardens/
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!! Cancelled !! Conference "Religion and archive" organised by the subcluster Knowledge ROOTS
Sep 09, 2020
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Sep 11, 2020
IBZ - Kiellinie 5, 24105 Kiel
The Conference "Religion and archive" organised by the subcluster Knowledge ROOTS has been cancelled.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Hilmar Klinkott - hklinkott@email.uni-kiel.de
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!! Conference POSTPONED!! ROOTS International Conference: “Medical Knowledge and its 'Sitz im Leben': Body and Horror in Antiquity”
May 22, 2020
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May 23, 2020
IBZ, Kiellinie 5, 24105 Kiel
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Conference postponed due to the further spreading of the Corona-Virus.
We will inform you about the rescheduled date as soon as possible.
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Organised by George Kazantzidis and Chiara Thumiger
Confirmed speakers:
Noel Carroll (Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
Giulia Maria Chesi (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Greg Eghigian (Penn State University)
Debbie Felton (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Maria Gerolemou (University of Exeter, UK)
Lutz Alexander Graumann (University Hospital, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany)
Lutz Käppel (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Germany)
George Kazantzidis (University of Patras, Greece)
Dunstan Lowe (Kent University, UK)
Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy / Chicago, USA)
Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Manchester, UK)
Rodrigo Sigala (independent, Germany)
Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Dimos Spatharas (University of Crete, Greece)
Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Germany)
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Material Analysis Workshop of Subcluster ROOTS of Conflicts and Conciliation
Feb 25, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 02:15 PM
Kiel University / Technical Faculty / Kaiserstraße 2 / Room A-239 / 24143 Kiel
Find more information here soon
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ROOTS Reflective Turn Symposium: "Philosophy of Archaeology"
Feb 20, 2020
09:00 AM
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Feb 21, 2020
06:00 PM
Leibnizstr. 1, rooms 105-a & 105-b
Confirmed speakers:
Jerimy Cunningham (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
Caroline Heitz (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Thomas Meier (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Julian Thomas (University of Manchester, UK)
Rachel Crellin (University of Leicester, UK)
Constance von Rüden (RUB, Bochum, Germany)
VPJ Arponen (Kiel University, Germany)
Artur Ribeiro (Kiel University, Germany)
Tim Kerig (Kiel University, Germany)
Konrad Ott (Kiel University, Germany)
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ROOTS Workshop – Quantifying Social Inequalities - New proxies, new methods. Possibilities and limitations to determine social inequalities in archaeological contexts
Oct 07, 2019
02:00 PM
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Oct 08, 2019
01:00 PM
Room 105, Leibnizstr. 1, Kiel
The workshop brings together young researchers from different disciplines to discuss diverse socio-cultural processes involved in the creation of social inequality as well as multiple methods in quantifying social inequality in past societies.
Confirmed Speakers:
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| Vesa P. J. Arponen |
Kiel University, Germany |
| Penny Bickle |
University of York, UK |
| Marta Cintas Peña |
Seville University, Spain |
| Adrian Chase |
Arizona State University, USA |
| Timothy J. Dennehy |
Arizona State University, USA |
| Katharina Fuchs |
Kiel University, Germany |
| Ralph Großmann |
Kiel University, Germany |
| Julian Laabs |
University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Nils Müller-Scheeßel |
Kiel University, Germany |
| Arne Windler |
Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Germany |
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