{"id":242,"date":"2024-11-12T23:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/caemc\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:02:01","slug":"icaem-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/caemc\/icaem-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAEM 2025: Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Movements of People, Objects and Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

13\u201315 June 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tartu, Estonia
\nLossi 3-328<\/strong><\/p>\n

The conference is organized as an onsite event in Tartu, Estonia, but sessions will also be streamed via Zoom [link<\/a>]<\/strong>, to give access to a wider audience. There is no conference fee. The organization of the conference is supported by the University of Tartu.<\/p>\n

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian Rutherford<\/strong><\/a> (University of Reading)
\nRaz Kletter<\/a><\/strong> (University of Helsinki)<\/p>\n

[ABSTRACT BOOK<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

[POSTERS<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note that all times are according to EEST\u00a0<\/span>(Eastern European Summer Time)
\n<\/span>See\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.thetimezoneconverter.com\/<\/a>\u00a0to check your local times.<\/span><\/p>\n

FRIDAY, 13 JUNE<\/strong><\/p>\n

9.00 Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

9.10 KEYNOTE:<\/strong> Ian Rutherford<\/strong> (University of Reading), Phoenician pilgrimage<\/p>\n

10.00 Vladimir Sazonov<\/strong> (University of Tartu), A comparative analysis of deportation and migration narratives in Middle Assyrian and Hittite texts<\/p>\n

10.30 Coffee break<\/p>\n

10.50 Wolfgang Zwickel<\/strong> (University of Mainz), Trade of Gaza<\/p>\n

11.20 Eduardo Torrecilla<\/strong> (University of Castilla-La Mancha), Addressing the role of semi-nomad Suteans in the Middle Euphrates during the LBA crisis<\/p>\n

11.50 POSTER PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Emma Stone<\/strong> (University of Glasgow), From the Baltics to the Nile \u2013 Amber in Tomb KV62 (tomb of Tutankhamun)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Lambros Tapinos <\/strong>(University of Melbourne), Heterotopia and liminal frames: Comparative analysis of the running spiral in the Bronze Age Aegean, Egypt and Mari<\/p>\n

\u2013 Beatriz Freitas<\/strong> (NOVA University of Lisbon), Images as living organisms: The impact of circulation in their meaning<\/p>\n

12.20 Lunch<\/p>\n

14.00 KEYNOTE:<\/strong> Raz Kletter<\/strong> (University of Helsinki), Deals with Danites: The Biblical migration story of Judges 17-18<\/p>\n

14.50 Agne Pilvisto<\/strong> (University of Tartu), The ways of water. The transitions and transformations of the Syrian Goddess Atargatis<\/p>\n

15.20 Ikuko Sato<\/strong> (Japan Women\u2019s University) and Sota Maruono<\/strong> (Tokiwa University High School), Networks of the Phoenician diaspora: Bridging between the Ancient Near East and the Far Western Mediterranean [recorded talk<\/a>] [slides<\/a>]<\/p>\n

15.50 Coffee break<\/p>\n

16.10 POSTER PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Andres N\u00f5mmik<\/strong> (University of Helsinki), The connections between the cult in Cyprus and Philistia<\/p>\n

\u2013 Alexandros Drosinakis<\/strong> (University of Tartu), Neleidae, Heraclidae, Aloadae: Approaching migration and human mobility in the Post-palatial Aegean from the tradition to archaeology<\/p>\n

16.50 Mait K\u00f5iv<\/strong> (University of Tartu), Movements of people and polis formation in Archaic Peloponnese<\/p>\n

19.00 Reception<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

SATURDAY, 14 JUNE<\/strong><\/p>\n

9.00 Antoine Attout<\/strong> (Centre de Recherches en Arch\u00e9ologie et Patrimoine, Bruxelles), Commercial mobilities and targeted inspirations on Greek pottery (6th century BCE)<\/p>\n

9.30 Matt Thompson<\/strong> (University of Nottingham), Beyond Thermopylai \u2013 Diplomatic and cultural interaction between Sparta and Persia<\/p>\n

10.00 Dylan James<\/strong> (University of Reading), Mobile armies and local guides (hegemones<\/em>) in Classical Greek historiography<\/p>\n

10.30 Coffee break<\/p>\n

10.50 Owain Morris <\/strong>(Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology), Across the Adriatic: Female mobility between Italy and the Balkans in EIA<\/p>\n

11.20 Kadri Novikov<\/strong> (University of Tartu), Travel routes and travelling in Ancient Greek novels<\/p>\n

11.50 POSTER PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Laura Muncaciu<\/strong> (National Academy of Music Gh. Dima \/ Sigismund Toduta Doctoral School Cluj-Napoca, Romania), The rite progress: The journey of performative traditions from Hittite rituals to Greek tragedy and Dramma per Musica<\/p>\n

\u2013 Priit-Hendrik Kaldma<\/strong> (University of Tallinn), Legendary migrations and political struggles in Archaic Athens<\/p>\n

\u2013 Ana Odochiciuc<\/strong> (University of Ia\u0219i), Mobility beyond the Roman Empire. The study of Roman bronze artifacts in nowadays north-eastern Romania (Ia\u0219i county)<\/p>\n

12.20 Lunch<\/p>\n

14.30 Anna Tsanava<\/strong> (Tbilisi State University), Narrating the map: Mobility and spatial orientation in Io\u2019s scene from \u201cPrometheus Bound\u201d<\/p>\n

15.00 Neeme N\u00e4rip\u00e4<\/strong> (University of Tartu), From Mt. Ida to the House of the Atreidae: The beacons in Aeschylus\u2019 \u201eAgamemnon\u201d<\/p>\n

15.30 Coffee break<\/p>\n

15.50 Elo-Mall Toomet<\/strong> (University of Tartu), The arrivals of Ariadne: An attempt to place an elusive goddess<\/p>\n

16.20 Lucretiu Birliba<\/strong> (University of Ia\u0219i), Mobility of soldiers in the Imperum Romanum. Two case studies in a small settlement at the periphery of the Empire: Ibida (Moesia Inferior)<\/p>\n

16.50\u00a0Iulian Moga<\/strong> (University of Ia\u0219i), Intra-oriental migrations and the spread of aretalogies<\/p>\n

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SUNDAY, 15 JUNE<\/strong><\/p>\n

9.00 Jinyu Liu<\/strong> (Emory University, Atlanta), (Im)migrants in the occupational world in the Roman Empire: Exclusion versus integration<\/p>\n

9.30 Marsha McCoy<\/strong> (Southern Methodist University Dallas), Mobility and change: Cistophori and identity in Roman Asia Minor<\/p>\n

10.00 Coffee break<\/p>\n

10.20 Leonardo Gregoratti<\/strong> (University of Udine), The \u201cArsacid blockade\u201d: How did it work?<\/p>\n

10.50 Barbara Mander<\/strong> (University of Urbino Carlo Bo), Bearing letters: Travelling through Late Antiquity<\/p>\n

11.20 Final words<\/p>\n

11.40 Lunch<\/p>\n

13.00 Bus to Tallinn<\/p>\n

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CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ancient Near East and Mediterranean was a vast area of constant movement and communication between different groups of people, both those close to each other geographically, ethnically, linguistically and those separated by greater distances. The crossing of such distances might have meant either sea voyages, navigating or crossing rivers or travelling on difficult mountain or desert routes and sometimes all of them. The travels might have served different purposes: commerce, piracy, adventure, diplomacy, military campaigns, maintaining aristocratic connections, creating colonies, visiting religious sites, competitions and festivals, escaping situations of crises etc. Moving around in the ancient world could be undertaken by large groups, by individuals and it could be either voluntary or involuntary, refugees, forcibly deported populations and slaves belonging to the latter category of travellers.<\/p>\n

All these different movements of people brought with them movements of material objects, for sale, as gifts, for personal use. Contacts between people also initiated contacts between ideas, songs and stories, thus both ideas and objects were travelling on in new directions, further from the first point of contact, and changing on their way. Skills and technologies were also moving with people, in many directions and sometimes dominantly from one culture to the other.<\/p>\n

This conference aims to explore these different types of movement \u2013 that of individual travellers, larger groups, material objects, songs, stories, skills and ideas \u2013\u00a0in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean world, from Iran, Mesopotamia and Egypt to the western Mediterranean, from the emergence of civilisations to late antiquity. We are interested in papers with different approaches, focusing on different aspects of the theme of mobility: from the distribution of pottery types to the spreading of languages and writing systems; from the motif of travel in mythology, epic and specific works of literature to the travelling of myths and stories between different cultures; from religious pilgrimages by individuals to the movements of armies, of the displaced and the enslaved; from the mythical travels of gods and heroes to the practical problems faced by human travellers; from travelling to the neighbouring city to journeys to the end of the known world.<\/p>\n

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