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Sacred Landscapes in Anatolia and its Neighboring Regions

- an international symposium

 

Bilkent University
Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture,
F-Block, Conference Center, Conference Room 2, FFB-05
Campus Map

 

Program

For more information, contact: morin bilkent.edu.tr

Thursday, 18 October

17:00   Registration: $50 (US) per person; students $25 (Downloadable Form -- Word Document)
            ** Advance Registration Recommended **

18:00   Inauguration of Symposium

Speakers

            Talat Halman (Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Literature)

            Thomas Zimmermann (Chair, Department of Archaeology & History of Art)

19:00-20:00

            Keynote address (abstract)

            Lynne E. Roller (University of California, Davis)

The Sacred Landscapes of Matar: Continuity from the Iron Age through the Roman Period

Reception

 

Friday, 19 October

Session 1                 Bronze Age and Preclassical (abstracts)

1.         9:00-9:20      Rainer-Maria Czichon (Freie Üniversität, Berlin)
If the King Celebrates the Antahsum-festival in the Forest of Taurischa - the Concept of Landscape in the Hittite World

2.         9:25-9:45      Susanne Berndt-Ersöz (Stockholm University)
Sacred Space in Iron Age Phrygia

            9:45-10:15    Coffee break

3.         10:15-10:35  Ivonne Kaiser (Deutsche Archäologisches Institut, Athens)
The Meaning of Shape. Pottery Traditions and Inventions in the Sanctuary of Bronze Age Miletus

            11:00-12:00  Discussion

            12:00-13:30  Lunch break

Session 2                 Greek, Roman and Byzantine (abstracts)

1.         14:00-14:20  Anja Slawisch (Bilkent University)
Epigraphy versus Archaeology: Conflicting Evidence for Cult Continuity in Ionia during the 5th Century BC

2.         14:25-14:45  Owen Doonan (California State University, Northridge)
Sacred Landscapes of Sinop and the Black Sea Littoral

            14:45-15:15  Coffee Break

3.         15:20-15:45  John R. Senseney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Vision and the Ordered Invisible: Geometry, Space, and Architecture in Sanctuaries of Hellenistic Asia Minor

4          15:50-16:10  Soi Agelidis (Deutsche Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul)
Considerations about Cult Traditions in the City and Vicinity of Pergamon

5.         16:15-16:35  Veronica Kalas (Wayne State University)
Sacred Topographies in Byzantium and the Cappadocian Landscape.

            16:40-17:40  Discussion

Evening: Dinner for speakers and organizers

 

Saturday, 20 October

Session 3                 Diachronic Perspectives (abstracts)

1.         9:00-9:20      Anneliese Peschlow (Deutsche Archäologisches Institut, Berlin)
The Gods of Latmos. Cults and Rites at the Holy Mountain from Prehistoric to Byzantine Times

2.         9:25-9:45      Rüstem Aslan (On Sekiz Mart Üniversitesi, Çanakkale)
Sacred Troia and its Visitors from Antiquity to the 20^th Century

            9:45-10:15    Coffee break

3.         10:15-10:35  Jacques des Courtils (Université de Bordeaux)
From Elyanas to Leto: the Physical Evolution of the Sanctuary of Leto at Xanthos

4.         10:40-11:00  Johnny Devreker (Universiteit Ghent)
Pessinous and its Holy Places

            11:00-12:00  Discussion

            12:00-13:30  Lunch break

Session 4                 Mediaeval and Early Modern (abstracts)

1.         14:00-14:20  Irina Giviashvili (formerly Tbilisi State University)
The Triconch Architecture of Medieval Eastern Anatolia

2.         14:25-14:45  Christina Maranci (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Landscape, Memory, and Architecture in Early Medieval Armenia

            14:50-15:20  Coffee Break

3.         15:25-15:45  Birgül Açıkyıldız (Oxford University)
The Yezidis: Towards the Sun

            15:50-16:50  Discussion

Sunday, 21 October

Excursion to Gordion, Pessinous and Sivrihisar

(Limited seating available, advanced registration required)