Rather than a typical Friday quick hit and varia post, here's a conference dedicated to The University of Pennsylvania's work at the site of Kourion:
The Ancient Kourion Area: Penn Museum's Legacy and Recent Research in Cyprus: A Conference Commemorating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Museum's ExpeditionMarch 27-29, 2009
Program
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
7:00 p.m. Welcome and opening remarks:
C. Brian Rose, UPMAA Deputy Director and Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section
Ambassador Andreas Kakouris, Republic of Cyprus
7:15 Keynote: Stuart Swiny, Director, Institute of Cypriot Studies, University at Albany , “The Land of Kuri: How American and Cypriot Archaeologists Revealed the Past of the Island’s Southern Shore”
8:15 – 9:00 Reception
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
9:00 Welcome C.Brian Rose
Session I: Hippos and Humans Settle Prehistoric Kourion
9:10 Alan Simmons, University of Nevada Las Vegas – “So, Who Were the First Cypriots?—Perspectives on When and Why People Initially Came to Cyprus”
9:40 Ellen Herscher, Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum – “Between Two Worlds: Phaneromeni and the Transition to the Late Bronze Age”
10:10 Gisela Walberg, University of Cincinnati – "Excavating a Late Bronze Age Major Coastal Urban Center - UPenn and UC at Episkopi Bamboula"
10:40 coffee break
Session II: Late Bronze Age Roots of the Kingdom of Kourion
11:10 Pavlos Flourentzos, Director, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus – “A Contribution to the Topography of Bronze Age Kourion, A New Suggestion”
11:40 Maria Iacovou, University of Cyprus – “Site Location and Status Identification: The Kouris River Valley Regional Authorities in the Late Second and First Millennia B.C.”
12:10 discussion
12:30 – 2:00 lunch break
Session III: Research at Kourion, Past and Present
2:00 Thomas Kiely, British Museum – “Ancient Kourion On-line. The British Museum Excavations of 1895 in Cyberspace”
2:30 Tom Davis, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute – “An Amateur’s Dream: McFadden at Kourion”
3:00 Nathan Harper, University of Nevada Las Vegas – “Ancient Cypriots in the Kouris River Valley: The University Museum’s Contribution to Physical Anthropology”
3:30 coffee break
Session IV: From City Kingdom to Roman City
3:50 Sabine Fourrier, CNRS Lyon, France – "The Topography of Cult in the Iron Age Kingdom of Kourion"
4:20 Demos Christou, former director, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus – “Excavations of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities at Kourion, 1975-1998”
4:50 Michael Given, University of Glasgow – “Funerary Landscapes at Kourion's Amathus Gate Cemetery”
5:15 – 5:30 discussion
SUNDAY, MARCH 29
Session V: The Christian Era
9:00 Benjamin Costello IV, SUNY Buffalo – “The Earthquake House at Kourion: An Analysis of the Material Culture”
9:30 David Rupp, Canadian Institute in Greece – “To Be, or Not To Be. The Limits of Antiochene and Christian Influence on the Floor Mosaics of the Early Fifth Century AD Eustolios Complex at Kourion, Cyprus”
10:00 John Rosser, Boston College – “The Episcopal Basilica at Kourion”
10:30 coffee break
10:50 Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou, Curator of Antiquities, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus – “The Medieval Sugar-Mills of Episkopi Serayia and Kolossi, and Sugar Production in Medieval Cyprus”
11:20 William Woys Weaver, Drexel University – “The Foods of Kourion through a Medieval Lens: An Ethnographic Analysis”
11:50 – 12:15 discussion and closing remarks
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