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The 12th INTERNATIONAL AEGEAN CONFERENCE

will be held at the university of Melbourne, 25-29 March 2008
on the theme

DAIS

The Aegean Feast

Lisa M. BENDALL (Institute of Archaeology, Oxford),
Dining in style: does time and place matter in Aegean Bronze Age banqueting?

Philip P. BETANCOURT (Temple University, Philadelphia) and David S. REESE,
Feasts for the dead: the evidence from Hagios Charalambos

Fritz BLAKOLMER (University of Vienna),
Processions in Aegean iconography: who are the participants?

Thomas M. BROGAN (INSTAP Study Center for East Crete) and Andrew J. KOH (Wayne State University, Detroit),
Feasting at Mochlos? Organic residue analyis and new evidence for the production, storage and consumption of wine in the Minoan town

Despina CATAPOTI (British School at Athens),
The complexity of feasting: an insight into the diversity of collective consumption events in Prepalatial Crete

William G. CAVANAGH (University of Nottingham),
Feasting before the Bronze Age: Neolithic conviviality

David COLLARD (University of Nottingham),
Possible Alternatives to Alcohol: a Contextual Analysis of Poppy-shaped Juglets from Cyprus and the Aegean

Dora CONSTANTINIDIS (University of Melbourne),
From fields to feasts: interpreting Aegean architecture and iconography in relation to feast preparations

Janice L. CROWLEY (Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens),
In honour of the Gods – but which Gods?

Brent DAVIS (University of Melbourne),
Libation and the Minoan Feast

Kathryn ERIKSSON (SCIEM 2000 Project, Vienna),
Feasting as part of the multiculturalism of Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Ioannis FAPPAS (University of Thessaloniki),
The use of perfumed oils during feasting activities: a comparison of Mycenaean and Near Eastern written sources

Susan C. FERRENCE (INSTAP Academic Press),
Is there iconography of the Minoan feast?

Karen FOSTER (Yale University),
A taste for the exotic

Rachel S. FOX (University of Sheffield),
Tastes, smells and spaces : sensory perceptions of Mycenaean palatial feasting

Luca GIRELLA (University of Catania),
Feasts in 'Transition'? An overview of Feastings practices during MM III at Crete

Yannis HAMILAKIS (University of Southampton),
From feasting to the social archaeology of eating and drinking

Louise A. HITCHCOCK (University of Melbourne),
Architectures of feasting

Julie HRUBY (Grand Valley State University),
You Are How You Eat: Mycenaean Class and Cuisine

Bernice R. JONES (Sarasota, Florida)
Anthropomorphic Vessels at the Feast: Evidence for Dress or Pottery Decoration?

Ann E. KILLEBREW (The Pennsylvania State University) and Justin S.E. LEV-TOV (Redlands),
Early Iron Age feasting and cuisine: an indicator of Philistine-Aegean connectivity?

Charlotte LANGOHR (Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve) and Jan DRIESSEN (Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve),
Feasting pits in Late Minoan III

Quentin LETESSON (Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve) and Jan DRIESSEN (Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve),
Levels of feasting in Neopalatial Crete

Bartek LIS (Polish Academy of Sciences),
Cooked food in the Mycenaean feast – evidence of the cooking pots

Aren MAEIR (Bar-Ilan University),
Aegean feasting and other Indo-European elements in the Philistine household?

Sarah P. MORRIS (UCLA),
Wine Consumption in the Early Bronze Age: Fermenting, Mixing and Drinking Vessels?

Stephie NIKOLOUDIS (University of Melbourne),
Bulls and belonging: another look at PY Cn 3

Gullög NORDQUIST (Uppsala University),
Feasting: participation and performance

Marcia NUGENT (University of Melbourne),
Picturing the feast – recipes as art. Botanic motifs of the Late Bronze Age Cycladic Islands

Jennifer O'NEILL (University of Melbourne),
Utility and metaphor: design of the House of Tiles

Thomas G. PALAIMA (University of Texas at Austin),
The significance of Mycenaean words relating to meals

Vassilis P. PETRAKIS (University of Athens),
E-ke-ra2-wo wa-na-ka? Implications of a probable non-identification for Pylian feasting and politics

Ingo PINI (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Marburg),
Are there any representations of feasting in the Aegean Bronze Age?

Judith REID (Wellington, New Zealand),
Dinnertime at Kato Zakro

Elizabeth SHANK (INSTAP Philadelphia),
Decorated royal dining halls

Cynthia W. SHELMERDINE (University of Texas at Austin),
Host and guest at a Mycenaean feast

Kim SHELTON (University of California, Berkeley),
Drinking, toasting, consumption and libation : Late Helladic IIIA pottery and a cup for every occasion

Anna SIMANDIRAKI (University of Bath),
The Minoan body as a feast

Alison SOUTH (Kalavasos Ayios-Dhimitrios Excavations),
Feasting in Cyprus: a view from Kalavasos

Loeta TYREE (American School of Classical Studies), Athanasia KANTA (Archaeological Institute of Cretological Studies) and Harriet LEWIS ROBINSON,
Evidence for ritual eating and drinking: a view from Skoteino Cave

Salvatore VITALE (Università degli Studi di Pisa),
Ritual Drinking and Eating at LH IIIA2 Early Mitrou, East Lokris . Evidence for Mycenaean Feasting Activities?

Gisela WALBERG (University of Cincinnati) and David S. REESE (Yale University),
Feasting at Midea

Jennifer M. WEBB (La Trobe University) and David FRANKEL (La Trobe University),
Fine ware ceramics, consumption and commensality: mechanisms of horizontal integration in Early Bronze Age Cyprus

Jörg WEILHARTNER (Univerity of Salzburg),
Some observations on the commodities in the Linear B tablets relating to sacrificial banquets

Helène WHITTAKER (University of Tromsø),
The role of drinking in religious ritual in the Mycenaean period

Jennifer WILSON (University of Melbourne),
What were the women doing while the men were eating and drinking?

Assaf YASUR-LANDAU (University of California at Santa Cruz),
Hard to handle: aspects of organization in Aegean and Near Eastern feasts

John G. YOUNGER (University of Kansas),
Food Collections, Rations and Portions in Cretan Hieroglyphic Documents

20 minutes talk, illustration in PowerPoint format on CD or USB-key.
Instructions for publication will be provided at the conference.