OPENING CONFERENCE
“Looking at Things in Southeastern Europe: Regional Archaeology in Search of Viable Futures”
17-18 April 2021
*The time-slots include 25 min. presentation and 20 min. discussion / per participant
*Bulgaria time zone (EEST)
17 April, 2021 (Saturday)
10:15 – 10:30 Opening words – Diana Mishkova, Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu, Dimitris Plantzos
- Morning session / Moderator: Staša Babić
10:30 – 11:15 Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu (Romania) / „Vasile Pârvan“ Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest – „Trying to do what we are told: dominated thinking in archaeology“
11:15 – 12:00 Dimitris Plantzos (Greece) / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology -„Artefacts to things: the anthropological shift in archaeological discourse and its repercussions for the study of material culture“
- 12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 13:15 Deniz Burcu Erciyas (Turkey) / Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Settlement Archaeology – „Archaeology Education, Practice and Theory in Turkey“
- 13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break
- Afternoon session / Moderator: Yannis Papadatos
14:15 – 15:00 Aleksandar Palavestra (Serbia) / University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology – „The Lost Step. Serbian Culture-Historical Archaeology and the Problem of Continuity“
15:00 – 15:45 Boyan Dumanov (Bulgaria) / New Bulgarian University, Archaeology Department – „Archaeology in the Service of State: Interwar actions and Postwar transformations in Bulgaria“
- 15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00 Giorgos Vavouranakis (Greece) / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology – „Old dogs and new tricks: paradigmatic continuity and change in Aegean prehistoric archaeology“
18 April, 2021 (Sunday)
- Morning session / Moderator: Deniz Burcu Erciyas
10:30 – 11:15 Monika Milosavljević (Serbia) / University of Belgrade, Department of Archaeology – „The Development and Change of Archaeological Knowledge in the Former Yugoslavia: a Fleckian Perspective“
11:15 – 12:00 Predrag Novaković (Slovenia) / University of Ljubljana, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts – „Cohabitation, hybridisation and eclecticism of archaeological paradigms: Modern Slovenian archaeology and the legacy of the 1980s“
- 12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 13:15 Radu-Alexandru Dragoman (Romania) / The Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Prehistory Department – „Forgetting our own lives: self-colonization, anticommunism and capitalist ideology in the Romanian archaeology of today“
- 13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break
- Afternoon session / Moderator: Aleksandar Palavestra
14:15 – 15:00 Rajna Sosic Klindzic (Croatia) / University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – „The tradition of tradition in Croatian Archaeology“
15:00 – 15:45 Staša Babić (Serbia) / University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology – „Systematizing Archaeological Practices and Knowledges“
- 15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00 Yiannis Papadatos (Greece) / National & Kapodistrian University of Athens – „Regional surface surveys as a step forward: some thoughts on the basis of the Greek case study“