- 1. 3rd CSPS SACRED LANDSCAPES IN THEINTERNATIONAL PELOPONNESE
FROM PREHISTORYCONFERENCETO POST-BYZANTINE TIMES Sparti 30 March-1
April 2012 30 -1 2012 Conference Programme
2. 3rd CSPS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCESACRED LANDSCAPES IN THE
PELOPONNESE FROM PREHISTORY TO POST-BYZANTINE TIMESSparti, 30 March
- 1 April 2012 Organised by theCentre for Spartan and Peloponnesian
Studies (CSPS), University of Nottingham Board for Culture, Sports
and the Environment of the Municipality of Sparti5th Ephorate of
Byzantine Antiquities (EBA) 5th Ephorate of Prehistoric &
Classical Antiquities (EPCA) in collaboration with theSainopouleion
Foundation University of PeloponneseSparta Photography Club (...)
Public Central Library of Spartiunder the auspices of the
Municipality of SpartiVenue: he University of Peloponnese Building,
Sparti2 3. 3 , 30 1 2012 , , 5 5 & (...) : , 3 4. 3rd CSPS
International Conference Honorary CommitteeHis Excellency, The
Bishop of the Holy Diocese of onemvasia & Sparti EfstathiosMr
Stavros Argeitakos, Mayor of Sparti Mr Marios Tzortzakis, Chairman
of the Board for Culture, Sports and the Environment,Municipality
of SpartiProfessor Cathy Morgan, Director of the British School at
AthensOrganising Committee Mr Nikolaos Dimakis, CSPS, University of
Nottingham Dr Chrysanthi Gallou, CSPS, University of Nottingham Mr
Christos Makris, Vice-Chairman of the Board for Culture, Sports
& the Environment, Municipality of Sparti Mrs Evangelia Pantou,
5th EBA, Ministry of Culture & Tourism Dr Alkisti
Papadimitriou, 5th EPCA, Ministry of Culture &Tourism Dr
Metaxia Papapostolou, Experimental High School of Sparti-
University of Peloponnese, Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning
& Religious Affairs Scientific CommitteeMrs Aimilia Bakourou,
Director Emeritus, Ministry of Culture & TourismDr Aimilia
Banou, Assistant Professor, University of Peloponnese Professor
William G. Cavanagh, CSPS Director, University of
NottinghamProfessor Stephen Hodkinson, CSPS Director, University of
NottinghamMrs Anastasia Panagiotopoulou, Director Emeritus,
Ministry of Culture& Tourism Dr James Roy, Honorary Research
Fellow, University of Nottingham 4 5. 3o CSPS & . . , . , ,
& Professor Cathy Morgan, , CSPS, . , CSPS, . , , & , 5 ,
... , 5 , ... , - , ...... Professor William G. Cavanagh, CSPS, , ,
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6. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Friday 30 March 2012 30 2012Venue/ :
(Cleomvrotou Pedestrian Street/ )16.00-18.00 Registration at the
Sainopouleion Megaron 17.30-18.00 Ceremony of the inauguration of
the Sainopouleion Megaron 18.00-18.30 Conference Opening Ceremony
Addresses 18.30-19.00 Inauguration of the exhibition by the Sparta
Photography Club andthe 5th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities on
the theme Byzantinemonuments in their natural landscape by the
Sparta PhotographyClub (..) 3 , Award Ceremony for the Experimental
Elementary School of SpartiCompetition on Ancient temples and
yzantine churches of myhome town 19.00-20.00 Keynote speech by
Professor James Wright (Bryn Mawr College), onSacred Spaces in the
Peloponnesos: theoretical and methodologicalconsiderations and the
perspective of the longue dure James Wright (Bryn MawrCollege) : ,
20.30 Reception hosted by the Mayor and the City Council of Sparti
at theMENELAION HOTEL 6 7. Saturday 31 March 2012 31 2012Session
1A. Myth, Legend, Identity and the Sacred 1. , , Chair/: tbcVenue/
: Lecture Room 1/ 109.00-09.20 , 09.20-09.40 Athena Hadji, The
mythology of the sacred: The sacred character of theArcadian
landscape, a diachronic anthropological approach09.40-10.00
Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia, Some thoughts about the motif of
theAmazonomachy in the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at
Bassai10.00-10.20 , : 10.20-10.40 Florentia Fragkopoulou, Spartan
Cult and Mythology: KnownUnknowns10.40-11.00 Greta Hawes, One body,
two tombs: Pausanias on the heroic traditionsof Messeni11.00-11.20
Discussion / 11.20-11.40 Tea/Coffee Break Session 1. Places of cult
and the natural landscape 1. Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 2/
209.00-09.20 Emilia Banou, The Sacred Land- and Seascape of
Kythera: The Minoanpeak sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto
Vouno09.20-09.40 Mercourios Georgiadis and Aris Tsaravopoulos, The
SacredLandscape at Mermygkari: A Minoan holy mountain on
Kythera?09.40-10.00 , . 10.00-10.20 , . 7 8. 10.20-10.40 ,
10.40-11.00 , - : 11.00-11.20 Discussion / 11.20-11.40 Tea/Coffee
Break Session 2. Cult and ritual practices, ritual performance 2.
Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 1/ 111.40-12.00 Christina Aamont,
Concepts of pollution and purity in the Peloponnesein Mycenaean
times12.00-12.20 Sam Farnham, Pollution and purity in comparative
perspective duringthe Early Iron Age: The Corinthia and the
Argolid12.20-12.40 Julie Hruby, Feasting and Drinking in a Sacred
Landscape? Ritualisedconsumption in the Bronze Age Messenian palace
and chora12.40-13.00 Katie Demakopoulou, Evidence for cult
practices at Midea13.00-13.20 Marcin Pawlak, The prosopography of
Zeus priests in the Peloponnesein Hellenistic and Roman
times13.20-13.40 Discussion / 13.40-15.40 Lunch Break / Session 2B.
Sacred places in time and in space 2B. Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture
Room 2/ 211.40-12.00 , 12.00-12.20 , , : 12.20-12.40 Jrg Rambach, .
12.40-13.00 , 13.00-13.20 Jana Mtzschker, The sacred landscape of
Triphylia13.20-13.40 Discussion / 13.40-15.40 Lunch Break / 8 9.
15.40-16.40 Session 3. Poster communications. 3. .16.25-16.40 Book
presentation, Sparta in Modern Thought, byProfessor Stephen
Hodkinson (CSPS Director; University of Nottingham)16.25-16.40: ,
Sparta in Modern Thought, Stephen Hodkinson ( CSPS, )Venue/ :
Lecture Room 1/ 1 Session 4. Religion and the Past 4. Chair/:
tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 1/ 116.40-17.00 , . ;17.00-17.20
RebeccaSweetman,ChristianizingthePeloponnese:Themonumentalization
of the religious landscape in the Late Antique period17.20-17.40
Zdravko Dimitrov, Architectural details from Roman epoch, reused
inByzantine churches in Mystras like evidence about continuity
inreligious architecture17.40-18.00 , 18.00-18.20 Discussion /
18.20-18.40 Tea/Coffee Break Session 4. Sacred Imagery 4. Chair/:
tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 2/ 216.40-17.00 Gina Salapata, Lakonian
and Messenian Plaques with Seated Figures:Issues of Distribution
and Identity17.00-17.20 , 17.20-17.40 George Paraskeviotis,
Peloponnesian Gods in Vergils pastoral poetry.The case of God
Pan17.40-18.00 Danai Charamalmpous, 18.00-18.20 Discussion / 9 10.
18.20-18.40 Tea/Coffee Break Session 5A. Mobility, Pilgrimage and
the Formation of the Sacred Landscape 5A. , Chair/: tbcVenue/ :
Lecture Room 1/ 118.40-19.00 , 19.00-19.20 Spyros Petrounakos, From
city to sanctuary: Traversing the sacredlandscape of ancient
Epidauros.19.20-19.40 Peter Davies, Finding the Gap: Hellenistic
rural sanctuaries inPeloponnesian intensive survey19.40-20.00 , :
20.00-20.20 Discussion / Session 5B. Ritual Acts and Religious
Festivals 5B. Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 2/ 218.40-19.00 ,
19.00-19.20 , . 19.20-19.40 Annalisa Paradiso, The geography of the
Spartan sacrifices for war19.40-20.00 Discussion / 10 11. Sunday 1
April 2012 1 2012Session 6A. The Sacred and Social Identity 6A.
Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 1/ 109.00-09.20 Katerina
Psimogiannou, Places of memory in the Final NeolithicPeloponnese:
An interpretive approach of social and mortuary
practices09.20-09.40 , 09.40-10.00 Jackie Whalen, Looking at an
austere identity in the sacred landscapesof Sparta10.00-10.20 ,
10.20-10.40 , . 10.40-11.00 , : 11.00-11.20 Discussion /
11.20-11.40 Tea/Coffee Break Session 6. Reading Sacred
Paraphernalia and Votives 6. Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 2/
209.00-09.20 Stavros Oikonomidis, Through the eyes of the idols:
Cults of the imageand preconceptions in LN and EH Peloponnesian
finds09.20-09.40 , : 09.40-10.00 Alexandra Alexandridou, Dedicating
and Sacralising in the archaicsanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia,
Poros.10.00-10.20 Vicky Vlachou, Aspects of ritual performance
during the Early Iron Agein the sanctuary of Apollo at Amyclae: The
evidence of the pottery10.20-10.40 , 10.40-11.00 , 11.00-11.20
Discussion / 11.20-11.40 Tea/Coffee Break 11 12. Session 7. Sacred
Landscapes and the Formation of Cultural, Political and Ethnic
Identity 7. , Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 1/ 111.40-12.00 Aris
Tsaravopoulos and Chrysanthi Gallou, Contextualising thereligious
landscape of Kythera from the Geometric to the Roman
times12.00-12.20 James Roy, Lykaion, the sacred mountain of
Arkadia12.20-12.40 Elisavet Sioumpara, The sanctuary of Asclepius
in Messene and thepropaganda of the Messenian identity12.40-13.00
Nicholas Kalospyros, Stepping on to Sacred Scenery or
SacredLandscape: Towards the Identity of Place Description of
thePeloponnesian Examples in Pausanias Periegesis13.00-13.20
Olivier Gengler, Time in space: Memory and identity in the
religiouslandscape of Roman Peloponnese13.20-13.40 Discussion /
13.40-16.00 Lunch Break / Session 7B. a) Holy Place, Sacred Acts
and Regional Identity, b) Oracular Sanctuaries 7B. ) , , ) Chair/:
tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 2/ 211.40-12.00 Ann-Louise Schallin,
Mycenaean identities and ceremonies at Dendraand Midea in the
Argolid12.00-12.20 Adele Scafuro, Sacred landscapes in ancient
Thouria: Roamingidentities/commemorative and appropriated
continuity12.20-12.40 Adolfo Domnguez and Csar Fornis, Thyreatis:
Ritual Combatswithin a Sacred Landscape12.40-13.00 , 17 18 .
13.00-13.20 -, 13.20-13.40 Andronike Makres, The sanctuary of
Ino-Pasiphae at Thalamai(Messenian Mani)13.40-14.00 Discussion /
14.00-16.00 Lunch Break / 12 13. 16.00-16.40 Session 8. Poster
Communications 8. Venue/ : Lecture Room 1/ 1Session 9. Sacred
Nature and Sacred Landscape 9. Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture Room 1/
116.40-17.00 , 17.00-17.20 , . 17.20-17.40 , 17.40-18.00 ,
18.00-18.20 , , , : (2011-12)18.20-18.40 Discussion / Session 9. a)
Anthropological Approaches to the Study of the Sacred in the
Peloponnese; b) Modern Approaches to the Preservation and Promotion
of the Sacred in the Peloponnese 9. , ) Chair/: tbcVenue/ : Lecture
Room 2/ 216.40-17.00 , : , . 17.00-17.20 , :M 17.20-17.40 ,
17.40-18.00 Richard Witt, The diachronic religious landscape of the
Peloponnesianshepherd18.00-18.20 Francesca Luongo, The Artemis
Orthia Sanctuary at Sparta: New lighton the middle 7th century B.C.
temple18.20-18.40 , 2006-200913 14. 18.40-19.00Discussion /
19.00-19.30Final Discussion and Closing Ceremony of the Conference
Venue/ : Lecture Room 2/ 214