Brève n° 90
12th INTERNATIONAL AEGEAN
CONFERENCE
At the University of Melbourne, 25-29 March 2008
The context of feasting includes the use of
courts and palaces, tombs, elite houses, extra-urban sanctuaries, and other
special buildings that served as feasting centers, interpretations of feasting
representations and feasting as metaphor in iconography as well as in Bronze
Age texts, paraphernalia, and deposits - including floral, faunal and residue
remains as well as pottery and discussions of consumption patterns. There is
also interest in the symbolic, religious (such as sacrifice & warfare), economic
(mobilizing resources), social (forming relationships or identity), ethnic
identity (Aegean consumption practices abroad, such as Mycenaean IIIC1b
feasting ware), and ideological aspects (legitimation of elite identities or
promotion of community bonds) of feasting.
The Conference is being organized by the
University of Melbourne, the University of Liège and the Australian
Archaeological Institute at Athens. The proceedings of the conference will be
published in Aegaeum. Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège.
Organizing Committee :
Louise HITCHCOCK (University of Melbourne)
Robert LAFFINEUR (Université de Liège)
Janice CROWLEY (Australian Archaeological
Institute at Athens)
Sponsors :
Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
(AAIA)
Australasian Society for Classical Studies
(ASCS)
Brunetti
Classical Association of Victoria (CAV)
Ian Potter Foundation
Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
Neos Kosmos
Palgrave Macmillan
Shelmerdine Winery
Touchdown Tours
DATE DE PUBLICATION EN LIGNE : 11 JUIN 2008