A full day of lectures by nine archaeologists, from Universities in Ontario, will each present an illustrated lecture on the results of their recent field work in the Aegean.

Sponsored by the Hellenic Republic and the Greek Communities of Canada, The Archaeology Centre of the University of Toronto, and The Royal Ontario Museum.

LECTURES:

10:30 am - Introduction: Paul Denis, ROM

Chair - 1st session: Professor Carl Knappett, Art, University of Toronto

10:40 am - Professor James Conolly, Anthropology, Trent University
Of Blades and Arrows: Hunters and Farmers of Antikythera in the Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

11:10 am - Dr. Jill Hilditch, Art, University of Toronto
As Far as the Eye Could See - Islandscapes and Community Space in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades

11:40 am - Professor Tristan Carter, Anthropology, McMaster University
Body Politics: Adornment and Identity in the Later 3rd Millennium BC Southern Aegean

12:10 pm - Professor Vance Watrous and Matt Buell, Classics, Buffalo University
Gournia 2008-2009: Revealing a Minoan Town on the Aegean Coast

12:40 - 2:00 pm - Lunch

Chair - 2nd session: Professor Maria Shaw , Art, University of Toronto

2:00 pm - Professor Joe Shaw, Art, University of Toronto
Tracing the Ancestry of the Minoan Hall System

2:30 pm - Professor Rodney Fitzsimons, Classics, Trent University and Dr. Evgenia Gorogianni
As the Tide Turns: Local Responses to Pan-Aegean Cultural Changes at Ayia Irini, Keos

3:15 pm - Professor Angus Smith, Classics, Brock University
The Humble Dead: Mortuary Ritual in the Minoan/Mycenaean Hinterland

3:30 - 4:00 pm - Coffee Break

4:00 pm - Professor Carl Knappett, Art, University of Toronto
Network thinking in the Aegean Bronze Age

4:30 pm - Professor Dimitri Nakassis, Classics, University of Toronto
Apocalypse or Liberation? Narratives of Collapse in the Greek Late Bronze Age

5:00 pm - Lectures Conclude