Conference in Volos/Greece: Argonauts

By: Hatto Fischer, City of Volos

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Volos Municipal Center for Historical Research and Documentation

13th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities

University of Thessaly Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology

Volos, 21-24 / 10 / 2004

THE LANDS OF THE AEGEAN AND THE BLACK SEA:FROM THE ARGONAUT EXPEDITION TO BLACK SEA CO-OPERATION

International scientific meeting

The Volos Municipal Center for Historical Research and Documentation (DIKI), together with the 13th Ephorate of Prehistoric & Classical Antiquities and the Department of History, Archaeology & Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly, has organised an international scientific meeting under the title "The Lands of the Aegean and the Black Sea: From the Argonaut Expedition to Black Sea Co-operation".

This meeting will take place in Volos, 2004 Olympic City, from 21 to 24 October 2004. The sessions will be held in the "G. Kordatos" amphitheatre of the University's "Papastratos" complex, on the waterfront, and the official languages of the meeting will be English, French and Greek.

The object of the meeting is scientific documentation of the relations down the ages of the inhabitants of the Aegean region with the lands surrounding the Black Sea. Discussion topics include: Institutions, economic relations, social organisation, acculturation and cultural identity, relations with co-habitant populations and local political authorities, and relations with the rest of the Hellenic world. A parallel meeting will be devoted to the possibilities of organising future collaborations in the cultural and economic fields.

THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER

Giannis Kordatos Amphitheatre, Papastratos Building

19:30 Welcome - Formal Opening of Proceedings by the Mayor of Volos

Introductory speech given by A. Mazarakis-Ainian, member of the scientific committee

FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER

1st Morning Session

 

10:00-10:20 Christos Dumas, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, Indications of early contacts between the Aegean and the Black Sea

10:20-10:40 Prof. Dr Hayat Erkanal, Historian, Ankara University.

The cultural and economic relations of the Izmir region with the Eastern Mediterranean and the Caucasus during Prehistoric ages.

10:40-11:00 Dr G. Tsetskhladze, Archaeologist,

Greeks in the Black Sea in the Archaic and Classical periods:

Colonisation, political and social institutions and acculturation

11:00-11:20 Dr Revaz Pauashvili and Prof. Vakhtang Licheli, Centre for

Archaeological Studies, The Aegean region and Colchis - Early relations

11:20-11:40 Discussion

11:40-12:00 Break

 

2nd Morning Session

 

12:10-12:30 Prof. Michael Vickers and Dr Eminar Kakhidze,

Pichvnari: a Greek settlement in Colchis of the fifth century BC

12:30-12:50 Prof. Dr Nicolay Ovtcharov, Archaeologist,

The rock city of Perperikon – Thracian capital in the Rhodope massif

12:50-13:10 Prof. Jan Bouzek PhD, DrSc., Institute for Classical Archaeology, Charles University, and Dr L. Domaradzka, Emporion Pistiros between the Aegean and the Black Sea

13:10-13:30 Discussion

 

Afternoon Session

 

18:00-18:20 Mikhail Treister, Dr. habil., Archaeologist, The Archaeological Institute of Leipzig University, 4th Century BC Bronze Hydriai of the "Patras Group" in the North Pontic area

18:20-18:40 Dr Catherine Morgan, Department of Classics, King's College London, Attic pottery in the Taman peninsula, South Russia: What, When and Why?

18:40-19:00 Break

19:00-19:20 Yvon Garlan, Professor Emeritus, University of Rennes,

Trade in amphorae in ancient Greece between the Aegean and the Black Sea in the Classical and Hellenistic periods

19:20-19:40 Argyroula Intzesiloglou, Director of the Archaeological Institute for Thessalic Studies, wine is imported into Pontus from our parts, from Peparethos (Demosthenes, Reply to Lakritos' Special Plea, XXXV 35)

19:40-20:00 Dr Vassiliki Adrymi, Archaeologist, Director of the 13th Ephorate of Prehistoric & Classical Antiquities, Mythical Iolkos and the Argonauts

20:00-20:20 Dr Alan Greaves, Archaeologist, Archaic Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea.

20:20-20:45 Discussion

21:00 Inauguration of the exhibition of anthivola used by the Hionadite Painters (Spieerer Building)

SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER

Morning Session

 

10:00-10:20 Prof. (Assoc.) Ivan Rusev, PhD, Historian, Department of Balkan History, University of Varna, Bulgaria, The Eastern Question and the beginning of consular penetration into Bulgarian ports on the Black Sea (18th - 19th c.)

10:20-10:40 Dr Shtelian Sterionov, Senior Research Fellow, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Population Studies

Demographic aspect of the Greek ethnic presence in the region of the northern Bulgarian Βlack Sea coast during the Bulgarian national revival period

10:40-11:00 Andreas Lyberatos, Research Historian, Associate of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno.

Political, social and demographic aspects of the history of the Greek Orthodox Community in Varna (19th c.)

11:00-11:20 Prof. (Assoc.) Varban Todorov, Historian, The Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgaria. The fate of Varna's antiquities. An episode of Bulgarian-Greek relations at the end of the 19th century.

11:20-11:40 Paraskevas Konortas, Historian, University of Thessaly

The Hellenic element in Eastern Rumelia (late 19th - early 20th c.: Demographic approximations)

11:40-12:10 Break

12:10-12:30 Prof. Olga Cicanci, PhD, Historian, University of Bucharest-School of Archaeonomy, Romania

Relations between the Black Sea and Aegean regions through the Greek Diaspora from the Romanian territories (17th - 19th c.)

12:30-12:50 Anton Beziris, Professor, Master Mariner, Dean of Navigation Faculty, Romania, Hellenic Settlements and Ports on the East Coast of the Black Sea. The present territory of Romania: Tomis (Constanta).

12:50-13:10 Iakovos Aktsoglou, Lecturer, Demokritos University of Thrace

Information on the Province (vilayet) of Trabzon from its official Yearbook (Salnâme) for the year 1296 AH (AD 1879)

 

Afternoon Session

 

18:00-18:20 Vasilis Kardasis, Historian, University of Crete

Economic activity and social behaviour of the Greeks in Southern Russia, 18th - early 20th century

18:20-18:40 Evridiki Sifnaiou, Research Historian, NHRF and Prof. (Asst.) Vasilis Kolonas, Architect, University of Thessaly

The Greek contribution to the building of Odessa

18:40-19:00 Dr Ada Dialla, Research Historian, University of Athens Historical Archives.

Minority education and state policy: the Greeks of Southern Russia (late 19th c.)

19:00-19:20 Dr Kira Kaurinkoski, Historian, Member of the French School of Athens

From the former Soviet Union to Greece: Post-perestroika immigrants of Greek origin and their relationship with the nation

19:20-19:45 Discussion

19:45-20:00 Break

20:00-20:45 Closure of proceedings by scientific committee members V. Adrymi and P. Konortas - Discussion

21:00 Guided tour of the "Prowess against Pelias" exhibition in the new wing of the Archaeological Museum of Volos

22:00 Reception at the Archaeological Museum

SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER

10:00 Archaeological site of Demetrias

11:00 Tsalapata Brickworks Museum

12:00 Presentation of a model of the Argo by the City of Volos (Volos Exhibition Centre, Pedion tou Areos)

GUEST PROGRAMME

FRIDAY: Guided tour of the archaeological sites of Sesklo and Dimini.

SATURDAY: Shopping in Volos.

The meeting is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture.

Information: Volos Municipal Center for Historical Research and Documentation

Tel.: 2421039644, 2421021664

Fax: 2421022927

e-mail: diki@ diki.gr

 

Website: Argonauts Conference in Volos/Greece