The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the NYU-PSL Global Alliance present
Insularities: An Interdisciplinary Diachronic Investigation, Workshop V
Mediterranean and Caribbean Island Populations and Migrations
Organized by Joan Breton Connelly (NYU), Francois de Polignac (École Pratique des Hautes Études) and Antonis Kotsonas (ISAW)
Friday, May 3, 2019
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Second Floor Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
9:00am-10:40am
Welcome and Introduction
Joan Breton Connelly, Francois de Polignac, Antonis Kotsonas
Vanished and Displaced Populations in the Myths of Greek Islands
Francois de Polignac (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
Frictive Liquid: Movement and its Absence in Island Prehistory
Tom Leppard (Florida State University)
Seeing the Fragments/Whole
Christopher Winks (Queens College, CUNY)
11:00am-12:30pm
Linguistic Remnants of Racial Contact in Colonial Barbados: The Historical Record up against Lived Lives
Renée Blak (NYU)
Repeating Islands: Relation, Remittance, and Caribbean Modernity
Ana Dopico (NYU)
Islands of Movement: The Aegean Sea and Crete from WWI to the Present
Elektra Kostopoulou (Rutgers University/New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Discussion
1:30pm-3:30pm
Migration Stories and Island Archaeologies: The Dorians on Crete?
Antonis Kotsonas (ISAW)
The Making of an Archipelago: The Cyclades and Aegean Migration Routes from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age
Irene Sanchez (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Coastal Migrations in Multiple Scales of Time and Space: Case Studies From Greece and India
Thomas Tartaron (University of Pennsylvania)
4:00pm-5:30pm
Archaeologies of Mobility and Migration: Lessons from Cyprus
Joan Breton Connelly (NYU)
Final Discussion
This conference is co-sponsored by NYU-PSL Global Alliance, ISAW, NYU Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Department of Classics, Africana Studies Program in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora, Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, and the Friends of Yeronisos.
This conference is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.
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Mediterranean and Caribbean Island Populations and Migrations
