NYU Tel Aviv along with The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation (IL), Tel Aviv University, and the Israel Antiquities Authority present
Caesarea Maritima International Conference
Sunday, June 13- Tuesday, June 15, 2021
via MeetOnline
This conference will be broadcast live from Tel Aviv, Israel. Please use this link to view the conference online: https://meetonline.co.il/single/SmallEvent/?Host=IsraelAntiquitiesAuthority
(All times below are given in Eastern Daylight Time)
Day 1: June 13, 2021
7:00am Opening Gala at the Vaults
8:15am Greetings – Caesar Yam venue
Session 1: Straton’s Tower and Sebastos along the Levantine Coast
Chair: Ayelet Gilboa
9:00am The Meaning of Caesarea’s Foundation Myths | Naoise Mac Sweeney
9:20am After the Crisis: Phoenician Settlement Renewal during the Persian Period | Yiftah Shalev
9:40am Herod’s Harbor: A New Reconstruction | Jacob Sharvit and Bridget Buxton
10:00am Q&A
Session 2: The Urban Development of Caesarea
Chair: Yosef Porath
10:30am A Miqveh in an Urban Roman Villa at Caesarea Maritima | Joseph Patrich
10:50am Urban Development of Roman and Late Antiquity Caesarea Maritima | Peter Gendelman
11:10am Topography, Economy, and Religion at Two Ports in the Roman Mediterranean | Joseph Rife
11:30am Q&A
Session 3: Caesarea and the Province
Chair: Orit Peleg-Barkat
1:00pm Caesarea as a Roman Colony: Literary Texts and Inscriptions | Benjamin Isaac
1:20pm To Take Center Stage: Focal Points in Herodian Horticulture Architecture | Guy Stiebel
1:40pm Hilly Lords of the Middle Sea: Client Kingship and the Imperial Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity | Yifat Thareani
2:00pm Q&A
Day 2: June 14, 2021
Session 4: Caesarea - Between Conflicts and Coexistence: Religions and Communities
Chair: Joseph Geiger
8:00am Origen’s Newly Discovered Homilies as a Window into the Contacts and Competitions between the Religions in Third Century Caesarea | Maren Niehoff
8:20am Caesarea and the Great Revolt against Rome | Lawrence Schiffman
8:40am Eusebius' Concept of Christ as the Incarnate | Volker Drecoll
9:00am Q&A
9:20am Allegory as Battlefield of Religion: Exegetical Strategies in Eusebius of Caesarea and Porphyry | Irmgard Männlein-Robert
9:40am Caesarea: The Talmudic Evidence | Jeffrey Rubenstein
10:00am Q&A
Session 5: New Excavations and Research
Chair: Yardenna Alexandre
10:30am “Picking Up the Pieces”: Caesarea's Trade Networks during the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Periods in Light of a Ceramic Assemblage from the Western Façade of the Temple’s Platform | Yuval Hai
10:45am In search of the Elusive ‘Caesarean Clay Type’: Characterizing the Production of Bag-Shaped Amphorae during the Roman and Byzantine Periods through Ceramic Petrography and Technology | Liora Bouzaglou
11:00am An Early Roman-Period Burial Cave at Caesarea | Eriola Jakoel
11:15am King Herod’s Building Projects at Caesarea Maritima – a Close Look at Plasters and Bonding Materials | Meidad Shor
11:30am Q&A
Session 6: Caesarea: Traditions and Innovations in Material Culture Studies
Chair: Gideon Avni
1:00pm At the Front of and behind the Screen: Screen panels from Caesarea Maritima | Rivka Gersht
1:20pm Caesarea, Cathedral Church of St Peter - A Tale of Two (?) Churches | Vardit Shotten-Hallel
1:40pm A Byzantine Flushing Mechanism | Yeshu Dray
2:00pm Q&A
Day 3: June 15, 2021
Session 7: Sebastos and Caesarea - Research of the Harbors
Chair: Deborah Cvikel
8:00am Rethinking Built Harbors from the Iron Age to the Roman Period: A Typology of White Elephants? | Assaf Yasur-Landau
8:20am From Akko to Giza, Geoarchaeology of Mediterranean Harbors, New Avenues of Research? | Christophe Morhange
8:40am The Nature of the Pumiceous Ash and Tuff used for the Construction of the Sebastos Harbor | Yotam Asher
9:00am Q&A
Session 8: Caesarea and Heritage Management: Planning, Conservation and Reconstruction
Chair: Raanan Kislev
9:30am Caesarea Maritima as Israel's Flagship in - p.i.s.a (P.I.SS.A) Project of the Meda Heritage I, as Part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership | Yaacov Schaffer
9:50am Conservation in Caesarea 2015-2019 | Yoram Saad
10:10am Do Shelters Really Protect the Mosaics at Caesarea? | Yael Alef
10:30am Q&A
Session 9: Caesarea - Past, Present and Future
The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation and The Caesarea Development Corporations – a unique model of operation assuring the continuance of 140 years of pioneering by the Rothschild family in Israel
Chair: Vardit Gilor
11:00am Elli Booch, Director of Philanthropy, The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation
11:15am Michael Karasenti, CEO, The Caesarea Development Corporations
11:30am Concluding Reamrks