Fragile Networks: Connection and Disconnection in the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

9.20 – Introduction & Welcome 

Session 1 (Chair: Cathie Draycott) 

9.30 – Matt Thompson – Beyond Thermopylai: Cultural and diplomatic connections between Sparta and the Near East

10.00 – Michael Loy – The Fragile Empire? Connectivity and Control in the Athenian Tribute Lists

10.30 – Tanja Romankiewicz – "But to the Greeks a spiral is a spiral": Connection and Disconnection in Early Greek and Early European Celtic Art

11.00 – Steph Black – The False Isolation of Early Iron Age Southeast Arabia

11:30 - COFFEE BREAK  

Session 2 (Chair: Ted Kaizer) 

12:00 – Gary Watson – The Establishment of ‘Good Order’? Urban Networks and State Formation in Syria from the Seleucid Collapse and Pompey’s Settlement of the East to the reign of Augustus

12:30 – Tom Sale – gnyʾ, gnyt, and Genneas: Tracing a Divine Term Across the Roman Near East

1:00 – Juliet Samson-Conlon – The Forgotten Networks: Locating Children and Childhoods on the Roman Frontier - the Evidence from Dura-Europos

1:30-2:30 LUNCH 

Session 3 (Chair: Michael Loy) 

2:30 – Ayse Batman – Persistence of Pottery Traditions and Networks of Distribution in North-Central Anatolia during the Hellenistic Period [hybrid]

3:00 – Graham Philip – The World Beyond the Ells: Connections across the Arid Zones of Southwest Asia in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages

3:30 – Niamh Bowie – Maternal Kinship in Neolithic Northern Syria

4:00 – COFFEE BREAK 

4:30 – Roundtable discussion (led by Cathie Draycott)

5.00 – Close