22 October

09.30 – 10.00     Registration and coffee
10.00 – 10.15      Welcome and introduction

Session 1: Personhood and Identity
10.15 – 10.45      Filippos Roussos
Dying to be a Man: grave goods and masculine identities in early Iron Age Crete
10.45 – 11.15       Nicholas Aherne
Death, the transfigured body, and personhood at Roman Baalbek-Heliopolis:a shimmering spectacle in the City of the Sun
11.15 – 11.45        Sam Cleymans
Grave good assemblages as evidence for the relational and atomised self: a comparative study from Roman Imperial, late Roman and middle Byzantine Sagalassos
11.45 – 12.15       Courtney A. Ward
The little things she had loved in life: approaching the identity of Roman children through grave goods and gifts

12.15 – 13.30 Lunch (organised for speakers)

Session 2: Grave Goods and Society
13.30 – 14.00     Banu Özdilek
Death and society at Issos–Epiphaneia: sociological structure, beliefs, rituals,warfare, professions, and bioarchaeological insights from Crusader–Armenian burials
14.00 – 14.30      Jennifer Riley
It sounds silly, but…
14.30 – 15.00      Christina Holdgaard Schultze
Pots, people, and practice: a geochemical case study of the late Bronze Age – early Iron Age pottery from the urnfield of Wapse, Drenthe

Poster Lightning Sessions
15.00 – 15.45

Marlis Arnhold
Jonas Frick
Ilvy P. Paierl
Raffaele Rizzo
Paula Rothmund
Nina Schreuder
Kaja Stemberger-Flegar
Jack Tillman

15.45 – 16.15 Coffee

16.15 – 17.30 KEYNOTE LECTURE: PROF. MIKE PARKER PEARSON
Interactions with the afterlife: grave goods in perspective

17.30 – 18.30 Drinks
18.30 – 20.30 Dinner (organised for speakers)

Friday 23 October

09.30 – 09.45 Doors open and coffee

Session 3: Theory and Space
09.45 – 10.15      Mariusz Gwiazda
Ritual logic in the deposition of grave goods: evidence from the Blemmyan Cemeteries at Berenike
10.15 – 10.45      John Turco
Actions then identity: perspectives on grave goods in the reconstruction of funerary ritual in Roman Pisidia and the Kibyratis
10.45 – 11.15      Femke Lippok
A place for everything: spatial symbolism in early Medieval mortuary archaeology

11.15 – 11.45 Coffee

Session 4: Objects for the Dead
11.45 – 12.15      Matthias Kalisch
Safe travels? The use and function of coins in the funerary practices of a Roman city far from Rome
12.15 – 12.45      Matthias Hoernes
Funerary fake food: lead implements, terracotta food, and (im)permanence in Pre-Roman Southern Italy

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch (organised for speakers)

14.00 – 14.30     Kallirroi Polymenidou
Roses for the dead: a funeral rite performed by collegia in Roman Macedonia
14.30 – 15.00     Min Lin
The Ancestor with multiple identities in Eastern Zhou burials
15.00 – 15.30 General discussion and conclusion