The first Euro-Japanese Colloquium on the Ancient Mediterranean World: exploring
Archaic Greece.
London March 16-18, 2005

WEDNESDAY 16TH MARCH
Room 248 Senate House

9.30

Coffee10-10.30 Catherine MORGAN (King's College London)
Opening remarks: 'Studying the eighth and seventh centuries. Twenty years after the"Greek Renaissance"'.

10.30-11.15

Mogens HANSEN (University of Copenhagen) and Frederick NAEREBOUT(Leiden University)"The Copenhagen Polis Centre: history of research and key contributions."

11.15-11.45

General Discussion

11.45-12.30

Yoshiaki NAKAI (Doshisha University, Kyoto)
The Emergence of Sparta.

12.30-12.45

Discussant: Hans VAN WEES (UCL)

12.45-1.30

General discussion

1.30-2.15 Lunch

2.15-3.00 Takeo HASEGAWA (Kamakura Women’s University)“How to make a polis - a case of Megalopolis”
3.00-3.30 Discussants: James ROY (University of Nottingham)
Thomas Heine NIELSEN (University of Copenhagen)3.30-4.15 General discussion and tea

4.15-5.00 Akiko MOROO (Chiba University of Commerce)“State-formation and Literacy: A Comparative Study”
5.00-5.15 Discussant: Rosalind THOMAS (University of Oxford)

5.15-6.0 General discussion

6.0

Akira MATSUDA (University College London/University of Tokyo)
Presentation on Japanese historical/archaeologicalresearch at Somma Vesuviana (near Pompeii), Italy

7.30

Dinner

THURSDAY 17TH MARCH
Wolfson Room Senate House (Institute of Historical Research)

9.30-10.15

Makoto MIYAZAKI (University of Oxford)"Body Culture as a Political Culture in Archaic Greece"

10.15-10.30

Discussant: J.K. DAVIES (University of Liverpool)

10.30-11.15

General discussion and coffee (served in the Common Room, third floor, SenateHouse)

11.15-12.00

Mariko SAKURAI (University of Tokyo)“The Beginning of the Agora as a Public Space in Classical Athens”

12.00-12.15

Discussant: Peter RHODES (University of Durham)

12.15-1.00

General discussion

1.00-2.00 Lunch(Common Room)

2.00-2.45 Misato NAGAO (Nagoya University)“Delos and its role in the formation and development of the polis”
2.45-3.15 Discussants: Christy CONSTANTAKOPOULOU (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Barbara KOWALZIG (University College Oxford)

3.15

General discussion followed by tea in the Common Room

At 4.30 pm, Participants are cordially invited to the University of London Ancient History Seminar (thisterm on "New work on the Hellenistic Period", organised by Céline Marquaille, KCL and Riet vanBremen, UCL) in Room 331, Senate House.

Riet van BREMEN (UCL) "Lycians and Karians: a new interpretation of the temple frieze at Lagina"
The seminar is followed by drinks in the 3rd floor common room, ICS; those who wish to join the London
historians for an informal dinner afterwards will be most welcome.

FRIDAY 18TH MARCH
Wolfson Room Senate House (Institute of Historical Research)

9.30-10.15

Taisuke OKADA (Takachiho University)“Interrelation and integration of coastal and inland communities in post-MinoanCrete”

10.15-10.45

Discussant: Alan JOHNSTON (UCL) followed by a general discussion

10.45-11.15

Coffee (Common Room)

11.15-12.00

Shigeo YAMADA (University of Tsukuba)“Assyrian Trading Colonies in the East-Mediterranean Coast: An Aspect ofAssyro-Greek Contact”

12.00-12.45

Discussant: Amelie KUHRT (UCL), followed by a general discussion

12.45-1.30

Lunch (Common Room)

1.30-2.15 Yoshiyuki SUTO (Nagoya University)“Egypt and the Aegean in the Archaic Period:A View from the Other Side of theMediterranean”
2.15-3.00

Discussant: Alexandra VILLING (The British Museum) followed by a general
discussion.

3.00-3.45 Peter HAARER (University of Oxford)

"The Epigraphical Archive of Anne Jeffery"

3.45-4.15

Tea (Common Room)

4.15-5.0

Closing session
Simon HORNBLOWER (UCL) will offer some closing reflections, to be followed bya general discussion.

At 5pm the Directors of the Institute of Classical Studies invite all participants for drinks in the Institute.