1 P.V. GLOB SEMINARS OF MATERIALS, CULTURE & HERITAGE SPRING 2013 January 14 th -15 th,, 9.00-17.00 both days - Conference Organiser: Felix Riede and his Sapere Aude project - Restricted audience, Richard Mortensen Room, Aarhus Campus January 17th-19th, two whole days - Workshop Interdisciplinary junior workshop in Viking studies. Organiser: Sara Croix - 12 participants - early career researchers primarily - Aarhus University s Marine Research Station in Rønbjerg, Limfjord area, Northern Jutland January Wednesday 30 th 10.30-17.00 Seminar Spatial, Cultural, Political, and Ethnic Discontinuity in the Iron Age Past Vulnerability -Volcanic eruptions and human vulnerability in traditional societies past and present An international conference - http://projects.au.dk/lapadis/past-vulnerabilityconference-2013/ http://cas.au.dk/forskning/forskningsprogrammer/materials-culture-and-heritage/juniorworkshop-viking-studies-jan-2013/ http://cas.au.dk/aktuel/arrangement/artikel/spatial-cultural-political-and-ethnicdiscontinuity/ Organisers: Katrine Balsgaard Juul and Mads Holst.
2 February Thursday 7th 16.00-18.00 Seminar Fortællinger fra udgravninger og feltarbejde 2012 Excavations and fieldwork taken place in 2012 will be reported in short form by staff and students, highlighting scientific results and events from the daily life, away from offices, libraries, laboratories and desks, while being committed to the practical archaeology of the field. Organisers: Andres Dobat & Helle Vandkilde Speakers: Staff and students. Language Danish. February Thursday 14 th 16.00-18.00 Lecture Mads Holst: Visions of collaborations between Museum and University at Moesgård - Visioner om samarbejde museum & universitet på Moesgård Associate Prof. Mads Holst has just commenced his new joint job as head curator at Moesgård Museum and university lecturer at AU. Mads will reveal for us the new possibilities inherent to this key position as well as concrete collaborative plans for the future. Language Danish: February Thursday 21 st 16.00-18.00 Lecture T.D. Price: "Doing Archaeological Science - with some thoughts on how the process happens, why it is important, and how to get it done Prof. T. Douglas Price, affiliated professor at the Department of Archaeology at AU, will give this lecture about his most recent accomplishments in archaeo-science and reveal to us his experiences with and thoughts on this cross-field. His expertise is precisely the interface between science and archaeology where he has been exploring, though laboratory work with renowned scientists, a number of issues in different prehistoric and historical periods and in different parts of the world.
3 Friday 1 st 13.00-15.00 Disinguished lecture Mark Aldenderfer: The Archaeology of Buddhism Prof. Mark Aldenderfer (University of California, Merced) is visiting professor at MCH for a period of 12 days. Apart from being the editor of the influential top-ranked journal 'Current Anthropology' his curriculum vitae is replete with high-impact research in a number of fields, such as The Archaeology of Buddhism. This is historical archaeology literally digging into a contested past in Asia. Thursday 7 th 16.00-18.00 Distinguished Lecture Mark Aldenderfer: Current Anthropology, world anthropology, and hegemonies of knowledge Prof. Mark Aldenderfer is the editor of Current Anthropology which publishes cutting-edge research in archaeology and anthropology across the world. His lecture will reflect on the editorial work on this prestigious and influential top-ranked journal while also debating the subject of world anthropology (including archaeology) and the current establishment of new hegemonies of knowledge. Friday 8 th 12.30-c.16.00 Seminar Cultural mobility: humans, animals, ideas, and things This seminar will explore cultural mobility in selected contexts by utilising a number of methods grounded in Science and the Humanities: Focus will be upon transhumance and other forms of human-animal mobility, as well as consider cases of appropriation of transcultural goods with a minimum of human movement. Speakers: Mark Aldenderfer, T.Douglas Price, Vladimir Stolba, Jens Andresen, Helle Vandkilde, Samantha Reiter.
4 Thursday 14 th 16.00-18.00 Mini seminar Jeanette Varberg & Sara Heil Jensen: Ideas behind an exhibition and other forms of museal dissemination Jeanette Varberg and Sara Heil Jensen will present their ideas of public dissemination of research results, in the setting of the New Moesgård exhibitions and the planned playing ground for children. Thursday 21 st 16.00-18.00 - Lecture PhD fellow Rune Iversen (KU): The late Funnel Beaker period and beyond an East Danish perspective Did the end of the Funnel Beaker culture cause a long-lasting period of decline or do we instead see a continuous cultural development towards the Late Neolithic? The third millennium BC constitute an interesting and very important period within South Scandinavia in which we see the social transformation from the Funnel Beaker tribal society to the establishing of new elite structures, characteristic of the early Bronze Age. Thursday 4 th 16.00-18.00 Mini seminar Jelling: New Discoveries new challenges Speakers: Mads Dengsø Jessen og Anne Pedersen NM, and Mads Holst AU From a number of media, it is well known that the iconic site of Jelling is currently yielding much new knowledge about Viking Age life at Harald's royal court. This mini seminar will present the news directly from the scholars of the Jelling project. Organiser: Mads Holst
5 Thursday 11 th 12.00-16.00 Seminar Bronze Age Seminar: The Turning Point 1600 BCE Birth of an Age of Transculturality The period around 1600 BC was in many parts of Europe a crucial turning point with a more or less radical cultural break with the preceding period. This seminar will explore this break from the Aegean over the Carpathian Basin to Scandinavia. The question will be posed of the potential impact of the Santorini vulcanic eruption which took place 1613 BCE. Speakers & discussants Walter Friedrich (Geo-Science AU), Knut Rassmann (RGK - DAI), Johan Ling (GU), Ingo Feeser (Archaeo-science CAU-Kiel), (AU), Annette Højen Sørensen (AU), Helle Vandkilde (AU), Kristian Kristiansen (GU). Campus Moesgård in Pejsestuen - Registration necessary to Helle Vandkilde before 10 th Thursday 18 th 16.00-18.00 Lecture Detlef Janzen: Valley of chthonic gods? Warfare, and ritual deaths at Tollense near Greifswald 1204 BCE The Tollense valley has yielded a huge number of skeletal parts from humans and horses in addition to ordinary weapons, notably wooden clubs and arrowheads of flint and bronze. In addition, quite a large number of objects of bronze, tin and gold have been retrieved from the river area; most finds and radiocarbon datings concentrating around 1200 BCE when the Urnfield culture became established all over Europe. One of the excavators Dr Detlef Janzen (state archaeologist, Landesamt für Kultur und Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) will present the multiplicity of new results. Organiser: Pauline Asingh & Helle Vandkilde Monday-Tuesday 29 th -30 th Interdisciplinary Conference Castles at War AD 1000-1600 http://www.borgforskning.org/2013/01/14/castles-at-war-ad-1000-1660/
6 Venue: Nyborg Castle, Funen, Denmark Organiser: Rainer Atzbach & The Danish Castle Research Association Power, Castle & Landscape May Thursday 16 th 15.15-18.00 - Seminar Housing culture between climatic and social challenges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe One of the main challenges in the context of present climate change is the adjustment of human habits to a more sustainable lifestyle in the next generations. This seminar will discuss awareness of challenges caused by climate changes and the field of interference between awareness and changes of habits in a long time perspective. It will in particular focus on the domestic area of life between 1100 and 1800 in the region from Central Europe to Scandinavia. A selection of papers by researchers dedicated to the upcoming research field of climate changes integrating scientific and historical/archaeological data will discuss human actions towards climatic changes in a humanistic point of view looking through the eyes of former generations. The cultural context of perceiving the world supposedly leads to consciously or unconsciously ignore or to respond on climatic aspects. But even the reactions can be caused by cultural bound values, habits and other traditions. Under which circumstances do people change their habits due to climatic changes? Organiser: Mette Svart Kristiansen May Wednesday 29 th 13.15-16.30 Seminar Urban Archaeology: Towards High Definition MCH seminar organized by the ENTREPOT project Evolving analytical techniques related to site biographies and artefact analysis allow new approaches to the study of cultural and economic networks in the past. The challenge of high-definition archaeology is transforming archaeology s ability to characterize the scale and pace of events and processes in the global and interregional dynamics of urbanization,
7 seafaring and colonization. The prospects are considered in the context of current work within the project Entrepot. Maritime Network Urbanism in Global Medieval Archaeology All interested welcome Campus Moesgaard Auditorium 5 Organiser: Søren Sindbæk Speakers: Søren Sindbæk, Ashley Coutu, Sarah Croix; Mateusz Bogucki All lectures and seminars will be announced separately on the MCH webpage