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SUMMARY:Comparing Cyprus and Sicily: Scientific Approaches
DESCRIPTION:The international workshop Comparing Cyprus and Sicily: Scientific Approaches takes place at Durham University on 26–27 March 2026\, bringing together scholars from across Europe to explore the long-term historical\, environmental and cultural trajectories of two Mediterranean islands through comparative and interdisciplinary scientific perspectives. \n\n\nCyprus and Sicily\, both shaped by mobility\, exchange\, resource exploitation and layered histories\, offer rich case studies for understanding island societies in the Mediterranean world. Across two days\, the workshop examines themes including prehistoric and historic landscapes\, copper production\, ceramics\, archaeozoology\, archaeobotany and human–environment interactions\, highlighting both parallels and productive contrasts between the two islands. \n\n\nCyprus features prominently throughout the programme\, with a strong presence of Cypriot and Cyprus-based researchers from the University of Cyprus\, the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus\, and international institutions. Their work places Cyprus at the centre of contemporary Mediterranean research\, in dynamic dialogue with parallel case studies from Sicily. \n\n\nThe workshop culminates in the keynote lecture Cyprus and Sicily: Shared Identities by Anastasia Christophilopoulou\, offering a reflective perspective on island identities\, memory and cultural connections across the Mediterranean. \n\n\nThe workshop is supported by Durham University\, the University of Liverpool\, the Leverhulme Trust\, and the Cultural Section of the Cyprus High Commission. \n\n\nProgramme \n\n\nDay 1 — Thursday\, 26 March 2026 \n\n\n09:45–10:00 \n\n\nWelcome and introduction \n\n\nC. de Lisle\, M. Giobbe\, B. Pestarino \n\n\nSession 1: Comparative Perspectives \n\n\n10:00–12:20 \n\n\n\n\n10:00–10:35 \nLisa Briggs (Barca Archaeology Ltd) \nDNA and organic residue analysis of shipwreck artefacts from Sicily and Cyprus: expect the unexpected \n\n\n10:35–11:10 \nVictor Klinkenberg (University of Cyprus) \nA Decade at Palloures: New Perspectives on Chalcolithic Cyprus \n\n\n11:10–11:45 \nJosé María Martín Civantos (University of Granada) \nLandscape transformations in Western Sicily from the Islamic conquest \n\n\n11:45–12:20 \nAngus Graham (University of Uppsala) with Kristina Winther-Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen) \nCyprus\, a copper island-scape: a view from Life at the Furnace \n\n\n\n\nSession 2: Survey and Landscapes I \n\n\n\n13:20–15:05 \n\n\n\n\n13:20–13:55 \nOliva Menozzi (University of Chieti) \nThe MPM Project: from Survey to Archaeometry \n\n\n13:55–14:30 \nGiovanni Scicchitano (University of Bari) \nCoastal transformation under rising and falling seas: examples from Eastern Sicily \n\n\n14:30–15:05 \nKarl Smith (University of Oxford) \nLarge-scale GIS coastal analysis and harbour “affordance”: a Sicilian/Cypriot comparison \n\n\n\n\nSession 3: Ceramic Analyses \n\n\n15:20–17:40 \n\n\n\n\n15:20–15:55 \nSergios Menelaou & Edyta Marzec (Fitch Lab\, BSA; NCSR “Demokritos”) \nMultidisciplinary approaches and research advances on ancient and preindustrial ceramics from Cyprus \n\n\n15:55–16:30 \nSimona Todaro (University of Catania) \nLiving under the volcano: an holistic approach to pottery production studies \n\n\n16:30–17:05 \nMarcella Giobbe (University of Cyprus) with N. S. Müller\, A. Charalambous\, D. Ioannides\, A. Georgiou \nCultural interconnections and interregional exchange in the Late Bronze–Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean: science-based ceramic evidence from Cyprus \n\n\n17:05–17:40 \nRoberta Mentesana (Universitat de Barcelona) & Veronica Testolini (Independent) \nFrom Hearth to Kiln: a journey through Sicilian ceramics from the Neolithic to the sixteenth century (Online) \n\n\n\n\nDay 2 — Friday\, 27 March 2026 \n\n\nSession 4: Archaeozoology and Osteoarchaeology \n\n\n09:45–12:05 \n\n\n\n\n09:45–10:20 \nAngelos Hadjikoumis (The Cyprus Institute) \nA kaleidoscope of human–animal interactions on a large Mediterranean island: a long-term review of Cyprus \n\n\n10:20–10:55 \nVeronica Aniceti (University of Tor Vergata\, Rome) \nThe role of animals in the Arab Agricultural Revolution in Al-Siqilliyya (Online) \n\n\n10:55–11:30 \nDemetra Aristotelous (Department of Antiquities\, Cyprus) \nPeeping through the keyhole: osteoarchaeological insights from a Hellenistic tomb in Limassol\, Cyprus (Online) \n\n\n11:30–12:05 \nRoberto Miccichè (University of Palermo) \nZooarchaeological perspectives on religion and society in Western Sicilian Greek sanctuaries (Online) \n\n\n\n\nSession 5: Archaeobotany \n\n\n13:05–14:15 \n\n\n\n13:05–13:40\n\nClaudia Speciale (Palermo) \nHumans and vegetation on the biggest island of the Mediterranean: archaeobotany and Sicily’s environmental history (Online) \n\n\n13:40–14:15 \nMaria Rousou (Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory\, Athens) \nEvolutionary history of the Cypriot flora and vegetation cover (Online) \n\n\n\n\nSession 6: Survey and Landscapes II \n\n\n14:25–16:10 \n\n\n\n\n14:25–15:00 \nThanassis Vionis (University of Cyprus) & Giorgos Papantoniou (Trinity College Dublin) \nLandscape archaeology and its allied sciences in the Xeros River Valley\, Larnaka\, Cyprus \n\n\n15:00–15:35 \nMatteo Randazzo with Margherita Riso (Independent) \nSacred Landscape Sicily Project (2022–23): phenomenological approaches and digital technologies \n\n\n15:35–16:10 \nRalph Vandam (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) \nLandscape and environmental changes in Cyprus \n\n\n\n\nKeynote Lecture \n\n\n16:20–17:05 \n\n\nAnastasia Christophilopoulou (MFA) \n\n\nCyprus and Sicily: Shared Identities \n\n\n17:05–17:30 \n\n\nPlenary discussion
URL:https://cypriotfederation.org.uk/event/comparing-cyprus-and-sicily-scientific-approaches/
LOCATION:Durham University\, D104 Dawson building\, Durham\, DH1 3LE\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cyprus High Commission Cultural Section":MAILTO:info@culturalchc.co.uk
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