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Tappeh Sialk and Ancient Kashan Revisited
​​Conference
Event Details
Conference Report
Tappeh Sialk Conference
Provisional Programme
​2nd-3rd July 2018
Asia House, London

Organised by IHF, in association with BIPS

Monday 2nd July
10.30-11.00
 Registration, tea & coffee 
11.00-11.10
Welcome Address ​​- Dr John Curtis (CEO, IHF)
​11.10-11.25
Dr Robert Bewley (University of Oxford) - ‘Introduction to the EAMENA project’
11.25-11.35
Dr Dan Lawrence (University of Durham) - ‘Introduction to Durham's work on Iran’
11.35-11.45
Dr Bijan Rouhani (EAMENA) - ‘Introduction to EAMENA Training programmes’
11.45-12.25
Presentations by Iranian trainees: Maliheh Chamany, Dr Saman Heydari-Guran, Dr Hamidreza Jayhani, Armineh Kaspari-Marghussian
12.25-12.40​
EAMENA Q&A
12.40-13.40
Lunch
13.40-13.50​
Introductions to conference from Vahid Alaghband (IHF) and Prof. Charles Melville (BIPS)
13.50-14.10
Dr John Curtis - ‘An introduction to Tappeh Sialk’
14.10-14.35
Dr Toby Wilkinson (University of Cambridge) - ‘Tappeh Sialk in time and space: ecology and connectivity’
1435-15.00
Dr Michael Danti (American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston) - ‘The connections between Tappeh Sialk and Hasanlu’
15.00-15.25
Prof. Stephan Kroll (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich) - ‘A note on the late Iron Age double-handled tankards from Sialk’
15.25-15.55​
Tea & coffee
15.55-16.20​
Armineh Kaspari-Marghussian (University of Durham) - ‘Sialk North: Continuity and change in pottery manufacture’
16.20-16.45​
Dr Sima Yadollahi (independent scholar) - 'Symbols and styles on Sialk III Pottery and their roles in understanding cognitive systems'
 
End of day 1

Tuesday 3rd July
09.15-09.45
 Registration, tea & coffee 
09.45-10.10
Dr François Bridey & Dr Julien Cuny (Louvre Museum) - ‘Tappeh Sialk in the Louvre: material and
archives from the Ghirshman excavations’
10.10-10.35
Prof. Barbara Helwing (University of Sydney) - ‘Proto-Elamite sites in highland Iran: the state of
research in Tappeh Sialk and Arisman’
10.35-11.00
Tea & coffee
11.00-11.25
Dr Fereidoun Biglari (National Museum of Iran) - ‘Paleolithic hunter-gatherers at the edge of the
central desert: archaeological evidence from the Kashan region’​
11.25-11.50
Prof. Roger Matthews ‘The Significance of Tappeh Sialk within the Neolithic of Iran’
11.50-12.15​
Prof. Hassan Fazeli Nashli (University of Tehran) & Dr Jebrael Nokandeh (Director, National Museum
of Iran) - ‘The chronology of Sialk North and Sialk South’​
12.15-12.40
Dr Nima Nezafati (Islamic Azad University) - ‘Ancient Mining and Archaeometallurgical Studies at Sialk: a comparison with Arisman’
12.40-13.40
Lunch
13.40-14.05
Prof. Oliver Watson (Oxford University) - ‘The early Islamic period at Kashan’​
14.05-14.30
Dr Jebrael Nokandeh & Prof. Hassan Fazeli Nashli - ‘A strategy for future excavation at Tappeh Sialk’Tea & coffee​
14.30-15.00​
Tea & coffee
15.00-15.25
Dr Mohsen Javeri (University of Kashan) - ‘The challenges and limitations of preserving Tappeh
Sialk’​
15.25-15.50
Hossein Mahlouji (Bonyad-e Farhang-e Kashan) - 'Significant Achievements of the Kashan Cultural
Heritage Foundation (Kashanica)'​
15.50-16.50
Discussion
 
End of conference​
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