Tappeh Sialk Conference
Provisional Programme
2nd-3rd July 2018
Asia House, London
Organised by IHF, in association with BIPS
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 |