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

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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

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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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