Conference Programme

Celebrate CHAT @Patras 2023
 Friday 3rd of November
10:00-12:00Walking Tour in Contemporary Patras by Nikoletta Palaiologou/ Guided tour in the Museum of Science and Technology by Peni Theologi Gouti
TIMEDay 1_Museum of Science and Technology, University of Patras
12:30-14:00Registration
14:00-14:15Welcome
14:15-14:30Emma Dwyer, Research Communities, Perspectives and Leadership Outside Universities in 20 Years of CHAT
14:30-14:45Tis Zamler Carhart, Vitaly Zamler, The End of a Rwandan village: Methodological Considerations in     Emergency Archaeology
14:45-15:00Iain Davidson, Harry’s Wall: What Value Contemporary Culture?
15:00-15:15Anna Browne Ribeiro, The Archaeology of Blackness in Brazil: A Regional Comparative Approach
15:15-15:30Tania Manuel Casimiro, João Luís Sequeira, Joel Santos, The Archaeology of Stray Cat Care
15:30-15:55Discussion (Session Chair Miriam Rothenberg)
15:55-16:30Break
16:30-16:45Miriam Rothenberg, Sole-searching: A Peripatetic Exploration of Historic Bootscrapers on the East Side of Providence, RI
16:45-17:00Nadia Maha-Bizoumi, A Dress on the Railings: Discarded Materialities, Multiple Reading
17:00-17:15Markos Katsianis, L. Costaki, A. Theocharaki, Archaeological Sites as Urban Spaces. Situating Circulation and Movement in the Western Hills of Athens Over the Long-term and During the Recent Pandemic
17:15-17:30Discussion (Session Chair Tania Manuel Casimiro)
17:30-17:40Mini Break
17:40-18:30Lara Band, Jobbe Wijnen, Celebrating CHAT memories – a creative postcard initiative
18:30-18:40Roundtable Discussion: CHAT’s Present and Future (Chair Bill Caraher)
18:40-21.30Party
 Saturday 4rd of November
TIMEDay 2_Conference and Cultural Center, University of Patras
9:30-9:45Bill Caraher, Grace Erny, Dimitri Nakassis, Survey Archaeology and Contemporary Greece
9:45-10:00John Cherry, Alex R.  Knodell, Early Modern and Contemporary Archaeology in the Southern Aegean: Contributions from the Small Cycladic Islands Project
10:00-10:15Elena Mamoulaki, The Role of Space and Materiality in the Social Production of Social Memory and Political Identity: From the Ethnography of Memory to an Anthropology of History
10:15-10:30Niels Andreasen, Cleo Gougoulis, Nota Pantzou, Myrsini Pichou, The Pantopoleio in Ano Gatzea: Establishment, Operation and Decline of a Greek Mountain Village Shop 1920-1990
10:30-10:45Katerina Chatzikonstantinou, Stelios Lekakis, Underground monuments of pain
10:45-11:10Discussion (Session Chair Rachael Kiddey)
11:10-11:40Break
11:40-11:55Lucija Klun, Nick Shepherd, Counter-archiving the Balkan Route
11:55-12:10Johannes Jungfeisch, Archaeological Perspectives on the Materiality of Migrant Labour in Contemporary Greece
12:10-12:25Emma Beatrice Farina, Confined on the Adriatic. Archaeology of a migrant holding facility in South-eastern Italy: the “Regina Pacis
12:25-12:40Marek E. Jasinski, Andrzej Ossowski, Kate Spradley, Graves Seek Names and Faces – Interdisciplinary Forensic Research
12:40-13:00Discussion(Session Chair Bill Caraher)
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-14:15Lara Band, Rubbing the Ungraspable to Burst
14:15-14:30Irini Gratsia, Eleftheria Eleftheraki, Buildings Are Like Friends
14:30-15:00Lucy Carr-McClave, ‘A Small Document of Archaeology’: To What Extent Can ExperimentalArt Filmmaking Be Used to Illustrate Alternative Perspectives of Archaeological Practice?
15:00-15:30Break
15:30-16:15Discussion (Session Chair Angela Piccini)
TBCOptional Dinner
 Sunday 5th of November
TIMEDay 3_Conference and Cultural Center, University of Patras
9:30-9:45Morwenna Potter, John Schofield, David Jenkins, Norman Bird, UK Nuclear Heritage: Developing New and Practical Approaches to a Complex Industrial Landscape
9:45-10:00Dan Lee, Energy Landscapes: Archaeologies for Net Zero
10:00-10:15Stavros Vlizos, Natasa Chytiri, Industry Then, Heritage Now: A Case of Contemporary Archaeology in Corfu City
10:15-10:30Discussion (Session Chair Nota Pantzou/Cleo Gougoulis)
10:30-10:45Harriet Crisp, Surface Assemblages: Space and Time in the Audio-Visual Work of Andrew Kötting
10:45-11:00Aileen Ogilvie, Excavating Sounds of Place
11:00-11:15F. Anichini, S. Basile, G. Gattiglia, V. Lochu, C. Sciuto, Coexistence and Resurgence in the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy). Reflections on the Idea of Abandonment in an Upland Area
11:15-11:30Discussion (Session Chair Jaime Almansa Sanchez)
11:30-12:00Break
12:00-12:15Erin Riggs, Documenting Contentious Contemporary Landscapes: Integrating Systematic, Humanistic, and Politically Engaged Approaches
12:15-12:30Zena Kamash, Zhala Amin, Annae Ferrey, Omar Jassam, Emma Palmer-Cooper,
Layla Salih, Ethical Approaches to Heritage in Conflict: Exploring the Nexus of Crafting, Heritage and Wellbeing in Iraq
12:30-12:45Eliana Martini, Representations of Desecrated Churches in Post-1974 Northern Cyprus:
the Case of the ‘Lost Heritage’ Exhibition (2009)
12:45-13:15Discussion/Closing Remarks (Session Chair Dan Lee)
TBCWalking Tour by Nickoula Kougia