On 20 and 21 November 2023, members of the Archaeological Mission at Çuka e Ajtoit, Julian Bogdani and Nadia Aleotti, will take part in the international conference “Between History and Archaeology: Corcyra and the Epeiros. New Data and Research Perspectives” at the University of Calabria. The event programme follows.
The conference proceedings can be followed online via the Microsoft Teams platform. Please send a request to julian.bogdani@uniroma1.it to connect.
Event programme
Monday 20 November
University Club - UniCal
09.15 Welcome address, Raffaele Perrelli. Director of DiSU, UniCal
09.30 Introduction, Maria Intrieri (University of Calabria)
10.00 Catherine Morgan (University of Oxford)
Shaping a peraia: comparative reflections from Early Iron Age and Archaic Corcyra and Leukas
10.30 Adolfo Domínguez Monedero (Universidad Autόnoma de Madrid)
Corcyra, the mainland (ἔπειρος) and the construction of its territorial layout
11.00 Discussion
11.15 Break
11.30 Georgia Pliakou (Hellenic Ministry of Culture/Ephorate of Antiquities of Thesprotia)
“…τῇ κατὰ Κέρκυραν ἠπείρῳ”. Tracing the relations between Korcyra and Thesprotia through the archaeological evidence
12.00 Enrico Giorgi (Alma Mater University of Bologna)
Continental perspectives. The relations between Butrint and Corcyra in light of new research
12.30 Claudia Antonetti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Nadia Aleotti (Sapienza Università di Roma)
A late-Archaic graffito from the acropolis of Butrint
13.00 Discussion
Museo dei Brettii e degli Enotri Cosenza
15.30 Welcome address, Franz Caruso (Mayor of Cosenza)
15.45 José Pascual González (Universidad Autόnoma de Madrid)
From the Peraia to Cestrine: “Trojan” identity and federalism in the Corcyra Channel
16.15 Julian Bogdani (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Cestria between Corcyra and Epirus. New research at Çuka e Ajtoit
16.45 Milena Melfi (University of Oxford)
The site of Dobra/Vagalat and the Hellenistic world: recent research and future prospects
17.15 Discussion
17.30 Giuseppe Lepore (Alma Mater University of Bologna)
Tombs of Corcyreans on the mainland: relations between the island and the peraia in the Hellenistic period
18.00 Jessica Piccinini (University of Macerata)
Corcyrean presence at Phoinike
18.30 Discussion
18.45 Guided visit to the Museum led by Director Maria Cerzoso
Tuesday 21 November
University Club - UniCal
09.15 Giovanni Parmeggiani (University of Trieste)
Towards a rereading of some Herodotean passages on Corcyra
09.45 Nadia Aleotti (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Corcyra and Epirus in the Archaic and Classical periods: the contribution of the archaeology of cults
10.15 Lavinio Del Monaco (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Corcyra, there and back again: further remarks on Corinthian-derived civic registration criteria
10.45 Break
11.00 Ugo Fantasia (University of Parma)
Rome and Corcyra in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC: a review of the evidence
11.30 Discussion
11.45 Closing remarks, Giovanna De Sensi Sestito (formerly University of Calabria)