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Programme
VENUE
Bryggens Museum, Dreggsalmenningen 3, Bergen, tel +47 55 58 80 10
Venue in Bergen and conference registration at 1200 Thursday the 22. of November
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| Thursday | |
| 12.00-13.00 | Registration at Bryggens Museum |
| 12.00-13.00 | Opening of the conference by Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Gunnstein Akselberg and welcome by Prof. Ingvild Øye |
| 14.30-14.00 | Anssi Paasi: "Space, power and practice: Regions as historically contingent processes" |
| 14.00-14.30 | Marcia-Anne Dobres: “The Phenomenal World of Ice Age Technology and Art: On Embodying Chaînes Opératoires and the Materiality of Personhood” |
| 14.30-14.50 | Randi Barndon: “Handicrafts – local variation and regional landscapes. A case study from Iron Age Western Norway” |
| 14.50-15.00 | Discussion |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee and fruits |
| 15.30-15.50 | Håkon Glørstad: “The core of the house – Technological reproduction in Late Mesolithic Eastern Norway” |
| 15.50-16.10 | Lars Forsberg: “To contrast societies: the role of bifacial lithic technology in Southern and Northern Scandinavia” |
| 16.10-16.30 | Coffee and fruits |
| 16.30-17.00 | Chris Gosden: “The case of 'Celtic' art – technology beyond the region” |
| 17.00-17.30 | Discussion |
| 19.00 | Reception at Schøtstuene given by the City of Bergen |
| 20.00 | Dinner/buffet at Bryggens Museum |
| Friday | |
| 09.00-09.30 | Olivier Gosselain: "This is a local workshop for local people! The spatial and social embeddedness of Nigerien pottery traditions" |
| 09.30-09.50 | Eva Hjärthner-Holdar: ”Technological choices and technical changes” |
| 09.50-10.10 | Knut Andreas Bergsvik: “Lithic technology and social boundaries” |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee and fruits |
| 10.30-11.00 | Søren Sindbæk: “Reassembling regions. The social occasions of technological exchange in Viking Age Scandinavia” |
| 11.00-11.20 | Asbjørn Engevik: “Asbestos regions and soapstone regions – regional diversity in Norway in the Late Roman and Migration Periods” |
| 11.20-12.00 | Discussion |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-13.20 | Lars F. Stenvik: "Iron technologies in a regional perspective – Norwegian cases" |
| 13.20-13.40 | Ørjan Engedal: “Knots, Threads and Axes – Entangled trajectories on the western Scandinavian Peninsula, 1000 B.C.” |
| 13.40-13.50 | Discussion |
| 13.50-14.20 | Michael J. J. Rowlands: “Civilisations, Regions and Long Term Persistence and Irreversible Change” |
| 14.20-15.00 | Discussion – conference closing |
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