| Tuesday 10 April 2012 | |
| 9.00-9.15 | Registration |
| 9.15-10.00 | Professor John Robb, University of Cambridge: Keynote talk |
| The represented body in material culture | |
| Chair: | D. Bolger, O. Kouka |
| 10.00-10.30 | How big is a life-sized griffin? Scale and bodily representation in the Bronze Age Aegean (J. Bennet) |
| 10.30-11.00 | The performative body and social identity in the room of the fresco at Mycenae (A. Chapin) |
| 11.00-11.30 | Turning into stone: rock art and the construction of identities in ancient Thrace (S. Pilavaki) |
| 11.30-12.00 | Coffee break |
| 12.00-12.30 | The figurines of Thermi, Lesbos. Form and function (O. Filianotou) |
| 12.30-13.00 | Body biographies: figurines of the Early Bronze Age southern Aegean (Y. Papadatos) |
| 13.00-13.30 | Thoughts on the funerary use of the EBA Cycladic painted figurines (D. Goula) |
| 13.30-14.00 | Figurines and complex identities in Bronze Age Cyprus (D. Knox) |
| 14.00-16.30 | Lunch |
| The beautified body: experience and performance of embodied identities |
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| Chair: A. Chapin, O. Philaniotou |
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| 16.30-17.00 | The Epipalaeolithic identity expressed through the perforated shell-beads from Haua Fteah cave in Cyrenaica, Libya (A. Antoniadou) |
| 17.00-17.30 | Picrolite and other stone beads and pendants: New forms in an old material during the transition from the Chalcolithic to the Cypriote Bronze Age (G. Georgiou) |
| 17.30-18.00 | Coffee break |
| 18.00-18.30 | Dressed to impress: metal objects, anthropomorphic representations and the construction of embodied identities in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus (M. Mina) |
| 18.30-19.00 | "It's war, not a dance": polarising embodied identities in the eastern Mediterranean from the end of the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (M. Mikrakis) |
| Wednesday 11 April 2012 | |
| Material culture and the body: constructing identities | |
| Chair: N. Kourou, D. Pilides | |
| 9.00-9.30 | Embodied vessels (D. Urem-Kotsou) |
| 9.30-10.00 | Pots and people: an investigation of objects as indexes of selfhood in Early Bronze Age Cyprus (J. Webb) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Pot marking in potters' views (K. Christakis) |
| 10.30-11.00 | Nuptial vases in female tombs? Aspects of funerary behaviour during the Attic Late Geometric period (V. Vlachou) |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| Material culture and the body: evoking the senses | |
| Chair: M. Iakovou, J. Whitley | |
| 11.30-12.00 | The mind's hand: manufacture and tactile engagement with Minoan clay figurines (C. Murphy) |
| 12.00-12.30 | Beyond the prestige object: experiencing Mycenaean metal vessels (S. Aulsebrook) |
| 12.30-13.00 | Handlers and viewers. Some remarks on the process of perception of terracotta figurines on the example of Cypriot 'Goddesses with Upraised Arms' (K. Zeman-Wiśniewska) |
| 13.00-13.30 | Big brands in the Bronze Age: Decorative containers of precious commodities and their role in constructing social identity (L. Bushnell) |
| 13.30-16.00 | Lunch |
| Material culture and the body: de-constructing identities | |
| Chair: J. Bennet, K. Lorentz | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Re-making the self: bodies, identities and materialities in Chalcolithic Cyprus (D. Bolger) |
| 16.30-17.00 | Secondary burials and the construction, performance and communication of group identities in the eastern Mediterranean between the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC: a pilot study (L. Girella, S. Todaro) |
| 17.00-17.30 | From body to no-body? Embodied identities & the performance of fire rituals in the Late Bronze Age Aegean (Y. Galanakis) |
| 17.30-18.00 | Coffee break |
| 18.00-18.30 | Composite, created, partial and floating bodies: a re-assessment of the Knossos Temple Repositories Assemblage (A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw, F. Stevens) |
| 18.30-19.00 | Burning people, breaking things: material entanglements, the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition and the Homeric dividual (J. Whitley) |
| 20.30 | Dinner |
| Thursday 12 April 2012 | |
| The physical body and the construction of embodied identities
Chair: L. Girella, J. Webb |
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| 9.00-9.30 | Grasping identity: theoretically informed human bioarchaeology in the eastern Mediterranean (K. Lorentz) |
| 9.30-10.00 | Headshaping at Tell Nader (S. Fox & K. Kopanias) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Polydactyly in Chalcolithic figurines from Cyprus (S. Fox, C. Winkelmann, M. Gamble, L. Konstantinou) |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-11.30 | Constructing identities through ageing the body in the prehistoric Aegean: the view of the human remains (S. Triantaphyllou) |
| 11.30-12.00 | Pickled bodies: funerary jars and new social identities in Middle Bronze Age Crete (B. Legarra Herrero) |
| 12.00-12.30 | Spatial and temporal variability in identity and representation within the Bronze Age cemeteries of Knossos, Crete (E. Hatzaki) |
| 12.30-13.00 | Bodies, persons, images at the onset of the Mycenaean era (S. Voutsaki) |
| 13.00-15.30 | Lunch |
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Negotiating embodied identities in space Chair: E. Hatzaki, S. Voutsaki |
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| 15.30-16.00 | Gatherings, bodies and lithics: Social interactions at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lakonis I cave, southern Peloponnese, Greece (P. Elefanti, E. Panagopoulou) |
| 16.00-16.30 | Burying sediments building up identities in Early Bronze age tholos tombs of Crete (E. Galli) |
| 16.30-17.00 | Collective selves and funerary rituals: Mycenaean dromoi as spaces of negotiation and embodiment of social identities (N. Papadimitriou) |
| 17.00-17.30 | Professor Kostas Kotsakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Concluding remarks |
