Bilkent Archaeology Day
\nFriday 26 April<\/p>\n
You are kindly invited to participate to the Bilkent Archaeology Day 2024 on
\nImmortalising the Essence: Portraiture for Private and Public Spaces<\/p>\n
on Friday 26 April
\nat 14:00-17:30
\nArt Gallery, Main Campus Library<\/p>\n
GE points will be given<\/p>\n
The representation of the face with its features and its expressions has always reflected the choice of the artists, or those who commission the piece, the intention and function of the artwork, and the beliefs of the time and the culture when it was fashioned.
\nSome such portraits were destined for the darkness of the tomb, as were the plastered and painted skulls of the Neolithic or in different time and place, the portrayals of the deceased on Fayum mummy portraits. Others were for the bright light of public and private spaces, infused for example with the sober grandeur and dignity of Assyrian and Hittite kings or Roman emperors.<\/p>\n
Yet all were intended to immortalise the essence of the person they portrayed and to capture the soul and character through portraiture, whether idealised or realistic, whether inspired by ritual or political factors. Such will be the focus of the 6th annual Bilkent Archaeology Day.<\/p>\n
Since the creation of the Bilkent Archaeology Day, the event is divided into two main sessions dedicated to the same topic: this year as well, the Club of Archaeology will organize in the morning a Students Symposium with the participation of students from Mimar Sinan University and of Ahi Evran University. In the afternoon, the department will hold the conference where faculty members will present their research, as well as colleagues from other universities or institutions and alumni.<\/p>\n
Prof. R.R.R. Smith will launch the afternoon Symposium as a keynote speaker and will talk about The Styled Self: Portrait Honours in Context at Aphrodisias in Caria.<\/p>\n
All the talks will be recorded on the YouTube channel of the department.<\/p>\n
Program
\nMorning Session: Students Symposium<\/p>\n
10.00-10.20
\nOpening Speeches<\/p>\n
10.20-10.40
\nFatma Zehra Demirci (Bilkent University)
\nFace Off: Political and Religious Mutilation in Portraiture in Long Late Antiquity<\/p>\n
10.40-11.00
\nBuse Acar (Bilkent University)
\nEarthly Faces, Celestial Bodies: Roman Emperors and Their Depictions with Zodiac Signs<\/p>\n
11.00-11.20
\nElif Aze Bol (Bilkent University)
\nSex and Age Identification through Examination of Cranium in Skeletonized Remains
\nForensic Anthropological Approaches<\/p>\n
Q&A<\/p>\n
11.30-11.50
\nCoffee Break<\/p>\n
11.50-12.10
\nMert Akkaya (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University)
\nThe Place of Women in Byzantine Society: Byzantine Empresses<\/p>\n
12.10-12.30
\n\u0130smail Ceylan (Ahi Evran University)
\nAnguished Facial Expressions in Ancient Sculptures<\/p>\n
12.30-12.50
\nSelman O\u011fuzcan \u00dcnal (Bilkent University)
\nThe Many-Faced Emperor: Did Constantine the Great\u2019s Face Become a Spolia in Re?<\/p>\n
Q&A<\/p>\n
Afternoon Session: Department Symposium<\/p>\n
14:00 \u2013 14:40
\nKeynote speaker: Bert Smith (Bilkent University)
\nThe Styled Self: Portrait Honours in Context at Aphrodisias in Caria<\/p>\n
Q&A<\/p>\n
14:50 \u2013 15:10
\nAli Metin B\u00fcy\u00fckkarakaya (Hacettepe University)
\nPigments, Lime and the Earth:Constructing portraits and maintaining collective past in the Tepecik-\u00c7iftlik neolithic community<\/p>\n
15:10 \u2013 15:30
\nEmma Baysal (Ankara University, DTCF)
\nThe face as a canvas: body augmentation as identity creation in prehistory<\/p>\n
Q&A<\/p>\n
15:40 \u2013 16:00
\nCoffee break<\/p>\n
16:00 \u2013 16:20
\nElif Denel (ARIT)
\nAncestors as Actors of Social (Dis)Order in Iron Age Assyria and Neighboring Polities<\/p>\n
16:20 \u2013 16:40
\nM\u00fcge Durusu-Tanri\u00f6ver (Temple University, Philadelphia)
\nPortraits of Political Power in Late Bronze Age Anatolia<\/p>\n
16:40 \u2013 17:00
\nJulian Bennett (Bilkent University)
\nImmortalising an Enigma: the Funerary Monument of Severius Acceptus<\/p>\n
17:00 \u2013 17:20
\nCaroline Thomas (Curator, Louvre Museum, Egyptian Art Department)
\nDepicting the Dead: Lifelike Paintings on Mummy Panel Portraits from Roman Egypt<\/p>\n
Q&A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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