The 3rd Pisidia Conference:<\/p>\n
The interaction of Pisidia with the \u2018Outside World\u2019<\/p>\n
21-22 November 2024
\n9.30-17.30
\nBilkent Library \u2013 Art Gallery<\/p>\n
Archaeologists have long recognized the crucial role of interregional interaction in the development and cultural dynamics of ancient societies, particularly in terms of the evolution of socio-cultural complexity and economic systems. There is a general agreement that societies rarely, if ever, are isolated from each other, and developments in one cannot, therefore, be understood without reference to events occurring within contemporary interaction partners. Social inequalities, differences in status, context and professions, as well as geopolitical (im)balances hardly made matters a playing field of equal opportunities.<\/p>\n
The third Pisidia Conference aims to examine wide-ranging phenomena such as movement, social mobility and migration, economic and symbolic exchange, and material interaction in their role as catalysts for or witnesses of variability in the societies and communities of our study region \u2013 Ancient Pisidia \u2013 throughout Antiquity. The conference will answer questions such as with whom interactions were taking place, under what circumstances, and what the effects were, by examining different categories of archaeological evidence, ranging from structural remains, over material culture and numismatics, to prosopography, and applying different frameworks of conceptualisation.<\/p>\n