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Eurasian Steppe Symposium

Final Conference Schedule

DAY ONE - FRIDAY, February 10, 2006
2500 Posvar Hall

9:00 - 9:30 am: Opening Remarks

  • Robert Hayden
  • Provost James V. Maher
  • Bryan Hanks

9:30 - 10:30 am: Keynote Address

  • Colin Renfrew (Cambridge University, UK) [abstract]

10:30 - 10:40 am: break

Session 1: Issues in the Emergence of Social Complexity in the Steppe Region

Session Chair: Kathy Linduff

  • 10:40 – 11:00: Michael Frachetti (University of Washington at St. Louis) [abstract] [paper]
  • 11:00 – 11:20: Laura Popova (University of Chicago) [abstract] [paper]
  • 11:20  – 11:40 David Anthony (Hartwick College) [abstract] [paper]

20 minute break

  • 12:00 – 12:20  Andrei Epimakhov (Southern Ural State University) [abstract] [paper]
  • 12:20  – 12:40: Bryan Hanks (University of Pittsburgh) [abstract] [paper]

12:40 – 12:55 pm: Session Discussants – Sandra Olsen and Kathleen Allen (University of Pittsburgh)

12:55 – 1:10 pm: General Discussion

1:10 – 2:30 pm: Break for Lunch

Session 2: Mining, Metallurgy & New Socio-Economic Foundations

Session Chair: Michael Rosenmeier

  • 2:30  – 2:50: Evgenij Chernykh (Institute of Archaeology, Moscow)
  • 2:50 – 3:10: Philip Kohl (Wellesley College) [abstract] [paper]
  • 3:10 – 3:30: Jianjun Mei (University of Science and Technology, Beijing) [abstract] [paper]

20 minute break

  • 3:50 – 4:10: Han Rubin (University of Science and Technology, Beijing) [abstract] [paper]
  • 4:10 – 4:30: David Peterson (University of Chicago) [abstract] [paper]

4:30– 4:45 pm: Session Discussants – Katheryn Linduff and Michael Rosenmeier (University of Pittsburgh)

4:45 – 5:05 pm: General Discussion

DAY TWO - SATURDAY, February 11, 2006
2500 Posvar Hall

9:00 – 9:10 am: Opening Remarks

  • Bryan Hanks

9:10 – 10:00 am: Keynote Address

  • Ludmila Koryakova (Ural State University, Russia) [abstract] [paper]

Session 3:  Trajectories of Hierarchy, Social Organization and Political Authority 

Session Chair: Robert Drennan

  • 10:00 – 10:20: Jean-Luc Houle (University of Pittsburgh) [abstract] [paper]
  • 10:20 – 10:40: Francis Allard (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) [abstract] [paper]
  • 10:40 – 11:00 William Honeychurch (Gettysburg College) [abstract] [paper]

20 minute break

  • 11:20 – 11:40: Christian Peterson (University of Pittsburgh) [abstract] [paper]
  • 11:40 – 12:00 Gregory Indrisano (University of Pittsburgh) [abstract] [paper]

12:00 – 12:15 pm: Session Discussant – Robert Drennan & Olivier de Montmollin (University of Pittsburgh)

12:15 – 12:30 pm: General Discussion

12:30 – 2:00 pm: Break for Lunch

Session 4: Theorizing Frontier Dynamics: China and the Eurasian Steppe

Session Chair: Bryan Hanks

  • 2:00 – 2:20: Tom Barfield (Boston University) [abstract] [paper]
  • 2:20 – 2:40: Gideon Schelach (Hebrew University, Israel) [abstract] [paper]
  • 2:40 – 3:00: Emma Bunker (Denver Art Museum) [abstract] [paper]
  • 3:00 – 3:20: William Fitzhugh (Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History) [abstract] [paper]

3:20 – 3:35 pm: Session Discussants – Anthony Barbieri-Low and Marc Bermann (University of Pittsburgh)

3:35 – 3:55 pm: General Discussion

20 minute break

Session Chair: Bryan Hanks

4:15 – 4:45 pm: Round Table Discussion

SUNDAY, February 12, 2006

- Participants depart for Airport –

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