Conference will take place on Wednesday 10th April & Thursday 11th April 2013 at Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Tuesday 9th April 2013
1900-2100 Reception at The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, Cambridge
Opening of Exhibition: Creativity In The Bronze Age – A Response.
Work by Mary Butcher, Susan Kinley, Helen Marton, Syann van Niftrik, Julian Stair, Sheila Teague and Gary Wright
Wednesday 10th April 2013
0830-0900 Registration Open
0850-0900 Welcome by Dr Jo Sofaer
Morning Session 1
0900-0940 Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) – Time, Creativity and History
0940-1000 Lene Melheim (University of Gothenburg) – Bronze Age copycats, creatvity and the problem of the prototype
1000-1020 Sheila Kohring (University of Cambridge) – A case for the one-off: Improvisation, innovation and the rise of the specialist?
1020-1040 Sebastian Becker and Tim Flohr Sørensen (University of Cambridge and University of Aarhus) – Creativity as Cultural Critique: Bronze Age design idioms and their variation
1040-1055 Discussions
1055-1125 Morning Coffee and Refreshments – Cripps Gallery
Morning Session 2
1125-1145 David Fontijn (University of Leiden) – Larger than life?
1145-1205 Heide W. Nørgaard (University of Aarhus) – The Hand that Crafted: Between theory and reality In Bronze Age Metalwork
1205-1225 Anne Lehoerff (University of Lille) – The imaginary crested helmet of Vercingétorix: what is ’creativity’ in Bronze Age metal production?
1225-1245 Flemming Kaul (The National Museum of Denmark) – The Nordic razor as a medium of creativity
1245-1300 Discussions
1300-1400 Lunch – Cripps Gallery
Wednesday 10th April 2013
Afternoon Session 1
1400-1440 Janis Jefferies (Goldsmiths, University of London) – Creative Interpretations: material culture and visual perception
1440-1500 Helen Marton (Falmouth University) – Resonant Objects. Inextricable and Inevitable
1500-1520 Ann Kelcey (Ceramicist) – Creativity: an exploration through the Bronze Age and contemporary responses to the Bronze Age
1520-1540 Alison Sheridan and Kate Verkooijen (University of Exeter) – Archaeological Interpretations of Craftworking and “The Châines that Bind…”
1540-1555 Discussion
1555-1625 Afternoon Coffee and Refreshments – Cripps Gallery
Afternoon Session 2
1625-1645 Linda Hurcombe, Robert van de Noort and Brian Cumby (University of Exeter) – Creativity as ‘sink or swim’ decision-making: a comparative reflection of the Bronze Age and contemporary creative process of building a sewn-plank boat
1645-1705 Robert Lee (University of Southampton) – Thinking in Four Dimensions: Functional Creativity and Style in the Late Bronze Age Tool
1705-1725 Peter Bray (University of Oxford) – Creative accounting: Stretching and displaying tin in the Early Bronze Age
1725-1745 Peter Skoglund (University of Gothenburg) – Rock-art and creativity at the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age
1745-1800 Discussion
1800 Conference Day One Closes
1930 Conference Dinner Magdalene College
Thursday 11th April 2013
Morning Session 1
0900-0940 Julian Stair (University of Westminster) – Why make pots today?
0940-1000 Maja Gori (University of Heidelberg) - Pottery making and creative process between the Early and the Middle Bronze Age in western Macedonia
1000-1020 Antonio Blanco-Gonzalez (University of Durham) – Exploring creativity in Bronze Age pottery in central Iberia (Spain): inspirational sources and meaningful craftsmanship
1020-1040 Jozef Bátora (Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava) – Clay as a material for creative elaboration in the Early Bronze Age in the Carpathian region
1040-1055 Discussions
1055-1125 Morning Coffee and Refreshments – Cripps Gallery
Morning Session 2
1125-1145 Antoinette Rast-Eicher (Archeotex) – At the beginning was the fibre
1145-1205 Mary Ann Owoc (Mercyhurst University) – Woven into Being: Cord Decorated Ceramics and Creative Improvisation
1205-1225 Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer, Maarten R. van Bommel, Ineke Joosten (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) – Dyed or not dyed: That is the question! Investigation of coloured Bronze Age textiles from Europe
1225-1245 Karina Grömer (Natural History Museum Vienna) – Colour, Pattern and Glamour in Bronze Age Textiles
1245-1300 Discussions
1300-1400 Lunch – Cripps Gallery
Thursday 11th April 2013
Afternoon Session 1
1400-1440 Bengt Molander (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) – Creativity and Knowledge
1440-1500 Hans Reschreiter (Natural History Museum Vienna) – Bronze Age Hallstatt – a plenty of inventions – but no innovation?
1500-1520 Maikel Kuijpers (University of Cambridge) – Creative Copies; the importance of repetition for creativity
1520-1540 Nona Palincaş (New Europe College Fellow, Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest) - Creativity and the Making of a Pottery Decoration Style In Middle Bronze Age Transylvania (ca. 2000-1500 B.C.E.)
1540-1555 Discussion
1555-1625 Afternoon Coffee and Refreshments – Cripps Gallery
Afternoon Session 2
1625-1645 Timothy K. Earle, Viktória Kiss, Attila Kreiter, Gabriella Kulcsár, Borbála Nyíri, Vajk Szeverényi (Northwestern University, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungarian National Museum, National Heritage Protection Centre, Budapest, University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History Móra Ferenc Museum, Szeged) - Ceramic technology, design and creativity in Bronze Age Hungary: (re)constructing changes in material culture
1645-1705 Daria Ložnjak Dizdar (Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb) – The fibula – a clothes fastener or a decorative item – creativity in the crafting of the first clothes fasteners in Pannonia in the 12th c. BC
1705-1725 Carola Metzner-Nebelsick (University of Munich) - Creativity versus taboo in Late Bronze Age Europe
1725-1745 Erik van Rossenberg (University of Leiden) – Forging relationships with Vollgriffdolche: tournaments of value, boundary work and Early Bronze Age network changes in Central Italy
1745-1800 Discussion
1800 Conference Ends
Poster Presentations – Cripps Gallery
Wednesday 10th April & Thursday 11th April 2013
Peter Brugger (University of Southampton) – How 3 dimensional rapid prototyping technologies can aid appreciation of Bronze Age archaeology
Bill Crumbleholme (Beakerfolk Pottery) – A modern Approach to Making Ceramic Vessels that Appeal to the Clients’ Desires
Rachel Faulkner-Jones, Dr Madga Midgley, Prof Ian Ralston (University of Edinbugh) – Waterways and Strange Places: the creative use of landscape for non-funerary depositions in Bronze Age Scotland
Stephanie Koerner (University of Manchester) – Creativity and the Dynamics of the Actual and the Possible in Bronze
Viktoria Kiss, Péter Barkóczy (Institute of Archaeology, Budapest, University of Miskolc, Hungary) – Creativity and technological choices: Studies on local metal production during the Middle Bronze Age of western Hungary
Per Nilsson (University of Stockholm) – Creativity or Kitsch? A discussion of artistic and other responses to Bronze Age Rock Art
Camille Shepherd (University of Winchester) – Creative Expression in Hoard Deposition
Nickolay B Shcherbakov, I.A. Shuteleva, T.A.Leonova, A.A. Golyeva, V.U. Lunkova, L.A. Kraeva (Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Archaeological Museum, Orenburg Pedagogical University) – The Ceramic Complex as reflection of intercultural exchange of the Late Bronze Age tribes of the Southern Transurals
Zahed Tajeddin (University of Westminster) – Egyptian faience is described as “The First High-Tech Ceramic” (Vandiver and Kingerey, 1987)
Simon Timberlake (University of Cambridge) – The use of experimental archaeology as a means to understand the craft of creating and alloying metal and the simple casting of objects, as practised at the beginning of the British Bronze Age
