Fall
3 | 2016
newsletter
GRADUATE SCHOOL AT KIEL UNIVERSITY
EDITORIAL
Johannes Müller, Speaker of the Graduate School
March 2017 still seems far away. However,
we are already busy organizing the Graduate School’s fifth International Open Workshop, which we will hold next year in Kiel
from March 20–24. Maybe you would like to
submit a paper to one (or more) of the 19
sessions? The topical range is broad, reaching from prehistoric ceramics to quantitative
analysis and modelling in archaeology or
environmental history and heritage management. Please visit the workshop website
www.workshop-gshdl.uni-kiel.de for more information.
My special congratulations go to Annette Haug: She was awarded an
ERC Consolidator Grant. Her research project DECOR, focusing on Pompeii and Herculaneum, starts this fall. You will find further information
in this newsletter.
Since October, we have a new colleague at the Graduate School: Henny
Piezonka was appointed as a Junior Professor for Anthropological Archaeology. Welcome to Kiel and have a good start!
We also welcome our special guest this fall: Anthropologist Gary Rollefson is visiting the Graduate School until December. Especially if you
are interested in the processes of Neolithization in the Near East, you
should not miss the opportunity to get in touch with him.
I wish you a good winter semester!
and Gottorf director Claus von Carnap-Bornheim (from left). Martin
Klehs was particularly pleased about the scientific focus at the garden
show: “When excellent scientific research meets up with a horticulture
show, then the topics become accessible and experienceable for the
public. Hands-on science – where culture and nature meet – is beneficial”.
More information is available in the news section of the GS website:
www.gshdl.uni-kiel.de/news/exhibition-2016/
ERC GRANT FOR DECOR PROJECT
SHINING A LIGHT ON SCALES OF TRANSFORMATION
In late May, Kiel University was
granted the new Collaborative
Research Centre “Scales of Transformation”. The German Research
Foundation supports cutting-edge
research on human-environment
interactions in prehistoric and archaic societies with 12 million Euros during the next four years. Scientists from eight CAU institutes,
the Johanna Mestorf Academy, the
Centre of Baltic and Scandinavian
Archaeology and the Archaeological
State Museum Gottorf Castle participate in the collaborative project,
which was already initiated in July.
To celebrate this great success, the university tower was illuminated in
colors on one evening in June, showing the silhouette of a megalithic
tomb. The joint initiative by Project Lighthouse, the graphic department of the institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology and
the GS caused people to stop and stare at the corner of Westring and
Olshausenstraße.
GSHDL AT THE STATE HORTICULTURAL SHOW
From July 13–19, the GS brought science to the State Horticultural
Show (LGS) in Eutin. Nine PhD projects and other research activities
were presented using modules and multimedia presentations. In our
photo, Walter Dörfler explains one of the exhibition items to LGS manager Martin Klehs, GS member Wiebke Kirleis, CAU vice president Ilka
Parchmann, GS speaker Johannes Müller, secretary of state Rolf Fischer
Decorated room of the Casa degli Amorini Dorati, Pompeii. Photo: Haug
Fantastic news: GS member Annette Haug has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for research into Decorative Systems in Pompeii and
Herculaneum. Her project, “Decorative Principles in Late Republican
and Early Imperial Italy” (DECOR), has been granted two million Euros
in funding over a five-year period. Haug will receive support from the
GSHDL, where she acts as co-speaker. In the last competitive funding
round, only two ERC grants were awarded for humanities and social
sciences in Germany, one of which went to Annette Haug.
In the DECOR project, the research team working with Professor Haug
investigates how people in Italy visually embellished (i.e. decorated)
various areas of their antique world between the late Republic and
the end of the early Imperial period (2nd century BC to 1st century AD).
The term “decorate” encompasses all forms of design from murals to
mosaics and structural ornaments as well as sculptures. Individually,
these forms of design have all been studied extensively by archaeologists. Now, for the first time, the DECOR project attempts to examine all
elements and their combined effects. Haug and her team wish to apply
this new, holistic approach to houses, sanctuaries and main streets.
More information is available on the GS website: www.gshdl.uni-kiel.
de/news/erc-grant-for-decor/
CASTLES IN THE GROUND
The Graduate School’s „castle team“, Daniel Kossack and Stefan Magnussen, prospected two sites in South Jutland with geomagnetic
equipment in late June. Together with their fellow PhD student, René
Ohlrau, who has great expertise in geomagnetics, and several other
colleagues from Kiel they went to Nordborg on the island of Als/ Denmark and to Bollingstedt in the county of Schleswig-Flensburg. The results are promising. At Nordborg, they discovered a circular structure
in the ground where the main part of the castle is supposed to have
been located. In Bollingstedt, the foundations of a two-winged building
were detected in the area surrounded by a ditch. “We assume this to
be a typical building from the transitional time when castles changed
to mansions during the 16th century”, Stefan Magnussen explains. The
“castle team” plans to investigate more sites in the fall, hoping for comparably good results.
Stefan blogs about his research activities: https://casles.wordpress.com/
STAFF & PERSONAL NEWS
Doctoral student Uta Lungershausen passed her disputation on “Late
Holocene aeolian activity and landscape development in a northern
German inland dune system – An approach to spatially reconstruct
past landscape dynamics using geoarchaeological records and scientific visualization techniques” on September 13.
Doctoral student Kathrin Marterior passed her disputation on “Slavic
settlements in Holstein: Bilingual language landscape?” on June 29.
Doctoral student Artur Ribeiro passed his disputation on “Complexity
and Change of Bronze Age Societies and Landscapes in Southwest Iberia: a microhistorical approach.” on June 21.
Doctoral students Natàlia Égüez, Milinda Hoo, Jos Kleijne, Aslı Oflaz,
Artur Ribeiro and Gustav Wollentz and postdoctoral fellow Liang Yang
participated in the World Archaeology Congress in Kyoto from August 29 to September 2. They gave the following talks: “Threads and
Traces: The Archaeologist as a Detective” and “Has archaeology ever
been phenomenological?” (both by Artur), “A heritage of belonging
beyond ethnicity – Heritage and Memory-practices in the Balkans”
and “Whose home is the Past? – The medieval battle of Kosovo Polje
and the construction of narratives” (both by Gustav), “Migration and
mobility and the Bell Beaker phenomenon in North Western Europe.
Theoretical considerations to a practical problem” and “Innovation in
prehistory, a case study of the 3rd millennium BC” (both by Jos), “Microstratigraphic analysis on a modern central Sahara pastoral campsite.
Ovicaprine pellets and stabling floors as ethnographic referential data”
and “Same but different. Management of dung in pastoral campsites
along north to south Eastern Mongolia” (both by Natalia), “De- and reculturalizing culture? Transcultural views on hybrid architecture in Hellenistic Central Asia” (Milinda), “The Middle to Late Holocene humanenvironment interactions in western Turkey: A review of multi-proxy
evidences” (Asli) and “Holocene climate change, disaster history and
the urbanscape transitions in Athens” (Liang).
GS members Wiebke Kirleis, Helmut Kroll, Anna Elena Reuter and
Anna Wierzgon and GS alumna Henrike Effenberger attended the 17th
Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany
(IWGP) at the National Museum for Natural History in Paris from July
4–9. Wiebke Kirleis presented results on the transition from hunting/
gathering to farming and the establishment of new subsistence strategies on the North-European Plain gained from intensive archaeobotanical investigations which were conducted in the frame of the research
program “Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation”. The paper
she presented, titled “The late adaption of farming in the SW Baltic
region in the Neolithic”, was co-authored by Walter Dörfler, Ingo Feeser, E. Fischer and Stefanie Kloos. Anna Elena Reuter focused her talk
“The Early Byzantine Balkan area between Caričin Grad and the Lower
Danube – An archaeobotanical perspective” on one topic of her PhD
thesis “Pflanzen und Pflanzennutzung im Byzantinischen Reich” which
concerns food security strategies and urban agriculture reflected in the
cereal spectra of Early Byzantine sites from present day Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. Henrike Effenberger presented results of her PhD
thesis “Pflanzennutzung und Ausbreitungswege von Innovationen im
Pflanzenbau der Nordeuropäischen Bronzezeit und angrenzender Regionen” in a poster co-authored by Almut Alsleben: “The plant economy of the Northern European Bronze Age: More than just Emmer”.
Doctoral student Stephanie Merten presented aspects of her PhD
project at the 22nd annual conference of the Mittel- und Ostdeutscher
Verband für Altertumsforschung e.V. and the 83rd Verbandstagung des
West- und Süddeutschen Verbandes für Altertumsforschung e.V., Thementag Stadt / frühstädtische Siedlungen, held at Technical University
Chemnitz on March 30. Her talk was titled “Architektur (wird ge)formt.
Eine Standortbestimmung von Klassischer Archäologie, Urbanistik und
Architektursoziologie”.
Doctoral student Maren Biederbick presented part of her research
results at the conference „Konflikt und Ausgleich. Möglichkeiten der
Aushandlung in Städten der Vormoderne“ in Kiel on September 14.
Her talk was titled „Von Cosimo il Vecchio zu Cosimo I. – HerrscherInszenierung der Medici durch Impresen-Anbringung im öffentlichen
und privaten Raum“.
Doctoral student Gianpiero di Maida participated in the PhD workshop
“Theorising Digital Archaeology: Critically Engaging with the Digital
Turn in Archaeology”, organized by the Nordic Graduate School “Dialogues with the Past” and held in Athens from August 29–September 3.
Doctoral student Daniel Zwick participated in the AKUWA (Arbeitskreis
der Kommission für Unterwasserarchäologie) conference in Rostock on
October 8 with a talk titled “Mittelalterliche Schiffshölzer, Kalfatklammern und Riemen: neue Forschungsergebnisse zu maritim-archäologischen Funden aus Hamburg und Stade”.
Doctoral student Jessica Krause was invited to give a talk at the 6th
Walter-de-Gruyter seminar of the Mommsen Society in Lutherstadt
Wittenberg, October 7–9. Her presentation was titled “Theseus, der
Held der Athener?”
SELECTED EVENTS
(COMPLETE CALENDAR: WWW.GSHDL.UNI-KIEL.DE/CALENDAR)
Venue for Biweekly Colloquia: Leibnizstraße 1, Room 204
NOVEMBER
Tuesday, November 8, 4:30 p.m. – Talk by Wiebke Kirleis: “Mensch und
Umwelt in der Jungsteinzeit – Neue Ergebnisse aus Norddeutschland”
– Bürgerhaus Albersdorf
Monday, November 14, 4:15 p.m. – Biweekly Colloquium – Mette
Løvschal (University of Aarhus): Non-linear dynamics and trajectories
in the emergence of landscape parcel-ling in northwestern Europe
Tuesday, November 15 – Advisory Board meeting - Leibnizstr. 1 and 3
November 23-25 - Workshop: The “Self” and the “Other”. The construction of “otherness” in Late Antiquity - Leibnizstraße 1, Room 105a
Monday, November 28, 4:15 p.m. – Biweekly Colloquium – Martin
Schulz (Hochschule für Künste Bremen): Animated and Animating
Landscapes. Space Voyages and Time Travel in the Art of Pieter Bruegel
the Elder
DECEMBER
Monday, December 12, 4:15 p.m. – Biweekly Colloquium – Julie Hoggarth (Baylor University): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Effects of Severe Drought in the ‘Classic Maya Collapse’
Friday, December 16, 3:00 p.m. - GSHDL plenary meeting (Vollversammlung) - Leibnizstr. 1, Room 106a+b
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Editorial Journalist: Jirka Niklas Menke ([email protected])
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