Kisko-Seura - Iliad and Odyssey In Northern Europe

Iliad and Odyssey In Northern Europe
2nd International Conference
Toija, Finland
July 23-24, 2011
Nuorisotalo Kiskola, Address: Kiskontie 2296, Salo.

Saturday July 23


09:15 Greetings from Local Authorities

Chair: William Mullen - Bard College, Greater New York City Area

09:30 Felice Vinci
An up-to-date survey of the theory upon the northern origins of Homer's Epics
10:00 Luigi G. de Anna
University of Turku, Finland
The image of northern lands in the culture of antiquity
10:30 Erik Dahl
DRØMSMIA Publishing Co., Norway
Lofoten archipelago and Odysseus voyage: archaeological finds at Trenyken island

11:00 - Coffee break

Chair: Luigi G. de Anna - University of Turku, Finland

11:15 Peter Fletcher
A square peg and a round hole – Hissarlick and Homeric Troy
12:00 Marco Duichin
Italian Philosophical Society, Internationale Burckhardt Akademie, Rome
Odysseus' scar. Traces of boreal shamanism in the Odyssey?
12:30 Silvia Peppoloni
Giuseppe Di Capua
Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome
An overview on the geology of Holocene in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions

13:00 - Lunch

Chair: Jean-François Marechal - Président de la Société Française d'Archéologie sous-marine, Paris

14:00 William Mullen
Bard College, Greater New York City Area
Wandering of Odysseus: Norwegian, Hellenic, Italian
14:45 Donato Loscalzo
University of Perugia
Odysseus, an abnormal hero
15:15 Mark-Kevin Deavin
The University of Bayreuth
The origins of a common name?

15:45 - Coffee break

Chair: Marco Duichin - Italian Philosophical Society, Internationale Burckhardt Akademie, Rome

16:00 Jean-François Marechal
Président de la Société Française d'Archéologie sous-marine, Paris
Metallurgy at Homer's time and its possible northern origin
16:30 Giacomo Tripodi
University of Messina
Natural history insights in Iliad and Odyssey

17:00 – 18:00 - General discussion

20:30 - Dinner


Sunday July 24

Chair: Giacomo Tripodi - University of Messina

9:30 Vincenzo Spera
University of Molise
The Homeric tales: a demo-anthropological interpretation. The Migrant Peoples and the background of the Remembrance.
10:00 Franco Michieli
Geography and natural phenomena of Lofoten islands as theatre of Ulysses's adventures. Rediscovery of the Wandering Rocks, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Thrinacia
10:30 Concluding remarks

Excursion to Kavasto, Aijala, Perniö (lunch in the field)