Iliad and Odyssey In Northern Europe
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| 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
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)