EUR ArChal Training Week

During the last decades there has been a renew of interest for the study of ancient conflicts but also the development of new feeds of investigation, about more recent conflicts, namely war archaeology and archaeology of terror. The training week will focus on the theoretical conceptualisation of conflicts in the past and present and case studies. Insight into current conflict theory will serve to contextualise the various case studies presented from Egyptology, the Archaeology of Western Asia, Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology. The case studies deal with the many facets of conflicts and thus present contributions from military/battlefield archaeology, social and symbolic dimensions of conflicts, archaeology of terror and war archaeology. They are based on various sources of material culture, visual and written evidence. In a concluding round table, the theoretical concepts and the archaeological case studies will be brought together in a synthesis.

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Monday 26th – Friday 30th May 2025
Freie Universität Berlin
Seminarzentrum, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

Challenge 3: Conflicts, mobility and migrations
Pascal Butterlin (Professor, Paris 1)
Elke Kaiser & Dominik Bonatz (Professors, FU Berlin)