International Postgraduate Conference

The postgraduate students of the MA in the Classical Archaeology and the Ancient History of Macedonia at the International Hellenic University are organizing the International Conference entitled “Interpreting identities in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea”. The conference will be held on 2-4 April 2020 at the International Hellenic University in Thermi, Thessaloniki.

International Hellenic University
14th km Thessaloniki – Moudania
Thessaloniki, 57001 Thermi, Greece

Sponsored by: International Hellenic University

The subject of the conference focuses on the different perspectives of outlining, capturing and interpreting identities from Prehistory to Late Byzantine Era, through the disciplines of History, Archaeology and other relevant fields such as Social Anthropology. The aim is to encourage young researchers to participate in the conference by presenting topics related to their interests and to engage in a lively and productive scholarly discourse.
Specific but not exclusive themes of interest include the following:

• The perception of identities in the ancient literary sources
• Detecting identities through the archaeological evidence
• Social and political parameter of identities
• Economy – Ancient Numismatics – Trade
• Burial customs
• Religion and Cults