9h30-9h40: Introduction by Maria Relaki & Jan Driessen
1st Session: Theorising the House
9h40-10h15: Jan Driessen & Quentin Letesson, ‘On the House’. A diachronic look on the configuration of Minoan social relationships
10h15-10h50: Todd Whitelaw, Houses, Households, families and corporate groups. Social Structures and their material representation in Minoan Crete
10h50-11h10: coffee break
11h10-11h45: M. Relaki,Ecologies of belonging:Houses as commons in Bronze Age Crete
11h45-12h20: Carl Knappett, The aesthetics of containment: concealing and revealing in Minoan houses
12h20-12h55: S. Nanoglou, There is no such thing as house society, or fetishising the house
12h55-14h00: lunch
2nd Session: Houses in Action
14h00-14h35: S. Todaro, Residential mobility and ritual stability in Prepalatial Mesara: rebuilding Houses at Phaistos
14h35-15h10: E. Gerontakou, M. Kyritsi & A. Salichou, «Τα εν οίκω»: Tracing social identity and structure in the Minoan town of Zakros
15h10-15h45:T. Brogan & C. Sofianou, Darkness at the edge of town? Signs of inequality in the LM I Oikos at Papadiokampos
15h45-16h05: coffee break
16h05-16h40:T.F. Cunningham, Scalar and temporal aspects of economic activities in Minoan Houses
16h40-17h15: E. Hatzaki, From the Neopalatial to Final Palatial: Knossian and Cretan ‘Houses in Motion’
17h15-17h50: Υ. Papadatos, Pottery consumption in Prepalatial domestic and funerary contexts: defining Houses through difference
17h50-18h25: P. Militello, O. Palio & M. Figuera, Embedded Production: Elite Houses, Central Buildings and ideological co-operation
18h25-18h50: discussion
19h00-20h30: Reception
7 December 2018
8h45-9h00: Registration
3rd Session: Social & Ritual Aspects of the House
9h00- 9h35: E. Apostolaki, Whom the House concerned: Land ownership and lines of descent in prehistoric Crete
9h35-10h10: D. Puglisi, Rites of Passage in Minoan Palatial Crete and their role in structuring a ‘House’ Society
10h10-10h45: A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw, The Body and the Ring: Metal Rings and Group Identities in the Late Bronze Age Aegean
10h45-11h05: coffee break
11h05-11h40: A. Peatfield & C. Morris, Peak Sanctuary figurines: materializing issues of ritual personhood within community/House identity
11h40-12h15: S. Finlayson, The House Seal: examining seal-use and sealing practices in Proto- and Neopalatial Crete using Lévi-Strauss’ model of House Societies
12h15-13h30: lunch
4th Session: Comparative perspectives across the Aegean
13h30-14h05: A. Karnava & I. Nikolakopoulou, More oikoi at Akrotiri, Thera: physical and social landscape in the new north/northwest neighbourhood of the LB I settlement
14h05-14h40: E. Gorogianni, Finding oikoi: Ayia Irini, Kea from the household perspective.
14h40-15h15: C. Wiersma, Early Helladic III and Middle Helladic house (centric) societies
15h15-15h50: K.Efkleidou, Looking for Houses in the tombs. The evidence for House-societies in the Mycenaean Argolid
15h50-16h10: coffee break
16h10-16h45: S. Andreou & K. Efkleidou, In quest of the “oikos” in the Late Bronze Age tells of Central Macedonia: The evidence from Thessaloniki Toumba
16h45-17h20: M. Ruiz-Galvez, Women, Houses and House Societies
17h20-18h00:General Discussion
18h00: Workshop closure (Relaki & Driessen), followed by drinks