Summer School of the 4EU Alliance educational project ‘Artefacts, Creativity, Technology, and Skills (ACTS)’ at Athens

ACTS Summer school is organised in Athens with the participation of staff

members and students from all four universities and in cooperation with the national archaeological

institutes at Athens, on 25–30 July 2022. There are five places for the students from the University of

Warsaw and the participation in the School is reimbursed for them. The thematic focus of the School

is on the ‘making’, it encompasses lectures and hands-on activities organised in the Danish

Archaeological Institute and an intensive sight-seeing programme. It provides an optimal platform for

merging empirical understanding, scientific research, social theory, and experimental practice and for

moving beyond disciplinary borders and beyond the academic sphere.

ACTS Summer school is organised in Athens with the participation of staff members

and students from all four universities and in cooperation with the national archaeological institutes at

Athens, on 25–30 July 2022. There are five places for the students from the University of Warsaw

and the participation in the School is reimbursed for them. The thematic focus of the School is on the

‘making’, it encompasses lectures and hands-on activities organised in the Danish Archaeological

Institute and an intensive sight-seeing programme. It provides an optimal platform for merging

empirical understanding, scientific research, social theory, and experimental practice and for moving

beyond disciplinary borders and beyond the academic sphere. The working programme of the

Summer School is as follows:

At Athens: sight-seeing to be combined with lectures and activities at the Danish Archaeological Institute

Preliminary programme

1st Day (25 July)

9:00 am – 12:00 am Artefacts (text and seals): moderators P.T. D. Panagiotopoulos, R. Pierini, V. Petrakis

3:00 pm – 8:00 pm National Archaeological Museum, Acropolis Museeum

2nd Day (26 July)

9:00 am – 12:00 am Creativity (seals and jewellery): PT. N. Papadimitriou and A. Goumas

3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Dyes workshop and reception

3rd Day (27 July)

9:00 am – 12:00 am Technology (pottery and metal production): PT. P. Pavúk, M. Verčík

3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Trip to Thorikos/Laurion

4th Day (28 July)

9:00 am – 12:00 am Skills (textiles): PT. M.-L. Nosch, R. Pierini, A. Ulanowska

3:00 pm – 8:00 pm SEN Heritage Looms/Sophia Tsourinaki (https://bowb.org/team-member/sen-heritage-looms, to be confirmed))

5th Day (29 July)

9:00 am – 13:00 am Students’ presentations

3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Kerameikos, Agora, Pnyx

6th Day (30 July)

9:00 am – 8:00 pm Day-trip to Mycenae, Tiryns, Nauplio

Bender Jørgensen L., J. Sofaer and M.-L. Stig Sørensen 2018. Creativity in the Bronze Age,

Cambridge.

Cline E. ed. 2010. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, Oxford.

Ingold T. 2013. Making. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture, Abingdon.

Hasaki E. 2012. Craft apprenticeship in Ancient Greece. In W. Wendrich ed., Archaeology and

Apprenticeship, Tuscon, 171–202.

Rebay-Salisbury K., A. Brysbaert and L. Foxhall eds 2014. Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions

in the Ancient World. Material Crossover, London

Shelmerdine C.H. ed. 2010. The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge.

Participants will develop their knowledge of archaeological theories and

methods, as well as of material culture of Prehistoric and Ancient Greece. They will develop skills of

critical observation and practical collaboration in the international academic environment.

Active participation in the activities, BA and MA students should

briefly present their theses or issues discussed during the Summer School in a form of presentation

(PowerPoint or comparable) in a simulating scientific conference environment. This will be evaluated

according to grading criteria: precision in defining research focus, clarity in presenting the track of

thought, clarity of the visual presentation, correctness of credits.