Thursday, 11th April

14:00 Reception and Introduction

Session 1: Illyria and Epirus through the Ages
Chair: Saimir Shpuza

14:15 Maja Miše (London): Transformation and Integration. A Millennia of Political, Social, and Cultural Shifts in the Eastern Adriatic

15:00 Olgita Ceka (Darmstadt): Administrative and Architectural Transformations in Southern Illyria, from the First Illyrian War in 229 BC to Augustan Rule

Session 2: Sites and Settlement – The Case of Chaonia
Chair: Björn Forsén

16:15 Julian Bogdani (Rome): Chaonia in Epirus from the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic Age from an Archaeological Point of Observation

17:00 Nefeli Pirée Iliou (Oxford): Looking inside the Fortified Farms of Coastal Chaonia

Friday, 12th April

Session 3: Politics and Society in Epirus
Chair: Rebecca Kreßner

09:00 Frank Daubner (Trier): Territorial Extension and Political Structure of the Prasaibian League. A Reassessment

09:45 Milena Melfi (Oxford): Religion and poleis in Ancient Epirus

Session 4: Politics and Society in Illyria
Chair: Florian Feil

11:00 Igor Borzić (Zadar): Kopila Hillfort (Island of Korčula, Croatia) at the Crossroads of the Illyrian and Hellenistic/Roman Worlds

11:45 Julian Gieseke (Bielefeld): A Man of the World. Skerdilaidas as a Political Broker between Illyria and Greece in the late 3rd century BC

Session 5: Urban Cultures in Hellenistic Illyria
Chair: Manuel Fiedler

14:00 Saimir Shpuza (Aix-Marseille): Degrees of Urbanization in Hellenistic Illyria. Orikos and Bushat (Albania) as Case Studies

14:45 Jonathan Ritter (Frankfurt): The Hellenistic Funerary Imagery of Apollonia and its Hinterland

Session 6: Gender and Social Structures
Chair: Milena Melfi

16:00 Karolina Frank (Warsaw): A Feminine North? The Actions and Agency of Women in Ancient Epirus

16:45 Elisa Le Bail (Paris): Men, Women, and their (Freed-)Slaves. A Gender Analysis of the Manumission Acts of Illyria and Epirus (4th century BC – 1st century AD)

17:45 Rebecca Kreßner (Trier): Absent Men, Powerful Women? The Interdependence of Social and Economic Structures on the Eastern Adriatic

Saturday, 13th April

Session 7: The Impact of Rome I
Chair: Frank Daubner

09:00 Sophia Zoumbaki (Athens): Italian Economic Interests and Rome’s Policy in Epirus

09:45 Tommi Turmo (Helsinki): Trade and Technology of Segmented Mills

Session 8: The Impact of Rome II
Chair: Nefeli Pirée Iliou

11:00 Björn Forsén (Helsinki): Roman Roof Tiles in Epirus. Production, Patterns of Landowning and Trade

11:45 Florian Feil (Trier): Roman/Italian Immigrants in Illyria and Epirus until the Age of Augustus

Final Discussion and End of Conference