Wednesday 11/05/2022

09:00 Registration
09:20 Tomasz Cymbalak, National Heritage Institute in Prague; Jakub Sawicki, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, MERC; Carlo Citter, University of Sienna, MERC; Invitation
09:50 Radosław Gliński, University of Wroclaw, Silesian arcade architecture in the European context (13th-18th c.)
10:10 Lisa Renn, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; ZKFL Zentrum für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung Lübeck, The central square in the medieval town. An archaeological study of an open space
10:30-10:50 Discussion
10:50-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 Zana Hoxha, Institute of Albanology, Pristhina, Early Christian Architecture: Kosovo Case in a Global Context
11:20 Evelina Kachynska, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, The phenomenon of masonry architecture in ancient Rus’ from the 10th to the 13th centuries: architectural and archeological studies
11:40 Discussion
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Pavla Tomanova, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, The church district at Budeč Stronghold: what the churches say about the site
14:20 Matej Draksler, University of Ljubljana, Archaeological Data on the Beginnings of Medieval Ljubljana
14:40-15:00 Discussion
15:00-15:10 Coffee break
15:10 Denisa Zlámalová, Masaryk University; Zuzana Hofmanová, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Zooming in: Archaeogenetic investigation of Early Middle Age cemeteries in Moravia to study formation of Early Mediaeval societies
15:30 Martina Dalceggio, Universitá degli Studi di Trento, Privileged female burials in the italian peninsula between the second half of the 6th to the End of the 7th century: material culture, contexts and problems.
15:50 Jernej Rihter, Inštitut za arheologijo ZRC SAZU, Institute of Archaeology SRC SASA, Current state of research on the (Early-)medieval Cemetery Župna Cerkev in Kranj (Slovenia) and further research
16:10 Discussion
17:30 MERC Committee meeting
20:00 Evening meeting

Thursday 12/05/2022

9:30 Rachel I. Brody, Boston College, The Floor is Alive!: Human and Nonhuman Entanglement in the Early Medieval Atlantic Archipelago
9:50 Laszlo Ferenci, Martin Janovský, Jan Horák, Univerzita Karlova, The landscape impact of Cistercian granges and the case of Třebekov, a possible grange of Plasy Abbey
10:10 Andrew Bair, Harvard University, Crossing the Threshold: Considering Spatial Practice in Medieval Ireland through Archaeological Geophysics and Irish Plea Rolls
10:30-10:50 Discussion
10:50-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 Sylwia Siemianowska, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Glass – an indicator of business and cultural contacts. The case of medieval Wrocław, Poland
11:20 Ladislav Čapek, Katedra archeologie FF ZČU, Innovation in pottery production in the Czech lands in the 13th century – diffusion, acculturation or impedance. Which models suit the best?
11:40 Discussion
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Lisa Fenucci, Vrije Universitat Brussels, Unravelling the Late Medieval ‘Heterosexual’ through the lens of sexual badges
14:20 Nóra Buránszki, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Plain bowls from Krak des Chevaliers, Syria
14:40 Silvia Berrica, Universidad de Alcalá, From cities to villages: distribution amphorae in Central Iberian between production, commerce and society (6th-9th centuries)
15:00-15:20 Discussion
15:20-15:30 Coffee break
15:30 Filip Stefanovic, Homeland museum Paracin, Excavation of the Medieval Petrus Fortress: Old Remains, New Questions
15:50 Zbigniew Kubiatowski, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowo „Gaik” – dating and function analysis of early medieval stronghold, Mazowsze, Poland
16:10 Discussion
17:00 MERC Strategic meeting
20:00 Dinner

Friday 13/05/2022

09:00 Pablo Barruezo-Vaquero, A methodological proposal to study socioeconomic hierarchies through the landscape using Human Ecodynamics and Big Data: the case of Viking Age Iceland
09:20 Camilla Felicioni, Chiara Mascarello, Ylenia Paciotti, University of Siena, Different approaches to connectivity from the Middle Ages to the present
09:40 Johan Sandvang Larsen, Aarhus University, The Ghosts of Archaeologies Past – How to track and understand the developments in archaeological field methods
10:00-10:20 Discussion
10:20-10:30 Coffee break
10:30 Marta Pietruszka, Institute of Archaeology of the University of Wroclaw, Methods of obtaining plants in medieval Wroclaw as an element of the food system
10:50 Simone Grosso, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Drone-based remote sensing in the Northern Venice lagoon: methodology and first outcomes
11:10 Dagmara Król, Institute of Archaeology of the University of Wroclaw, Institute of Literary Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Popularisation of archaeology on the Internet – a case study on the example of slides from archaeological research conducted in Ostrów Tumski in Wroclaw by Józef Kaźmierczyk
11:30 Discussion
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-18:00 Trip