Matt Garner (Southampton Archaeology Unit, UK)

Matt Garner has worked on archaeological sites in the middle Saxon town of Hamwic for 29 years, and has been involved in over 50 investigations. This paper will look at how the middle Saxon town was investigated, interpreted, and portrayed to the world since its discovery in the 17th century.

Matt Edgeworth (University of Leicester, UK)

Nick James (University of Cambridge, UK)

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) describes its mission as research, protection and regulation. It also maintains museums and a programme of presenting monuments and publication. Research, management and presentation complement each other but the respective implications of these functions diverge somewhat. Contemporary social and cultural developments in India expose the divergence between research and presentation more clearly than before.

John Robb (Cambridge University, UK)

Discussion of "archaeological ontologies" involves several possible moments or directions. One is simply the discovery that the categories and
entities which seem obvious to archaeologists may not be universal, and thus require critical examination. This discussion has been conducted

Zeynep Aktüre (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)

At the archaeological museum in Selçuk, Turkey, the most popular displays are the two Ephesian Artemis statues that stand in niches at the longitudinal ends of a hall, in such a way as to invite Carol Duncan’s analysis of the modern museum as a ‘ritual space’ for aesthetic contemplation. However, Artemis Ephesia would not always seem to allow such a distanced encounter, at least not for those who are willing to perceive its simultaneous strangeness and familiarity.

Erin Headley (University of Southampton, UK)

In the 17th century Italian scholars and musicians continued the study of Greek thought and culture that had earlier been pursued by their Renaissance predecessors and those in previous centuries.

In Renaissance and early Baroque Florence, attempts to translate and retranslate Greek music theory (modes, ancient harmonies, tunings),
and to reinvent Greek musical recitation and the chorus, were all
devised to inform and improve the Italians' own 'modern music'. Their
poets drew on myths (Orpheus, Ulysses, Euridice) for their texts, and

Lizzie Edwards (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Susanne Hakenbeck (University of Cambridge, UK)

Ben Edwards (University of Durham/ University of Liverpool, UK)

Karolina Ploska (University of Cardiff)