AEMBT- Scientific Program
ACTECH is a 2-year research project led by Piero Gilento and supervised by Francois Villeneuve and Pierre Marie Blanc, at the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne (France).
ACTECH has two main objectives. The first is to increase our knowledge of the built heritage in the Jordanian Hawrān between the 2nd and the 9th century AD. The second is to explore the channels of transmission for construction techniques and architectural typologies in the ancient Mediterranean. The project will use archaeological stratigraphy applied to the standing structures and the creation of architectural chrono-typologies.
FIRST DAY
12.12.2018
Salle Doucet – 3, rue Michelet, Paris
15.30
François Villeneuve – Paris 1 / UMR 7041 _ France
Welcome by the Director of ARSCAN and supervisor of the ACTECH project
PART ONE
The ACTECH Project
Buildings Archaeology, Archives and IT applied to Cultural Heritage
15.50
Piero Gilento – Paris 1 / UMR 7041 / ACTECH Project_France
The Study of the Near Eastern Building techniques and the Legacy of Howard Crosby Butler
16.30
Stefano Anastasio – MiBACT_Italy
The contribution of historical archives to Jordan archaeology: some case studies
17.10
Livio De Luca – MAP / CNRS_France
Reality-based 3D annotation for the collaborative study of heritage artefacts
17.50 – 18.10 Coffee Break
PART TWO
BUILDING IN THE “GREAT SYRIA” (I)
Material Culture in the Near East: building processes and pottery productions
18.10
Jean-Claude Bessac_CNRS (Hemeritus)_France
An overview of stone building processes in the Near East between Late Antiquity and the early Middle-Ages
18:50
Pierre-Marie Blanc – CNRS / UMR 7041_Paris_France
Pottery Production in the Hawrān from the Roman time to the Islamic era: Interactions and Exchanges between spaces and times
19.30 – Welcome Aperitif
SECOND DAY
13.12.2018
Centre Max Weber, Nanterre
PART THREE
BUILDING IN THE “GREAT SYRIA” (II)
Construction Techniques between Syria and Jordan
9.30
Pascale Clauss–Balty, Independent scholar_France
Building techniques in Southern Syria: a fully lithic and modular architecture
10.10
Pauline Piraud – Fournet – IFPO _ Amman_Jordan
Bostra, the “Trajan Palace”. Stratigraphy and Constructive Techniques
10.50 – 11.10 Coffee Break
11.10
Shaker al-Shbib – UMR7041, Paris_France
Building techniques of the Byzantine and Early Islamic Times of the fortifications in Northern Syria
11.50
Mattia Guidetti – University of Vienna_Austria
The conversion of landscape in Early Medieval Syria
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00
Piero Gilento – Paris 1 – UMR 7041 – ACTECH Project_France
Building Techniques in the Jordanian Hawrān: Chrono-typologies for Walls and Arches
14.40
Nayl Mohammad Tuhamer – Department of Antiquities of Jordan_Jordan
Byzantine and Islamic architecture in Northern Jordan
15.20 – 15.40 Coffee Break
15.40
Ignacio Arce – German-Jordanian University_Jordan
Stratigraphy, building techniques and the review of the phasing and dating of Late Antique and Umayyad architecture in Bilad es-Sham (6th-8th centuries)
16.20
Barbara Perlich – Technical University of Berlin_Germany
Building Qasr al-Mushatta
17.00- 17:30 – DISCUSSION animated by François Villeneuve
19:30 Joint Dinner
THIRD DAY
14.12.2018
Centre Max Weber, Nanterre
PART FOUR
BUILDING BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Influences, Interactions and Transmission
9.30
Apolline Vernet – UMR8167_France
Making the newcomers feeling at home: a reappraisal of domestic architecture in Near East after the Islamic Conquest
10.10
Jean-Pierre Van Staëvel – University of Paris 1- Panthèon Sorbonne_France
Echoes of the Empire: Building materials and techniques in Ifrîqiya under the Aghlabid and Fatimid rule 9th-10th centuries)
10.50 – 11.10 Coffee Break
11.10
María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo – CSIC – EEA_Spain
Early Medieval Hispanic Churches (8th-10th c.). From stratigraphy to building technology
11.50
Pedro Gurriarán Daza – Independent Scholar_Spain
Islamic Building Techniques in al-Andalus from the VIII to the X c.
12.30 – 13.00
ROUND TABLE animated by François Villeneuve, Dominique Pieri and Antonio Almagro
CONCLUSIONS by Antonio Almagro – EEA / CSIC_Spain