Presentation

One of the main objectives of this conference is to implement the need to use, from a critical perspective, all types of sources available to approach the study of so-called "barbarian societies", without prioritizing one kind or another type of record, particularly when it is studied the complex question of socio-political identities. In this sense it has been shown in numerous occasions the limits, conceptual and methodological, of Archaeology to address issues related to Identity through the analysis of the funerary world. Just as the close dependence of the archaeological record regarding the information provided by narrative sources about the "barbarian world". Moreover, the texts provide a picture of the "barbarians" from an exclusive Roman perspective, which serves the interests and geopolitical strategies of the Roman Empire in the management of their relationship with the gentes barbarae. From a series of studies, conducted by renowned experts on various European areas and under different research perspectives, we intend to lay the foundations for a constructive dialogue on a key topic in the study of the Late Antique and Early Medieval societies in Europe.

Program

WEDNESDAY 30^th OCTOBER

9h-13h45

Opening

Jean-Pierre ÉTIENVRE
Director de la Casa de Velázquez

Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

BARBARIAN IDENTITIES AND ALTERITIES THROUGH THE NARRATIVE SOURCES

Chairwoman
Anna MASTIKOVA
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)

Peter HEATHER
King’s College (London)
Predatory Migration and the First Millennium

Michael KULIKOWSKI
Penn State University (Pennsylvania, USA)
Being a Barbarian in the Later Roman Empire: Alterity, Ideology, and Practice from the Severans to the Theodosians

Luis A. GARCÍA MORENO
Real Academia de la Historia/Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid)
Parentesco y linaje entre los Godos (Visigodos y Ostrogodos) de las Españas, Galias e Italias (anonaria y suburbicaria)

Michel ROUCHE
Université Paris IV
Le refus de l'altérité dans le Bréviaire d'Alaric

Discussion

16h-20h

ARCHAEOLOGY, IDENTITIES AND ALTERITIES AMONG THE BARBARIANS I

Chairman
Vujadin IVANISEVIC
Archaeological Institute of Belgrade

Susanne HAKENBECK
University of Cambridge
Memories of Empire: constructions of Identity along the Danube in the early medieval period

Tivadar VIDA
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest)
The many Identity of Barbarians in the middle Danube in the Early Middle Ages

Michel KAZANSKI
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)
and Anna MASTYKOVA
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)
Identité et Altérité des populations barbares dans la région nord-pontique à l’époque des Grandes Migrations (fin du IV^e- milieu du VI^e siècles)

Discussion

THURSDAY 31^th OCTOBER

9h-14h

ARCHAEOLOGY, IDENTITIES AND ALTERITIES AMONG THE BARBARIANS II

Chairman
Michel KAZANSKI
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)

Dawn HADLEY
University of Sheffield
Ethnic identity in Viking-Age England: when two worlds collide

Cristina LA ROCCA
Università degli studi di Padova
and Annamaria PAZIENZA
Università Ca'Foscari di Venezia
Gender, kinship and social identity in the funerary dimensions of the kingdom of the Lombards (568-774)

Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Identité et ethnicité dans les « Espagnes » de l'Antiquité Tardive : déconstruction d'un paradigme archéologique

Jörg KLEEMANN
Uniwersytet Szczeciński (Szczecin)
Did the Goths really come from Poland? Changing interpretations in changing political situations

Falko DAIM
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Mainz)
Byzantium and the others: Archaeological case studies

Discussion

16h-19h30

ARCHAEOLOGY, IDENTITIES AND ALTERITIES AMONG THE BARBARIANS II

Chairman
Peter HEATHER
King’s College (London)

Sebastian BRATHER
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
The Archaeology of Identities and Alterities: perspectives for the Early Middle Ages

Luis RÍOS FRUTOS
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology: How it can help to Identity and Otherness problematic

Vujadin IVANISEVIC
Archaeological Institute of Belgrade
Michel KAZANSKI
UMR 8167 (Orient & Méditerranée, Paris)
and Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Construire une « feuille de route » sur la question de l'Identité et de l'Altérité chez les Barbares

Discussion and conclusions