Research field
Conference Topics
SESSION 1: Empire, Center, and Roads
01Andreas Schachner – Ruling the Hittite Empire from Its Edge: On the Relations between Hattusa and the Regions South of the Taurus
02Riko Süssenguth – How to Get beyond the Taurus Mountains: An Evaluation of Connecting Paths in Hittite Times
03Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar – The Dynasty of Išuwa during the Hittite Empire Period
04Kimiyoshi Matsumura – Büklükale: Hurrian Elements
SESSION 2: Oylum Höyük Written Texts and Administration
01Aydoğan Bozkurt – The Hittite Administrative Building at Oylum Höyük: Architectural and Archaeological Assessments
02Metin Alparslan – Old and New Hittite Cuneiform Texts from Oylum Höyük and Their Interpretation
03Daniel Schwemer – New Akkadian Text Finds from Oylum Höyük
04Meltem Doğan-Alparslan – Anatolian Hieroglyphic Seals and Seal Impressions Found at Oylum Höyük
SESSION 3: Religion, Cult, Food Processing and Archaeobotanical Heritage
01Vincent Blanchard & Alice Mouton – Some Goddesses through the Ages: Šawoška-s in Anatolia in the Second and the First Millennia BCE
02Manfred Hutter – Towards a History of Kubaba: Her Centres South of the Taurus and Her Minor Position in Hattusa
03Mauro Giorgieri – Nupatik and Karhuha: Cultural Interaction and Religious Multiculturalism at Karkemish
04Lucia Mori – Food and Power: New Evidence of Food Processing in Public Areas at Malizi (Arslantepe) in the Early Iron Age
05Salih Kavak – The Archeobotanical Heritage of the Eastern Mediterranean: Subsistence Strategies, Socio-Cultural Continuity, and Paleoclimate from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age
SESSION 4: Cilicia and Mediterranean Connections
01Ekin Kozal – Between Coast and Plateau: Kilise Tepe and Hittite Interaction in Rough Cilicia (ca. 1500–1200 BCE)
02Aslı Özyar – Waxing and Waning Hittite Presence at the Mound of Gözlükule
03Alexander Ericson Sollee – The Upper Town of Sirkeli Höyük
04Serdar Girginer - Özlem Oyman-Girginer – Mehmet Cevher – From South of the Taurus to the Kızılırmak Bend: New Evidence from Tatarlı Höyük
SESSION 5: Euphrates Valley, Carchemish, and Eastern Borders
01Nicolò Marchetti – Karkemish between Imperial and Late Hittite Times
02Fikri Kulakoğlu – The Neo-Hittites East of the Euphrates and Their Contemporaries
03Ferhan Sakal – The Materiality of the Hittite Presence in Emar
04Federico Manuelli – The Crisis Beyond the Taurus: Tracking Traces of the 13th-Century BC Hittite Decline in South-Eastern Anatolia
SESSION 6: Architecture and Regional Centers
01Barbara Helwing – German Excavations in Zincirli: A Brief History
02Kay Kohlmeyer – Hittite Impact on Syrian Culture, a Side Note from Aleppo
03Miroslav Novak – What Is Hittite about Neo-Hittite Architecture?
04Michael Blömer – Hittite Impact: The Dülük Baba Tepesi Sanctuary and the Continuity of Iron Age Traditions in the Roman Period
SESSION 7: Islahiye-Nurdağı Valley and Amuq Plain
01Atilla Engin – Geopolitical and Geocultural Dynamics Behind the Establishment of the Hittite Sculpture Workshop in Yesemek
02Özgür Çomak – Rescue Excavations at Taşlıgeçit Höyük: New Hittite Finds and Their Connection to the Yesemek Sculpture Workshop
03Timur Demir – Gerçin Höyük as a Neo-Hittite Center: Cultural Continuity, Monumental Architecture, and Regional Interaction in Light of Recent Research
04Timothy P. Harrison – The Tayinat Sculptures and Neo-Hittite Ritual
05Murat Akar – Building a Hittite Social Memory in a Translucent Borderland: The Amuq Valley from the Kingdom to the Empire Period and Beyond
SESSION 8: Material Culture & New Methods
01Ayşe Tuba Ökse – Hittite-Southeast Anatolian Relations through Ceramics
02Ayşe Çalık-Ross – Late Bronze Age Ceramic Finds from Gülnar (Mersin) in the Middle Taurus Mountains
03Deniz Burak Kişniş – The Hittite Horizon at Oylum Höyük: Evaluating Local and Hittite Traditions in the Pottery Assemblage
04Rotraud Regine Hunziker-Rodewald – Joint Presentation: Socio-Environmental & Epigraphic Contexts
05Thomas Zimmermann – There and Back Again – A Critical Archaeometrical Review of 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE Hittite and Early Iron Age Copper-Based Metalwork in the Taurus Catchment and Beyond
