INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, KRAKÓW, POLAND

is pleased to announce

CALL FOR PAPERS for

Origins and functioning of Ancient Cities.
The 2nd International Post-graduate Conference
THE LAND OF FERTILITY
South-east of the Mediterranean from
the beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest

To be held in the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków on 12th – 13th June 2015

The international conference welcomes all Post-graduate researchers in the subject-area of
Archaeology, History, Art History, Culture & Religion Studies who are interested in issues
related to ancient Egypt (especially Delta region), Cyprus, Levant, Mesopotamia and Persia.
This year the theme of the conference is ancient city, its formation and development. It has
been set to focus on the ancient city as a place where people live, as well as the urbanisation
process, relations between urban centres, urban ideology etc., in the region called the ‘Fertile
Crescent', where the first cities were founded.

The presentations will be grouped into several sections according to their focus and should
not exceed 20 minutes. The number of active participants is also limited. The conference
committee reserves the right to select the contributions to be published in the Conference
Proceedings.

Timeline
Registrations for the conference: by 31st March 2015
Notification of acceptance: by 30th April 2015
Submission of the presentation file (supported by MS Office 2010) for the conference
proceedings (required for the participation in the conference): 7th June 2015
Conference 12th – 13th June 2015

Registration
Active applicants will submit the completed registration form:
http://goo.gl/forms/eau6AYJzRC
Language of the conference:
English

Conference fee
10 €

Other
The organizers are not able to pay travel or accommodation expenses of the active
participants. Nevertheless, we will be happy to provide assistance with accommodation,
especially for the foreign participants.

Venue
Kraków, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University,
11 Gołęba str., 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Contact
crescent@uj.edu.pl

Organisers
Łukasz Miszk, PhD student, Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology,
Jagiellonian University
Małgorzta Kajzer, PhD student
Maciej Wacławik, PhD student