Section 1: The Eastern Mediterranean in Comparison
Chair: Erich Kistler (University of Innsbruck)

09:00-09:45   Frank Daubner (Universität Trier)
Alexander at Siwa: Sparta, Cyrene and the Reconfiguration of Borderlands

09:45-10:30   Panos Christodoulou (European University Cyprus)
In the Name of the King: The Battle of Cnidus (394 BC) and its Aftermath

Coffee Break

11:00-11:45   Astrid Lindenlauf (Bryn Mawr College)
Material Narratives of Persian Destruction and Greco-Persian Encounters in Athens, Eretria, and Miletos

11:45-12:30   Krzysztof Nawotka (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)
Epigraphic Habit and the Western Borderlands of the Achaemenid Persian Empire

Lunch Break

Section 2: Greece
Chair: Hans-Joachim Gehrke (University of Freiburg)

13:30-14:15   John O. Hyland (Christopher Newport University)
The Great King’s Apprentice? Kimon of Athens in the Achaemenid Borderlands

14:15-15:00   Jeffrey Rop (University of Minnesota Duluth)
Herodotus, Athenian Imperialism, and the Persian Expedition to Marathon

Coffee Break

15:30-16:15   Hilmar Klinkott (Universität Kiel)
Darius Beyond the Sea and Greece as Imperial Maritime Borderland 

16:15-17:00   Janric van Rookhuijzen (Universiteit Leiden)
The Achaemenid Attack on Athens and the Archaeology of Memory on the Acropolis

Coffee Break

17:30-18:15   Raimund Schulz (Universität Bielefeld)
The Empire as Warning: Aeschylus, the ‘Persians’, and the Sea

Conference Dinner

Section 3: Macedonia & Thrace
Chair: Bernhard Palme (Universität Wien)

09:00-10:00   Keynote 2: Sarah P. Morris (University of California, Los Angeles)
Persians in the North Aegean: The Hellespont and the Troad

Coffee Break

10:30-11:15   Dilyana Boteva-Boyanova (St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia)
Thoughts on the Western Borders of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in Ancient Thrace under Darius I and Xerxes I

11:15-12:00   Vasiliki Saripanidi (Université libre de Bruxelles – FNRS)
The Temenid King under the Great King: Archaeological Insights into the Impact of Achaemenid Rule on the Macedonian Kingdom

Lunch Break

Section 4: The Black Sea
Chair: Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)

13:00-13:45   Luis Ballesteros Pastor (Universidad de Sevilla)
The Great King’s Journey around the World: Achaemenid Rule over the Black Sea

13:45-14:30   Anca Dan (École normale supérieure – CNRS, Paris)
The North-Western Corner of the World: Greco-Persian Entanglements in the Northern Aegean and the Black Sea

14:30-15:15   Leah Lazar (University of Manchester)
Northern Anatolia between Athens and Persia

Coffee Break

Section 5: The Anatolian Worlds
Chair: M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles)

15:45-16:30   Leticia R. Rodriguez (University of Houston)
Non-Conformity by Design: Borderland Bodies in Achaemenid Anatolia 

16:30-17:15   Emma Petersen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Being Achaemenid in Anatolia: A View from Deve Hüyük

Coffee Break

17:45-18:30   Lara Fabian (University of California, Los Angeles)
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18:30-19:15   Marco Ferrari (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Iranian Dynasties in Anatolian Environments. Reshaping the Identities of Empowered Elites in Achaemenid North-Western Anatolia

Section 6: Western Asia Minor
Chair: Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

09:00-10:00   Keynote 3: Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (University of Colorado Boulder)
The Creation of Empire in Achaemenid Anatolia

Coffee Break

10:30-11:15   Denise Demetriou (University of California, San Diego)
The Westernmost Borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire: Carthage, Sicily, and Etruria

11:15-12:00   Lâtife Summerer (Arkın University, Kyrenia/Cyprus)
Imperial Footprint or Local Resilience? Reassessing Achaemenid Influence in Anatolia

Lunch Break

13:00-13:45   Cinzia Tuena (Universität Basel)
Satraps and Sibling-Spouses. Reassessing Hekatomnid Power in the Achaemenid West

13:45-14:30   Naoise Mac Sweeney (Universität Wien)
Anti-Achaemenid Resistance in Cilicia and the “Becoming” of the Greeks 

Coffee Break

15:00-15:45   Dominique Lenfant (Université de Strasbourg)
The Persian Achaemenid Power and Democracy

15:45-16:30   Kai Ruffing (Universität Kassel)
The Aegean Islands and the Economy of Empire 

16:30-17:00   Concluding Remarks

Dinner