Ciclo de conferencias "From Text to History: Philological Approaches to the Ancient Near East"
Online event by Zoom (link Meeting ID: 875 2997 3386 - Passcode: 331453)
Every Friday at 6:00 pm CET
Organizers and hosts: Armando Bramanti (ILC-CSIC) and Alexander Johannes Edmonds (IHAC - NENU, Changchun)
When discussing approaches to the vast field of Ancient Near Eastern (or Western Asian) studies,Assyriology is often fragmented into philology and history the study of the texts, and theircontextualisation into broader models and theories respectively. However, such a clear distinction isartificial. In fact, these two approaches constantly mutually influence and complement one another.Just as philological research provides new information for historical reconstructions, so too canhistorical models provide new contexts in which to understand these texts.
April 1 st - Alexander Johannes Edmonds (IHAC - NENU, Changchun)
From Asimānum to Gaugamela: New Findings in the Historical Geography of Northern Iraq from Narām-Sîn to Alexander
April 8 th - Annakrisztina Pintér (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Stylistics, Word Choice, and Their Implications in Sumerian Mythic Narratives. An Examination with aSpecial Focus on Satire, Irony, and Social Class
April 22 nd - Sergio Alivernini (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Landscape Philology: Natural and Anthropic Environment in the Ur III Texts
April 29 th - Gabriella Spada (Sapienza – University of Rome)
Behind the Scenes of Mesopotamian Administration: How to Become a Bureaucrat in 2nd millennium Babylonia
May 6 th - Annunziata Rositani (University of Messina)
King Rīm-Anum of Uruk: A Reconstruction of an Old Babylonian Rebel Kingdom
May 13 th - Carlos Gonçalves (University of São Paulo)
Cuneiform Mathematics: A Non-Exact History of an Exact Science
May 20 th - Beatrice Baragli (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Sun of Nippur: From Rhetorical Devices to History of Sumerian Literature
May 27 th - Daniel Justel (University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares)
Children in Second Millennium Mesopotamia and Syria from Cuneiform Sources
June 3 rd - Federico Luciani (National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina)
From the Land of Mari: Interactions between Tribes and States in 2 nd Millennium Mesopotamia
June 10 th - Camille Lecompte (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
TBA
June 17 th - Gina Konstantopoulos (University of California Los Angeles)
Defining and Describing Distance in the Ancient Near East
June 24 th - Johannes Hackl (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)
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