Online Lecture Series "Mesopotamia vs Greater Mesopotamia: literature, history and linguistics"
Fri Oct 06 18:00:00 CEST 2023 - Fri Nov 24 20:00:00 CET 2023
The International Association for Archaeological Research in Western and Central Asia (ARWA) Online Lecture Series – Philology and History Liaison Group
Mesopotamia vs Greater Mesopotamia: literature, history and linguistics
When: every Friday at 6:00 pm CET from October 6th to November 24th
Where: on Zoom
Organizers: Franco D’Agostino (Sapienza, University of Rome), and Sergio Alivernini (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).
How to Join
Online Streaming on Zoom:
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/91357937266?pwd=cGk5SlVweEllcS9NNGM0Y1dKNVNNdz09
Meeting ID: 913 5793 7266
Passcode: 850203
In the mid-3rd millennium BCE an essential phenomenon can be identified, represented by a spread of cuneiform writing from its Mesopotamian homeland to different regions of ancient Near East (or Western Asia), and the use of cuneiform writing will last from the third millennium till the first years of the Common Era. This vast geographical area, often defined “Greater Mesopotamia” to highlight the influence of the “land between the rivers,” includes Iran, Syria and the Levant, and Anatolia. This series of lectures seeks to investigate the textual approaches applied to the study of ancient Near East covering different geographical areas and periods. With the participation of different scholars, these lectures will show different approaches to the written documentation to reconstruct Western Asia culture and history.
According to Arwa’s goals, these online lectures will create a space to promote cooperation between historians, philologists, archaeologists, and all researchers investigating the past. Moreover, in order to promote the study of the ancient Near East also with the broader public at large, all the lectures will be made available on the ARWA’s YouTube account.
Programme
October 6th, 2023 – 18.00 CET
Angela Greco (Sapienza, University of Rome - Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Project AZ 36/F/19)
Grazing in the surroundings. Evidence of local pastoralism in Ur III Girsu
October 13th, 2023 – 18.00 CET
Gian Pietro Basello (University of Naples L’Orientale)
Adaptation and Invention: The reception of cuneiform writing in Elam
October 20th, 2023 – 18.00 CET
James Burgin (University of Würzburg)
Gods, Grain, and Gold: Building a Power Base on the Anatolia Plateau
October 27th, 2023 – 18.00 CET
Marwan Kilani (University of Basel)
Talk like an Egyptian (or not): a sociolinguistic investigation of Egyptian borrowings in the Late Bronze Age Levant
November 3rd, 2023 – 18.00 CET
Katrien De Graef (Ghent University)
Perfect Strangers. Babylonians and Elamites at the Crossroads of Language and Writing in the Sukkalmah Period
November 10th, 2023 – 18.00 CET
Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel (University of Strasbourg)
The Scent of the Gods. Senses, Emotions and the Otherness in Cuneiform Sources
November 17th, 2023 – 18.00 CET
Federico Giusfredi (University of Verona) and Valerio Pisaniello (The Chieti-Pescara University “Gabriele d’Annunzio”)
Die acht Sprachen der Boghazköi-Inschriften a little more than a century after.
November 24th, 2023 – 18.00 CET
Jana Mynářová (Charles University)
Writing on the Edge. Cuneiform Tradition in the Western Peripheris