Ciclo de conferencias "From Text to History: Philological Approaches to the Ancient Near East"

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)
TBA