Schedule

All sessions will be live streamed and recorded on video tape

➟ Morning sessions on violence

Day 1: Tuesday

Liard Amphitheater

• 9:15     Kaan Eraslan (EPHE-PSL), “Milesians and Saite Dynasty of Egypt”
• 9:40     Melissa Benson (University College London), “Managing Violence; Creating Order in the Cyrus Cylinder”
• 11:05   Eva Miller (University of Birmingham), “Punishing Enemies and Creating the Assyrian World in Ashurbanipal’s Sources”
• 11:30   Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel (Université de Strasbourg) and Ariane Thomas (Musée du Louvre), “The Devasted Body : Violence in Khorsabad. Texts and Images in Dialogue”
• 11:50   Shana Zaia (University of Helsinki), “Shepherding the Land and People: Internal Control and State Violence in the Ancient Near East”

Day 2: Wednesday

Liard Amphitheater

• 9:00     Baptiste Fiette (Collège de France), “The Exercise of Power by Violence: the Case of the Babylonian Conquerors in the Province of Yamutbal at the Time of Hammu-rabi”
• 9:25     Franscesca Nebiolo (EPHE-PSL), “When Violence is Legalized: the Nuances of Violence in Old-Babylonian Society”
• 9:50     Virginie Muller (Laboratoire Archéorient (UMR 5133) - Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée - Lyon), “Violent Deaths: Political and Religious Justifications, According to Few Akkadian Texts (2nd Millennium BC)”
• 10:50   Régine Hunziker-Rodewald (Université de Strasbourg), “Rhetoric of Violence: Dealing with Patterns of Meaning. The Case of the Hebrew Root YRŠ”
• 11:15   Martha T. Roth (University of Chicago), “Crime and Punishment and the Performance of Violence in Mesopotamia”
• 11:40   Teodora Costache (EPHE-PSL), “The Combat Myth: Finding One’s True Self Through Violence Against the Enemy”

Day 3: Thursday

INHA, room Vasari (2 rue de Vivienne, 75002 Paris)

• 8:45     Ilaria Calini (EPHE-PSL), “Wuthering Gods. Power and ‘Fair’ Violence in Ancient Mesopotamia”
• 9:10     Joanna Töyräänvuori, (University of Helsinki), “The Ugaritic Chaoskampf Myth and Egypto-Hittite Political Relations in Late Bronze Age”
• 9:35     Nicolas Wyatt (University of Edinburgh), “War in Heaven: the Ugaritian Ideology of Warfare as Reflected in the Composition of Ilimilku’s Baal Cycle”
• 10:00   Stephen Sumner (University of Chicago), “Violence as Justice”
• 10:55   Igor Kreimerman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Destruction of Cities and the Construction of Power: A View from the Southern Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages”
• 11:20   Sanna Nurmikko-Metsola (Brunel University London), “Rebellion, Repression and Political Survival in Ancient Near East. A Game-Theoretic Approach”
• 11:45   Pavel Basharin (Russian State University for the Humanities); “Persecution of Zindiqs in the ʿAbbasid Period: A Legacy of the Sasanian Period, or a New Form of State Violence?”
• 12:10   Soraya Ayouch (EPHE-PSL), “A Remedy for Violence in the Middle East : The Thousand and One Nights of Scheherazade”

➟ Afternoon sessions on digital practices

Day 1: Tuesday

Liard Amphitheater

• 14:00   Maurits Ertsen (Water Resources / Delft University of Technology), “Modelling Mesopotamia – Agent-Based Modelling for Early Agriculture”
• 14:25   Flavia Carraro (Institute for the history of science and technology Deutsches Museum ), “A Digital Approach for an Ancient Digital Technology: the Case of Textiles and Weaving Techniques”
• 14:50   Elena Gritti (University of Bergamo), “The Creation of a Prosopographical Website for Ancient and Late Antique History”
• 15:15   Gloria Mugelli (Università di Pisa and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Federico Boschetti (Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR Pisa), “Towards a Collaborative (and Multidisciplinary) Annotation of Ancient Greek Texts: the Euporia System”
• 16:15   Paulina Pikulska (University of Warsaw), “Social Network of Scribes in the Neo-Babylonian Sippar”
• 16:40   Fabio Porzia (Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaurès) and Elodie Guillon (Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaurès), “Cult Epithets and Networks of Divine Powers. On the First Steps of an Ongoing ERC Project”
• 17:05   David Danzig (New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) and Michal Bacon (New School, New York City), “Common Babylonian Religious Praxis: Statistical Comparisons of Religious Theory and Practice”
• 17:30   Massimo Maiocchi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), “Implementing a spell-checker for cuneiform sources: experiments, tests and results within the frame of the Ebla Digital Archives project”

Day 2: Wednesday

Liard Amphitheater

• 13:30   Tero Alstola (University of Helsinki), “Semantic Domains in Akkadian Texts”
• 13:55   Tommi Jauhiainen (University of Helsinki), “Language and Dialect Identification of Transliterated Cuneiform Texts in Oracc”
• 14:20   Johannes Bach (University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts), “Digitalization and the literary history of Assyrian royal narrative texts”
• 14:45   Anna Kurmangaliev (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), “Integrating Knowledge on Ancient Near Eastern Seals and Sealings”
• 15:45   Preston Atwood (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Jesse Pruett (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project: Reflectance Transformation Imaging and the Digital Humanities”
• 16:10   Micheline Kurdy (Labex RESMED), “Virtual Access to an Unreachable Site, The Saint-Symeon Site (Syria)”
• 16:35   Hendrik Hameeuw (KU Leuven), Athena van der Perre (KU Leuven), “Interactive 2D and Multispectral Imaging on the Crossroads of Archaeology, Egyptology and Assyriology”