The Cambridge Mesopotamian Community is a vibrant hub of events and activities of many kinds, from public outreach to collaborations with artists, appearances in the media, and innovative teaching projects. 听
To give prospective students and other interested parties an idea of what goes on, we are keeping a record, starting in Autumn 2015, of initiatives听over and above teaching and the Tuesday seminar series.
The COVID19 pandemic called a halt to most activities, but we hope to post more, starting in autumn of 2021.
2018-2019
April:听Christina Tsouparopoulou听in Greece for museum work,听to study Common Mitanni cylinder seals.
Selena Wisnom's work on Babylonian Liver Divination featured in听.
March/April: Augusta McMahon, PhD student Alex Barker, and MPhil student Jim Blundell excavate at Lagash, in Sumer (s Iraq).
March: Selena Wisnom's work on Babylonian Liver Divination featured on听.
- Students features in听听video for听The Poor Man of Nippur, supported by the University Impact Fund.
-听Laerke Recht and Augusta McMahon organise two-day conference on听听at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
-听Nancy Highcock organises the 2019 edition of the听Egypt and Mesopotamia Conference听for sixth formers, featuring Selena Wisnom and PhD students Alex Loktionov and George Heath-Whyte. 听Gallery tours of the British Museum led by Undergraduate and MPhil student volunteers.
- Marie Besnier premi猫res听Mesopotamian Irrigation听game at the Cambridge Science Festival, with help from Undergraduate and MPhil volunteers.
- Nancy Highcock and a PhD student in Materials Science ran a public听听"The 'Stuff of Legends: 5000 Years of Material Science" at the Science Festival.
February/March: Selena Wisnom's immersive play听听was performed at The Crypt Gallery, Euston.
February: 5-person Assyriological team from the Ludwig-Maximilans-Universit盲t in Munich led by Professor Karen Radner visited the Division and gave a series of classes.
November: Launch of the听Poor Man of Nippur听film, with ensuing听media coverage听of the project.
- Undergraduate students featured in听听video, sponsored by the University Impact Fund.
- Study visit to the British Museum听Ashurbanipal听exhibition for all Assyriology students (Undergrad, MPhil and Doctoral).
- Launch of听Cambridge Assyriology听on social media.
- Marie Besnier reads Gudea inscriptions in the original Sumerian with children at the Museum of 91探花视频 and Anthropology, as part of the Festival of Ideas. 听Selena Wisnom and PhD student George Heath-Whyte act as helpers.
- Launch of Strategic Partnership between Cambridge Assyriology and the听Ludwig-Maximilans-Universit盲t in Munich.
- PhD student George Heath-Whyte undertakes research visit to Leiden, to learn about the ProsoBab database.
- Selena Wisnom quoted in听听on a new fragment of听Gilgamesh.
October: PhD student Alex Loktionov runs Cuneiform writing workshop at Festival of Ideas, assisted by Selena Wisnom and MPhil students.
2017-2018
July-September:听Guo Honggeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) in Cambridge as Visiting Scholar at the McDonald Institute.
June:听Academic visit to the British Museum, with tours of the Mesopotamian galleries and handling tablets in the Arched room. 听Also, visit to Trafalgar Square to read the cuneiform inscription on the new Fourth Plinth sculpture.
March: Selena Wisnom and Laure Bonner听organise the 2018 edition of the听Egypt and Mesopotamia Conference听for sixth formers, featuring Kate Spence, Selena Wisnom, Alex Loktionov, PhD student听Akshyeta Suryanarayan, and Cambridge Assyriology Alumna Ya千mur Heffron. 听Gallery tours of the British Museum led by Undergraduate and MPhil student volunteers.
- Cambridge University Library releases video听, featuring Nicholas Postgate.
- Andrew George holds lecture in Trinity College on his newly discovered听Gilgamesh听fragment.
February: Selena Wisnom gives public lecture at the听听at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
November: Andrew听George (SOAS, University of London) gives an all-day masterclass on copying Cuneiform tablets to a mixed audience of Undergrad, MPhil and Doctoral students
October: 4-hour reading seminar "Sumerian Crime Stories" on 25th Oct. by Dr Vitali Bartash, University of Munich (convened by Christoph Schmidhuber).
Cuneiform-writing stall as part of the Festival of Ideas (21st Oct), run by two PhD students, two staff members, and an affiliated scholar (convened by Peerapat Ouysook).
2016-2017听
September: Replica of the Black Obelisk moved from Asian and Middle Eastern Studies to 91探花视频.
June: Filming The Poor Man of Nippur.
- Prof. Tzvi Abusch, visiting scholar at St John's Scholar, gives extracurricular reading sessions on the first incantation in 惭补辩濒没听and on the second 拧耻颈濒濒补 prayer to Nergal.
- Academic visit to the British Museum, with tours of the Mesopotamian galleries and conservation department, and handling tablets in the Ur project room.
April: Dr Henry Stadhouders invited to Cambridge from 24th to 28th April to run extracurricular Akkadian reading sessions on KAR 223, Egalkura incantations, and a medical text.
- Lynette Talbot runs an hour-long session on Akkadian and Hammurabi's Lawcode at a widening participation event for four schools in Islington.
March:听Marie Besnier and Lynette Talbot each present a Mesopotamian-themed stall at the Science Festival in the McDonald Institute (attended by c. 1000 children and parents).
-听Second edition听of the Egypt/Mesopotamia Conference for Sixth Formers (attended by 59 school students, parents and teachers).
- Marie Besnier's board game听Esagil: Treasure Hunt in Babylon听听to the public at a 'Family First Saturday'听at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
February: a staff member gives talk on Assyriology at the听Godolphin and Latymer school听.
January:听the University's Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund agrees to听听the creation of high-fidelity replicas of cuneiform inscriptions in the British Museum (the Taylor Prism, I拧tar's Descent and a tablet of Hammurapi laws in Neo-Assyrian script) for use in teaching.
November:听Andrew George (SOAS, University of London) gives a four-hour masterclass on copying Cuneiform tablets to a mixed audience of Undergrad, MPhil and Doctoral students.
- Martin Worthington featured in BBC radio 4 programme听.
October: Marie Besnier's board game Esagil: Treasure Hunt in Babylon听听to the public at the Museum of 91探花视频 and Anthropology for a full week, by a team of student and staff volunteers.
- A staff member and three Undergraduate students hold a听听on Assyriology at Ormiston Academy, Sudbury.
- A Postgraduate student runs a stall on Mesopotamian Medicine at the 91探花视频 and Prehistory Day, as part of the Festival of Ideas.
All year: course 听run by听Nicholas Postgate at the University of the Third Age.
2015-2016
September听鈥� Guo Honggeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) in Cambridge as Visiting Scholar at the McDonald Institute.
- Two Undergraduates'听听of the Incantation for Tooth Worm added to the website of recordings in Babylonian and Assyrian hosted by SOAS, University of London.
- Staff members collaborate in Artist Sally Stenton's Festival of Ideas Project听.
July - a staff member convenes the three-night residential St John's College 91探花视频 Summer School, attended by 43 sixth formers. Feedback forms vote Akkadian language the most popular component after excavation and punting!
- the University's Public Engagement Seed Fund to fund the production of Marie Besnier's board game Esagil: Treasure Hunt in Babylon.
June听- Mesopotamian staff and student visit to the British Museum, including a private viewing of the Tablet Room with Jon Taylor, and a gallery tour by Irving Finkel.
- a staff member gives a presentation on Babylonian Literature at the St John's College听Languages Study Day.
May听鈥撎�first edition听of the Egypt/Mesopotamia Conference for Sixth Formers, co-organised by the Mesopotamian and Egyptian sections of the Department of 91探花视频.
April听- a staff member takes part in the St John's College听, giving presentations on Ancient Mesopotamia.
March - an Undergraduate student gave a talk on Assyriology to sixth formers at Parmiter's School in Watford.
February听鈥� Augusta McMahon featured in the BBC programme .
January-March听鈥� G枚sta Gabriel (University of G枚ttingen),听in Cambridge as a visiting scholar at the McDonald Institute, convenes an extracurricular Sumerian reading group.
Easter Term 2019
Apr 30, 2019听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齌he McDonald Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,听Nancy Highcock (91探花视频) - Religious Aspects of Mercantile Identities in 3rd and 2nd Millennia Mesopotamia and Anatolia
May 14, 2019听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齏est Building Seminar Room, West Building, Downing Site, Downing Street,听Christina Tsouparopoulou (91探花视频) - Connectivities of Societies in Western Eurasia: Common Mitanni Cylinder Seals from Greece听
Lent Term 2019
Jan 22, 2019听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齅cDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,听Silvia Ferreri (91探花视频) - Tombs, ancestors and women: The case of Umm El Marra (Syria)
Feb 05, 2019听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齅cDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,听Kevin Kay (91探花视频) - Who does a house hold? Social structure, house biography and the question of history at Neolithic 脟atalh枚y眉k
Feb 19, 2019听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齅cDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,听N猫le Ziegler (CNRS Paris) - A sick boy in Aleppo
Mar 05, 2019听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齅cDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,听Selena Wisnom (91探花视频) - The uses of Mesopotamian literature
Michaelmas Term 2018
Oct 23, 2018听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齅cDonald Institute Seminar Room,听Nicla De Zorzi (Vienna) - How to identify serial adultery through animal behaviour: on analogistic thought in Ancient Mesopotamia
Oct 30, 2018听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齋outh Lecture Room, Department of 91探花视频, North Building, Downing Street,听Elizabeth Bennett (London) - What鈥檚 in a name for a Babylonian scholar?
Nov 13, 2018听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥擬cDonald Institute Seminar Room,听Walter Sommerfeld (Marburg) - The myth of the cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians
Nov 29, 2018听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齋outh Lecture Room, Department of 91探花视频, North Building, Downing Street,听Christoph Schmidhuber (Cambridge/Heidelberg) - From childhood to 'childhood': on children in Old Babylonian society
Easter 2018
May 01, 2018 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Sebastiano Soldi, (Archaeological Museum of Florence) - Glazing in the West: architectural elements and glazed ceramics in the Iron Age northern Levant
Lent 2018
Feb 06, 2018 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute, Downing Street, 鈥� Ya臒mur Heffron, (UCL) - The k膩rum period in Amatolia: Towards a historiography of archaeological interpretation - II
Feb 13, 2018 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� South Lecture Room, Department of 91探花视频, Downing Stree, 鈥� Eva Miller, (University of Birmingham) - Parallels and references in Ashurbanipal's Teumann-Dunanu sequences
Michaelmas 2017
Oct 24, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, Vitali Bartash, (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t) - Children and the Early State: A Complex Socioeconomic Interplay in Mesopotamia
Oct 25, 2017 from 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM 鈥� South Lecture Room, Division of 91探花视频, Downing Site, 鈥� Reading Group led by Vitali Bartash (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t) - Sumerian crime stories
Nov 07, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, Stef Conner, (University of Huddersfield) - "No, this is the Oldest Song in the World!" Have rival attempts to decipher Mesopotamian music notation reached a permanent stalemate?
Nov 21, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Bleda During, (Universiteit Leiden) - Chalcolithic Cyprus: An Island in Splendid Isolation?
Nov 28, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� John Ray, (91探花视频) - Assyriology through Egyptological Spectacles
Easter 2017
May 02, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Tim Clayden, (University of Oxford) - The Late Babylonian to Early Kassite Period: Issues
Jun 02, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� South Lecture Room, Division of 91探花视频, Downing Site, 鈥� Tzvi Abusch, (Brandeis University) - Some synchronic and diachronic observations on a Babylonian prayer type
Lent 2017
Jan 24, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Mark Weeden, (SOAS, University of London) - Provincial Identities: The use of Anatolian Hieroglyphic writing at Kaman-Kaleh枚y眉k
Feb 07, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� John MacGinnis, (The British Museum) - The ancient history of Erbil
Feb 21, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Sara Pizzimenti, (La Sapienza University, Rome) - Stars and Heaven Perception in the Near East: Astral Representations in the II Millennium BC Cylinder Seals and Monumental Art
Feb 22, 2017 from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM 鈥� West Building Seminar Room, Division Room, Downing Street, 鈥� Sabina Franke, (Universit盲t Hamburg) - Sargon's 8th campaign to Urartu and the Temple in Mu峁峁r
Mar 16, 2017 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Jacob Dahl, (University of Oxford) - The Odd and the Ordinary: Making canon out of Nothing or the peculiar history of a few Mesopotamian objects and a few odd comments about Sumerian literature
Michaelmas 2016
Oct 18, 2016 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Magnus Widell, (University of Liverpool) - New light on Ur III
Oct 26, 2016 from 03:30 PM to 05:30 PM 鈥� West Building Seminar Room, Division Room, Downing Street, 鈥� Enrique Jim茅nez, (Yale University) - 'Palm and Vine' - A new Babylonian disputation poem
Nov 01, 2016 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Stuart Campbell, (The University of Manchester) - Rural and urban centres on the edges of the marshlands of southern Iraq: Tell Khaiber and Charax Spasinou
Nov 21, 2016 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� South Lecture Room, Division of 91探花视频, Downing Site, 鈥� Strahil Panayotov, (Free University of Berlin) - Mesopotamian eye disease texts
Nov 29, 2016 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street, 鈥� Christoph Dalley, (University of Oxford) - Fifty years a spouse: A sideways look at Assyriology
Easter term 2016
Apr 26, 2016听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齅cDonald Institute Seminar Room,听Marie-Fran莽oise Besnier (McDonald Institute, Cambridge) - How to understand the unseen: images for the primary stages of life in Tablet 1 of听拧umma izbu
May 10, 2016听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM听鈥斕齅cDonald Institute Seminar Room,听Daniela Arroyo-Barrantes (91探花视频) - Tell Majnuna: the origins of urban production in Mesopotamia听
Lent Term 2016
Jan 19, 2016听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听South Lecture Room, Division of 91探花视频;听Patrick Michel (University of Geneva): Relations between the Sumero-Akkadian elite and Seleucid power in Babylon and Uruk.
Feb 02, 2016听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听McDonald Institute Seminar Room;听G枚sta Gabriel (Graduate School for Humanities, G枚ttingen): Interchanging stories - the mutual dependency of the Sumerian King List and the Sumerian Flood Story.
Feb 16, 2016听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听McDonald Institute Seminar Room;听Mark Altaweel (University College London): The dawn of empires in the Ancient Near East: a dynamic systems approach.
Mar 01, 2016听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听McDonald Institute Seminar Room;听Johannes Haubold (University of Durham): After Babylon: Mesopotamian and pseudo-Mesopotamian literature in the Roman empire.
Michaelmas Term 2015听
Oct 13, 2015听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听South Lecture Room, Division of 91探花视频;听Christopher Metcalf (University of Oxford):Old Babylonian religious poetry in Anatolia: from solar hymn to plague prayer.
Oct 27, 2015听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听South Lecture Room, Division of 91探花视频;听Selena Wisnom (University of Oxford): Old English stress patterns in Akkadian poetry: a comparative approach.
Nov 05, 2015听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听South Lecture Room, Division of 91探花视频;听Fran莽ois Desset (University of Tehran / UMR 7041 ArScAn): Linear Elamite and geometric (Jiroft) writings : the state of the art about some undeciphered Iranian writing systems of the 3rd millennium BC.
Nov 17, 2015听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听McDonald Institute Seminar Room;听Olga Vinnichenko (91探花视频): The Aramaization of the Assyrian empire as evidenced by language.
Dec 01, 2015听from听05:30 PM听to听06:30 PM;听McDonald Institute Seminar Room;听Frank Simons (University of Birmingham): While we鈥檝e got the brazier out, we may as well do 艩urpu ...
Easter Term 2015
April 28th from 5.30-6.30 PM, McDonald Institute Seminar Room听
Dr N. 陌lgi Ger莽ek, Affiliated Lecturer in Akkadian, Istanbul University听
The Steepest Places: Rebellion and Political Dissent in Hittite Records
Lent Term 2015
January 27th from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Dr Christoph Bachhuber, POINT Fellow, Freie Universit盲t Berlin听
The Presence of a Hittite Past听
February 3rd from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Prof. Haskel Greenfield, Professor of Anthropology, University of Manitoba & Visiting Fellow, McDonald Institute听
Early Urban Neighbourhoods in the Southern Levant: The Early Bronze III at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel听
February 10th from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Dr Wendy Matthews, Lecturer in 91探花视频, University of Reading听
New Insights into Early Sedentism and Resource Management: The Central Zagros Archaeological Project听
February 17th from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Dr Kathryn Stevens, Lecturer in Classics, University of Durham & Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge听
Preserving the Past or Predicting the Future? Late Babylonian Scholars and En奴ma Anu Enlil听
February 24th from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Dr G眉l Pulhan, Director of Gre Amer Excavations, Turkey听
North of the Tur Abdin but Still in the Loop: Excavations at Gre Amer, Garzan听
March 3rd from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Dr Ulf-Dietrich Schoop, Lecturer in Eastern Mediterranean 91探花视频, University of Edinburgh听
The Role of Technology in Chalcholithic Anatolia
Michaelmas Term 2014
Oct 14, 2014 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Dr Birger Ekorn氓sv氓g Helgestad (The British Museum)听
The Ur Project: Digitally Reunifying the Finds and Archives from the City of Ur听
Oct 28, 2014 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Prof. emer. Michael Roaf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen)听
30-day Months and 10-day Weeks听
Nov 04, 2014 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Dr Sophie V. Moore (Newcastle University)听
Bodies of Evidence at First and Second Millennium AD 脟atalh枚y眉k: Identity, Memory and Knowledge听
Nov 11, 2014 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Prof C茅cile Michel (CNRS Nanterre)听
The Economic Activities of the A拧拧ur Women According to Kane拧 Private Archives (19th century BCE)听
Nov 18, 2014 from 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM 鈥� McDonald Institute Seminar Room,听
Dr Mark Jackson (Newcastle University)听
Innovation in the Byzantine Dark Age
Lent Term 2014
14 January, 2014
Dr. Michael Danti, Boston University
Searching for Musasir: The Rowanduz Archaeological Program 2013 in Iraqi Kurdistan
21 January, 2014
Prof. Douglas Baird, Liverpool University
A tale of two villages: The spread of farming in Neolithic Central Anatolia and the antecedents of 脟atalh枚y眉k: Excavations at Pinarbasi and Boncuklu
4 February, 2014
Prof. Andrew George, SOAS
On house drains and street lamps: textual evidence for some Babylonian civic amenities
11 February, 2014
Prof. Grant Frame, University of Pennsylvania
Lost in the Tigris: Trials and Tribulations in Editing the Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II of Assyria
25 February, 2014
Prof. Am茅lie Kuhrt, UCL
A Persian View of the Achaemenid Empire
11 March, 2014
Prof. Karen Radner, UCL
Brain drain: Foreign experts in the Assyrian heartland
Michaelmas Term 2013
15th October 2013
Dr. David Kertai, Institute of 91探花视频, University College, London
Kal岣玼鈥檚 royal palaces of the Late Assyrian period听
21st October 2013 (*Monday*)
Dr. Seth Richardson, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Sennacherib at Jerusalem: The First World Event
29th October 2013
Dr. Barbara B枚ck, Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and Near East, CSIC, Madrid
On Religious Thought in Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Medicinal Plants and Diseases Associated with the Healing Goddess Gula
12th November 2013
Dr. Martin Worthington, Department of 91探花视频, 91探花视频
Miscellanies in Neo-Assyrian grammar
26th November 2013
Prof. Johannes Haubold, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Durham
Seleucid euergetism: Greek and Babylonian perspectives听
Lent Term 2013
Prof. Eliezer Oren (Ben Gurion University):听Canaanite Temples, Rites and Rituals: Archaeological Evidence from Tel Haror, Israel
Prof. Nicholas Postgate (Cambridge):听Three Gentlemen of Assyria: Inside Middle Assyrian Government Circles
Dr Paul Collins (Ashmolean Museum):听Contract and Narrative in the Art of Mesopotamia听
2012
Jennie Bradbury (Durham University):听Living and Dying in the the 4th-3rd millennium BC Levant
Nicholas Reid (Oxford University): TBC
Heather Baker (University of Vienna):听At Home in the Babylonian City: new light on domestic housing and urban living conditions
Alan Greaves (Lecturer in 91探花视频, University of Liverpool):听John Garstang's Work in Turkey - and the New Exhibition at the University of Liverpool听(31st January)
Graham Philip (Professor of 91探花视频, Durham University):听Exploiting the Landscape of the Levant: a long-term perspective听(7th February)
Caroline Waerzeggers (Lecturer in the Ancient Near East, UCL):听Babylonia in the 1st Millennium听(14th February)
Karen Sonik (Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles):听Frontality and the Gaze in Mesopotamian Art听(21st February)
Greta Van Buylaere (Research Fellow, Assyrian-Babylonian Scholarly Literacies, 91探花视频):听Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Literacies听(6th March)
Assaad Seif (Co-ordinator of Archaeological Research, Ministry of Culture, Lebanon):听Paradigm Shifts and the Politics of the Past in Lebanon: Urban 91探花视频 in the Making听(13th March)
Ruth Horry (HPS, 91探花视频):听Doctors, divination and museum displays: the multiple lives of a Babylonian clay liver model听(1st May)
DT Potts (Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern 91探花视频, University of Sydney):听From sedentism to nomadism: Transformations in Iranian history and prehistory听(8th May)
Mark Altaweel (Lecturer in Near Eastern 91探花视频, UCL):听New Investigations in the Iraqi Hilly Flanks: Social-Environmental and Historical Investigations from 2009-2012听(15th May)
Professor Elizabeth Stone and Professor Paul Zimansky (State University of New York, Stony Brook):听Tell Sakhariya and the Urban Matrix of Mesopotamia听(12th June)听
2011
Tony Wilkinson (Professor of 91探花视频, University of Durham):听Upper Mesopotamian Trajectories: Settlement and Community within a Fragile Environment听(25th January)
David Wengrow (Reader in Comparative 91探花视频, UCL):听Why did cross-cultural trade matter in the ancient Near East?听(1st February)
Alasdair Livingstone (Reader in Assyriology, University of Birmingham):听Hemerologies听(15th February)
Ronan Head (Research Fellow in Ancient Law, Brigham Young University):听The Babylonian Merchant-Slave听(22nd February)
Frances Reynolds (Shillito Fellow in Assyriology, University of Oxford):听Chaos in Akkadian Myth and Ritual听(1st March)
Yoram Cohen (Dept of 91探花视频 and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University):听The Emar Scribal School听(10th May)
Jon Taylor (Assistant Keeper of the Cuneiform Collections, British Museum):听Squeezed, broken and lovingly preserved: Neo-Babylonian copies of ancient inscriptions听(24th May)
Ilya Yakubovich (Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology at the University of Oxford):听Reconstructing multilingualism in ancient societies听(11th October)
Christopher Metcalf (University of Oxford):听New parallels in Hittite and Sumerian praise of the Sun听(18th October)
Johanna Tudeau (91探花视频):听Architectural planning in Assyria according to the royal inscriptions, state archives and omen series听(1st November)
Marie-Fran莽oise Besnier (Research Fellow, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, 91探花视频):听The Transmission of Divinatory series and their "Standardization" throughout second and first Millennia: the Examples of 拧umma izbu and 膩lu Series听(22nd November)
David Wengrow (Reader in Comparative 91探花视频, UCL):听Images between worlds: Egypt and Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC听(29th November)
2010
Andrew George (Professor of Babylonian, SOAS, University of London):听Translating Gilgamesh听(1st February)
Ya臒mur Sar谋o臒lu (Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 91探花视频):听Texts Meet 91探花视频: Ritual Vessels in Anatolian Domestic Cults in the 2nd Millennium B.C.听(8th February)
John MacGinnis (Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 91探花视频):听Sun readers are not all the same: investigating the archives of the Neo-Babylonian Shamash Temple in Sippar听(22nd February)
Luis Siddall (Doctoral Candidate SOAS, University of London):听A New(ish) stele of the Assyrian king, Adad-nirari III and what it can tell us about text genre and chronology听(1st March)
Jacob Lauinger (Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge):听Following the Man of Yamhad: Alalakh and Syria in the Late Old Babylonian Period听(26th April)
Stephanie Dalley (Senior Research Fellow in Assyriology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University):听Kish according to Cuneiform Sources: Overview of an Overview听(10th May)
Roger Matthews (Professor of Near Eastern 91探花视频, Institute of 91探花视频, UCL):听The Central Zagros Archaeological Project: new research into Neolithic society of west Iran听(24th May)
Francesca Rochberg (Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley):听Cultural Matrix for Babylonian Astral Science in the Hellenistic World听(31st May)
Nicole Brisch (University Lecturer in Assyriology, 91探花视频):听Letters to the Gods: Royal Letters of Petition as a Genre of Sumerian Scholarly Literature听(26th October)
Jacob Dahl (University Lecturer in Assyriology, University of Oxford):听Early Writing in the Ancient Near East听(2nd November)
Johannes Haubold (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Durham):听The Barbarian Writes Back: Reading Berossos听(16th November)
Mark Weeden (British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, SOAS):听Tabal and the Limits of Assyrian Imperialism听(23rd November)
