The organizers of the 6th OPCA are happy to announce the following preliminary programme:
Friday, 21st of April
9.00am – 9.30am Registration / Coffee, Tea & Biscuits available
9.30am – 9.45am Welcome – Professor Jacob Dahl
Introductory Remarks by OPCA Organisers
9.45am – 11.30am Approaches to the Study of Religion and Ritual
Julia Giessler – To Mark a Living Creature for a Deity – Babylonian Practices and their Traditions
Krzysztof Kalek – Answers from the Sungod
Adam Howe – Life-cycle Rituals of the Assyrian Court
Michael Moore – Festivals and Social Hierarchies in the Hittite Court
11.30am – 11.50pm COFFEE BREAK
11.50am – 1.30pm Approaches to Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
Francesca Minen – Dermatological Notions in Mesopotamian Medicine
Gioele Zisa – Medical Anthropology and Babylonian Medicine: The Case Study of ŠÀ-ZI.GA Therapy
Communication Strategies in Letter-Writing
Izabela Nowak – Greetings formulas in the Old Babylonian letters ana šapirīya and ana bēlīya
Jane Gordon – Communicating Emotion in Old Assyrian Letters from Kanesh
1.30pm – 2.30pm LUNCH BREAK
2.30pm – 3.45pm Dealing with the Vicissitudes of Life
Sara Manasterska – The Poetics of Complaining: A Cross-Genre Investigation of Akkadian in Use
Sophus Helle – Babylonian Perspectives on the Uncertainty of Death?
Christoph Schmidhuber – Children in Old Babylonian Law Codes
3.45pm – 4.15pm COFFEE BREAK
4.15pm – 5.30pm Of Animals and Children
Alexandra Llado – The Management of Wild Animals in the Drehem Archive: The Bear as a Case Study
Andréa Vilela – Our Best Friend, Their Best Problem: Descriptions of Dog Behaviour in Mesopotamian Omens and Proverbs
Jill Marcum – Exploring the Symbolic Value of Animals in Sumerian Fables vis-à-vis Sumerograms
5.30pm – 7.00pm Keynote Address
Professor Walther Sallaberger – Participants at Bau’s Festival: Practising Religion in an Early Bronze Age City State
7.00pm – 9.00pm Informal drinks in Wolfson Bar
Saturday 22nd of April
9.30am – 10.00am Tea, Coffee & Biscuits available
10.00am – 11.45am Questions of Identity and Function in the Cuneiform Text Corpus
Szilvia Jáka-Sövegjártó – Layout and Intertwining: Qualitative Differences of Glossed Manuscripts and Bilinguals
Brandon Simonson – The Role of Non-Linguistic Criteria in Identifying Aramaic Names in the Cuneiform Text Corpus: A Re-evaluation
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scribal Tradition
Véronique Patai – Identification of Training Processes within the Nuzi Scribes Families
Soheil Delshad – The Matter of Medium in the Achaemenid Inscriptions: The Connection between Materiality and the Scribes
11.45am – 12.15pm COFFEE BREAK
12.15pm – 1.15pm Contextual and Intertextual Approaches to Text Analysis
Johannes Bach – A Transtextual Approach to Assyrian Royal Narratives
Ludovica Bertolini – Dumuzi and Inanna, Considering and Re-considering some Literary Parallels. A Case Study
1.15pm – 2.15pm LUNCH BREAK
2.15pm – 4.00pm Approaches to Ideology and State Administration
Sophia Witzig – Provincial administration in Ur III times: The governors of Girsu/Lagash
Alexander Johannes Edmonds – To Ḫabḫu and back. Fashioning a new historical geography of the western Zagros
Sophie Walker – The ideological function of Liballi-Sharrat in the ‘Banquet Scene’ of Ashurbanipal
Melissa Benson – Darius’ Delegation Strategy and Achaemenid Persian Mutilation Practice
4.00pm – 4.30pm COFFEE BREAK
4.30pm – 6.00pm Keynote Address
Dr Anne Goddeeris – Everything in its Right Place. Tips and Tricks from the Old Babylonian Accountant
Closure of the 6th OPCA
6.00pm – 7.30pm Wine Reception
8.00pm – 10.00pm Conference Dinner – Victoria Arms
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