Friday, 13th of April
9.00am – 9.45am Registration / Coffee, Tea & Biscuits available
9.45am – 10.00am Welcome – Professor Jacob L. Dahl
Introductory Remarks by OPCA Organisers
10.00am – 11.30am Administration and State Organization
- Jana Richter: “Early States” in the ancient Near East? Some critical thoughts
- Anita Fattori: Administrative practices in the Old Babylonian letters from Šaduppûm
- Izabela Nowak: The Old Babylonian letters ana bēliya from Ṣilli-Šamaš
11.30am – 12.00pm COFFEE BREAK
12.00pm – 1.00pm Administration and State Organization
- Lynn-Salammbô Zimmermann: Attempting to profile Kassite period officials
- George Heath-Whyte: Patterns of life in the Babylonian long 6th century BC: perspectives from the private archives
1.00pm – 2.00pm LUNCH BREAK
2.00pm – 3.30pm Iconography: Textual and Visual Aspects
- Margaux Spruyt: The horse and the lion: between iconographical and symbolical rivalry
- Andréa Vilela: How can one be associated with demons while also being used as a guardian against them? The complexity of the dog’s supernatural symbolism in ancient Mesopotamia
- Ágnes Csabai: The relevance of iconography in Old Testament studies
3.30pm – 4.00pm COFFEE BREAK
4.00pm – 6.00pm Gendered Approaches
- Thuraya al-Hashim: The alteration in the shape of the Mother Goddess figurines in Mesopotamia since the 4th millennium BC and its interpretation
- Ninhursag Tadaros: Female figures in the Nimrud ivories: selection and presentation from antiquity to the present
- Mónica Palmero Fernández: One deity or many? The geographic dimensions of dMUŠ3 and gender
- Sophus Helle: Sexting the goddess: erotic and textual metaphors in Enheduana’s “Exaltation”
7.00pm – 9.00pm Informal drinks in Wolfson Bar
Saturday, 14th of April
9.00am – 9.30am Coffee, Tea & Biscuits available
9.30am – 11.30pm Education and Learning
- Nicholas Kraus: Scribal education in Sargonic Mesopotamia
- Flavia Pacelli: Proverbs in and out of context: Akkadian proverbs and popular sayings between scribal school and everyday life
- Marie Young: Being a scholar in Babylonia during the second half of the 1st millennium BC
- Adeline Reynaud: Studying Old Babylonian mathematical diagrams: a project at the crossroads of assyriology and history of mathematics
11.30am – 12.00pm COFFEE BREAK
12.00pm – 1.00pm Rituals and Omens
- Lidewij van de Peut: When the king speaks to the gods: on the performance of Hittite prayers
- Réka Esztári: The writing of the god of wisdom: internal structure and hermeneutic strategies in the omen series Šumma izbu
1.00pm – 2.30pm LUNCH BREAK
2.30pm – 4.30pm Literature
- Jens Kongsted: Noise and silence in Enuma Elish: preliminary conjectures
- Kaira Boddy: The hidden structure of Erimḫuš
- Ludovica Bertolini: “I am the canopy of Sumer, a pleasant shade” – The construction of a royal ideology
- Ben Dewar: “Defective”, “disorganised”, and “somewhat raw”? Reassessing the structure of the Ninurta Temple annals of Ashurnasirpal II
4.30pm – 5.00pm COFFEE BREAK
5.00pm – 6.30pm Keynote Address
JONATHAN TAYLOR (The British Museum)
TBC
Closure of the 7th OPCA
6.30pm – 7.30pm Wine Reception
8.00pm – 10.00pm Conference Dinner – The King’s Arms, Oxford
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