Assyriological Seminar

2025

"The Imperial Reshuffle. Archaeological Insights into the Transformation of the Assyrian Heartland after its 'Collapse'." A lecture by Rocco Palermo (Bryn Mawr)

February 25, 2025 - 4:00pm

"Land and Liberty in Southern Babylonia during the Third Millennium BCE."

January 13, 2025 - 4:00pm

2024

"On the Use of Semiotics in the Reading of Hittite Imagery", a lecture by Patrick Maxime Michel

November 18, 2024 - 4:00pm

"Commemorating Art in the Old Babylonian Period", a lecture by Prof. Benjamin Foster

October 15, 2024 - 4:00pm

“The Magical-Medical Ritual Shurpu: A New Reconstruction”

April 25, 2024 - 4:30pm

"On Late Babylonian Priestly Literature", and "Mesopotamian Bird Owens."

April 11, 2024 - 4:30pm

2023

"Vivat, floreat, crescat Assyriologia!": Cuneiform Studies in Victorian England through the Lens of Oxford Archives

October 26, 2023 - 3:00pm

Is It a Good Day? - Hemerologies in Ancient Mesopotamia

September 18, 2023 - 5:00pm

Making Priest and Temple in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon (484–60 BCE)

February 28, 2023 - 4:30pm

2022

New Research on the Kingdom of Dilmun, c. 2000-1700 BC

November 14, 2022 - 5:30pm

Dialogue, Diplomacy, and Drama in the Amarna Letters

October 27, 2022 - 5:30pm

Dialogue, Diplomacy, and Drama in the Amarna Letters

October 27, 2022 - 5:30pm

Gilgamesh and the Translation of Philological Crises

April 12, 2022 - 4:00pm

Middle Assyrian Material Culture and Dark Age Assyrian Chronology

March 1, 2022 - 4:30pm

2021

Assyriology and the Ontological Turn

November 9, 2021 - 5:00pm

Before Assyria

April 21, 2021 - 3:30pm

2019

Light as Experience: Rethinking Neo-Assyrian Reliefs in Their Architectural Context

November 18, 2019 - 4:30pm

The Development of an Administrative System: Livestock in Ur III Drehem

October 30, 2019 - 10:30pm

The Umma Geography Project

September 19, 2019 - 4:00pm

Valley Irrigation along the Syrian Euphrates: A Case Study in Bronze Age Landscapes and Technology

March 27, 2019 - 4:30pm

2018

Late Babylonian Priestly Literature: Corpora, Concepts, Context

December 10, 2018 - 4:00pm

Father Sky and Mother Earth: from Sumer to Berossus

April 16, 2018 - 4:00pm

Towards a Hittite Hermeneutics?

April 12, 2018 - 5:15pm

Yale Assyriological Seminar: Daniel Schwemer on Of Gods, and Goats, Witches and Kings

March 1, 2018 - 4:30pm

2017

The World's First Intelligence Service: A Reconstruction of Neo-Assyrian Methods of Collecting and Processing Information

November 14, 2017 - 4:30pm