Landscapes and Environments of the Ancient Near East
The 7th Graduate Symposium in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
April 4th and 5th, 2025
Landscapes and Environments of the Ancient Near East, 7th Graduate Symposium in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Location Friday April 4th: HQ L-01
Location Saturday April 5th: HQ 136
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, in cooperation with Brown University, Harvard University, and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), is pleased to announce the seventh annual Graduate Symposium in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (GSANES). The conference will be hybrid, taking place at Yale University and on Zoom on April 4-5, 2025.
This year’s conference seeks to explore how ancient peoples interacted with, perceived, and managed their environments. Landscape and environment play a crucial role in shaping societies, economies, and cultural practices. We invite submissions that examine the landscapes and environments of the ancient Near East through archaeological, art-historical, or philological methods. How did ancient peoples adapt to and shape their environments? In what ways do modern technologies reveal new insights into ancient landscape management, agriculture, and urban planning? What do the records left by scholars and administrators tell us about their perception of space, terrain, and environmental challenges? This symposium offers a forum for discussing these questions, highlighting the dynamic relationship between ancient societies and their physical surroundings.
Register here (https://forms.gle/AWk8vbEfntWJAAso6)
Full program with abstracts (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oPZsh27CZcy5GQEHkOmGwOoTU3c94U_R-Hf1Nd0jK7M/edit?usp=sharing)