BabMed project advisor Henry Stadhouders, Universiteit Utrecht, will give a talk on ‘Dream Rituals’ at the Birmingham Assyriology 2nd Annual Symposium in May 2016:
Reimaging Babylon: Birmingham Assyriology 2nd Annual Symposium
Friday 13th May University of Birminham, Arts Lecture Room 1
Please register by emailing <assyriology@contacts.bham.ac.uk>, and provide your name and institution.
10-10:30 – Registration
10:30 – Keynote – Dr. Martin Worthington
11:00 – Panel 1: Ritual
- Dr. Henry Stadhouders – Dream Rituals
- Kerrie Myers – An Analysis of the Babylonian Mouth-Washing (Mīs Pî) Ritual as a Rite of Transition (21 words)
12:20 – Panel 2: Understanding Women
- Nicola Apps – The Development of the Depiction of Women on Cylinder Seals
- Orieji Bright – Pu-abi; Queen, Princess or High Priestess
13:20 – Lunch
14:20 – Panel 3: Language
- Guy Kirkham-Smith – “Oh Enki, what big ears you have!” “But Athene, what big eyes you have!”: Sources of Wisdom from Mesopotamia to Greece
- Lynette Talbot – Tracing textual history: new approaches to medical texts
- Narmin Ismayilova – Applying the Sumerian-Akkadian model to Farsi-Azeri writing system
16:10 – Panel 4: Assyrian Politics
- Ben Dewar – Accounts of Rebellion in the Inscriptions of Sennacherib and his Disassociation from Sargon II
- Ellie Bennett – Tribes and Camels: Magee’s Interpretation of Assyrian Intervention in Arabia
17:10 – Closing Statements
17:20 – Reception
First posted on Agade Mailing List, April 18, 2016
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