Prof. Dr. Klaus Eisterer (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities 1 (Philosophy and History) of the University of Innsbruck): Opening address
17:45
Erik van Dongen (Saint Mary's University, Halifax): Opening address by the organisers
18:00
Robert Rollinger (University of Helsinki/University of Innsbruck): "Impulse Lecture: Old Battles, New Horizons: Ancient Near-Eastern Influences on the Homeric Epics"
19:30
Dinner
Tuesday, November 5
Morning Session: Talking to God(s): Prayers and Incantations
Chair: Tzvi Abusch (Brandeis University)
08:45
Introduction by the Chair
09:00
Cynthia Jean (Université Libre de Bruxelles): "Performing Rituals in Secluded Places: A Comparison of the Akkadian and Hittite Corpus"
09:20
Alan Lenzi (University of the Pacific): "The Language of Akkadian Prayers in Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and Its Significance within and beyond Mesopotamia"
09:40
David P. Wright (Brandeis University): "Silence from Silence: Verbal Expression in the Priestly Sanctuary of the Pentateuch and Its Near Eastern Context"
10:00
Alberto Bernabé (Complutense University of Madrid): "To Swear to Heaven and Earth, from Mesopotamia to Greece"
10:20
Coffee Break
10:40
Martin Lang (University of Innsbruck): Response
11:00
Round-table Discussion
Poster Session I
11:30
Introductions to today's posters
Stéphanie Anthonioz (Université Catholique de Lille): "Babel Head in the Sky"
Sabrina Buchebner (University of Innsbruck): "The Position of the Tomb of Meskalamdug within the Royal Cemetery of Ur"
Jörg Erdtmann (Trier University): "Egyptian-Oriental Based Welfare Ethics in Graeco-Roman Voluntary Associations?"
Peeter Espak (University of Tartu): "Some Influences of Mesopotamian Royal Ideology and Mythology to the Biblical World and beyond"
Angelika Kellner (University of Innsbruck): "Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Lehmann-Haupt: A Study about His Life and Work"
Aleksandra Kubiak (University of Warsaw): "Anonymous God Revisited: A Case of Palmyrene Dedications"
John A. Lynch (University of California, Los Angeles): "Gilgamesh's Ghosts: Connecting Visions of the Dead across the Ancient Near East"
Bernhard Schneider (University of Innsbruck): "The Construction History of the Ekur Temple of Nippur"
12:00
Poster Session
13:00
Lunch
Afternoon Session: Et Dona Ferentes: Foreign Reception of Mesopotamian Objects
Chair: Gerhard Tomedi (University of Innsbruck)
15:00
Introduction by the Chair
15:15
Winfried Held (Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Deniz Kaplan (Mersin University): "The Residence of a Persian Satrap in Meydancıkkale, Cilicia"
15:35
Giacomo Bardelli (University of Innsbruck/Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz): "Eastern Influences in Etruria between the Orientalizing and the Archaic Period: The Case of Rod-Tripods"
15:55
Kai Ruffing (University of Kassel): "Economic Life on the Euphrates Frontier: Roman Dura Europos"
16:15
Coffee break
16:35
Joachim Ganzert (Leibniz Universität Hannover): "On the Archetype of Sacral Rulership Legitimization and the Lower Court in the Lüneburg Townhall"
17:05
Ann Gunter (Northwestern University): Response
17:25
Round-table discussion
Poster Session I (continued)
19:30
Dinner
Wednesday, November 6
Morning Session: 'Fighting like a Lion': The Use of Literary Figures of Speech
Chair: Simone Paganini (RWTH Aachen University)
08:45
Introduction by the Chair
09:00
Johannes Haubold (Durham University): "'Shepherds of the People': The Many Lives of a Mesopotamian Metaphor"
09:20
Krzysztof Ulanowski (University of Gdańsk): "The Metaphor of the Lion in Mesopotamian and Greek Civilization"
09:40
Sebastian Fink (University of Innsbruck): "Metaphors for the Unrecognizability of God in Mesopotamian and Greek Texts"
10:00
Raoul Schrott (University of Innsbruck): "The Origin of the Muses or Who Is the Goddess of the Iliad"
10:20
Coffee break
10:40
Amar Annus (Freie Universität Berlin): "Ancient Mesopotamian Mythology and International Folklore"
11:00
Thomas Kämmerer (University of Tartu): Response
11:20
Round-table discussion
Poster Session II
11:45
Introductions to today's posters
Silvia Balatti (University of Kiel): "The Mountain People of the Zagros in the 1st Millennium BC"
Alexandra Bourguignon (Université Libre de Bruxelles): "Semitic Loanwords in Mycenaean Greek: Multiple Roads, Multiple Ways"
Max Gander (University of Zurich): "Ahhiyawa - Hiyawa - Que: Is There Evidence for Greek Presence in Cilicia in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages?"
Martin Gronau (University of Innsbruck): "A Sheep among Wolves: Two Traditions of the Beastlike 'Way of Life' in Berossos?"
Zenobia Homan (University of Cambridge): "Social Networking in Ancient Arrapha: Comparative Palaeography of Nuzi"
Nella Sudano (University of Salento): "Babylonian Motifs within Greek Fables and Proverbs"
Brigitte Truschnegg (University of Innsbruck): "The Description and Perception of Ancient Cities Involved in the Campaigns of Alexander the Great in Greek and Latin Literary Sources"
Jonathan Valk (New York University): "The Origins of the Assyrian King List"
12:05
Poster Session
13:00
Lunch
Afternoon Session: Mesopotamia and the World: Interregional Interaction
Chair: Giovanni Lanfranchi (University of Padua)
15:00
Introduction by the Chair
15:15
Reinhard Pirngruber (University of Vienna): "'The King Paid No Heed to Any of the Words We Sent before': The Interaction between the Neo-Assyrian King and the Outside World"
15:35
André Heller (University of Bamberg): "Why the Greeks Know So Little about Assyrian and Babylonian History"
15:55
15:55 Irene Madreiter and Birgit Gufler (University of Innsbruck): "The Ancient Near East and the Genre of Greek Historiography"
16:15
Julien Monerie (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): "Writing Greek with Weapons Singularly Ill-Designed for the Purpose: The Transcription of Greek Names in Cuneiform"
16:35
Coffee break
16:55
Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wrocław): "Alexander the Great in Babylon: Reality and Myth"
17:15
Simonetta Ponchia (University of Verona): Response
17:35
Round-table discussion
Poster Session II (continued)
19:30
Dinner
Thursday, November 7
Morning Session: The World of Politics: 'Democracy', Citizens, and 'Polis'
Chair: Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
08:45
Introduction by the Chair, followed by paper: "Early Greek Poets and Early Israelite Prophets: A Comparison of Their Social and Political Thinking"
09:20
Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki): "Political Leadership and Femininity: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Royal Women"
09:40
Kristoffer Momrak (University of Bergen): "Identifying Popular Power: Who Were the People of Ancient Near Eastern City-States?"
10:00
Aaron Tugendhaft (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich): "Cosmology and Political Thought in Ugarit, Ionia, and Athens"
10:20
Coffee break
10:40
Sabine Müller (University of Innsbruck): "A History of Misunderstandings? Macedonian Politics and Persian Prototypes in Greek Polis-Centred Perspective"
11:00
Raija Mattila (University of Helsinki): Response
11:20
Round-table discussion
Poster Session III
11:45
Introductions to today's posters
Ennio Biondi (University of Catania): "The Egyptian Rebellion of Inarus: Athens between Persia and the Levant"
Melanie Groß (University of Vienna): "The Structure and Organisation of the Neo-Assyrian Royal Household"
Claudia Horst (University of Bremen): "Democracy between the Near East and Greece"
Sanae Ito (University of Helsinki): "Royal Image and Political Thinking in the Correspondence of Assurbanipal"
Mait Kõiv (University of Tartu): "Archaic Greek Tyranny and City State Monarchy in the Near East: A Comparative Approach"
Sean Manning (University of Innsbruck): "Raising an Army in Achaemenid Sparda"
Louisa Désirée Thomas (Philipps-Universität Marburg): "Killing the King: Royal Assassinations in Achaemenid Persia"
Agnieszka Wojciechowska (University of Wrocław): "The Babylonian Dating System and the Date of the Conquest of Egypt by Artaxerxes III"
12:05
Poster Session
13:00
Lunch
Afternoon Session: Iran and Early Islam
Chair: Lucian Reinfandt (University of Vienna)
15:00
Introduction by the Chair
15:15
Vladimir Sazonov and Andreas Johandi (Estonian National Defense College/University of Tartu): "Some Remarks Concerning Influences of Assyrian Royal Ideology on Achaemenid Iran: Reflections of Ancient Mesopotamian Traditions in Ancient Iranian Royal Ideology and Official Propaganda Using the Example of Royal Titulary"
15:35
Aleksandra Szalc (University of Wrocław): "Semiramis, Kandake and Alexander"
15:55
Timothy Greenwood (University of St. Andrews): "Oversight, Influence and Mesopotamian Connections to Armenia across the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods"
16:15
Lutz Berger (University of Kiel): "Looking for Patterns in the Futûh"
16:35
Coffee break
16:55
Josef Wiesehöfer (University of Kiel): Response
17:15
Round-table discussion
Poster Session III (continued)
19:30
Dinner
Friday, November 8
Morning Session: Representations of Power: Shaping the Past and the Present
Chair: Sabina Franke (University of Hamburg)
08:45
Introduction by the Chair
09:00
Mario Fales (University of Udine): "Looking the Gods in the Eye: Sennacherib's Gaze toward Destiny, from Rock Reliefs to Cylinder Seals, in Historical Light"
09:20
Dirk Wicke (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): "Assyrian or Assyrianising: Reflections of Assyrian Imperial Art in Southern Anatolia"
09:40
Rocío Da Riva (University of Barcelona): "The Long-Lasting Images of an Ephemeral Empire: Neo-Babylonian Representations in the Periphery"
10:00
Christoph Schäfer (Trier University): "Inspiration and Impact of Seleucid Royal Representation"
10:20
Beate Pongratz-Leisten and Jonathan Valk (New York University): Response
10:40
Round-table discussion
11:10
Coffee break
Closing Discussion: The Future of the Melammu Project
Chair: Simo Parpola (University of Helsinki)
11:30
Introduction by the Chair
11:40
Panellist 1: The Meetings (Robert Rollinger, University of Helsinki/University of Innsbruck)
11:50
Panellist 2: Methodology and Research (Martti Nissinen, University of Helsinki)
12:00
Panellist 3: The Melammu Database and Website (Erik van Dongen, Saint Mary's University, Halifax)
12:10
Panellist 4: A Young Researcher's Perspective (Sebastian Fink, University of Innsbruck)
