Changes to 69th RAI program

Last-minute changes to the 69th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale program are listed here.
Last-minute changes

Monday, July 8

  • The talk of Lacambre, Patrier & Parayre was printed twice in the program, omitting the talk of Cécile Bigot. The talk of Lacambre, Patrier & Parayre ”The fate of officials after Samsī-Addu's death” will take place in P II at 15:00 and Cécile Bigot’s talk ”The Middle Diyala under the Cassite rule” will take place in P II at 16:30.
  • The workshop "Intertextuality in Cuneiform Literature and Beyond" has been postponed by 30 minutes to start at 15:00. Johannes Bach's talk "Nebuchadnezzar's war with Elam" has been rescheduled to take place at 15:30-16:00.

Tuesday, July 9

  • Adrianne Spunaugle's talk "Land management practices: migration and empire" at 9:00-9:30 has been cancelled. The workshop "Land management practices: migration and empire" has been postponed by 30 minutes to start at 9:30.
  • Matthew Ong's talk "Developing a high-level linguistic annotation pipeline for Akkadian" at 14:00-14:30 has been cancelled.
  • Costanza Coppini's talk "Political contacts and influence on ceramic production and consumption: the case of Tell Fekheriye (Syria) between the Mittani and the Middle Assyrian periods" at 14:30-15:00 has been cancelled.
  • The talk of Guinan & Good "Razor or Raze, Ritual or Omen? A Rediscovered Tablet Fragment from The Reš Temple of Uruk" has been postponed to 18:00-18:30.

Wednesday, July 10

  • The talk of Rositani & Verderame "Mama said … The Role of Mother in Mesopotamian Literatures" at 9:00-9:30 has been cancelled and replaced with a discussion in the workshop "Another Look at Motherhood in Ancient Western Asia"
  • Marta Pallavidini's talk "Another failed reform? The so-called Parallel Text of the Hittite Law Collection" at 9:30-10:00 has been cancelled.
  • James Burgin's talk "The Conquest of Aleppo in Hittite Collective Memory" has been postponed to 9:30.
  • Catherine Mittermayer's talk "The adaption of knowledge in the divinatory series Šumma ālu" at 12:00-12:30 has been cancelled and replaced with a concluding discussion for the workshop "The Circulation and Adaption of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East"
  • Parsa Daneshmand's talk "Between Refusal and Acceptance: Cultural Dynamics through Schismogenesis in Ancient Elam" at 11:30-12:00 has been cancelled

Thursday, July 11

  • Jacob De Ridder's talk "The stewards’ archive: epigraphical finds from the 2001 excavations in Assur" at 11:30-12:00 has been cancelled
  • The talk of Lairie & Pique "From Aššur to Sippar: merchant-controlled assemblies and kings in the early second millennium BCE" has been postponed to 11:30-12:00
  • The talks of Natalie May and Karolina Przyłęcka have switched places. Przyłęcka's talk "Erotic glyptics and its iconographic elements - what do they tell us?" now takes place at 14:00-14:30, and May's talk "Ritual, Politics and the “Others:” Persians at Assyrian Court?" now takes place at 14:30-15:00

Friday, July 12

  • Ana Belen Rumi Gutierrez's talk "Hellenizing the Pharaohs: Greek settlements leading to Ptolemaic dynastic rulership." at 15:00-15:30 has been cancelled and replaced with a workshop discussion.
  • Heather D. Baker's talk "Life at the Bottom of Neo-Babylonian Society" at 16:00-16:30 has been cancelled. The next two talks by Michele Maggio and Stephen Moore start 30 minutes earlier, Maggio at 16:00 and Moore at 16:30.
  • Irene Viaggiu's talk "An artificial adaptive system to define southern Mesopotamian figurative patterns in the cylinder seals from the end of the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE" at 17:00-17:30 has been cancelled
  • Ekaterina Markina's talk "Power, Politics and Literature in the Sargonic era: the "Weapon of Blood" letter" at 17:00-17:30 has been cancelled