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09:00-09:30 Welcome to the workshop
09:30-10:30 Keynote: Martti Nissinen (title tbd)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Uroš Matic: (title tbd)
11:30-12:00 Nikolaos Lazaridis: ‘A world of masculine things: Masculine characters’ possessions in ancient Egyptian storytelling’
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Sota Maruono: ‘Egyptian Men in the Neo-Assyrian City of Aššur: Subaltern Masculinities and Imperial Order’
14:00-14:30 Morgan Moroney: ‘The Masculine Form: A Reexamination of Egyptian Figural Vessels’
14:30-15:00 Matheus Treuk: ‘Late Egyptian ʿqr: assessing non-conforming pasts’
15:00-15:30 Valentina Alessia Beretta: ‘The Figure of Hermaphroditus in Hellenistic West Asia and Egypt: A New Approach’
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Ben Dewar: ‘The Calendrics of Conception: Maintaining Virility in the Issaran-mudammiq Hemerology Amulets’
16:30-17:00 Patricia Bou Pérez: ‘Expanding the Framework: Approaching Masculinities and Paternity in the Old Babylonian Period (ca. 2000–1600 BCE)’
Evening (time tbd) Conference dinner
09:00-09:30 Jessie DeGrado: ‘No Homo? The Bromance of Gilgamesh and Enkidu’
09:30-10:00 Joanna Töyräänvuori: ‘The sexual appetites of Ugaritic deities’
10:00-10:30 Ishbel Russel: ‘“The sukkal went quickly to his king”: Conceptualising sexual violence in the context of male homosociality in Enlil & Ninlil’
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Lucrezia Manganelli: ‘Emotional Dimensions of Sargonic Kingship: Lexical and Narrative Constructions of Masculinity’
11:30-12:00 Kai Krause: ‘Constructing Guilt – Constructing Masculinities: How the Book of Ezekiel Negotiates Responsibility and Blame for Jerusalem’s Downfall’
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Zachary Rubin: ‘A Portrait of the Demiurge as a Young Man: Hegemonic Qualities of Marduk in Texts from the Old Babylonian Period’
14:00-14:30 Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme: ‘Masculinity and Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible’
14:30-15:00 Kateryna Baulina: ‘Bodies of Terror, Bodies of Protection: Beastly Masculinities and Male Power in Assyrian and Anatolian Demonic Beings — The Case of Ūgallu and Related Hybrids’
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Sara Järlemyr: ‘Grotesque Masculinities: Unmaking men in Isaiah and Jeremiah’
16:00-16:30 Kelsie Ehalt: ‘Assembling Masculinities in the Neo-Assyrian Substitute King Ritual’
16:30-17:00 Omar N’Shea: ‘Proxy Bodies and Performative Power: Rethinking Imperial Masculinity in Neo-Assyria’
17:00 Closing remarks