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Friday, August 23
9:10 – 9:30 - Gina Konstantopoulos; University of HelsinkiDefining Others, Defining Ourselves: Constructing Identity in Empire
Center and Periphery in the Late Bronze Age:
9:30 – 10:15: Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver, Bilkent UniversityThe Identities of an Empire: The Case of the Hittite Empire and its Borderlands
10:15 – 11:00: Phillip Strosahl, University of PaviaIdentity and Place: The Use of Ālu and Mātu to Define People in Syria Under the Hittite Empire
11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00: Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins UniversityImperial and Local: Audience, Identity, and the Idrimi Inscription
12:00 – 12:45: František Válek, Charles UniversityForeigners and Religion at Ugarit
12:45 – 2:00: Lunch Break
Assyria and Babylonia
Moderator: Caroline Wallis, University of Helsinki
2:00 – 2:45: Jonathan Valk; Universiteit LeidenAn Empire State of Mind: Domesticating the Other in the Assyrian Empire
2:45 – 3:30: Johannes Bach; University of HelsinkiOn the Use of Similes in MA Royal Texts
3:30 – 4:00: Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:45: Ben Dewar, University of BirminghamThe Burning of Captives in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and Early Neo-Assyrian Conceptions of the Other
4:45 – 5:30: Eva Miller, University College LondonDrawing Distinctions: Assyrians, Enemies, and Others in Neo-Assyrian Art
7:00: Dinner for Conference Participants
Saturday, August 24:
Assyria and Babylonia
Moderator: Johannes Bach; University of Helsinki
9:00 – 9:45: Güzin Eren, Boston UniversityImperial Identity by Architecture: The Fortifications of Sardis in the Late 7th and 6th centuries BCE
9:45 – 10:30: Marta Lorenzon and Melanie Wasmuth, University of HelsinkiWhere is the Border? Shifts in the South-Western Fringe Zone of the ANE Empires in the 1st Millennium BCE
10:30 – 10:45: Coffee
10:45 – 11:30: John P. Nielsen, Bradley UniversityAssyrian Engagement with Chaldea and the Emergence of Chaldean Power in Babylonia
11:30 – 12:15: Michael Kozuh, Auburn UniversityThe Roving Other: Shepherds, Ungovernable Spaces, and Imperial Authority
12:15 – 1:30: Lunch
Successors of Mesopotamia: Later Empires and Biblical Traditions
Moderator: Jason Silverman, University of Helsinki
1:30 – 2:15: Silvia Balatti, Kiel UniversityBeing Yauna: the Limits of Imperial Integration at the Western Margins of the Achaemenid Empire
2:15 – 3:00: Jennifer Finn, Marquette UniversityMaking a Third Space in Susa: Achaemenid Displays of the Periphery in the Center
3:00 – 3:30: Coffee
3:30 – 4:15: Ehud Ben Zvi, University of AlbertaThe Art of Bracketing Empire Out and Creating Parallel Worlds: The Case of late Persian Yehud
4:15 – 5:00: Hanna Tervanotko; McMaster University“You Must Now Learn to Imitate the Abhorrent Practices of those Nations:" Ancient Jewish Texts and Polemics against Divination
5:00 – 5:45: Martti Nissinen and Saana Svärd; University of HelsinkiResponse and Final Discussion
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For further information and questions, please contact Gina Konstantopoulos: gina.konstantopoulos@helsinki.fi