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Program
10:00 Opening remarks (Saana Svärd, Jason Silverman & Antti Lahelma)
10:15 Keynote by Marc Van De Mieroop: "I read therefore I am: Why the Babylonians valued reading widely (and why we should too)"
11:15 Break
11:30 Thomas R. Blanton IV "Religion as a Mode of Economic Management: Bourdieusian Reflections on Bel and the Dragon, Asclepius at Epidaurus, and Paul of Tarsus"
12:00 Repekka Uotila "Neo-Assyrian Archives During the Alphabetic Turn"
12:30 Ellie Bennett “'I Had No Pity For Him': Mercy in the Construction of Assyrian Royal Masculinities"
13:00 Discussion
13:15 Break
14:00 Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider "Administration of the Palmyrene Temples: tokens and stamps"
14:30 Melis Uzdurum "TRASH: Tracing Recycling and Sustainability Heritage in Sedentary Communities"
15:00 Melanie Wasmuth "The Materiality of Written Artefacts: the Potential of Exploratory Workshops"
15:30 Discussion
15:45 Break
16:00 Joanna Töyräänvuori "Ugarit in the Aegean Context: A Synthetic View"
16:30 Danijela Stefanović "Textiles, Labour, and Mobility: Female Weavers in Egyptian and Near Eastern Networks (2nd Millennium BC)"
17:00 Chana Algarvio "Entangled Narratives of Empire: The Circulation of Egyptian Motifs in the Achaemenid World"
17:30 Discussion
17:45 Final remarks