Conference on cuneiform literature organised by the London Centre for the Ancient Near East, funded by an anonymous donation as well as a grant from the Institute for Advanced Studies. Online attendance via Zoom. Link will be sent in answer to Eventbrite registration. In-person attendance is in Nunn Hall, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way on the Friday. The Saturday location will be announced at the event- either the same place, or if there is noisy building work happening, in another UCL space.

Friday 31st March - Location Nunn Hall UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way

9.00 am Meet, tea and coffee

Chair: Eleanor Robson

9.45: Welcome and short introduction

10.00.-10.30 Jana Matuszak Old Babylonian literary creations as a means of understanding the Sumerian legacy

10.30-11.00 Mark Weeden Lexical Lists and Cuneiform Literature

11.00-11.30 Break with tea and coffeeChair: TBC

11.30-12.00 Kaira Boddy Word groups in and after Inninšagura

12.0-12.30 Sam Mirelman The Understanding of Sumerian in Bilingual Old Babylonian Royal Inscriptions

12.30-14.00 LunchChair: Jana Matuszak14.00-14.30 Elizabeth Bennett What's in a name? From lists to literature

14.30-15.00 Farouk Al-Rawi Sumerian Literary Texts in Suleimaniyah

15.00-15.30 Break with tea and coffeeChair: Mark Weeden

15.30-16.00 Enrique Jiménez and Anmar Fadhil: An Epic Text with a Hymn in Praise of Babylon

16.00-16.30 Annette Zgoll Best Beer. Perspectives on Literature in Ancient Mesopotamia

Saturday 1st April - location to be announced due to building works in IoE.

9.30am Meet, tea and coffee

Chair: Mark Weeden

10-10.30 Abraham Winitzer Approaches from Without? External New Light on Nergal and Ereškigal and a Challenge to the “Dead Civilization”

10.30-11.00 Yori Cohen The Human vs. Animal Condition in Babylonian Wisdom Literature.

11-11.30 Break with tea and coffee

Chair: Jana Matuszak

11.00-11.30 Daniel Schwemer Literature and ritual performance in Bīt mēseri

11.30-12.00 Martin Worthington Variants and interpretation in the first Tablet of Enūma Eliš

12-1pm Lunch

Chair: Andrew George

13.00-13.30 Selena Wisnom Intertextuality in Enuma Eliš: the case of ritual lamentation

13.30-14.00 Fran Reynolds The Cuneiform Afterlives of Enuma Eliš

14.00 Concluding remarks and discussion.

15.00 latest - END.

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