Conference
Creating and Recreating Nineveh
- Date
- Monday 22 January 2018
- Time
- Location
- Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Rapenburg 28
2311 EW Leiden
In light of the successful exhibition about Nineveh, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden in cooperation with the ERC project Persia and Babylonia is organizing the conference Creating and Recreating Nineveh.
Nineveh was once the largest city of the world and a source of inspiration for classical writers, artists and scientists. The aim of the conference is to explore the processes that lead to Nineveh's position in the past and to discuss divergences and convergences between historical facts and (modern) reconstructions.
Creation and recreation
The morning session is looking towards the creation of ancient Nineveh and its material culture. What made this city a symbol of beauty and power in the seventh century BC? In the afternoon, the conference will focus on why and how Nineveh was, and still is, recreated. Are reconstructions helping us to understand ancient societies, or are they blurring historical reality? Papers will cover the visualization of the city through time including digital reconstructions, renovation work and virtual reality.
More information and registration
Preliminary programme
| 9:00 | Doors open; coffee and tea |
| 9:30 | Welcome Pieter ter Keurs, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden |
| 09:35 | Symbol of beauty or place of devastation? Lucas Petit, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden |
| Creating Nineveh | |
| 09:45 | Creating a Royal Court Melanie Gross, Leiden University |
| 10:10 | The Lachish room in Nineveh: a message of economic success Carolien van der Brugge, VU Amsterdam |
| 10:35 | Creating a Capital Aris Politopoulos, Leiden University |
| 11:00 | Creating Palaces David Kertai, Hebrew University Jerusalem |
| 11:25 | Creating a Library Jeanette Fincke, The Netherlands Institute for the Near East/CNRS |
| 11:50 | Creating Stories Uzume Wijnsma, Leiden University |
| 12:15 | Discussion: How much do we really know of ancient Nineveh? |
| 12:30 – 13:45 | Lunch break |
| Recreating Nineveh | |
| 13:45 | Recreating Nineveh by Artists Lucas Petit, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden |
| 14:10 | Recreating Nineveh by Archaeologists Lucas Petit, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden |
| 14:35 | Recreating Nineveh by VR and Animations Donald Sanders, Learning Sites, VS |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | The reconstruction of Nineveh in "real": an account from Mosul Ghufran Ahmed, VU Amsterdam |
| 15:55 | Live images from Nineveh Faisal Jeber, Mosul |
| 16:05 | Discussion: How should we reconstruct Nineveh? |
| 16:20 | Assyrian Virtual Reality Donald Sanders, Learning Sites, VS |
| 17:00 | Reception |