Conference
Orientalists Day
- Date
- Thursday 25 January 2018
- Time
- Location
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Matthias de Vrieshof
Matthias de Vrieshof 2
2311 BZ Leiden - Room
- 004
The Orientalists Day is an annual symposium for students and researchers of the Ancient Near East. Lectures are both in English and Dutch.
The second Orientalists Day is organised by the Leiden research project Persia and Babylonia.
Register
Entrance is free. Please register before 20 January through persiababylonia@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Travel grants
Five travel grants are made available for PhD or (research) MA students from the Netherlands and Flanders in order to participate. Please apply before 15 January 2018 (based on first come, first served) via persiababylonia@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Programme
| 10.00-10.35 | Coffee and tea |
| 10.35-10.45 | Welcome by Caroline Waerzeggers |
| 10.45-11.15 | Klaas Veenhof De familiegod in de Oudassyrische samenleving |
| 11.15-11.45 | Carolien van der Brugge De Assyrische koningen tussen 934 en 746 v. Chr.: Heersers of Handelaren? |
| 11.45-12.15 | Jan-Wim Wesselius Taal, grammatica en stijl in het bijbelboek Daniel |
| 12.15-12.45 | Daan Nijssen Hoe bereik ik een jong publiek? |
| 12.45-14.15 | Lunch break |
| 14.15-14.45 | Lara Weiss and Nico Staring The Walking Dead at Saqqara: The making of a cultural geography |
| 14.45-15.15 | Jonny Russell The Theory of Healing in Ancient Egypt: A Lexicographic Analysis of Biophysical and Cultural Realities in Healing Papyri from the Ancient Nile Valley |
| 15.15-15.30 | Tea break |
| 15.30-16.00 | Melanie Groß ˀbrk – A hapax legomenon in the Hebrew Bible revisited |
| 16.00-16.30 | Christina van der Wal Anonby Near East, Far Out: A history of Kumzari |
| 16.30-17.00 | Caroline Waerzeggers - NINO's future - Next Orientalists Day? |
| 17.00 | Drinks |