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Ancient Worlds network

The Ancient Worlds Network brings together staff and graduate students in LIAS working on the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world.

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Miriam Müller

The Ancient Worlds Network brings together staff and graduate students in LIAS working on the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world. Our expertise covers a wide range of areas and disciplines, including the study of Ancient Arabia, Assyriology, Coptic Studies, Egyptology, Hebrew and Aramaic Studies, ancient Iranian Studies, Papyrology, linguistics, the study of religions, and the history of philosophy and science. The aim of the network is threefold. First, we want to stimulate scientific debate and synergy among faculty and graduate students engaged in the study of the ancient world at LIAS. To this aim we regularly organize discussion sessions on "Current Debates" in our respective fields. Second, we aim to reflect on current and future challenges to our various academic fields and to propose strategies for improving our resilience and versatility. Third, we will contribute to improving facilities for graduate training in ancient world studies at LIAS through a "Teaching Lab", designed and implemented to facilitate graduate teaching training.

Lecture Series Ancient Worlds Lunch Talks

Lecture Series Ancient Worlds Lunch Talks

Spring semester 2024: every other Monday 12:00-13:00 - free pizza and everyone is welcome to bring lunch.

This will be an opportunity to exchange ideas and latest research in an informal atmosphere with a small audience of MA and PhD students, Postdocs and Faculty of the ONOS and CAC program and all interested students and colleagues of Classics, History and Archaeology.

List of speakers and schedule:

February 12th, 2024: Imperial land in Roman Egypt: new evidence on a papyrus in the collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute – Serena Causo (PhD candidate Ghent University/MSC fellow of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society)
12:00-13:00, Matthias de Vrieshof 3, room 104 (Verbarium)

February 26th, 2024: Children and law in Ancient Mesopotamia and Syria through cuneiform documentation – Daniel Justel (PI “Deported communities in the ancient Near East (7th-4th centuries BC)”, University of Alcalá in collaboration with Leiden University)
12:00-13:00, Matthias de Vrieshof 3, room 104 (Verbarium)

March 11th, 2024: 4ky: how does coding help in studying proto-cuneiform texts? – Piotr Zadworny (MA candidate in Assyriology)
12:00-13:00, Matthias de Vrieshof 3, room 104 (Verbarium)

April 8th, 2024: What does the architecture of the lower class tell us about the Assyrian empire – Georg Cyrus (Postdoctoral Fellow NINO)
12:00-13:00, Matthias de Vrieshof 3, room 104 (Verbarium)

April 22th, 2024: Preliminary results of the Iraqi-Dutch cooperation at Marad (southern Iraq) – Rients de Boer (Lecturer in Assyriology)
12:00-13:00, Matthias de Vrieshof 3, room 104 (Verbarium)

May 6th, 2024: Naked female figurines from Qantir: preliminary results of an in-detail studySara Gebhardt (MA candidate in Egyptology)
12:00-13:00, Matthias de Vrieshof 3, room 104 (Verbarium)

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