A Melammu-konferencia programja

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„Globalisation in the First Millennium”

Sixth Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project.
Sofia, 1-4 September, 2008

Monday 1 September

9.00-10:15: Registration

10.15-10.30 Welcome (Sergei Ignatov, Rector, NBU), A. Panaino, (President, Melammu)

SESSION ONE: BACKGROUND TO GLOBALISATION

Chair: S. Ignatov

10.30 – 11.15 Baruch Levine, Global Monotheism: The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets

11.15 – 12.00 Miroslav Salvini, The spread of cuneiform culture to the Urartian north

12.00-12.30 A. Panaino, Power and Ritual in the Achaemenian Royalty

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

SESSION TWO: GLOBALISATION AND MESOPOTAMIA / EGYPT

Chair: Simo Parpola

14.15-15.00 Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, Globalization, Imperialism, and Back: Political and Ideologic reactions to Assyrian presence in Syria (IXth -VIIIth Century BC)

15.00-15.30 Cynthia Jean, Globalisation in literature: re-examining the Gilgamesh affair

15.30-16.00 Adrienn Nagy, Bes, Hathor, and the Nimrud Bowl

16.00-16.30 tea break

16.30-17.00 Rumen Kolev, The Babylonian astrolabe. Astronomical analysis and dating

17.00-17.30 Nineb Lamassu, Gilgamesh's plant of rejuvenation and Qatine's Sisisambar

17.30-18.15 Sergei Ignatov, The sun religion of Akhenaten. Is it a Monotheistic Religion

Tuesday 2 September
SESSION THREE: GLOBALISATION AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Chair: Philippe Talon

10.00-10.30 Magda Tatulescu, Hermeneutics of Suspicion: The Combat Myth in the early First Millennium BC
10.30-11.00 Nedelcho Nedelchev, Labarna und tabarna - das Problem über den Thronfolger und den König in der hethitischen Geschichte

11.00-11.30 coffee break

11.30-12.00 Jorrit M. Kelder, The role of olives and olive oil in prestige gift exchange between Mycenae and Egypt in the Late Bronze Age
12.00-12.30 Kristoffer Momrak, Ancient Near Eastern politics and the Greek polis – secondary states, structural similarities and the problem of diffusion

12.30-14.00 lunch break

SESSION FOUR: GLOBALISATION AND INDIA
Chair: Jens Braarvig

14.00-14.30 Klaus Karttunen, India and the world trade: from the beginnings to the Hellenistic Age
14.30-15.15 Tzvi Abusch and Emily Blanchard West, Ancient Near Eastern borrowings in the Mahabharata

15.30 Trip to Historical Museum, Sofia
18.00 Reception

Wedneday 3 SEPTEMBER

SESSION FIVE: GLOBALISATION AND IRAN

Chair: Béatrice André-Salvini

10.00-10.30 Andrea Gariboldi, Elements of globalisation in ancient Iranian numismatics
10.30-11.00 Velizar Sadovski, Old Indian and Old Iranian ritual poetry: problems of language and ritual pragmatics of Vedic and Avestan hymns

11.00-11.30 coffee break

SESSION SIX: GLOBALISATION AND THRACE
Chair: Vladimir Gradev

11.30-12.15 I. Marazov, Thrace and the rest of the Ancient World

12.15-13.00 Valeria Fol, Ancient Thrace, cultural interaction between Thrace and the rest of the ancient world

13.00-14.30 lunch break

SESSION SEVEN: GLOBALISATION AND GREECE

Chair: Yuri Stoyanov

14.30-15.00 Maya Vassileva, Phrygian bronzes in the Greek world: globalisation through cult

15.00-15.30 Peter Dimitrov, Greek and Anatolian linguistics

15.30-16.00 Mihaela Aleksieva, Orphism: history of research

16.00-16.30 tea break

16.30-17.00 Erik van Dongen and Christina Tsouparopoulou, The Melammu Website: What we have to offer, and how you could contribute

17.00 PANEL DISCUSSION

Thursday 4 September

Organised trip to the Rila Monastery