Panel 1: Entanglement and interactions ‒ September 21, 2022
This panel focuses on entanglement and the nature of the interactions both within West Asia and between West Asia and other areas of the ancient world. Papers may, for example, explore movement of people, ideas, and material culture, and how their reception may, for example, be characterised as adaptation, imitation, hybridisation, resilience or entanglement.

Panel 2: Conflicts ‒ September 22, 2022
This panel deals with the topic conflicts in the broadest sense. Does the clash of civilizations lead to conflicts or not? How are conflicts managed? Are they managed hostile, peaceful or possibly in another way? How is supremacy expressed? Who becomes the superior part and why? Does the contact of sedentary and non-sedentary populations affect language and culture? And how does it affect language and culture?

Panel 3: Mobile groups and state formation ‒ September 23, 2022
This panel is dedicated to the questions how mobile groups came to form states, what were the causes, which mechanisms were at work and whether differences in time and space played a role thereby. We will pay particular attention to the role of the elites, to different conceptions of state and rule in sedentary and non-sedentary societies, and to the economic and military factors that went along with state formation. Finally, questions will also be asked about the reactions of the sedentary populations and about their acceptance of the new distribution of power.

Panel 4: Religious interactions ‒ September 24, 2022
This panel is dedicated to Polytheistic religions in a diachronic perspective. Polytheism generally is an open system which allows the coexistence of several religions if they are not exclusively. Every political action was always connected with religious rituals. This led to local and regional panthea, whose deities coexisted, combined, or even competed with each other, which also could lead to conflicts.