Dr. Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
Day 1:
09:00-09:15 Robert Rollinger/Kai Ruffing: Opening
09:15-12:45 Panel 1: War and Numbers (Hannes D. Galter/Kai Ruffing)
09:15-09:30 Opening
09:30-10:00 Davide Nadali: Numbers matter. On the nature and function of counting in warfare in the Neo-Assyrian period
10:00-10:30 Ingo Schrakamp: On the size of Third-Millennium Mesopotamian armies. Royal inscriptions and archival records in comparative perspective
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Reinhold Bichler: Numbers in Herodotus
11:15-11:45 P. Patrick Reinard: Krieg und Zahlen in der römischen Welt
11:45-12:00 Response
12:00-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:00 Panel 2: War and Legitimacy (Giovanni B. Lanfranchi/Sabine Müller)
14:00-14:30 Opening
14:30-15:00 Salvatore Gaspa: The King as a Warrior in Assyria: Legitimacy as a Religious and Political Issue from Middle Assyrian to Neo-Assyrian Times
15:00-15:30 Simonetta Ponchia: Legitimation of war and warriors in literary texts
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:15 Daniel Ogden: The role of warfare in the legendary tradition of Seleucus
16:15-16:45 Frances Pownall: Revenge Against a Foreign Foe as a Legitimizing Principle in Warfare: Some Antecedents to Alexander the Great
16:45-17:00 Response
17:00-17:30 Discussion
17:30-18:30 Poster Session I (Silvia Balatti/Louisa D. Thomas)
Gilles Andrianne: The Bow in Ancient Greece and Near-Eastern Cultures
Eleanor Bennett: Queens at War: ‘Queens of the Arabs’ and their Conflict with the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Sevgul Cilingir Cesur: Segmenting the Military Rituals of the Hittites
Teodora Costache: The Combat Myth as a Literary and Iconographic Motif in the Diffusion of the Assyrian Royal Ideology
Elena Chepel: Praying for war: the ritual power of battle cries in Greece and Near Eastern cultures
Hilmar Klinkott: The Mithridatic Empire - constructing identity by war?
Day 2:
09:00-10:45 General Session I (Kerstin Droß-Krüpe/Sebastian Fink)
09:00-09:10 Introduction
09:10-09:40 Valeska Hartmann: War on picture – Imaginations of violence and their aesthetics in the art of ancient Assyria
09:40-10:10 Raija Mattila: Societal Impact of War in the Neo-Assyrian Period
10:10-10:40 Annunziata Rositani: Prisoners of War: from free men to slaves
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 General Session II (Kerstin Droß-Krüpe/Sebastian Fink)
11:00-11:30 Igor Kreimermann: Why were cities destroyed in times of war? The Bronze and Iron Age Southern Levant as a case-study
11:30-12:00 Hannah Ringheim: Arms Race in the Near East: Greek Mercenaries in Judaea and Egypt from the 8th to 6th centuries BC
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-16:00 General Session III (Kerstin Droß-Krüpe/Sebastian Fink)
13:30-14:00 Juan A. Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez & Julia Mendoza: Greece and Persia, Policies in conflict, cultures in contact
14:00-14:30 Geert De Breucker: The Babylonian temple communities and Greek culture in the Hellenistic period
14:30-15:00 Christopher Baron: Communication in Alexander’s Empire
15:00-15:30 Discussion
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Keynote I:
Peter Funke: "...stärker als die Rache der Götter..." Gewalt und Versöhnung im klassischen Athen
16:30-17:30 Poster Presentations II (Silvia Balatti/Louisa D. Thomas)
Selim Adalı: Turkish Melheme Texts: Babylonian Origins?
Krzysztof Hipp: Some remarks on the translations of Rusa’s bilingual stelae and their historical implications
Milinda Hoo: Eurasian Localisms: A globalization approach to cultural interaction in ancient Central Asia
Sean Manning: A Closer Look at the Gadal-Yama Contract
Seyed Abazar Shobairi: Irrigation, Farming and society: Some notes on Land use in the Achaemenid Heartland (6 –4 B.C.E)
Day 3:
09:00-12:30 Panel 3: War and Ritual (Rocío Da Riva/Kai Trampedach)
09:00-09:15 Opening
09:15-09:45 Cinzia Pappi: War and Ritual in Mari
09:45-10:15 Martin Lang: War and Ritual in Mesopotamia and the Old Testament
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Wolfgang Havener: Tropaion – The development of the battlefield trophy in Greece and Rome
11:00-11:30 Jens-Arne Dickmann: Burial at the Battlefield
11:30-11:45 Response
11:45-12:15 Discussion
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 Keynote II:
Michael Gehler: Krieg und Frieden in der Neueren Geschichte. Ursachen – Motive – Folgen
14:30-18:00 Panel 4: War and Civilians (Cinzia Pappi/Oliver Stoll)
14:30-14:45 Opening
14:45-15:15 Josué J. Justel: Run for your lives! War and Refugees in the Ancient Near East during the Late Bronze Age
15:15-15:45 Saana Svärd: War on Women: Arabian Queens in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
15:45-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Josef Fischer: Welfare services for disabled veterans and surviving dependents in Classical Athens
16:30-17:00 Anna M. Kaiser: Recruits and Deserters – How War affects Civilians in the Late Roman Empire
17:00-17:15 Response
17:15-17:45 Discussion