MONDAY, 3 AUG. 2015
14.00–14.30
Welcome reception
14.30–15.00
Introduction
15.00–15.45
Round Table I
Aims and expectations
16.00–17.00
Paper I (20mins + 40mins discussion)
Dr des. Alexander Schütze: Mobility, standard of living, and legal institutions. New perspectives on the Judaean military colony at Elephantine in Persian Period Egypt
17.15–18.00
Round Table II
Institutional frameworks of cross-regional mobility
TUESDAY, 4 AUG. 2015
09.15–10.15
Paper II (20mins + 40mins discussion)
Dr Idan Breier: “He Will Raise an Ensign to a Nation Afar, Whistle to One at the End of the Earth” (Isa 5:26): The Assyrian and Babylonian Armies as De¬scribed in the Prophetic Texts and Mesopotamian Inscriptions
10.30–11.15
Round Table III
Individual reasons for cross-regional mobility
11.45–12.45
Paper III (20mins + 40mins discussion)
Dr Thomas Staubli: Cross-cultural travelling between Egypt and the Levant and the birth of secondary religions
14.15–15.00
Round Table IV
Social and emotional implications of mobility for travelers and their surroundings
15.00–16.00
Paper IV (20mins + 40mins discussion)
Dr Melanie Wasmuth: “I saw her on the royal road...” (SAA 13 65): Indications for individual mobility in the Neo-Assyrian sources
16.30–17.15
Round Table V
Strategies of living in a culturally diverse society
WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG. 2015
09.15–10.15
Paper V (20mins + 40mins discussion)
Charles Draper, Mphil: The Assyro-Egyptians of TIM 11
10.30–11.15
Round Table VI
Identifying multi-culturality and cultural identity
11.45–12.45
Paper VI (20mins + 40mins discussion)
Dr Kamyar Abdi: Egyptians in Achaemenid Susa
14.15–15.00
Round Table VII
Who identifies whom in a cultually diverse society?
15.00–16.00
Paper VII (20mins + 40mins discussion)
Dr Dan'el Kahn: Revisiting the Historical Setting of Isaiah XI 11-16
16.30–17.15
Round Table VIII
The Great Area Perspective: the scope of cross-regional mobility in the 8th–6th c. BCE
17.15–18.00
Round Table IX
Future (joint) research perspectives
THURSDAY, 6 AUG. 2015
Breakfast & departure