{"id":4,"date":"2024-04-04T02:04:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/caemc\/melammu-workshop-tartu-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:26:31","slug":"melammu-workshop-tartu-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/caemc\/melammu-workshop-tartu-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Melammu Workshop 2024: Big and Small, High and Low, Proud and Humble: Constructing Significance in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"line-height: 106%;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">13\u201315 September 2024<br>\n\u00dclikooli 18, Tartu, Estonia<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>General information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The conference takes place onsite in Tartu, Estonia, but sessions will also\u00a0be streamed via Zoom, to give access to a wider audience (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ut-ee.zoom.us\/j\/96166601893?pwd=RUF983REPcQC5Fbo2SJvhnbqE3090a.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">).<br>\nDue to unforeseen circumstances, a couple of papers are prerecorded<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prof. Reinhard M\u00fcller <\/strong>(G\u00f6ttingen, Germany)<br>\n<strong>Prof. em.\u00a0Gebhard J. Selz<\/strong>\u00a0(Wien, Austria)<br>\n<strong>Prof.\u00a0Christoph Ulf\u00a0<\/strong>(Innsbruck, Austria)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Note that all times are according to EEST <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">(Eastern European Summer Time)<br>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">See <\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimezoneconverter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.thetimezoneconverter.com\/\">https:\/\/www.thetimezoneconverter.com\/<\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> to check your local times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER<br>\n(Main building of the University of Tartu, \u00dclikooli 18, room 139) <\/strong>[Link to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/E4sCnTHKTfev5psZ6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Maps<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.00 OPENING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9.10 KEYNOTE<\/strong>: <strong>Gebhard Selz<\/strong> (University of Vienna), On Mesopotamian strategies obtaining prestige. Value assessment as a cultural, social and economic phenomenon<\/p>\n<p>10.00 <strong>Vladimir Sazonov<\/strong> (University of Tartu), Character assassination in Assyria. <em>Tukult\u012b-Ninurta<\/em> I versus Ka\u0161tilia\u0161 IV of Babylonia, Sennecherib versus \u0160\u016bzubu. Reputation of good and bad king. Hero versus villain<\/p>\n<p>10.40 Coffee<\/p>\n<p>10.55 <strong>Zozan Tarhan<\/strong> (University of Sofia), The Assyrian King, Chosen by the Great Gods: Structural and Comparative Analysis of the Textual Sources<\/p>\n<p>11.35 <strong>Marco Ferrario<\/strong> (University of Trento \/ Universit\u00e4t Augsburg), My Lord Vahuva\u1e2b\u0161u: On Administrative Hierarchies and Social Power in Achaemenid Baktria<\/p>\n<p>12.15 Lunch<\/p>\n<p><strong>14.00 KEYNOTE:<\/strong> <strong>Christoph Ulf<\/strong> (University of Innsbruck), Cultures of competition \u2013 frameworks for attaining social and\/or political recognition<\/p>\n<p>14.50 <strong>Alexandros Drosinakis<\/strong> (University of Tartu), Divergent power building strategies in Early Iron Age and Archaic Aegean: Andros, Paros, Naxos<\/p>\n<p>15.30 <strong>Mait K\u00f5iv<\/strong> (University of Tartu), The wealth of early Greek elites<\/p>\n<p>16.10 Coffee<\/p>\n<p>16.25 <strong>Aaron Irvin<\/strong> (Murray State University), Between Subjects and Masters: Gallic Aristocracy in a Gallo-Roman Dominion<\/p>\n<p>17.05 <strong>Kristian Kanstrup Christensen<\/strong> (University of St Andrews), Diversity in Status Displays from the Mediterranean Hinterlands<\/p>\n<p>19.00 Reception<\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER<br>\n(Main building of the University of Tartu, \u00dclikooli 18, Senate Hall) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9.00 KEYNOTE:<\/strong> <strong>Reinhard M\u00fcller<\/strong> (University of G\u00f6ttingen), High and Low, Proud and Humble in Ancient Hebrew Poetry: Symbols of Power and Faithfulness<\/p>\n<p>9.50 <strong>Urmas N\u00f5mmik<\/strong> (University of Tartu), Approaching the Divine: Horizontal and Vertical Relationships in Ancient Hebrew Narratives<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/p><div class=\"accordion mb-3\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-item accordion-item--white\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header\" id=\"accordion-69dc029cabef1-heading\">\n            <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#accordion-69dc029cabef1-collapse\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"accordion-69dc029cabef1-collapse\"><em>See abstract<\/em><\/button>\n        <\/h2>\n        <div id=\"accordion-69dc029cabef1-collapse\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-69dc029cabef1-heading\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body\">It is easy to imagine religious relationships as hierarchical and vertical. Divine beings are above, and we, simple people, are below. This is also true of relations with the king: simple people look towards the king from below. But as attested in the ancient Hebrew narrative literature, it has not always been this way in Ancient Israel. In the Hebrew Bible, we should be careful when estimating all divine-human relationships as hierarchical and vertical. There is a grey area of divine and half-divine beings interacting with the human world. Fertility deities, divine ambassadors, passed ancestors, anonymous supernatural beings, etc. While discussing the earliest layers in the ancestral narratives in Genesis (\u201cErzelternerz\u00e4hlungen im Lichte h\u00f6fischer Erz\u00e4hlkunst\u201d, FAT, T\u00fcbingen 2023), I noticed that hand in hand with changing political context (emerging monarchic institution, changing superpowers, such as Assyrian), there has been a shift in the complex religious and social setting reflected in the oldest texts.<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<p>10.30 Coffee<\/p>\n<p>10.45 <strong>Elo-Mall Toomet<\/strong> (University of Tartu), Goddess cults and the prestige of local communities in early Greece: the cases of Demeter and Hera<\/p>\n<p>11.25 <strong>Sujatha Chandrasekaran<\/strong> (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Elite Women in Ancient Pergamon \u2013 Statues, Dedications and Status<\/p>\n<p>12.05 Lunch<\/p>\n<p>14.00 <strong>Beatriz Freitas<\/strong> (NOVA University of Lisbon), Neo-Assyrian Seals: Constructed Meaning<\/p>\n<p>14.40 <strong>Jasmine Spencer<\/strong> (Utah Tech University), \u201cLight is like water\u201d: Alchemy as animacy in <em>The Epic of Gilgamesh <\/em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UONH-qYSkO8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YT<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>15.20 <strong>Beatrice Veidenberg<\/strong> (University of Tartu), Circular structures creating significance in Aeschylus\u2019 <em>Supplices<\/em><\/p>\n<p>16.00 Coffee<\/p>\n<p>16.15 <strong>Sebastian Fink<\/strong> (University of Innsbruck), Sumerian as a Language of Prestige<\/p>\n<p>16.55 <strong>Neeme N\u00e4rip\u00e4<\/strong> (University of Tartu), The Prestige and the Violence of Attic Greek in Lucian\u2019s \u201eConsonants at Law\u201d<\/p>\n<p>17.35 <strong>Krzysztof Ulanowski<\/strong> (University of Gdansk), Being right. The Opposition Between Right and Left in Mesopotamian and Pomeranian Magic: A Comparative Study<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bus trip to Tallinn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conference is dedicated to discussing social and cultural prestige in the ancient world. Reputation can be of local significance, global importance or both. Global trends and fashions in the modern world have their precursors in ancient times when communication took more time because the information circulated mainly by word of mouth. Accordingly, social or cultural prestige usually took much more time to develop. Much of the communication between peoples and civilisations \u2013 both on the local and global levels \u2013 was concerned with the reputations of people, ideas, things, technologies etc. Significance implies a relationship: something is essential for somebody, a group or a culture. Cultural meaning is usually a hierarchical construct, indicating that a person or phenomenon is deemed more important, better and more influential than others. These hierarchies can be created, maintained and manifested in various ways, highlighting the social, economic and political relations and cultural codes of the given societies. The conference calls for papers that study the strategies for acquiring reputation and will discuss the general questions of (inter)cultural prestige in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean world.<\/p>\n<p>An individual\u2019s reputation can be related to age and gender or personal qualities like appearance, wisdom, skills or physical strength. On the social level, significance usually involves wealth, pedigree and power, and consequently, the strategies of wealth acquisition, claims of illustrious ancestry and power building. Power building plays a prominent role in the relations between political communities, making some polities, or rulers, more powerful and respectable, thus more significant, compared to others. Often, though not always, reputation directly relates to power, even if reflecting the social or political hierarchies or contributing to their establishment. Good examples are spiritual authority and artistic fame. In the religious domain, the divinities, rites, festivals, and cult places can have variable reputations for different population groups, which can make the estimation of their significance a matter of dispute. In a similar way, it might be challenging to establish the degrees of significance in art and literature, although certain artefacts and literary works, genres and authors surely outweighed others in public esteem. Literature, either oral or written, has been, however, the principal means to convey and articulate reputation to all kinds of things and people and serves for us as a crucial source for discussing the subject.<\/p>\n<p>We plan the workshop to discuss the ways of establishing, maintaining, manifesting and losing significance in all these and possibly other fields. We expect papers considering the related questions in the cultures evolving from Iran, Mesopotamia and Egypt to the western Mediterranean, from the emergence of civilisations to the fall of the Roman Empire. The questions to be asked could be the following: What made some persons, social groups, communities, religious phenomena, artworks, genres or authors more significant than others in various societies and cultures? How did the strategies of attaining significance relate to the character of the given society or culture? To what extent were the variable ways of attaining significance conditioned by the societal and cultural variabilities, or how did cultural diversity contribute to the different manifestations of significance in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean world?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13\u201315 September 2024 \u00dclikooli 18, Tartu, Estonia General information The conference takes place onsite in Tartu, Estonia, but sessions will also\u00a0be streamed via Zoom, to give access to a wider audience (link). 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