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1\u20133 June 2018<\/strong><\/p> <\/p> General information<\/strong><\/p> There is no conference fee but those wishing to take part without a paper should register by e-mail due to space limits. If you need information on hotels and other practicalities, please contact the organisers at caemc@ut.e<\/a>e.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/p> <\/p> All sessions and coffee pauses take place in the main building of the University of Tartu, 18 \u00dclikooli St (see below for specific rooms)<\/em><\/p> Tweets: #ICAEM2018<\/a><\/em><\/p> Google Maps<\/a> <\/p> FRIDAY, 1 JUNE<\/strong><\/p> 9.45\u201310.00 Registration (desk situated in the hallway of the main building, \u00dclikooli 18)<\/p> Hall of the Senate 10.00 Introduction<\/p> 10.15\u201311.10: First Keynote:<\/strong>\u00a0Karen Radner<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(University of M\u00fcnchen, Germany): Assyrian imperial power and how to oppose it<\/p> Coffee pause (Room 228)<\/em><\/p> SESSION 1: Establishing and confirming power<\/em><\/strong><\/p> Hall of the Senate 11.30\u201312.00\u00a0Vladimir Sazonov<\/strong> (Tartu): Justification of Usurpation of Power by Members of Royal family in Hittite kingdom: Since Hantili until Kurunta<\/p> 12.00\u201312.30\u00a0Vladimir Emeljanov<\/strong> (St. Petersburg): What is and who was Ajaru in the Cuneiform Texts from Mesopotamia and Emar?<\/p> 12.30\u201313.00\u00a0Shana Zaia<\/strong> (Helsinki): \u201cI Made Him More Dead Than Before\u201d: Execution and Royal Death in Assyria<\/p> Lunch<\/em> 13.00\u201314.30<\/p> 14.30\u201315.15 First poster session\u00a0<\/strong>(Room 228)<\/em><\/p> SESSION 2: Legitimating power<\/em><\/strong><\/p> Room 140 15.15\u201315.45\u00a0 Andrew Schumann<\/strong> (Rzeszow): Babylonian Logic for Transparency and Inevitability of Power<\/p> 15.45\u201316.15 Eleni Tzovla<\/strong> (Palermo): Compliance and endurance: The Athenian power building through the Melian Dialogue<\/p> Coffee pause (Room 228)<\/em><\/p> SESSION 3: Reflecting on power<\/em><\/strong><\/p> Room 140 16.35\u201317.05\u00a0Neeme N\u00e4rip\u00e4<\/strong> (Tartu): The Greek concept of\u00a0stasis<\/em>: From opposition to power and back<\/p> 17.05\u201317.35\u00a0Luca Macale<\/strong> (Roma): \u00abLike an invisible god\u00bb (Ctesias 1b \u00a721, 7): the unapproachability of the Near Eastern kings in Greek sources<\/p> 17.35\u201318.05\u00a0\u00c1lia Rosa Rodrigues<\/strong> (London\/Coimbra): Neutralising disobedience: Plato\u2019s proposal in the Laws<\/em><\/p> <\/p> 19.00 Reception for participants at the University Cafeteria (\u00dclikooli 20).<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> SATURDAY, 2 JUNE<\/strong><\/p> Room 140 10.15\u201311.10 Second Keynote:<\/strong>\u00a0Lynette Mitchell<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(University of Exeter, UK): The politics of power:\u00a0the rise and fall of the Deinomenid dynasty in fifth-century Sicily<\/p> Coffee pause (Room 228)<\/em><\/p> SESSION 4: Regional power and opposition<\/em><\/strong><\/p> Room 140 11.30\u201312.00\u00a0\u00a0Walter Sommerfeld<\/strong> (Marburg\/Leipzig): Sumerian Rebellions against Semitic Dominion<\/p> 12.00\u201312.30\u00a0\u00a0Andres N\u00f5mmik<\/strong> (Helsinki), The Egyptian control of the Southern Levant and the Late Bronze Age crisis<\/p> 12.30\u201313.00\u00a0\u00a0Salvatore Tufano<\/strong> (Roma\/Fribourg): A Weak Hegemony in a Multipolar System. The Opposition to Pelopidas and Epameinondas and the End of the Theban Hegemony<\/p> Lunch<\/em> 13.00\u201314.30<\/p> 14.30\u201315.15 Second poster session<\/strong>\u00a0(Room 228)<\/em><\/p> SESSION 5: Opposing power<\/em><\/strong><\/p> Room 140 15.15\u201315.45 Vladimir Shelestin<\/strong> (Moscow): Old Hittite opposition in the religious aspect<\/p> 15.45\u201316.15 Priit-Hendrik Kaldma<\/strong> (Tallinn), Peisistratids, architecture, and the opposition to the monarchy in the Archaic Athens<\/p> Coffee pause (Room 228)<\/em><\/p> 16.35\u201317.05\u00a0\u00a0Jeroen Wijnendaele<\/strong> (Ghent): \u201cGeneralissimos, Warlords and Kings\u201d \u2013\u00a0 Military Power-Broking in the Late Roman Empire<\/p> 17.05\u201317.45\u00a0\u00a0Mait K\u00f5iv<\/strong> (Tartu): Monarchy and opposition in the city-states of the Archaic Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean<\/p> 17.45\u201318.00 Closing<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> <\/p> SUNDAY, 3 JUNE<\/strong><\/p> Trip to North-Eastern Estonia (Narva). Information and registration at\u00a0https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/5M2D5Q5<\/a> (registration deadline: 31 May 2018, midnight<\/strong>). More details are available in the PDF leaflet<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Conference description<\/strong><\/p> Power building and maintenance of power has been a central issue in human society, and understanding this is crucial for comprehending the functioning of any socio-political unit. As the actual power-holders usually form a tiny minority, the obvious question would be what makes the others comply, often perhaps at the expense of their own interests and welfare. What means do the power-holders (leaders, rulers, monarchs) have for building up, enhancing, and maintaining their position and identity? Why and on which conditions are the people loyal to them, either the other members of elite, or the commoners constituting the majority of population? And why do the rulers sometimes fail in assuring the compliance? What are the chances for successful opposition? And on which conditions does this lead to the change of social or political structure instead of simply replacing one ruler or ruling group by another?<\/p> These problems involve social framework and political institutions, the relations between centre and periphery, but also moral code and power ideology closely tied to religion. The answers are bound to be essentially different in the variety of the early civilisations, states and societies developing in the Near East and Mediterranean region.<\/p> We expect case studies as well as comparative approaches, concerning the societies from Iran to the Mediterranean, from the emergence of statehood to the Late Antiquity (pre-Islamic world). Preference will be given to papers contributing to the understanding of the mechanisms of power.<\/p> <\/p> Supporters<\/strong><\/p> The conference is supported by the School of Theology and Religious Studies, Institute of Cultural Research, Institute of History and Archaeology, and College of Foreign Languages and Cultures of the University of Tartu.<\/p> <\/p> Organizing committee<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p> Mait K\u00f5iv, Urmas N\u00f5mmik, Vladimir Sazonov,\u00a0Ivo Volt<\/p><\/td> Research Center of Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Cultures, University of Tartu, Estonia<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Chair: Amar Annus<\/em><\/p>
Chair: Amar Annus<\/em><\/p>
Chair: Ivo Volt<\/em><\/p>
Chair: Ivo Volt<\/em><\/p>
Chair: Mait K\u00f5iv<\/em><\/p>
Chair: Mait K\u00f5iv<\/em><\/p>
Chair: Urmas N\u00f5mmik<\/em><\/p>