{"id":7,"date":"2024-04-04T02:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/caemc\/icaem-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T02:04:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:04:41","slug":"icaem-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/caemc\/icaem-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAEM 2023: ANGRY GODS: divine wrath and the human sphere in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t2\u20134\u00a0June 2023
Lossi 3, Tartu<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tGeneral information<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe conference takes place onsite in Tartu, Estonia, but sessions will also\u00a0be streamed via Zoom, to give access to a wider audience (<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>link<\/a>). Due to unforeseen circumstances, a couple of papers are prerecorded. Some of the presentations will be\u00a0recorded and will be available\u00a0on the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>YouTube channel<\/a> of CAEMC. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKEYNOTE SPEAKERS<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHugh Bowden\u00a0<\/strong>(King\u2019s College London, UK): Recognising divine wrath in fifth-century Athenian history<\/i>
Sebastian Fink <\/strong>(University of Innsbruck, Austria):\u00a0A woman\u2019s wrath versus the worldorder: The case of Inanna<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tPROGRAMME<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tNote that all times are according to EEST<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t(Eastern European Summer Time)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSee <\/span><\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.thetimezoneconverter.com\/<\/a> to check your local times.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tFRIDAY, 2 June 2023<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t9.00\u20139.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opening<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t9.15\u201310.10 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 KEYNOTE: \u00a0<\/b>Sebastian Fink<\/b> (Innsbruck), A woman\u2019s wrath versus the worldorder: The case of Inanna<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t10.10\u201310.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vladimir Sazonov<\/b> (Tartu), The end of the Akkadian Empire \u2013 a revenge of the angry gods: The Curse of Agade and the case of Unheilsherrscher<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t10.45\u201311.00 \u00a0\u00a0 Coffee pause<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t11.00\u201311.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Joseph Barber<\/span><\/span><\/b> (Oxford), <\/span><\/span>The Mythological Past and Ritual Present in the Hittite Disappearing God Texts<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t11.35\u201312.10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Laura Pu\u00e9rtolas Rubio<\/span><\/span><\/b> (Barcelona), Hittites and their Relationship with Divine Anger in Witchcraft Contexts<\/span><\/span> <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t12.10\u201314.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch break<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t14.00\u201314.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gustavo Fernandes Pedroso<\/b> (Oxford), Marduk\u2019s Emotional Duality in Ludlul B\u0113l N\u0113meqi<\/i> and Akkadian Penitential Prayers <\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t14.35\u201315.10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Joanna T\u00f6yr\u00e4\u00e4nvuori<\/span><\/span><\/b> (Helsinki), <\/span><\/span>The Birth of Penitential Poetry as Response to Divine Wrath at the Collapse of the Bronze Age<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t15.10\u201315.25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee pause<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t15.25\u201316.00\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Brendan Osswald<\/span><\/span><\/b> (Heidelberg), The use of the word <\/span><\/span>\u03b8\u03b5\u03bf\u03bc\u03b7\u03bd\u03af\u03b1<\/span><\/span> in the Chronographia<\/i> attributed to John Malalas<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t16.00\u201316.35\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Andreas Johandi<\/b> (Tartu), The calm after the storm: Notes on relenting gods in Ludlul b\u0113l n\u0113meqi<\/i> and The Book of Job<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t19.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reception<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tSATURDAY, 3 June 2023<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t9.00\u20139.55\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 KEYNOTE: Hugh<\/span><\/span><\/b> Bowden<\/span><\/span><\/b> (London), <\/span><\/span><\/span>Recognising divine wrath in fifth-century Athenian history\n<\/p>\n

\n\t9.55\u201310.30 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ronald Blankenborg<\/b> (Nijmegen), Live and Let Die: Personalized Justice in Homer\u2019s Odyssey<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t10.30\u201310.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee pause<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t10.45\u201311.20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Elo-Mall Toomet<\/b> (Tartu), The wrath of Hera: an aspect of the advent goddess?<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t11.20\u201314.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch break<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t14.00\u201314.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Mait K\u00f5iv<\/b> (Tartu), Athena, Choira and humiliated Spartans: angry heroines and goddesses in Greek cultic traditions<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t14.35\u201315.10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Giovanni Brandi Cordasco Salmena<\/span><\/span><\/b>, <\/span><\/span>Magica Incantamenta.<\/span><\/span><\/i> Religio and deviations in ancient Roman law until the advent of the principality. On the difficult reading of Tab. VIII, 8a and of Tab. VIII, 8b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t15.10\u201315.25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee pause<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t15.25\u201316.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pavel \u010cech<\/b> (Prague), A woman\u2019s wrath versus the worldorder: The case of Anat <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t16.00\u201316.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leif Inselmann<\/b> (G\u00f6ttingen), <\/span><\/span>Singing the Goddess\u2019s Wrath: Divine Anger Management in the Old Babylonian Song of Agu\u0161aya<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t16.35\u201317.10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Martin Lang<\/span><\/span><\/b> (Innsbruck), Divine Wrath in Prayers and Literary Texts of the Ancient Near East: Similarities and Differences<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tSUNDAY, 4 June 2023<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t9.00\u20139.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Takayoshi Oshima<\/span><\/span><\/b> (Uppsala), De Ira Dei: The Unpredictability of Divine Anger and the Perplexing Nature of Divine Justice in Cuneiform Wisdom Literature <\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t9.35\u201310.10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Amar Annus<\/b> (Tartu), Divine Anger as a manifestation of supernatural agency in Ancient Mesopotamia<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t10.10\u201310.25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee pause\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t10.25\u201311.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sona Eypper<\/span><\/span><\/b> (<\/span><\/span>Berlin), <\/span><\/span>A Relationship of Unequal Mesopotamian Partners: <\/span><\/span>Angry Deity, Desperate Man<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t11.00\u201311.35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Krzysztof Ulanowski<\/b> (Gda\u0144sk), <\/span><\/span>Furious like Alexander. The Patterns of \u201cEastern\u201d Behavior in the Biography of the Macedonian king (of the kings)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t11.35\u201312.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Concluding remarks<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t12.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t14.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excursion to Tallinn<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tConference description<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHumans have constantly struggled to understand the divine will and to cope with it. The gods are supposed to rule the world and hopefully protect order in both nature and human society, responsible for life in heaven and on earth, in all spheres of their domain. Social norms, morals and laws are usually thought to be divinely guaranteed, with the gods expected to respond to transgressions and punish offenders. Natural as well as human disasters are often seen as manifestations of the gods\u2019 wrath. At the same time, the divine world is often imagined like a human society, the gods are supposed to share human characteristics, including vanity and egoism, to be motivated by jealousy and envy. They must be appeased with sacrifices and precious donations, while failure to pay due respect will cause their anger and revenge.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, the anger of the gods remains largely unpredictable. Even the faithful following of the accepted norms and dedicated honouring of the divinities will not grant their benevolence, nor does the divine reaction always seem just to the people. Crimes can remain unpunished, innocents can suffer and disasters often occur in apparently a random way. Managing the wrath of the gods has remained a constant challenge, often a mystery, for humans throughout the ages.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe responses to this challenge can vary between individuals, and between cultures and religions. <\/span>The ways of the gods matter to all humans, regardless of their gender and social position<\/span>, the solutions are sought through both ritual practice and moral behaviour, and the related problems are reflected, directly or not, in a variety of sources including prayers, hymns, epic, lyric poetry, drama, novel, history writing, philosophical tractates etc. The views expressed allow insight, besides religious thought, into social relations, political order, literary conventions, and thereby the overall cultural code. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe purpose of the conference will be to discuss the whole complex of the related questions in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures developing in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Iran and Anatolia, Levant and Israel, Greece and Rome. We expect papers concerning the variety of approaches to describing and interpreting divine anger and revenge, its causes, manifestations and results, the human response. The papers can concern religious, social, political, cultural and other aspects of this complex field, covering the period from the emergence of the civilisations until late Antiquity.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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