31
Jan
2019

First NINO Annual Meeting

NINO Annual Meeting
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
9:30-18:00
NINO 1st Annual Meeting (2019) poster

NINO’s Annual Meeting (in Dutch: de jaarlijkse NINO-dag) is held every year at the end of January. It offers an opportunity for advanced students and researchers of the ancient Near East in the Netherlands to meet and exchange ideas about ongoing and envisioned research projects. The Meeting is co-organised by NINO and an alternating host institution.

Registration

Attendance is free of charge. Please register before 10 January by sending an email to Joabson Xavier Pena. Lunch is included in the program.

Program

9:30-10:00Registration, coffee, posters
10:00-10:15Welcome & introduction
Caroline Waerzeggers and Lidewijde de Jong
 SESSION 1
Moderator: Caroline Waerzeggers, Leiden University
10:15-11:00Keynote 1: Mladen Popović
A digital approach to Hebrew palaeography in the Dead Sea Scrolls
11:00-11:15Coffee break
11:15-12:00Keynote 2: Steffie van Gompel
“I have made you a wife” – Marriage Documents and Family Systems in Graeco-Roman Egypt
12:00-12:50Lightning sessions 1:
Gemma Hayes, Judith Jurjens, Wantje Fritschy, Huw Twiston Davies, Philippe Matthey
12:50-13:45Lunch break, poster session
 
 SESSION 2
Moderator: Rocco Palermo, University of Groningen
13:45-14:30Keynote 3: Fokke Gerritsen
Anatolian Farmers on the Move. Developing Approaches to Prehistoric Mobility
14:30-15:10Lightning sessions 2:
Canan Çakirlar, Francesca Slim, Rocco Palermo, Ayhan Aksu, Lidewijde de Jong
15:10-15:30Coffee break
 SESSION 3
Moderator: Lidewijde de Jong, University of Groningen
15:30-16:15Keynote 4: Kristin Kleber
King Croesus’ Gold Revisited. Evidence for the Parting of Gold and Silver from Second and First Millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt
16:15-17:15Lightning sessions 3:
Hannah de Pous & Dominique Ngan-Tillard, Carolien van der Brugge, Maarja Seire, Daan Nijssen, Evelien Vanderstraeten, Ivo Martins
17:15-17:45NINO Thesis Prizes
award ceremony, and 
presentations by the winners
17:45-18:00Closing session and presentation NINO Annual Meeting 2020
Caroline Waerzeggers and Lidewijde de Jong
18:00-19:00Drinks

Lightning sessions are short presentations by researchers and (MA/PhD) students on their current or planned projects (5 to 10 minutes).

Posters have been sent in by Carina van den Hoven, Rocco Palermo, Canan Çakirlar, Youri van den Hurk, and NINO.

Previously sent information

We sent out calls for lightning sessions on 11 September and 27 October 2018; this mailing can be found here.

Back to overview