26
Jan
2023

Othering & Identity

NINO Annual Meeting
Utrecht University
9:30-17:30
Rolf Strootman, Ortal-Paz Saar
Ptolemaic funerary shroud, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin (NINO Annual Meeting 2023 campaign image)

4th NINO Annual Meeting

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.

Practical details

Program

Morning venue:
Utrecht University, Drift 13, room 0.04
09:30Coffee and registration
10:00Welcome and introductory remarks
Willemijn Waal, Ortal-Paz Saar, Rolf Strootman
10:20-11:20Session 1: Assyriology
Chair: Rolf Strootman
 Céline Debourse (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/University of Vienna),
Othering and Identity in the Babylonian New Year Festival Texts
 
 Ilan Peled (Leiden University),
The Heroic King and His Villainous Rivals: Identity and Othering in Mesopotamian Royal Propaganda
 
11:30-12:10Session 2: Cultural Interactions
Chair: Ortal-Paz Saar
 Milinda Hoo (University of Freiburg),
Between Hellas and Asia: Locating Self and Other in the Research Imagination of Central Eurasia
 
 Lecture cancelled due to illness
Marike van Aerde (Leiden University),
The Dynamics of Indian Ocean Exchange
 
12:10-14:00Lunch break (cafés and restaurants available in the vicinity)
Afternoon venue: 
Utrecht University, Drift 21, room 0.32
14:00-15:00Session 3: Rome and Late Antiquity
Chair: Leonard Rutgers
 Lucinda Dirven (Radboud University),
Religious Identity and Othering in Roman Dura-Europos
 
 Korshi Dosoo (Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg),
The Representations of Magicians in Christian Literary Texts from Egypt
 
15:00-15:20Coffee break
15:20-16:45Session 4: Next Steps
Chair: Willemijn Waal
 Bert van der Spek (VU Amsterdam, em.),
A new edition of the Babylonian Chronicles and Astronomical Diaries from the Hellenistic Period
 
 

Lightning sessions:
 

  1. Ludovica Cecilia (VU Amsterdam), 
    The private archive of a Babylonian priestly family (Ilia A)
  2. Daan Nijssen (independent scholar), 
    Medes in the Late Iron Age Zagros
  3. John Turco (University of Groningen), 
    Rituals in Space: Reconstructing Funerary Rituals through Gifts and Bones
  4. Nicholas Aherne (Groningen), 
    Encoffined Bodies: on the role of decorated sarcophagi in funerary customs of Coastal Lebanon during the Roman period
 NINO BA Thesis Prize award ceremony
 Final remarks, closure
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