2007 - 2008 History and Historiography of the Ancient Near East Workshop
A Harvard University GSAS-sponsored Research Workshop

Faculty Advisor: Professor Andrea Seri
Student Coordinator: Deena Ragavan, PhD candidate, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Meetings are held on Wednesdays, at 5.15pm, in the Semitic Museum, Room 201.

If you have questions or need further information about this workshop, please contact the student coordinator Deena Ragavan.

Workshop Schedule

SPRING

February 20 th

PETER MACHINIST

"Ah, Assyria... (Isaiah 10:5ff.) Isaiah's Assyrian Polemic Revisited"

March 5 th

XIAOLI OUYANG

“Entrepreneurs or Government Agents?--"Merchants" from Southern Mesopotamia

during the 21st Century BCE”

March 19 th

RICHARD THOMPSON

“Society and Treaties of the Pre-Assyrian Levant: Kinship, Deities, and Trade”


April 23 rd

DEENA RAGAVAN

TBA