From the 21st Century BC to the 21st Century AD:
The Present and Future of Neo-Sumerian Studies
Madrid, CCHS-CSIC, July 22-24, 2010
Thursday, July 22
Registration: CCHS, Salón de Actos (9:00am – 10:00am)
Opening Session (10:00am – 10:30am)
Coffee break: 10:30am - 11:00am
The Sources
Panel A (11:00am – 12.45am): Textual Corpora and New Archives
Chair: Steven Garfinkle (Western Washington University)
Robert K. Englund (University of California, Los Angeles)
Accessing Textual Corpora Online
David I. Owen (Cornell University, New York)
The Archive of Iri-Saĝrig / Āl- Šarrākī
Manuel Molina (CSIC, Madrid)
On the Location of Iri-Saĝrig
Lunch: 12:45pm – 2:15pm
Panel B (2:15pm – 4:15pm): Lexicon and Literature
Chair: Steve Tinney (University of Pennsylvania)
Gonzalo Rubio (Pennsylvania State University)
Literary and Lexical Texts from Ur III
Luděk Vacín (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Šulgi Meets Stalin: Comparative Propaganda as a Tool of Mining the Šulgi Hymns for Historical Data
Fabienne Huber Vulliet (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
‘Father at the dangerous place’. Family ties in Ur III proper nouns
Walther Sallaberger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The Sumerian Glossary Project
Break: 4:15pm - 4:30pm
Panel C (4:30pm – 6:30pm): Sumerian Language in Ur III Times
Chair: Marcel Sigrist (École Biblique et Archéologique Française, Jerusalem)
Miguel Civil (Oriental Institute, Chicago)
Ur III as a Linguistic Watershed
J. Cale Johnson (
Institut für Altorientalistik, Freie Universität Berlin)
Revisiting topicalization à la Yoshikawa: The role of the *im- prefix in topic-comment structures in Sumerian
Fumi Karahashi (Chuo University)
Hypotactic and Paratactic Complementation in Sumerian ditilla Texts
Friday, July 23
Economic Activity
Panel D (9:30am - 11:15am): Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Chair:
Bertrand Lafont (CNRS, Paris)
Jean-Pierre Grégoire
(CNRS, Paris)
Le Système Après-Récolte dans l'Hydro-Agriculture Mésopotamienne à la fin du IIIe millénaire avant notre ère
Jacob Dahl (University of Oxford)
Umma Sheep and Goat Herding
Lorenzo Verderame and Gabriella Spada (Università La Sapienza, Rome)
Ikalla, the scribe of (wool) textiles and linen
Coffee break: 11:15am - 11:45
am
Panel E (11:45am – 1:45pm): Crafts and Material Culture
Chair: Franco D’Agostino (Università La Sapienza, Rome)
Hans Neumann (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Crafts and Material Culture in Ur III Times: Craftsmen between state-controlled production and private handicraft
Franco D’Agostino and Francesca Gorello (Università La Sapienza, Rome)
The control of copper and bronze objects in Umma in Ur III
Paola Paoletti (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The manufacture of a statue of Nanaja and the crafting of jewellery in Mesopotamia at the End of the Third Millennium B.C.
Alessandro di Ludovico (Università La Sapienza, Rome)
Symbols and Bureaucratic Performances in Ur III Administrative Sphere. An interpretation through data mining
Lunch: 1:45pm – 3:15pm
Panel F (3:15pm – 5:00pm): Administrative Organization
Chair: Pietro Mander (Istituto Orientale di Napoli)
Franco Pomponio (Università di Messina)
The Ur III Administration: Officials, Workers, Messengers, and Sons
Yuhong Wu (
Northeast Normal University, Changchun)
The Fixed Offerings to Deities of Nippur
Sergio Alivernini (Università La Sapienza, Rome)
The Management of an Administrative Structure in Ur III Mesopotamia: the Case of mar-sa
Saturday, July 24
Institutions and Society
Panel G (9:30am – 11:15am): The Organization of Work
Chair: Natalia Koslova (State Hermitage Museum)
Piotr Steinkeller (Harvard University)
The Use of Corvée Labor in Ur III Times
Natalia Koslova (State Hermitage Museum)
Absence at Work in Ur III Umma: Reasons and Terminology
Alexandra Kleinerman (Cornell University)
The Barbers of Iri-saĝrig
Coffee break: 11:15am - 11:45
am
Panel H (11:45am – 1:45pm): Military and Political Organization
Chair: Walther Sallaberger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan)
Networks of Authority and Power
Steven Garfinkle (Western Washington University)
The Third Dynasty of Ur and the Limits of State Power
Palmiro Notizia (Istituto Orientale di Napoli)
Etel-pû-Dagan, son of Šulgi
Lance Allred (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Tenure of Provincial Governors: An Overview
Closing session: 1:45 – 2:00pm