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2023
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September-December 2023
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November 29, 2023: Conference at “Politecnico di Milano”, Mantua Campus
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The "Politecnico di Milano", Mantua seat, has organized, on November 29, 2023, a conference entitled Beauty as a Fundamental Human Right; for a Nation System for Beauty. Some members of the Urkesh/Tell Mozan team will also take part in the conference:
Remote participation is possible via the "Webex" platform, by accessing this link. |
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November 8, 2023: Lecture by H. Qassar in Poitiers
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On November 8, 2023 Dr. Hiba Qassar will deliver a lecture in the economic and social context of illicit trafficking symposium ("ANCHISE"), organized by the University of Poitier and the European University Institute. The symposium is set within the wider framework of the European project "ANCHISE" (Horizon Europe). Dr. Qassar's participation will be in session one (see program) and will speak about case studies of community archaeology and its role in protecting the archeological sites, highlighting the case of Tell Mozan with other two cases from Egypt and Iraq. |
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January-June 2023
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February 22, 2023: Lecture by G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati at UCLA
(“The dignity of the fragment”)
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On February 22, 2023, Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati present a lecture at UCLA on the topic: "The dignity of the fragment. Web based excavation reports between database and narrative." The abstract of the lecture is available at this link. |
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February 14, 2023: Lecture by G. Buccellati at UCLA
(“At the origins of monotheism”)
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On February 14, 2023, Giorgio Buccellati delivers a lecture at UCLA (within a series of conferences organized by the Center for the Study of Religion) entitled "At the origins of monotheism: A Socio-economic Confrontation in Ancient Syro Mesopotamia." The flyer of this event can be downloaded at this link. The abstract of this conference is available at this link. |
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2022
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July-December 2022
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October 26, 2022: Lecture by G. Buccellati (workshop Wisdom Between East and West)
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On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, at 10:15 AM (CEST), Prof. Giorgio Buccellati delivered a lecture within the workshop Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond, organized at the University of Turin (on October 26-27), at "Palazzo Nuovo". Prof. Buccellati's lecture was entitled An Epistemological Perspective on the Mesopotamian Wisdom Tradition. The flyer of the workshop is available at this link. |
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September 22-24, 2022: Lectures at the Melammu Symposium
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During the "15th Symposium of the Melammu Project", entitled Clash of Civilizations? Sedentary and non sedentary populations (organized in Graz, on September 21-24, 2022, at the University of Graz, Institute of Classics), Prof. Giorgio Buccellati and Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati delivered two lectures. The symposium has been organized by Prof. Laerke Recht and other colleagues of the University of Graz. Prof. Marilyn Kelly Buccellati presented, on Thursday, September 22, a lecture entitled "Identity and alterity: Hurrian Urkesh facing the Akkadian imperial expansion". On Saturday, September 24 (09:30-11:30 AM, CEST), Prof. Giorgio Buccellati offered a keynote lecture about "Polytheism vs. monotheism – A socio-epistemic culture clash". The flyer of the symposium is available at the following link. Program. Brief notice. |
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January-June 2022
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May 4-5, 2022: Lectures at the congress Humanism and Digitization
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May 4-5, 2022: the "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore" in Milano (Italy) organized a congress entitled Humanism and Digitization: Theory and Practical Achievements, focused on a dialogue between scholars of different fields discussing about the relationship between "humanism" and "digitization", considering digital humanism under a philosophical, archaeological, historical, and technological perspective. On the second day (Thursday, May 5), the focus was concentrated on the discussion of practical applications of technology and digitality to archaeology, moving from a round table on Giorgio Buccellati's volume A Critique of Archaeological Reason (Cambridge University Press 2017). At this venue, on May 4, Prof. Giorgio Buccellati gave a lecture on the topic "Umanesimo digitale. I frammenti in-discorso con il tutto"; on May 5, Prof. Giorgio Buccellati and Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati presented a paper entitled "Digitalità naturale dell'archaeologia". The flyer of the congress can be downloaded here. |
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2021
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July-December 2021
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November 16, 2021: Conference at Politecnico, Milano
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On November 16, 2021 the Politecnico of Milano (Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 26) organized a conference in the form of round table entitled "A Multi-Linear Digital Discourse in Theory and Practice: The Urkesh Global Record and the Four Banks Project", focusing on the new possibilities offered by a systematic and digital publication of the archaeological record (Urkesh Global Record) of the excavations at Urkesh/Tell Mozan, along with the digital publication of material included in the vademecum to the volumes pertaining to the "4Banks" project. The flyer of the conference can be downloaded here. |
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September 24, 2021: Lecture by Jonah Lynch (EADH 2021)
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On September 24, 2021 (Friday), Dr. Jonah Lynch (IIMAS Research Associate and PhD student at University of Pavia, Italy) presented a fascinating contribution in the context of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) 2021 Conference; the title of his talk is "Graph representation and network analysis as a comparative tool: a case study in comparative religion" (session Long and Short Papers: Content Analysis/Visualization): a new digital approach in investigating, analyzing, and visually displaying patterns of religion (focusing on Israel and Mesopotamia) in a digital and structural comparative view. The program of the conference is available online. A video ("Structural comparison of religion") describing Dr. Lynch's ongoing research can be found on his YouTube personal channel. |
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September 22, 2021: Lecture by Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati (Madrid)
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On September 22, 2021 (Wednesday), Prof. Giorgio Buccellatia and Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati delivered a lecture on new approaches on investigating Mesopotamian and biblical religion. The central idea is to show how a "blank"site can serve a purpose that goes beyond the standard of providing information in the form of databases. It is the notion of "digital discourse", that makes the most of the potential of the digital medium by implementing a multi-linear narrative. The approach (proposed by G. Buccellati in A Critique of Archaeological Reason, Cambridge 2017, with companion CAR "blank"site) will be exemplified through three "blank"sites to be illustrated in the first part of the round table. Respondents will then consider the proposal from three different points of view. The flyer of the conference is available online. An interview to Prof. Giorgio Buccellati and Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, granted after this conference, can be read at the following link. |
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September 7, 2021: Lecture by A. Kharobi; The UGR: Overview and Zoom on the Bioanthropogical Data
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On September 7, 2021, a team of the Urkesh/Tell Mozan expedition (namely, Dr. Arwa Kharobi, Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Prof. Giorgio Buccellati, and Dr. Federico Buccellati) presented a paper (entitled "The Urkesh Global Record (UGR): Overview & Zoom on the Bioanthropological Data") at the "27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists" (Widening Horizons), held in Kiel, during September 6-11, 2021. The PDF of the presentation is available at this link. |
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