POSTPONED – The Aramean network: Interdependencies and interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean

• Postponed to 2021. New date will be anounced shortly.

Preliminary Schedule

Day 1, 8 June 2020: Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig

• 9.00am
  Welcome by the rector / dean Leipzig, greetings from BIU and Aren Maeir
• 9.15am-12.45pm
  1st Session: Archaeological Aspects (Chair: Angelika Berlejung)
  
  9.15am-10am
  Shuichi Hasegawa: Geshur Revisited
  10am-10.45am
  Omer Sergi, Tel Aviv: Damascus, Tyre and Israel in the 9th century BCE: A View from the Jezreel Valley
  10.45am-11am
  Coffee Break
  11.00am-11.45am
  Shlomit Bechar: Changes in stable isotopes analysis in sheep from 9th and 8th centuries BCE
  11.45am-12.30pm
  Assaf Kleiman, Leipzig: Decoration Techniques of Iron Age Vessels at the Eastern Shore of the Sea of Galilee and their Social Significance
  12.30pm-1.15pm
  Stefan Münger (Bern)
  Tracing “Aramean” Iconography in the Glyptic Assemblages of Jordan and (Northern) Israel
  1.15pm-2.30pm
  Lunch in the Albertina (Cafe Alibi)
• 2.30pm-6.45pm
  2nd Session Syria and Egypt (Chair: Michael Streck)
  
  2.30pm-3.15pm
  Gunnar Lehmann Beersheva: Al Mina, An Aramean Harbor as an interface between Arameans and the Mediterranean'?
  3.15pm-4pm
  Nibal Muhesen, Damaskus: Cultural interaction in Syria during the Aramaic period through the study of material culture and textual evidences
  4pm-4.45pm
  Giulia Grassi. Göttingen, Arameans in Achaemenid Egypt
  4.45pm-5.15pm
  Coffee Break
  5.15pm-6pm
  Katrin Sonnevelt, Leiden, The Social Contexts of Aramaic within Cuneiform Archives.
  6pm-6.45pm
  Sarka Velharticka, Prag/Ankara, “The Excavations and Finds from Sheikh Sa´ad and Tell Rifaat in the 1920s based on the Excavation Documentation.”
  7.30pm
  Dinner Max Enk

Day 2, 9 June 2020, Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig

• 9am-11.15am
  3rd Session: Biblical Aspects (Chair: Omer Sergi)
  
  9.00am--9.45am
  Anne de Hemmer Gudme, Oslo, Memory and Materiality: Yahwistic god concepts in the Hellenistic Period in the context of religion in the Southern Levant
  9.45am-10.30am
  Louis Jonker, Stellenbosch, “The Aramaeans in the Context of Post-exilic Literary Formations of the Hebrew Bible: An Overview of Their Attributed Images”
  10.30am-11.15am
  Raik Heckl, Leipzig, "Herodotus' view of the Aramaeans and Israel's place in the Levant  according to the concept of the Pentateuch"
  11.15am-11.45am
  Coffee Break
  11.45am-12.30pm
  Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata, Shifting Alliances, Shifting Identities: Political Networks and Ethnicity in the Iron Age II Southern Levant
  12.30pm-1.15pm
  Hannes Bezzel, Jena, Aram in the Prophetic Literature
  1:15pm-2:15pm
  Lunch in the Albertina (Cafe Alibi)
• 2:15pm-7pm
  4th Session: Later Periods (chair: Harald Samuel)
  
  2.15pm-3.00pm
  Stefan Schorch, Halle, The poetical form of early Samaritan Aramaic prayers"
  3pm-3:45pm
  Viktor Golinets (Heidelberg), Greek Transcriptions of Aramaic in Comparison with Greek Transcriptions of Hebrew."
  3.45pm-4.15pm
  Coffee Break
  4.15pm-5pm
  Leeor Gottlieb (Bar Ilan University): Targum Software Presentation
  5pm-5.45pm
  Wido van Peursen: “Navigating through the Aramaic Bible translations with the Targums WordMap”.
  5.45pm-6.30pm
  Eleonora Cussini (Bologna), Palmyrene Aramaic
  6.30pm-7.15pm
  Willem Smelik, London, Targum and Zohar
  7.15pm-8pm
  Public Lecture: Claudia E. Suter: Luxurious Ivory Objects in the Iron Age Levant: Stylistic Variation and Sociocultural Identities. (chair: Aren Maeir)
  8.15pm
  Dinner Max Enk

Day 3, 10 June 2020, Freie Universität, Berlin
„Style Complexity and Style Diversity in the Aramaean Kingdoms of the Northern Levant“

• 7.30am
  Departure to Berlin
• 9am
  Arrival at the FU Berlin coffee and gathering
• 9.30am-1pm
  5th Session (Chair: N. N. )
  
  9.30am-10.15am
  Dominik Bonatz (FU Berlin): “The Relevance of Cognitive Styles in Aramaean, Luwian and Neo-Assyrian Societies”
  10.15am-11pm
  Alessandra Gilibert (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia): “Bending, breaking and blending images: visual creativity in the Aramaean kingdoms of the Northern Levant”
  11am-11.30am
  Coffee break
  11.30am-12.15pm
  Federico Manuelli (FU Berlin): “Arslantepe and the Upper Euphrates in the Context of the Luwian-Aramaean Interaction. A North-South Network of Extra-Regional Contacts?"
  12.15pm-1pm
  Stefania Mazzoni (Università degli Studi die Firence): "Discussing ivories in the light of the Aramaean  kingdoms"
  1pm-2.30pm
  Lunch and Check in Hotels
• 14:30-17:30
  6th session (Chair: N. N.)
  
  2.30pm-3:15pm
  Lorenzo Nigro (Roma La Sapienza): “The Phoenicians in the West and their interaction with Arameans: the case of Motya in Sicily”
  3.15pm-4pm
  Mirko Novàk (Univ. Bern): “Diffusion or Common Roots? Hilani and Temple-in-antis as architectural features of Luwians and Aramaeans in the Iron Age"
  4pm-4:45pm
  Marina Pucci (Universität Florenz): “Public Space and Sense of Community: architectural styles in the Aramean kingdoms of Northern Levant”
  4.45pm-5.15pm
  Coffee Break
  5.15pm-6pm
  Helene Sader (AUB Beirut): “In Search of an Aramaean Identity”
  6pm-6.45pm
  Erhan Tamur (Columbia University New York): “Style, Materiality, and Collective Identities: The Case of Northern Levantine Orthostat Reliefs"
  6.45pm-7.30pm
  Rana Zaher (AUB Beirut): “Investigating Patterns of Differentiation in Syro-Anatolian Sculptural Design and Technology: The Case of Portal Lions”
  7.30pm
  Reception

11 June 2020, Archäologisches Zentrum, Berlin
VAM and Storage Facilities

• 9am
  Meeting in the Archäologisches Zentrum
• 9.15am-12.30pm
  Pergamon Museum Collection
• 12.30pm
  Departure to Friedrichshagen
• 1.30pm-3pm
  Lunch at the Lake
• 3pm-5.30pm
  Storage Facilities
  5.30pm-6pm
  Coffee break
• 6pm
  Final Greeting Words and Informations about Publication (Aren Maeir)
• 6.30pm
  Return to Berlin (Arrival ca. 8.30pm)
  Transfer to the Airport or to Leipzig

Angelika Berlejung