NES Symposium
Power and Knowledge in Ancient Iraq
Friday, October 29, 2010 at
Cornell University
A. D. White House
27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853
9:00-10:30 SESSION ONE (Chair: Scott Noegel)
Aage Westenholz: “Power – raw or cooked?”
Steven Garfinkle, “Wealth and knowledge in late third millennium BC cuneiform archives”
Alexandra Kleinerman, “Ubartum: The Earliest Recorded Female Physician”
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 SESSION TWO (Chair: Alexandra Kleinerman)
Jack Sasson, “‘Nothing so Swift as Calumny’: Slander and Justification at the Mari Court”
Dustin Nash, “Nippur and Babylon, Enlil and Marduk”
Scott Noegel, “When Animals Talk”
12:30-2pm Lunch
2:00-3:30pm SESSION THREE (Chair: Lauren Monroe)
Chris Monroe, “‘You Are Now Informed’: Ugaritic Text RS 94.2406 and the Power of Writing at the End of the Bronze Age”
Maynard Maidman, “Observations on the Assyria – Arrapḫa War”
Laurie Pearce, “(Re-)constructing Cuneiform Communities: Ancient and Modern”
3:30-5:00 Concluding reception at Rosen Cuneiform Tablet Room