Signs of Crisis in Ancient Near Eastern Texts
8-9 December 2016
Salle du Conseil , Collège Erasme
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
International workshop organised by the ARC ‘A World in Crisis?’, Aegis (UCL-INCAL-CEMA)
Programme
Tuesday 16 September
14h00-14h30 Welcome
Session 1 : Anatolia in Crisis (chair : Lambert Isebaert)
14h30-15h00 : René Lebrun & Jan Tavernier (Université catholique de Louvain)
La crise arzawéenne
15h00-1530 : Etienne Van Quickelberghe (Université catholique de Louvain)
L’Isuwa au 13e siècle av. J.-C.: la crise du Haut Euphrate à travers les relations assyro-hittites
15h30-16h00 : Coffee Break
Session 2 : Crisis in Elam and Mesopotamia (chair : Lambert Isebaert)
16h00-16h30 : Gian Pietro Basello (L’Orientale – University of Naples)
« Disappearing into its mountains »: Elamite kingship in times of crisis
16h30-17h00 : Michael Kozuh (Auburn University)
A Crisis Averted: Reverberations from Extraordinary Demands on the Temple Economy in mid-First Millennium BC Babylonia