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