[Antiquitas] Muinaisen Lähi-idän konferenssi (RAI 69) Helsingissä kesällä 2024

[Svärd, Saana S]

Hyvät kollegat,

Alla ensimmäinen tiedote ensi kesänä järjestettävästä muinaisen Lähi-idän konferenssista. Sinne odotetaan noin neljääsataa nuolenpäätutkimuksesta ja alueen arkeologiasta kiinnostunutta ulkomaista kollegaa.

Olemme hyvin avoimia myös Aleksanteri Suuren jälkeisen Lähi-idän sessio- ja esitelmäehdotuksille.

Järjestelytoimikunnan puolesta,

Saana Svärd



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Professori Saana Svärd
Huippuyksikö "Muinaisen Lähi-idän imperiumit" johtaja
(www.helsinki.fi/anee<http://www.helsinki.fi/anee>)
PL 4 (Fabianinkatu 24 A, huone 138)
00014 Helsingin yliopisto
työpuhelin:  02941 22683
matkapuhelin: 050 5344985
s-posti: saana.svard at helsinki.fi<mailto:saana.svard at helsinki.fi>
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/saana-sv%C3%A4rd


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69th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
Helsinki, 8–12 July 2024
First circular

The University of Helsinki and the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires are delighted to invite you to the International Association for Assyriology’s 69th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. The 69th RAI is scheduled from Monday 8 to Friday 12 July 2024. It will take place on the University of Helsinki’s campus in the city centre.

Theme: Politics, Peoples, and Polities in the Ancient Near East

Human social organization is complex and diverse. It involves the development of systems for decision-making in groups (politics), the articulation of collective identities (peoples), and the establishment of mechanisms for the regulation, distribution, and management of goods, property, and people (polities). The ancient Near East offers an immensely rich record of different forms of social organization, from mercantile city-states and expansionist empires to mobile pastoralist confederations and assorted collections of outlaws, with everything in between. Over thousands of years and in varied geographic and ecological settings, these social forms underwent constant processes of reform, renegotiation, and reinvention. 

The 69th Rencontre is interested in how different people in the ancient Near East navigated the challenges of life in groups. How did people think about the societies they established and about the possibilities for different ways of doing things? How did certain groups seek to preserve the status quo, and how did others challenge it? How do the values and histories of our own, present-day societies distort our understanding of the societies of the ancient Near East?

To advance scholarship on the politics, peoples, and polities of the ancient Near East, we invite scholars across disciplinary boundaries to engage with these and related questions.

Submissions

The organizing committee of the 69th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale invites submissions of workshop proposals and abstracts for papers and posters.

Workshops

We welcome submissions that relate directly to the theme of the conference, as well as on other subjects. We strongly encourage workshop organizers to issue open calls for contributions and we only accept closed sessions in extraordinary circumstances (please apply to the committee). We will announce the names of open workshops (once they are accepted) in the call for papers.

Workshops are to consist of six 30-minute lecture slots. The first or last of these slots can be reserved for introductory remarks or a general discussion. Workshops can be expanded as necessary by further blocks of three 30-minute slots, subject to the approval of the organizing committee.

Proposals should include the following information:
- name(s) of the organizer(s)
- title of the workshop
- description of the purpose of the workshop
- a preliminary list of speakers and proposed papers

Workshop proposals must be submitted by email to rai24-info at helsinki.fi<mailto:rai24-info at helsinki.fi> before 30 November 2023. Workshop organizers will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their proposal by 15 December 2023.

Papers and posters

Submission for paper and poster abstracts (200–400 words) will open on 1 January 2024 and close on 15 February. In addition to sessions aligned with the conference theme, there will be sessions on current fieldwork and the application of digital methods in ancient Near Eastern studies. Those who submit paper or poster abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 1 March 2024.

Registration

Registration will open on 1 March 2024 with an early bird fee. Regular registration fees are in use from 16 April to 15 May. Late registration is open from 16 May to 15 June. Note that late registration is not open for accepted speakers, who must register before 15 May 2024. Members of the International Association for Assyriology (IAA) and students who are enrolled in an institution for BA, MA, or PhD studies, are eligible for discounts on registration fees.

Website and contact information

Conference website: www.helsinki.fi/rencontre<http://www.helsinki.fi/rencontre>
Organizing committee contact: rai24-info at helsinki.fi<mailto:rai24-info at helsinki.fi>
Registrations and payments contact: rencontre2024 at confedent.fi<mailto:rencontre2024 at confedent.fi>

We look forward to welcoming you to Helsinki!
The organizing committee of RAI 69

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