The UCL Ancient Near Eastern Studies Community
Past Programmes
Landscape and Poetics in the ANE 2025/6 Term 1
Daniele Borkowski
UCL
Opening Remarks & Love in Lines: Metre, Stanza, and Syntax in Akkadian Love Literature
Gustavo Fernandes Pedroso
University of Oxford
Poetics of Persuasion in Akkadian Šuila-Prayers and Hebrew Individual Psalms of Lament
Gustavo Henrique Carvalho Fagundes
University of São Paulo &
University of Cambridge
Theomorphism and Zoomorphism in the Akkadian Physiognomonic Series Šumma
Alamdimmû and in Early Greek and Akkadian Literary Formulae
Ben Dewar
Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
Dreams in the Succession House: Divination and the Narrative Geography of Universal Conquest in Ashurbanipal Prism A
Tom Patel
University of Reading
Wells of Blood: the association between the Land and Inana’s injury in Inana and Šukaletud
Love and Magic in the ANE 2024-5
Daniele Borkowski
UCL
Searching for a Mesopotamian Love “Genre”: a study of colophons, rubrics, and incipits in Sumerian and Akkadian love texts.
Craig Harris
Trinity College Dublin
Devotion Through Grief: Self-Harm in Inanna’s Descent
Tom Patel University of Reading
Examining the astral implications of Ishtar within her aspect as a love goddess in the text "To Ishtar”
Chris Cogger
UCL
The Language & Spatiality of Cursing: Archaic Αγωγή, Graeco-Egyptian Magical Formularies & Old Akkadian Love Spells
​Marie Barkowsky Trinity College Dublin
Demons, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Gender Binary in Research: The Incantations against Eá¹el Lilî and Ardat Lilî in the 1st Millennium BCE and beyond
Eleanor Home
UCL
“Let the Tongues of Those Days Be Removed from Your Bodies”: Resolving Familial Discord through the Embodiment of Words in a Hittite Ritual
​Genevieve Le Ban
Macquarie University
Which Witch is Which? The Impact of Sumerian and Akkadian Witchcraft Terminology in Translation
Wenqi Fang
UCL
“Damn if you do, damn if you don’t.” A feminist interpretation of Lamaštu”
Charlie Chuck
UCL
The Magic of Word and Image: Relating Representation and the Real in Ancient Mesopotamia
Clinton K. Briar University of Leicester
An Examination of An: A Discussion of An/Anu(m), as Revealed in Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Texts
Eleanor Home
UCL
Love and Magic in the Ancient Near East: Summary Remarks and Roundtable Discussion