The UCL Ancient Near Eastern Studies Community
The UCL ANE Seminar Series
The UCL ANE Seminar Series is a supportive forum for students with a shared interest in the Ancient Near East to present their research and discuss ideas.
Talks take will place at 5pm, both in person (room G09 Gordon House) and online via Zoom (link provided via our mailing list).
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ANE Seminar Series 25/26:
Term 2
Landscape and Poetics in the ANE
13/1/26 Aphrodite Skarpa
University of Leicester
The Landscape as Ritual Body: Poetics of Blood, Stone, and Absence in the ANE ONLINE ONLY
27/1/26 Luke McDermott
University of Galway
Textual Iconicity and Paralinguistic Meaning-Making in Neo-Assyrian Prophecies
10/2/26 Eleanor Home
UCL
​Twin Identities: The Classification of the Divine Mountains Namni and Hazzi in Hittite and Hurrian Texts
24/2/26 Andrea Narciso
La Sapienza University of Rome
​Waterscapes and Regional Cults of Gu'abba District
10/3/26 Solomon Whitehouse
UCL
View of the Gods: a Viewshed Analysis Study of the Ur III Ziggurats
24/3/26 Daniele Borkowski
& Eleanor Home
UCL
​Landscapes and Poetics in the ANE: Summary Remarks and Roundtable Discussion
