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Programme
Preliminary Programme
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last update August 11, 2018
Sunday, September 9
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15:00-18:00
Registration (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Celetná 20, Prague 1, 4th floor)
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Monday, September 10
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8:30-9:30
Registration (conference venue, Celetná 20, Prague 1, Green Hall)
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9:30-9:45
Conference opening
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9:45-10:45
Clemens Reichel, “Human instincts, canine intelligence, and monkey features”: the Gutians and other “mountain people” in Mesopotamian and 20th century scholarly perspectives.
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10:45-11:45
Seth Richardson, On Aliens and Alienation: the “stranger” as an historically particular concept
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11:45-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-15:00
Regine Pruzsinszky, The Contact Zone along the Middle Euphrates during the Late Bronze Age: Movement, Interaction, and Transaction
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15:00-16:00
Elena Devecchi, A reluctant servant: Ugarit under foreign rule during the Late Bronze Age
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16:00-16:30 Coffee break
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16:30-17:30
Kevin McGeough, “The Men of Ura are a Heavy Burden Upon Your Subject!”: The Administration and Management of Strangers and Foreigners in Ugarit
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17:30-18:30
Jana MynáÅ™ová, Are You an Egyptian? Are You a Stranger?
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Tuesday, September 11
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9:00-9:30
Melanie Wasmuth, Cultural identity as research approach: conceptualizing the semantic field of ‘othering’
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9:30-10:00
Emanuel Pfoh, Assessing Foreignness and Politics in the Late Bronze Age Levant
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10:00-10:30
Edward M. Cole, Ethnic enclaves: A modern understanding of how migratory groups preserve ethnic identity as a potential explanation for the Libyans' retention of a non-Egyptian identity in the late New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period
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10:30-11:00 Coffee break
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11:00-11:30
Laura A. Peri, Foreign Names or Names of Foreigners: The Northern Presence in the Southern Levant in the 2nd Millennium BCE
11:30-12:00
Marta Pallavidini, The metaphorization of foreign rulers as allies or enemies in the Hittite diplomatic texts
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12:00-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-14:30
Marwan Kilani, Foreign metals, foreign words – Mapping and contextualizing metal related (loan)words in the Bronze Age Levant.
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14:30-15:00
Stephen P. Harvey, Representations of Foreigners in the Battle Reliefs of King Ahmose at Abydos
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15:00-15:30
Nadia Ben-Marzouk – Danielle Candelora, Integrating the Immigrant: Examining the Social Implications and Interactions of Foreign Specialists Settling Abroad
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15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30
Caleb Hamilton, Egyptians as foreigners in the Western Desert during the Early Dynastic period.
16:30-17:00
Susan Cohen, Not so vile? Rhetoric and reality in Egyptian-Levantine relationships in Sinai in the Old and Middle Kingdoms
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19:00 Reception
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Wednesday, September 12
9:00-9:30
Katrien De Graef, When in Elam do as the Elamites. How the Adaptation of Mesopotamian Cultural Traits Helped Shape the Elamite Identity
9:30-10:00
Anne Goddeeris, A Sumerian Stronghold. Does the temple in Old Babylonian Nippur welcome foreigners?
10:00-10:30
Oya TopçuoÄŸlu, “A foreign plague, not of the flesh of the city Aššur:” Šamši-Adad I as a foreign king and his visual strategy of legitimization and unification
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10:30-11:00 Coffee break
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11:00-11:30
YaÄŸmur Heffron, Archaeological correlates of Assyrian presence in Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age
11:30-12:00
Ilgi Gercek, Hatti and the Outside World
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12:15-12:30
Conference Photo
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12:30-14:00 Lunch
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15:30 & 16:00
Visit to Clementinum (for more info see http://www.klementinum.com/en/)
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Thursday, September 13
9:00-9:30
Federico Zangani, Foreign-Indigenous Interactions in the Late Bronze Age Levant: Tuthmosid Imperialism and the Origin of the Amarna Diplomatic System
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9:30-10:00
Christian Langer, Deportation Policies and Foreigners in Late Bronze Age Egypt
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10:00-10:30
Marta Valerio, The Egyptians’ ambivalent relationship with foreigners: the case of the prisoners of war
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30
Marcin Czarnowicz, Krzysztof Ciałowicz, Yuval Yekutieli, Agnieszka Ochał Czarnowicz, Eliahu Cohen-Sasson, Strangers in the house(?) The foreigners in Tel Erani, Israel
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11:30-12:00
Krzysztof Cialowicz, The relations between Upper and Lower Egypt in the 4th Millennium BC. A view from Tell el-Farkha
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12:00-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-14:30
Manfred Bietak, How can we track the origins of foreign cults in Egypt: The example of Avaris/Tell el-Dab‘a
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14:30-15:00
Sarah T. Vilain, The foreign trade of Tell el-Dab‘a during the Second Intermediate Period
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15:00-15:30
Ann-Kathrin Jeske, An Egyptian’s footprint: Members of the Egyptian administration and military in LB I Southern Levant
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
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16:00-16:30
Katharina Streit, The Foreigners on the Mound: Egyptian Presence at Tel Lachish during the Late Bronze Age
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16:30-17:00
Felix Höflmayer, The Egyptian Presence in the Southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age: A Minimalist View
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17:00-17:30
A stranger in the house. Final discussion and conference closing
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Poster Session
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Katarína Arias Kytnarová, Made by whom? Egyptian ceramic forms in the south Levant
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Gaëlle Chantrain, About “egyptianity” and “foreignness” in literary texts. A context-sensitive lexical study.
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Halely Harel, How Language Illustrates Cultural Change: Semitic Loanwords in the Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom Egypt
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Uroš Matić, Nubian troops and musicians in Egyptian military of the New Kingdom: A Reappraisal
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Hannah L. Ringheim, “…Equipped with all their weapons and given instructions for battle:” Foreign Mercenary Activity in Bronze Age Egypt
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Giulia Tucci, Depicting the Others: Late Bronze Age Southern Levant’s Cultural Identity and Adornment from the Egyptian View. Relity vs. Perception.
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