International Conference

VALUE AND POWER OF MEMORY IN ANCIENT SOCIETIES
web: [www.antichita.uniroma1.it]

Rome, 25th-26th November 2013
Sapienza University of Rome
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Museo dell’Arte Classica - Aula Odeion
contact: <davide.nadali@uniroma1.it>


25th November 2013

9,00-9,30: Opening and welcoming session (Prof. Luigi Frati, Rector of
Sapienza University of Rome, Prof. Roberto Nicolai, Dean of of the
Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Enzo Lippolis, Director of the Department
of Ancient World Studies)

Chair: F. M. Fales

9,30-10,00: P. Matthiae, Preserving the Memory of the Mythical Origin:
The King’s Role Between Tradition and Innovation

10,00-10,30: D. Nadali, Community and Individuals: How Memory Affects
Public and Private Life in the Ancient Near East

10,30-11,00: A. R. Gansell, Aesthetics and the Perfect Memory: The
Power of Images as Royal Neo-Assyrian History


11,00-11,30: coffee break


Chair: P. Matthiae

11,30-12,00: D. Morandi Bonacossi, Memory and Landscape Commemoration
in the Core of the Assyrian Empire. The Imperial Appropriation and
Transformation of a Frontier Landscape

12,00-12,30: F. M. Fales, Materiality and Memory – The Case of the
Texts on Sennacherib's Aqueduct at Jerwan

12,30-13,00: M.-A. Ataç, The Historical Memory of the Late Bronze Age
in the Neo-Assyrian Palace Reliefs


13,00-14,00: lunch


Chair: N. Laneri

14,00-14,30: S. Di Paolo, Visualizing War Memories in Ancient Near
Eastern Art: (Re)negotiation Between Remembering and Oblivion

14,30-15,00: L. Ristvet, Fragments of the Past in Old Babylonian
Present: Memory Work in Northern Mesopotamia

15,00-15,30: S. Richardson, Selective Forgetting: The Memory of the
Babylonian Past as Programmatic Amnesia

15,30-16,00: A. Shafer, Access to Ancestors: Memory and Prestige in
Assyrian Royal Building Projects

16,00-16,30: L. Bachelot, Le mémoire oublieuse du passé…l’example des
pratiques symboliques en Mésopotamie


16,30: coffee break


26th November 2013

Chair: D. Morandi

9,00-9,30: A. Schmitt, Memory and Material Culture in Ur from the 3rd
to the 1st Mill. B.C.

9,30-10,00: N. Laneri, In the Memory of the Royal Families: The
Relationship Between Hypogea and Palaces in Ancient Mesopotamia

10,00-10,30: M. G. Micale, The Use and Abuse of Ancient Near Eastern
Art and Architecture in Modern and Contemporary Culture: Between
Memory and Fake Tradition


10,30-11,00: coffee break


Chair: M. Barbanera

11,00-11,30: F. Contardi, The Memory of the Past as a Way to Cultural
Innovation: The Case of Egypt

11,30-12,00: M. Bommas, The Mechanics of Active Forgetting and the
Question of Who Owns History

12,00-12,30: M. Liverani, Memory of Memories: Final Comments


13,00: lunch