Video of Workshop: “Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East” (October 27-28, 2014)

Workshop: “Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East”

Host: Centre of Excellence in “Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions”, University of Helsinki
Organisers: Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki) & Agnès
Garcia-Ventura (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Where: University of Helsinki (Finland), Main building (Fabianinkatu 33)
When: October 27-28, 2014

The full program of the workshop and the abstracts (both in pdf-format) are now available online.
Some of the workshop presentations were recorded and can be viewed through the links below. Below you will also find the PowerPoints (in pdf-format) for the presentation of Prof. Langin-Hooper (an abbreviated version) and Prof. Pinnock.

Links to the videos (in alphabetical order):

Beth Alpert Nakhai

“Reconstructing Women’s Lives in Iron Age Israel: The Complex Interplay between Text and Archaeology”

Stephanie L. Budin

“Gender in the Tale of Aqhat“

Agnès Garcia-Ventura

“Engendering Assyriology in the 21st Century”

Ann Guinan

“Is There a Sexology in Mesopotamian Literature? Ancient Genre and Modern Theory”

Vanessa Juloux

“Inventory of Lexemes of Action Verbs, a new Methodology of Gender Studies Research”

Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper

“Gendered Ambiguities, Gendered Sexualities, and Gendered Experiments. Performance and Negotiation through  Hellenistic Babylonian Figurines”

Martti Nissinen & Saana Svärd