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

“Constructing the Image of assinnu“

Frances Pinnock

“Building up a History of Art of the Ancient Near East. The Case of Ebla and the Third Millennium BC Court Ladies”

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen

“Gender Methodology or Engendering Methodologies”

Niek Veldhuis

“Gender Studies and Assyriology Expectations of an Outsider”

  Powerpoints:

• Frances Pinnock, “Building up a History of Art of the Ancient Near East. The Case of Ebla and the Third Millennium BC Court Ladies“

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  Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, “Gendered Ambiguities, Gendered Sexualities, and Gendered Experiments. Performance and Negotiation through 
Hellenistic Babylonian Figurines“