Ancient Near Eastern Languages in Contact –eLecture Series

Ancient Near Eastern Languages in Contact –eLecture Series

We are pleased to announce that University College London and King’s College London are co-hosting an eLecture series, entitled Ancient Near Eastern Languages in Contact(ANELC). With this initiative we aim to bring together scholars from around the world with an interest in Ancient Near Eastern languages, and we hope it stimulates an exchange of ideas and collaboration in a time of academic isolation. The eLectures take place each Wednesday from 1 July until 26 August 2020 from 16:00 until 17:00 BST (London). We are delighted to invite you to this free online event and we look forward to seeing you in one of the meetings!

Co-Organizers: Dr Alinda Damsma —Dr Lily Kahn —Dr Jonathan Stökl

Schedule ANELC eLecture series

Wednesdays 1 July –26 August 2020 from 16:00 until 17:00 BST (London)

18:00-19:00 IDT (Jerusalem)
17:00-18:00 CET (Paris)
11:00-12:00 EST (New York)
08:00-09:00 PST (Los Angeles)

 eLecture 1 01.07.20 Dr Mark Weeden (SOAS, London)Language Contact between Hittite and Sumeriane

Lecture 2 08.07.20 Prof. Mark Geller (University College London)Mind the Gap: A Lecture on Comparative AncientMagic from Mesopotamia

eLecture 3 15.07.20 Prof. Aaron Rubin (Pennsylvania State University)The Relationship of Egyptian and Semitice

Lecture 4 22.07.20 Prof. Gary A. Rendsburg (Rutgers University New Brunswick)Ancient Hebrew and Hieroglyphic Egyptian:Contact through the Agese

Lecture 5 29.07.20 Prof. Dr. Stefan Schorch (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)Through Aramaic Lenses: Reconstructing Late Antique Samaritan Hebrew

eLecture 6 05.08.20 Dr MariekeDhont (University of Cambridge)Jewish Multilingualism in the Second Temple Period: Greek as a Jewish Language

eLecture 7 12.08.20 Benjamin Whittle (University College London)The Translation of Biblical Hebrew Verbal Stems in the Septuagint of the Pentateuch and Former Prophets

eLecture 8 19.08.20 Dr Na'ama Pat-El (University of Texas Austin) & Dr Phillip Stokes (University of Tennessee Knoxville)Reevaluating Contact between Aramaic and Arabic in the Levant

eLecture 9 26.08.20 Dr Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee (University of Chicago)

Pre-registration is required for the eLectures, and please register your attendance by contacting Alinda Damsma: a.damsma@ucl.ac.uk Participants are under no obligation to attend each eLecture; they can pre-register for the eLecture(s) that is/are of interest to them.