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09:00-09:30 Refreshments
Session 3
09:30-10:00 Adam Howe (University of Cambridge)
From Dirt to Demon: Sewage and Household Waste as Vectors of Contagion in Udug-ḫul
10:00-10:40 Annie Attia (Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes, Paris)
The epidemics, how were they experienced in day-to-day life in Mesopotamia?
10:40-11:00 Break and refreshments
Session 4
11:00-11:30 Robert Arnott (University of Oxford)
Disease and medicine along the trade routes between Mesopotamia, the Gulf and the Indus Civilisation in the late third millennium BC
11:30-12:00 Eckart Frahm (Yale University)
Pandemics, Climate Change, and the Birth of Empire: Assyria in the Mid-eighth Century
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Final discussion
