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Friday, 29th of April
09:00-09:45 Registration and refreshments
09:45-10:00 Welcome
Session 1
10:00-10:30 Nils Heeßel (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Comprehending plague. The Mesopotamian effort to understand epidemics
10:30-11:00 Ulla Koch (University of Copenhagen)
“Nergal will Devour”: What presaged an epidemic? How was it described and how was it averted according to Divination
11:00-11:30 Break and refreshments
11:30-12:00 Marta Iommelli (Università di Napoli)
“The Asakku-demon who rolls in on the earth like a storm.” Analyzing demons who attack humans and cattle and a search for correlations
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Session 2
13:00-13:30 Barbara Böck (CSIC, Madrid)
A lexical study of the terms for being ill and infected
13:30-14:00 Troels P. Arbøll (University of Oxford)
A sick world: Exploring illness in Mesopotamia from a microcosmic-macrocosmic perspective
14:00-14:30 Break and refreshments
14:30-15:00 JoAnn Scurlock (Elmhurst University)
Gods of Plague or Friends of Man?: The Curious Case of the Ancient Mesopotamian Gods Marduk and Nergal
19:00 Conference dinner, venue TBA
