OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
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
