Conference Day 2: Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
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
Date: 30 April 2022, 9:00 (Saturday, 1st week, Trinity 2022)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser contact email address: troels.arboll@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Part of: 2-Day Conference: Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: troels.arboll@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark