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The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Lecture 31 Mar 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Dominique Charpin Nomadic chefs Lecture 7 Apr 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Dominique Charpin Zimri-Lim, the comeback Guest lecturer 5 May 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Hervé Reculeau Making clay speak: in search of the ghost landscapes of Mesopotamia Guest lecturer 12 May 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Hervé Reculeau Hydraulics and societies: water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications Guest lecturer 19 May 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Hervé Reculeau Mesopotamians and climate: the "climate paradigm" and its critics Guest lecturer 26 May 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Hervé Reculeau At the source of the Flood: environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotam… Guest lecturer 5 Jun 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Marco Bonechi From 1968 (October, not May) to 2024. Ebla, from darkness to light Guest lecturer 12 Jun 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Marco Bonechi The cuneiform limits of our knowledge, or : from Ebla, too much light ! Guest lecturer 19 Jun 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Marco Bonechi What to do with Mesopotamia after Ebla rips the horizon ? Symposium 20 Jun 2025 Dominique Charpin Jules Oppert (1825-1905) and the Assyriology of his time Guest lecturer 25 Jun 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Marco Bonechi To celebrate 2068 : Ebla 2.0 and the pages to write (we won't be seeing them) Next 11 series Filters Event type Event type (-) Lecture (11) Seminar (8) Symposium (7) Opening lecture (1) Academic year Academic year 2024 - 2025 (1) 2023 - 2024 (1) 2022 - 2023 (1) 2021 - 2022 (1) 2020 - 2021 (1) 2019 - 2020 (1) 2018 - 2019 (1) 2017 - 2018 (1) 2016 - 2017 (1) 2015 - 2016 (1) 2014 - 2015 (1) Active filters Lecture 2024 - 2025 Lecture upper Mesopotamia in the 18th century : portrait gallery Dominique Charpin 13 Jan 2025 → 07 Apr 2025 13 Jan 2025 → 07 Apr 2025 2023 - 2024 Lecture Law and legal life in Upper Mesopotamia from the 18th century BC. Dominique Charpin 15 Jan 2024 → 25 Mar 2024 15 Jan 2024 → 25 Mar 2024 2022 - 2023 Lecture Cancelled The family in Paleo-Babylonian times Dominique Charpin 16 Jan 2023 → 03 Apr 2023 16 Jan 2023 → 03 Apr 2023 2021 - 2022 Lecture " Since that day, nothing has been invented ". The origins of civilization in Mesopotamia Dominique Charpin 17 Jan 2022 → 28 Mar 2022 17 Jan 2022 → 28 Mar 2022 2020 - 2021 Lecture Elements for a history of Assyriology Dominique Charpin 04 Jan 2021 → 15 Mar 2021 04 Jan 2021 → 15 Mar 2021 2019 - 2020 Lecture Mesopotamia under Hammu-rabi's successors (continued) Dominique Charpin 06 Jan 2020 → 18 May 2020 06 Jan 2020 → 18 May 2020 2018 - 2019 Lecture Mesopotamia under Hammu-rabi's successors Dominique Charpin 15 Oct 2018 → 17 Dec 2018 15 Oct 2018 → 17 Dec 2018 2017 - 2018 Lecture The city of Ur in Paleo-Babylonian times Dominique Charpin 04 Apr 2018 → 20 Jun 2018 04 Apr 2018 → 20 Jun 2018 2016 - 2017 Lecture Reading and writing in Paleo-Babylonian Mesopotamia : correspondence Dominique Charpin 03 May 2017 → 21 Jun 2017 03 May 2017 → 21 Jun 2017 2015 - 2016 Lecture Alliances in the Ancient Near East, between diplomacy and religion Dominique Charpin 04 May 2016 → 22 Jun 2016 04 May 2016 → 22 Jun 2016 2014 - 2015 Lecture Temples in Mesopotamia : a functional approach Dominique Charpin 08 Oct 2014 → 21 Jan 2015 08 Oct 2014 → 21 Jan 2015
Guest lecturer 5 May 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Hervé Reculeau Making clay speak: in search of the ghost landscapes of Mesopotamia
Guest lecturer 12 May 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Hervé Reculeau Hydraulics and societies: water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications
Guest lecturer 19 May 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Hervé Reculeau Mesopotamians and climate: the "climate paradigm" and its critics
Guest lecturer 26 May 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Hervé Reculeau At the source of the Flood: environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotam…
Guest lecturer 5 Jun 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Marco Bonechi From 1968 (October, not May) to 2024. Ebla, from darkness to light
Guest lecturer 12 Jun 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Marco Bonechi The cuneiform limits of our knowledge, or : from Ebla, too much light !
Guest lecturer 19 Jun 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Marco Bonechi What to do with Mesopotamia after Ebla rips the horizon ?
Guest lecturer 25 Jun 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Marco Bonechi To celebrate 2068 : Ebla 2.0 and the pages to write (we won't be seeing them)
Lecture upper Mesopotamia in the 18th century : portrait gallery Dominique Charpin 13 Jan 2025 → 07 Apr 2025 13 Jan 2025 → 07 Apr 2025
Lecture Law and legal life in Upper Mesopotamia from the 18th century BC. Dominique Charpin 15 Jan 2024 → 25 Mar 2024 15 Jan 2024 → 25 Mar 2024
Lecture Cancelled The family in Paleo-Babylonian times Dominique Charpin 16 Jan 2023 → 03 Apr 2023 16 Jan 2023 → 03 Apr 2023
Lecture " Since that day, nothing has been invented ". The origins of civilization in Mesopotamia Dominique Charpin 17 Jan 2022 → 28 Mar 2022 17 Jan 2022 → 28 Mar 2022
Lecture Elements for a history of Assyriology Dominique Charpin 04 Jan 2021 → 15 Mar 2021 04 Jan 2021 → 15 Mar 2021
Lecture Mesopotamia under Hammu-rabi's successors (continued) Dominique Charpin 06 Jan 2020 → 18 May 2020 06 Jan 2020 → 18 May 2020
Lecture Mesopotamia under Hammu-rabi's successors Dominique Charpin 15 Oct 2018 → 17 Dec 2018 15 Oct 2018 → 17 Dec 2018
Lecture The city of Ur in Paleo-Babylonian times Dominique Charpin 04 Apr 2018 → 20 Jun 2018 04 Apr 2018 → 20 Jun 2018
Lecture Reading and writing in Paleo-Babylonian Mesopotamia : correspondence Dominique Charpin 03 May 2017 → 21 Jun 2017 03 May 2017 → 21 Jun 2017
Lecture Alliances in the Ancient Near East, between diplomacy and religion Dominique Charpin 04 May 2016 → 22 Jun 2016 04 May 2016 → 22 Jun 2016
Lecture Temples in Mesopotamia : a functional approach Dominique Charpin 08 Oct 2014 → 21 Jan 2015 08 Oct 2014 → 21 Jan 2015
