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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 3 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (1) Seminar (1) Symposium (1) Academic year Academic year 2024 - 2025 (3) 2023 - 2024 (2) 2022 - 2023 (2) (-) 2021 - 2022 (3) 2020 - 2021 (1) 2019 - 2020 (2) 2018 - 2019 (3) 2017 - 2018 (3) 2016 - 2017 (3) 2015 - 2016 (2) 2014 - 2015 (3) Active filters 2021 - 2022 2021 - 2022 Symposium 1881-2021 : The Louvre's Department of Oriental Antiquities turns 140 Dominique Charpin 29 Sep 2021 → 30 Sep 2021 29 Sep 2021 → 30 Sep 2021 Seminar Reading texts related to the course Dominique Charpin 13 Jan 2022 → 10 Feb 2022 13 Jan 2022 → 10 Feb 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
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)
Symposium 1881-2021 : The Louvre's Department of Oriental Antiquities turns 140 Dominique Charpin 29 Sep 2021 → 30 Sep 2021 29 Sep 2021 → 30 Sep 2021
Seminar Reading texts related to the course Dominique Charpin 13 Jan 2022 → 10 Feb 2022 13 Jan 2022 → 10 Feb 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
