Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale


The Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale is an annual Assyriological Conference is a world congress for specialists in Ancient Near Eastern Studies.

History

The creation of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale was the initiative of a group of French scholars. In 1950, for the first time after the Second World War, representatives of the Classical Studies met. Since then, the congress has taken place almost annually in the centres of ancient orientalist research, in Paris, London, Rome, Leiden, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cambridge and Germany.
The congress usually lasts five days and is usually devoted to a specific topic, on which lectures and workshops are offered. The contributions to the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale are then published in a conference proceedings.

List of the Rencontres

  1. 1950, Paris: Aspect fondamental de la pensée babylonienne und La fonction cultuelle des ziggurats
  2. 1951, Paris: La terminologie sumérienne et accadienne du bronze und La chronologie de la première dynastie babylonienne
  3. 1952, Leiden: Tammouz dans les civilisations mésopotamiennes
  4. 1953, Paris: Le problème des Habiru
  5. 1955, Paris: Les voies de communication du Proche-Orient ancien
  6. 1956, Paris: La Femme dans l’Ancient Orient
  7. 1958, Paris: Gilgamesh et sa légende
  8. 1959, Heidelberg: Rapports du Proche-Orient et de l’Égypte
  9. 1960, Genf: Aspects du contact suméro-akkadien
  10. 1961, Paris: Le rayonnement de la civilisation mésopotamienne, hors de la Mésopotamie, au 2ème millénaire
  11. 1962, Leiden: La survie de la civilisation babylonienne
  12. 1963, London: Warfare in the Ancient Near East
  13. 1964, Paris: Vox populi
  14. 1965, Straßburg: La divination en Mésopotamie ancienne et dans les régions voisines
  15. 1966, Liège: La civilisation de Mari
  16. 1967, Chicago: ohne Themenvorgabe
  17. 1969, Brüssel: Les Fêtes
  18. 1970, München: Gesellschaftsklassen im Alten Zweistromland und in den angrenzenden Gebieten
  19. 1971, Paris: Le palais et la royauté
  20. 1972, Leiden: Le Temple et le Culte
  21. 1974, Rom: Études sur le Panthéon systématique et les Panthéons locaux
  22. 1975, Göttingen: Zum 200. Geburtstag Georg Friedrich Grotefends. Die Welt des Alten Orients: Keilschrift – Grabungen – Gelehrte
  23. 1976, Birmingham: Trade in the Ancient Near East
  24. 1977, Paris: Les Hourrites
  25. 1978, Berlin: Mesopotamien und seine Nachbarn
  26. 1970, Kopenhagen: Death in Ancient Mesopotamia
  27. 1980, Paris: Cinquantenaire d’Ougarit – Ras Shamra
  28. 1981, Wien: Das Leben
  29. 1982, London: The British School of Archaeology in Iraq
  30. 1983, Leiden: Cuneiform Archives and Libraries
  31. 1984, St. Petersburg : Mesopotamia and its Neighbours
  32. 1985, Münster: Keilschriftliche Literaturen
  33. 1986, Paris: La Femme dans le Proche-Orient antique
  34. 1987, Istanbul: The Relations between Anatolia and Mesopotamia
  35. 1988, Philadelphia: Nippur, the Holy City of the Sumerians
  36. 1989, Gent: La Mésopotamie et l’Elam
  37. 1990, Bagdad: wegen des Golfkrieges abgesagt
  38. 1991, Paris: La circulation des biens, des personnes et des idées dans le Proche-Orient ancien
  39. 1992, Heidelberg: Assyrien im Wandel der Zeiten
  40. 1993, Leiden: Houses and Households in Ancient Mesopotamia
  41. 1994, Berlin: Landwirtschaft im Alten Orient
  42. 1995, Löwen: At the Cross-Roads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm – Languages and Cultures in Contact
  43. 1996, Prag: Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East
  44. 1997, Venedig: Landscapes, Territories, Frontiers and Horizons in the Ancient Near East
  45. 1998, Cambridge & New Haven: Historiography
  46. 2000, Paris: Nomades et sédentaires dans le Proche-Orient ancien
  47. 2001, Helsinki & Tartu: Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East
  48. 2002, Leiden: Ethnicity in Ancient Mesopotamia
  49. 2003, London: Nineveh
  50. 2004, Skukuza: Fauna and Flora in the Ancient Near East
  51. 2005, Chicago: Classifications of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East: Lexicography, Iconography, Stratigraphy
  52. 2006, Münster: Krieg und Frieden im Alten Vorderasien
  53. 2007, Moskau & St. Petersburg: Language in the Ancient Near East und City Administration in the Ancient Near East
  54. 2008, Würzburg: Organization, Representation and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East
  55. 2009, Paris: La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien : réalités, symbolismes et images
  56. 2010, Barcelona: Time and History in the Ancient Near East
  57. 2011, Rom: Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East
  58. 2012, Leiden: Private and State
  59. 2013, Gent: Law and Order in the Ancient Near East
  60. 2014, Warschau: Fortune and Misfortune
  61. 2015, Genf & Bern: Text and Image
  62. 2016, Philadelphia: Ur in the Twenty-First Century
  63. 2017, Marburg: Dealing with Antiquity – Past, Present, and Future
  64. 2018, Innsbruck: The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East
  65. 2019, Paris: Gods, Kings and Capitals in the Ancient Near East