Please observe the following rules and regulations:

Conditions

  1. The IAA Fund for Recent PhDs for RAI Attendance is meant for advanced students and scholars who completed their PhD within the past eight years and do not receive funding for taking part in the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI), the annual Assyriological congress.
  2. The application process consists of the application form and a succinct description of the proposed paper (PDF).
  3. The fund will provide € 400 per person (€ 800 for persons traveling from the Middle East) to cover costs related to registration and travel to the RAI in order to present their work. One award per year will be offered to a scholar from the Middle East. 
  4. Five awards will be made each year.

Committee

  1. The committee, which will be selected by the IAA Board, shall consist of four IAA members, one of whom is a member of the IAA Board and one of whom is a representative of the current RAI organizing committee.
  2. The RAI representative will change every year. The other committee members will serve for three years, after which new members will be chosen.
  3. The IAA board representative will be serving as the chair of the committee.

Time table

  1. Applications should be sent to the IAA Office in Leiden no later than April 30. The office shall then forward them to the committee members before May10.
  2. The four members of the committee will evaluate the applications and make a preliminary ranking.
  3. The committee will submit its selection report to the IAA Board no later than May 25.
  4. The Board will review the committee’s report and announce the winners no later than June 1. During the General Meeting the committee’s chair will congratulate the winners.

Please send your application to the following email address: office@iaassyriology.com

Previous winners

2023

Jon Beltz 

Anastasia Tchaplyghine 

Adam Howe

Poppy Tushingham 

 

2022

Andrew Pottorf

 

2021

Mary Frazer

Etienne Bordreuil

Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira

Melania Zingarello

Türkan Pilavci

Troels Pank Arbøll

 

2020

It was not possible to make awards in 2020, because the RAI was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Applications are invited for the 2021 awards. 

 

2019

Rodrigo Hernaiz

Francesca Minen

Irene Sibbing-Plantholt

Elyze Zomer

Marta Pallavidini and Ludovico Portuese (divided)

 

2018

Armando Bramanti

Costanza Coppini

Zenobia Homan

Luděk Vacin

Livio Warbinek

 

2017

Netanel Anor – The interdisciplinary abilities of Babylonian Seers: Evidence from a newly edited oil-omen tablet from the British Museum

Mary Frazer – Dealing with antiquity after the Neo-Assyrian period: the case of the Akkadian royal letters

Virginie Muller – The use of the dead and mortuary ceremonies in order to ensure social cohesion, according to Akkadian texts (2nd-1st millennium BC)

Silvia Salin – Words for loss of sensation and paralysis in Assyro-Babylonian medical texts: some considerations

Lisa Wilhelmi – “Akkadograms” in Akkadian texts: on the pseudo-logographic use of multi-element, mixed language spellings

 

2016

Giacomo Benati

Goesta Gabriel

Michela Piccin

Louise Pryke

Selena Wisnom