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Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 64 It is our pleasure to thank and congratulate the organizers of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale for a highly successful meeting! A few months ago, in the third week of July 2018, scholars from near and Read more

At the RAI in Innsbruck last summer we announced that Sophus Helle was retiring from his role as Editor of Mar Shiprim. Since taking on the role in summer 2016, Sophus breathed new life into our newsletter. He published a Read more

The department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck is honored to host the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, which will take place in Innsbruck, July 16th through 20th, 2018. This year’s theme is “The Read more

As Cécile Michel notes in her interview, the IAA ‘must encourage its members to increase their contacts with a wider public by any means’. Often, philologists feel limited in the means of outreach available to them, and experience a lack Read more

It is our pleasure to thank and congratulate the organizers of this year’s Rencontre Assyriology Internationale for a highly successful 63rd installment of the annual meeting! In late July, scholars from near and far convened to enjoy the medieval charm Read more

At the General Meeting of the IAA in 2017, the winners of three IAA prizes were announced: the IAA Dissertation Prize, the IAA Prize for the Best First Article Written After the PhD, and the IAA Subsidy for Cuneiform Studies. Read more

The University of Hamburg has not had a full professorial chair in Assyriology since 1999. But now, Cécile Michel and her PhD-student Wiebke Beyer are breathing new life into cuneiform studies in Hamburg. As President of the IAA, Michel shares Read more