News and Announcements

Congratulations! Winner of the second IAA Dissertation Prize At the 64th Rencontre in Innsbruck, the Board announced the name of the second IAA Dissertation Prize, given to the best PhD dissertation written in the fields of Assyriology or Mesopotamian Archaeology. Read more

The University Press of Colorado offers members of the International Association for Assyriology an exclusive 50% discount on the cloth version of the recently published volume Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period (edited by Craig W. Tyson and Virginia R. Herrmann, 2019).  Read more

List of publications Culled from the Agade mailing list for your convenience, here is a list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archeology. Please do write to us, at stefania.ermidoro@iaassyriology.com, if we have overlooked a publication Read more

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