Every Rencontre is documented in a group photo of the participants.  
 
69 – Helsinki, July 8-12, 2024 “Politics, Peoples, and Polities in the Ancient Near East” 
 
 
68 – Leiden, July 17-20, 2023 “Inequality in the Ancient Near East”
   

 

65 – Paris, July 8-12, 2019 “Gods, Kings and Capitals in the Ancient Near East”

64 – Innsbruck, July 16 – 20, 2018, “The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East”

63 – Marburg, July 24 – 28, 2017, “Dealing with Antiquity – Past, Present, and Future”

62 – Philadelphia, July 11 – 15, 2016, “Ur in the Twenty-First Century”

61 – Geneva and Bern, June 22 – 26, 2015, “Text and Image”

60 – Warsaw, July 21 – 25, 2014, “Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East”

59 – Ghent, July 15 – 19, 2013, “Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East”

58 – Leiden, July 16 – 20, 2012, “Private and State”

56 – Barcelona, July 26 – 30, 2010, “Time and History in the Ancient Near East”

55 – Paris, July 6 – 9, 2009, “La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien : réalités, symbolismes et images”

54 – Würzburg, July 21 – 25, 2008, “Organization, Representation and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East”

51 – Chicago, July 18 – 22, 2005,  “Classifications of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East: Lexicography, Iconography, Stratigraphy”

50 – Skukuza (South Africa), August 2 – 6, 2004, “Fauna and Flora in the Ancient Near East”

49 – London, July 7 – 11, 2003, “Nineveh”

48 – Leiden, July 1 – 4, 2002, “Ethnicity in Ancient Mesopotamia”

47 – Helsinki and Tartu, July 2 – 6, 2001, “Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East”

45 – Cambridge, July 4 – 7, New Haven, July 8 – 9, 1998, “Historiography”

44 – Venezia, July 7 – 11 – 1997, “Territories, Frontiers and Horizons in the Ancient Near East”

43 – Prague, July 1 – 5, 1996, “Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East”

42 – Leuven, July 3 – 7, 1995, “At the Cross-Roads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm – Languages and Cultures in Contact”

41 – Berlin, July 4 – 8, 1994, “Landwirtschaft im Alten Orient”

40 – Leiden, July 5 – 8, 1993, “Houses and Households in Ancient Mesopotamia”

36 – Ghent, July 10 – 14, 1989, “La Mésopotamie et l’Elam”

35 – Philadelphia, July 11 – 15, 1988, “Nippur, the Holy City of the Sumerians”

34 – Istanbul, July 6 – 10, 1987, “The Relations between Anatolia and Mesopotamia”

32 – Münster, July 8 – 12, 1985, “Keilschriftliche Literaturen”

30 – Leiden, July 4 – 8, 1983, “Cuneiform Archives and Libraries”

28 – Vienna, July 6 – 10, 1981, “Das Leben”

23 – Birmingham, July 5 – 9, 1976, “Trade in the Ancient Near East”

21 – Rome, June 24 – 28, 1974, “Études sur le Panthéon systématique et les Panthéons locaux”

20 – Leiden, July 3 – 7, 1972, “Le Temple et le Culte”

18 – München, June 29 – July 3, 1970, “Gesellschaftsklassen im Alten Zweistromland und in den angrenzenden Gebieten”

17 – Brussels, June 30 – July 4, 1969, “Les Fêtes”

16 – Chicago, August 20 – 23, 1967

15 – Liège, July 4 – 8, 1966, “La civilisation de Mari”

11 – Leiden, June 23 – 29, 1962, “La survie de la civilisation babylonienne”

10 – Paris, June 19 – 23, 1961, “Le rayonnement de la civilisation mésopotamienne, hors de la Mésopotamie, au 2ème millénaire”

3 – Leiden, June 28 – July 4, 1952, “Tammouz dans les civilisations mésopotamiennes”