Vicino Oriente & Egitto UNITO

02/05/2026

LECTURE. Giulia Adelaide Grandi, “Kültepe – Kanesh e il sistema dei kārum: Struttura e dinamiche del commercio paleoassiro”

📍Palazzo Nuovo, Aula 19
🕦 5 Maggio 2026, ore 16

28/04/2026

LECTURE. Ciclo di conferenze ‘Orizzonti di Ricerca: Nuove scoperte e prospettive su Asia Occidentale ed Egitto Antichi.

Miguel John Versluys (Università di Leiden), Global Rome. Empire Formation in an Afro-Eurasian Perspective (250 bce-14 ce)

📍Palazzo Nuovo, Sala Seminari - 3. piano
🕦 29 aprile 2026 ore 15

21/04/2026

LECTURE. Una nuova conferenza del ciclo ‘Orizzonti di Ricerca: Nuove scoperte e prospettive su Asia Occidentale ed Egitto Antichi.

GRÉGOIRE NICOLET () “A School@at Mari: The Data from Chantier K”

📍Palazzo Nuovo, Sala Seminari - 3. piano
🕦 28 aprile 2026 ore 16

13/04/2026

We are pleased to announce the First DANES Summer School and Hackathon (DANES ScHack 2026), taking place 6–10 July 2026 at the University of Turin, Italy.

Organised by the Department of Historical Studies (University of Turin) and the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (DANES) Network, ScHack 2026 brings together students of the ancient world with cutting-edge computational methods in an intensive week of teaching, hands-on practice, and social events.

THREE PARALLEL TRACKS
Track 1 — Ancient Language Processing
NLP, treebanks, transformer models, LLMs, and prompt engineering applied to cuneiform, Akkadian, Latin, and Ancient Greek corpora.
Teachers: Shai Gordin (Open University of Israel) & Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) with his CIRCSE team: F. Mambrini, R. Sprugnoli, E. Litta, G. Moretti, G. Rambelli, F. Iurescia, R. Leotta, and C. Corbetta.
Track 2 — Computer Vision for Material Culture
2D/3D imaging, OCR, photogrammetry, and multimodal LLMs applied to manuscripts and ancient artefacts.
Teachers: Morris Alper (Carnegie Mellon University) & Steffen Bauer (IWR, Heidelberg University)
Track 3 — Network Analysis for Ancient Cultures
Social, spatial, and dynamic network analysis applied to ancient societies.
Teachers: Haleli Harel (BBAW Berlin, Minerva Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow)

KEY DETAILS
📅 Dates: 6–10 July 2026
🏛 Venue: University of Turin, Italy
🎓 Format: Morning lectures (10:00–13:00) + afternoon hackathon sessions (15:00–18:00)
👥 Places: Max 10 students per track
💶 Fee: €200 — includes accommodation and meals for the full week
📜 Certificate of completion issued to all participants
💻 No prior programming experience required — bring your own data and research questions
⏰ Application deadline: 1 May 2026
HOW TO APPLY
Complete the registration form at:
👉 https://digitalpasts.github.io/ScHack2026/registration.html

CONTACT
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18/03/2026

Con gli studenti ai

17/03/2026

LECTURE. Our VP Richard Bussmann will give a lecture titled “THE RISE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN STATE: BETWEEN REPRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICES”

🕦 March 19th, 11am
📍 Palazzo Nuovo, Sala Seminari 3. piano

11/03/2026

We welcome RICHARD BUSSMANN as a visiting professor in Egyptology.

Richard Bussmann studied Egyptology, Assyriology and Theology at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen. He obtianed his MA in Egyptology in 2002 from Free University Berlin and his PhD in 2007 from the same university. His doctoral thesis has examined the archaeology and history of the community shrines of Egypt in the Third millennium BC. Richard was a lecturer at University College London from 2010 to 2016 and is full professor of Egyptology at the Unviersity of Cologne since 2016. He leads an excavation project in Zawyet Sultan entitled “Archaeology and Heritage in Middle Egypt” and was recently awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project “SUBALTERNEGY: Subalternity in early Egypt”. His research interests are the archaeology and society of ancient Egypt, comparative approaches to early complex societies, the integration of visual, material and written culture, and social and cultural theory.

04/03/2026

LECTURE. Continua il nostro ciclo di conferenze con Betina Faist dell’Università di Heidelberg: ‘New from Middle Assyrian Mardama: The Texts from the Governor’s Residence’

🕦 Martedì 10 Marzo, ore 14
📍Palazzo Nuovo, Aula Seminari, 3' piano

01/03/2026

20/02/2026

LECTURE. Daniel Schwemer, ANCIENT KINGS, A NEW LANGUAGE (AND SOMETIMES WHEELBARROWS): A DECADE OF FIELD EPIGRAPHY AT THE HITTITE CAPITAL BOĞAZKÖY-HATTUŠA

🕦 Martedì 24 febbraio ore 14

📍 Biblioteca “Erik Peterson” Palazzo delle ex Vetrerie Berruto 3º piano - Sala Michele Pellegrino via Giulia di Barolo 3/a