As part of the joint research colloquium of the Institutes of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology in the summer semester 2025, we cordially invite all students and colleagues to the lecture by:

Yixin Lu (VAA): The rooster, the lamp, and the incense burner – material evidence from the first millennium BCE

Federico Longo (AO): Local and Superregional Ritual knowledge in Hittite Anatolia

Wilelmijn Havenaar (AO): Genre and Cities in the Sumerian City Lament

Presentation and discussion of final theses (not public, only students and lecturers)