12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Bologna, 6-9 April 2021
The 12th ICAANE has been carried out remotely (only for registered participants) during the week from 6th to 9th April 2021. While we have all experienced in those months considerable restrictions to our professional and personal lives, we believe that, keeping safety as our first and foremost concern, it has been most important to start to reconnect our scientific community and begin to imagine and reflect together, communicating policies and practices within a changed (and ever more challenging, in the context of the current pandemic) landscape.
The Congress has been live streamed, for registered participants, on 12icaane.ibrida.io. You can find here to the right the General Program. On top of the funds collected through fees, we have invested also considerable resources on this state-of-the-art technological infrastructure that has allowed, in addition to live streaming, also Q&A and private chats (during "coffee breaks" and beyond). Besides the live streaming website and equipment, we also invested on the golden open access publication of the proceedings with Harrassowitz. 15 virtual rooms functioning in parallel allowed speakers to present, with copyright protection, their papers to the virtual audience of registered participants. Discussions moderated by the session chairperson were possible as well (remote questions via chat only). Sessions have been recorded and their video recordings was released on the platform in the evening of the same day when they take place.
The opening and closing sessions were public: besides being broadcasted on the platform, they are also available on the YouTube OrientLab Channel.
Workshops were listed in the schedule within the main themes of the Congress. Posters have been presented into a virtual room and they are available for download, with a prior registration which we suggested is made into the SocArXiv database as a precaution for intellectual protection. Poster authors had the possibility to discuss their work with participants within this digital environment.
Recordings of sessions have been made in order to allow participants to fully benefit from all the papers presented: they have remained fully visible (and accessible to all interested colleagues) on the 12icaane.ibrida.io platform for more than ten months after the congress and have now been pulled offline.
12th ICAANE Organizing Committee
12th ICAANE Scientific Advisory Board
Pascal Butterlin – University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Peter Fischer – University of Gothenburg
Tim Harrison – University of Toronto
Nicolò Marchetti – Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Wendy Matthews – University of Reading
Adelheid Otto – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Glenn Schwartz – Johns Hopkins University
Ingolf Thuesen – University of Copenhagen
12th ICAANE Unibo Executive Team
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Michael Campeggi |
Vittoria Cardini |
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Francesca Cavaliere |
Claudia D'Orazio (Scientific Secretary) |
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Valentina Gallerani |
Gabriele Giacosa |
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Elena Maini |
Eleonora Mariani |
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Chiara Mattioli |
Jacopo Monastero |
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Valentina Orrù |
Giulia Roberto |
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Marco Valeri |
Federico Zaina |
ICAANE International Committee
Pascal Butterlin – University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Bleda Düring – University of Leiden
Marian Feldman – Johns Hopkins University
Karin Kopetzky – OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Wendy Matthews – University of Reading
Adelheid Otto – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Frances Pinnock – Sapienza University of Rome (Secretary General)
Ingolf Thuesen – University of Copenhagen (Chair)
Cristina Tonghini – Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Honorary Members:
Manfred Bietak – Austrian Academy of Sciences
Hartmut Kühne – Free University of Berlin
Paolo Matthiae – Sapienza University of Rome
Diederik Meijer – University of Leiden
Alan Walmsley – University of Copenhagen
Irene Winter – Harvard University
