9:15-9:30 Greetings and Opening Words

By the Organizers: Ada Taggar Cohen, Uri Gabbay, and Daisuke Shibata

9:30-10:30 Opening Lecture

Chair: So Miyagawa

Nurit Stadler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“Ritual Practice and Anthropological Theory”

10:30-12:45 Ritual and Local Traditions

Chair: Gina Konstantopoulos

Keynote Lecture (10:30-11:15)

Fumi Karahashi (Chuo University)
“Gala in Pre-Sargonic Lagash: An Overview”

Series of Workshops for Young Scholars

Workshop no. 1

• 11:30-11:55: Ami Asyag (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  “Defining the Corpus of Sumerian Emesal Prayers from Uruk: Preliminary Results”
• 11:55-12:20: Shinya Tsujisaka (Doshisha University)
  “Offerings to the Temple of Enlil in Nippur during the Ur III Period”
• 12:20-12:45: Kotaro Mamata (University of Tsukuba)
  “Temple Loans from Tutub during the Early Old Babylonian Period Revisited”

14:00-14:50 Ritual and Memory

Chair: Shuichi Hasegawa

Workshop no. 2

• 14:00-14:25: Miyaki Arai (Doshisha University)
  “The Significance of Burial for the Royal House of Judah and Israel”
• 14:25-14:50: Jakov Kadochinikov (University of Tsukuba)
  “The Memory of Sargonic Kings in the Ritual Practices of the Post-Akkadian Period”

14:50-15:45 Ritual and Space

Chair: Saki Kikuchi

Workshop no. 3

• 14:50-15:15: Benny Yonin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  “bīt mummi: The Meeting Point of Divine and Material Creation”
• 15:15-15:45: Yael Leokumovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  “Narrating Origins: Materials, Space, and Rituals”

16:00-17:15 Ritual and Language

Chair: Yuval Levavi

Workshop no. 4

• 16:00-16:25: Julia Tulaikov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  “A Glance at the Topic ‘Emesal Prayers in Ritual Use’ (with the Example of Enki Balags)”
• 16:25-16:50: Chunrong Ni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  “Ritual and Language: Which Comes from Which?”
• 16:50-17:15: Pui-Yee Joyce Leung (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  “The Potential Ritual Aspect of the Emesal Vocabulary Tablets”

9:15-10:45 Ritual, Priestly Knowledge, and Practice

Chair: Sanae Ito

• 9:15-9:45: Gina Konstantopoulos (University of California Los Angeles)
  “Practical Magic: Figurines and their Adornment in Mesopotamian Ritual Texts”
• 9:45-10:15: Yasuyuki Mitsuma (Kwansei Gakuin University)
  “Divination and Game Board: BM 33333B Revisited”
• 10:15-10:45: Yuval Levavi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  “Networks and Circles of Historiographical Knowledge in Sixth Century Babylonia”

11:15-12:15 Ritual, Time and Occasions

Chair: Hajime Yamamoto

• 11:15-11:45: Ada Taggar Cohen (Doshisha University)
  “Divine Support in Going to War: Ritual in the Life of King Saul in Light of Hittite Rituals in CTH 612 and CTH 423”
• 11:45-12:15: Daisuke Shibata (University of Tsukuba)
  “The Akītu-Festival of Ištar-of-Nineveh”

12:15-12:30 Concluding Remarks

Yakir Paz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)