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NINO initiates, supports, and conducts scholarly research in the civilizations of the ancient Near East, including Egypt, from the ancient to the early modern period. Research centre and library in Leiden, the Netherlands. www.nino-leiden.nl
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De NINO/EOL-voorjaarslezing is dichtbij. Deze donderdag is het al. Kom naar het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Leemanszaal) en drink na afloop samen met ons een drankje. Of volg de lezing online via livestream.

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📅PLEYTE Symposium Op 6 juni is het zover, dan bestaat Dispuut Pleyte 50 jaar! Dispuut Pleyte is de studievereniging van Oude Nabije Oosten Studies en Classics and Ancient Civilizations. Om dit groots te vieren is een symposiumdag samengesteld met de mogelijkheid om na afloop te borrelen.

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📙INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RELIGIOUS TEMPORALITIES AND THE ANCIENT CITY Today, the workshop 'Religious Temporalities and the Ancient City' is a go. We wish the participants an inspiring two days discussing the intricacies of the ancient city. See: buff.ly/6qujqk6.

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❗FUNDING DEADLINE APPROACHING

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📙BOEKPRESENTATIE Karel van der Toorn Karel van der Toorn, emeritus hoogleraar Godsdienst en Maatschappij, heeft een nieuw boek geschreven over het veranderende gezicht van de Israëlitische religie in de Oudheid: 'Israelite Religion: From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy'.

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📣NINO CALL FOR A STUDENT RESEARCH ASSISTENT Two times per year one BA or MA student at a university in the Netherlands is appointed as part-time assistant to a senior researcher employed at a Dutch university.

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Finland’s Egyptological Society is now on Bluesky. The account will contain Egyptology news as reposts, mainly in English, as well as information about the society's events in Finnish.

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Happening now: the first annual Herta Mohr lecture. Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gabler is speaking on Theban Tomb 217 and Nina & Norman de Garies Davies. @rmoudheden.bsky.social

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NINO-nieuwsbrief maart 2025: Nieuws van het NINO-onderzoekscentrum, funding reports, en meer –

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Please join us on Friday 11 April for the first annual Herta Mohr Lecture! Kathrin Gabler (Mainz), 🎙TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy, and the impact of Nina and Norman de Garis Davies. ✒️ Registration for RMO (drinks afterwards!) or Zoom:

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Brien Garnand (NINO VRF) will present the next Friends of ASOR webinar: “How to Re-Place Carthaginian Votive Dedications into Context.” April 2, 2025, at 2:00 pm EDT = 20:00 hrs Amsterdam time. The webinar (via Zoom) will be free and open to the public; registration required.

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De slotavond van de Week van de Klassieken 2025 vindt vanavond plaats in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, georganiseerd door het NINO. Thema: “Recht en rechtvaardigheid in het oude Nabije Oosten”. N.B.: De avond is volgeboekt. U kunt zich helaas niet meer aanmelden.

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Almost 4,000 years ago during an era we call the Old Babylonian period, a student formed a round tablet out of clay and drew a circle on it for a math assignment. The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay

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Vandaag in ‘Wegen naar Rome’, blogserie van de Week van de Klassieken over de oudheid in populaire cultuur: een bijdrage van Nolke Tasma over “Murder in Mesopotamia” van Agatha Christie! buff.ly/4blngly

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On this #IWD2025 International Women’s Day we are proud to announce a new lecture series organised with @rmoudheden.bsky.social! Named after Herta Mohr, it will annually showcase and focus on early career contributions to #Egyptology. Join us on 11 April at RMO! www.nino-leiden.nl/event/herta-...

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🏛️ NINO wishes the speakers of the Language and Cultural Interactions in the Roman World conference a good second day of academic exchange and discussion!

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Attention Assyriologists & Mesopotamian archaeologists! The IAA Prize for the Best Article of an Early Career Scholar is open for submissions until March 31, 2025. Win €1,000 and gain recognition for your work! Details & submission: iaassyriology.com/iaa-prize/ #Assyriology #Archaeology #EarlyCareer

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Willemijn Waal has won a Vici grant from NWO for her project “From Aleph to Alpha. The spread and development of alphabetic writing across the Mediterranean”. She will explore clues that the Greek alphabet is much older than currently assumed. Congratulations! buff.ly/UEEMRIb

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Maandag 31 maart: MEL-NINO-Pleyte-borrel en -rondleiding • 16:25u verzamelen bij de bibliotheekbalie in de MEL (LU-card nodig!) • 16:30-17:00u rondleiding door MEL en S-UB door Anita Keizers en Mariëtte Keuken • 17-18u borrel in de LIAS Common Room Voor de rondleiding aanmelden via buff.ly/Jt8D6oC

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Meme still alive and kicking in Leiden today!

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Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

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Congratulations to NVIC’s Marleen De Meyer on being appointed director per 1 March 2025! Interview (in Dutch) on Leiden University’s website:

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📣CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JCO Prize for the best article in ANE studies📣 To boost early career academics, NINO and EOL award the biennial Jaarprijs Cuijpers-Opdenakker. The deadline is rapidly approaching (15 February 2025) with the next chance to win this prize in 2027.

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📣CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JCO Prize for the best article in ANE studies📣 To boost early career academics, NINO and EOL award the biennial Cuijpers-Opdenakker Prize. The deadline is rapidly approaching (15 February 2025) with the next chance to win this prize in 2027.

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📣NINO Funding Deadline Approaching: The NINO Funding deadline for the Incoming Mobility, Outgoing Mobility and Conference Subsidy Grant is set on the 15th of February. You can find all details for applying on the NINO website: https://buff.ly/415aPGS.

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📣CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: biennial JCO-prize for the best article in ANE-studies To boost early career academics, NINO and EOL award the biennial Cuijpers-Opdenakker Prize. The deadline is rapidly approaching (15th of February 2025) with the next chance to win this prize in 2027.

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Famous Egyptologist, ANE and biblical scholar Kenneth A. Kitchen (1932-2025), professor emeritus at the University of Liverpool, passed away. tyndalehouse.com/updates/news...

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Ex Oriente Lux is op zoek naar een medewerker secretariaat (0,1 fte) m.i.v. 1 mei 2025. Solliciteer vóór 1 maart 2025!

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NINO offers a two-year postdoc position starting September 2025. We invite applications of researchers in ancient Near Eastern archaeology. Tasks: original research, organise international workshop, publish proceedings, teach graduate seminar. Apply until 15 March 2025. https://buff.ly/3WBW9fA

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LeidenGlobal interviewed Miriam Müller, university lecturer in Egyptology at LU and, since September 2024, director of NINO. Meet the expert on the @leidenglobal.bsky.social website:

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RESULTS OF THE NINO THESIS PRIZES – Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the NINO Thesis Prizes 2023/24! The prizes are awarded to excellent BA or MA theses in the field of the Ancient Near East. Let’s meet the winners and runners-up:

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