Conferences and Workshops

Future conferences:

• ICAEM 2023: Angry Gods: divine wrath and the human sphere in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, 2–4 June 2023

Past conferences on Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean topics held in Estonia:

• 2022
  • ICAEM 2022: Making Lists in the Ancient World: Memory, Status, Identity, 3–5 June 2022
• 2021
  • 19th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2021): “Epic, Society and Religion in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures”, 16–18 July 2021
• 2019
  • Melammu Workshop Tartu 2019: “Responses to the 12th Century BC Collapse: Recovery and Restructuration in the Early Iron Age Near East and Mediterranean“, 7–9 June 2019

• 2018
  • 18th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2018): “Power and (Op)position in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean World”, 1–3 June 2018

• 2017
  • 17th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2017): “Crises in Early Religions”, 8–11 June 2017
• 2015
  • Tartu days of the Ninth Symposium of the Melammu Project: “Conceptualizing Past, Present and Future”, 22–24 May 2015
• 2014
  • 16th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2014): “Kingship and community in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions: a comparative approach”, 9–11 May 2014
• 2013
  • 15th International Congress for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2013): “Political Functions of Sanctuaries in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions: a comparative approach”, 13–15 May 2013
• 2012
  • 14th International Congress for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2012): “Political Functions of Sanctuaries in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions: a comparative approach”, 10–12 May 2012
• 2011
  • 13th International Congress for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2011): “Political Functions of Sanctuaries in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions: a comparative approach”, 2–4 June 2011
• 2010
  • 12th International Congress for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2010): “War and Politics: Patterns of Urbanisation in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions: a comparative approach”, 13–15 May 2010
• 2009
  • 11th International Congress for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2009): “‘Wise order’ in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions: comparative approaches”, 11–14 May 2009
• 2008
  • 10th International Congress for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu: “Identities and Societies in the Ancient East-Mediterranean: comparative approaches”, 2–5 June 2008
• 2007
  • 9th International Congress for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu: “Ideologies in the Ancient East-Mediterranean: comparative approaches”, 4–7 June 2007