Conferences and Workshops

Future conferences:

• 2025: ICAEM 2025: Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Movements of People, Objects and Ideas, 13–14 June 2025

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

• 2024
  • Melammu Workshop 2024: Big and Small, High and Low, Proud and Humble: Constructing Significance in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Cultures, 13–15 September 2024
•  2023
  • ICAEM 2023: Angry Gods: divine wrath and the human sphere in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, 2–4 June 2023
• 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