On Tuesday June 11, 2024, Historic England, The Open University, and The Pelagios Network will be hosting a workshop on digital tools, methods and infrastructure in academia, cultural heritage, and the creative industries. Our focus will be on lightweight tools that anybody can use to enrich place data, make maps, and link information to shed […]
Annual 5-day summer school in Barcelona Teaching the theory and practice of network research For those studying the human past (historians, archaeologists, classicists, …) No prior computational skills required, but willingness to learn
The 9th International Historical Network Research Conference (HNR2024) will take place on July 8-10 2024 at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland. It brings together researchers applying network analysis in the historical sciences.
University of Toronto Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Speakers: Professor Rocío Da Riva, University of Barcelona A series of first millennium BC cuneiform texts from Assyrian and Babylonian temple and private archives provides valuable information on religious...
Oct. 4th-6th 2024 The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada Optional network science workshop Oct. 2nd-3rd 2024
Rocío Da Riva & Nathan Wasserman, 2025 , “Une fête divine d’amour et de jalousie dans les rues de Babylone”, Sociétés humaines du Proche-Orient ancien, Carnet de recherche pour découvrir l’histoire et l’archéologie du Proche-Orient ancien, fondation de la manière de vivre actuelle, https://ane.hypotheses.org/14514; DOI: https://doi.org/10.58079/13hkc Nathan Wasserman & Rocío Da Riva, 2025 , “When […]
Participation in the Conference: Gelebte Religion in Spätbabylonien: kultische Zeremonien und Prozessionen als Strategien des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts “Identität und Zugehörigkeit Gelebte Religion im Übergang von Polytheismus zu monotheistischen Religionen”. 12. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft Konstanz, 19. – 21. Juni 2025
Podcast: Rocío Da Riva and Nathan Wasserman, “Carnival in Babylon”, Thin End of the Wedge. Exploring Life in the ancient Middle East, J. Taylor and E. Bennett: https://www.wedgepod.org/
Series: Cuneiform Monographs, Volume: 57 Authors: Rocío Da Riva and Nathan Wasserman The Divine Love Lyrics is a thematically cohesive collection of approximately 50 cuneiform texts from the 1st millennium BCE, originating in Assyria and Babylonia. These texts are connected to religious ceremonies in Babylon that revolved around the city’s principal deities: Marduk, his wife […]
Date: Friday, 24 October 2025 | Time: Starts at 15:00 | Venue: Join us at the Andreas Mouskos Auditorium, The Cyprus Institute | Speaker: Prof. Rocío Da Riva, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona. Abstract: From Babylon, at the heart of modern-day Iraq, the Neo-Babylonian Empire expanded across much of the Near East […]
University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Palazzo Corigliano, Sala Conferenze, Piazza S. Domenico Maggiore 12, Naples - November 5-7, 2025 | Between Stylish Religious Ceremony and Raunchy Street Brawl: the Changing Atmospheres of the 'Divine Love Lyrics'
Wednesday at 14:00 GMT marks the December Annotation Stammtisch, which is running to coincide with the Linked Pasts programme. This time, we'll hear from Rocio Da Riva on the project RelNet: 3 December 14:00 GMT — Rocio Da Riva on Project RelNet: religious networks in Late Babylonia Using I millennium BCE Babylonian cuneiform ritual texts as sources and Nodegoat as a […]
