Thursday 18 June 2026 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 09:30 - 10:00 Add this event to my calendar iCalendar (.ics) Google Calendar Microsoft Outlook.com Office 365 Yahoo! Calendar Speaker(s) Dominique Charpin Professor at the Collège de France Thomas Römer Professor and Administrator of the Collège de France Events Previous Symposium 18 Jun 2026 09:30 to 10:00 Dominique Charpin & Thomas Römer Welcome and introduction Symposium 18 Jun 2026 10:00 to 10:30 Jean-Marie Durand The reform of writing under Yahdun-Lim : reflections based on new readings Symposium 18 Jun 2026 10:30 to 11:00 Jack M. Sasson Mari, the Bible, and me Symposium 18 Jun 2026 11:30 to 12:00 Nele Ziegler The southern border of the kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Symposium 18 Jun 2026 12:00 to 12:30 Michaël Guichard The itinerant herdsmen of the King of Mari and the Simalites : the case of Ibal-pi-El and… Symposium 18 Jun 2026 12:30 to 13:00 Grégory Chambon The meal texts of the King of Mari (XVIIIth century BC) as "&nbs… Symposium 18 Jun 2026 14:30 to 15:00 Grégoire Nicolet Data from the K site : Mari's school between proverbs and literature Symposium 18 Jun 2026 15:00 to 15:30 Marine Béranger Which skill for which scribe ? A syllabary-based study of Mari's texts Symposium 18 Jun 2026 15:30 to 16:00 Liubov Zhiltsova Research on the scribes of Mari Symposium 18 Jun 2026 16:30 to 17:00 Olivier Rouault Texts from the time of Zimri-Lim of Terqa Symposium 18 Jun 2026 17:00 to 17:30 Hervé Reculeau Describing the environment : written culture and geographical realities from the Mari arc… Symposium 18 Jun 2026 17:30 to 18:00 Vérène Chalendar Animal metaphors and comparisons in Mari's letters Symposium 18 Jun 2026 18:00 to 18:30 Rients de Boer Sumhu-rabi, wartime governor of Saggaratum Symposium 19 Jun 2026 09:30 to 10:00 Sophie Démare-Lafont Why and for whom do we write law ? Symposium 19 Jun 2026 10:00 to 10:30 Dominique Charpin The alliance between Zimri-Lim of Mari and Yarim-Lim of Aleppo Symposium 19 Jun 2026 10:30 to 11:00 Ilya Arkhipov Accusations against Mukannišum, Mari's palace steward Symposium 19 Jun 2026 11:30 to 12:00 Laurent Colonna d’Istria Power and written culture : the case of Mari liver models Symposium 19 Jun 2026 12:00 to 12:30 Antoine Jacquet Cult organization and written culture in Upper Mesopotamia in the XVIIIth… Symposium 19 Jun 2026 12:30 to 13:00 Francesca Nebiolo Tell Yelkhi texts, 40 years of publications and future prospects Symposium 19 Jun 2026 14:30 to 15:00 Denis Lacambre The early reign of Samsī-Addu and the establishment of the kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia :… Symposium 19 Jun 2026 15:00 to 15:30 Regine Pruzsinszky Tigunanum, from Zimri-Lim to Hattusili I Symposium 19 Jun 2026 15:30 to 16:00 Eva von Dassow Power without writing, or the constitution of a secondary state formation Symposium 19 Jun 2026 16:30 to 17:00 Charlotte Fernandes Written culture at Emar, between the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze : rupture, continuity … Symposium 19 Jun 2026 17:00 to 17:30 Lionel Marti Writing history in Upper Mesopotamia, from the Paleo-Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian periods… Next See also Dominique Charpin, chair Mesopotamian Civilization Power and written culture in Upper Mesopotamia in the XVIIIth century B.C.