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SUMMARY:Geographies of knowledge in ancient and modern Iraq: the Nahrein N
 etwork and the intellectual infrastructure of heritage - Prof Eleanor Robs
 on (UCL)
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DESCRIPTION:gloknos Annual Lecture Series - Eleanor Robson (UCL)\n\nWhere 
 is knowledge generated? How does that knowledge replicate and spread? Wher
 e is it consumed? Who owns knowledge\, and who may access it? Under what c
 ircumstances\, and in what places\, does it flourish or die out? How are i
 ts transmission and reception influenced by social and political factors? 
 In 2007–11 I ran a large research project here in Cambridge\, seeking an
 swers to those questions for the world’s first large empires\, Assyria a
 nd Babylonia in the first millennium BC. Since moving to UCL five years ag
 o\, I have increasingly turned my attention to the same questions about th
 e production and consumption of knowledge about the ancient Middle East. I
 n this talk I will introduce the work of the AHRC GCRF-funded Nahrein Netw
 ork (2017-2021)\, which is developing sustainable solutions to the systemi
 c exclusion of Iraqis and their neighbours from Middle Eastern history and
  heritage.\n\nEleanor Robson is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern Histor
 y and Head of UCL History. She is equally interested in the social and pol
 itical history of the cuneiform cultures of ancient Iraq\, 5000–2000 yea
 rs ago\; and the construction of knowledge about ancient Iraq in over the 
 past two centuries. Her next book\, Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social G
 eography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babyloni
 a\, will appear with UCL Press in 2019. With UK and Iraqi colleagues she r
 uns the AHRC/GCRF-funded Nahrein Network\, which fosters the sustainable d
 evelopment of history\, heritage and the humanities in Iraq and its neighb
 ours.\n\nAttendance at this lecture is free but spaces are limited\, so pl
 ease email the organiser to reserve your seat\, at sjp229@cam.ac.uk.\nYou 
 can also visit the CRASSH website: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28077\n\ngl
 oknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council thr
 ough a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr.Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her projec
 t ARTEFACT (2017-2022) ERC grant no. 724451. 
LOCATION:Rooms SG1 &amp\; SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Ca
 mbridge\, CB3 9DT
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