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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)
DTSTART:20181204T170000Z
DTEND:20181204T190000Z
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:gloknos Annual Lecture Series- Prof Eleanor Robson (UCL)\n\nWh
 ere is knowledge generated? How does that knowledge replicate and spread? 
 Where is it consumed? Who owns knowledge\, and who may access it? Under wh
 at circumstances\, and in what places\, does it flourish or die out? How a
 re its transmission and reception influenced by social and political facto
 rs? In 2007–11 I ran a large research project here in Cambridge\, seekin
 g answers to those questions for the world’s first large empires\, Assyr
 ia and Babylonia in the first millennium BC. Since moving to UCL five year
 s ago\, I have increasingly turned my attention to the same questions abou
 t the production and consumption of knowledge about the ancient Middle Eas
 t. In this talk I will introduce the work of the AHRC GCRF-funded Nahrein 
 Network (2017-2021)\, which is developing sustainable solutions to the sys
 temic exclusion of Iraqis and their neighbours from Middle Eastern history
  and heritage.\n\nEleanor Robson is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern Hi
 story and Head of UCL History. She is equally interested in the social and
  political history of the cuneiform cultures of ancient Iraq\, 5000–2000
  years ago\; and the construction of knowledge about ancient Iraq in over 
 the past two centuries. Her next book\, Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Soci
 al Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Baby
 lonia\, will appear with UCL Press in 2019. With UK and Iraqi colleagues s
 he runs the AHRC/GCRF-funded Nahrein Network\, which fosters the sustainab
 le development of history\, heritage and the humanities in Iraq and its ne
 ighbours.\n\nAttendance at this lecture is free but spaces are limited\, s
 o please email to reserve your seat. \n\nThis lecture is hosted by gloknos
 : the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies. gloknos is initially funded for
  5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awa
 rded to Dr.Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022) ERC gr
 ant no. 724451.
LOCATION:Rooms SG1 &amp\; SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Ca
 mbridge\, CB3 9DT
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