The logo of the Melammu Project

The Melammu Project

The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East


  
   General description
   Name and logo
   Board
   Statutes
   Minutes of Meetings
  
   Earlier Symposia
   MS 14: Los Angeles, 2020
   MS 15: Graz, 2022
   MS 16: Berlin, 2023
   Future Symposia
  
   Earlier Workshops
   MW 18: Gdańsk, 2023
   MW 19: Innsbruck, 2023
   MW 20: Innsbruck, 2024
   Future Workshops
  
   Introduction to MS1
   Melammu Manual (1999)
   Association (2001-2013)
  Contact us
  About

  The Newsletter
  To Resources >

 

Clash of Civilizations? Sedentary and non-sedentary populations


Fifteenth Symposium of the Melammu Project
Institute of Classics
University of Graz
September 21-24, 2022

Organisers: Wolfgang Spickermann
Laerke Recht, Michaela Zinko, Hannes Galter


15th Melammu Symposium


Symposium Program

With his book ‟The Clash of Civilizations”, published in 1996, Samuel P. Huntington started a very controversial debate about the possibility of conflicts between different cultural areas in the 21st century, especially between Western civilization and Chinese and Islamic cultures. The 15th Melammu Symposium in Graz puts this modern discussion into a completely different context by asking whether the label ‟Clash of civilizations” is suitable for the manifold relations between sedentary and non-sedentary groups in ancient cultures. There are four research-panels: (1) Entanglement and interactions, (2) Conflicts, (3) Mobile groups and state formation and (4) Religious interactions.

The call for paper can be found here.

The symposium program can be found here.

If you’d like to attend to the conference as a guest we would kindly ask you – with a view to better planning – to fill out the registration form available here and send it to melammu_2022@uni-graz.at.


^
T
O
P