The Netherlands Institute for the Near East

Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten  -  Institut néerlandais du Proche-Orient

14 May 10:30

3rd NINO Annual Meeting: Visual Representations of the Ancient Near East

Various speakers

Faculty of Archeology, Leiden

Important update: the third NINO Annual Meeting has been postponed to Saturday 14 May 2022. The NINO Thesis Prizes 2021 award ceremony has been held online on 27 January.

Practical details

Program

10.30 coffee & welcome
11.00 opening
11.05-11.30 keynote Julia Hamilton – Visualising Egypt through excavation photography in the late 19th-early 20th century
11.30-11.55 keynote Sary Zananiri – Frank Scholten: Constructing Biblical Modernity
11.55-12.20 keynote Bart Wagemakers – Making up the archaeological picture: the significance of informal visual records
12.20-14.00

lunch break 

  • optional: visit the small exhibition “The work of an archaeologist: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and the Study of Ceramics” in RMO
  • lunch options (not included) are offered by RMO museum cafe and many nearby cafes
14.00-14.25 keynote Marina Gavryushkina – Documenting Destruction: Exploring Digital 3D Workflows for Excavation Documentation at Chlorakas-Palloures, Cyprus
14.25-14.50 keynote David Maroto – ‘If a Man Opens a Well’: Writing, Death, and Posterity in a Contemporary Art Project
14.50-15.15 tea break
15.15-16.10 lightning sessions Lara Weiss, Daan Nijssen, Frederik Rogner, Paula Kalkman, Andrea Trameri, Rachel Winter, Lidewijde de Jong, Willemijn Waal
16.10-16.30 award Cuijpers-Opdenakker Prize 2022
16.30 announcement NINO Annual Meeting 2023 & closing
16.35 drinks (at Stadscafé Van der Werff)

Guidelines for posters

Send your poster or moving image through email or WeTransfer no later than Monday 9 May to c.h.van.zoest@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

General information

NINO’s Annual Meeting (in Dutch: de jaarlijkse NINO-dag) is held every year at the end of January. It offers an opportunity for advanced students and researchers of the ancient Near East in the Netherlands to meet and exchange ideas about ongoing and envisioned research projects. The Meeting is co-organised by NINO and an alternating host institution.