The Netherlands Institute for the Near East

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

NINO Annual Meeting

NINO’s Annual Meeting (end of January) 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. An award ceremony of the NINO Thesis Prizes is part of the Meeting, which is co-organised by NINO and an alternating host institution.

Sixth NINO Annual Meeting

Our sixth Annual Meeting, “Heritage and politics in the Middle East: historical perspectives”, will be held on Thursday 30 January 2025 at the University of Groningen. See the event page on our website.


Previous Annual Meetings

2024

The fifth NINO Annual Meeting, “Invention & ingenuity in the Ancient Near East”, was held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on Thursday 25 January 2024. See the event page on our website.

2023

The fourth NINO Annual Meeting, “Othering & Identity”, was held at Utrecht University on 26 January 2023. See the event page on our website.

2022

The third NINO Annual Meeting (originally scheduled for January 2021) had to be postponed due to corona measures. It was held on Saturday 14 May 2022 in Leiden, organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University. See the event page on our website.

The NINO Thesis Prizes 2020 award ceremony was held online on 28 January 2021; the NINO Thesis Prizes 2021 award ceremony was held online on 27 January 2022.

2020

The second NINO Annual Meeting was held at the University of Amsterdam on 30 January 2020. See the event page on our website.

2019

The first NINO Annual Meeting was held in Groningen on 31 January 2019, with the Institute of Archaeology and the Qumran Institute of Groningen University. See the event page on our website.