7th Meeting (Yale)

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, in cooperation with Brown University, Harvard University, and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), is pleased to announce the seventh annual Graduate Symposium in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (GSANES). The conference will be hybrid, taking place at Yale University and on Zoom on April 4-5, 2025.

This year’s conference seeks to explore how ancient peoples interacted with, perceived, and managed their environments. Landscape and environment play a crucial role in shaping societies, economies, and cultural practices. We aim to foster dialogue between archaeological, art-historical, and philological approaches to studying landscapes and environments. By bringing together scholars from diverse methodological backgrounds studying various geographical regions, we hope to facilitate more holistic discussions and understandings of how people in the ancient world adapted to and shaped their environments.

Full program with abstracts:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oPZsh27CZcy5GQEHkOmGwOoTU3c94U_R-Hf1Nd0jK7M/edit?usp=sharing