STUDIES \ REFERENCES \ 915
kept current by G. Buccellati, updated as of November 2002

Lectures

[NOTE: CONTENT TO BE UPDATED - ZH502 mDP]

     Listed below are all lectures given by staff members about various aspects of our excavations.

     The lectures are listed in chronological order, and you may go to any of the following dates:

    1985
    1986
    1987
    1988
    1989
     1990
    1991
    1992
    1993
    1994
     1995
    1996
    1997
    1998
    1999
     2000
    2001
    2002
    2003

1985

November – Anaheim: The American Schools of Oriental Research
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Archaeological Work at Tell Mozan”

November – Los Angeles: UCLA
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“A Tale of Two Cities: Terqa and Mozan”


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1986

November – Atlanta: The American Schools of Oriental Research
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“New Sculptures from Tell Mozan”


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1987

November – Boston: The American Schools of Oriental Research
Giorgio Buccellati
“The Mozan Global Record”


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1991

October – Berkeley: The American Oriental Society
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“The Joint Expedition to Shida Kartli (Soviet Georgia)
and Connections between the Caucasus and Northern Syria”


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1992

October – San Francisco: American Schools of Oriental Research
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Seal Impressions from the Akkadian Period Excavated in Mozan”


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1993

April – Chapel Hill: American Oriental Society
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Recent Excavations at Tell Mozan”

October 1-2 – Powell (WY): Northwest College
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Excavations at Tell Mozan”

Federico Buccellati
“Kite photography at Tell Mozan”


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1995

January 10– Lugano: Associazione Archeologica Ticinese
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Alla ricerca della civiltà urrita nell'antica Mesopotamia: gli scavi americani di Tell Mozan in Siria”

May – Vienna: Orientalisches Institut der Universität Wien
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“The Identification of Tell Mozan with Ancient Urkesh”

November – Philadelphia: The American Schools of Oriental Research
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“The Identification of Tell Mozan with Ancient Urkesh”

December 2 – Los Angeles: UCLA Extension
"DISCOVERY OF A LOST CAPITAL:
MOZAN/URKISH AND THE HURRIAN CIVILIZATION"
1 Elizabeth Brooks
“Welcome”
2 Antonio Loprieno
“Introduction”
3 Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Search and Discovery:
Tell Mozan and the Lost City of Urkish”
4 Harry Hoffner
“Hurrian Civilization from a Hittite Perspective”
5 Giorgio Buccellati
“Profile of the Hurrian Capital: Mozan/Urkish”
6 Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Reconstructing Hurrian Art”
7 Piotr Steinkeller “The View from Abroad: Urkish in Relation to Sumer and Ebla
and the Landscape of Near Eastern Archaeology”

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1996

April 3– Der ez-Zor: Symposium on the Syrian Jezira
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati

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1997

April 4 – Paris: Musée du Louvre
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“At the Origins of Hurrian Civilization: The Identification of Urkesh”

August 4 – Seattle: Catholic Biblical Association
Raju Kunjummen
“The 1997 Season of Excavations at Tell Mozan”

December– Washington: Smithsonian Institution
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati

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1998

April – Washington: Catholic University of America
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati

April – Cambridge: Harvard University
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati

May – Tell Beydar: Khabur Symposium
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati

November 9 – Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
           Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh: La prima capitale Urrita. I bordi urbani dell'Anatolia all'inizio della storia.”

November – Tübingen: Eberhard Karls Universität
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati

November – Würzburg: Julius-Maximilian-Universität
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati


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1999

April 23 – Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo College,
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Images of Power in ANcient Urkesh: A Newly Discovered Kingdom”

April 27 – Los Angeles: UCLA, Faculty Research Lecture
Giorgio Buccellati
“The Discovery of Ancient Urkesh and the Question of Meaning in Archaeology”

November 22 – Florence: Università degli Studi
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh e le origini della civiltà urbana in Syria”

November 23 – Florence: Opificio delle Pietre Dure
GLI OPIFICI DI URKESH: CONSERVAZIONE E RESTAURO A TELL MOZAN
1 Giorgio Buccellati
“Il contesto stratigrafico e il cantiere come laboratorio”
2 Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Il contesto tipologico.”
3 Beatrice Angeli e Sophie Bonetti
“Il laboratorio di restauro nella missione di scavo:
problemi di intervento sul terreno; i materiali”
4 Peter Pfälzner
“The Functional Use of Conservation: From Sherds to Jars to Rooms”
5 Federico Buccellati
“La documentazione: architettura e fotografia”
6 Discussion
with Paolo Emilio Pecorella, Lanfredo Castelletti, Giacomo Chiari

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2000

January 18 – Ascona: Collegio Papio
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh: la scoperta di una nuova antica capitale”

February 2 – Saint Paul: AIA, Science Museum of Minnesota
Rick Hauser
“Uncovering Ancient Urkesh”

February 14 – Tübingen: Eberhard Karls Universität
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“The Ceramics from the Service Wing AK of the Royal Palace”

February 29 - March 1 – Palermo: Università degli Studi
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh: capitale urrita del III millennio”
“Arte e etnicità: il caso di Urkesh e gli Urriti”

March 3 – Agrigento: Università degli Studi
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh: capitale urrita del III millennio”

March 9 - March 16 – Roma: Università degli Studi "La Sapienza"
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh e la civilità hurrita nel III millennio”

Giorgio Buccellati
“Stratigrafia e storia”

Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Ceramics and the Plastic Arts”

Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“La glittica”

March 24-25 – Como: Musei Civici
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Agli albori di una civiltà: La scoperta dell'antica Urkesh e le origini degli Urriti”

Giorgio Buccellati
“Prolegomena a una grammatica strutturale dei dati archeologici”

April 18 – Milano: Rotary Club
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Una grande scoperta archeologica in Siria: Urkesh, antica capitale urrita”


May 2 – New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sophie Bonetti
“Tell Mozan: Conservation Work in the 1999 Season”


May 9-11 – Venezia: Università degli Studi Ca' Foscari
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh: La scoperta di una capitale urrita del III millennio
“Urkesh e gli Urriti (seminario)”


May 16-17 – Trieste: Università degli Studi
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh: La scoperta di una capitale urrita del III millennio
“Urkesh e gli Urriti (seminario)”


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2001

January 18 – Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“At the Dawn of a Civilization: Urkesh, the First Hurrian City”

January 23 – Los Angeles: California State University, Los Angeles
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Recent Discoveries from Mozan.
A Review of Recent Findings at the Site of the Ancient City of Urkesh”

February 15 – Philadelphia: The Kevorkian Lecture, University of Pennsylvania
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“The Discovery of Urkesh and the Dawn of a Civilization”

February 16 – Philadelphia: The University Museum: University of Pennsylvania
Giorgio Buccellati
“Urkesh and Akkad: Ethnicity and Royal Policy”

Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“The Urkesh Palace and Akkadian Royal Seals”

April 3 – Los Angeles: California State University, Los Angeles
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh Uncovered: Excavations at the Earliest Hurrian City”

May 28-31 – Tübingen: Eberhard Karls Universität
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“The Urkesh Excavations and the Anatolian Boundary of Sumer and Akkad”

Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“The Royal Seals of Urkesh, Nagar and Akkad”

Giorgio Buccellati
“Steppe and River Bank. Ecological Situations of Syro-Mesopotamian Cultures.”

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2002

February 12 – Genova: Istituto italiano dei Castelli
Sophie Bonetti
“Una giornata nel palazzo reale di Urkesh”

March 6 – Iowa City: Archaeological Institute of America
Lara Aho
“The Lost City of Urkesh at Tell Mozan, Syria”

March 23 – Houston: American Oriental Society
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Urkesh and Akkadian Royal Seals”

Giorgio Buccellati
“The Royal Palace of Urkesh: Recent Excavations”


April 22-26 – Lugano: Facoltà di teologia
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“SUI FIUMI DI BABILONIA.
LA SIRO-MESOPOTAMIA COME MATRICE CULTURALE
DELL'ANTICO TESTAMENTO”
1 Monarchie divine e popolo di dio.
La concezione dello stato in Siro-Mesopotamia
e le origini delle grandi istituzioni politiche
2 Al di là dell'uomo.
Contrastanti percezioni dell'assoluto.
3 I confini dell'eterno.
Le religioni siro-mesopotamiche come istituzioni culturali
e la grande fossa necromantica di Urkesh
4 Ridar voce ai morti.
L'archeologia come riconquista di esperienze umane

August 4-6 – Cleveland: The Catholic Biblical Association
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Excavations at ancient Urkesh”
and
“The Hurrian Passage to the Netherworld”

Giorgio Buccellati
“An Archaeologist on Mars”

Alex Martin
“From Banquet to Taboo: The Long Prehistory of a Biblical Dietary Injunction”


October 16 – Damascus: The Shell Center
Giorgio Buccellati and Federico Buccellati
“The Rebirth of a Lost Civilization: Excavations at Tell Mozan, Ancient Urkesh”

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2003

January 24 – Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“A Hurrian Passage to the Netherworld”

February 10 – Los Angeles: Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
“Ancient Urkesh and the Netherworld”

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