Invited Speakers
- Prof. Martin Schwartz: Central Asiatic Argots 'Remember' the Jewish Underworld Presence in Medieval Iran
- Prof. Diane Wolf: The Landscape of Cultural Memories: The Holocaust and the Vietnam War
- Prof. Andrew George: The Epic of Gilgamesh: Recovering the Masterpiece of Babylonian Poetry
- Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson: Akhenaten: Revolution or Redefinition? The Influence of Tradition on the "Heretic" Pharaoh and the Amarna Period
- Prof. Heghnar Watenpaugh: Memory, Counter-Memory: Heritage in Modern Syria
- Prof. Piotr Michalowski: Literacy and Literacies in Early Ancient Mesopotamia
- Dr. Brian Brown: Marginal Texts: Tukulti-Ninurta II's Ashara Stele and the Assyrian Presence in Syria
- Mr. Erik Gustafson: A Crusader Portal on a Mamluk Madrasa in Cairo
- Dr. Stephen Russell: Beyond Sacred Space: A Geography of Power in the Hebrew Bible
- Prof. Yoram Cohen: Scribes and Scholars at Emar: A Social History of Scribal Families at a Late Bronze Age City
- Dr. Mathieu Ossendrijver: The Astronomers of Uruk: A Case Study of Networking in Seleucid Babylonia
- Prof. Nile Green: Bombay Islam: Iran-India-South Africa in the Religious Economy of the Indian Ocean