SILVIA ALAURA

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CORSI 2024-2025 II Semestre

Colonialism Post-Colonialism and Heritage – Ancient Near Eastern Studies

The course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of the relationship between Colonialism and Postcolonialism on one hand and Ancient Near Eastern studies as an academic field that embrace archaeology, philology, and history on the other. The first part of the course introduces the history of Near Eastern archaeology and its methods, from colonialism to post-colonialism. The second part explores case studies attaining to different regions of Near Eastern countries, from Mesopotamia to the wider Mediterranean. Particular attention will be devoted to the use of primary sources, both published and unpublished.

Lectures, 2nd semester

Wednesday 12.00-14.00 Aula Brelich

Course starting date: 26 February 2025

The class is taught in English.

This is a 3-credit course (3CF). Students will attend the first 11 classes of the course Anthropology of Religion (Prof. Emily Pierini), then they will complete the additional 3-credits by attending the present course Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and Heritage in Near Eastern Studies which will be held in the 2nd semester.

Exams

Oral exam to be booked on Infostud as part of Prof. Silvia Alaura’s course on Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and Heritage in the Near-East (2nd semester). The assessment will consider the ability to critically evaluate and compare the main ideas and theories from the course and the bibliography.

Silvia Alaura, studied Near Eastern Archaeology and Hittitology at the University of Florence where in 1998 she obtained a Ph.D. with a dissertation on the cuneiform tablet collections at Bogazköy-Hattusa (Türkiye). As a fellow of the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung, she carried out postdoctoral research at the Altorientalisches Seminar of the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin.
She is actually Senior Researcher at the Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC) ‒ Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome and Adjunct Professor (Professore a contratto) at Sapienza Università di Roma. Her research interests explore Hittite culture in its various aspects. Besides her competences in philology and archaeology, she is also a leading expert in the history of Ancient Near Eastern studies. She has been visiting scholar at the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) and at the Yale University (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations – Yale Babylonian Collection).
She is involved in several international interdisciplinary projects concerning the history of the rediscovery of the ancient cultures of Western Asia. Since 2014 she directs the project “Gruppo di Ricerca Interdisciplinare di Storia degli Studi Orientali” (GRISSO). She is presently the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Project PRIN 2022 PNRR “Dialogues between ancient Western Asia and us. Untold stories from Italian collections and archives” (DiWA) and coordinator of the CNR Research Unit of the Project PRIN 2022 “Ancient Landscapes of Anatolia in the Bronze Age” (ALandA).
She is editor-in chief of the peer-reviewed monographic series “Documenta Asiana – Collana di studi sull’Anatolia e l'Asia Anteriore antica”.
She is Member of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (DOG); The American Oriental Society (AOS); American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR); European Association of Archaeologists (EAA); Society for the History of the Humanities (SHOH); International Council of Museums (ICOM); World Philology Union (WPU).

Publications: https://cnr-it.academia.edu/SilviaAlaura