Conference by Cécile Michel on November 18, 2022

New event organized by Les Amis de l’IHES on Friday November 18, 2022 at 5:00 pm (French Time) at IHES

Cécile MICHEL Research Director at CNRS and Professor at Hamburg University, will give gave a conference (in French) in hybrid format, entitled:

“Business women, weavers and spouses: the life of Assyrian women 4000 years ago”

About 4,000 years ago, Assyrian merchants established a trading post in the ancient city of Kaneš in Central Anatolia. Their history is known from clay tablets on which they wrote. The voice of Tarām-Kūbi, an Assyrian woman who corresponded with her brother and husband who settled in Kaneš, takes us back in time.

Cécile MICHEL, Research Director at CNRS and Professor at Hamburg University will introduce the film “Ainsi parle Tarām-Kūbi. Correspondances assyriennes” that she dedicated to this woman. This presentation will be followed by a musical interlude.

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Contact: Ingrid Peeters (01 60 92 66 64)