The construction of masculinities in ancient Mesopotamia

The ‘Garden Party’ relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, Iraq, about 645 BC (The British Museum)

5 Febbraio 2015

“Sapienza” Università di Roma ( Auletta di Archeologia, Facoltà di lettere)

10:00-13:00

Omar N’Shea – University of Malta, Languor in the Garden: Assurbanipal’s Party Reconsidered in Light of Masculinity Studies

Agnès Garcia-Ventura – “Sapienza”, Feminism, Gender Studies & Masculinities: some thoughts about their relationship

Gioele Zisa – LMU München, “The man and the woman will find satisfaction together”.The loss of nīš libbi as a male problem? Notes for an anthropological reflection

Lorenzo Verderame – “Sapienza”, Becoming a Man: The case of Martu and Enkidu

15:00-17:00

General discussion (taking the cue from Alberti’s article “Archeology, Men, and Masculinities.” In Handbook of Gender in Archaeology, edited by S. M. Nelson, 401–33. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2006)