Performance and orality in Ugaritic epic literature, Oxford 2022

PROGRAMME Day 1: Wednesday 20 July 2022 09:00–09:20: Welcome coffee 09:20–09:30: Introduction Session 1 09:30–10:15: Ian Rutherford (Reading), ‘Mobile singers, musical networks and hybrid styles. The transmission of song 2000-500 BCE’ 10:15–11:00: Lorenzo Verderame (Rome ‘La Sapienza’) ‘Learning to speak Sumerian’ Session 2 11:15–12:00: Dahlia Shehata (Würzburg) ‘Between tradition and innovation: composition and performance of Old Babylonian Sumerian and Akkadian Poetry’ 12:00–12:45: Michele Cammarosano (Napoli ‘L’Orientale’) ‘Orality and performance in Hittite Anatolia’ Session 3 14:00–14:45: John Screnock (Oxford): ‘Can we distinguish writtenness and orality in ancient Hebrew poetry?’ 14:45–15:30: Jonathan Ready (Michigan) ‘Scribal performance and the Ptolemaic papyri: alternatives and rejoinders’