Call for Papers: NINO Annual Meeting "Food and Ritual in the Near East", deadline 1 November 2025. This year’s theme, Food and Ritual in the Ancient to Early Modern Near East, highlights the vital role of food in religious practice, social organization, and cultural identity.

UITNODIGING – Egeria-lezing 2025 In deze lezing vertelt prof.dr. Mladen Popović (RUG) over de beroemde Dode Zeerollen en de mensen die ze schreven. De fundamentele vragen die hij behandelt zijn: wanneer zijn de manuscripten geschreven en door wie?

NINO-nieuwsbrief september 2025: Nieuws van het NINO-onderzoekscentrum, even voorstellen, zichtkast in de MEL, en meer – buff.ly/Hzi26FA

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Miriam Müller opent het @leidenglobal.bsky.social annual event in @rmoudheden.bsky.social over talen: meertaligheid, identiteit, en onderwijs.

De Week van het Oude Schrift is vanavond afgetrapt door Petra Sijpesteijn! Arabisch en schijn-Arabisch vormen een prima fundament onder de verdere lezingen. Komt u morgen ook terug? www.rmo.nl/uw-bezoek/ac...

📅NINO POSTDOC LECTURE: States or mates? Exploring collective action in early Iron Age Jordan

Introduction week for BA students “Oude Nabije Oosten-studies” at LU: NINO director and librarians welcomed them at Middle Eastern Library; Piotr Zadworny and Mark Eertink showed tablets from our Böhl Collection. NINO wishes all students and staff a great start of the new academic year!

📣📅ORAL TRADITION AND CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLING NINO is happy to contribute to the upcoming conference Oral Tradition and Contemporary Storytelling.

Information session on 18 September offered by Leiden University for staff members in Leiden and The Hague: meet directors of institutes abroad in person. Istanbul + Cairo present! Directors will showcase their institute’s services for staff and students. Register before 15 Sept: buff.ly/NYSHIKl

📅📜Tijdens de vierde editie van de Week van het oude schrift (15 t/m 20 september 2025) staat de rijke schrifttraditie uit Afrika met Egypte, Ethiopië en talen uit de regio centraal. Experts geven zes lezingen over bekende, maar ook minder bekende schriften en de talen waarin ze werden gebruikt.

Op 26 september organiseert Stichting Archeologisch Erfgoed Luxor in samenwerking met NINO een lezing over het TT45 Project in Luxor.

❗FUNDING DEADLINE APPROACHING: 15th of August NINO offers a variety of fellowships, grants, and prizes, in support of researchers and students working on the ancient Near East (incl. Egypt) in the Netherlands and abroad.

With profound sadness we learned that Luc Limme has passed away on 21 July 2025. He was Editor at our journal Bibliotheca Orientalis, where he was in charge of the Egyptology section since 2007. We will miss him.

De Universiteitsbibliotheek en onze andere bibliotheeklocaties houden momenteel aangepaste openingstijden aan. Bekijk ons #zomerrooster via 🔗 edu.nl/mhqeu

𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘦 Paneldiscussie 𝗘𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗷𝗸𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻 25 Sept'25 @rmoudheden.bsky.social Tussen thuis, school & straat groeit een generatie op in meerdere talen. Wat betekent dat voor hun ontwikkeling én voor onze samenleving? Register now!👇 ism @nino-leiden.bsky.social & @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social

Call for submissions! Once every year NINO grants two Fieldwork Subsidies of max. €5000 each, to projects in Near Eastern archaeology and connected fields (limited financial support to starting or smaller projects). Application deadline: 20 Aug 2025. Full regulations on our website: buff.ly/gvC30OL

Call for submissions for the NINO Thesis Prizes 2025! Send in your thesis within the scope of NINO’s research areas, graded an 8 or higher at a Dutch university; deadline 1 Oct 2025. Don’t miss the chance to win this year’s prize for Best Bachelor or Master thesis on the Near East! buff.ly/A46ifD5

NINO-nieuwsbrief juni 2025: funding reports, Visiting Research Fellows, zomerrooster MEL, en meer – buff.ly/Gketrvn

19 juni, 19.30u ‪@rmoudheden.bsky.social: avond met met talks over 4000 jaar lichaamsversiering. Fatima Oulad Thami over hedendaagse henna-kunst in Marokko; Sigrid van Roode over o.a. tatoeages en henna in het oude Egypte. Aanmelden via de RMO-website (gratis); geen livestream.

This afternoon Steffie van Gompel successfully defended her dissertation on “Marriage Traditions and the Stem Family in Ancient Egypt”. Our warm congratulations to Dr Van Gompel! buff.ly/LKzkrvA

JAARPRIJS CUIJPERS-OPDENAKKER 2025 – Op 5 juni heeft Milinda Hoo de Jaarprijs Cuijpers-Opdenakker 2025 ontvangen voor haar artikel “The Power to Impress and Impressing to Power”. buff.ly/Kn7w0pS

Op 5 juni heeft Milinda Hoo de Jaarprijs Cuijpers-Opdenakker 2025 ontvangen voor haar artikel “The Power to Impress and Impressing to Power”. De auteur heeft die middag de NINO/EOL-voorjaarslezing gehouden over het onderwerp van haar winnende artikel: koningschap in Baktrië. buff.ly/Kn7w0pS

De NINO/EOL-voorjaarslezing is dichtbij. Deze donderdag is het al. Kom naar het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Leemanszaal) en drink na afloop samen met ons een drankje. Of volg de lezing online via livestream.

📅PLEYTE Symposium Op 6 juni is het zover, dan bestaat Dispuut Pleyte 50 jaar! Dispuut Pleyte is de studievereniging van Oude Nabije Oosten Studies en Classics and Ancient Civilizations. Om dit groots te vieren is een symposiumdag samengesteld met de mogelijkheid om na afloop te borrelen.

📙INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RELIGIOUS TEMPORALITIES AND THE ANCIENT CITY Today, the workshop 'Religious Temporalities and the Ancient City' is a go. We wish the participants an inspiring two days discussing the intricacies of the ancient city. See: buff.ly/6qujqk6.

❗FUNDING DEADLINE APPROACHING

📙BOEKPRESENTATIE Karel van der Toorn Karel van der Toorn, emeritus hoogleraar Godsdienst en Maatschappij, heeft een nieuw boek geschreven over het veranderende gezicht van de Israëlitische religie in de Oudheid: 'Israelite Religion: From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy'.

📣NINO CALL FOR A STUDENT RESEARCH ASSISTENT Two times per year one BA or MA student at a university in the Netherlands is appointed as part-time assistant to a senior researcher employed at a Dutch university.

Finland’s Egyptological Society is now on Bluesky. The account will contain Egyptology news as reposts, mainly in English, as well as information about the society's events in Finnish.

Happening now: the first annual Herta Mohr lecture. Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gabler is speaking on Theban Tomb 217 and Nina & Norman de Garies Davies. @rmoudheden.bsky.social

NINO-nieuwsbrief maart 2025: Nieuws van het NINO-onderzoekscentrum, funding reports, en meer –

Please join us on Friday 11 April for the first annual Herta Mohr Lecture! Kathrin Gabler (Mainz), 🎙TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy, and the impact of Nina and Norman de Garis Davies. ✒️ Registration for RMO (drinks afterwards!) or Zoom:

Brien Garnand (NINO VRF) will present the next Friends of ASOR webinar: “How to Re-Place Carthaginian Votive Dedications into Context.” April 2, 2025, at 2:00 pm EDT = 20:00 hrs Amsterdam time. The webinar (via Zoom) will be free and open to the public; registration required.

De slotavond van de Week van de Klassieken 2025 vindt vanavond plaats in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, georganiseerd door het NINO. Thema: “Recht en rechtvaardigheid in het oude Nabije Oosten”. N.B.: De avond is volgeboekt. U kunt zich helaas niet meer aanmelden.

Sketch of a city with two circular enclosure walls; “calculate the circumference of the old and of the new city”. Old Babylonian school tablet with math problem (Böhl Collection, NINO Leiden, inv. no. LB 1821). www.facebook.com/share/1BSdre...

Almost 4,000 years ago during an era we call the Old Babylonian period, a student formed a round tablet out of clay and drew a circle on it for a math assignment. The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay

Vandaag in ‘Wegen naar Rome’, blogserie van de Week van de Klassieken over de oudheid in populaire cultuur: een bijdrage van Nolke Tasma over “Murder in Mesopotamia” van Agatha Christie! buff.ly/4blngly

On this #IWD2025 International Women’s Day we are proud to announce a new lecture series organised with @rmoudheden.bsky.social! Named after Herta Mohr, it will annually showcase and focus on early career contributions to #Egyptology. Join us on 11 April at RMO! www.nino-leiden.nl/event/herta-...

🏛️ NINO wishes the speakers of the Language and Cultural Interactions in the Roman World conference a good second day of academic exchange and discussion!

Attention Assyriologists & Mesopotamian archaeologists! The IAA Prize for the Best Article of an Early Career Scholar is open for submissions until March 31, 2025. Win €1,000 and gain recognition for your work! Details & submission: iaassyriology.com/iaa-prize/ #Assyriology #Archaeology #EarlyCareer

Willemijn Waal has won a Vici grant from NWO for her project “From Aleph to Alpha. The spread and development of alphabetic writing across the Mediterranean”. She will explore clues that the Greek alphabet is much older than currently assumed. Congratulations! buff.ly/UEEMRIb

Maandag 31 maart: MEL-NINO-Pleyte-borrel en -rondleiding • 16:25u verzamelen bij de bibliotheekbalie in de MEL (LU-card nodig!) • 16:30-17:00u rondleiding door MEL en S-UB door Anita Keizers en Mariëtte Keuken • 17-18u borrel in de LIAS Common Room Voor de rondleiding aanmelden via buff.ly/Jt8D6oC

Meme still alive and kicking in Leiden today!

Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

Congratulations to NVIC’s Marleen De Meyer on being appointed director per 1 March 2025! Interview (in Dutch) on Leiden University’s website:

📣CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JCO Prize for the best article in ANE studies📣 To boost early career academics, NINO and EOL award the biennial Jaarprijs Cuijpers-Opdenakker. The deadline is rapidly approaching (15 February 2025) with the next chance to win this prize in 2027.

📣CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: JCO Prize for the best article in ANE studies📣 To boost early career academics, NINO and EOL award the biennial Cuijpers-Opdenakker Prize. The deadline is rapidly approaching (15 February 2025) with the next chance to win this prize in 2027.

📣NINO Funding Deadline Approaching: The NINO Funding deadline for the Incoming Mobility, Outgoing Mobility and Conference Subsidy Grant is set on the 15th of February. You can find all details for applying on the NINO website: https://buff.ly/415aPGS.

📣CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: biennial JCO-prize for the best article in ANE-studies To boost early career academics, NINO and EOL award the biennial Cuijpers-Opdenakker Prize. The deadline is rapidly approaching (15th of February 2025) with the next chance to win this prize in 2027.