Performance and orality in Ugaritic epic literature, Oxford 2022

PROGRAMME Day 1: Wednesday 20 July 2022 09:0009:20: Welcome coffee 09:2009:30: Introduction Session 1 09:3010:15: Ian Rutherford (Reading), Mobile singers, musical networks and hybrid styles. The transmission of song 2000500 BCE 10:1511:00: Lorenzo Verderame (Rome La Sapienza) Learning to speak Sumerian Session 2 11:1512:00: Dahlia Shehata (Würzburg) Between tradition and innovation: composition and performance of Old Babylonian Sumerian and Akkadian Poetry 12:0012:45: Michele Cammarosano (Napoli LOrientale) Orality and performance in Hittite Anatolia Session 3 14:0014:45: John Screnock (Oxford): Can we distinguish writtenness and orality in ancient Hebrew poetry 14:4515:30: Jonathan Ready (Michigan) Scribal performance and the Ptolemaic papyri: alternatives and rejoinders