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- Week 1
Introduction September 10, 2009
- Week 2 Presence of the past September 15-17, 2009
- Week 3 Colonialism, mapmaking and the Middle East September 22-24, 2009
- Week 4 Landscapes of the Near East September 29, 2009
- Week 4-5 Socialization of the universe: Neolithic in the Near East October 1 and 6, 2009
- Week 5. Emerging social complexities in Mesopotamia: the Chalcolithic in the Near East October 8, 2009
- Week 6. From temples of Uruk to the royal tombs of Ur: cities, gods and citizens October 13, 2009
- Week 6. The rise of the Early Mesopotamian urban elite: questions of ideology and power October 15, 2009
- Week 7. Body of the able ruler: narrative history and state ideology in Akkad and Sumer October 20, 2009
- Week 7. Texts and archaeology: The Third Dynasty of Ur October 22, 2009
- Week 8. Cities and nomads: Syria and Mesopotamia in the Middle Bronze Age October 27, 2009
- Week9. Greetings to my brother: From Assyrian trade networks to the Hittite Empire and Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean November 3-10, 2009.
- Week 10. Early Iron Age in Upper Mesopotamia: new cities, cultivated landscapes, architectural innovations November 12, 2009
- Week 11. Foundation of an empire: Assyria in the Iron Age November 17, 2009.
- Week 12. Babylon and the Neo-Babylonian kingdom November 24, 2009
- Week 13. Archaeological sites as the contested place of memory, history, identity, violence December 3, 2009.
- Review for Final Exam December 8, 2009
