Week 2. Travelers, antiquarians and Assyrians: Roots of modernity, colonialism and orientalism in Assyria (September 15, 2011)

• Agency, Orientalism and the Assyrians- Omur's response.
• Rooting out the not so distant past - Willis' response.
• Reflections of Assyria and Assyrialogical Reflection - Zack's respons
• Assyria: 'Still an Unfolding Enterprise?' - Müge

Week 3. September 22 Family business in Anatolia: The city-state of Ashur and Assyrian trading colonies.

• Can you tell me where the market is? - Willis' response.
• Assyrian Innovation - Zack's response
• On Aššur and Kaneš - Müge's response

Week 4. September 28. From Bronze to Iron: The archaeology of the Middle Assyrian Period

• Land of Assur: the chimera of Assyrian geography - Omur's response
• On Middle Assyrian Settlements - Müge's response
• City of Assur ... Land of Assyria - Willis' response
• Center and Periphery - Zack's resonse

Week 5. October 5 (Wednesday) The city of Nimrud and Aššurnasirpal II: ideology of the empire, narratives of state. Critical review of art historical studies of Assyrian palace reliefs.

• Audience & Interaction - Zack's Response
• On internalized ideologies - Müge's Response
• A little to the left - Willis' Response

Week 6. October 12 (Wednesday) When texts are not just texts: Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: symbolisms of power, mythologies of kingship and the royal rhetoric.

• Balawat, the first animated narrative? - Willis' Response
• Issues with Atac - Zack's Response
• Mythology and Kingship - Müge's Response