Ömür Harmanşah Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East Cambridge University Press Hardback ISBN:9781107027947 51 b/w illus. 9 maps Published on 18 March 2013 This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200–850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments, and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural, and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history, and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle.

• In press (2013). " Stone worlds: technologies of rock-carving and place-making in Anatolian landscapes " in Cambridge Handbook of the Bronze Age - Iron Age Mediterranean World . A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen (eds.). Cambridge University Press.

• In press (2013). “Pınarlar, Mağaralar, ve Hitit Anadolu’sunda Kırsal Peyzaj: Yalburt Yaylası Arkeolojik Yüzey Araştırma Projesi (Ilgın, Konya), 2011 Sezonu Sonuçları.” 30. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı. Ankara: T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Kültür Varlıkları ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğü (with Peri Johnson).

• 2013. “The Cattlepen and the Sheepfold: Cities, Temples, and Pastoral Power in Ancient Mesopotamia.” In Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World. Deena Ragavan (ed.). Oriental Institute Seminars 9. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 371-392.

• 2012. " The Location of Theory: A Discussion with Homi Bhabha," Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 8: 1 ( 2012) (with Nick Shepherd).

• 2012. " Yalburt Yaylası (Ilgın, Konya) Arkeolojik Yüzey Araştırma Projesi, 2010 Sezonu Sonuçları " in 29. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı. Adil Özme (ed). Ankara: T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Kültür Varlıkları ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın No: 153/2. Volume 2: 335-360. (with Peri A. Johnson)

• 2012. " Critical archaeologies for political engagements with place (Kritische Archaeologie: der Ort als Thema politischer Auseinandersetzung). " Forum Kritische Archäologie 1: 134-140.

• 2012. " Beyond Aššur: New Cities and the Assyrian Politics of Landscape," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 365: 53-77.

• 2011. "Monuments and memory: Architecture and visual culture in ancient Anatolian history," in Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (10,000–323 BCE). Edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon. Oxford University Press, 623-651. Oxford Handbooks Online

• 2011. "Moving Landscapes, Making Place: Cities, Monuments and Commemoration at Malizi/Melid " Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 24.1: 55-83.

• 2009. “Stones of Ayanis: New Urban Foundations and the Architectonic Culture in Urartu during the 7th C. BC,” in Bautechnik im Antiken und Vorantiken Kleinasien. Internationale Konferenz 13-16. Juni 2007 in Istanbul. (Byzas 9). Martin Bachmann (ed.). Ege Yayınları: Istanbul, 177-197.

• 2007. “ Source of the Tigris: event, place and performance in the Assyrian landscapes of the Early Iron Age,” Archaeological Dialogues 14.2 (December): 179-204.

• 2007. “Upright stones and building narratives: formation of a shared architectural practice in the ancient Near East” in Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Jack Cheng and Marian H. Feldman (eds.). Leiden: Brill Publishers, pp. 69-99.

• Eminonu Smellscapes Field Project- Urban Cultural Heritage and Creative Practice Workshop in Istanbul, 17-30 June 2012.

• The Cultural Life of Caves: From Palaeolithic Shamans to Seven Sleepers. January 18-21, 2012. Pera Museum Auditorum, Istanbul, Turkey. Co-organized by Suna-Inan Kirac Foundation Istanbul Research Institute and Brown University's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.

• Theoretical Archaeology Group 2010 Meeting at Brown: The Location of Theory Friday, April 30th to Sunday, May 2nd, 2010. Brown University, Providence, RI.

• Event Place Performance: Theorizing Architectural Spaces in the Ancient World(s) Session at College Art Association 99th Annual Meetings held in New York, from February 9–12, 2011.

• Drawing on rocks, gathering by the water: archaeological fieldwork at rock reliefs, sacred springs and other places. Workshop/conference held at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, March 1st 2008. Streaming video of the whole event.

Spring 2013

• AWAS 2750 Art and Visual Culture in the Ancient Near East
• ARCH 0030 Art in Antiquity

Fall 2012

• HMAN1970D Places of Healing: Memory, Miracle and Storytelling

Spring 2012

• ARCH 0680 Water, Culture, & Power (Water Blog)
• ARCH 1600 Archaeologies of the Near East

Fall 2011

• ARCH 2340 Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire: Cities, Landscapes and Material Culture
• ARCH 1710 Architecture and Memory

Spring 2010

• ARCH 1810 Under the Tower of Babel: Archaeology, Politics, and Identity in the Modern Middle East
• ARCH 2010C Architecture, Body and Performance in the Ancient Near Eastern World.

Fall 2009

• ARCH 1200F City and the Festival: Cult Practices and Architectural Production in the Ancient Near East
• AWAS 0800 Introduction to the Ancient Near East

Spring 2009

• ARCH 2410 Archaeologies of Place
• ARCH 1710 Architecture and Memory

Fall 2008

• ARCH 0030 Art in Antiquity: An Introduction
• ARCH 0250 Intimate Stories: Narrative in Ancient Visual Culture

Spring 2008

• ARCH 1800 Contemporary Issues in Archaeological Theory
• ARCH 1600 Archaeologies of the Near East

Fall 2007

• ARCH 2300 The Rise (and Demise) of the State in the Near East.
• ARCH 1150 Urbanism in the Archaeological Record

Spring 2007

• ARCH 0120 Material Worlds: Art and Agency in the Near East and Africa.
• ARCH 0120 City and the Festival: Cult Practices and Architectural Production in the Ancient Near East

Fall 2006

• ARCH 0037 Archaeology of Mesopotamia
• ARCH 0201 Architecture, Body and Performance in the Ancient Near Eastern World.

• 2010. Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal Of Mediterranean Archaeology
• 2012. Editorial Board Member, Near Eastern Archaeology, American Schools of Oriental Research (Class of 2013).

• Water, Culture, and Power- a blog in collaboration with Sarah Craft and my ARCH 0680 students. They all did a terrific job.

• "New Babylon" in Re:Bell (October 2011).

• Opinion Editorial Piece "The endangered future of the past" with Christopher Witmore. International Herald Tribune, 21 December 2007.

• The Leech Pond at Kerkenes Dağ- published on Archaeolog, April 30, 2009.

• Archaeolog entry Mapping sitting: datable structures, state imagination and the subordinated body

• Panopticon. The Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia

• Panopticon. The Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia II

• Short wiki articles on various topics

• Timothy Simonds, "The Architecture of the Burrow: Reforming the 'Anti-Architectural' Prejudice of the Threshold" Second Reader. Department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University, 2012.

• Lyra Monteiro, “Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States." Dissertation Committee Member and Reader. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, 2012.

• Bradley Sekedat, “Rethinking resources: The material and social networks of Eastern Mediterranean quarries in the Roman period.” Dissertation Committee Member and Reader. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, 2012.

• Cecelia Feldman Weiss, “Living Fluidly: The uses and meanings of water in Asia Minor (Second Century BCE – Second Century CE)” Dissertation Co-chair of Committee with Susan E. Alcock. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, 2011.

• Christopher A. Tuttle, “The Nabataean coroplastic arts: a new approach for studying terracotta figurines, plaques, vessels, and other clay objects”. Dissertation Committtee Member and Reader. Joukowsky institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, 2008.

• Workshop on Interdisciplinary teaching
• Workshop on Organizing Conferences

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