BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:33710@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241101T133000 DTSTAMP:20241030T005513Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/orientalist-fantasies-and-women-pri ests-studying-gender-in-ancient-iraq/ SUMMARY:Orientalist Fantasies and Women Priests: Studying Gender in Ancient Iraq DESCRIPTION:Online Zoom Webinar\n\n \;\n\nImperialism and Orientalism c ontinue to color studies of gender in ancient Iraq. This talk outlines the challenges and opportunities that a rich corpus of religious and ritual t exts\, primarily from the late second and early first millennia BCE\, pres ents for addressing this legacy. Contemporary understandings of gendered r eligious titles in Mesopotamia rely on Orientalist tropes that guided the decipherment of the Akkadian language itself\, distorting our understandin g of the social landscape of gender. Through a case study\, I will show ho w a reevaluation of the textual record can furnish a more accurate underst anding of the intersection of gender and religious authority in Mesopotami a.\n\nJessie DeGrado is an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at t he University of Michigan. His interests include the intersection of empir e\, gender\, and religion in the early first millennium BCE. His current b ook project explores the entanglement of modern imperialism with the histo riography of ancient empire. He is also in the early stages of a project t hat treats religious texts and ritual sites as loci of gender consolidatio n and contestation in ancient Mesopotamia. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/10/event_128020_original-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR