UPCOMING EVENTS, LECTURES & BROWN BAG TALKS (SUMMER-FALL 2019)
The Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Music, UC Berkeley
and the Assyrian Arts Institute Present Omar Bashir, "The Prince of Oud" from the Bashir Dynasty
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In this year’s Assyrian Heritage Lecture, Prof. Alan Lenzi considers the little-discussed Lament of Ashurbanipal, in which the Assyrian king enumerates his pious acts and laments his unmerited disfavor. Lenziargues The Lament casts Ashurbanipal’s suffering in the mold of the protagonist of the classic Babylonian poem Ludlul Bel Nemeqi. Unlike Ludlul, however, The Lament ends without resolution or redemption. Drawing on narratology and medical anthropology, Lenzi suggests The Lament is a half-told story whose very expression was intended to elicit or hasten its completion, that is, to bring relief and healing to Ashurbanipal.
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NES Commencement Ceremony
Date and time: May 15, 2020, 2:00PM
