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2022 Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Meeting Begins11/19/2022
Meeting Ends11/22/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/18/2022

Requirements for Participation

Literature and History of the Persian Period


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers:

For 2022 LHPP will have multiple sessions; we invite papers within two thematic foci. Participants in both will pre-circulate their papers among their fellow panelists, to foster discussion.

1) Social Network Analysis as a method for the Persian Period

Invited and Open Call

Though long used by sociologists and biologists, amongst others, recent advances in digital humanities and data collation have helped make the ancient world accessible to network approaches. Though it involves complex interdisciplinary work, networks offer the potential of exploring structures otherwise difficult to discern in data. How might scholars of history and literature of the Persian Empire make use of these tools? We plan to invite a set of panelists working in SNA, but welcome all proposals making use of network methods, especially those looking at archaeological data in a new light.

Depending on response, we will hold one or two sessions on this theme.

2) Social History

Open Call

We also invite papers on any aspect of social history within the Persian Empire, including but not exclusive to those making use of explicitly anthropological/sociological lenses. We especially encourage the use of multiple sources—archaeological, literary, documentary—for reconstructing the social history of the period, as well as interdisciplinary papers. Depending on submissions, we will hold one or two sessions.

3) "Theocracy"

Invited

Another invited session on "theocracy" will be held jointly with the Pentateuch section.

Program Unit Chairs

Adrianne Spunaugle
Jason M. Silverman

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