British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Steady states: institutional stability in the face of political change - the evidence from pre-modern Western Asia
A Joint British Academy/British School of Archaeology in Iraq Seminar
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1
13-14 September 2004
Much research has now been done into the agents of change in the ancient world, but less attention has been paid to the remarkable continuities in certain areas in the face of often violent political upheavals. This conference explores two facets of this continuity, that provided by the administration records, and that visible in the official iconography of the state.
Speakers include: Alan Bowman, Sheila Canby, Erica Ehrenberg, Carole Hillenbrand, Michael Jursa, Robert Morkot, Stephen Quirke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Tonia Sharlach, Kathryn Slanski, and Richard Zettler
Papers from this conference were published as Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, From Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein, edited by Harriet Crawford (Proceedings of the British Academy, 136).
Article in British Academy Review (PDF file - 404 KB) (2007)