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ALPHA Seminars - Anatolian Linguistics, Philology, History and Archaeology
Designed for specialists in the field, ALPHA seminars provide a dedicated forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on the ancient civilizations of Anatolia, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each seminar brings together scholars working across linguistics, philology, history, and archaeology to address questions concerning language, writing, and cultural interaction in the ancient Anatolian world. By placing these disciplines in dialogue, ALPHA seminars reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the
CAncAn team and its commitment to understanding communication across the ancient societies of Anatolia. The series features invited lectures by leading researchers.
Venetonight 2025 - Didactic materials [ITA]
26 September 2025, "Venetonight - la notte della ricerca", Ca' Foscari University of Venice
26 September 2025, "Venetonight - la notte della ricerca", Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Venetonight 2025 - Didactic materials: quiz [ITA]
26 September 2025, "Venetonight - la notte della ricerca", Ca' Foscari University of Venice
26 September 2025, "Venetonight - la notte della ricerca", Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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- “State Formation and Re-Urbanisation in Iron Age Levant”
25-28 November 2024, Conference Centre Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland (organizers: A. Berlejung, A. Meir, M. Novák, A. Payne) - “Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century”
23-25 October 2024, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (organizers: S. Elti di Rodeano, Y. Haralambous)
Publications
Edited volumes
- S. Elti di Rodeano, N. Lovejoy, K. Overmann, A. Payne, Š. Velhartická (eds.), “Writing and Cognition in Interdisciplinary Perspective”, Vol. 1
- A. Berlejung, A.M. Maeir, M. Novák, A. Payne (eds.), “State Formation and Re-Urbanisation in the Iron Age Levant”, RIAB, Mohn Siebeck
- S. Elti di Rodeano, N. Lovejoy, A. Payne, Š. Velhartická (eds.), “Proceedings from Interconnectivity and Communication. Cultural and Intellectual Transmission in Ancient Anatolia, Venice, 21-23 May 2025, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Leuven / Paris / Bristol"
- E. Alleva, G. Cozzi, S. Elti di Rodeano, L. Fox-Zampiccoli, R. Gessaga, G. Giannecchini, O. Olina, J. Walls (eds.), “Proceedings from Anatolinks. Connections Within and Beyond Ancient Anatolia, Oxford, 4-5 December 2025, Zenodo”
Articles
- A. Çifçi, M. Doğan-Alparslan, A. Payne, "A New Hieroglyphic Rock Inscription from Afşin in the Province of Kahramanmaraş"
- E. Alleva, "Let Bas not give bread to him" in Payne et al., Interconnectivity and Communication, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
- E. Alleva, "Rappresentazione personale nei testi luvio geroglifici dell'età del ferro: il segno EGO2 e la presentazione incipitaria"
- S. Elti di Rodeano, "From Text to Society: Narratological Approaches to Cilician Bilingual Inscriptions"
- S. Elti di Rodeano, N. Lovejoy, "Conceptualizing Territory in Iron Age Anatolia"
- A. Payne, Š. Velhartická, S. Elti di Rodeano, N. Lovejoy, “An Object Inscribed with Anatolian Hieroglyphs from the National Gallery in Prague”
- A. Payne, “Anatolian Hieroglyphic”, in P. Boyes, A. Judd, C. Prager, “The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ancient Writing Systems”
- Š. Velhartická, “On the Search for ‘Hittite’ Hieroglyphic Bilingual Inscriptions: Inscription Finds from Hrozný’s Excavations at Tell Rifa‘at”, in A. M. Maeir, M. Novák, A. Berlejung, A. Payne (eds.), “State Formation and Re-Urbanisation in the Iron Age Levant”, RIAB, Mohn Siebeck
- Š. Velhartická, “Thoughts on Bilingualism in the Ancient Near East: You Won’t Become Multilingual by Running on the Streets of Ḫattuša”, in “Writing and Cognition in Interdisciplinary Perspective”, Vol. 1
- Š. Velhartická, “A New View of Old Hittite Literature: On the Principles of the Transmission of Cuneiform Writing to Anatolia”, in “Proceedings from Interconnectivity and Communication. Cultural and Intellectual Transmission in Ancient Anatolia, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Leuven / Paris / Bristol”
- Š. Velhartická, “The Investigations and Finds from Sheikh Sa‘ad and Tell Rifa‘at in the 1920s Based on the Excavation Documentation”
- Š. Velhartická, “Anatolian Inscriptions in the Letters from Archibald Henry Sayce to Justin V. Prášek and Bedřich Hrozný”, in S. Alaura, M. Bonechi, Th. L. Gertzen (eds.), “Global Orientalist – Life and Times of Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933)”
- Š. Velhartická, “Geschichte Mediens und Persiens in den Briefen von Jules Oppert an Justin V. Prášek”
- Š. Velhartická: “Hittitology in Newspapers (prior to 1950)”, in Th. Gertzen et. al. (eds.), “Conference Proceedings”
- N. Lovejoy, “Variable Spelling of Personal Names in Multilingual Communities: Using Modern Proxies to Understand Processes of Listening and Writing in the Syro-Anatolian Iron Age”, in “Writing and Cognition in Interdisciplinary Perspective”, Vol. 1
- N. Lovejoy, “Political Identity and Ideologies of Kingship in the Northeast Mediterranean Syro-Anatolian City-States”, A. M. Maeir, M. Novák, A. Berlejung, A. Payne (eds.), “State Formation and Re-Urbanisation in the Iron Age Levant”, RIAB, Mohn Siebeck
- N. Lovejoy, “Script, Language, and the Making of Identities in Syro-Anatolian Communities”, in “Proceedings from Interconnectivity and Communication. Cultural and Intellectual Transmission in Ancient Anatolia, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Leuven / Paris / Bristol”
- S. Elti di Rodeano, “Constructing Forms of Content. Polyvalent Signs and Compound Meanings in Ancient Writing Systems”, in “Writing and Cognition in Interdisciplinary Perspective”, Vol. 1.
- Elti di Rodeano, Sveva. “Review of Bauer, Alessia / Waxenberger, Gaby (eds.), with the assistance of Paola Cotticelli-Kurras: Wege zur Konfiguration der Zeichen-Phonem-Beziehung”. “Kratylos” 70: 90-100
- Elti di Rodeano, Sveva. “Review of Cotticelli-Kurras, Paola / Rizza, Alfredo (eds.): Variation within and among Writing Systems: Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents”. “Kratylos” 70: 101-115
- Matessi, Alvise – Lovejoy, Nathan. “Resilient Vines? Religious Motifs and Areal Contacts Between Central Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Post-Hittite Period”. Pallavidini, M. – Coppini, C. – Bach, J. (eds.), “Change, Order, Remembrance. Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 18th EASR Conference, Pisa, August 30th – September 3rd 2021”, 109-136
- Lovejoy, Nathan. “Sarruma and His Skirt of Many Patterns: Notes on the Signs Sarma1-3”. “Anatolian Studies” 75: 47-57
- Lovejoy, Nathan. “The cult of the storm god in the Syro-Anatolian region: Regional continuity and local innovation in figurative representations between the Late Bronze and Iron Ages”. “Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE)”, 455-478
- Velhartická, Šárka. “Emilio Peruzzi: un giovane glottologo alle prese con i geroglifici anatolici”. “Annali Scuola Normale Superiore - Classe di Lettere e Filosofia” 17: 192-227
- Elti di Rodeano, Sveva. “From Clay Tablet to Digital Tablet. The Diamesic Variation of Writing”. “Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century 2022. Proceedings”, 219-236
- Lovejoy, Nathan. “Phrygia Between the East and the West: an introduction”. “Ancient Near Eastern Studies” 61: 1-8
- Payne, Annick. “Anatolian Hieroglyphic Writing and Meta-Writing. The Name of Kubaba”. "Hieroglyphs" 1: 245-250
Activities
- "The Hittite King Muršili and the King of Aleppo", presentation at the "Bern & Babylon" Conference, University of Bern, Š. Velhartická, 1-2/10/2026
- "Indo-European languages of Ancient Anatolia", presentation at the Cercle linguistique de Prague, Š. Velhartická, 10-11/09/2026
- "Hittite", cours majeur, "Initiation au lydien et au phrygien", cours mineur, Summer School in Oriental Languages 2026, Venice, S. Elti di Rodeano and E. Alleva, 8-18/07/2026
- "Classified Information: How Ancient Scribes organized their World", presentation at the "Order Out of Chaos" Conference, London, A. Payne, 8-10/07/2026
- "Plotting the World: Conceptual Metaphors of Territory and Space in Hieroglyphic Luwian", presentation at "Order Out of Chaos" Conference, London, S. Elti di Rodeano and N. Lovejoy, 8-10/07/2026
- "Making an impression: a workshop on Lydian squeezes", workshop at the Anatolian Languges and Linguistics Summer School, Oxford, A. Payne, 22-26/06/2026
- "From Phrygian to Lydian by Way of Cursive", presentation at the "Net(of)Words: Language, writing and culture in Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East" [SPA], University of Barcelona, E. Alleva, 15-16/06/2026
- "Tell Ta'annek in 1904 and Bedřich Hrozný's Journey through Palestine and Egypt", presentation at the University of Vienna, Š. Velhartická, 10/06/2026
- "The Phrygian alphabet and the spread of the alphabet", seminar for VIEWS, Cambridge, S. Elti di Rodeano, 10/06/2026
- "Contacts and transmission of territory concepts through writing", presentation for VIEWS, Cambridge, S. Elti di Rodeano, 31/05/2026
- "Il concetto di territorio nell'Anatolia antica", presentation at the Doctoral Week, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, S. Elti di Rodeano, 15/05/2026
- "Polivalency and a new semiotic framework for writing systems", presentation for VIEWS, Cambridge, S. Elti di Rodeano, 7/05/2026
- "A Reassessment of the Archaeological Excavation Methods of Bedřich Hrozný in Syria and Türkiye in the 1920s", Archäologisches Zentrum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Š. Velhartická, 6-8/05/2026
- "Die althethitische Literatur in neuem Licht: Zu den Prinzipien der Überlieferung der Keilschrift nach Anatolien", presentation at the University of Marburg, Š. Velhartická
- "Old Hittite Literature in Translation?", presentation at the Universität Zürich, Š. Velhartická
- Phrygian Reading Group, E. Alleva, Hilary Term 2026, Oxford
- "Echoes of Ugarit: What Happened to the People?", presentation at ASOR Annual Meeting, Boston, N. Lovejoy, 19-22/11/2025
- “Visualizing Communication in Ancient Anatolia”, team presentation, 22/10/2025
- “Anatolian Hieroglyphic Classifiers” [POL], A. Payne, 23-25/06/2025, Warsaw
- "La narrativa degli Stati Neo-ittiti: riflessioni sulle teorie narratologiche applicate ai testi in luvio geroglifico", S. Elti di Rodeano, Pomeriggio della Ricerca (Venice), 18/06/2025
- “Lydian Epigraphy”, lecture series by A. Payne, 16/06/2025, Oxford CSAD
- “Lydian Bilinguals”, lecture series by A. Payne, 9/06/2025, Oxford Linguistics
- National Geographic special issue - The Hittites, Š. Velhartická provided review and proofs of the Czech edition of the National Geographic journal with the main topic “The Hittites”
- "Script, Language, and the Making of Identities in Syro-Anatolian Communities", N. Lovejoy for the Ancient Anatolia Network & Ancient World Research Cluster (Oxford), 19/05/2025
- "...e gli armeni, che sono colòni dei frigi (Hdt. 7, 73). La traccia di una suggestione dalla storia classica", E. Alleva, XVIII Giornata di studi armeni e caucasici (Venice) [ITA], 15/05/2025
- “Neo-Hittite Identities”, A. Payne, Halle, 27/03/2025
- Talk given by Š. Velhartická at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi, Türkiye, 25/02/2025
- Talk given by Š. Velhartická at the conference at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin (Publizistik & Polemik. „Rethinking Governance in the Ancient Near East”)
- Exhibition in Bedřich Hrozný Museum in Lysá nad Labem: "The 100th Anniversary of Bedřich Hrozný’s Archaeological Excavations in Syria and Türkiye", Š. Velhartická
- Visiting Fellowship for Eastern Term 2026, VIEWS Project, Cambridge, S. Elti di Rodeano
- “Luwian hieroglyphs: Initiation”, “Hittite I: Initiation”, S. Elti di Rodeano, Summer School in Oriental Languages 2025, Venice
- "Phoenician(s) in the Syro-Anatolian Region", N. Lovejoy, ASOR Annual Meeting, Boston, 20-23/11/2024
- “Hieroglyphs and their attachment styles” [DEU], A. Payne, 12/11/2024, Vienna
- “Drawing a Picture of the Ancient Mind”, lecture series by A. Payne, 30/10/2024, Oxford Torch
- “Classifiers in Anatolian Hieroglyphic”, A. Payne, 23/10/2024, Grapholinguistics Conference, Venice
- “Writing Systems of Anatolia”, lecture series by A. Payne, 18-22/06/2024, Oxford Torch
- “Hieroglyhic Luwian”, lecture series by A. Payne, 17/06/2024, Oxford Anatolia Network
- “Writing & Meta-Writing”, lecture series by A. Payne, 7/03/2024, Helsinki
- “Hieroglyphs as Second Writing System”, lecture series by A. Payne, 1/03/2024, Bern
- “Dating Lydian Inscriptions”, lecture series by A. Payne, 20/02/2024, Pavia
- After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations Book Release: respondant and discussant given by N. Lovejoy