This four-day workshop, hosted by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and organized in collaboration with the Israel Science Foundation, brings together two IIAS Research Groups:If they can recover some Phoenician oral poetry, I will be impressed.• Phoenician Identity in the Making: A Longue Durée Perspective (Prof. Naama Yahalom-Mack and Prof. Alexander Fantalkin) — exploring the processes that shaped Phoenician identity over the long term, across different regions and periods.
• Can We Hear Anymore the Voice of Singing Men and Women? Recovering Phoenician Oral Poetry (Prof. Noam Mizrahi and Prof. Andrea Rotstein) — reconstructing aspects of lost Phoenician poetic traditions and their impact on neighboring cultures in the ancient Mediterranean.The workshop will convene scholars from archaeology, history, philology, literary studies and exact sciences to discuss new multidisciplinary approaches to Phoenician history, literature, and cultural transmission.
The workshop takes place on 2-4 February 2026 at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For further particulars, follow the link.
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