Draft Programme for 2011 Conference
Booking form for Conference 1-3 December 2011
Call for Papers for 2011 Conference
Conference video made by the BBC World Service Arabic (in Arabic)
ICONEA was created by Richard Dumbrill and Irving Finkel in 2007 and held its first conference at the British Museum in December 2008 in partnership with the Department of the Middle East. The theme of the conference was General Mesopotamian Archaeomusicology. Please visit: www.iconea.org official site of ICONEA and www.icobase.com which is the database administered by ICONEA.
The event was very successful and a volume of the proceedings was published http://www.iconea.org/?cat=5
The academic board of ICONEA was constituted, with the following scholars:
Irving Finkel, British Museum, Assyriology; Dominique Collon, British Museum, Iconography; Theo Krispijn, Sumerology, University of Leiden; Frédéric Billiet, Sorbonne University, Paris; Siam Bhayro, University of Exeter, Early Jewish studies; Roberto Melini, University of Trento, Roman musicology; Amin Beyhom, Sorbonne University, Mediaeval Arabian theory; Myriam Marcetteau, Mari musicology; Margaux Bousquet, Elamite musicology; Richard Dumbrill, Mesopotamian theory and organology. John Irving , Institute of Musical Research, has joined the Academic Board.
The second conference of ICONEA was held in 2009 at the Sorbonne in Paris in partnership with the UFR of music and musicology of the Sorbonne directed by Frédéric Billiet. The theme was on Comparative organology-philology of the Sumerian instrumentarium.
The third conference will take place at Senate House on 15-17 December 2010 on the theme of the Musical Exchanges between Ancient Egypt and the Near-East during, before and after the Hyksos Kings.
ICONEA is planning future conferences in Iran, Turkey, Israel and Lebanon.
ICONEA aims at reconstructing musical instruments of the Mesopotamian instrumentarium and has already produced a replica of the Sumerian silver Lyre the original of which being hosted at the Museum. This was part of Myriam Marcetteau’s post doctoral research under the supervision of Richard Dumbrill. A replica of an Elamite harp from a mural at the British Museum is currently being made as part of Margaux Bousquet’s doctoral thesis under the direction of Richard Dumbrill as thesis co-director. Other instruments have been replicated such as various Sumerian and Babylonian lutes, a Sumerian bow-harp, etc. These instruments will be made available for research students.
ICONEA is already affiliated to other research groups, one directed by Amin Beyhom as well as with Patrimoines et Languages Musicaux at the Université de la Sorbonne.
