Researching gender in the Ancient Near East
Over the Summer I participated in the Ancient Language Processing workshop in Varna. The workshop focuses on using computational linguistics to explore ancient language corpora. I wrote a paper with Aleksi Sahala where we used word embeddings to find words in a Neo-Assyrian corpus that had a similar usage profile to words relating to the …
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I just had wonderful news that my article “Age and Masculinities during the Neo-Assyrian Period” has been published in the excellent Journal of Cuneiform Studies! You can see find it on their website. In it, I give a brief overview of the sociological theories behind ageing, and how ancient Near Eastern scholars have studied age …
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Ellie Bennett