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March 23-24, 2015, University Paris Diderot, Building Condorcet,  10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet 75013 Paris. Room 646A Mondrian. Maps and directions can be found here.The  International conference is co-organised by Christine Proust and John Steele and supported by the European project SAW (CNRS &#38; University Paris Diderot) and the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University. List of SpeakersMarch 23, 2015Philippe Clancier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) The Urukean scholars from the end of the Achaemenid period to the beginning of the Arsacid eraJohn Steele (Brown University) Astronomical Activity in the ‘House of the āšipus’ in UrukChristine Proust (Sphère, CNRS &#38; University Paris Diderot, SAW Project) Mathematical texts from the “House of āšipus” in UrukMathieu Ossendrijver (Humboldt University) Mathematical Practices in the Rēš templeMarch 24, 2015Hermann Hunger (University of Vienna) Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian UrukJulia Krul (Leiden University) “Star Anu, Lord of Heaven”: The influence of the celestial sciences on temple rituals in Hellen-istic Uruk and BabylonPaul-Alain Beaulieu (University of Toronto) Cross-fertilization between Greek and Babylonian Thought in Seleucid UrukAlexander Jones (New-York University) Uruk and the Greco-Roman World Full programme with abstracts