The visit of the Italian Ambassador to the Slemani Museum

February 20, 2022, his excellency Mr. Maurizio Greganti, the Italian ambassador to Iraq, together with Mr. Michele Camerota, the Italian consul in Erbil, Ms. Giulia Mazzara, first secretary at the Italian Embassy, colonel Luigi Sambin, the military attaché of the Italian Embassy, and Mr. Hajar Khoshnaw, the assistant to the Italian consul in Erbil, visited the Slemani Museum.

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THE OPENING OF THE NEW NARSEH GALLERY AT THE SLEMANI MUSEUM

On the 24th of October, the new exhibition hall, “King Narseh Gallery,” dedicated to the five monumental sculptures of the Sassanian sovereign Narseh coming from the site of Paikuli, was inaugurated at the Slemani Museum (Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Iraq).

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THE DIADEM OF NARSEH: POWER AND ROYALTY IN IRAQI KURDISTAN

On Tuesday, 10th November 2020, the Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI) presented the material developed by the Sapienza students involved with its laboratory at the Museum of Classical Art (Faculty of Humanities – Sapienza University of Rome).

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LA CITTADELLA: FASCINAZIONI DELL’ANTICA ERBIL, CUORE DEL KURDISTAN IN IRAQ

MAIKI organised the exhibition “La Cittadella: Fascinazioni dell’antica Erbil, cuore del Kurdistan in Iraq” in collaboration with HCECR, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, MAECI and Istituto Internazionale di cultura Kurda. Rome 4th -12th November 2014

ITALIAN CULTURAL AND ARCHEOLOGICAL COOPERATION IN IRAQ

MAIKI organised the conference “Italian Cultural and Archeological Cooperation in Iraq”
in collaboration with the Italian Consulate in Erbil, FGTecnopolo and Studio 3R. Erbil 1st-2nd April 2012

Maiki members participated or will participate in the following conferences

  • History, Philology and Archaeology of Zoroastrianism, International Conference, Institut francais du Proche-Orient e Ghent University, Erbil 23-24, 11, 2021.

  • Congresso di Archeologia del Paesaggio e di Geografia Storica del Vicino Oriente, Sapienza Università di Roma (Roma, 05-08, 10, 2021).

  • 12th ICAANE-International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Bologna, 6-9, 4, 2021).

  • American School of Oriental Research Virtual Annual Meeting (17-19, 11, 2020)

  • Endangered Cultural Heritage Protection and Enhancement of the Duhok Region Archaeological Heritage – Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Università di Udine e Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Roma 29, 1, 2020).

  • Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 9), Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin 9-13, 9, 2019).

  • Ancient Armenia in Context, II BCE-III CE (Münster, 26-28, 6, 2019).

  • Lecture at The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts – Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures Universität Hamburg (Hamburg 24, 6, 2019).

  • 3rd International Scientific Conference; Archaeology and Heritage of Kurdistan, Salahaddin University (Erbil 29-30, 4, 2019).

  • Ciclo conferenze 2019 ISMEO (Roma 31, 1, 2019)

  • American School of Oriental Research Annual Meeting 2017, Boston, 18-21, 11, 2017.

  • AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH ANNUAL MEETING, San Antonio, 16-19 Novembre 2016, American Schools of Oriental Research.

  • 10th ICAANE, Vienna, 25-29 Aprile 2016, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology Austrian Academy of Sciences.

  • AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH ANNUAL MEETING, Atlanta, 18-21 Novembre 2015, American Schools of Oriental Research

  • 8TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES, San Pietroburgo, 15-19 Settembre 2015, SIE – Societas Iranologica Europea.

  • THIRD INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE 2014, Roma, 17-20 Settembre 2014, CLUE – Research Institute for Heritage and History of Cultural Landscape and Urban Enviromental.

  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: ANCIENT ARBELA. PRE-ISLAMIC HISTORY OF ERBIL, Erbil, 7-10 Aprile 2014, FIME – Finnish Institute in the Middle East, IFPO – Institut français du Proche-Orient e Salahaddin University.

  • ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ AND THE ADJACENT AREAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Athens, 1-3 Novembre 2013, University of Athens & University of Cambridge.

  • RENCONTRE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE IRAKIENNE. NOUVELLES DÉCOUVERTES, NOUVEAUX PROJETS, Erbil, 31 Ottobre – 2 Novembre 2011, IFPO e Salahaddin University.

  • 7TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES, Cracovia, 7-10 Settembre 2011, SIE – Societas Iranologica Europea

DA BENI CULTURALI A BENI COMUNI

Round table organised within SAVE 2015. Rome 5th June 2015

MUTAMENTI GEOPOLITICI IN MEDIO ORIENTE: LA QUESTIONE KURDA

Termoli, 15 Marzo 2015.

MUTAMENTI GEOPOLITICI IN MEDIO ORIENTE: SHENGAL E KOBANE LE FUTURE PROSPETTIVE DEL KURDISTAN

Torino, Palazzo Civico, 19 Gennaio 2015.

LA CITTADELLA, FASCINAZIONI DALL’ANTICA ERBIL CUORE DEL KURDISTAN IN IRAQ

Ciclo di conferenze legate all’omonima mostra, Roma, Palazzo Mattei di Paganica, 3-14 novembre 2014.

YEZIDI E CRISTIANI, ENNESIMO GENOCIDIO IN KURDISTAN

Roma, Palazzo di Montecitorio, 30 Settembre 2014.

KURDISTAN RACCONTA

Roma, Domus Pacis, 6 Maggio 2014.