Research on language, culture and the historical worlds of Iraq.
Discover two planned research projects in the IBIRC Press programme. These are proposed volumes, not published books; titles, covers and chapter themes remain subject to editorial development. No publication date or acceptance is announced.
PLANNED · PROPOSAL STAGEAI and the Ancient Languages of Iraq
Learning, Decipherment and Digital Philology
A proposed research-led edited volume exploring how artificial intelligence can support the study and learning of Sumerian and Akkadian, with carefully scoped comparative work on other historical languages of Iraq. It brings language pedagogy into dialogue with Assyriology, computational linguistics and digital heritage.
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PLANNED · PROPOSAL STAGEIraqi Songs and Social Memory
Literary Criticism, Translation and Historical Perspectives
A proposed scholarly edited volume examining Iraqi songs as literary texts, performances and sources of social memory. Close reading and critical translation would connect selected repertoires to everyday life, place, identity, labour, migration and historical change, with carefully evidenced comparisons to ancient Mesopotamian social and musical traditions.
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