On January 10, 2022, we held our last meeting of this semester's seminar on Sumerian and Akkadian laments. Due to the pandemic situation we unfortunately had to meet through zoom and not in person, but it was great seeing everyone! Our project is interested in ritual and in scholarship. Most of the seminar was dedicated to the former topic: ritual. But in the last meeting we looked at the relationship between the rituals we met so far and ancient scholarship, introducing the topic of our seminar next year which will deal specifically with scholarship.