On Tuesday, Nov. 28, Dr. Martin Worthington, University of Cambridge, will present the lecture, “Ancient Mesopotamia Was All About Writing. Or Was It?” at 5:30 p.m. in Gilman Hall 130G, the Near Eastern Studies seminar room.

Join us at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9 for “How Did the Egyptians Learn Cuneiform? The Amarna Archive Reconsidered,” a lecture by Dr. Jana Mynářová of Charles University in Prague. The event will be held in Gilman Hall 130G.

The 2017 Samuel Iwry Lecture presents Sidnie White Crawford, Willa Cather professor of classics and religious studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, on Monday, Oct. 30 at 5:30 p.m. in Mudd Hall 26. Professor Crawford will deliver the lecture, “What the Dead Sea Scrolls Teach Us About the Bible.” Please join Professor Crawford for coffee before the lecture at 5 p.m.

Join us in Mudd Hall 26 on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. to hear Salima Ikram give the lecture, “Food and Feasting in Pharaonic Egypt.” Dr. Ikram is a visiting professor in Near Eastern languages and civilization at Yale University and a distinguished professor at American University in Cairo.

Congratulations to our Near Eastern Studies graduates: Ashley Arico (Egyptology), Joshua Bowen (Assyriology), Katherine Davis (Egyptology), Meredith Fraser (Egyptology), John (TJ) Thames (Hebrew Bible/NW Semitics), and Laura Wright (Hebrew Bible/NW Semitics).

The 2017 ANSHE Lecture will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 6 in Gilman Hall 50. Dr. Ellen F. Morris, Department of Classics and Ancient Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University, will present, “Prevention Through Deterrence BCE: Pharaonic Border Control and the Structural Violence of a Weaponized Desert.” A pre-lecture reception will be held at 5 p.m., and a reception will follow the lecture in the Gilman Atrium.

Join us at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 31 in Gilman Hall 50 (Marjorie Fisher Auditorium) for the 2016 Samuel Iwry Lecture. The lecture, titled, “Ancient Israelite Scribal Education: New Insights from Kuntillet Ajrud,” will be given by William M. Schniedewind, Kershaw Professor of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Please join Professor Schniedewind for coffee before the lecture at 5 p.m.

– Professor Ted Lewis has been awarded the 2016 Excellence in Faculty Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award sponsored by the Dean’s office of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. – Katherine Davis, PhD candidate in Egyptology, has received a two-year lecturer position in Egyptology in the Near Eastern Studies Department at the University of […]