Regine Pruzsinszky from University of Freiburg will lecture on “More than Just Music: Thoughts on Musicians in Ancient Near Eastern Society” on Wednesday, March 4 at 5:30 p.m. in Gilman 130G (Near Eastern Studies Seminar Room).

Attend a lecture with Dr. Virginia Herrmann of Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen on February 27, 5:30 pm, in Gilman 130G. She will present the lecture In the Midst of Mighty Kings: Urbanization and Trade at Bronze and Iron Age Zincirli, Turkey.

Join Near Eastern Studies February 10 for a public lecture, “Buying, Selling, and Displaying Pharaonic Egypt in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” Tom Hardwick is the Consulting Curator of Egyptology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. “Buying, Selling, and Displaying Pharaonic Egypt in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” Monday, February 10, 2020 […]

Congratulations to Michael Harrower! His excavations at Beta Samati in Ethiopia, an important Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite site, are featured on CNN.

Victoria Jensen from University of California – Berkeley will be giving a lecture “The Cemeteries of Deir el-Ballas: Non-elite burials of the 17th-19th Dynasties and their relationship to the royal palace” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, November 14 at Gilman Hall – Room 130G (Near Eastern Studies Seminar Room).

Join us on Monday, Nov. 4 for the 2019 Samuel Iwry Lecture. Esther J. Hamori, associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary, presents, "The Biblical God and His Entourage of Monsters," at 5:30 p.m. in Mudd Hall 26. Professor Hamori will be available at 5 p.m. for coffee before the lecture.

Anne Porter, from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, will present, "A Tale of Two Tells: Monuments of the Dead as Political History" on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 5:30 p.m. in Gilman 130G (Near Eastern Studies Seminar Room).

Dr. Liat Naeh, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will present, "Rebuilding the Lost Ivory Throne: New Evidence from the Southern Levant in the 2nd Millennium BCE" on Thursday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Gilman 130G (Near Eastern Studies Seminar Room). The event is presented by the departments of Near Eastern Studies and History of Art.

Dr. Matthew Suriano, associate professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures at the University of Maryland, will present the 2019 Asher Achinstein Lecture on Wednesday, April 24 at 5:30 p.m. The title of the talk is, "Tombs Remembered - Tombs Forgotten: A Study of Jerusalem's Monumental Tombs During the First Millennium BCE." The event will be held in Maryland Hall 110.

Join Dr. Kasia Szpakowska, associate professor of Egyptology at Swansea University, for a lecture on April 18 at 5:30 p.m. in Gilman Hall 130G (Near Eastern Studies Seminar Room). The title of her talk is, "Demons in the Dark: Nightmares in Ancient Egypt."