Dr. Frank Simons, a post-doctoral fellow in Assyriology at Trinity College Dublin, will be giving a lecture this Tuesday (April 30th) from 5-6:30 in Gilman 130G (the Near Eastern Studies Seminar Room), entitled: "The Mesopotamian Incantation Series 'Shurpu': Ritual Burning at the Intersection of Magic and Medicine".
The theme of the Lavy Colloquium is Jewish Monumentality. Welcome and Opening Remarks is at 9:00am on Monday, May 6. This event is open to the public. All sessions will take place at the Smokler Center for Jewish Life at Johns Hopkins University, 3109 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.
University no meeting day We encourage everyone to observe the no-meeting days (focus days) we have set for the school this year.
Early Closure Schedule: Faculty and staff of the Krieger School may leave at noon on the following dates to get an early start on holiday breaks. As usual, if there are priority projects that need to get done, supervisors have the discretion to allow staff to use this time on another more convenient day. 2023 […]
University no meeting day We encourage everyone to observe the no-meeting days (focus days) we have set for the school this year.
Early Closure Schedule: Faculty and staff of the Krieger School may leave at noon on the following dates to get an early start on holiday breaks. As usual, if there are priority projects that need to get done, supervisors have the discretion to allow staff to use this time on another more convenient day. 2023 […]
University no meeting day We encourage everyone to observe the no-meeting days (focus days) we have set for the school this year.
Early Closure Schedule: Faculty and staff of the Krieger School may leave at noon on the following dates to get an early start on holiday breaks. As usual, if there are priority projects that need to get done, supervisors have the discretion to allow staff to use this time on another more convenient day. 2023 […]
The Classics Department welcomes Josephine Crawley Quinn, Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics at Worcester College, University of Oxford, as she reads from her paradigm-shifting book How the World Made the West: a 4,000-Year History followed by Q&A about cultural interactions, history, or even how to reach wider publics through our scholarly work. […]
Join us for a screening and discussion of “Spinoza: Six Reasons for The Excommunication of the Philosopher.”
Rethinking the Female Body in the Hebrew Bible The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies presents Dr. Rhiannon Graybill of the University of Richmond The Hebrew Bible is filled with peculiar, striking metaphorical representations of THE female body. A woman is (like) a land or landscape. At the same time, the land […]
Professor Pierre Destrée (University of Louvain) gives a talk titled "On the Value of Comedy. Aristotle and the Second Book of the Poetics" in Gilman 108. Abstract: "This paper attempts to reconstruct the main points of the lost Poetics II on comedy. I will argue that there is no reason to think that, contrary to the […]