Department of Near Eastern Studies

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Baltimore Society of The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) welcomes Shane Thompson (North Carolina Wesleyan University) for a talk titled "Egyptian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders and Cultural Hegemony […]

Sanchita Balachandran, Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute, will give a talk at the Walters Art Museum on Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 6–7:30pm. Registration for event here. […]

The Classics Department welcomes Dr. Amy Russell, Associate Professor of History and Classics in the Department of History at Brown University, whose visionary work on The Politics of Public Space in […]

Professor Ted Gellar-Goad of Wake Forest University presents a lecture titled "Fractals and Queer Time in Plautus’ Epidicus" in Gilman 108. Abstract: "Plautus’ Epidicus, his second-shortest play, has what’s been described as […]

The Baltimore Society of The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) welcomes Travis Parno of Historic St. Mary's City for a talk titled "Unearthing St. Mary's 1634 Fort." The talk will […]