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University no meeting day We encourage everyone to observe the no-meeting days (focus days) we have set for the school this year.
University no meeting day We encourage everyone to observe the no-meeting days (focus days) we have set for the school this year.
The Near Eastern Studies Department is pleased to welcome Tallay Ornan for a Department Lecture, 'For Whose Eyes? Reflections on the Apotropaic and Beneficial visual imagery of the ancient Near East.' Abstract: The lecture will discuss the agentive approach of ancient Near Eastern iconography by focusing on its governing apotropaic characteristics. Since most visuals available […]
JHU KSAS Fall Break 2023 Per JHU KSAS Academic Calendar 2023-2024 https://registrar.jhu.edu/academic-calendar/
University no meeting day We encourage everyone to observe the no-meeting days (focus days) we have set for the school this year.
Three NES students present their research: Morganne Ottobre, “Between Two Cultures: Translation and Multimodality in the Tel Fekheriyeh Inscription” Faith Myrick, “Networking Seals: A Social Network Analysis Approach to Nuzi Cylinder Seals” Karlene Shippelhoute, “And Whatever You Need Put Down on a Tablet:” Aspects of Clay Temporality and Transformation on the Amarna Tablets”
Archaeological Institute of America – Baltimore Lecture Series presents Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University), 'Heritage Forensics: Satellites and Specters in the Contested Caucasus'. This talk will be held on Zoom. Link distributed in advance of the talk by email and postedon the AIA events calendar.
The Near Eastern Studies 2023 Samuel Iwry Lecture will be presented by Elaine James of Princeton Theological Seminary, 'Aesthetics and the Hebrew Bible: The Recycled Tabernacle.' Abstract: The Tabernacle texts (Exodus 25–31; 35–40) constitute the Hebrew Bible’s central example of exemplary creativity. The ritual space will be shiny with precious metals, colorful with woven fabrics […]
Join us for a museum chat presented by Michael Chapin, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Lucas Freire, graduate student.
Three NES students present their research: Alison Wilkinson, “An Unpublished Letter of Agreement from the Liverpool World Museum: O. LWM 55.82.100” Jay Weimar, “Passover, Bulls, Rabbis, and 1 Esdras: Evidence for Multiple Compositional Layers in 2 Chronicles 35:7–9” Laurel Poolman, “Empires, Sheep, and Shepherds: Animal Subsistence at Three Neo-Assyrian Provincial Centers”
The Near Eastern Studies Department is pleased to welcome Jana Mynářová for a Department Lecture.
University no meeting day We encourage everyone to observe the no-meeting days (focus days) we have set for the school this year.
Three NES students present their research: Mason Wilkes, “Houses, Neighborhoods, Complaints: An Emergent Topic in Sumerian Proverb Collection 2.” Jay Weimar, “Slobbering Seer or Sympathetic Rain Magic? Insights on the Biblical NṬP-Prophecy from Ancient South Arabian Texts.” Richard Essam, “The Prisms of House F”