The Middle East Studies Association’s Annual Meeting will be held in Boston on Sunday, November 30th, beginning at noon.
Karen Foster (Yale University) will moderate a discussion panel on “Edward Salisbury and the Ancient Near East” by Benjamin R.
Karim Jabbari will paint a mural with the assistance of art students.
Karim Jabbari, a Tunisian calligraffiti and light artist, is considered one of the most respected light calligraffiti artists in the world. Karim began his artistic journey at the tender age of twelve.
Please join us for the next Greco-Roman Lunch on Monday, October 3. François Gerardin (History) will give a talk entitled “Euergetis: A πόλις κτιζομένη in Egypt in the 2nd century B. C.”
Please join us for our next Agrarian Studies colloquium this coming Friday, September 30. We will hear from Kathryn de Luna, an environmental historian at Georgetown.
A conversation with James Montgomery (Sir Thomas Adams’ Professor of Arabic, University of Cambridge) and Christopher Minkowski (Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford), moderated by Kishwar Rizvi (Associate Professor of History of Art, Yale) on Thrusday, September 29th at 4 pm.
The Yale Maya Lecture Series presents “The Groiler Codex: A Voice from the 13th Century” by Michael D. Coe (Charles J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Yale) on September 30th at noon.
Yale’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Assyriological seminar present “Be My Baby in Babylonia: Two Incantations in the Schøyen Collection,” a lecture by Andrew George on Friday, Sept. 30th at 3:00 in HGS 211.
