The Fourteenth Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture
This year’s lecture will be delivered on the theme, “The other caravan cities: transport, capital, and inequality in the Egyptian oases.”
This year’s lecture will be delivered on the theme, “The other caravan cities: transport, capital, and inequality in the Egyptian oases.”
Premodern Language Lab Mick Hunter, and the Intro to Literary Chinese course (CHNS 170/570). The goal of these language labs is simply to learn about what’s happening in premodern language courses at Yale and also to provide a venue for sharing feedback and ideas.
Join us for our second lecture of the 2020-2021 ASW lecture series! Professor David Brick, University of Michigan, Professor of Sanskrit Literature will be presenting his talk titled “Widows Under Hindu Law: An Overview”
Come and hear about our new initiatives for the year, including our flagship lecture series (Ancient Societies) and core seminar on ”Law and Historiography”, led by Professors Maria Doerfler and Travis Zadeh, as well as our second core seminar, “Sociolinguistics of the Ancient World”, taught by
Cécile Morrisson, CNRS and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, “Auro, argento, aere perennius: Byzantine Art in and through Coins 4th-15th Centuries.”
Respondent: Noel Lenski, Yale
Sean Leatherbury, University College, Dublin, “From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria”
Respondent: Örgü Dalgıç, Yale
Zoom registration link forthcoming.
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art
Michele Bacci, University of Fribourg, “The Nativity Church in Bethlehem in the Light of Recent Restorations”
Respondent: Ariel Fine, Yale
Zoom registration link forthcoming.
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art
Liz James, University of Sussex, “What do Mosaics Want? Or, Wall Mosaics and the Space between Viewer and Viewed.”
Respondent: Rob Nelson, Yale
This lecture will be delivered via Zoom.
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art
Christina Maranci, Tufts University, “Everlasting Monument” [արձան մշտնջենաւոր]: Ani Cathedral and its Contexts.”
Respondent: Vasileios Marinis, Yale
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art