Events - 2013

The department regularly sponsors lectures and special events, a representative selection of which is listed here, searchable by 'Event Category'.

Numina victa: Preliminary Remarks on the "Naturalization" of Foreign Gods in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
NELC Roundtable
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 217-A
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Shana Zaia, Assyriology graduate student

The Graeco-Arabic Tradition of Metaph. Alpha Minor. Blueprint for a New Critical Edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Yale Arabic Colloquium
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Matteo Di Giovanni, Graduate Student, Dept. of NELC

The Arabic-Latin Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Alpha Minor
NELC Roundtable
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 217-A
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Matteo Di Giovanni

Charting the Hellenization of a Literary Culture: The Case of Syriac
Rosenthal Lectures
Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
Thursday, April 11, 2013

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University presents...

The K. W. and E. K. Rosenthal Memorial Lecture in Ancient and Near Eastern Civilizations
Dr. Sebastian P. Brock (Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford)"Charting the Hellenization of a Literary Culture: The Case of Syriac"

Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa — Proofs of Prophecy in Early Ḥadīth Literature
Yale Arabic Colloquium
Room 211 HGS
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Mareike Körtner, Yale University

Miracles of Prophecy: Folk Tales vs. Prophetic Tradition
Yale Arabic Colloquium
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Mareike Körtner, Graduate Student, Dept. of NELC

Divine Wonders and Royal Endeavors: Terminology and Functions of Royal Oracles During the New Kingdom
NELC Roundtable
Hall of Graduate Studies, 221
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Maria Gutiérrez

Name Word Play and Marduk's 50 Names in Enuma Elish
NELC Roundtable
Hall of Graduate Studies, 221
Thursday, April 4, 2013

David Danzig