NELC Lecture Series

2024

How the Ancient Egyptians interacted with the monuments of their ancestors. Graffiti in the rock tombs of Middle Egypt

February 28, 2024 - 4:00pm

Spectrums of Power: Kingship and Divinity in Three Standard and Enigmatic Hieroglyphic Inscriptions.

February 21, 2024 - 4:00pm

Rethinking Literacy: A Semiotic Approach to Ancient Egyptian Royal Inscriptions

February 14, 2024 - 4:00pm

Landscape Laboratory: New Research in the Epigraphy and Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert

February 7, 2024 - 4:00pm

2021

Fir‘awn Dhi l-Awtad: Thoughts on Pyramids in the Qur'an and What's A(t) Stake

November 17, 2021 - 12:00pm

2019

The Intellectual Biography of an Early-Modern Reader: Murad III (r. 1574-1595)

April 24, 2019 - 4:30pm

From Armenia to Arabia: The Emergence and Transmission of the Concept of Military Martyrdom

April 8, 2019 - 5:00pm

NELC lecture series: Experiencing Egyptian Rock Arts from our Living Room

February 20, 2019 - 4:30pm

2016

Moral Instruction & Narrative Strategies in Arabic Mirrors for Princes

November 28, 2016 - 5:00pm

The Catalogue of Ibn al-Nadim: Knowledge and the World Viewed from 10th-Century Baghdad

October 27, 2016 - 4:00pm

The New Persian Language of the Arab Colonists in Colonial Islamic Khurasan

October 17, 2016 - 4:00pm

Animal Classification in Ancient Near Eastern Scripts: Between Hieroglyphs and Cuneiform

October 10, 2016 - 5:00pm

The Egyptian Colony in Avaris During the Hyskos Period

October 5, 2016 - 5:00pm

The Story of Studying Hebrew in Medieval and Renaissance England

April 27, 2016 - 5:30pm

2014

Cuneiform Scholars and Their Gods

February 11, 2014 - 4:00pm

Recent Excavations at Nineveh

January 27, 2014 - 4:00pm

2013

The Unnamed Agents of the Arabic Book Revolution

February 27, 2013 - 4:00pm

2012

Textile Production in the Aegean Bronze Age: Texts, Tools, Terminology, and Time

April 23, 2012 - 4:00pm

Narratives of the fall of Baghdad in 1258 C.E.

February 16, 2012 - 4:00pm

It is All About Time: Time and Logistics in War and in Peace

January 27, 2012 - 12:00pm