NELC Roundtable

2025

"Beyond Tombs: Mastabas for the Living at North Saqqara" a lecture by Sergio Alarcon-Robledo, and "When Stars Die for Heraclitus: An Arabic Gloss on Aristotle and Its Neoplatonic Background" a lecture by Max Bergamo

November 14, 2025 - 10:15am

"Cartographer, Illustrator, or Worldmaker?: Copying the Most Popular Arabic Manuscript World Map", a lecture by Jonas Burkhard and "Sulaymān ibn Tarkhān's Account of the Events Leading to Muḥammad's Hijra", a lecture by Yaara Perlman

October 13, 2025 - 12:00pm

“The Collection of Mozarabic Documents from Toledo (12th-13th c.): A Reassessment”, a lecture by Dr. Ignacio Sánchez, a visiting researcher at the Beinecke Library.

September 11, 2025 - 1:30pm

Arabic Manuscripts; Mesopotamian Exorcist's Ritual Speech; and The Planet Venus in Mesopotamia

May 1, 2025 - 1:00pm

A NELC Roundtable featuring Egyptology students presentations

April 15, 2025 - 1:00pm

"The role of Technology in Empowering Digital Epigraphy" by Alberto Urcia, and "Between Two Times" by Mike Tritsch

April 1, 2025 - 1:00pm

"Pre-modern Arabic Sexology: Overview & Selected Greatest Hits", a lecture by Jeremy Kurzyniec

February 21, 2025 - 3:00pm

"The Prophet on the Eve of Revelation: Portrayals of Pre-Islamic Monotheism in Arabic Historiography"

January 28, 2025 - 1:30pm

2024

“Plague, Drought, and Social Change in 17th-Century Morocco” and “Deir el-Ballad: Past, Present, and Future Research of a Palatial Settlement.”

November 8, 2024 - 1:00pm

“Learning Coptic in Arabic, The 13th-Century Muqaddimat for the Coptic language.”

October 11, 2024 - 1:00pm

A special NELC Roundtable presentation/panelfeaturing job search tips, experiences, and the job search process.

April 12, 2024 - 2:00pm

“Neferuptah’s Double Burial and the Role of Royal Women in Egypt’s 12th Dynasty”, and “‘Seeing the Perfection of Hathor’: Desert Shrines and Private Religious Practices.”

April 9, 2024 - 12:30pm

“Presenting the Coptos Decrees Project along with Some Recent Findings.”

March 29, 2024 - 12:30pm

“The Wander and the Wonder: Treatment of the Womb in Some Graeco-Arabic Sources,” and “The Ascent and Descent of the Soul: A Case Study of the Late Antique Reception of Heraclitus.”

March 7, 2024 - 12:30pm

"Excerpts of MUL.APIN in the Neo-Assyrian Period," and "Who is King of the World? On the Identity of šar gimir dadmē in Erra I 1."

February 29, 2024 - 2:00pm

2023

"Emad Abu Saleh's 2015 'He was asleep when the revolution came' and the contradictions of Egyptian liberalism," and "Rock Inscriptions in Network: Much-Travelled Officials in the Old Kingdom Eastern Desert."

November 9, 2023 - 1:00pm

"The Prophetic Pāqidu: Resonances of the Cult of Dead King in Isaiah and Jeremiah", and "Rock Inscriptions in Network: Much-Travelled Officials in the Old Kingdom Eastern Desert."

October 26, 2023 - 1:00pm

Rituals as Texts in Antiquity and Today" by E. Koubkova and "Cultural Cannibalism" by Eli Tadmor

May 9, 2023 - 1:00pm

"Lining the Path to Death: Osiride Statuary of the Early Middle Kingdom," and "Ancient Egyptian Pest Control: P. Ebers and its Archaeological Context."

April 12, 2023 - 12:00pm

"Grumpy Grammarians and Language Lost", and "Describing Coptic in Arabic"

March 8, 2023 - 1:00pm

Life in field: Updates and insights from the recent fieldwork at Tell Edfu in Egypt.

February 1, 2023 - 1:00pm

2022

NELC Roundtable: "Perspectives on Teaching" by Prof. Benjamin Foster

December 8, 2022 - 1:00pm

Overview of Arabic papyrology

April 6, 2022 - 1:30pm

Making Numerous the Herds: Ancient Egyptian Veterinary Medicine

April 6, 2022 - 1:00pm

Retelling Scripture: Intertextual References in the Quran and the Quranic Audience

March 9, 2022 - 1:30pm