NELC Roundtable

2024

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

Lexical Borrowings and the Qurʾān's Social Environment(s): Reassessing The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān'

March 9, 2022 - 1:00pm

The Erra Complex: The Erra Epic, Narcissism, and the Universal

February 16, 2022 - 1:30pm

The Voice and Body of Biblical Poetry

February 16, 2022 - 1:00pm

2021

State power and those who wield it in Tanūkhī’s Relief after Hardship,

December 8, 2021 - 11:00pm

Fatima's Inheritance: An Episode of Early Modern Indian Ocean Trade Between Islamic Law and Natural Law

December 8, 2021 - 12:30pm

The Emergence of Egypt's Southern City: Preliminary New Kingdom Domestic Findings in the Mut Precinct

October 27, 2021 - 12:30pm

Tizpatum: Princess, Petitioner, Prisoner

October 27, 2021 - 12:00pm

2020

How to become an exorcist in ancient Mesopotamia: On ritual purity, the power of words, and divine embodimen

September 28, 2020 - 1:30pm

Losing the Plot in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Poetics of the Maqāma Rūmiyya within the Breakdown of Pan-Ottoman Sociability

September 28, 2020 - 1:00pm

Choices in Translation

February 24, 2020 - 1:15pm