On January 20, 1942, 15 high ranking German officers gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin for a clandestine meeting that would ultimately seal the fate of the […]

Ralph Hanna, Professor of Paleography and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University “The Matter of Fulk: Romance and History in Fourteenth-Century Shropshire” Fouke le Fitz Waryn, an Anglo-Norman prose text […]

Since the beginnings of archaeological research in Ephesos, inscriptions have played a central role as an essential source for the analysis of its socio-historical milieu. Their archaeological context, however, has […]

Prof. Robert Davis (Ohio State University) will present a chapter of his new research project entitled "Counting slaves in the Early Modern Mediterranean." The chapter will be distributed in advance […]

Following his 12-2 p.m. seminar, Prof. Davis will give a talk on "The Celebration of Slavery in the Christian-Muslim World." Refreshments will be served around 5:30. Robert Davis is professor […]

The so-called Magnesian Gate is a component of the oldest city walls of Ephesos, which date to the Hellenistic period and served as the main entry into the city until […]

Margaret Weir is the author of Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States (1992), and The Social Divide (1998). She is now working on a […]

The Athenian playwright Aeschylus (?525-456 BC), author of more than seventy plays, was also a veteran of the Greek-Persian Wars of 490-479 BC. Aeschylus fought at both the land battle […]

The CMES 10th Annual Middle East Studies Conference Scholars will present papers offering in-depth analyses of sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia. The theme of the 10th Annual […]

The documentary film "Massacre at Nueva Linda" documents the 2004 massacre of a community protesting in Guatemala. Over two hundred families were violently evicted by over 1,000 police and armed […]