Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasty (1190-945 BCE) funerary arts from Thebes find their origins within the social unrest of the Late Bronze Age. In Thebes, funerary preparations were challenged with […]

Prof. Nazym Shedenova Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty, Kazakhstan Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women […]

Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with […]

Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts, he will compare the […]

Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday, March 28. If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that […]

This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners, analysts, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology, and what this may mean for a […]

The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring […]

Faculty are invited to bring their classes. From 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the big screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local […]

In Roman antiquity as much as now, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian […]

Lecture I: An Integrated Cast in a Segregated AmericaThursday, April 7, 4 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250) On the Town (1944) was the first Broadway show of Leonard Bernstein […]