Babylon@Brown: Public Lectures

Schedule of Public Lectures and Seminars:

Babylon@Brown will feature public lectures with six prominent scholars of the Ancient Near East. All the lectures are free and open to the public.

Fall 2013

Lecture by Eleanor Robson Reading Cuneiform in Ancient Mesopotamia and Modern Iraq
November 7th, 2013 (Thursday) 6:30 pm (RI Hall 108)

Lecture by Alessandra Gilibert Urban Form and Civic Spectacle in Early Iron Age Northern Syria: The Case of Tell Halaf around 900 BCE
December 4th, 2013 (Wednesday) 5:30 pm (RI Hall 108)

Spring 2014

Lecture by Claudia Glatz Landscapes in the Making: Hittite Strategies, Local Contexts and Archaeological Practice
February 11th, 2014 (Tuesday) 6:30 pm (RI Hall 108)

Lecture by Melissa Eppihimer Three Sargons, Four Naram-Sins: History in Mesopotamian Art and the Historiography of Mesopotamian Art History
March 17th, 2014 (Monday) 5:30 pm (RI Hall 108)

Lecture by Marian Feldman The Inscription of Identity and Memory on Iron Age “Phoenician” Metal Bowls, c. 1000-600 BCE
April 7th, 2014 (Monday) 4:30 pm (RI Hall 108)

Lecture by Francesca Rochberg The Babylonians and the Rational: Analogical Reasoning in Contexts of Rationality
April 10th, 2014 (Thursday) 6:30 pm (RI Hall 108)