Monday, January 23, 2006
7:30 PM | 145 Dwinelle Hall
"Thieves of Baghdad: Investigating the 2003 Looting of the Iraq Museum"
A lecture, discussion, and book signing featuring Matthew Bogdanos, author of "Thieves of Baghdad" presented in conjunction with his book tour.
Co-sponsored by U.C. Berkeley and SAFE Saving Antiquities for Everyone
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
6:00 PM | 252 Barrows (just left of the Commons Room)
First Spring Semester Meeting
Come and hear about this semester full of museum trips, movie nights, language workshops and a possible falafel party...
Monday, February 6, 2006
5-6:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Arabic Language Workshop (1 of 2)
Learn the very basics of Arabic language and the cultures that use it.
Monday, February 13, 2006
5:30-6:30 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Arabic Language Workshop (2 of 2)
Learn MORE of the very basics of Arabic language and the cultures that use it.
Friday, February 17, 2006
12:00 AM | Landmark Act 1 & 2 (Center and Shattuck)
Movie Night
Midnight show of 'Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark'! Meet in front of the theater at 11pm.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
12:00-1:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
"Demonic Origins: Lilith in Ancient Mesopotamia"
Speaker Alhena Gadotti, Johns Hopkins University. Presented by the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. For information please contact Joel Rygorsky, rygorsky@berkeley.edu.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
4:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Get to Know the Near Eastern Studies Chair Daniel Boyarin
Dr. Boyarin will be discussing his life and work as NES Chair at UC Berkeley. Food will be provided.
Monday, February 27, 2006
5:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Akkadian Workshop (1 of 2) presented by Dr. John Hayes
Dr. Hayes will be lecturing about the Akkadian language, part of the Semitic language family, that uses the cuneiform writing system.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
5:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Akkadian Workshop (2 of 2) presented by Dr. John Hayes
Dr. Hayes will be lecturing about the Akkadian language, part of the Semitic language family, that uses the cuneiform writing system.
Thursday, March 2, 2006
6:00 PM | Movie Night (Off campus)
Movie Night 'Battle of Algiers'
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
4:30 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
An Afternoon with Professor Emeritus David Stronach
Dr. Stronach has led an incredibly diverse archaeological life. He has dug in Iraq, Israel, Iran, and Turkey. He will be sharing many anecdotal stories from his years in the field.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
7:30 PM | ARF 2251 College Building (behind Boalt Hall)
"Art and War at the Achaemenid Court"
A lecture by Michael Roaf, Prof. of Near Eastern Archaeology at Munich University and AIA Joukowsky lecturer.
This talk explores possible reasons why the Persian kings chose to display only non-confrontational imagery in their official art.
Co-sponsored with ARF, the Ancient Hellenic Arts Council, UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
7:30 PM | Morrison Library @ the North Entrance to the Doe Library
Celebrating Dahlia Ravikovitch 1936-2005
The life and work of this noted Israeli poet will be commemorated March 9 in an evening of words and music.
The program includes: Readings of selections in Hebrew and English by UC Berkeley faculty and students.
English texts based on new translations by Chana Kronfeld (UCB, Near Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature) and Chana Bloch (Mills College, English and Creative Writing)
The Window: Four Dahlia Ravikovitch Songs for Voice and Piano by Israeli composer Ron Weidberg ; Sylvie Braitman, soprano and Michael Grossman, piano.
A Bottle on the Waters: A new electroacoustic work composed by John Schott and John Hanes.
The event is free and open to the public.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Noon | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
"Status, Gender and Memory in Third Millenium Syria: The 'Royal' Cemetery at Tell Umm el-Marra"
A lecture by Professor Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University. Sponsored by UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Noon | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Return of the NES Grad Students
Graduate students in Near Eastern Studies will answer your questions related to grad school, GREs, funding, and writing scholarly papers.
Thursday, March 21, 2006
Noon | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
The Kilamnwa Relief
Class, Ethnicity and Power in Iron Age Northern Syria. Presented by Brian Brown, UC Berkeley.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Noon | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
NES Job Panel
Want to know about the job market for Near Eastern Studies? This panel is specifically for people who are planning on or already in graduate school.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
5:00 PM | Stephens Lounge, MLK Jr. Student Union
Between the Covers: My Life in the Books of the Hebrew Bible, A Bit of (Auto)Biography and Apocrypha
Dr. David Noel Freedman, UC San Diego, will present three lectures on the topic of his life's work with the Hebrew Bible.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
6:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Movie Night: 'The Mole People'
A classic from 1956 this movie is about a group of archaeologists discovering a race of humans deep underground that speak Sumerian.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
12:00-1:00 PM | Classics Conference Room (7205 Dwinelle)
Demotic Papyrology
Speaker Sandra Lippert,Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, UC Berkeley. Presented by the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. For information please contact Joel Rygorsky, rygorsky@berkeley.edu.
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
5:00 PM | Stephens Lounge, MLK Jr. Student Union
Between the Covers: My Life in the Books of the Hebrew Bible, The Early Poets
Dr. David Noel Freedman, UC San Diego, will present three lectures on the topic of his life's work with the Hebrew Bible.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
6:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Bone Identification
NES grad student Jessica Kaiser will talk about her osteology experience in the field @ Giza, Egypt. She will be demonstrating techniques to identify age and sex on specific skeletal parts, followed by a hands-on workshop.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
12:00 PM | Location TBA
Rosicrucian Trip
NESSA will be taking a trip to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. Admission is $7 w/ID. For more info please contact rmarks@berkeley.edu.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
3:00 PM | ARF 2251 College Building (behind Boalt Hall)
"Cult Places and Practices at Mycenae"
A lecture by Kim Shelton, Director of Nemea Center, Department of Classics, UC Berkeley, and Field Director, Petsas House Excavations, Mycenae, Greece. This lecture will discuss the archaeological evidence for the location and mechanism of cult from primarily Bronze Age contexts at Mycenae.
Co-sponsored with ARF, the Ancient Hellenic Arts Council, UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Monday, April 10, 2006
5:00-7:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows Hall)
Language Workshop: Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Dr. Cathleen Keller will be lecturing about Egyptian language and hieroglyphic writing system. Come learn the offering formula!
Monday, April 10, 2006
5:00 PM | StephensLounge, MLK Jr. Student Union
Between the Covers: My Life in the Books of the Hebrew Bible, The Later Editors
Dr. David Noel Freedman, UC San Diego, will present three lectures on the topic of his life's work with the Hebrew Bible.
Monday, April 10, 2006
5:00 PM | 425 Doe Library
Recent Archaeology of Xiong-nu and Mongol Period, Mongolia
Dr. Dashtseveg Tumen, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, School of Social Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. Co-sponsored by the Caucasus and Central Asian Program, the Asian Art and Visual Cultures Working Group, Department of Near Eastern Studies, UCB. For more info contact 510-643-6737.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
6:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows Hall)
The El-Hibeh Project in Egypt
Profs. Redmount and Morgenstein will be talking about the UC Berkeley sponsored archaeological project at El-Hibeh, Egypt.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
6:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
General Meeting
On the agenda: Cal Day Scheduling and Thank You Party specifics. Special guest Susan Agnew!
Thursday, April 20, 2006
7:00 PM | 56 Barrows
'Afghanistan After the Taliban'
Speaker Tamim Ansary: author of 'West of Kabul, East of New York.' Presented by Afghan Student Association, Muslim Student Association Political Action Committee, Berkeley Stop the War Coalition, and ASUC.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
9:00 AM-4:00 PM | Upper Sproul
Cal Day!
Look for the NESSA table shared with The Classical Forum, featuring NESSA and TCF members in costume and free candy!
Sunday, April 23, 2006
2:30-4:00 PM | Hearst Museum Gallery
'The Rise and Fall of the House of Shosehenq'
Dr. Aidan Dodson, Visiting Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Bristol and co-author of 'The Mummy in Ancient Egypt' will discuss kings of the 22nd Dynasty who ruled Egypt, from 948 to 927 BCE. Co-sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt, No. CA Chapter.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
12:00 PM | Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
Museum Trip
Trip to the Asian Art Museum in SF with graduate student guide. The museum is easily accesible by BART, meet on the front steps to the museum @ noon.
Monday, May 01, 2006
12 noon | 270 Stephens Hall
'The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars'
Speaker Dr. Razmik Panossian, Director of Policy, Programs and Planning, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development.
Sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program, the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley.
For more info please call (510) 643-6737.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
6:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Last meeting of the semester
Hear what's in store for the fall!
Thursday, May 04, 2006
4-6:00 PM | NES Commons Room (254 Barrows)
Thank You Party!
Come say "Thank You!" to your NES professors, GSIs and staff members who made your year a great one. Stay for the falafel bar and to meet your fellow NES students. For more info please contact Ashley, a_fiutko@berkeley.edu.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
5:30 PM | BAM, Museum Theater
The Drama of the Tebtunis Papyri
Texts in the Bancroft Library's Tebtunis collection are written in
Greek and demotic Egyptian on papyrus-the ancient equivalent of paper, made from the fibers of papyrus plants native to Egypt.
They include letters, handbooks on medicine, property records, and tax receipts as well as partial copies of Homer's Iliad and unique fragments of the once-lost play Inachus, by Sophocles.
A professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance studies, Mark Griffith brings a very special focus to his work at UC Berkeley's Center for Tebtunis Papyri, where he is currently the acting director.
With a background in Greek literature and performance, Griffith has been investigating dramatic texts that appear amid the papyri.