Calendar of Events

Our Next Event:
Tuesday, April 22nd, Semitic Museum (6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge)
5:15pm, Room 202 (next door to the oft-used 201!)
NELC PhD student Jim Jumper will be giving a lecture entitled "The Thematic Redaction of Samuel-Kings."
All are welcome to attend; food and beverages will be served before, during, and after the talk, which should not last longer than 20-30 minutes.

And coming up soon...
Thursday, May 1st, beginning at 7:30pm on the second floor of the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge...
MINGLE WITH THE ASSYRIANS
An Assyrian-themed party! Come dressed in a false beard! Receive your true Assyrian name! Eat! Drink! Extend the borders of your land in the name of Assur!
All food and drink are free, and the party is open to all interested Harvard students and faculty.
This is the end of the year event for HNES, so for all of you members who have been hiding out there on campus, in all of your sundry departments, this is your time to come out, invite a guest or date, meet some great people, and party like its 745 BCE!

HNES is always willing to give you a forum to give an academic talk; if you have an idea for something you'd like to do, please email Brian Doak at doak@fas.harvard.edu...

Here are some HNES events, presenters, and topics from 2006-2008:

Adam Aja, "Out of the Dirt & into Your Textbook: Philistine Archaeology 101. Text, Tools & Temples"
Guner Coskunsu and Prof. Ofer Bar-Yosef, Department of Anthropology, "Mezraa Teleilat: A Neolithic Village on the Euphrates"
Guner Coskunsu, "The Transition from Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Pottery Neolithic in the Levant"
W.G. Dever: "Archaeology in Israel Today: The State of the Art"
A. Finkelstein & Eugene McGarry, "Ethnic Identity on the Periphery of Ancient Israel: Case Studies"
Bahman Ghahremani and Professor Andrea Seri: "Ancient Mesopotamia and its modern nationalist uses"
Professor Moawiyah Ibrahim: "Excavations at Sahab (Southeast of Amman, Jordan)"
Nicola Carpentieri: "Ascetic poetry in the diwan of the Sicilian Arab poet Ibn Hamdis"
Yuhan Vevaina: "Ritual Speculation and Eschatology in Zoroastrianism"
Dan Sheffield: "The Sources and Reception of the Zarātusht-nāma: A Study in Continuity and Change"
David Brophy: "The wangs of Xinjiang: The Origins of Qing China's Islamic Aristocracy"
Stine Rossel, "Beasts of Burden at the Dawn of History: Early Dynastic Royal Donkey Skeletons at Abydos, Upper Egypt"
Stine Rossel, "The Development of Specialised Economics in the Nile Valley: reconstructing animal practice at South Abydos and el-Mah"
Christine Thomas & Xiaoli Ouyang, "Prospography, Politics and Gender"
Rian Thum: "Siyawush in Khotan Today"
Dr. Joshua Wright: "Unseen by Eye, Unheard by Ear"--The Archaeology of the Early Turk
Dr. Miriam Belmaker: ""The Mice that Mar Your Land"--Rodents and Humans in the Levant"
Special Event: Women in the Field: Gender and Research in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Zhang Zhan: "The Newly Discovered Judeo-Persian Letter: Discovery, Date, and Provenance"; Bryan Averbuch: " The Historical Context of the Letter"

Spring 2008 Schedule of Events