Calendar of Events

Here is a rundown of the fall 2008 semester of HNES activities!

Around the Museum Party: Thursday, Oct. 16th, 7 - ? pm. Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA.
This is our third annual party in which we take over the museum, drink, and eat! Those of you who have been to these in the past know just how wonderful they are. Free and open to Harvard students, faculty, staff, and their guests.

The Stine Rossel Memorial Lecture: Tuesday, Oct. 28th, 5:15 - 6:30 pm, in Haller Hall (Earth Sciences Building, 23 Oxford St.), with reception to follow in the Semitic Museum, 6:30 - 7:30 pm (6 Divinity Ave.). Delivered by Richard Meadow.

Guest lecture by Professor Yuval Goren, Tel-Aviv University, Israel: Wednesday, November 19th, 3:00pm. Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge (enter via the Earth and Planetary Sciences building on Oxford St. side). "Administration in Iron Age Judah according to the Technology of Clay Bullae." Reception to follow. The lecture is free and open to all!

Middle and Near Easts--Unite!: The Harvard GSAS Near East Society, the Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association, and the Harvard Iranian Students' Association join together to give you, dear friends, the party of the year...
Free drinks, free food, free mingling!
Thursday, December 4th, 7pm - 12 am
Center for Middle Eastern Studies (38 Kirkland St., Cambridge)
Free and open to Harvard students, faculty and staff.

Further lectures and events will be announced shortly! Stay tuned!

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"
Dr. John Curtis, "The British Museum: The Current State of Cultural Heritage in Iraq, 2003-2008"
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"
Jim Jumper, "The Thematic Redaction of Samuel-Kings"
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"

Fall 2008 Schedule of Events