Past Events

Scholarship, Rebellion, and the Perfect Man: Themes in Chinese Muslim History

Zvi Aziz Ben-Dor, Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis

Medicine & Philosophy in the 10th Century: A Special Focus on Abu-Zayd al-Balkhi

Dr. Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

Tel Aviv's Rothschild: When a Boulevard Becomes a Monument

Barbara Mann, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

The Discovery of Urkesh and the Dawn of a Civilization

Giorgio Buccellati, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Department of History, UCLA; Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Professor, Art History, California State University, Los Angeles

Hegemony, Historical Memory, and State Power: Reflections from Iraq

Eric Davis, Professor of Political Science and Director of Rutger's Program in Middle East Studies

Preachers, Prayer-Leaders, and the Public in the Period of Crusades and Counter-Crusades

Daniella Talmon-Heller, Hebrew University visiting research fellow at Princeton University

Animal Style Art and/or Scythians and New Discoveries in the Northwest Caucasus (6th-4th Centuries B.C.)

Department of Classics Colloquium: Herodotus and the New Discoveries of Scythian Monuments

Arguing Egpyt: The Taha Husayn On Pre-Islamic Poetry Controversy and Egyptian National Identity

Joe Glicksburg, Political Science Department

The Caucasus As a Cultural Bridge Between Near East Civilization and the World of the Nomads

Alexander Leskov, former Head, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Art, Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow. Currently visiting Scholar, Near Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley and Hyde Lecturer in Ancient History