NELC
Events
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New Light on Qubbet el-Hawa
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDr. Bommas will be giving two lectures. First lecture will be from 11:00A-11:50A. Second lecture will be from 12:15P-1:00P. Dr. Martin Bommas Reader in Egyptology Getty Scholar 2016-2017 Curator of the Eton Myers Collection of Egyptian Arts at the University of Birmingham Director of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project Editor-in-chief of the...
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The Archaeological Adventure of Museo Egizio (1903-1920)
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesErnesto Schiaparelli, director of Museo Egizio between 1894 and 1928 responded to the need for an enlarged Egyptian collection at Turin. In 1903 the Missione Archeologica Italiana (M.A.I.) was founded, promoting 12 archaeological expeditions at 11 sites in Egypt. With the important assistance of collaborators, Schiaparelli undertook this fieldwork to better document the history of...
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Opening at the Close: History and Politics in Late-10th- Century Armenia
Humanities Bldg. Rm 348This paper explores the spectrum of Armenian historical writing from the second half of the 10th century, arguing for a remarkable diversity of approach and experience. Dr. Timothy W. Greenwood received his D.Phil from the University of Oxford, and is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland....
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Annual Colloquia in Armenian Studies
Royce Hall Room 314 340 Royce Dr b100, Los Angeles , CA, United StatesProgram Graduate Presenters Undergraduate Presenters Graduate Planning Committee Undergraduate Planning Committee The Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies is a forum for graduate students from various disciplines whose research bears on Armenian Studies to present scholarly papers in the humanities and social sciences, within disciplines as wide-ranging as Anthropology, Archaeology, Art history, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, History,...
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Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi in the San Diego Museum of Man: Some Technical Studies
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe San Diego museum of man has a collection of Saite and Ptolemaic coffins and mummies which were the subject of a technical study from 2007-2009. Pigments, binding media, grounds, wood and degradation products were characterized by x ray diffraction analyses, x ray fluorescence spectroscopy, polarized light microscopy, wood anatomy, gas chromatography mass...
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The unusual New Kingdom Tomb-Chapel of Isisnofret on a rocky outcropping at Northwest Saqqara
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDr. Nozomu Kawai specializes in history, art and archaeology of the New Kingdom in Egypt, with a particular emphasis on the period from the late Eighteenth Dynasty to the Nineteenth Dynasty. She has been directing Japanese archaeological excavation at Northwest Saqqara / South Abusir since 2001. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the reign of...
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Afternoon Professionalization Workshop
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDuring the first half of this professionalization seminar on the academic job market, a panel will share their experiences in the recent job market, both as applicants and as hiring committee members. A Q&A will follow. In the second half, we will talk about strategies for writing effective application materials and will workshop some of...
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Greater Glory: Darius I and Divinity in Achaemenid Royal Ideology
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) The close link between the king and the divine has deep roots in Near Eastern royal ideologies, and the Persian kings during the Achaemenid period (c. 550-330 BCE) followed this tradition. Exactly how close was the link? Recent studies suggest a blurred line between the two especially during at...
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Sexuality and Cultural Change in Iranian Cinema
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA lecture in Persian by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 8, 2017. The history of Iranian cinema adequately reflects the construction of gender in Iran. But the expression of sexuality is a problematic notion on a number of levels. In western societies, the preoccupation with human sexuality prompted reflection about human physiology, gender identity,...
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What Kind of Wine did Rudaki Fancy?
Humanities Bldg. Rm 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)A lecture in English by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 09, 2017. One of the earliest Persian poets, Rudaki (859–941), employed the word wine within a wide semantic register in his poems. However, his unicity is most manifest when the process of wine making is depicted within a highly allegorical poem entitled “Mother of Wine."...