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December 2, 2022

Dr. Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver speaking as an invited lecturer in Istanbul

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Dr. Durusu-Tanrıöver will be giving a lecture, "Kıyısız? Hitit İmparatorluğu ve Geç Tunç Çağı'nda Akdeniz Ticaret Ağları/The Hittite Empire and Late Bronze Age Maritime Mediterranean Trade Networks" in the conference Aquatic Worlds of Anatolia at the 17th International ANAMED Symposium hossted by Koç University, Istanbul, Dec 8-9 2022. Read More

detail of St. Luke from a manuscript
November 12, 2022

Prof. Joe Kopta at the Annual Byzantine Studies Conference

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Joseph Kopta (PhD 2022) presented a paper, "The Gospel Lectionary of Katherine Komnena and New Directions in Manuscript Studies" at the 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, this year held at UCLA, November 2–6, 2022. His paper presented original research about the pigment composition of two folios from this manuscript in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Image: Photomicrograph of St. Luke from the Gospel Lectionary of Katherine Komnena at the Cleveland Museum of Art (photo: Joseph Kopta) Read More

October 21, 2022

Dr. Muge Durusu-Tanriover to speak at Bryn Mawr

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The talk, "Decentering Empire: Ways of Being Hittite in Late Bronze Age Anatolia" will be presented at 4:30 on Nov 11, 2022 in person, at the Classics Colloquium of Bryn Mawr Collegem Carpenter Library B21, Read More

October 18, 2022

Art History's presence at the annual American Society for Overseas Research conference

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

At the annual meeting, a gathering of archaeologists, art historians, philologists, epigraphers and historians interested in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, Dr. Muge Durusu will be presenting a paper, "Curating the Past: Cities and Ancestral Nostalgia in the Hittite Empire" (co-authored by N. Ilgi Gercek) at the in-person meeting on November 17. Dr. Jane DeRose Evans has organized and will be moderating a workshop, "Cultural Heritage, Contested Heritage: A Workshop Organized by the ASOR Cultural Heritage Committee", of which she is the committee chair. This workshop will take place at the virtual section of the ASOR meetings, October 20. Read More

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