Online petition: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-yale-babylonian-collection Dear President Salovey: As you wrote in July 2015, the Yale Babylonian Collection (YBC) is “a jewel among Yale’s extraordinary cultural-heritage holdings.” The April 2017 report of the ten-member Advisory Committee for the YBC, which was initiated by Provost Ben Polak, chaired by Deputy Provost Susan Gibbons, and included only […]
Monatsarchiv für April 2017
Deutschlandfunk-Beitrag zu “Religion versus Medizin?”
Die Sendereihe des Deutschlandfunks “Aus Kultur-und Sozialwissenschaften” brachte zum Eröffnungstermin am 20. April 2017 einen Beitrag über die Ringvorlesung “Religion versus Medizin?”, die gemeinsam von Markham J. Geller (BabMed – Babylonian Medicine) und Almut-Barbara Renger (Inst. für Religionswissenschaften der FU Berlin, Arbeitsbereich Antike Religion und Kultur sowie deren Rezeptionsgeschichte) veranstaltet wird. Der Beitrag ist online […]
Lennart Lehmhaus, Harvard, presents his research on Talmudic Medicine.
Starr Seminar Thursday, April 20, from 12:15-2:00PM in Boylston Hall (Classics Department), room 203 at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, Lennart Lehmhaus, Freie Universität Berlin – SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion”, and Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies will be presenting “Bodies of Knowledge: Talmudic Medical Expertise and […]
J. Cale Johnson at Leiden University starting July 2017
Betreff: [agade] NOTICES: Appointments at Leiden University first posted April 7, 2017 The department of Assyriology at Leiden University, Institute of Area Studies, announces the following new appointments: From 1 July, Cale Johnson will join us as a University Lecturer. He specializes in the intellectual history of the ancient Near East, including Classical Sumerian literature […]
The Body in the Hittite Medical Texts – Lecture and Video-Conference
“The Individual and his Body in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin” organized by Alice Mouton Session VIII The Body in the Hittite Medical Texts, Lecture and Video-Conference by Valeria Zubieta Lupo, Mainz University, Thursday, April 27, 2017 4 p.m.-6 p.m. (Paris time) at the Ivry sur Seine CNRS building, 27 rue Paul Bert, Porte de Choisy/Porte […]
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