Lecture by Kazuya Maekawa on "Cultivation in Furrows: Southern Babylonian Agriculture in the Late 3rd Millennium BC"
Kazuya Maekawa will give a lecture about "Cultivation in Furrows: Southern Babylonian Agriculture in the Late 3rd Millennium BC" on Thursday, April 28th, at 4:00 p.m. in the LaSalle Banks room of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by M. Rahim Shayegan on "Considerations on Sasanian History"
M. Rahim Shayegan will give a lecture about "Considerations on Sasanian History: On the Merits (and Perils) of Diachrony" on Wednesday, April 27th, at 4:00 p.m. in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by Roman Gundacker on "Conundra Composita: Analyzing Egyptian Compound Nouns"
Roman Gundacker will give a lecture about "Conundra Composita: Analyzing Egyptian Compound Nouns at the Crossroad of Morphology, Language Contact, and Cultural History" on Thursday, April 21st, at 12:00 pm in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by Roman Gundacker on "The (Auto)-Biography of Shepsesptah of Saqqarah"
Roman Gundacker will give a lecture about "The (Auto)-Biography of Shepsesptah of Saqqarah: Reconsidering the Lost Portions of Text in View of the Block Oriental Institute Museum 11048" on Monday, April 11th, at 3:00 pm in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.
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OCHRE Highlighted by RCC Article
The University of Chicago's Research Computing Center (RCC) recently highlighted the work of the Computational Research Ecosystem for Scientific Collaboration on Ancient Topics (CRESCAT) project and their use of the Online Cultural Heritage Research Environment (OCHRE), whose primary programmer and support staff are based out of the Oriental Institute.
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ARCE Chicago Chapter April Meeting to Host University of Chicago Graduate Student Symposium
The April meeting of the ARCE Chicago Chapter will Host a University of Chicago Graduate Student Symposium on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at 5:00 pm in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by Carter Lupton on "The Long and Winding Crossroads: The Evolution of an Exhibition Concept"
Carter Lupton, Head of the Anthropology & History Department and Curator of Ancient History, Milwaukee Public Museum, will give a lecture about "The Long and Winding Crossroads: The Evolution of an Exhibition Concept" on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at 7:00pm in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by Janet Johnson on "Egypt in the Persian Period"
Janet Johnson will give a lecture for the Chicago Chapter of ARCE about "Egypt in the Persian Period" on Saturday, March 5, 2016, at 5:00pm in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.
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Oriental Institute Collections Research Grants 2016-2017
This year, through the generosity of Jim Sopranos, one or more Museum Collections Research Grants will be available to researchers. We welcome applications from a wide spectrum of researchers, from those at the graduate student level (i.e. Masters Degree or PhD candidates) to well-established professional researchers in their field of study.
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Lecture by Petra Goedegebuure on "Luwian Hieroglyphs: An Indigenous Anatolian Syllabic Script from 3500 Years Ago"
Petra Goedegebuure, Associate Professor of Hittitology, will give a lecture about "Luwian Hieroglyphs: An Indigenous Anatolian Syllabic Script from 3500 Years Ago" on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at 7:00 pm in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.
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