Events
MESSA hosts social events for CMES students throughout the year, as well as a speaker series that is open to all students. Join us at one of our events! Please contact us for meeting links until we are able to host in-person events again.
CMES Social
Friday, April 9
7:00 pm (Central)
SpatialChat
Food vouchers available
CMES Social
Wednesday, April 28
7:00 pm (Central)
SpatialChat
Food vouchers available
CMES Social
Wednesday, May 19
7:00 pm (Central)
SpatialChat
Food vouchers available
Speaker Series Schedule
The lectures by Professors Milani and Cooperson are funded in part by Student Government. The lectures by Professors Cline and Schneider are funded by CMES. Click for More InformationSa’di & Humanism
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 6:30pm (Central)
Abbas Milani is the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. He has been one of the founding co-directors of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S.-Iran relations as well as Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. Until 1986, he taught at Tehran University’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, where he was also a member of the Board of Directors of the university’s Center for International Relations. After moving to the United States, he was for fourteen years the Chair of the Political Science Department at the Notre Dame de Namur University. For eight years, he was a visiting Research Fellow in University of California, Berkeley’s Middle East Center.
Register: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/98158949381?pwd=N0JIS20xQlNRa2VaTjkzVnBnTm1KQT09
Englishing al-Hariri
Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 4:30pm (Central)
Michael Cooperson teaches Arabic at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include early Abbasid cultural history and Maltese language and culture. His translation of Ibn al-Jawzī’s Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (2013) received the Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. His most recent publication is Impostures, an Englishing of the Maqamat of al-Hariri. It has been named “the best translated book of 2020” by Open Letters Review and one of the top ten books of 2020 by the Wall Street Journal.
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Wine, Feasting, and Frescoes: The Ongoing Excavation of a Middle Bronze Age Palace at Tel Kabri, Israel (2005-2019)
Friday, February 26, 2021 at 1:30pm (Central)
Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classics, History, and Anthropology, the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the current Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University, in Washington DC. A National Geographic Explorer, NEH Public Scholar, Getty Scholar, and Fulbright Scholar with degrees from Dartmouth, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, he is an active field archaeologist with more than 30 seasons of excavation and survey experience in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States, including ten seasons at Megiddo (1994-2014), where he served as co-director before retiring from the project in 2014, and another ten seasons at Tel Kabri, where he currently serves as Co-Director. He is the author or editor of 20 books and nearly 100 articles; translations of his books have appeared in nineteen different languages.
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Egyptology in Nazi Germany: Ideology, Scholarship, Careers
Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 3:00pm (Central)
Thomas Schneider is Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia (Canada). He studied at the University of Zurich, the University of Basel, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, earning a Lizentiat (1990), a doctorate (1996), and a Habilitation (1999) in Egyptology at the University of Basel. Prior to joining UBC in 2007, he was a Junior Research Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Basel (2001-5) and Chair Professor in Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales (2005-8). From 2018-20, he served as Associate Vice President (International) at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. He held Visiting Professorships at the University of Vienna (1999), the University of Heidelberg (2003-4) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018). He was a Visiting Scholar at NYU (2006), UC Berkeley (2012), as well as a Guest Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing (2016) and at Shanghai University (2018). He is the founding editor of the “Journal of Egyptian History” (2008-2014) and was the editor of “Culture and History of the Ancient Near East” (Brill, 2006-2013) and “Near Eastern Archaeology” (American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012-2018).
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