CEMERS Events Calendar

Lecture Title:  “From Apostle to Martyr: Mani and the Bema Festival in Late Antiquity”

Speaker: Jae Hee Han, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of History and Middle Eastern & Ancient Mediterranean Studies

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Lecture Title: “The Rabbinic Banishment of the Poets: Genre and Politics in the Roman East”

Speaker: Natalie Dohrmann, Associate Director,  Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of History and Middle Eastern & Ancient Mediterranean Studies

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Featuring violinist Andrea DiCesare

Lecture Title: “The Traffic of ‘Religious’ Texts in the Roman Empire”

Speaker: Heidi Wendt, Associate Professor of Religions, Greco-Roman World, McGill University

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of History and Middle Eastern & Ancient Mediterranean Studies

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Lecture Title: “‘I was a Stranger’: Hospitality’s Flawed Promise in Shakespeare’s London Suburbs”

Speaker: Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor Emeritain the Humanities, Columbia University

5:00 pm Reception; 5:30 pm Lecture

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Lecture Title: “Roman Religion and the Citizens of Empire, 200–450 CE”

Speaker: Carl Rice, Visiting Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies, Vassar College

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of History and Middle Eastern & Ancient Mediterranean Studies

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