Apr
05
Friday, April 5, 2024 @ 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Dr Mark Weeden on ‘How to say “no” in Hieroglyphic Luwian and other Decipherments of David Hawkins’
Feb
21
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 @ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Dr Eva Miller on ‘Eden in America: Exhibiting, Performing, and Imagining Iraq between Two Nations’
Nov
08
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 @ 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Dr John Curtis on ‘William Kennett Loftus: a 19th Century Archaeologist in Mesopotamia’
Oct
16
Monday, October 16, 2023 @ 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Professor Joseph Sassoon on ‘The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty’
Sep
06
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 @ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Alison Shan Price MBE on ‘The Accounts of Activists and Arabists Gertrude Bell, Violet Dickson and Freya Stark: Rewriting History’
Jul
18
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Leon McCarron on ‘Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation’
May
17
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 @ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Professor Hugh Kennedy on ‘The Globalisation of Baghdad’
Feb
15
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 @ 8:00 am-5:00 pm
This lecture will cover the issue of the geographical origins of the Kassite people whose dynasty ruled Babylonia between ca. 1450 and 1154 B.C.E
Nov
09
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 @ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Professor Wicke has directed fieldwork in Northern Mesopotamia with a special focus on the periods of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.