Preliminary Summer 2012 Schedule - Undergraduate Courses
NMC Departmental Events
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 2:00 pm
NMC Department Public Seminar on the Ancient Near East
"Where were the Laws of Nature Before there was Nature?"
Prof. Francesca Rochberg, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distiguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
NMC Department Conference Room, 4 Bancroft Ave., room 200B
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 8:00 pm
Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies A.K. Grayson Lecture on Assyrian History and Culture -- a free public lecture
" 'A Firm Yes': Divination in the Assyrian Culture of Knowledge"
How the study of physical phenomena in ancient Assyria relates to the history of science is a question as important for the study of ancient Assyria as it is for the history of science. Over the course of science’s history to the modern period the form and content of knowledge have changed as science and its practice have changed. This talk explores the nature of what we would call natural knowledge in the Assyrian Empire, in particular its cultural and epistemic values. In addressing the nature of knowledge in one of the best documented periods of Mesopotamian intellectual history, we will examine both the historical reach of what we call science as well as the viability of the very category of science for Near Eastern antiquity.
Prof. Francesca Rochberg, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distiguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Earth Sciences Auditorium, 5 Bancroft Ave., room B142, University of Toronto
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 7:00 pm
SSEA TORONTO Chapter Mini-Lecture
“An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Medicine”
Dr. Christina Geisen, NMC Department, University of Toronto
Earth Sciences Auditorium, 5 Bancroft Ave, Room B142, University of Toronto
This event is free. All welcome.
Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 5th Annual Coptic Studies Symposium
“Coptic Heritage: Literature and Continuity”
Pre-registration by email before March 19 , 2012 recommended: cscs@utoronto.ca
Registration includes lunch &refreshments (payment at the Symposium)
- Regular Member : $40
- Regular Non-Member: $45.00
- Student and Senior Member: $25.00
- Student and Senior Non- Member: $30.00
Earth Sciences Auditorium, 5 Bancroft Ave, Room B142, University of Toronto
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Friday, March 30, 2012 - 4:00-6:00 pm
Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies
"Ottoman Manuscripts and Archives in the Western Balkans: Destruction and Preservation"
András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
NMC Department Conference Room, 4 Bancroft Ave., room 200B
SSEA Toronto Chapter non-credit course
"LAND OF THE BOW: An Introduction to Nubia and Her Cultures"
Wednesdays, April 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th 2012 Time: 7pm to 8:30pm
Location: 4 Bancroft Ave. rm 214
Instructor: Sarah Schellinger (University of Toronto)
Week 1: Where It All Began: Nubian Origins
Week 2: Tribute Will Be Paid: Nubia and the Egyptian New Kingdom
Week 3: Subservient No More: Napata and Meroe
Week 4: All Good Things Must Come to an End: The Fall of Meroe
Price: $100 SSEA Members; $125 for non-members; $50 Students; $35 *per lecture* fee may be available
For more information: toronto@thessea.org or visit http://www.thessea.org/events.php?show=courses
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 10:00 am
NMC Department Public Seminar
"Revival of Islamic Law in the Late 19th Century Sudan: The Mahdi's Legal Methodology and Its Application"
Prof. Aharon Layish, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
NMC Department Conference Room, 4 Bancroft Ave., room 200B
SSEA Toronto Chapter non-credit course
"IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Ancient Egyptian Culture Revealed Through Literary and Nonliterary Texts"
Tuesdays, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 Time 7pm to 8:30pm
Location: 4 Bancroft Ave. rm 214
Instructor: Dr. Christina Geisen (University of Toronto)
Week 1: Mortuary Texts, Temple and Ritual Texts
Week 2: “Historical Texts”
Week 3: “Literary texts:”
Week 4: “The Texts of Everyday Life”
Price: $100 SSEA Members; $125 for non-members; $50 Students; $35 *per lecture* fee may be available
For more information: toronto@thessea.org or visit http://www.thessea.org/events.php?show=courses
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 1:00 pm
NMC Department Toronto Arabic Studies Colloquium
"What They Saw With Their Own Eyes: Fictionalization and Narrativization of History in Arab Popular Epics and Learned Historiography"
Prof. Thomas Herzog, Institut fur Islamwissenschaft und Neuere Orientalische Philologie, Universtat Bern
NMC Department Conference Room, 4 Bancroft Ave., room 200B
Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 10:00 am
SSEA Toronto Chapter Mini-Symposium
“Apocalypse Now? Apocalypse Now? How people in the past viewed the end of the world.”
Speakers: TBA
Earth Sciences Auditorium, 5 Bancroft Ave., room 1050
SSEA Members $5/Non-Members $10
4 Speakers discuss different aspects of apocalypse in the ancient world.
For more information, email toronto@thessea.org or visit http://www.thessea.org/events.php
May 18 - 20, 2012
9th Great Lakes Ottomanist Workshop (GLOW)
Times: Fri. 4-7 pm, Sat., 9 am-6 pm, Sun. 9 am-1 pm (program forthcoming)
Location: St. George Campus (exact venue to be determined)
Contacts: Victor Ostapchuk <v.ostapchuk@utoronto.ca>, Murat Yasar <murat.yasar@utoronto.ca>
The NMC Department encourages all members of the public to attend lectures and events and will happily provide information regarding accessibility of and directions to lecture venues. Please contact the department by emailing us at jc.jones@utoronto.ca or by phoning us at 416-978-3306 if you need directions, or if you are a person with a disability and require accommodation.