About the Speaker Josef WIESEHÖFER is a retired professor of Ancient History at the University of Kiel (Germany) and retired director of its ‚Department of Classics‘. He got his Ph.D….
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About the Speaker James Howard-Johnston was University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1971 to 2009. He complemented academic activity with involvement in…
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About the Speaker Zsuzsanna Gulácsi is a historian of Asian religious art specializing in the contextualized art historical study of pan-Asiatic religions that adapted their arts to a variety of…
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About the Speaker Matthew P. Canepa (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Art History and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran at…
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About the Speaker Jason Schlude is an Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University…
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About the Speaker Nabel’s research centers on interstate affairs between the early Principate and the Parthian empire, Rome’s imperial peer on the Iranian plateau, but he also maintain active interests…
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Seleucid Encounters with the Iranian World: Religious and Cultic Elements in the Administration and Ruling of the Seleucid East Among the successors of Alexander III the Seleukids were the only…
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Towards and Intellectual History of the Seleucid Empire? When speaking about the “intellectual history” of Classical Athens, Republican Rome or Late Antiquity, even the neophyte to Classical history will be…
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About the Speaker Kathleen Lynch is Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, and has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Southern Illinois University, and the University…
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About the Speaker Margaret Cool Root’s research focuses on issues of art, social history, and historiography particularly involving studies of iconography, style, and identity politics. Her specialist realms of analysis…
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