Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/group/3154/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series (March 18, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119498 119498-21842833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Presented by Rubina Raja
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art Centre Director, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions

The 2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures focus on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and Late Antique Near East but also make excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and Early Islamic times.

Professor Raja will present four lectures and one seminar between March 18 and 25, 2024:

• Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée, Monday, March 18, 4:00-7:00 pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

• A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East, Wednesday, March 20, 4:00-7:00 pm, Vandenberg Room, Michigan League

• The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again, Friday, March 22, 4-7 pm, Pendleton Room, Michigan Union

• Classical Studies Graduate Student Seminar: Digging Caesar’s Forum: Rome’s urban culture in a longue durée Perspective, Saturday, March 23, 11:00 am - 3:30 pm

• Appropriating the Roman Cities of the East: The Historiography of Archaeology, Monday, March 25, 3:30-6:30 pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

The impressive remaining ruins of the cities of the ancient Near East — cities such as Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), Apamea, Baalbek (Heliopolis), Bostra, Caesarea Marittima, Jerash, and Palmyra — almost all date to the Roman period. This is no accident. The Roman empire was an ‘empire of cities’. In the western Mediterranean, where there were relatively few, the Romans planted an enormous number of new ones. The East, on the other hand, was already densely populated with cities. Here the ancient settlements of the Levant flourished under Roman rule, growing steadily in size and prosperity.

These cities gradually took on a new appearance too, as they each acquired a selection of the grand appurtenances and amenities of a Roman metropolis or model city: aqueducts, vaulted bath buildings, stone theaters, covered markets, colonnaded streets, monumental frontal temple buildings. In recent years these cities have attracted a fair amount of attention from archaeologists and historians; but they generally remain outside our accepted narratives of the evolving urban cultures of the Roman world.

The Jerome Thomas Spencer Lecture series revisits these long-established centers of the Roman Near East, and the various ancient peoples who inhabited them. The lectures will seek to trace, through the archaeology and historical sources, the transformation of these cities, from the late first century BCE until Late Antiquity and even into the Early Islamic period; and to describe the ways in which there emerged—here in the monumental spaces of these Levantine communities—a range of new and distinctive kinds of ‘urbanity’.

Urban development in the Roman period prompted a welter of political, social, and religious changes — all of which resulted in a number of different ‘regimes of urban living’, distinctive to the region. The lectures will take us through a series of extremely varied – but recognizable – urban landscapes: the Decapolis, the Limestone Massif and the Tetrapolis; the settlements along the Mediterranean coast; and places deep inland such as Palmyra in the Syrian Desert and the Hauran. But by the end of the journey, the lectures shall have situated these cities as physical manifestations of a local or regional experiment in ‘urban self-fashioning’ — as the peoples of the region, collectively and individually, availed themselves of the alluring opportunities of the Roman peace.

Rubina Raja is a Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Professor Raja studied classical archaeology at Oxford (M.St. and D.Phil) after undergraduate studies at the University of Copenhagen and Università di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy, and has worked during her studies at the Danish Ministry of Culture. After her DPhil, she held post-docs in Hamburg, Germany, and Aarhus, Denmark. She was an associate professor at Aarhus University between 2009 and 2012, and in 2012, she was appointed professor with special responsibilities. In 2015, she took up the professorial chair of Classical Art and Archaeology at Aarhus University as the first female professor in the field in Denmark ever. There, she has also since 2015 directed the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. Raja has published widely on Greco-Roman portraiture, ancient religion, and its monuments, urban development from the Hellenistic to the Medieval periods in the Eastern Mediterranean, cultural heritage in conflict zones, and legacy data. She is known for her groundbreaking work on the Syrian oasis city Palmyra and her high-impact collaborative archaeological fieldwork in Jerash and Rome. She has received numerous international research awards and honors, including the Humboldt Foundation’s Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize, Queen Margrethe IIs Rome Prize, the Elite Research Prize, and the Silver Medal for outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences awarded by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, where she has been a member since 2015. She holds several leadership and management degrees from INSEAD, Paris, and Copenhagen Business School, among other institutions. She has mentored junior and senior scholars in career development programs, and is the author of numerous outreach features on the importance of the humanities broadly in today’s rapidly changing world – underlining in which ways Classics remain relevant in our day and age. In 2023, she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College at her Alma Mater institution, the University of Oxford.

Raja is an experienced field archaeologist, having headed projects in the Middle East and Italy since 2011. Her research focuses on urban and societal developments as well as networks from the Hellenistic to the medieval periods, iconography, and religion in Antiquity, with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and Rome. She has pioneered research intersecting archaeology and natural sciences, bringing high-definition studies of the past to the forefront.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:40:56 -0500 2024-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion View of parts of the monumental Roman period ruin in Gerasa/Jerash (view from the Northwest Quarter to the South). Courtesy of Rubina Raja.
2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series (March 20, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119498 119498-21842835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Presented by Rubina Raja
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art Centre Director, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions

The 2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures focus on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and Late Antique Near East but also make excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and Early Islamic times.

Professor Raja will present four lectures and one seminar between March 18 and 25, 2024:

• Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée, Monday, March 18, 4:00-7:00 pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

• A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East, Wednesday, March 20, 4:00-7:00 pm, Vandenberg Room, Michigan League

• The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again, Friday, March 22, 4-7 pm, Pendleton Room, Michigan Union

• Classical Studies Graduate Student Seminar: Digging Caesar’s Forum: Rome’s urban culture in a longue durée Perspective, Saturday, March 23, 11:00 am - 3:30 pm

• Appropriating the Roman Cities of the East: The Historiography of Archaeology, Monday, March 25, 3:30-6:30 pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

The impressive remaining ruins of the cities of the ancient Near East — cities such as Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), Apamea, Baalbek (Heliopolis), Bostra, Caesarea Marittima, Jerash, and Palmyra — almost all date to the Roman period. This is no accident. The Roman empire was an ‘empire of cities’. In the western Mediterranean, where there were relatively few, the Romans planted an enormous number of new ones. The East, on the other hand, was already densely populated with cities. Here the ancient settlements of the Levant flourished under Roman rule, growing steadily in size and prosperity.

These cities gradually took on a new appearance too, as they each acquired a selection of the grand appurtenances and amenities of a Roman metropolis or model city: aqueducts, vaulted bath buildings, stone theaters, covered markets, colonnaded streets, monumental frontal temple buildings. In recent years these cities have attracted a fair amount of attention from archaeologists and historians; but they generally remain outside our accepted narratives of the evolving urban cultures of the Roman world.

The Jerome Thomas Spencer Lecture series revisits these long-established centers of the Roman Near East, and the various ancient peoples who inhabited them. The lectures will seek to trace, through the archaeology and historical sources, the transformation of these cities, from the late first century BCE until Late Antiquity and even into the Early Islamic period; and to describe the ways in which there emerged—here in the monumental spaces of these Levantine communities—a range of new and distinctive kinds of ‘urbanity’.

Urban development in the Roman period prompted a welter of political, social, and religious changes — all of which resulted in a number of different ‘regimes of urban living’, distinctive to the region. The lectures will take us through a series of extremely varied – but recognizable – urban landscapes: the Decapolis, the Limestone Massif and the Tetrapolis; the settlements along the Mediterranean coast; and places deep inland such as Palmyra in the Syrian Desert and the Hauran. But by the end of the journey, the lectures shall have situated these cities as physical manifestations of a local or regional experiment in ‘urban self-fashioning’ — as the peoples of the region, collectively and individually, availed themselves of the alluring opportunities of the Roman peace.

Rubina Raja is a Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Professor Raja studied classical archaeology at Oxford (M.St. and D.Phil) after undergraduate studies at the University of Copenhagen and Università di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy, and has worked during her studies at the Danish Ministry of Culture. After her DPhil, she held post-docs in Hamburg, Germany, and Aarhus, Denmark. She was an associate professor at Aarhus University between 2009 and 2012, and in 2012, she was appointed professor with special responsibilities. In 2015, she took up the professorial chair of Classical Art and Archaeology at Aarhus University as the first female professor in the field in Denmark ever. There, she has also since 2015 directed the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. Raja has published widely on Greco-Roman portraiture, ancient religion, and its monuments, urban development from the Hellenistic to the Medieval periods in the Eastern Mediterranean, cultural heritage in conflict zones, and legacy data. She is known for her groundbreaking work on the Syrian oasis city Palmyra and her high-impact collaborative archaeological fieldwork in Jerash and Rome. She has received numerous international research awards and honors, including the Humboldt Foundation’s Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize, Queen Margrethe IIs Rome Prize, the Elite Research Prize, and the Silver Medal for outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences awarded by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, where she has been a member since 2015. She holds several leadership and management degrees from INSEAD, Paris, and Copenhagen Business School, among other institutions. She has mentored junior and senior scholars in career development programs, and is the author of numerous outreach features on the importance of the humanities broadly in today’s rapidly changing world – underlining in which ways Classics remain relevant in our day and age. In 2023, she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College at her Alma Mater institution, the University of Oxford.

Raja is an experienced field archaeologist, having headed projects in the Middle East and Italy since 2011. Her research focuses on urban and societal developments as well as networks from the Hellenistic to the medieval periods, iconography, and religion in Antiquity, with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and Rome. She has pioneered research intersecting archaeology and natural sciences, bringing high-definition studies of the past to the forefront.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:40:56 -0500 2024-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion View of parts of the monumental Roman period ruin in Gerasa/Jerash (view from the Northwest Quarter to the South). Courtesy of Rubina Raja.
2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series (March 22, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119498 119498-21842836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Presented by Rubina Raja
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art Centre Director, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions

The 2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures focus on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and Late Antique Near East but also make excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and Early Islamic times.

Professor Raja will present four lectures and one seminar between March 18 and 25, 2024:

• Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée, Monday, March 18, 4:00-7:00 pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

• A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East, Wednesday, March 20, 4:00-7:00 pm, Vandenberg Room, Michigan League

• The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again, Friday, March 22, 4-7 pm, Pendleton Room, Michigan Union

• Classical Studies Graduate Student Seminar: Digging Caesar’s Forum: Rome’s urban culture in a longue durée Perspective, Saturday, March 23, 11:00 am - 3:30 pm

• Appropriating the Roman Cities of the East: The Historiography of Archaeology, Monday, March 25, 3:30-6:30 pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

The impressive remaining ruins of the cities of the ancient Near East — cities such as Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), Apamea, Baalbek (Heliopolis), Bostra, Caesarea Marittima, Jerash, and Palmyra — almost all date to the Roman period. This is no accident. The Roman empire was an ‘empire of cities’. In the western Mediterranean, where there were relatively few, the Romans planted an enormous number of new ones. The East, on the other hand, was already densely populated with cities. Here the ancient settlements of the Levant flourished under Roman rule, growing steadily in size and prosperity.

These cities gradually took on a new appearance too, as they each acquired a selection of the grand appurtenances and amenities of a Roman metropolis or model city: aqueducts, vaulted bath buildings, stone theaters, covered markets, colonnaded streets, monumental frontal temple buildings. In recent years these cities have attracted a fair amount of attention from archaeologists and historians; but they generally remain outside our accepted narratives of the evolving urban cultures of the Roman world.

The Jerome Thomas Spencer Lecture series revisits these long-established centers of the Roman Near East, and the various ancient peoples who inhabited them. The lectures will seek to trace, through the archaeology and historical sources, the transformation of these cities, from the late first century BCE until Late Antiquity and even into the Early Islamic period; and to describe the ways in which there emerged—here in the monumental spaces of these Levantine communities—a range of new and distinctive kinds of ‘urbanity’.

Urban development in the Roman period prompted a welter of political, social, and religious changes — all of which resulted in a number of different ‘regimes of urban living’, distinctive to the region. The lectures will take us through a series of extremely varied – but recognizable – urban landscapes: the Decapolis, the Limestone Massif and the Tetrapolis; the settlements along the Mediterranean coast; and places deep inland such as Palmyra in the Syrian Desert and the Hauran. But by the end of the journey, the lectures shall have situated these cities as physical manifestations of a local or regional experiment in ‘urban self-fashioning’ — as the peoples of the region, collectively and individually, availed themselves of the alluring opportunities of the Roman peace.

Rubina Raja is a Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Professor Raja studied classical archaeology at Oxford (M.St. and D.Phil) after undergraduate studies at the University of Copenhagen and Università di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy, and has worked during her studies at the Danish Ministry of Culture. After her DPhil, she held post-docs in Hamburg, Germany, and Aarhus, Denmark. She was an associate professor at Aarhus University between 2009 and 2012, and in 2012, she was appointed professor with special responsibilities. In 2015, she took up the professorial chair of Classical Art and Archaeology at Aarhus University as the first female professor in the field in Denmark ever. There, she has also since 2015 directed the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. Raja has published widely on Greco-Roman portraiture, ancient religion, and its monuments, urban development from the Hellenistic to the Medieval periods in the Eastern Mediterranean, cultural heritage in conflict zones, and legacy data. She is known for her groundbreaking work on the Syrian oasis city Palmyra and her high-impact collaborative archaeological fieldwork in Jerash and Rome. She has received numerous international research awards and honors, including the Humboldt Foundation’s Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize, Queen Margrethe IIs Rome Prize, the Elite Research Prize, and the Silver Medal for outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences awarded by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, where she has been a member since 2015. She holds several leadership and management degrees from INSEAD, Paris, and Copenhagen Business School, among other institutions. She has mentored junior and senior scholars in career development programs, and is the author of numerous outreach features on the importance of the humanities broadly in today’s rapidly changing world – underlining in which ways Classics remain relevant in our day and age. In 2023, she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College at her Alma Mater institution, the University of Oxford.

Raja is an experienced field archaeologist, having headed projects in the Middle East and Italy since 2011. Her research focuses on urban and societal developments as well as networks from the Hellenistic to the medieval periods, iconography, and religion in Antiquity, with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and Rome. She has pioneered research intersecting archaeology and natural sciences, bringing high-definition studies of the past to the forefront.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:40:56 -0500 2024-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion View of parts of the monumental Roman period ruin in Gerasa/Jerash (view from the Northwest Quarter to the South). Courtesy of Rubina Raja.
Spring Family Day | Magical Marvels: Power and Protection in the Ancient World (March 23, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119157 119157-21842281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us for our spring Family Day as we explore “magical” materials in the ancient world, from amulets and herbs to curse tablets and incantation bowls!

Design and carve an amulet “gemstone.”

Discover how curse tablets were constructed and used—and make your own!

Create and fill your very own lucky Roman “bulla” pouch.

The Kelsey Museum and the Family Day event are free and open to the public. Engaging, hands-on activities take place in Newberry Hall. Docent guides, scavenger hunts, and Imagination Stations are available in the museum galleries from 12 to 3 PM.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Other Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:29:03 -0500 2024-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Yellow chalk drawing of a humanoid figure with a horse’s head surrounded by broken pieces of chalk.
2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series (March 25, 2024 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119498 119498-21842837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2024 3:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Presented by Rubina Raja
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art Centre Director, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions

The 2024 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures focus on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and Late Antique Near East but also make excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and Early Islamic times.

Professor Raja will present four lectures and one seminar between March 18 and 25, 2024:

• Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée, Monday, March 18, 4:00-7:00 pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

• A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East, Wednesday, March 20, 4:00-7:00 pm, Vandenberg Room, Michigan League

• The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again, Friday, March 22, 4-7 pm, Pendleton Room, Michigan Union

• Classical Studies Graduate Student Seminar: Digging Caesar’s Forum: Rome’s urban culture in a longue durée Perspective, Saturday, March 23, 11:00 am - 3:30 pm

• Appropriating the Roman Cities of the East: The Historiography of Archaeology, Monday, March 25, 3:30-6:30 pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

The impressive remaining ruins of the cities of the ancient Near East — cities such as Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), Apamea, Baalbek (Heliopolis), Bostra, Caesarea Marittima, Jerash, and Palmyra — almost all date to the Roman period. This is no accident. The Roman empire was an ‘empire of cities’. In the western Mediterranean, where there were relatively few, the Romans planted an enormous number of new ones. The East, on the other hand, was already densely populated with cities. Here the ancient settlements of the Levant flourished under Roman rule, growing steadily in size and prosperity.

These cities gradually took on a new appearance too, as they each acquired a selection of the grand appurtenances and amenities of a Roman metropolis or model city: aqueducts, vaulted bath buildings, stone theaters, covered markets, colonnaded streets, monumental frontal temple buildings. In recent years these cities have attracted a fair amount of attention from archaeologists and historians; but they generally remain outside our accepted narratives of the evolving urban cultures of the Roman world.

The Jerome Thomas Spencer Lecture series revisits these long-established centers of the Roman Near East, and the various ancient peoples who inhabited them. The lectures will seek to trace, through the archaeology and historical sources, the transformation of these cities, from the late first century BCE until Late Antiquity and even into the Early Islamic period; and to describe the ways in which there emerged—here in the monumental spaces of these Levantine communities—a range of new and distinctive kinds of ‘urbanity’.

Urban development in the Roman period prompted a welter of political, social, and religious changes — all of which resulted in a number of different ‘regimes of urban living’, distinctive to the region. The lectures will take us through a series of extremely varied – but recognizable – urban landscapes: the Decapolis, the Limestone Massif and the Tetrapolis; the settlements along the Mediterranean coast; and places deep inland such as Palmyra in the Syrian Desert and the Hauran. But by the end of the journey, the lectures shall have situated these cities as physical manifestations of a local or regional experiment in ‘urban self-fashioning’ — as the peoples of the region, collectively and individually, availed themselves of the alluring opportunities of the Roman peace.

Rubina Raja is a Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Professor Raja studied classical archaeology at Oxford (M.St. and D.Phil) after undergraduate studies at the University of Copenhagen and Università di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy, and has worked during her studies at the Danish Ministry of Culture. After her DPhil, she held post-docs in Hamburg, Germany, and Aarhus, Denmark. She was an associate professor at Aarhus University between 2009 and 2012, and in 2012, she was appointed professor with special responsibilities. In 2015, she took up the professorial chair of Classical Art and Archaeology at Aarhus University as the first female professor in the field in Denmark ever. There, she has also since 2015 directed the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. Raja has published widely on Greco-Roman portraiture, ancient religion, and its monuments, urban development from the Hellenistic to the Medieval periods in the Eastern Mediterranean, cultural heritage in conflict zones, and legacy data. She is known for her groundbreaking work on the Syrian oasis city Palmyra and her high-impact collaborative archaeological fieldwork in Jerash and Rome. She has received numerous international research awards and honors, including the Humboldt Foundation’s Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize, Queen Margrethe IIs Rome Prize, the Elite Research Prize, and the Silver Medal for outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences awarded by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, where she has been a member since 2015. She holds several leadership and management degrees from INSEAD, Paris, and Copenhagen Business School, among other institutions. She has mentored junior and senior scholars in career development programs, and is the author of numerous outreach features on the importance of the humanities broadly in today’s rapidly changing world – underlining in which ways Classics remain relevant in our day and age. In 2023, she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College at her Alma Mater institution, the University of Oxford.

Raja is an experienced field archaeologist, having headed projects in the Middle East and Italy since 2011. Her research focuses on urban and societal developments as well as networks from the Hellenistic to the medieval periods, iconography, and religion in Antiquity, with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and Rome. She has pioneered research intersecting archaeology and natural sciences, bringing high-definition studies of the past to the forefront.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:40:56 -0500 2024-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2024-03-25T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion View of parts of the monumental Roman period ruin in Gerasa/Jerash (view from the Northwest Quarter to the South). Courtesy of Rubina Raja.
Saturday Sampler Tour | Ancient Scripts and Scribes (March 30, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118773 118773-21841587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us for a paleographic journey of the Mediterranean world. This Saturday Sampler Tour will explore ancient scripts and scribes by way of a selection of Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Graeco-Roman objects. Along the way, learn about the origin, production, death, and recovery of these ancient texts.

This event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Tours Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:28:39 -0500 2024-03-30T14:00:00-04:00 2024-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Tours Kelsey Museum gallery shot focusing on Pepy-Nefer’s false door—a limestone relief with two columns of colorfully painted hieroglyphs.
Making Bread and Breaking Bread: A Workshop at Zingerman’s Bakehouse (April 14, 2024 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118792 118792-21841718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 14, 2024 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join Amy Emberling (managing partner of Zingerman’s Bakehouse) and associated staff for a unique hands-on workshop focusing on bread-making, presented in connection with the Kelsey Museum’s latest “Crossroads of Culture” Object Spotlight.

In the ancient and medieval Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean region, bread was a staple food item for various cultures and religions. Yet despite its unifying qualities, the ways in which bread was made and used differed, from the unleavened bread of Jewish rituals to the decorative *prosphora* of Christian liturgy to the non-ritualistic stamped loaves consumed in Islamic lands.

This workshop will instruct attendees on how to make different types of bread with ties to the religions and themes highlighted in the current Crossroads of Culture display: German stollen, rum raisin turban challah, and matzah. Zingerman’s staff will also demonstrate bread-stamping and the preparation of decorated Uzbek bread.

*Space is limited to 12 attendees for this opportunity, which will take place at Zingerman’s Bakehouse at 3711 Plaza Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108. The cost for Kelsey Museum members is $135; for nonmembers, the workshop is $160. Registration deadline: Monday, April 1, 2024.*

Member Registration: https://www.bakewithzing.com/private-session/ybpgdvxp.
Nonmember Registration: https://www.bakewithzing.com/private-session/tlbzyrxl.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:30:22 -0400 2024-04-14T13:30:00-04:00 2024-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Workshop / Seminar Close-up of baked loaves of round, flat bread decorated with a stamped flower in the center.