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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 David Noel Freedman Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2026 David Noel Freedman Lecture with Dr. Susanne Paulus\, Associate Professor of Assyriology and Curator of the Tablet Collection at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) at the University of Chicago.\n\nMichigan League\, Vandenberg Room\, 2nd Floor\nMonday\, October 26th\, 4 - 6pm\n\nAbstract:\n\nWriting history is telling stories. The stories we tell about ancient economies\, including that of Late Bronze Age Babylonia\, are often shaped by preconceptions about commodities\, credit\, and debt. Drawing on tablets excavated in cities such as Babylon\, Nippur\, and Ur in modern Iraq\, this lecture follows barley through a series of transactions involving taxes\, loans\, investments\, and even two piglets. Barley was both a major food source and an economic staple\, but the documents reveal much more than subsistence. They offer alternative ways of understanding credit\, debt\, and investment in Late Bronze Age Babylonia.\n \nBiography:\n\nSusanne Paulus is an Associate Professor of Assyriology and Curator of the Tablet Collection at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the social\, legal\, and economic history of Late Bronze Age Babylonia. Her current book project\, Banking with Barley\, supported by the American Council of Learned Societies\, explores credit\, debt\, and economic life in Kassite Babylonia. She is also an epigraphist for the Nippur excavations and is involved in the publication of cuneiform texts from the city of Babylon.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Babylonia,Bronze Age,Lecture,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room (2nd Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261013T152817
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T171500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:6th Biennial U-M International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:October 31–November 1\, 2026 | University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\n\nThe University of Michigan welcomes scholars\, researchers\, and educators to the 6th Biennial International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics. This two-day conference provides a forum for exploring current research\, emerging perspectives\, and practical applications in the field of Arabic applied linguistics.\n\nThe conference will feature presentations and discussions across three primary areas: Arabic second language acquisition\, Arabic language teaching and assessment\, and applied research on Arabic as a first language. Topics include language learning and pedagogy\, multilingualism\, language identity\, technology in language education\, and more.\n\nInvited speakers include Ali Idrissi and Attia Youseif. Presentations will be delivered in English and Arabic.\n\nRegistration is free. All interested attendees are welcome to register.\n\nFor additional information\, conference details\, and registration\, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/arabic-sla-conference/
UID:153629-21916119@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153629
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arabic,Literature,Cognitive Science,Humanities,Linguistics,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Hall (3rd Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261013T152817
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261101T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261101T171500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:6th Biennial U-M International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:October 31–November 1\, 2026 | University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\n\nThe University of Michigan welcomes scholars\, researchers\, and educators to the 6th Biennial International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics. This two-day conference provides a forum for exploring current research\, emerging perspectives\, and practical applications in the field of Arabic applied linguistics.\n\nThe conference will feature presentations and discussions across three primary areas: Arabic second language acquisition\, Arabic language teaching and assessment\, and applied research on Arabic as a first language. Topics include language learning and pedagogy\, multilingualism\, language identity\, technology in language education\, and more.\n\nInvited speakers include Ali Idrissi and Attia Youseif. Presentations will be delivered in English and Arabic.\n\nRegistration is free. All interested attendees are welcome to register.\n\nFor additional information\, conference details\, and registration\, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/arabic-sla-conference/
UID:153629-21916120@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153629
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arabic,Literature,Cognitive Science,Humanities,Linguistics,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Hall (3rd Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261020T152414
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guest Lecture | Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
DESCRIPTION:This talk introduces the concept of heritage forensics\, a framework for studying abuses of cultural heritage in contexts of conflict\, genocide\, and ethnic cleansing. Drawing on the new co-authored volume\, *Heritage Forensics: Cultural on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict*\, the presentation examines how cultural sites became entangled in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the interwar period (1994-2020). The talk considers how satellite-based heritage forensics is being deployed prospectively\, to monitor hundreds of Armenian sites in Karabakh following Azerbaijan's 2023 takeover of the region and the displacement of its Armenian population. In doing so\, it asks: how can satellite-based monitoring function as a form of \"counter-forensics\,\" turning surveillance technologies developed for military purposes back on the state? Can heritage forensics move us beyond retrospective documentation to actively deter erasure and support truth\, reconciliation\, and accountability wherever cultural heritage is at stake?\n\nLori Khatchadourian is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University\, and co-founder and co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch. She currently serves as Director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. Khatchadourian’s research spans the fields of archaeology\, social anthropology\, and heritage studies\, with a particular focus on Armenia\, the wider South Caucasus\, and neighboring regions. Current projects explore the archaeology of modernity\, including problems of genocide\, deindustrialization\, and the entanglements of cultural heritage and war. She is the co-author of *Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict* (Cornell\, 2026) and author of Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires (UC Press\, 2016). She is also co-editor of *Rethinking Empire: Materiality\, Metaphysics\, and Imperial Politics* (SAR\, 2026) and *Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: The Archaeology of Eurasia *(2017).\n\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/99311308952\n\nCosponsors: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, Department of Middle East Studies\, Department of Linguistics\, Department of Anthropology\, Classical Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\, Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology (IPAMAA) Kelsey Museum\, and NAASR.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: armenianstudies@umich.edu
UID:150145-21908256@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150145
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture,History,Discussion,Armenian Studies,armenia,Area Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20261006T151638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261202T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture | A Captive's Testimony: The Lives and Lies of an Ottoman-Armenian Prisoner in the Bastille
DESCRIPTION:Inside a hefty volume of multilingual documents stored in La Courneuve\, France\, there sits nestled a 60-page work written in early modern Armenian script. In his Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture\, Daniel Ohanian takes us into the genre-defying pages of this work\, identifying the man (or men?) who produced it\, the lies and truths that it contains\, and the world that it reveals. Through it\, we explore the religious politics of early modern global Catholicism\, French-Ottoman diplomacy\, and the historiographic benefits of focusing attention on the lives of particular individuals.\n\nDaniel Ohanian is a historian of Armenians in the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on a cultural history of Catholic-Armenian contact in the c. 1700 Mediterranean and on the eighteenth-century travelogue of a merchant-turned-priest named Hovhannes Tovmajanian. Daniel's research has been supported by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation\, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation\, among others\, and has been published in Turcica: revue d'études turques\, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association\, and Genocide Studies International.\n\nZoom Webinar ID: 990 5623 7622\n\nCo-sponsors: Department of History (U-M)\, Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies (U-M)\, Department of Middle East Studies (U-M)\, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies (U-M)\, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\nEmail Contact: armenianstudies@umich.edu
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153370
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Middle East Studies,Lecture,history,Discussion,Armenian Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555
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