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Babylonian approaches to describing and calculating astronomical phenomena were primarily \u2013 though, as I will show, not exclusively \u2013 through numerical modelling rather than by means of geometrical or physical models. Therein lies the rub: some historians claim that geometrical models and physical theories are a requirement of science, and therefore, they judge Babylonian astronomy as falling short of being true science. In this talk, I will discuss whether this is an appropriate way to understand whether an early astronomy is scientific and, more to the point, show that Babylonian scholars did indeed construct theories of the behaviour of the sun, moon, and planets but that historians have usually been looking in the wrong place to find those theories.\r\n\r\nJohn Steele is the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University. He received his BSc (1995) and PhD (1998) from Durham University and has previously taught at Durham University and the University of Toronto. Prior to taking up his current position at Brown in 2008, he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at Durham. Steele is a historian of astronomy who specializes in the history of the Babylonian astral sciences, the circulation of astral knowledge, and the early modern reception and use of ancient astronomy. He is the author or editor of several books twenty books, including recently The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN (Routledge, 2019; co-authored with Hermann Hunger) and The Allure of the Ancient: Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, ca. 1600-1800 (Brill, 2022; co-edited with Margaret Geoga).", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"132563-21871256@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/132563", "building_id":"1", "building_name":"Angell Hall", "campus_maps_id":"12", "room":"Classical Studies Library, Room 2175", "location_name":"Angell Hall", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Astronomy","Middle East Studies","Philosophy","Planetarium"], "website":"", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Classical Studies", "group_id":"1161", "website":"" }, { "group_name":"Department of Astronomy", "group_id":"1178", "website":"" }, { "group_name":"Department of Middle East Studies", "group_id":"1927", "website":"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/middleeast" }, { "group_name":"Department of Philosophy", "group_id":"3186", "website":"http:\/\/www.lsa.umich.edu\/philosophy" }, { "group_name":"Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History", "group_id":"3825", "website":"" } ], "image_url":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_large_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_2x\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "group_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "group_thumb_square":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_thumb_square\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "group_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_large\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "group_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_large_crop":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_crop\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_list":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_list_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list_2x\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_grid":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_grid_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid_2x\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_feature_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_large\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg", "event_feature_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2025\/02\/event_132563_original-1.jpeg" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":21871256 } , "130005-21865047": { "datetime_modified":"20250122T181510", "datetime_start":"20250220T173000", "datetime_end":"20250220T190000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2025-02-20", "date_end":"2025-02-20", "time_start":"17:30:00", "time_end":"19:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Tiff Massey", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Tiff Massey: Whatupdoe", "event_subtitle":"Whatupdoe", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "description":"Tiff Massey is an artist whose practice centers around adornment and community. Massey creates jewelry, sculpture, performance, video, music, and immersive environments with large-scale jewelry pieces and quilts. Massey was the first Black woman to earn an MFA in metalsmithing from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She draws on 1980s hip-hop culture and her experiences as a Detroit native to explore the concept of adornment in African diaspora and contemporary issues surrounding race, class, and popular culture.\n\nMassey merges her art practice with meaningful community engagement to explore the relationship between identity, public space, and community. Her installation 7 Mile + Livernois, currently on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts, refers to the neighborhood at the heart of Detroit\u2019s Black business and fashion district. It is also where Massey grew up, and the site of a new art and community space Massey is building that blends her craft with her drive for community kinship. \n\nTiff Massey\u2019s art has been featured in solo and group shows around the US and internationally, and has garnered multiple awards. Massey\u2019s work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Museum of Art and Design in New York and the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia. She is the winner of the 2021 United States Artists Fellowship and the 2019 Art Jewelry Forum Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant, a two-time winner of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation\u2019s Knights Arts Challenge, and a 2015 Kresge Artists Fellowship recipient. \nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS, ALL ARTS, and PBS Books. 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Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.\r\n\r\nJane Wong is the author of the memoir *Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City* (Tin House, 2023). She is also the author of two books of poetry: *How to Not Be Afraid of Everything* (Alice James, 2021) and *Overpour* (Action Books, 2016). \r\n\r\nShe holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. Her poems can be found in places such as *Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019*, *Best American Poetry 2015*, *The New York Times*, *American Poetry Review*, *POETRY*, *The Kenyon Review*, *New England Review*, and others. Her essays have appeared in places such as *McSweeney's*, *Black Warrior Review*, *Ecotone*, *The Common*, *The Georgia Review*, *Shenandoah*, and *Want: Women Writing About Desire* (Catapult).\r\n\r\nA Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, Harvard\u2019s Woodberry Poetry Room, 4Culture, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay, the Jentel Foundation, Ucross, Mineral School, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Loghaven, and others. The recipient of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for Washington artists, her first solo art show \u201cAfter Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly\u201d was exhibited at the Frye Art Museum in 2019. Her performance and installation work has also been exhibited at the Richmond Art Gallery and the Asian Art Museum. She grew up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore and lives in Seattle.\r\n\r\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.\r\n\r\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. 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