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Welcome to our new Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Material Culture – Dr. Megan Daniels
The CNERS Department welcomes our newest colleague, Dr. Megan Daniels, who officially took up the position of Assistant Professor of Greek Material Culture on July 1, 2020. Megan Daniels joins UBC from her previous position as lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England in Australia. She obtained a B.A. […] Read More
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Hysteria and mental illness, dissection and anatomy, reproduction, masculinity, menstruation, circumcision, trans bodies, intersex bodies, fat bodies, and sexuality. Read More
THE EVOLUTION OF JEWISH ETHICS
Fall Term 1. Jewish responses to poverty and injustice, safeguarding life, human dignity, medical ethics, business ethics, humility, family relations, and issues that have arisen from the pandemic. Includes an introduction to the key texts of the Jewish tradition – from the Hebrew Bible and classical rabbinic literature to contemporary Jewish prayer books. Read More
Fall 2020 Course Delivery Online
During Winter Term 1 2020 (September to December) all courses in ARBC, CLST, CNRS, GREK, HEBR, LATN, NEST, and RELG in Term 1 are online. The Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies will not be offering any courses on campus. This is in response to the decision made by the University and the […] Read More
Ornaments in Life and Death: Jewelry and People in a Byzantine cemetery
14th Oct 2020Georgios Makris, UBC (Art History, Visual Art and Theory)
4th Nov 2020
Paul Spilsbury, Regent College
Paul Spilsbury, Regent College
The Battle of Cannae in the Roman Poetic Imagination
25th Nov 2020Neil Bernstein, Ohio University
Welcome to our new Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Material Culture – Dr. Megan Daniels
The CNERS Department welcomes our newest colleague, Dr. Megan Daniels, who officially took up the position of Assistant Professor of Greek Material Culture on July 1, 2020. Megan Daniels joins UBC from her previous position as lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England in Australia. She obtained a B.A. […]
Franco De Angelis’s new edited volume A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World out
The Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies is pleased to announce that Franco De Angelis’s new edited volume A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World is out. Franco De Angelis (ed.), A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World (=Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; Hoboken, NJ and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2020), […]
The Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies is pleased to announce that Matt McCarty’s coedited volume The Archaeology of Mithraism: New Finds and Approaches to Mithras-Worship has been released as a BABesch supplement. In exploring a Persianate cult in the Roman Empire, the book seeks to shift focus away from questions of abstract […]
Fall 2020 Course Delivery Online
During Winter Term 1 2020 (September to December) all courses in ARBC, CLST, CNRS, GREK, HEBR, LATN, NEST, and RELG in Term 1 are online. The Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies will not be offering any courses on campus. This is in response to the decision made by the University and the […]
Dr. Florence Yoon’s new book, Euripides: Children of Heracles, was published in January by Bloomsbury. This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides’ Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles’ family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and […]
Robert Cousland on BCIT’s ‘For the Record’
Dr. Robert Cousland recently did a radio interview on Ancient Greek mythology and religion for British Columbia Institute of Technology’s show ‘For the Record’. Listen to his interview here.
Dr. Anthony Keddie’s New Book is Published
The Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies Department is pleased to announce a publication by Dr. Anthony Keddie, which has just been published by Cambridge University Press. The title of Tony’s book is Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins and here is a blurb: Anthony Keddie investigates […]
Dr. Siobhán McElduff Receives a Public Humanities Course-Release Award
The Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies is pleased to announce that Siobhán McElduff has been named as a recipient of a Public Humanities Course-Release Award. This award, bestowed by the new Public Humanities Hub (PHH) at UBC-Vancouver, supports research excellence among Humanities scholars in the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Education at […]
CNERS STATEMENT ON CLIMATE STRIKES
The Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies stands in solidarity with the students, staff and faculty at the University of British Columbia and worldwide who will participate in the Global Climate Strike on September 27, 2019, to demand urgent action on the climate emergency. The Department and its instructors resolve to accommodate, wherever […]
Diamond Foundation donates $1M to support Jewish studies at UBC
The Development Office has announced a generous $1M gift made by the Diamond Foundation to support Jewish Studies at UBC. The announcement can be found here: https://support.ubc.ca/news/diamond-foundation-donates-1m-to-support-jewish-studies-at-ubc/ Congratulations to Dr. Gregg Gardner, current Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics, on this incredible gift, which will open up all kinds of new and exciting opportunities […]
Sessional Lecturer Positions 2020-2021 Academic Year
The Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies is now accepting applications for Sessional positions for 2020-2021 academic year. Subject to budgetary and enrolment considerations, the successful candidates will teach the following course: LATN 101 003 – Beginning Latin I […]
The Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies is now accepting applications for Sessional positions for 2020-2021 academic year. Subject to budgetary and enrolment considerations, the successful candidates will teach the following course: LATN 101 003 – Beginning Latin I […]
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