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Reality and Irreality: The Play of Substances in Ancient Maya Art
 

Stephen Houston, Depee Family Professor, Brown University
October 20, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 208, WHC, 53 Wall Street

Stephen Houston serves as the Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University.  Houston is the author, co-author, and editor of 14 books, among them, Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color and The Classic Maya, and the author of many articles, chapters, and reviews. A MacArthur Fellow, he has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the School of American Research, Dumbarton Oaks, and the American Philosophical Society.  He now directs archaeological research at the Classic Maya city of El Zotz, Guatemala, with support from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

YALE BABYLONIAN COLLECTION, CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009

SYMPOSIUM, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 101

1:30 PM "Yale and the Babylonians, 1909", Benjamin R. Foster, Yale University

2:00 PM "They Wrote Against Clay: Panbabylonism and the Language of Cultural Diffusionism", Steven W. Holloway, American Theological Library Association

2:45 PM "Sherlock Holmes in the Yale Babylonian Collection", Marc Van de Mieroop, Columbia University

FILM SCREENING, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 101

4:00 PM "Babylon and Hollywood a Century Ago", Karen Polinger Foster, Yale University
4:15 PM "The Fall of Babylon", Episodes from the 1916 film "Intolerance", F. W. Griffith

TOURS OF EXHIBITIONS, Sterling Memorial Library

5:30 PM Treasures of the Yale Babylonian Collection and From Nineveh to New Haven

CONCERT, From The Euphrates To The Nile, Battell Chapel

8:00 PM, Saybrook College Orchestra

Conductors: Arianne Abela and Ng Tian Hui
Rossini: Overture from Semiramide
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
Handel: selections from Belshazzar's Feast
Belshazzar: Michael Sansoni
Nitocris: Awet Andemicael
Cyrus: Peter Minnig
Daniel: Judith Malafronte
 

ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, the MacMillan Center, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Yale Babylonian Collection.

For further information, contact karen.foster@yale.edu or benjamin.foster@yale.edu
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Last Updated: October 19, 2009