CANES Commencement Gathering

Memorial Union (Check TITU)
@ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

The Department of Classical & Ancient Near Eastern Studies will host a celebration in honor of its spring graduates on Wednesday, May 7, from 2:30 – 4pm at Memorial Union. All CANES graduates (Classical Humanities …

Undergraduate Research symposium

Union South
@ 9:30 am - 4:15 pm

Open to all undergrads with mentors to share research (poster or presentations). More information: https://ugradsymposium.wisc.edu

Celebrating Jewish Heritage: An Evening with Jay Michaelson

WI Idea Lounge, Pyle Center
@ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Join us April 24 for a special evening with Jay Michaelson—renowned writer, journalist, rabbi, meditation teacher, and scholar of religion. Michaelson, an author who has written and published ten books and 1,500 articles, will lead a …

Inclusive Excellence Movie Night

1310 Sterling Hall
@ 6:30 pm

Join us Tuesday evening for a movie night dedicated to deepening our department’s understanding and values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ll examine these themes as they are portrayed in the film Chi-Raq, a modern …

Virtually Unwrapping the Herculaneum Scrolls – Brent Seales

L160 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Discover how cutting-edge technology is unlocking history’s lost texts. The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture welcome Brent Seales, UW–Madison Computer Sciences alumnus …

Palmyrene Epigraphy ⎻ Jeremy Hutton (CANES Brown Bag Series)

1418 Van Hise Hall
@ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

This brown-bag lunch will present recent work done by the Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic inscription project. Prof. Hutton will give a recap of methods of RTI, survey a few recent publications, and talk about directions for …