The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations is hosting a series of talks in December:
| December 1, 4:00 pm Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA | Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Associate Professor, Yale University A Queen in Jerusalem: Helena of Adiabene and the Malleability of Memory |  |
| December 8, 2025, 4:00pm Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA | Gregg Gardner, Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor, University of British Columbia How Matter Matters: Material Culture, Sabbath Lamps, and the Making of Rabbinic Judaism |  |
| Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 4:00pm Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA | Simcha Gross, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Jews on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier: The Politics of Belonging |  |
| Thursday, December 11, 2025, 2:30pm Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA | Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Professor, Tel Aviv University Are the Rabbis Part of Wisdom Literature? |  |
These talks are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations @ Harvard.