NEWS
04/24/2006 - The Chronicle of HIgher Education: UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Link
03/25/2006 - The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Link
08/01/2005 - The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies
Link
06/28/2005 - UCLA Today: Prof. Willeke Wendrich
Link
05/05/2005 - Dr. Anahid Keshishian
Received Distinguished Lecturer Award. Details
3/21/2005 - The 3rd Annual Wep-Waut In Westwood
Ancient Egypt at UCLA.
10/28/2004 - Dr. Robert Englund
Featured in UCLA Magazine
UCLA
Magazine has an upcoming issue featuring Dr. Robert Englund. A PDF
can be downloaded here.
07/23/2004 -
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Endows New
Graduate Fellowship in Persian Studies for NELC Ph.D. Students
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Cultures at UCLA is pleased to announce the endowment of the Roshan
Fellowship in Graduate Studies. The fellowship has been made possible by
a generous gift from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute (www.roshan-institute.org).
This fellowship is earmarked for Ph.D. students working in any aspect of
Persian language and literature and Iranian culture and civilization,
broadly defined. The first award of this graduate fellowship will be for
the 2005-06 academic year; applications are due December 15, 2004. See
the NELC www site (http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Financial_Aid.htm)
for application details.
05/04/2004 -
Fedwa Malti-Douglas elected to American
Philosophical Society
BLOOMINGTON,
Ind. -- Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities
at Indiana University Bloomington, has been elected as a member of the
American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the
country. Malti-Douglas is only the fourth IU faculty member to receive
this honor.
"As an immigrant and a naturalized citizen, I feel privileged to be a
part of America's most exclusive and oldest learned society," said Malti-Douglas,
a native of Lebanon who also is a professor of gender studies and
comparative literature, and an adjunct professor of law at IUB. "I have
always tried to push back the boundaries of the fields in which I
worked, in both my teaching and my research. Hence, I find it validating
personally for me that after having received the highest honors
available in the Arab world, I should now be similarly recognized in the
United States."
Previous IU honorees include the late geneticist Marcus Rhoades (elected
in 1962), Distinguished Professor of Medicine Lawrence Einhorn (2001)
and the late IU President Herman B Wells (1964).
The APS, which was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, recognizes
extraordinary achievements in five classes of academic disciplines:
mathematical and physical sciences; biological sciences; social
sciences; humanities; and the arts, professions, and public and private
affairs. Malti-Douglas is one of 10 new resident members in the
humanities class. The APS has 912 current members, including 766
resident members and 146 foreign members.
This year's inductees include such notables as Supreme Court Justice
Stephen Breyer, Washington Post chairman Donald Graham, award-winning
author and historian David McCullough and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Professor Noam Chomsky.
Malti-Douglas' intellectual focus has been on visual and verbal
narratives, in both high and popular culture, especially as these
intersect with issues of marginality, disability, gender and the body.
Her work spans centuries and continents, exploring a wide range of
subjects including classical literature, medieval history, Arabo-Islamic
writing, gender relations, feminism, sexism, and privacy and disability
law.
Malti-Douglas began her career as a medievalist and then turned her
attention to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa, as well as
to the immigrant populations in France and Belgium. In recent years, she
has broadened her research area to include Europe, Latin America and the
United States.
Malti-Douglas is the author of The Starr Report Disrobed (Columbia
University Press, 2000), which earned her a Pulitzer Prize nomination,
and Men, Women and God(s), which was chosen as a Centennial Book by the
University of California Press in 1995. Her co-authored book Arab Comic
Strips (Indiana University Press, 1994) was named a Reader's Catalog
Selection (one of the Best Books in Print) by The New York Review of
Books' Reader's Catalog. Additionally, her editorial writing has been
published in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.
Malti-Douglas has delivered annual, named and endowed lectures, served
on editorial boards and visiting committees, and received numerous
grants and awards, including a $100,000 award in 1997 from the Kuwait
Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.
The American Philosophical Society promotes useful knowledge in the
sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research,
professional meetings, publications, library resources and community
outreach. Its membership has included some of the world's greatest
thinkers, such as John J. Audubon, Robert Fulton, Charles Darwin, Thomas
Edison, Alexander von Humboldt, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, Robert
Frost, George C. Marshall, Linus Pauling, Marie Curie and Margaret Mead.
Over 200 members of the society have received the Nobel Prize.
Members are encouraged to participate in the society's fellowship,
publications and committees and to attend bi-annual general meetings,
during which they discuss current topics in history, science and the
arts.
Malti-Douglas is looking forward to joining the discussion.
"The great debates of our age -- about artificial intelligence, about
the manipulation of the genome, about new definitions of gender, of
marriage and religion, even of liberty and security, and the clash of
cultures -- all these debates involve central questions in the
humanities," she said.
To speak to Malti-Douglas, contact Ryan Piurek, IU Media Relations, at
812-855-5393 or rpiurek@indiana.edu.
(taken from Indiana University news site:
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/1475.html)
04/28/2004 - Dr.
Robert Englund Wins Prestigious Lyman Award
Read all about it here.
04/14/2004 - Madeleine A. Fitzgerald Wins Distinguished
Chancellor's Award for
Postdoctoral Research for 2003
Dr.
Madeleine Fitzgerald was recently honored as the recipient of the
distinguished UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research for
2003. This $3,000 award is reserved for especially accomplished
UCLA postdoctoral fellows in recognition of their outstanding research.
This prize was established in 1998 to acknowledge the remarkable
contributions and integral role of our postdoctoral fellows to the
research mission of the university.
Dr. Fitzgerald has played a leading role in implementing an online catalog of all cuneiform inscriptions, an important advance in cuneiform studies. As a result of her work, the National Science Foundation/Max Planck Society-sponsored Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative now offers online resources and access tools for the analysis of nearly one million lines of ancient texts in a format that can be used by both specialists and generalists. Several large cultural heritage institutions use the project's standards. Dr. Fitzgerald has also helped to establish ASCII and XML standards for cuneiform encoding. She is now working on an automatic text composite generator for the literary and lexical record of Babylonia, which will fulfill a myriad of functions, including, including a data mining component. She received her PhD in Assyriology from Yale University.
04/13/2004 -
NELC Presents Lectures on the Early History of
Medicine
Prof. Markham J. Geller of University College
in London will offer four lectures on the early history of medicine
during the week of April 19, 2004.
1) Monday, the 19th of April: An
Introduction to Babylonian Medicine
2) Tuesday, the 20th of April: Medicine and the Babylonian Talmud
3) Wednesday, the 21st of April: Babylonian and Egyptian Medicine
4) Friday, the 23rd of April: Babylonian and Greek Medicine
Mark Geller, Professor of Semitic Languages at University College, is
one of the world's leading experts on the ancient Near East,
specializing in Sumerian and Akkadian magical literature and Babylonian
medical texts. His publications range from books and articles on early
science to mythology and Sumerian grammar, dealing with cuneiform texts
from the mid-third to the end of the first millennium B.C. All
lectures will be held in Public Policy 1234, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM.
Admission is free.
Sponsors: UCLA School of Medicine, UCLA Center for Near Eastern
Studies, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the
UCLA Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
03/01/2004 -
NELC Presents "Egypt and the Biblical World"
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at
UCLA is pleased to announce their participation in a series of lectures to be given
by UCLA professors Willemina Wendrich, Robert Mullins, Jacco Dieleman,
William Schniedewind, and Antonio Loprieno.
Until recent times, the stones of archaeology have been a silent witness to the dramas of the past as recorded in the Bible. With advances in archaeology and breakthroughs in understanding Ancient Egyptian writing with its neighbors in the Leant has been expanded and enriched. What does the record now tell us about Egypt and the Biblical World? Leading experts shed new light on the exodus of Hebrews from Egypt under Moses, the political role of Egypt in the ancient Canaan, cultural exchange within the region, and much more.
The lecture will take place on Saturday, March 6, 2004 from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on the UCLA Campus, 39 Haines Hall. Credit is available (.75 units) for UCLA students. Visit www.uclaextension.edu or call 310-825-2272 for details. Call 310-825-8871 to register.
11/11/2003 -
"Redhouse Prize Comes to the Turkic Section of
NELC for 3rd Time in a Row"
The Turkic section of the Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Cultures is pleased to announce that Mr.
Chuen-Fung Wong, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of
Ethnomusicology at UCLA, has won the James W. Redhouse Student Prize for
Best Progress in Turkish Language for the academic year 2002-2003.
This is the third time one of our students has received
this award that is given annually to one student in each of four regions
of the United States and Canada by AATT (the American Association of
Teachers of Turkic Languages) and the Turkish Studies Association.
Awardees may be graduates or undergraduates but must have completed a
full one-year course at any level of modern Turkish or Ottoman at a
university.
Mr. Wong, who is now in the second year Turkish class, studied Elementary Turkish at UCLA to prepare for future study of the Uighur language, which he needs for research into the musical culture of the Uighur people in Xinjiang, a province of China that the Uighur people regard as their motherland and call Şarkî (Eastern) Turkistan, He traveled to that country on a fellowship from the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies to study the Uighur language at Xinjiang University in Summer 2003. His impressions and some fascinating pictures that he took on this journey can be found on his webpage (http://www.geocities.com/wongchuenfung/xjpics).
Our other UCLA students who had previously won the same prize were Mr. Stephen Wilson (2001), a doctoral student formerly in Linguistics and now in the Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, and Ms. Natalie Oberstein (2002), a doctoral student in Indo-European linguistics.
10/23/2003 -
"NELC Presents Lecture by Professor Bruce
Zuckerman"
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at
UCLA is pleased to announce their sponsorship of a lecture to be given
by University of Southern California Associate Professor of Hebrew
Bible Dr. Bruce Zuckerman entitled "Pots and Alphabets: Refractions
of Reflections on Typological Method." The lecture
will take place on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 from 11AM-1PM in the NELC
Department Library (Kinsey 382).
10/20/2003 -
"New Position in Archaeology of Ancient Israel
and Early Judaism Approved"
A search for an assistant professor in the "Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Early Judaism" has
been approved effective July 1, 2005. For full details, see the job
description.
10/15/2003 -
"NELC Presents Lecture by
Professor Hans Nissen"
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at
UCLA is pleased to announce their sponsorship of a lecture to be given
by Prof. Hans J. Nissen of
Free University of Berlin entitled "The Emergence of Art and Writing
in the Ancient Near East." The lecture will take place on
Wed., Oct. 22, 2003 at
3 P.M., in Fowler A222. (flyer)
9/12/2003 -"NELC
Announces Search for Musa Sabi Chair in Iranian Studies"
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at
UCLA has announced an open-rank search for the Musa Sabi Chair in
Iranian Studies. Applications should be sent to the department by
Oct. 1, 2003 for an appointment for the fall quarter 2004.
(read full announcement and job description)
9/10/2003 -
"NELC Department BBQ"
Don't miss the annual NELC Dept. BBQ at the Chair's house
on Sept. 28th, 2003 from 4-7 p.m. All graduate students, research
associates, staff, faculty, and their significant others are invited.
Contact
Diane AbuGheida to RSVP.
5/27/2003 - "Cuneiform
Bits Become History Bytes"
Professor Robert Englund and his CDLI project are highlighted in
the Los Angeles Times.
5/02/2003 - "The Archaeology and History
of David and Solomon: The Great Debate"
Was there a David? Who was Solomon? What can we know about the origins
of the ancient Israelite state from archaeology? How do the Bible and
archaeology in the Middle East intersect? The "Great Debate"
brings together Israel Finkelstein of University of Tel Aviv and Larry
Stager of Harvard University, two of the major scholars, to discuss
the archaeology and history of the early Israelite monarchy.
(read UCLA NELC release)
April 20, 2002 - "NELC Welcomes Dr. Jacco
Dieleman"
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
today announced the appointment of Dr. Jacco Dieleman as a member of the
Egyptology faculty.
