Events

2024–2025 Program

Calendar

— February 22 – 17:00 – Jamie Fraser, Dorot Director — Inaugural Lecture: “The Archaeology of Olive Oil: Excavating an Ancient Olive Oil ‘Factory’ in Jordan.” At the Albright and on Zoom. Reception after the lecture. Recording here.
 
— February 29 – 17:00 – Emily Branton, Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Junior Research Fellow, Public Lecture: “The Missing Monument: Uncovering the Conceptual Foundations of a Biblical Metaphor.” Recording here.
 

— March 21 – 17:00 – Louis Fishman, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow: “Jews and Palestinians between Istanbul and Jerusalem.” Recording here.

— May 16 – 17:00 – Elisabetta Boaretto, Weizmann Institute of Science: “Radiocarbon Chronology in Historical Jerusalem and the Challenges to Reconstruct Its Urban Development.” Public event with post-lecture refreshments.

— June 10 – 17:00 – Book Launch Panel for Jodi Magness’ Jerusalem Through the Ages. Recording here.

— June 26, 2024 – 17:00 – Ron Hendel, Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor: “Giants and the Conquest of Canaan: On the Landscape of Memory.”

— September 25, 2024 – 17:00 – Yosef Garfinkel, HUJI – Book Launch: Colonial Archaeology in Palestine in the 1930s: The First Expedition to Lachish. Recording here.

— October 9, 2024 – 17:00 – Roy Marom, Ernest S. Frerichs Annual Professor, “Rural Palestine Between Written and Oral Sources.” Recording here.

— November 6, 2024 – 17:00 – Issam Halayqa, Educational and Cultural Affairs Annual Professor, “Persian Coins from the Palestinian Territories.” Recording here.

— December 4, 2024 – Reception 17:00; Lecture 18:00 – Rafi Greenberg, “Staying on the Surface at Qadas.” Public Lecture, at the Albright & on Zoom, with a post-lecture reception. Add to calendar.

— December 11, 2024 – 17:00 – James Fraser, “Man-Hunting in the Desert: The Ill-Fated Palmer Sinai Expedition of 1882.” Public Lecture, at the Albright & on Zoom, with a post-lecture reception. Add to calendar.

— February 12, 2025 – 17:00 – Alexander Dorr, Educational and Cultural Affairs Junior Research Fellow, Public Lecture, at the Albright and on Zoom, with a post-lecture reception. Add to calendar.

— May 7, 2025 – 17:00 – Eric Cline – Book Talk – After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations. Public Lecture, at the Albright & on Zoom, with a post-lecture reception. Add to calendar.

— May 21, 2025 – 17:00 – Nadia Ben-Marzouk – Crafting Communities into Contact: Contextualizing Glyptic Interconnections in the Levant, Egypt, and Aegean (ca. 2500-1500 BCE). Public Lecture, at the Albright & on Zoom, with a post-lecture reception. Add to calendar.

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