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  • The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies celebrates its new identity

    Questioning and building upon what has come before We are excited to announce that the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies (CNERS to our friends) in UBC’s Faculty of Arts has officially changed its name to the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (AMNE). This new name better reflects the integrated […]

  • Identifying the portable toilets of the ancient Roman world

    New research published Friday, February 11, 2022 in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports reveals how archaeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber pot.

  • CNERS FACULTY ELECTED TO RSC

    Honour recognizes distinguished individuals from all branches of learning who have made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life.

  • STATEMENT OF SUPPORT AGAINT RACISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND POLICE VIOLENCE

    AMNE Statement of Support against Racism, White Supremacy, and Police Violence George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks would still be alive today if it weren’t for systemic anti-Black racism and its expression as police violence. Their lives matter, and so do the lives of countless other people of […]

  • WELCOME TO DR. PHILIP YOO

    Philip Yoo joins Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies in 2021/22 as Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies. A native of Mississauga, Ontario, he is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Comm. in Commerce and Finance; M.Div. from Knox College), Yale University (S.T.M.), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.). Before his arrival […]

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The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies examines and builds upon what has come before. We are an interdisciplinary unit committed to furthering new and emerging methodologies, and interrogating older frameworks of inquiry. We critically engage with the study of the languages, literature, history, religion, institutions, and material culture of the lands and peoples centred around the Mediterranean and the Tigris-Euphrates river system, and the reception and representation of these culture to the modern day.

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Homo Migrans: Modeling Mobility and Migration in Human History edited by Megan Daniels
Megan Daniel’s edited volume, Homo Migrans: Modeling Mobility and Migration in Human History has just been published through SUNY Press! This publication stems from her year-long post-doctoral fellowship at SUNY Buffalo, where she organized an international conference on the topic. The volume brings together archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and geneticists to discuss the past, present, and […]

Thomas Schneider has established the Pacific Alliance of Liberal Arts Colleges (PALAC)
Thomas Schneider has been successful in establishing a new consortium of liberal arts institutions across the Pacific Basin, the Pacific Alliance of Liberal Arts Colleges (PALAC), in conversations with many senior administrators and more recently, Vice President Bryan Penprase from Soka University of America as a co-initiator. The new alliance groups together as founding members […]

Dr. Milstein elected member of Humanities and Social Sciences Class of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen
The department congratulates Dr. Sara Milstein on her election to the Humanities and Social Sciences Class of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen in Germany. The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen was founded in 1751 and is the oldest continuously existing institution of its kind in Germany. It brings together academics who, as stated in […]

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