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Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwab (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

"Egyptian Things Matter. Herodotus on Material Religion in Egypt."

Prof. Dr. Schwab specialises in ancient religion, Greek philosophy, historiography and Christian literature in late antiquity.

Organiser: LMU Munich

Chair: David Fearn

The event is sponsored by LMUexcellent (DFG Excellence Initiative).

Middle East and North Africa Reading Group Session

About Baghdad is a 2004 documentary on Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime in 2003. It features Iraqi writer Sinan Antoon's return to Iraq after his departure in 1991, and tries to record the voices of Iraqis and their different responses to the situation.

All postgraduate students and staff are welcome!

Please contact Nadeen Dakkak - n.dakkak@warwick.ac.uk - if any questions.

Professor Merze Tate (1905-1996), an African American woman, pioneered

in the fields of diplomatic history and international relations during her tenure

at Howard University from 1942 to 1977. Trained at both Oxford and

Harvard, Tate was one of the few black women academics of her generation.

A prolific scholar with a wide-range of interests, her works covered the fields

of disarmament, the diplomatic and political histories of the Pacific, and the

role of railways and mineral extraction industries in the colonization of Africa.

Seminar discussing "The French Revolution Effect", Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies, 15, 2 (2018), edited by Sanja Perovic and Rosa Mucignat.

Chair: Dr Katherine Astbury (ÌÇÐÄTV)

Speaker: Kate Courage, on 'A Subject Librarian, by Any Other Name...: Careers in Academic Libraries'