Glen Bowersock

Professor Emeritus of Ancient History

Institute for Advanced Study

“Paganisms from Abraham to Muhammad”

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

2-4pm

History Lounge

(Room 5114)

During his long and distinguished career, Professor Bowersock taught ancient history at Oxford and Harvard before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in 1980.  He is the author of more than 300 articles and books on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history, including recently Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity: The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures (Hanover, NH, 2012) and The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (Oxford, 2013).

Co-sponsored by the PhD Programs in Sociology, History, and Classics, and by the Committee for the Study of Religion

 Free and open to the public.