Description:

The Global Antiquities Research Workshop presents Dr. Oya Topçuoğlu:

Going, Going, Gone!—The Online Market in Mesopotamian Antiquities in Times of Conflict

Please RSVP to classics@northwestern.edu for the ZOOM link.

About the speaker

Oya Topçuoğlu is Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Middle East and North African Studies Program at Northwestern. She holds a PhD in the Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and a BA in Ottoman History from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.

About the Global Antiquities Research Workshop

The Global Antiquities research group brings together Northwestern scholars who specialize in the study of the literatures, histories, and cultures of the ancient world, regardless of discipline or regional specialty. Our interests range from Mesopotamian art to Greek philosophy, from classical Latin poetry to Hindu Brahmin law, and from Tang dynasty China to Syriac and Coptic Christianity. The group (formed in the summer of 2017) gets together once or twice a quarter for colloquia, field trips, or invited talks. The group's goal is to enliven both the scholarship and the teaching of its members, and to offer a fresh and exciting take – interdisciplinary and global in essence – on antiquity more broadly, in order to make a significant contribution to the humanities within the university and beyond it.