International Catacomb Society

For Immediate Release April 30, 2016 2016-2017 Shohet Scholars Awards The officers and directors of the International Catacomb Society are pleased to announce the Shohet Scholars for 2016-2017: Nathaniel DesRosiers (Stonehill College & Brown University) “Aphrodisias: City of the Gods” This study will examine the religious life of the ancient Roman city of Aphrodisias. The…

The Ethyle R.Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, in cooperation with the Departments of History, Anthropology and Archaeology, Art, and Classics presents Christianity Underground: Death, Ritual and the Catacombs of Ancient Rome Thursday, May 5, 2016. 12:30 to 2 p.m. Amersfort Lounge, 2nd Floor Brooklyn College Student Center Campus Road and East 27th Street In this symposium, Professors…

2016 Boston Area Roman Studies Conference: Representations: the world of the word in Late Republican Rome (honoring Ann Vasaly) Boston University, Department of Classical Studies, 745 Commonwealth Ave., B19, Boston MA 02215 Fri., Apr. 22, 2016, 3:15 – 7 p.m. The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference…

The International Catacomb Society welcomes Prof. Arthur Urbano to its Board of Directors.  Prof. Urbano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at Providence College where he has been teaching since 2005. He received a BA with a double concentration in Classics and Italian Studies from Brown University in 1995. In 1999 he earned an…

Monday, April 18, 2016, at 4 pm, Prof. Jodi Magness, Director of the Huqoq excavation and longtime advisor to the ICS, will deliver a public lecture at Harvard’s Semitic Museum about her latest discoveries at Huqoq: “”Samson in Stone: New Discoveries in the Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee”. The lecture is free…

From ICS Advisor, Prof. Tessa Rajak (Somerville College, Oxford): Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a new digital resource, the Josephus Reception Archive: http://josephus.orinst.ox.ac.uk/archive/jra. We hope you will visit it and find it useful. We warmly welcome feedback and offers of participation in the future development of the JRA. The online platform presents…

Petra: Lost City of Stone, a 2015 documentary by Gary Glassman (husband of ICS Director Joan Branham), winner of the 2015 “Città di Rovereto – Archeologia Viva” prize, will be shown at “TourismA” an international exposition on archaeology in Firenze on Sunday, February 21, at 8:10 am in the auditorium of the Palazzo dei…

PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI (Firenze) 19 – 21 febbraio 2016 tourismA – Salone Internazionale dell’Archeologia Una manifestazione di tre giorni, negli spazi prestigiosi del centralissimo Palazzo dei Congressi. tourismA è un momento di esposizione, divulgazione e confronto di tutte le iniziative legate alla comunicazione del mondo antico e alla valorizzazione delle sue testimonianze. Il Salone Internazionale…