International Catacomb Society

Notre Dame Rome Summer Seminar on the Jubilee with International Catacomb Society Vice President Robin M. Jensen: http://italianstudies.nd.edu/rome-seminar/rome-seminar-2016-jubilee/

“Shaping Religious Space in Roman and Late Antique Sepphoris” Zeev Weiss NYC ISAW Visiting Research Scholar February 16, 2016, 6 pm in the ISAW Lecture Hall, 15 East 84th St. New York, NY Prof. Weiss, Eleazar L. Sukenik Professor of Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Director of the Hebrew University Sepphoris excavations and…

Professor Tessa Rajak (Oxford University, ICS Advisor) and Professor Steven Fine (Yeshiva University, Shohet Scholar) are among the invited speakers at Boston College’s Concoran Chair Conference on “Marginality and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World” April 3-4, 2016 at Boston College’s Chestnut Hill Campus.  http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/pdf/2016%20Corcoran%20Chair%20Conference_Flyer.pdf

2016 has been another record year for applications to the ICS’s Shohet Scholars Program, in terms of numbers and quality. The Scholarship Committee is processing all materials, which will be turned over to an external jury for review. The jury, consisting of specialists in diverse fields of ancient studies, is the exclusive judge of…

The International Catacomb Society welcomes to its Advisory Board Prof. Zeev Weiss, Eleazar L. Sukenik Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

ICS directors, current members, scholarship recipients, and lecturers are chairing or presenting at sessions of the 147th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) and Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), in San Francisco, CA from January 6-9, 2016. The SCS and AIA programs are available at: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/147th-annual-meeting and https://archaeological.org/sites/default/files/files/2016%20AM%20Program%20-%20Final.pdf. Program Highlights (with ICS affiliates):…