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Introducing the 2021-2022 Shohet Scholars Grant Program Recipients
The Executive Board and Directors of the International Catacomb Society announce with great pleasure the Shohet Scholar Grant Program recipients for 2021-2022. In this application cycle, the ICS sought to to support specificallyjunior scholars without full-time employment, early career (untenured) faculty, or young scholars whoreceive little to no institutional support for their research. As…
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ICS Executive Board Report and 2020 Annual Appeal
Boston, December 19, 2020 Dear Friend of the ICS, This time of year we are all on the receiving end of many letters concluding with the words: “Please be as generous as you can” – even in an unusual year as we just experienced! In how many cases, however, can the works we encourage…
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Call for Applications to the 2021-2022 Shohet Scholars Grant Program for Research on the Ancient Mediterranean
The Shohet Scholars Grant Program of the International Catacomb Society is now accepting applications to the Shohet Scholars cohort of 2021-2022. Submission deadline is January 15, 2021 (11:59 p.m. EST). This annual grant program funds research on the Ancient Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Era to the Early Middle Ages. Shohet Scholars may do their research in…
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Letter from the ICS Executive Board on Society Events and Programs in 2020
Boston, August 25, 2020 Dear friends and colleagues of the ICS: We hope that you are keeping safe and well during these difficult times. The corona virus has upended our lives in ways that we could not have imagined six months ago. Just as pandemic dislocations have required us individually to adapt to a…
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Introducing the Shohet Scholars for 2020-2021
May 8, 2020 The Officers and Directors of the International Catacomb Society are pleased to announce the Shohet Scholars for 2020-2021: Davide Tanasi (Associate Professor, University of South Florida, Department of History)Title: The Digital afterlife of the Catacombs of Abbatija tad-Dejr at Rabat (Malta)Abstract: The research aims at the reappraisal through the application of…
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Call for Applicants to the 2020-2021 Shohet Scholars Grant Program for Research on the Ancient Mediterranean
The Shohet Scholars Grant Program of the International Catacomb Society is now accepting applications to the Shohet Scholars cohort of 2020-2021. Submission deadline is January 15, 2020. This annual grant program funds research on the Ancient Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Era to the Early Middle Ages. Shohet Scholars may do their research in the fields…
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Introducing the Shohet Scholars for 2019-2020
The officers and directors of the International Catacomb Society are pleased to announce the Shohet Scholars of 2019-2020: Lily Vuong, Central Washington University: “The Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography” This project examines the ways in which Marian Apocryphal material culture (mosaics, sculptures, ivory carvings, book covers, illuminated manuscripts, physical space of…
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More Than Just Mosaics: ICS NYC Lecture on Latest Finds from the Huqoq Excavations in Israel, 13 April 2019 at 4:30 p.m.
More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee Saturday, 13 April 2019, 4:30 p.m. (reception to follow) Fordham University – Lincoln Center CampusSchool of Law BuildingRoom 7-119 (Hill Conference Room)150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023 (map) Since 2011, Professor Jodi Magness has been directing excavations in the ancient…
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ICS a Fabulous Forty in 2019!
The International Catacomb Society strives to increase knowledge about the interconnections between Judaism, Christianity, and the surrounding ancient world by issuing grants, sponsoring lectures, and disseminating information and publications. The attached brochure (in pdf) gives the essential information (a bird’s-eye view) of the work that the society does and the goals we would like…
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Aphrodisias: A Greek City in Roman Asia – Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture on 2 December 2018
The next Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture will be held on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 in the Remis Auditorium in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This year’s lecturer will be Bert Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Oxford University. Aphrodisias is one of the best-preserved Greek-Roman sites in modern Turkey.…