skip to content
Monday November 23, 2009 
Chancellor Humanities Events UCI School of Humanities

 

Humanities Podcasts

Title and DateDescription
Apocalypse as History: the Near East and Beyond
10/29/08
Apocalypse as History: the Near East and Beyond
A One-Day Conference on Eschatological Tradition in Ancient Cultures
135 Humanities Instructional Building | University of California, Irvine
October 29th, 2008; 4:00 - 7:00 PM

Chair: Nancy McLoughlin (UC Irvine)
Tom Sizgorich (UC Irvine)

The History of the Future: Narrative, Community and the End of All Things in the Late Ancient Near East

Ra`anan Boustan (UCLA)
The Temple Vessels in Early Byzantine
Apocalyptic: Jewish Counter-Geography in a Christianizing Empire

Maged Mikhail (CSUF)
Reclaiming Coptic and Copto-Arabic Apocalyptic Texts as Historical Narratives

Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
The Zoroastrian Apocalypse as History

Rachel Sarah O'Toole (UC Irvine)
Colonial Sins, Disastrous Floods, and Mythic Accounts in 16th Century Coastal Peru
Discussant: James Given (UC Irvine)

Sponsored by the UCI History Department and the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture

Click on a file name to play:
  1. The Apocalypse as History: the Near East and Beyond -  Eschatological_Tradition.mp3

Office of the Dean | humanities@uci.edu
4100 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-3375


 
Copyright © 2005-2006 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.