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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, In memoriam Lance Reddick (1962-2023), on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
Today it is my sad duty to commemorate the passing of Lance Reddick. He was easily one of my favorites, not least for his distinctive saunter, and to an extent I felt like I knew him because his best roles (in my […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Hold onto your potatoes!, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 2 weeks ago
As an archaeologist, and, well, as a human being, I wish to congratulate Ke Huy Quan on his Oscar. My eight-year-old definitely wanted him to win for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (to be clear, I was 1 […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Prophet Jonah at Open Mic Night in Nineveh, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
“Assyria! What a country! Everything is great. The food is great. In Assyria you eat all kinds of great fish. In my country, great fish eats you!”
(No wonder he’s one of the minor prophets.)
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Let's Get Ready to Rumble!, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Yesterday I finally went to see the exhibition Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Great stuff as always, and it was especially wonderful to […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, In memoriam Amélie Kuhrt (1944-2023), on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I have just received the distressing news of the death of Amélie Kuhrt, one of the foremost historians of the Achaemenid Empire and the ancient Near East more generally. Along with Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg she […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Customer is Always Right, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
I just read a distressing item by Christiane Gruber in New Lines about an adjunct instructor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, whose spring courses were cancelled after a student objected to the […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, A New Literary Genre, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
One of the great pleasures of teaching this course for the Honors College at Hofstra is the opportunity to read some really great stuff, like Montaigne’s Essays. Another pleasure is seeing the invention of new […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Palmyra in Perspective, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
In a few days I depart for Copenhagen for the conference Palmyra in Perspective at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. I have just looked at the conference program, and I will be in esteemed […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, In memoriam Oscar White Muscarella (1931-2022), on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Last night I received the sad news that Oscar White Muscarella has died. He was, without question, the conscience of the field of Near Eastern archaeology. At a time when it was rarely even discussed openly, he […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Universe Hates Parthian Art, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
That, at least, is the only logical conclusion I can draw from the fact that I tested positive for COVID two days ago, right before I was supposed to give my talk on ‘Greek Style and the Problem of Parthian Art’ […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Persian Pharaohs, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
I have just received the flyer for my lecture on Thursday night/Friday morning at Fudan University in Shanghai. It looks awesome, so, in the interests of shameless self-promotion, I post it here, in both its […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Scourge of the Bronze Age?, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Some things never change. Today I learned of the discovery a truly remarkable artifact, an ivory comb excavated at Tel Lachish in Israel. The comb was actually discovered back in 2016, but it was only late last […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Actually, It Is Repatriation, and, More Importantly, It's Better than the Alternative, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
In a recent opinion piece in Hyperallergic, entitled Sorry, But This Is Not “Repatriation”, Yannis Hamilakis lambasts the recent agreement between billionaire Leonard Stern and Greece to transfer ownership of his […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Three Upcoming Lectures, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Once again I (happily) find myself busy with speaking engagements, including two next week. First, on Friday, November 18 (which will be the evening of November 17 on the eastern seaboard of the US) I am giving a […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, On Bellyaching, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I recently read a short editorial by Richard Wilk, an anthropologist at Indiana University whom I esteem most highly, entitled ‘Why I have stopped doing free academic work.’ In it, Wilk rightly points out that […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, On Following Directions, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago
I would like to compliment one of my students (who shall remain anonymous for reasons of privacy) on his recent quiz:
Not only did he get the answer right, but he followed the directions to the letter!
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Has anyone else noticed that Clancy Brown is a dead ringer for Artabanus II?, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
Because I have:
I smell a casting opportunity. It’s high time someone made a movie about internecine strife in the House of Arsaces. Actually, perhaps it would better as a soap opera.
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Nichelle Nichols in Space!, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 6 months, 4 weeks ago
I have been meaning to commemorate the life of Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura on Star Trek, as well as in a few episodes of Futurama. When I was very young, I liked Scotty because of how he talked. When I […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Museum Fellowships and Bathrooms, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
I’ve been meaning to write for a while to comment on two important items of museum-related news. (Well, perhaps ‘news’ is a strong term.) The first is a lovely piece in Hyperallergic about the best museum […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Santa!, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
I became very excited the other day when I learned that the next president of the University of Michigan will be Santa!
Santa and Merlin working in the lab in a 1959 Mexican film
It turns out, however, […]
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