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16 April 2025

RCHC
Old World's 2025 best article competition for young scholars: "Challenging the Social Order in Past Societies"

Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia is pleased to announce the second annual competition for young scholars. The topic for 2025 is "Challenging the Social Order in Past Societies". All authors aged 35 or below (born on 20 September of 1989 or later) are eligible to participate in the competition. The winner will be announced before 15 December, 2025. The prize is $1000. ...
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18 March 2025

Paige
Jana Matuszak Wins Old World's 2025 Best Article Competition for Young Scholars Award

RCHC is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Best Article Competition for Young Scholars organized for the journal Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia. After the initial screening and shortlisting, the Editorial Board members voted in favour of an article by Jana Matuszak, Assistant Professor of Sumerology at the University of Chicago. Her submission, “Doing Gender in Babylon: The Construction of Ideal Womanhood in Sumerian Literature from the Early 2nd Millennium BCE”, was acknowledged as a brilliant contribution that combines deep philological analysis with thought-provoking insights into the gender roles in ancient Mesopotamia. ...
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29 September 2024

Christine
Art and ritual in the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead—RCHC Lecture Series

On the evening of September 25, 2024, Research Centre for History and Culture held the first series of casual tea and academic exchange lectures of the Autumn semester 2024 , which was sponsored by the Centre for Foreign Languages and Cultures of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. In his presentation, Dr. Rune Nyord of Emory University in United States explained the role of images in the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, and Dr. Yegor Grebnev, an assistant professor from UIC whose research focuses on Early China, supplemented the presentation with some observations from ancient Chinese history. ...
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14 May 2024

RCHC
Old World's 2024 best article competition for young scholars: "Women of the Pre-Modern World"

Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia is pleased to announce the inaugural best article competition for young scholars. The topic for 2024 is "Women in the Pre-Modern World". All authors aged 35 or below (born on 20 September of 1988 or later) are eligible to participate in the competition. The winner will be announced before 15 December, 2024. The prize is $1000. ...
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13 April 2024

Christine
Online lecture on Islamic scholarship and Chinese civilization

RCHC is delighted to announce an upcoming online lecture scheduled for Wednesday, April 17th, 4 p.m. (Beijing Time), titled “Cultural Crossroads: The Persian Vizier Rashid al-Din and the Birth of Sinology as an Islamic Science” This lecture will be presented by Francesco Calzolaio from the University of Hong Kong. ...
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