Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series with Ann Hunnell Chen: Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos

Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Founded by the Seleucids, successively occupied by the Arsacids (Parthians) and Romans, and spectacularly conquered in a Sasanian siege, the borderland town of Dura-Europos (Syria) was home throughout its history to a fascinatingly diverse population. Since its initial excavation, the site has become justly famous thanks to unique circumstances of preservation that resulted in the...