Research Focus Group Talk: Gilgamesh and the Many Faces of Mesopotamian Heroism

Please join us on Friday, May 1 at 1:30PM PST for a virtual lecture by Eric Harvey on “Gilgamesh and the Many Faces of Mesopotamian Heroism.” Harvey will introduce the Epic of Gilgamesh alongside other Mesopotamian narratives of kings, warriors, and sages, illustrating the strikingly varied vision of heroism produced in the ancient Near East.

Eric Harvey holds a PhD from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, with a specialization in Bible and the Ancient Near East. He studies the history, literature, and religions of ancient Israel, Syria, Iraq, and the surrounding areas. He is the author of Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel. Harvey also writes The Blind Scholar, a popular blog where he documents creative new ways to engage in scholarship, family, and the world as a blind person.

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Cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Low-Resource Research Ethics Research Focus Group, UCSB Office of Teaching and Learning, Department of Classics, and LOREL Lab