Rivers of History: The Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates

Name: Rivers of History: The Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates
Start: 2026-11-07T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-07T17:30:00+00:00
Location: Kenan Conference Center

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When: Saturday, November 7, 20269:00 AM – 12:30 PM ESTAdd to calendar Google Calendar
Where: Kenan Conference CenterOpen in Maps
Hosted by: Carolina Public Humanities

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A Weekend Seminar

The great rivers of the ancient world were the foundations of civilization itself. Learn how the Nile’s annual floods sustained Egyptian agriculture and gave rise to a worldview built on contrasts: fertility and barrenness, light and darkness, river and desert. Then trace four thousand years of efforts by rulers from the Akkadians to the Ottomans to harness the Tigris and Euphrates in service of state power, and how those same rivers proved the undoing of those rulers.

Topics & Speakers:

Life on the Nile: River, Cosmos, and Culture in Ancient Egypt

Jennifer Gates-Foster, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology

Arteries of Civilization: The Tigris and Euphrates and State Power from Sargon to Sulayman and Saddam

Michael O’Sullivan, Assistant Professor of History

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