The Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others more recently settled—that played important roles in North African society. French colonial rule, however, brought changes that profoundly reshaped Jews’ relationship to their Muslim neighbors. […]

Ancient Studies presents the 2026 Carl Deppe Lecture featuring Kara Cooney, who will present her lecture "When Women Ruled the World." Who were the women who once ruled the richest and most successful state of the ancient Mediterranean and African Bronze Age? Ancient Egypt's female kings, including Hatshepsut and Nefertiti, ruled against all odds of […]