The Minerva Center

On Tuesday and Wednesday, January 14th-15th, 2025, the RIAB Minerva Center will conduct a workshop at Leipzig University on the topic...

On Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, a very interesting workshop will be conducted, jointly organized by the Kinneret Academic College, Ben-Gurion...

Next week, we will be holding a fascinating joint Israeli/German/Swiss/Italian conference on "State Formation and Re-Urbanisation in the...

Next week (19-20 of July, 2023), an academic meeting on perspectives on non-violent resistance in the past, present and future will be...

See below the notice on the conference; full details and schedule will appear in the near future!

Please note that the Minvera RIAB Center workshop scheduled for Monday, May 22nd, 2023 in the late afternoon/evening, on "Fortifications...

On Monday, May 22nd, 2023 in the late afternoon/evening, a RIAB Minerva Center workshop on Fortifications and Symbolism in the Ancient...

On Tuesday, May 16th, at 12:00 noon, Prof. Liz Arnold (GVSU) will give a lecture for the RIAB Minerva Center (in the laboratory of the...

A RIAB Minerva Center lecture/workshop by Dr. Matt Susnow (post-doc at the Hebrew University) entitled: "Ritual, Scripted and Unscripted:...

On April 18th, 2023, a RIAB Minerva Center Meeting dealing with the "History of Mentalities in Ancient Israel" will be held at the...

We are happy to inform that a new volume in the RIAB Series has appeared: David T. Sugimoto (ed.). 2022. Tel 'En Gev: Report of the Keio...

Angelika Berlejung, RIAB Center co-director recently published (as co-editor) a comprehensive volume dealing with archaeological evidence...

RIAB Center Member Dr. Assaf Kleiman (BGU) has just published a book in the RIAB Series. The book is: Kleiman, A. 2022. Beyond Israel and...

The Minerva Stiftung has just informed the RIAB Minerva Center co-directors that the center's tenure will be extended for an additional...

A "Minerva School", organized by RIAB Center members Shira Albaz, Laura Gonnermann and Vanessa Workman, entitle "Crafting for the Gods:...

As part of the RIAB Center's public outreach, we have decided to put up a "Mini-MOOC" (=mini Massive Open Online Course) in which short...

The 4th volume of the RIAB series has appeared. The volume, edited by Felix Hagemeyer (RIAB Center member), is the proceedings of a RIAB...

Laura Gonnermann, Vanessa Workman, and Shira Albaz, RIAB Center members, received funding from the Minerva Stiftung to organize a...

Save the date! Mark this in your calendars! First notice and invitation to a full-day seminar on “Material Religion in the Ancient Near...

The Minerva RIAB Center is happy to announce the publication of the 3rd volume in the center's book series (RIAB, Mohr Siebeck). The...