Tim Harrison, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Univerisity of Toronto in Canada and visiting professor at the American Univeristy of Beirut (2016-2017) will deliver the lecture

“Sea Peoples and neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin'”

About the lecturer:
Dr. Timothy P. Harrison is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, a position he filled in 1997; he presently also holds the Alfred H. Howell Chair in History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut.
Professor Harrison earned his PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Chicago in 1995, completing a dissertation on the Early Bronze Age in the Highlands of Central Jordan. Prior to his appointment at Toronto, Professor Harrison was a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, working on the Megiddo 3 publication project. He has directed excavations at the Bronze and Iron Age site of Tell Madaba, in Jordan, and currently is directing the Tayinat Archaeological Project on the Plain of Antioch in southeastern Turkey. These projects form part of a broader, regional research effort that seeks to shed light on the rise of early complex societies in the eastern Mediterranean region. In 2012, he launched the CRANE Project (Computational Research on the Ancient Near East), an international consortium of projects conducting research in the Orontes Watershed (www.crane.utoronto.ca). Professor Harrison has participated in numerous other excavations and field expeditions in Jordan and Turkey. He served as President of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), the leading international professional association dedicated to the study of the cultures and history of the Middle East, between 2008 and 2013.

lecture image: Captured Sea People from Medinet Habu. (Wikimedia Commons)