Karen B. Stern Professor of History, Brooklyn College of the City, University of New York Karen B. Stern is Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Her research is deeply interdisciplinary. She studied Classics with honors at Dartmouth College, earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University, and has excavated and conducted field research in different areas of the Mediterranean, including Jordan, Greece, Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel. Several grants, fellowships, and residencies from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Council of American Overseas Research Centers and the Getty Villa have supported her research, which deploys methods from fields of archaeology, anthropology, epigraphy, history, and religion to investigate the daily lives and material culture of Jews and Christians in antiquity, who inhabited areas around the Mediterranean through Arabia and Mesopotamia. She is author of Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa (Brill 2007); and Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity (2018; paperback ed. 2020), winner of a 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award through the Association for Jewish Studies (category: Jews and the Arts); and co-editor of With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal: Essays on Relationships in the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Saul M. Olyan (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021). She will serve as a visiting fellow at Bard Graduate Center in Spring 2023 to advance her current book project, which considers the lived history of Judaism through the senses; she is also preparing a museum exhibition on holy graffiti. Participant In: Coding and the New Human Phenotype October 15-16, 2022 Past Event From the level of DNA to that of phenotype, life may be viewed as an articulation of code. Within such a model, phenotypes are a kind of abstraction of the DNA code. Starting with the genome, the DNA winds its way through RNA, proteins, and cellular process outward into the world beyond, and in the… read more » Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time October 15, 2022 at 10:00am EST Past Event Watch the video » How we discover codes, bearers of meaning, and how we reconstruct that meaning in archeology & paleoanthropology, in psychoanalysis, and in neuroscience research on memory.
Coding and the New Human Phenotype October 15-16, 2022 Past Event From the level of DNA to that of phenotype, life may be viewed as an articulation of code. Within such a model, phenotypes are a kind of abstraction of the DNA code. Starting with the genome, the DNA winds its way through RNA, proteins, and cellular process outward into the world beyond, and in the… read more »
Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time October 15, 2022 at 10:00am EST Past Event Watch the video » How we discover codes, bearers of meaning, and how we reconstruct that meaning in archeology & paleoanthropology, in psychoanalysis, and in neuroscience research on memory.