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ISAC

  • Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up
  • —D. Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Each year, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) at UChicago, formerly the Oriental Institute, offers assorted courses on ancient languages, history, and anthropology that I can recommend. During graduate school, I took language courses with Foy Scalf, Brian Muhs, Tasha Vorderstrasse, and Susanne Paulus.

I’m especially interested in ancient Egypt.

pdf Notes on The Eloquent Peasant

pdf Notes on the Westcar Papyrus

Miscellany

Film stills:
  • web Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  • web Frank Herbert’s Dune
  • web Bambi
  • web The Night is Short, Walk on Girl

web Twelve Ways of Looking at Alban Berg

pdf Trinh Công Son in Translation

web The Best Episodes of Frasier

web The UChicago Department of Birds, est. 2016 (credit: Nicole Cherry)