In 2024 Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art and Centre Director Rubina Raja will be delivering the internationally acclaimed Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series.

The Jerome lectures by Rubina Raja will be delivered in Michigan in March and at the American Academy in Rome in November. The lecture series is entitled Contextualizing Roman Ruins in the Near East and focuses on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Near East with a focus on the Roman and Late Antique periods, but also casts a net much wider with an outlook to the earlier and later periods, i.e. those of the Hellenistic and Early Islamic times.

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly delivered at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The revised lectures are published by the University of Michigan Press as a monograph. The lectures deal with phases of the history or culture of the Romans or of people included in the Roman Empire, and with other topics in historiography and the philosophy of history and the reception of classical culture. Earlier Jerome Lecturers have included distinguished scholars such as Glen Bowersock, David Mattingly, Fergus Millar, Nicholas Purcell, Gisela Richter, Maria Wyke and Paul Zanker.

More information can be found here: https://lsa.umich.edu/classics/about-us/thomas-spencer-jerome-lecture-series.html