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Pleiades Quarterly Report Published
Programmer Needed for Work on Papyrological Website
Under the auspices of the Integrating Digital Papyrology project, we are seeking (in collaboration with the NYU Digital Library Technology Services team) a Java programmer to work with a multi-institutional team that will be enhancing http://papyri.info over the coming year. Relocation to New York is not required.
"Before Pythagoras" exhibition extended
New Book: Bagnall's Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
New ISAW Newsletter Published
Scholar Receives Award for Book on Early Hebrew
Babylonian Mathematics Exhibition Features in the New York Times
Late Roman Taxation: The East/West Divide
Lecture: Pergamon and its Maritime Satellite Elaia
Lectures Announced for Spring 2011
Scholar Receives Award for Book on Roman Villas
Ancient Tablets Reveal Mathematical Achievements of Ancient Babylonian Culture
John Baines elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society
The ISAW Senior Fellow and Professor of Egyptology in the University of Oxford was elected to Class 4: Humanities on 29 April 2011.
Lecture: Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy - Science in Action (2 November 2010)
Old Babylonian Mathematics Website Debuts
Neugebauer Conference at ISAW: November 12-13, 2010
Exhibition: Before Pythagoras - The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics
Lecture: Cultural Dynamism of Astral Science in the Hellenistic Age (4 November 2010)
Lecture: The Astronomical Book of Enoch (19 October 2010)
Position Announcement: Assistant Professor of Early Chinese Art and Archaeology
Applications Open for Visiting Research Scholars Program (2011)
The Artemis Liturgical Papyrus
Applications Open for Doctoral Program 2011-2012
New Research Seminars for Spring 2011
Amheida: Excavating a City in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt
Job Opportunity: Programmer for Digital Papyrology Project
Fall Events at ISAW
Position Announcement: Professor of Ancient Western Asian Archaeology and History
Position Announcement: Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic)
A Review of The Lost World of Old Europe
Dawn Gross Appointed to Library Faculty
New Research Seminars
New Faculty: Lillian Tseng
New Faculty: Sören Stark
Grant Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities
ISAW Newsletter Published
Exhibition: Nubia - Ancient Kingdoms of Africa
ISAW announces its next exhibition, March 11 - June 12, 2011.
Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa Exhibition Opens
ISAW's latest exhibition, Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa, opens today.
Jinyu Liu Receives Mellon Foundation Fellowship
Jinyu Liu, associate professor of classical studies at DePauw University, and a 2007-2008 Visitng Research Scholar at ISAW, is one of the recipients of a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
ISAW Spring 2011 Newsletter Released
New Faculty Appointments
Pleiades Featured in Project Bamboo Demonstrator
Project Bamboo has launched Places-Text, a feature demonstrator to illustrate how the possible service in Bamboo’s infrastructure could give researchers analytic tools to identify places mentioned in texts, including books, journal articles, and Web pages.
VRS Annalisa Marzano promoted
Annalisa Marzano, visiting research scholar 2010-11, promoted to Reader.
Pleiades reports major additions of ancient geographic data
Digital Epigraphy in Jakarta
Grant Received for Linked Ancient World Data Institute
Sabine Huebner Wins 5-year Heisenberg Grant
Updates to papyri.info
Free Photos of Edfu, Egypt
The latest additions to ISAW's open-access Ancient World Image Bank.
New Faculty Opening - Professor (Open Rank), Near Eastern Art & Arch., Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Periods
Dura-Europos Exhibition Opens
One Thousand Open Access Journals
AWOL's List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies now lists one thousand titles.
Spotlight On: Visiting Research Scholar Daniel Caner
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ISAW Now Accepting Visiting Research Scholar Applications for Fall 2012
Spotlight On: Visiting Research Scholar Sarah Laursen
Open Access at ISAW
Marianne Bergmann to Give ISAW's 5th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
ISAW Newsletter 5 Released
Deborah Klimburg-Salter to Give Lecture at ISAW
Spotlight On: Visiting Research Scholar Alexander Dale
All Roads Lead to (Ancient) Rome
New book: an Egyptian tax register
A newly-published tax register from the Egyptian village of Temseu Skordon gives a rare look into the economic and social structure of a rural community in the sixth century CE.
New Book from VRS Alumnus Oleksandr Symonenko
ISAW launches open-access journal
The first article in ISAW Papers hit the web yesterday.
Joining geography and imagery online
Apply now for linked ancient world data institute
ISAW Makes New Faculty Appointment
A Hellenistic astrologer's board from Croatia
ISAW Newsletter 6 Now Available
New Book: From the Ptolemies to the Romans
New exhibition on inflation opening March 30 at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
New Book from VRS Alum Anne Porter
Wu Hung Elected to American Philosophical Society
ISAW Senior Fellow Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and ISAW Advisory Committee member, has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society.
'Influential Neighbors' in the Wall Street Journal
New Book from VRS Alum Mathieu Ossendrijver