Seventh Leon Levy Lecture Held on November 7

By kel306@nyu.edu
12/04/2013

The Seventh Annual Leon Levy Lecture was presented on Thursday, November 7 to a packed room of students, scholars, and the interested public. This marked the first year the annual lecture was supported by a generous endowment grant from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, and we were pleased to have the President of the Foundation, Norman L. Peck, in attendance, along with Peter Jay Sharp’s sister, Mary Sharp Cronson and ISAW’s founder, Shelby White. This year's speaker was Piotr Michalowski, the George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Michalowski gave a wonderful talk on Historical Perspective on Sumerian Vistas, which criticized the use of the label ‘Sumerians’ to ancient Mesopotamians during the fourth and third millennia BCE. We thank all those who attended and look forward to seeing you again next year. The 2014 Leon Levy Lecture will be presented by Jessica Rawson, Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford.