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ISAW Director Alexander Jones Receives 2019 Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities
by Iris Fernandez | 06/04/2019
Alexander Jones, Professor of History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity and Leon Levy Director of ISAW, was recently awarded the American Philosophical Society’s 2019 Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in recognition of his paper “‘Like Opening a Pyramid and Finding an Atomic Bomb’: Derek de Solla Price and the Antikythera Mechanism.”
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ISAW Alumna Irene Soto Marín to Lead New Research Project at University of Basel
by Iris Fernandez | 05/22/2019
The Department of Ancient History at the University of Basel has just announced the new project “Nomisma: Measuring Monetary Integration in the Late Roman Empire," led by ISAW alum Dr. Irene Soto Marín and funded by the Forschungsfonds Nachwuchsforschende of the University of Basel.
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Prof. Daniel T. Potts honored by Indiana University
by Iris Fernandez | 05/16/2019
Prof. Daniel T. Potts was recently honored by Indiana University as the Program in Ancient Studies - Spring 2019 Distinguished Lecturer and as the 2019 Jean and Denis Sinor Faculty Fellow. On April 8th he presented "A walk with the water buffalo: Zoological peregrinations from the Indus Valley to Mesopotamia" as part of the Ancient Studies Distinguished Lecturer Series. On April 9th he presented his lecture “Horse and Pasture in Pre-Islamic Iran” as part of their Jean and Denis Sinor Faculty Fellowship Lecture series.
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Associate Professor Rod Campbell featured in Scientific American
by Iris Fernandez | 05/07/2019
ISAW Associate Professor Roderick Campbell’s research on animal sacrifice and human-animal relations in Early China was recently featured in several prominent and widely distributed publications, including Scientific American, Sapiens, Live Science, and The Atlantic.
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ISAW Cohosts International Conference with École Pratique des Hautes Études (PSL, Paris)
by Iris Fernandez | 04/25/2019
On April 18th and 19th ISAW will host a joint international conference with the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, France. The conference titled Between the Age of Diplomacy and the First Great Empire in Ancient West Asia (1200 - 900 BC): Moving Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration was co-organized by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault (EPHE, PSL), Lorenzo d’Alfonso (ISAW, NYU) & Robert Hawley (EPHE, PSL).
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Announcing The Digital Central Asian Archaeology Collection (DCAA)
by Gabriel McKee | 04/22/2019
The ISAW Library is proud to announce the launch of the Digital Central Asian Archaeology collection (DCAA), a digital library dedicated to preserving scholarly material about Central Asian history and archaeology and to making it as easily discoverable and as widely accessible as possible.
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"Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project" Funded by the Getty Foundation
by Sebastian Heath | 02/22/2019
In collaboration with UMass Amherst, Professor Sebastian Heath has been awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation for the "Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project" project. This award is a part of a series of grants totaling $1m to support virtual preservation of cultural locations worldwide.
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Opening Next Month! "Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes"
by reh390@nyu.edu | 02/14/2019
Opening March 6th, "Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballet Russes" explores both the role of dance in ancient culture and the influence of antiquity on the modernist reinventions of the Ballets Russes.
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Wine-making in the South Caucasus
by Karen Rubinson | 01/16/2019
Research Associate Karen Rubinson traveled to Georgia and Armenia to conduct research for the Library's South Caucasus digital publications initiative and recounts here the area's fascinating history of winemaking in vessels known as qvevri.
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