ISAW News Blog
News: Soliciting Applicants for Development Associate
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is looking for a talented professional who has the ability to manage the institute's fund-raising efforts and communications.
News: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement vol. 22 by VRS Alum Giovanni Ruffini, Recently Published
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology has just released its twenty-second supplement, this one by ISAW VRS Alum (2007-08) Giovanni Ruffini, on The Bishop, the Eparch, and the King. Old Nubian Texts from Qasr Ibrim (P. QI 4). ...
News: New Publication by VRS Alum Tamara Chin
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination has just been published by Harvard University Press. Tamara Chin was a visiting research scholar at ISAW in 2008-09 and is now Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown ...
News: Bagnall elected to Society for Classical Studies presidency
Roger Bagnall, Leon Levy Director of ISAW, will serve as president-elect of the Society for Classical Studies in 2015, president in 2016, and past president in 2017.
News: ISAW Participating in Open House New York - October 11th
This marks the third year ISAW will be participating in Open House New York, an annual event that opens up hundreds of important buildings with the goal of fostering interest in and engagement with the great architecture and architects of ...
News: ISAW's Fall 2014 Newsletter is Now Available
The Fall 2014 issue of the ISAW Newsletter is now available. Issue 11 includes an in depth look at our seminars and tutorials, news from past and present Visiting Research Scholars, a preview of ...
News: ISAW Now Accepting Applications for 2015-16 Visiting Research Scholar Program
We have now opened the online application for the Visiting Research Scholar Program. For details about the categories of scholars, the financial support, and the application, please visit http://isaw.nyu.edu/visiting-scholar-program. The application deadline for 2015-16 appointments is December 1, 2014. ...
News: ISAW Library Adds New Online Features
The ISAW Library is redesigning its online presence and offerings over the course of the 2014-2015 academic year. The aim of the overhaul is to build a more engaging website and to offer more dynamic online content so as to ...
News: Changes to ISAW's Facebook Pages
ISAW is excited to announce that in the coming weeks we will be changing the way we use Facebook. By merging our Exhibitions page and Library page with our main page, we will be providing visitors, friends, and supporters easier access to a broader range of information ...
News: ISAW Now Accepting PhD Applications for Fall 2015 Admission
The Graduate School of Arts and Science at NYU has now opened the online application. ISAW's recommended deadline for application submission is December 18th, with a final deadline of January 4th. For more information on the program and how to ...
News: ISAW Extends Participation in Digital Latin Library Project
ISAW's Associate Director for Digital Programs, Tom Elliott, will travel this month to Norman, Oklahoma to participate in a workshop launching the first year of an implementation grant to the University of Oklahoma for a Digital Latin Library ...
Summer Report: Roderick Campbell on Reconstructing the Shang Economy
Despite nearly 100 years of archaeological work and millennia of textual analysis, very little of substance is known about the economy of ancient China’s Shang dynasty. Aiming to help fill this lacuna, I have been working on a bone-working site ...
News: Exhibitions Department appoints two Post-Doctoral Associates
ISAW's Exhibitions Department appoints two Post-Doctoral Associates who will aid the department with curatorial research.
News: VRS Alum Mantha Zarmakoupi Accepts Position at the University of Birmingham
We are pleased to announce that Mantha Zarmakoupi, VRS Alum 2009-10, has accepted a position at the University of Birmingham under their research fellowship program. The position allows for five years of reduced teaching and administrative responsibilities before taking on ...
Summer Fieldwork: Sören Stark on Excavations in the Bukhara Oasis, Uzbekistan
In June, I participated in the 6th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, held in Ulanbaatar, Mongolia. Three hundred scholars gave papers in 25 sessions; my presentation, “On the Road Again: Chinese Mirrors in Afghanistan,” ...
Summers are often devoted to fieldwork but in some cases writing is on the agenda. Last year I was persuaded by Asya Graf, archaeology editor at Cambridge University Press, to undertake a revised edition of The Archaeology of Elam, a book ...
Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE. For the next 300 years, under the rule of the Macedonian Ptolemies, Greek and Egyptian cultures coexisted, with the royal house defined by intrigue, intermarriage, and a skillful manipulation of Greek and Egyptian iconographic motifs for political purposes. ISAW’s fall exhibition illuminates this royal family’s canny use of cultural tropes to consolidate power and inspire loyalty among a mixed population. Come to ISAW’s galleries and discover royal portraits both large and small, luxury goods, and a wonderful sampling of papyri that document the daily lives of individuals who lived during this complex period in Egyptian history.
Excavations at Amheida, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt, in 2014 found new evidence on the rebel king Petubastis III suggesting that the mysterious disappearance of Cambyses' Persian army in the desert may have been linked to his rebellion.
The land of ancient Palestine is littered with inscriptions of remarkably diverse content and written in a broad range of languages. There have been initiatives in the past that concentrated on inscriptions of a certain genre or in a specific language, but the ongoing ...
Summer Scholarship: Karen Rubinson on East Asian Archaeology
Summer Scholarship: Dan Potts on Elam
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Save the Date! New Exhibition Opens October 8
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Amheida excavations find new evidence on Cambyses' army
Summer Fieldwork: Robert Hoyland on Inscriptions in the Negev
