Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

This workshop is organized by the OER Project and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. It will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. This workshop will present texts and materials for discussing the interconnected and multicultural society of the Sogdians along the Silk Roads, with an emphasis on personal experiences at home and abroad.

Published 11/04/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events

This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Learn more about the ISAW exhibition "Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani's Visions of Ancient Iraq," which explores the history of Iraq through the eyes of early explorers (1800s), the modernist photographer Latif Al Ani (1950-1970), and contemporary Iraqi artists.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2023-2024

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. The medieval civilization of the Sogdians, from their homeland in modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, was once renowned as an international agent of transcultural exchange across the Eurasian ‘Silk Road’. However, the source material from the Sogdians that survives is highly fragmentary and the limited textual evidence is usually written from outsiders’ perspectives.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2023-2024

This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. All attendees must be in compliance with NYU's COVID-19 vaccination requirements and be prepared to present proof of compliance if asked to do so. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. This workshop will explore some of the methodological issues, limitations, and ancient evidence for the representation and self-representation of women in a variety of media from the Greek and Roman worlds.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2022-2023

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. This workshop introduces approaches to the utilization of 3D architectural models within the classroom, using the Parthenon and its sculpture as a case study to highlight the role that this building served in the creation and reinforcement of Classical Athenian communal identity.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2022-2023

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. During the second half of the first millennium CE, societies across the globe were connected with each other through conquest, trade, intellectual exchange, and climatological phenomena. While some of these connections have reached world history textbooks under the umbrella term 'silk road networks', the actual impact, nuances, and the limits of global connectivity in Afro-Eurasia and outside of it are hard to grasp and even harder to teach.

Published 09/03/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events

This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. This workshop aims to explore techniques for integrating AI chatbots into the Latin language classroom. Chatbots (ChatGPT, but also Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and others) are having an obvious impact on classrooms around the world.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2023-2024

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. We tend to think of globalization as a modern phenomenon, where far-flung places impact one other through exchange of ideas, resources, commodities, technologies, and human mobility. How can we engage with the evidence regarding the early history of interconnectedness in the world?

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2023-2024

This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Ancient Trimithis was one of many medium-sized cities in the Roman Empire; but unlike most, it was located right in the middle of Egypt’s inhospitable Western Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the Nile Valley, one of the driest places on earth. In this workshop we will explore how people adapted to and thrived in this harsh and changing environment by studying the results from NYU’s Amheida Excavations in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2023-2024

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. When you think of Greece and the Aegean Sea, you might picture shining blue water, sleepy coastal villages, and sprawling olive groves. But such images mask a more hostile reality, where tectonic forces, changeable seas, and unpredictable weather present many challenges to daily life in the region.

Published 06/27/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2023-2024

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