Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

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 workshop invites teachers to further incorporate Roman slavery into ancient history curricula. From transactional papyri, to clever slaves on stage, to the tombstone of a child miner, we will examine slavery both as a ubiquitous legal phenomenon and as a varied spectrum of experience across the Roman world.

Published 09/10/2026 — 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 Islamic art and material culture during the early Medieval Period (711–1031 CE) through the ISAW exhibition "Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain."

Published 09/09/2024 — filed under: exhibition-event, ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2024-2025

This workshop has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 17th, at 5:30pm. The 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.

Published 09/10/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2024-2025

This workshop has been rescheduled for Monday, May 12th, at 5:30pm. The 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 will explore ancient Greek religious systems through the lens of a particular god, the god of healing, Asclepius.

Published 12/13/2024 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2024-2025

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

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. In this workshop, we will examine gender through ancient Greek painted vases, with a focus on vases produced in Attica, first by discussing how and why decorated terracotta vases were produced and how they were used.

Published 09/10/2026 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events

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 will provide educators with an understanding of what bones can tell us about the past. Participants will learn how parts of who we are get left behind on our skeletons – and how to read them!

Published 09/10/2026 — filed under: ETAW Located in Events

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