Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Listing of event pages that have been updated to include embedded streaming video from the recording of the event. Videos are hosted on the NYU Stream service. Some are available here for public viewing, with the permission of the presenter.

Published 11/23/2016 — filed under: video Located in Events

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. The lecture examines what it means to be Celtic in the contemporary world, and how modern Celts relate to peoples of the ancient past who were also called Celts.

Published 09/09/2024 — filed under: video Located in Events

On July 22nd, ISAW Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator Clare Fitzgerald gave a Virtual Tour of our recent exhibition, Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballet Russes. This online presentation was given in collaboration with NYU's Alumni office, and we are pleased to be able to provide our community with the full recording.

Published 01/22/2021 — filed under: exhibition-event, video, hymn-to-apollo Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

On December 16th, ISAW Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator Clare Fitzgerald gave a Virtual Tour of our recent exhibition, Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury. This online presentation was given in collaboration with NYU's Alumni office, and we are pleased to be able to provide our community with the full recording.

Published 01/22/2021 — filed under: exhibition-event, video, devotionanddecadence Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2019-2020

This lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Study of the “Silk Roads” has helped to greatly expand our knowledge of the movement of people, ideas, and goods as well as the influences that they exerted on various cultures throughout Eurasia. Scholars have often looked to China’s Tang dynasty (618-907) as an example of the cosmopolitanism that such exchanges promoted. But there are other, less obvious polities that developed cosmopolitan tendencies as well. One of these is the steppe empire of the Uyghurs, whose political center was in what is today Mongolia.

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

Were people 6,000 years ago “just like us”? A sneak peek at the Masters of Fire exhibition, with ISAW's Jennifer Chi.

Published 02/22/2014 — filed under: video Located in Exhibitions Masters of Fire: Copper Age Art from Israel

This lecture considers one type of Roman sundial represented in the exhibition that has not been sufficiently appreciated from geographical, cultural, and social perspectives. These are the miniature bronze instruments fitted with adjustable rings to accommodate the changes of latitude liable to occur during long journeys. This lecture will explore the possibility that often they were valued not so much for practical use, but rather as prestige objects.

Published 09/22/2016 — filed under: exhibition-event, video Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2016-2017

This lecture will consist of a brief introduction to the historical development and the main characteristics of Greco-Roman astrology, to be followed by a survey of the theoretical and practical importance of accurate time-measurement in the practice of horoscopy and other astrological applications.

Published 09/22/2016 — filed under: exhibition-event, video Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2016-2017

Since the emergence of Greek medicine as an independent field of study in the time of Hippocrates, there has been debate about its status vis-à-vis the humanities. In the second century A.D., the physician Galen took considerable pains to identify medicine as a foundational liberal art rather than as a manual or menial trade. The subsequent fate of his vast corpus—what was read when, how, and by whom—is illustrative of the push and pull of ancient medicine between science and the humanities up to the present day. Unlike the writing of his more literary contemporaries, Galen's corpus had an extensive, pragmatic role in professional training. He formed the cornerstone of medical education until the 17th century and his role there persisted even into the 19th century. It was only as his medical popularity waned that study of him among philologists began to gain momentum. This talk will investigate the issues at stake in Galen's time and then follow the fate of his influence through the ages into the modern debate on the role of humanities in medical education.

Published 12/08/2016 — filed under: video Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2016-2017

The Mediterranean’s Iron Age – roughly 1200-600 BCE – may be regarded as one of its most dynamic periods of history. Although it is not its first era in which people across the sea exchanged goods, ideas, values, customs, practices, and technologies, the difference is the scale to which this occurred. The interactions that resurged from the tenth century onwards eclipsed their Bronze Age antecedents in geographical, material and ideological scope. The period is characterized perhaps most of all by the movement of peoples from their homeland to areas far away on an unprecedented scale, notably the settlement of Greeks and Phoenicians in the central and western Mediterranean, which began in the ninth and eighth centuries.

Published 12/08/2016 — filed under: video Located in Events Events Archive Academic Year 2016-2017

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