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10/30/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Gallery

Madinat al-Zahra Gallery Talk: Curators in Conversation

Exhibition Lecture

Antonio Vallejo Triano and Eduardo Manzano Moreno

This event will take place in person. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Please join us as Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ISAW Exhibitions Director, hosts a conversation with Antonio Vallejo Triano (Madinat al-Zahra Museum) and Eduardo Manzano Moreno (CSIC, Madrid) to discuss the genesis of this project. Antonio and Eduardo will address the themes of the exhibition, discuss the ancient artifacts on display, and evaluate the role of the Umayyad dynasty in the understanding of medieval Spain.
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11/06/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
a photo of a statue of Celtic warrior standing on a dolmen

18th Annual Leon Levy Lecture

On Celts, Celticness, and Celtology: Reconciling Ancient and Modern Identities

Michael Dietler

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.
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11/13/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Gallery
Elaborate doorway flanked by two columns.

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop:

Discovering Life in al-Andalus through "Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain"

Carl Walsh

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."
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11/15/2024 01:00 PM Online
an image of tan small pottery bowls

Multidisciplinary and Multiperspective Engagement with Early Ceramics

The Intersection of Past, Present, and Future in Research on Painted Pottery

Anke Hein

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. As they are ubiquitous in the material record, ceramics have long been a major concern of archaeological research. To gain further insight into processes of ceramic production and related socio-cultural issues, in many parts of the world has become common to refer to ethnographic data and conduct ethnoarchaeological studies.
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11/19/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
an image of a pyxis

Exhibition Lecture

"The Sight that I Offer is the Fairest of Sights": Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba

Abigail Balbale

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture is given in conjunction with ISAW's exhibition Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain. Of the many beautiful objects associated with Madinat al-Zahra and the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate, perhaps none are as celebrated as a series of ivory pyxides and caskets produced for members of the royal family.
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11/25/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
a photo of two women standing and smiling looking at ceramic artifacts and materials

Cyprus and the Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age

Commercial and Cultural Connectivity on the Longue Durée

Artemis Georgiou and Anna Georgiadou

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Cyprus, acknowledged as the island of copper already during ancient times, plays an integral part in discussions involving ancient Mediterranean connectivity.
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12/11/2024 05:30 PM Online
Ancient coined, minted a bit off center, showing a boat with sails inside a circular set of dots

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Navigating Early Indian Ocean Trade: A Resource for World History Teachers

Priya Barchi

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 offers a deep dive into the maritime trade networks of the Western Indian Ocean from the 1st to the 5th century CE. It will highlight how ancient societies and empires engaged in a complex web of maritime exchanges long before the modern era.
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03/12/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Book cover of Strike by Sarah Bond showing a broken Roman column

ISAW Library Events: Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire

Sarah Bond

This lecture is the third in the ISAW Libraries events series for the 2024-2025 academic year. It will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Sarah Bond will share some of her research from her recently published book Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Yale University Press), exploring how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices—and their labor—acknowledged.
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