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10/09/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
a photo of a reconstruction of the Bīt Rēš temple in the Hellenistic period.

Living in a Culture of the Past: The Life and Work of a Scribe in Hellenistic Uruk

Abigail Hoskins

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. The figure of the scribe is essential to any discussion of ancient Mesopotamian culture. Decades of careful research have allowed historians to paint a general portrait of the Mesopotamian scribe that can then be placed into historical narratives. But what about the individuals from whom this composite picture was created?
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10/15/2024 05:30 PM Online
Photo of multi-level Japanese temple

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop:

Global Connections in the Late Antique and Early Medieval World

Erik Hermans

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.
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10/16/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
a photo of an aerial view of Pangani and the Indian Ocean

Early Globalization and Ancient Connectivity on the Eastern African Swahili Coast:

A View from Pangani Bay in Northern Tanzania

Wolfgang Alders

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. How did hunters, pastoralists and small-scale farmers initiate the earliest forms of connectivity between coastal eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean world in the early-mid first millennium CE?
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10/21/2024 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Aerial view of the Blue Nile Falls, Eithiopia

ISAW Library Events: Imperial Waters: Unraveling the Impact of Nile Floods on Roman Egypt and the Empire

Sabine Huebner

This lecture is the second 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. Sabine Huebner shares some of her recent work on the ancient environment, exploring how the Nile's floods shaped Egypt’s agriculture, society, and political stability, highlighting the incredible adaptability of the Egyptian people to environmental changes over centuries. She will reveal how a blend of climate change, particularly in the Nile flooding, and political choices shaped agricultural output, tax policies, and overall economy of Egypt under Roman rule.
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10/23/2024 05:30 PM Online
Photo of pylons at front of temple site; reliefs on pylons depict king and queen smiting their enemies.

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Teaching Ancient Nubia: Integrating Kush in the Classroom

Sydney A. Pickens

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. Ancient Nubia has a rich history that spans over 4,000 years. This ancient African civilization was home to the city-state of Kerma which lasted an astounding 1,000 years, the Napatan Kings who conquered and ruled Egypt as the 25th Dynasty, and the Warrior Queens of the Meroitic Period who repelled the Roman invasion of Meroe.
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10/28/2024 10:00 AM Online
Two students seated at table looking at book in wood-panelled classroom

Open House for Prospective Students

ISAW's open house for prospective doctoral students will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. The event will include an opportunity to meet the ISAW faculty; an information session about our academic program; a Q&A session with current students; and sessions on archaeology, digital humanities, exhibitions, and the library at ISAW.
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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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11/25/2024 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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