March 10, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Fifth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series - Displacements: Migration, Mobility, and Material Culture in the West Mediterranean
Lecture 1: Out of Place: Migrations Past and Present
Peter van Dommelen (Brown University)
The first lecture of this series is dedicated to the bigger picture: what is migration? When does a traveler become a migrant? Why is migration ...
March 11, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Exchanging Views: Cultural Interrelation in the Levantine Artistic Production in the Late Bronze Age
Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Anna Lanaro (ISAW)
March 17, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Fifth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series - Displacements: Migration, Mobility, and Material Culture in the West Mediterranean
Lecture 2: Going Local
Peter van Dommelen (Brown University)
Discussions of migration have tended to privilege the bigger picture and long-distance connections, drawing lines between the dots, now mostly relabeled as ‘nodes’. There has ...
March 24, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Fifth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series - Displacements: Migration, Mobility, and Material Culture in the West Mediterranean
Lecture 3: Rural Connections
Peter van Dommelen (Brown University)
Migration is usually thought of as involving, if not being dependent on, big cities and major ports. While that may be true in some cases, ...
March 25, 2014 — 6:00 PM
The Babylonians and the Rational: Analogical Reasoning in Contexts of Rationality
Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Francesca Rochberg (ISAW & University of California, Berkeley)
March 27, 2014 — 6:00 PM
New Rituals, New Religion? Death's Dominion during the Copper Age of the Southern Levant
Exhibition Lecture Series
Yorke Rowan (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
Seating is limited. To reserve your seat, please RSVP to rsvp_isaw_lectures@nyu.edu or call 212.992.7818. Admission to this lecture closes 10 minutes after the ...
March 29, 2014 — 9:00 AM
Prehistoric Metallurgy of Xinjiang
Workshop
Organized by ISAW visiting research scholar Liangren Zhang, this workshop will bring together a group of specialists to share data from other sites in Central ...
March 31, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Fifth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series - Displacements: Migration, Mobility, and Material Culture in the West Mediterranean
Lecture 4: Connected Communities
Greek migrants in Sicily, Punic settlers in Ibiza, Roman coloni in Narbonensis, French pied noirs in Algeria on the one hand, and Berber homesteads, Sicilian ...
April 01, 2014 — 6:00 PM
The Majesty of Empire: Assyrian Monuments and Texts from Kurdistan
Mario Fales (University of Udine)
April 08, 2014 — 6:00 PM
The Elusive Persian Phoenix: On the Identification of the Simurgh and Khvarenah in the Art of Pre-Islamic Iran
Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Matteo Compareti (ISAW)
Since the beginning of the last century, the correct identification of the Simurgh has been a surprisingly contentious task for scholars. In contrast, the motif ...
April 10, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Excavations at Arslantepe/Malatya and Ayanis
ISAW/The American Turkish Society Lecture
Drs. Marcella Frangipane (La Sapienza University) and Mehmet Isikli (University of Erzurum)
April 11, 2014 — 9:30 AM
Borders in the Archaeology of Pre-Classical Anatolia and the South Caucasus (BA-IA)
Workshop Presented by ISAW & The American Turkish Society
With The American Turkish Society, ISAW will be presenting a lecture and workshop on April 10-11, organized by Lorenzo d’Alfonso and Karen Rubinson. The workshop, ...
April 30, 2014 — 5:00 PM
The Sargonic and Ur III Empires: Continuities, Differences, Innovations
Ancient Near East Table
Piotr Steinkeller (Harvard)
This is a two-hour seminar. ...
May 08, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Masters of Fire - Exploring Chalcolithic Copper Production through Excavations and Ethnoarchaeology
Exhibition Lecture Series
Thomas Levy (University of California San Diego)
Seating is limited. To reserve your seat, please RSVP to rsvp_isaw_lectures@nyu.edu or call 212.992.7818. Admission to this lecture closes 10 minutes after the ...
May 09, 2014 — 9:00 AM
Ancient Near Eastern Literature: Topics, Issues, Approaches
Workshop, organized by Prof. Beate Pongratz-Leisten
In the last decades the category of ‘literature’ in the Ancient Near East has come repeatedly under scrutiny. It included among other topics fierce discussions ...
June 06, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Life of the Spirit: The Chalcolithic Culture, 6500 Years Ago in the Southern Levant
Exhibition Lecture Series
Osnat Misch-Brandel (Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
June 11, 2014 — 2:30 PM
