Academic Year 2014-2015
Vespasian at Play: 74 AD
Theodore Buttrey (Keeper Emeritus, Dept. of Coins & Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University)
The Galenic Origins of the Modern Science Textbook
Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Claire Bubb (ISAW)
Life in a Multicultural Society: The Jewish Community of Elephantine in Egypt under Persian Rule
On the Waterfront at Giza: Workers’ Town and Pyramid Port – Latest Discoveries
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture
Mark Lehner (Director, Giza Plateau Mapping Project)
Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs
The Lure of Gold and Iron: China and the Steppe in the First Millennium BC
Eighth Annual Leon Levy Lecture Sponsored by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
Jessica Rawson (University of Oxford)
RSVPRecent Advances in Research on Iranian and Central Asian Metalware. A Few Examples - The 'Soltikov' Plate from Tukharistan
Frantz Grenet (Collège de France)
RSVPWeights and Trade Relations between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley
Guest Lecture
Lorenz Rahmstorf (University of Copenhagen)
Forecasting Fate in Early China
Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Ethan Harkness (NYU Gallatin and ISAW)