Academic Year 2021-2022
10/25/2021 10:00 AM
Online
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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10/27/2021 01:00 PM
Online
Late Antique Empires on the Red Sea:
Wars without Faith
Valentina A. Grasso
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. This lecture aims to analyse the interactions between Jews and Christians in sixth century South Arabia, offering some reflections on the wider late antique socio-economic and political map. The talk will present a comprehensive analysis of this period through a reading of literary and epigraphic material, reconstructing the spread of Christianity in South Arabia and the events leading to the massacre of the Christians of Najrān in 523.
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11/11/2021 01:00 PM
Online
The Creation of Worked Animal Objects in the Early Greek World
Adam DiBattista
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. Recent excavations at the site of ancient Methone, an early Greek colony in northern Greece, have revealed the remains of a diverse set of industrial activities and workshop areas. Within this environment of production, craftspeople at Methone created a range of objects from bone, antler, boar tusk, elephant ivory, and other animal materials between the late eighth and sixth centuries B.C.E.
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12/09/2021 01:00 PM
Online
“Translating Culture”:
Sardur I’s Neo-Assyrian Inscription on the Sardursburg in Ancient Tushpa, Urartu
Beate Pongratz-Leisten
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. Within the framework of ISAW’s mission statement, which considers the ancient world as an interconnected place, this talk investigates scholarly approaches to intercultural contact. Focusing on what in recent times has been categorized as “translating culture” it takes the Urartian adoption of cuneiform writing as a case study and unravels the cognitive and cultural implications of Sardur I’s adoption of Neo-Assyrian script and language on the walls of the so-called Fortress of Sardur at ancient Tushpa on the shores of Lake Van.
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02/10/2022 01:00 PM
Online
Transplanting India: Luxury and an Ivory Statuette in Pompeii
Exhibition Lecture
Dr. Naman Ahuja and Dr. Annette Giesecke
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.
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02/24/2022 01:00 PM
Online
Shards, Lotus Flowers, and Monsters:
A Micro-contextual Approach to Intercultural Contacts in the Archaeology of Iron Age Anatolia
Lorenzo d'Alfonso
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.
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02/25/2022 01:00 PM
The Pleasures of Pompeii: A Day of Creative Writing
Exhibition Workshop
Hosted by Geoffrey Nutter with a live appearance from New York Times best-selling author Madeline Miller
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.
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03/03/2022 05:00 PM
Online
15th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
At Arm’s Length: Barbarian Settlement, Law, and Ethnography in Roman Late Antiquity
Michael Maas
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. In this talk I consider how newcomers to the late antique Roman Empire (roughly 250-650) were ascribed “occupational” group identities that depended upon tasks the authorities required them to perform after settlement. Once within imperial administrative space, the outsiders switched from being “barbarians” to another category encoded in Roman law.
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03/09/2022 01:00 PM
Online
How Did Roman Painters Create Frescoes?
Exhibition Lecture
John Clarke
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.
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03/24/2022 01:00 PM
Online
From Ezra to Ashoka:
Multilingualism and Governance in the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Rhyne King
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. In the mid to late sixth century BCE, the Achaemenid Persian kings Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius brought populations from the eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia under the rule of a single empire. The fledgling Achaemenid government faced a novel problem: administering a state of unprecedented scale. In this talk, I will argue that the Achaemenids embraced multilingualism as a tool for governing this diverse empire.
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04/09/2022 01:00 PM
The Pleasures of Pompeii: A Day of Creative Writing
Exhibition Workshop
Hosted by Geoffrey Nutter with a recorded message from New York Times best-selling author Madeline Miller
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.
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04/13/2022 05:00 PM
Online
Pompeii in Color: Cycles of Discovery, Innovation, and Wonderment
Exhibition Lecture
Eric Poehler
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.
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