Academic Year 2022-2023
10/06/2022 05:00 PM
A Conversation with the Curators
Exhibition Lecture
Attila Gyucha, William Parkinson
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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10/19/2022 01:00 PM
Online
From the Ground Up:
Questions of Subsistence, Demography and Social Structure in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Crete
Dominic Pollard
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. The period between c.1450 and 550 BCE on Crete was one of major social, political, and economic change, including the final phase – and ultimate collapse – of the Bronze Age palatial tradition, and the gradual emergence of the island’s earliest poleis or city-states. This lecture offers a novel perspective on these historical processes by foregrounding the fundamental pressures and opportunities of the Cretan landscape, and the agricultural foundations on which the societies of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age were built.
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10/31/2022 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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11/03/2022 05:00 PM
Online
16th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
Mobile Cosmopolitanism: Diversity and Exchange in the Uyghur Steppe Empire (744-840)
Michael R. Drompp
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. Study of the “Silk Roads” has helped to greatly expand our knowledge of the movement of people, ideas, and goods as well as the influences that they exerted on various cultures throughout Eurasia. Scholars have often looked to China’s Tang dynasty (618-907) as an example of the cosmopolitanism that such exchanges promoted. But there are other, less obvious polities that developed cosmopolitan tendencies as well. One of these is the steppe empire of the Uyghurs, whose political center was in what is today Mongolia.
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11/09/2022 01:00 PM
Online
Seals and Status:
Text and Images from the Persepolis Fortification Archive
Christina Chandler
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. The Persepolis Fortification Archive (PFA) is a large corpus of administrative documents from Persepolis dating to the reign of Darius I (509-493 BCE). The archive’s texts record various administrative transactions related to the collection and redistribution of agricultural products. The PFA also preserves the impressions of over 4,000 distinct and legible seals.
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11/17/2022 05:00 PM
Online
How to be a Big Person in the Balkans: Past and Present, in Life and Death
Exhibition Lecture
Michael Galaty
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 presentation, Professor Michael Galaty will demonstrate that avenues to political power in the ancient Balkans were not so different from today, revolving around land, marriage, religion, and, sometimes, violence.
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11/30/2022 01:00 PM
Online
Trans-Eurasian Exchange:
Fresh from Sogdiana
Alisher Begmatov
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. Sogdiana, in what is now mainly central and eastern Uzbekistan and north-western Tajikistan, found itself in between China, India, Iran, and Byzantium during late antiquity and early medieval period. A large of number of artistic and textual materials from Eurasia have shown that the inhabitants of Sogdiana took great advantage of this strategic position and acted as international traders.
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12/07/2022 05:00 PM
Online
Expanding the Ancient World Workshop
Diverse Perspectives on the Silk Roads: The Sogdians
Organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (NYU)
Materials provided to participants of this event are now available for download. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. The Sogdians were a diverse community of merchant families occupying the oases regions of Central Asia between the 4th-8th centuries CE. This workshop will present texts and materials for discussing the interconnected and multicultural society of the Sogdians along the so-called "Silk Roads," with an emphasis on personal experiences at home and abroad.
12/14/2022 01:00 PM
Online
An Illyrian Sanctuary’s Surprise: Europe’s Oldest Zodiac
Exhibition Lecture
Timothy Kaiser
This lecture will take place online; a Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants. Registration is required; click through for the registration link.
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01/26/2023 01:00 PM
Online
Monumental Figurines of First Farmers: Neolithic “Clayscapes” in the Carpathian Basin
Exhibition Lecture
Eszter Bánffy
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 talk will demonstrate the process of fundamental cultural change during the European Early Neolithic that took place in the northern marginal zones of the Balkans in the first half of the 6th millennium BCE.
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02/01/2023 05:00 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
Maritime Commodity Trade with the Jiankang Empire
Andrew Chittick
This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. All attendees must be in compliance with NYU's COVID-19 vaccination requirements and be prepared to present proof of compliance if asked to do so. Our perception of Chinese engagement with "exotic" maritime commodities is strongly colored by the work of Edward Schafer (Golden Peaches of Samarkand; Vermilion Bird), who focused on the experience of connoisseurs during the Tang Empire. Though Schafer's work was groundbreaking for its time, it has left us with some misperceptions.
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02/10/2023 05:00 PM
ISAW Galleries
Expanding the Ancient World Workshop
Gallery Tour of 'Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond'
Organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (NYU)
This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. All attendees must be in compliance with NYU's COVID-19 vaccination requirements and be prepared to present proof of compliance if asked to do so. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Enjoy a tour of the exhibition Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond and learn about the beliefs, ritual practices, and intercultural connections in ancient civilizations in southeastern Europe from the Neolithic Era to the Iron Age.
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