Recent Events

05/01/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
A lion's head and torso, with inlaid garnet eyes, open roaring mouth, and bulging veins, leaps out from the curved body of this large Parthian silver rhyton

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World

Lecture 4: Afro-Eurasian Entanglements and Transformations

Matthew P. Canepa

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture examines Arsacid luxury material beyond Iran both as object and idea. As under the Achaemenids before and Sasanians after, these charismatic objects potentially entangled or “assembled” aspects of identities of those outside the empire at a range of societal levels, including those who had dealings with the empire and those who encountered them even in negative and in reaction.
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04/29/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
a silver with gilding Amphora Rhyton with Lion-Griffin Handles and a spout projecting on one side of the rounded bottom

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World

Lecture 3: Between Ecumenes

Matthew P. Canepa

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture will focus on the development of an Arsacid tradition of precious metal and ivory vessels and a new Iranian court culture that participated in both the Hellenistic and Iranian ecumenes.
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04/25/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Gallery
Poster for the exhibition, repeating the title and dates of the exhibition. It features an elaborate Etruscan depiction of a helmeted rider on the back of a prancing stallion, rendered with fine dark lines around a beige-orange fill

Rethinking Etruria: Exploring the Norchia Tombs with Vincent Jolivet

Exhibition Gallery Talk

Vincent Jolivet

This event will take place in person. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Please join us as Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ISAW Exhibitions Director, hosts guest curator Vincent Jolivet École Normale Supérieure in a gallery conversation about the recent work and discoveries at the Etruscan necropolis at Norchia. Using the objects on display, Vincent will discuss how his team's excavations have helped us understand more about the Etruscan language and society, and how digital techniques such as drone photography and photogrammetry have allowed us to bring Norchia into the gallery for visitors to experience.
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04/24/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
The forepart of a stag emerges from the curving body of this gilt silver rhyton. The eyes and the outstretched legs heighten the realistic effect of the stag

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World

Lecture 2: Tryphic Warfare and Scriptive Things

Matthew P. Canepa

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture focuses on the role of luxury objects and spectacles as deployed by the Seleucids in their conflicts the Antigonids, Ptolemids, Greco-Bactrians, Arsacids and later the Romans.
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04/23/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Silver bowl with golden anchor and dolphin medallion.

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World

Lecture 1: A New Perso-Macedonian Material and Visual Culture of Power

Matthew P. Canepa

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture begins with considering the role that luxury material played in creating politically useful subjectivities in the Achaemenid Persian Empire before turning to the formation of a new, competing traditions of luxury under the empire’s rivals and successors.
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04/09/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Cylinder seal with handle in the form of a sheep with modern impression showing an idealized image of the ruler feeding rams on the right side. To the left, an ewe and two vases flanked by the reed standard of Inanna on either side.

The Logic of the Image: Visualizing Knowledge in Early Mesopotamia

Beate Pongratz-Leisten

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. The ubiquity of the image on ancient Near Eastern artefacts and its function as a medium for visualizing knowledge has not been a primary concern in ancient Near Eastern studies.
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04/08/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
The words Kimirek Archaeological Project along with a a cicular logo supersede an image of a dry desert with a camel in the foreground.

Uncovering Kimirek-Kum 1: Exploring a Forgotten Delta and Central Asia’s Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in Central Uzbekistan

Lynne M. Rouse

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This talk outlines the results and ongoing archaeological investigations of KK1’s diverse remains, including ceramic and metallurgical analyses, bio-archaeological and ecological studies, and broader palaeo-hydrological and landscape investigations.
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04/07/2025 05:30 PM Online
Photo of gold mask showing a man's face with closed eyes and a beard

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop:

Exploring the Minoans and the Mycenaeans

Manolis Mavromatis

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. Before the Classical period, where Athens and Sparta dominate as central figures in Ancient Greek history, two earlier civilizations have sparked significant debate regarding their identity and acknowledgment. The first is the Minoan civilization, based on Crete and named by Sir Arthur Evans after the mythical King Minos. The second is the Mycenaean civilization, identified as the first recognized Greek civilization.
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04/02/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
An array of different tan 7th century BCE Cretan and Corinthian clay vessels all different shapes and sizes with a black background

Lyktos: The Archaeology of an Archaic Greek City in Crete

Antonis Kotsonas

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Since 2021, a team from ISAW/NYU has been involved in archaeological fieldwork at the Greek and Roman city Lyktos in central Crete, Greece. Celebrated by Homer, considered as the birthplace of god Zeus by Hesiod, and identified as the cradle of the Spartan constitution by Aristotle, Lyktos boasts an unusually rich literary and epigraphic record.
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03/19/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
a dark gray cross on the Xi'an Stele rubbing

Faith in Translation: Theological Adaptation of East Syriac Christianity in Tang China

Rong Huang

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. For many, the history of Christianity in China begins with the Jesuit missions of the 16th and 17th centuries. However, nearly a millennium earlier, during the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), East Syriac Christians had already made their way to China through the ancient Silk Road trade routes spanning Eurasia.
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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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03/04/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Two people with camping gear traverse rocky terrain with the view from the Tuttybulaq 2 cave which includes many brown colored hills and a river like green stream running through the middle.

NYU ArchaeoHub Lecture Series

Stone Age Precursors to the Silk Road: Theory, Models, and Field Results

Radu Iovita

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. In antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a network of trade routes known as the Silk Road connected East and West Asia and Europe. The Silk Road was not just an economic link, but also the avenue for cultural and genetic exchanges between these regions.
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