Recent Events
11/25/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
Cyprus and the Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age
Commercial and Cultural Connectivity on the Longue Durée
Artemis Georgiou and Anna Georgiadou
This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Cyprus, acknowledged as the island of copper already during ancient times, plays an integral part in discussions involving ancient Mediterranean connectivity.
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11/19/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
Exhibition Lecture
"The Sight that I Offer is the Fairest of Sights": Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba
Abigail Balbale
This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture is given in conjunction with ISAW's exhibition Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain. Of the many beautiful objects associated with Madinat al-Zahra and the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate, perhaps none are as celebrated as a series of ivory pyxides and caskets produced for members of the royal family.
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11/15/2024 01:00 PM
Online
Multidisciplinary and Multiperspective Engagement with Early Ceramics
The Intersection of Past, Present, and Future in Research on Painted Pottery
Anke Hein
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. As they are ubiquitous in the material record, ceramics have long been a major concern of archaeological research. To gain further insight into processes of ceramic production and related socio-cultural issues, in many parts of the world has become common to refer to ethnographic data and conduct ethnoarchaeological studies.
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11/13/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Gallery
Expanding the Ancient World Workshop:
Discovering Life in al-Andalus through "Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain"
Carl Walsh
This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Learn more about Islamic art and material culture during the early Medieval Period (711–1031 CE) through the ISAW exhibition "Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain."
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11/06/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
18th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
On Celts, Celticness, and Celtology: Reconciling Ancient and Modern Identities
Michael Dietler
This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. The lecture examines what it means to be Celtic in the contemporary world, and how modern Celts relate to peoples of the ancient past who were also called Celts.
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10/30/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Gallery
Madinat al-Zahra Gallery Talk: Curators in Conversation
Exhibition Lecture
Antonio Vallejo Triano and Eduardo Manzano Moreno
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 a conversation with Antonio Vallejo Triano (Madinat al-Zahra Museum) and Eduardo Manzano Moreno (CSIC, Madrid) to discuss the genesis of this project. Antonio and Eduardo will address the themes of the exhibition, discuss the ancient artifacts on display, and evaluate the role of the Umayyad dynasty in the understanding of medieval Spain.
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10/28/2024 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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10/23/2024 05:30 PM
Online
Expanding the Ancient World Workshop
Teaching Ancient Nubia: Integrating Kush in the Classroom
Sydney A. Pickens
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. Ancient Nubia has a rich history that spans over 4,000 years. This ancient African civilization was home to the city-state of Kerma which lasted an astounding 1,000 years, the Napatan Kings who conquered and ruled Egypt as the 25th Dynasty, and the Warrior Queens of the Meroitic Period who repelled the Roman invasion of Meroe.
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10/21/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
ISAW Library Events: Imperial Waters: Unraveling the Impact of Nile Floods on Roman Egypt and the Empire
Sabine Huebner
This lecture is the second 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. Sabine Huebner shares some of her recent work on the ancient environment, exploring how the Nile's floods shaped Egypt’s agriculture, society, and political stability, highlighting the incredible adaptability of the Egyptian people to environmental changes over centuries. She will reveal how a blend of climate change, particularly in the Nile flooding, and political choices shaped agricultural output, tax policies, and overall economy of Egypt under Roman rule.
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10/16/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
Early Globalization and Ancient Connectivity on the Eastern African Swahili Coast:
A View from Pangani Bay in Northern Tanzania
Wolfgang Alders
This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. How did hunters, pastoralists and small-scale farmers influence the earliest connections between coastal eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean world in the early-mid first millennium CE?
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10/15/2024 05:30 PM
Online
Expanding the Ancient World Workshop:
Global Connections in the Late Antique and Early Medieval World
Erik Hermans
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. During the second half of the first millennium CE, societies across the globe were connected with each other through conquest, trade, intellectual exchange, and climatological phenomena. While some of these connections have reached world history textbooks under the umbrella term 'silk road networks', the actual impact, nuances, and the limits of global connectivity in Afro-Eurasia and outside of it are hard to grasp and even harder to teach.
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10/09/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
Living in a Culture of the Past: The Life and Work of a Scribe in Hellenistic Uruk
Abigail Hoskins
This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link.
The figure of the scribe is essential to any discussion of ancient Mesopotamian culture. Decades of careful research have allowed historians to paint a general portrait of the Mesopotamian scribe that can then be placed into historical narratives. But what about the individuals from whom this composite picture was created?
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