Recent Events
12/17/2024 05:30 PM
Online
RESCHEDULED: Expanding the Ancient World Workshop
Navigating Early Indian Ocean Trade: A Resource for World History Teachers
Priya Barchi
This workshop has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 17th, at 5:30pm. The 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.
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12/12/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
Exhibition Musical Performance
The Bards of Andalus Taught Us Love: Shu’ara Al-Andalus, ta’allamu l-‘ishq
New York Andalus Ensemble
Come join us for an evening performance of traditional Andalusian music and song! Immerse yourself in the spirit of intercultural exchange and the cosmopolitan synergy of Al-Andalus, brought to life by the New York Andalus Ensemble.
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12/07/2024 01:00 PM
ISAW Galleries
Exhibition Drawing Workshop
Joan Chiverton
This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Please join illustrator and teaching artist Joan Chiverton for an afternoon of sketching in the galleries in conjunction with the exhibition Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain. Develop your drawing skills and discover a new way of seeing the exhibit, as you sketch masterpieces and other objects. Following a brief introduction and tutorial, Ms. Chiverton will circulate the galleries and provide individual coaching, if desired. All skill levels are welcome, from beginner to advanced. Participants should bring their own drawing pad or paper with a board, but we will have paper on hand if necessary. Gallery specific pencils will be provided by ISAW. For conservation reasons pens, pastels, charcoal and paints need to be kept at home.
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12/05/2024 05:30 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
Exhibition Lecture
Umayyad Memories from Damascus to Cordoba
Antoine Borrut
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. Islam’s first dynasty is usually presented as two separate phenomena: the Umayyads of Syria (r. 661-750), ruling from Damascus, and, later, a “second” Umayyad dynasty that flourished in Spain (756-1031), centered around Cordoba and Madinat al-Zahra.
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12/04/2024 08:00 PM
Online
Expanding the Ancient World Workshop:
Perspectives on the Silk Roads: The Sogdians
Mariana Castro
This workshop is organized by the OER Project and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. It 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. This workshop will present texts and materials for discussing the interconnected and multicultural society of the Sogdians along the Silk Roads, with an emphasis on personal experiences at home and abroad.
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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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