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10/12/2023 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
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17th Annual Leon Levy Lecture

In Search of the “Evanescent” Garamantes: The Central Sahara in the 1st Millennium BCE

Lucia Mori

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. The history of the Sahara, which is nowadays the largest hot desert in the world, is still to be written for the most part. Until some decades ago, there had been only little acknowledgement of pristine and early African urbanization before the Islamic period, except for the Mediterranean and Nilotic civilizations.
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10/30/2023 10:00 AM Online
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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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11/01/2023 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
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Yemen — The Fate of Archaeological Heritage

Jérémie Schiettecatte

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. In the early 1970s, Yemen was emerging from a long period of isolation. Archaeological research gradually took off, making it possible to retrace the major stages in the evolution of the land of the Queen of Sheba. The monumentality of its architecture and the refinement of its arts were revealed, along with thousands of ancient monumental inscriptions. The outlines of a South Arabian civilization were gradually taking shape. Ancient South Arabia has turned out to be quite different from the misleading image of a desert Arabia roamed only by nomads.
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11/14/2023 05:30 PM Online
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Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Reckoning with Ancient Fragments: The Transcultural World of the Sogdians

Organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

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. The medieval civilization of the Sogdians, from their homeland in modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, was once renowned as an international agent of transcultural exchange across the Eurasian ‘Silk Road’. However, the source material from the Sogdians that survives is highly fragmentary and the limited textual evidence is usually written from outsiders’ perspectives.
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11/28/2023 05:30 PM Online
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Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Greece, Egypt, and the Body: Dissection and Mummification in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

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. The Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Egyptians held different beliefs about the workings of the body and about the handling of corpses.
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12/13/2023 05:30 PM Online
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Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Nomads in World History: How Human Mobility Shapes Society

Organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

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. It is difficult to teach nomadic history for several reasons: many nomadic cultures did not leave textual records of their own history, nomadic settlement patterns diverge from those of "Classical Cultures" such as the ancient Greeks or Egyptians, and most students today do not have first-hand experience of traditional nomadic lifeways.
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