https://isaw.nyu.edu https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/overseas-trade-and-its-impact This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. China’s Song dynasty (960–1279) began as a military government ruling a population devastated by decades of civil war following one of the most tumultuous periods of Chinese history. Yet, the Song dynasty was merely only the latest in a series of short-lived dynasties that attempted to rule China. Its leaders understood that their predecessors failed because they succumbed to the instability of military rule, and thus a balance was sought in which a greatly expanded civil bureaucracy could offset the monopoly of power held by military men. 2026-10-19T18:54:28Z Event https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-gender-in-ancientgreek-vase-painting 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. In this workshop, we will examine gender through ancient Greek painted vases, with a focus on vases produced in Attica, first by discussing how and why decorated terracotta vases were produced and how they were used. 2026-09-10T17:01:58Z Event https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/cursed-exhibition-talk-with-karen-stern This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Conventional studies of ancient Jewish prayer and its evolution focus primarily on recitations or performances of precatory texts, liturgy, or poetry once conducted inside Jewish homes, synagogues, and study halls. This talk adopts a different focus: it considers inextricable connections between the minds, hearts, and bodies of Jewish supplicants and the portable things that they once attached to their bodies with strings and cords, including inscribed amulets and phylacteries of various sorts. 2026-09-08T19:50:45Z Event https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-bioarchaeology-and-how-to-teach-it 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. This workshop will provide educators with an understanding of what bones can tell us about the past. Participants will learn how parts of who we are get left behind on our skeletons – and how to read them! 2026-09-10T19:16:57Z Event https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/iron-age-kingdom-in-anatolia This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Since the 2019 discovery of a royal inscription authored by "Great King Hartapu," Iron Age Anatolian scholarship has been energised by the appearance of a hitherto unknown kingdom in the Konya Plain. While the historical context of Hartapu’s inscriptions have undergone dramatic reassessment in light of this new text, little attention has been paid to the conditions that would have contributed to the rise of this kingdom in the first place. This lecture proposes several factors that likely played a role in the emergence of the kingdom: cultural and economic interaction with the Neo-Assyrian Empire, similar relations with Phrygia, emulative competition with its local peer polities and a propitious ecological setting at a time of significant environmental transformations. 2026-10-20T20:43:10Z Event