BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//ISAW//ICalendar Support VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260902T160800Z UID:ATEvent-08e78ad7b3a441ba96a0fd20dc1a9ced LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T160855Z SUMMARY:Arabic Cosmographical Maps: Reworking Ancient Traditions DTSTART:20260924T213000Z DTEND:20260924T230000Z DESCRIPTION:This talk introduces how the Arabic and Islamic manuscript tradition inherited and adapted images of the late antique cosmos\, f ocusing on a series of cosmographical maps from the 12th century Andal usian Sufi thinker\, Ibn al-ʾArabi (d. 1240) and considering the rece ption of these images in the visual history of the Islamic world. CATEGORIES:library-event CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260826T202847Z UID:ATEvent-934db3b377fd430f8f94cd72ea5c86be LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T204628Z SUMMARY:Exhibition Workshop: The Poetry of Ancient Magic DTSTART:20260926T170000Z DTEND:20260926T190000Z DESCRIPTION:This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registrat ion is required\; click through for the registration link. Rediscover your inner sense of magic in this hands-on workshop at the Galleries a t ISAW! Guided by ISAW PhD candidate Leopoldo Fox-Zampiccoli\, partici pants will learn how people in the past channeled their hopes and fear s\, loves and rivalries\, and more by writing spells on amulets and ta lismans. CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260820T165552Z UID:ATEvent-df4a05f56f574563a26967f767bff0a0 LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T165636Z SUMMARY:Acts of Remembering in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace DTSTART:20260922T213000Z DTEND:20260922T233000Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place in person at ISAW (15 East 84 th Street). Registration is required\; click through for the registrat ion link. The Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace was the home o f a famous mystery cult of the ancient Greek world\, and of the famous Victory statue. Even at its height (3rd-2nd centuries BCE)\, the cult referenced Archaic and Classical period (7th-5th century BCE) origins in ways both visible and invisible. This talk reconsiders the archaeo logical evidence of the central valley of the Sanctuary of the Great G ods of Samothrace. CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260902T160655Z UID:ATEvent-1cd81bc0dccc4b6cae9a804528563b3c LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T160736Z SUMMARY:A Window into the Ptolemaic Mind: DTSTART:20261002T213000Z DTEND:20261002T233000Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of the ISAW Library events series and will take place in person at ISAW (15 East 84th Street). Registration is required\; click through for the registration link. This lecture e xplores a new source of evidence for the status and conceptualization of women in Ptolemaic Egypt through a pilot study of classifiers in th e hieroglyphic system. From the Old Kingdom onwards\, Egyptian hierogl yphic writing employed a highly organized system of category markers classifiers or determinatives. These “mute” hieroglyphs\, typical ly placed at the end of words\, provide a unique window onto the emic organization of knowledge and the categories through which the ancient Egyptians conceptualized their world. CATEGORIES:library-event CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260826T214933Z UID:ATEvent-75078c1350514b109e0496b7ae3bea36 LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T000841Z SUMMARY:Exhibition Workshop: Halloween Amulet Making DTSTART:20261031T150000Z DTEND:20261031T170000Z DESCRIPTION:This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registrat ion is required\; click through for the registration link. Protect you rself with the eye of Horus or scare off all evil with the fierce face of the demon Pazuzu! At times calling on spooky spirits\, at times re lying on benevolent magical symbols\, amulets were part of the lives o f people across the ancient Mediterranean. CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260826T214709Z UID:ATEvent-611b1ca349d04733a950d15a495f46f7 LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T214735Z SUMMARY:Exhibition Lecture: I Call Upon You\, Gods of the Night: Protecting against Witchcraft and Demons in Mesopotamia DTSTART:20261014T213000Z DTEND:20261014T223000Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registrati on is required\; click through for the registration link. The ancient Mesopotamian world was populated with a wide range of demonic and mons trous creatures\, all of which intersected with daily life in a variet y of mostly-malignant ways. Most often\, demons\, or the chaotic figur e of the witch\, could cause serious harm\, being associated with dise ase and illness\, or even death\, particularly in infants and young ch ildren. CATEGORIES:exhibition-event CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260826T203158Z UID:ATEvent-3e09088b281c4e1593d6619e612cf4b6 LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T205703Z SUMMARY:Exhibition Lecture: Cursed! Curator's Gallery Talk DTSTART:20260917T213000Z DTEND:20260917T223000Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registrati on is required\; click through for the registration link. Join curator Jeffrey Spier for an in-gallery exploration of the exhibition Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World. Dr. Spier will discuss the e xhibition’s key themes and engage participants in close-looking at a selection of exhibition highlights. CATEGORIES:exhibition-event CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260901T142659Z UID:ATEvent-c2c7f619ec754b5fb12fe98098c415d2 LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T212234Z SUMMARY:Exhibition Lecture: Cursing\, Curing\, Creating: The Culture of Magic in Ancient Egypt DTSTART:20261104T223000Z DTEND:20261104T233000Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registrati on is required\; click through for the registration link. For the anci ent Egyptians\, magic was not an illicit alternative to religion or a mysterious violation of the natural world. Heka—the force usually tr anslated as “magic”—was woven into creation itself and provided gods and humans with the causative power to make things happen. Drawin g on texts and objects featured in the ISAW exhibition Cursed! The Pow er of Magic in the Ancient World\, this lecture explores how Egyptians used spoken spells\, written words\, images\, amulets\, ritual action s\, and sacred substances to heal the sick\, protect children\, defeat enemies\, communicate with the dead\, and transform their spirits. Se en from an Egyptian perspective\, cursing\, curing\, and creating were not separate domains but different expressions of a world in which ma gic was an expected part of everyday life. CATEGORIES:exhibition-event CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260908T195248Z UID:ATEvent-4d7a7f10c36f4a3ba38ad6ab71b4aaa1 LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T195331Z SUMMARY:20th Annual Leon Levy Lecture DTSTART:20261028T213000Z DTEND:20261028T233000Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place in person at ISAW (15 East 84 th Street). Registration is required\; click through for the registrat ion link. This lecture examines how recent archaeological research has transformed the understanding of precolonial state formations in East ern and Southern Africa. Drawing on excavations and analyses conducted over the past two decades at sites such as Kilwa Kisiwani\, Songo Mna ra\, Mtwapa\, Great Zimbabwe\, Khami\, and Mapungubwe\, this study con tends that a fundamental reconceptualization of African political comp lexity is underway. CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260903T151930Z UID:ATEvent-16df91aec3ad42ddaf45454238f62ab2 LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T173617Z SUMMARY:Expanding the Ancient World Workshop: DTSTART:20260929T213000Z DTEND:20260929T230000Z DESCRIPTION:This workshop will take place online. Registration is requ ired\; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expandi ng the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. This workshop explores the organiz ation\, equipment\, and social life of the Roman army. Everyone knows the Roman army was a powerful military force\, but did you know it di d much more than fight wars? CATEGORIES:ETAW CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260908T193948Z UID:ATEvent-fc9a1d92856f4b36ac2073c48e655592 LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T195045Z SUMMARY:Exhibition Lecture: Portable Prayers: Objects\, Adornment\, and Devotion in Jewish Antiquity DTSTART:20261202T223000Z DTEND:20261202T233000Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registrati on 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. Thi s 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 so rts. CATEGORIES:exhibition-event CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260908T192246Z UID:ATEvent-eca4fc6b381e4a08ad1814908df46881 LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T193526Z SUMMARY:Burial and Betrayal DTSTART:20261021T213000Z DTEND:20261021T233000Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registrati on is required\; click through for the registration link. The ancient Roman cemetery is often framed as the domain of the “well deserving, ” as funerary monuments frequently formulaically assert. These dead were deserving of proper burial\, of commemoration\, and of the ongoin g provision of offerings and other cult activities that both integrate d them into the community of the dead and maintained their relationshi ps with the living. But what might happen to the “badly deserving? By examining select case studies of social betrayal documented in Ro man cemeteries from the first three centuries CE\, this talk will expl ore efforts at enforcing postmortem punishments against those perceive d to have violated Roman social norms. It will argue that these storie s of betrayal\, while unique in their specifics\, together illuminate the ways in which private individuals could seek to impose a form of a fterlife exile upon those they deemed guilty of social transgressions. CATEGORIES:exhibition-event CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260910T162713Z UID:ATEvent-808ed4909a5f4ed081a5b59e585e6194 LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T163939Z SUMMARY:Expanding the Ancient World Workshop DTSTART:20261020T213000Z DTEND:20261020T230000Z DESCRIPTION:This workshop will take place online. Registration is requ ired\; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expandi ng the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. The workshop invites teachers to f urther incorporate Roman slavery into ancient history curricula. From transactional papyri\, to clever slaves on stage\, to the tombstone of a child miner\, we will examine slavery both as a ubiquitous legal ph enomenon and as a varied spectrum of experience across the Roman world . CATEGORIES:ETAW CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260910T165118Z UID:ATEvent-93a0f4ccc3bd4dbab6fd70f8636e1981 LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T170158Z SUMMARY:Expanding the Ancient World Workshop DTSTART:20261117T223000Z DTEND:20261118T000000Z DESCRIPTION:This workshop will take place online. Registration is requ ired\; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expandi ng 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 pr oduced in Attica\, first by discussing how and why decorated terracott a vases were produced and how they were used. CATEGORIES:ETAW CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260910T172718Z UID:ATEvent-84544f60c615467cb37371c2b35b71a5 LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T191657Z SUMMARY:Expanding the Ancient World Workshop DTSTART:20261203T223000Z DTEND:20261204T000000Z DESCRIPTION:This workshop will take place online. Registration is requ ired\; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expandi ng the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. This workshop will provide educato rs with an understanding of what bones can tell us about the past. Par ticipants will learn how parts of who we are get left behind on our sk eletons – and how to read them! CATEGORIES:ETAW CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260910T195943Z UID:ATEvent-4e22489b556b443fa18b588c3374fa8c LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T201404Z SUMMARY:Open House for Prospective Students DTSTART:20261105T150000Z DTEND:20261105T180000Z DESCRIPTION:ISAW's open house for prospective doctoral students will t ake place online. Registration is required\; click through for the reg istration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation ema il to registered participants. The event will include an opportunity t o meet the ISAW faculty\; an information session about our academic pr ogram\; a Q&A session with current students\; and sessions on archaeol ogy\, digital humanities\, exhibitions\, and the library at ISAW. CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260914T192723Z UID:ATEvent-a43716de102e46ea84ec60a14d8a0195 LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T192802Z SUMMARY:Expanding the Ancient World Workshop DTSTART:20261027T213000Z DTEND:20261027T230000Z DESCRIPTION:This workshop will take place online. Registration is requ ired\; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expandi ng the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. This online workshop delves into h ow ancient people harnessed the power of the supernatural – from inv oking demons to appealing to ancestral spirits. Through a series of ob ject-based learning activities\, we will explore spells\, charms\, and rituals that were used by magicians and witches to navigate the often -dangerous forces and entities that occupied the material and immateri al worlds. CATEGORIES:ETAW CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261015T075238Z CREATED:20260921T140505Z UID:ATEvent-222e564bdeea4f7383c679d4e99df120 LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T142850Z SUMMARY:"He Saw Mysteries and Knew Secret Things”: The Use and Abuse of Near Eastern Archaeology and Myth in Paranormal Discourse DTSTART:20261029T213000Z DTEND:20261029T231500Z DESCRIPTION:Professor Jeb Card\, known for his book Spooky Archaeology \, will present a primer for understanding the use and abuse of archae ology and mythology of Ancient Southwest Asia in current and popular p aranormal and conspiracy myth-making\, including the inspirations and appropriations of Near East scholarship for more recent ideas\, such a s secret missions to seize a Babylonian stargate\, intelligent plasma jinn\, Ubaid reptilians\, Denisovan Gobekli Tepe\, star-sent Anunnaki\ , and more. CATEGORIES:ISAW Library, library-event, popular culture, mythology, archaeology CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR