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Associate Professor Rod Campbell featured in Scientific American
by Iris Fernandez | 05/07/2019
ISAW Associate Professor Roderick Campbell’s research on animal sacrifice and human-animal relations in Early China was recently featured in several prominent and widely distributed publications, including Scientific American, Sapiens, Live Science, and The Atlantic.
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ISAW Cohosts International Conference with École Pratique des Hautes Études (PSL, Paris)
by Iris Fernandez | 04/25/2019
On April 18th and 19th ISAW will host a joint international conference with the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, France. The conference titled Between the Age of Diplomacy and the First Great Empire in Ancient West Asia (1200 - 900 BC): Moving Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration was co-organized by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault (EPHE, PSL), Lorenzo d’Alfonso (ISAW, NYU) & Robert Hawley (EPHE, PSL).
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Announcing The Digital Central Asian Archaeology Collection (DCAA)
by Gabriel McKee | 04/22/2019
The ISAW Library is proud to announce the launch of the Digital Central Asian Archaeology collection (DCAA), a digital library dedicated to preserving scholarly material about Central Asian history and archaeology and to making it as easily discoverable and as widely accessible as possible.
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"Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project" Funded by the Getty Foundation
by Sebastian Heath | 02/22/2019
In collaboration with UMass Amherst, Professor Sebastian Heath has been awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation for the "Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project" project. This award is a part of a series of grants totaling $1m to support virtual preservation of cultural locations worldwide.
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Opening Next Month! "Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes"
by Rachel Herschman | 02/14/2019
Opening March 6th, "Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballet Russes" explores both the role of dance in ancient culture and the influence of antiquity on the modernist reinventions of the Ballets Russes.
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Wine-making in the South Caucasus
by Karen Rubinson | 01/16/2019
Research Associate Karen Rubinson traveled to Georgia and Armenia to conduct research for the Library's South Caucasus digital publications initiative and recounts here the area's fascinating history of winemaking in vessels known as qvevri.
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Object History and Significance: The Cameo of Jupiter (Chartres)
by Rachel Herschman | 12/21/2018
The current exhibition Devotion and Decadence features many remarkable archaeological finds, but some masterpieces of ancient art were consistently saved as luxury objects from the time of their creation. Cameos, for example, were frequently preserved and passed through different collections from the ancient world to the present. In the case of the Cameo of Jupiter (The Cameo of Chartres), its fourteenth-century mount tells us something about the object’s history as well as its changing significance over time.
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ISAW Hosts Conference on "The Archaeology of Neighborhood Life: Concepts, Communities, and Change"
by jd4016@nyu.edu | 12/19/2018
On December 14th, ISAW hosted a one-day conference on “The Archaeology of Neighborhood Life: Concepts, Communities, and Change” which brought together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds — Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Art History, Classics, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations — who are all contributing to a growing interest in the communal and cultural aspects of ancient urban districts.
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A Guggenheim's Works & Process Commission Inspired by ISAW's Upcoming Exhibition
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 12/18/2018
On April 28 and 29, Works & Process costume designers will perform a dance and costume commission inspired by our upcoming spring 2019 exhibition, "Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes."
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