Upcoming Workshops

02/10/2026 05:30 PM Online
Footed terra cotta bowl with all-over decoration, including floral imagery, rosettes, and a bird

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Broken Pots, Big Ideas: Using Ancient Ceramics to Teach Economy, Trade and Cultural Exchange

Dylan Winchell

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 is designed for high-school educators seeking to incorporate archaeological evidence into their teaching of the ancient Mediterranean in concrete, accessible ways. It introduces ceramics as a uniquely powerful category of material culture for classroom use: abundant, visually legible, and deeply informative about trade, technology, daily life, and social organization.
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03/10/2026 05:30 PM Online
Rectangular stone amulet with a domed top with carved decoration including two fantastic creatures

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

The Power of Monsters in Ancient Western Asia: Magic, Seals, Monuments and the Logic of Images

Leopoldo Fox-Zampiccoli

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. Sphinxes, lions, griffins, winged demons, angels, chimeras of all sorts are some of the most captivating and enduring images of Mediterranean antiquity. Monsters are found across in objects of all sizes, from tiny scarab amulets to monumental statues, across the region. They were part of the visual imaginary of people in antiquity, cutting across regions, periods, social classes, and communities.
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04/21/2026 05:30 PM Online
Screenshot of a webpage showing catalogue entry of sculpture, labeled "Standing Female Figure with Neclace" (Yemen, 3,000-2,000 BCE)

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop

Digital Approaches to Global Art History: The Example of the Human Figure

Sebastian Heath

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 uses the prompt of a newly started digital project to consider how large scale narratives and individual objects can be integrated into curriculums and into classroom experiences. The project is Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure, currently browseable at https://gaerhf.org
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