Newsletter 13 Fall 2015

A Painted Terracotta Warrior from the Mausoleum of the First Emperor at Lintong, China Courtesy of Lillian Tseng ISAW Newsletter 13, Fall 2015, included the following contributions:

• From the Director
  Roger Bagnall, Leon Levy Director
   
• Faculty Focus:
• Art, Archaeology, and the First Emperor: A Global Approach
  Lillian Tseng, Associate Professor of East Asian Art and Archaeology
• Celebrating Five Years of Excavating Kınık Höyük
  Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Associate Professor of West Asian Archaeology and History
• Ritual and Narrative: Texts in Performance in the Ancient Near East
  Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
   
• Scholar Feature: Claire Bubb, Visiting Assistant Professor
   
• Digital Programs
  Tom Elliott, Associate Director for Digital Programs
   
• Library
  David M. Ratzan, Head Librarian
   
• Community
• Visiting Research Scholars 2015-16
• Incoming Graduate Students
• Visiting Research Scholars Alumni News
• Visiting Student Feature
• Exhibitions: Eye of the Shah: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past
  
• Lectures and Conferences
• Ninth Annual Leon Levy Lecture: Scythian Elite Burial Mounds in the Eurasian Steppes: New
  Discoveries for a Deeper Understanding
  Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
  
• South Caucasus Colloquium
  Karen Rubinson, Research Associate
  
  
• Public Events (superseded; see now the Events Archive)
  

A PDF version of Newsletter 13, Fall 2015, which preserves the original print-oriented formatting of the content, is also available for download.