Newsletter 17 Winter 2017

An unpublished codex of tablets with Greek and Coptic documents —the most ancient tax receipts in Coptic © Musée du Louvre / Christian LarrieuFrom the Eighth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series, presented Wednesdays, March 22 - April 12, 2017 by Jean-Luc Fournet ISAW Newsletter 17, Winter 2017, included the following contributions:

• From the Director
  Alexander Jones, Interim Director and Professor of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity
   
• Community News
  
  1. Announcement of Faculty Tenure, Effective Fall, 2017
     Rod Campbell, Assistant Professor of East Asia Archaeology and History
  2. Tribute to Norman L. Peck (1938-2016)
     Shelby White, Founder
  3. Visiting Student Feature
     Matthias Stern, PhD Candidate, University of Basel, Switzerland
      
• Lecture Series
  Eighth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series
  Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antique Egypt: The Struggle of Coptic for an Official Status
  Jean-Luc Fournet, Professor, Collège de France, Paris
   
  
• Workshops and Conferences
  
  1. Synthesis in Pottery Analysis: The Technical as a Portal to the Social
     Organized by Alan Greene (ISAW Visiting Research Scholar) and Yitzchak Jaffe (ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor
  2. Cosmos, East and West: Astral Sciences in South and East Asia and their Interaction with the Greco-Roman World
     Organized by Bill Mak (ISAW Visiting Research Scholar)
  3. The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity
     Co-organized by ISAW and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. The Core of a New Age: Northern Mesopotamia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age
     Organized by Beate Pongratz-Leisten (ISAW) and Lorenzo d’Alfonso (ISAW)
  5. Rome and its Critics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
     Organized by Maya Maskarinec (ISAW Visiting Research Scholar)
      
     
• Faculty Focus:
  Nessana and its Papyri
  Robert Hoyland, Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History
   
• Libraries
  David M. Ratzan, Head Librarian
   
  
• Digital Humanities
  
  1. Pleiades Award
     Tom Elliott, Associate Director for Digital Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fall 2016
     
  2. Introduction to Digital Humanities for the Ancient World
     Sebastian Heath, Clinical Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies
     Tom Elliott, Associate Director for Digital Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fall 2016
     Emily Cole, Visiting Assistant Professor
     Georgios Tsolakis, Graduate Student
     
• Publications
  
• Exhibitions
  
• Public Events [superseded by the Events Archive]
  
  

A PDF version of Newsletter 17, Winter 2017, which preserves the original print-oriented formatting of the content, is also available for download.