Newsletter 19 Fall 2017

Cover Photo: The rock-cut monument of Darius I at Bisotun (courtesy of Wouter Henkelman) ISAW Newsletter 19, Fall 2017, included the following contributions:

• From the Director
  Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity
  
  
• Community News
  
  
• Alexander Jones is Appointed Director of ISAW
• Roger Bagnall Retires from NYU
• ISAW Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary
• Alumni Spotlight: Mehrnoush Soroush
• Incoming Graduate Students
• Visiting Research Scholars 2017-18
• Visiting Research Scholars Alumni News
  
• Lectures
  The Roman Caesars in Modern Art: Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities
  Mary Beard, Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Newnham College
  
  
• Faculty Focus
  From myth to history: Jean-Claude Ballyet, the French Enlightenment and Bisotun
  Daniel T Potts, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History

• Exhibitions
  Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans
  
  
• Conferences
  
  The Scribal Mind: Textual Criticism in Antiquity
  Conference organized by Emily Cole (ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor)
  
  Eastern Iran and Western Central Asia during Late Antiquity (3rd-5th cent. CE): Numismatics, Archaeology, and Art History in Dialogue
  Conference organized by Sören Stark (ISAW)
  
  Digital Publication in Mediterranean Archaeology: Current Practice and Common Goals
  Conference organized by Tom Elliott (ISAW), Sebastian Heath (ISAW), David Ratzan (ISAW), Erin Averett (Creighton University/AIA), and Eric Kansa (Open Context/White-Levy Program for Archaeological Publication)

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A PDF version of Newsletter 19, Fall 2017, which preserves the original print-oriented formatting of the content, is also available for download.