Newsletter 23 Winter 2019

Cover Photo: Fish and vegetables hanging up in a cupboard, still-life. Mosaic, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE. From a villa at Tor Marancia, near the Catacombs of Domitilla. Galleria dei Candelabri, Musei Vaticani. Marie-Lan Nguyen (2006). ISAW Newsletter 23, Winter 2019, included the following contributions:

• From the Director
  Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity
  
  
• Tenth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series
  Dorian Q. Fuller, Professor of Archaeobotany, University College London
  
  
• Teaching and Research
• Expansionist Politics and the Creation of an Emblem of Universal Kingship
  Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• Research and Teaching on Ancient Wine
  Lorenzo d'Alfonso, Associate Professor of Ancient Western Asian Archaeology and History
• The Dinner Table of the Silk Roads Two Thousand Years Ago
  Sören Stark, Associate Professor of Central Asian Art and Archaeology
• Food and Diet in Greco-Roman Antiquity
  Claire Bubb, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Classical Literature and Science
• From Oracle to Human Bones: Documenting Health in Late Shang, China
  Daniela Wolin, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2018-2020
• Community News
  
  
• Exhibitions
• Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes (March 6 — June 2, 2019)
• Public Programs
• Recent Publications: A selection of books by ISAW faculty and former scholars
• Roderick Campbell (ISAW Associate Professor of East Asian Archaeology and History), Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State: The Shang and their World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Robert G. Hoyland (ISAW Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History),  The ‘History of the Kings of the Persians’ in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018).
• Robert G. Hoyland (ISAW Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History) and H. G. M Williamson, eds., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
• Alexander Jones (ISAW Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity and Leon Levy Director) and Liba Taub, eds., The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 1: Ancient Science (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Hallie M. Franks (ISAW Associated Faculty and ISAW VRS 2012-13), The World Underfoot: Mosaics and Metaphor in the Greek Symposium (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
• Justin Leidwanger (ISAW VRS 2011-12) and Carl Knappett, eds., Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Conferences
• Opening of the Digital Exhibition: The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads (Organized by Judith A. Lerner, ISAW and Thomas Wide, Freer|Sackler)
• MATERIA III: New Approaches to Material Text in the Ancient World (Conference organized by Joseph Howley, Columbia University, Stephanie Frampton, MIT, David M. Ratzan, ISAW)
• Public Events (this Newsletter section is superseded by the website Events section)
  
  
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