Newsletter 25 Fall 2019

Cover Photo: Stone eagle perching on the head of a wild goat. Statue found at Kınık Höyük, Turkey. ©Kınık Höyük Archaeological Project ISAW Newsletter 25, Fall 2019, included the following contributions:

• From the Director
  Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity
  
  
• Community: Students
• ISAW Student Kate Justement Contributes to Exhibitions Program
  Marc LeBlanc, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
• ISAW Student Kyle Brunner Receives Digital Humanities Fellowship
  Marc LeBlanc, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
• Incoming Doctoral Students
• Community: Scholars
• Visiting Research Scholars 2019-20
• Visiting Research Scholars Alumni News
  
  
• New Community Member: Welcome to Hannah McDonald
  
  
• Exhibitions
• A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate (November 6th, 2019 – May 24th, 2020)
• Public Programming (this Newsletter section is superseded by the website Events section)
• Faculty Focus
• From Ashoka to Xuanzang: The Buddhist Millenium in Western Central Asia
  
  Sören Stark, ISAW Associate Professor of Central Asian Art and Archaeology
  Annette Juliano, ISAW Adjunct Faculty
• Kınık Höyük: The Eagle Has Perched
  Diane W. Bennett, ISAW Associate Director for Administration
  
  
• Digital Programs
• Project Updates: Geography, Accessibility, and Pompeii
  Tom Elliott, ISAW Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar; Adjunct Assistant Professor (Fall 2019)
  
  
• Thirteenth Annual Leon Levy Lecture
  Peter Machinist, Hancock Research Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Harvard University
  
  
• Conferences
• Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
  Organized by Amber Jacob (ISAW), Sofie Schiødt (University of Copenhagen), Lingxin Zhang (Johns Hopkins University), Alexander Jones (ISAW)
• Medicine and the Law under the Roman Empire: Professionalism, Intellectual Pursuit, Entertainment, and Socio-Political Competition
  Organized by Claire Bubb (ISAW) and Michael Peachin (NYU Classics)
• Melting Bowl or Salad Pot?: Identity Dynamics of Migrants to State/Imperial Heartlands Through the Ages
  Organized by David Danzig (ISAW)
  
  
• Public Events (this Newsletter section is superseded by the website Events section)
  
  
• Save the Date: Doctoral Program Open House, October 21(this event has passed)