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- Frederic Clark
- by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 08/25/2016 01:24 PM
- Robert Spengler
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- Bill Mak
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- Alan Greene
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- ARCE Lecture: The World of Egypt's Elephantine Island
- The inhabitants of the first-cataract Nile Island Elephantine comprised a multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-religious community, which has left behind ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 06/09/2017 03:43 PM
- Claire Bubb Rejoins the ISAW Faculty
- On September 1, 2016, Claire Bubb will rejoin the ISAW faculty as Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Classical Literature and Science. She received her ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 08/10/2016 12:42 PM
- DAY ONE: Cult Practices in Ancient Literatures: Egyptian, Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Narratives in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Heroic stories and novels, tales, travel fictions and wisdom texts in the ancient world, from Egypt to Greece, from Anatolia to Rome, they contained rituals, ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 08/11/2016 03:01 PM
- DAY TWO: Cult Practices in Ancient Literatures: Egyptian, Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Narratives in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Heroic stories and novels, tales, travel fictions and wisdom texts in the ancient world, from Egypt to Greece, from Anatolia to Rome, they contained rituals, ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 04/27/2016 12:58 PM
- At the Intersection of Work, Economy, and Society
- Roman crafts production -- and its associated technological and labor organization -- has been conceived of as segmented, in part, although not exclusively, ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 04/26/2016 11:48 AM
- Iran Across the East/West Trade: Routes of Communication and Exchange, Products of Exchange, and Networks of Trade Circa 500-900 CE
- The central location of Iran in the overland routes of trade and communication between western and eastern Asia, throughout the historical and up to the early ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 04/20/2016 05:44 PM
- ARCE Lecture: The Other Woman
- Middle Kingdom stelae play an important role in the study of ancient Egyptian society. Subtleties expressed in the pictorial evidence of these monuments offer ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 07/05/2016 04:52 PM
- ARCE Lecture: Horus, Set and Israel
- While differences of opinion exist on the historicity of the biblical stories about Israel in Egypt, in this lecture Greenberg will look at various Egyptian ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 04/20/2016 05:44 PM
- The Formation of Cultural Memory: Ancient Mesopotamian Libraries and Schools and Their Contribution to the Shaping of Tradition and Identity
- When dealing with archives and libraries in the ancient Near East, Assyriological scholarship has dedicated much effort into the publication of their texts, ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 03/24/2016 01:24 PM
- Memory, Tradition, and Image Production in Ancient Mesopotamia
- Just as memory has been conceived of as a passive reservoir where visual data can be stored to be tapped when necessary, so has tradition been looked at as ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 11/04/2016 03:47 PM — Filed under: video
- DAY ONE: The Global Eighth Century: A Comparative Assessment of Socio-economic and Political Developments in the Eighth Century CE Across Eurasia
- Around the middle of the eighth century CE different societies in Eurasia experienced important changes. The Carolingian revolution in Western Europe, the ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 03/14/2016 11:38 AM
- DAY TWO: The Global Eighth Century: A Comparative Assessment of Socio-economic and Political Developments in the Eighth Century CE Across Eurasia
- Around the middle of the eighth century CE different societies in Eurasia experienced important changes. The Carolingian revolution in Western Europe, the ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 03/14/2016 11:35 AM
- (Re-)Defining an Ancient Near Eastern Contact Zone
- Newly discovered funerary contexts of late 3rd / early 2nd millennium BC date at Tayma, North-west Arabia, suggest close contacts to the Syro-Levantine world ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 03/07/2016 08:41 AM
- Territorial Barriers in Central Asia
- Territorial barriers are a widespread phenomenon in Western Central Asia where they specifically take the shape of large-scale oasis walls, surrounding the ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 02/29/2016 03:08 PM
- Material Worlds: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contacts and Exchange in the Ancient Near East
- Based on most recently obtained late 3rd/early 2nd millennium BC evidence from excavations on the Arabian Peninsula, a number of distinguished scholars will ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 02/26/2016 02:51 PM
- Brush Lecture (AIA): Maya Cultural Heritage
- by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 02/11/2016 04:20 PM
- ARCE Lecture: Middle Kingdom Clappers, Dancers, Birth Magic, and the Reinvention of Ritual
- This talk focuses upon a particularly enigmatic artifact category. Hand-shaped clappers fashioned out of hippo tusk are occasionally found in tombs of Middle ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 02/02/2016 02:34 PM
- A View from Below
- The Shang Dynasty, or the second dynasty of Chinese historiography, is largely known to us from elite sources—be they royal divinatory texts, the archaeology ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 01/26/2016 01:07 PM
- AIA Lecture: Narrative Approaches to Counting Roman Amphitheaters
- By the Second Century AD, well over 200 amphitheaters had been built within the territory of the Roman Empire. The most famous of these, the 50,000+ seat ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 01/25/2016 11:15 AM
- CANCELED: ARCE Lecture: The Other Woman
- Due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been canceled. by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 01/20/2016 09:22 AM
- Webinar: "The Origins of Monsters" Book Club
- David Wengrow's book "The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (Princeton University Press, 2014), which is ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 01/27/2016 12:08 PM
- Through the Looking Glass
- Northern Zhou Buddhist art has long been exiled to a dark corner of the scholarly world. Its contribution to the development of early Buddhist art (4th to 7th ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 01/05/2016 02:36 PM
- Shaping Religious Space in Roman and Late Antique Sepphoris
- This lecture will focus on the cultic buildings known to date in Sepphoris -- a Roman temple, two churches, and a synagogue -- and will discuss their ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 01/05/2016 02:16 PM
- Excavating One Man’s Lifeworlds in Early China
- Tombs are often considered as places of death and portals to the afterlife, and admittedly, they can function as such. However, viewing tombs solely from this ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 01/05/2016 02:08 PM
- Call for Papers: Cult Practices in Ancient Literatures
- The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is seeking papers for an interdisciplinary workshop, entitled "Cult Practices in Ancient Literatures: ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 08/25/2016 03:23 PM