The Survival of Civilizations? The Mediterranean After 1177 BCE

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents
The Survival of Civilizations? The Mediterranean after 1177 BCE

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 @ 9:30am-12:00pm
Hemmerdinger Hall
32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
New York, NY 10003

This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. RSVP HERE.

The end of the Late Bronze Age is marked by destruction at numerous big sites in the Aegean, Anatolia, and the Levant. Our understanding of the transition into the Iron Age has followed Ramses III’s narrative of invasions by migrants, which brought down all polities in the Eastern Mediterranean, except for Pharaonic Egypt. The traditional reconstruction for this period features a universal super-regional collapse followed by regeneration during the Iron Age. By contrast, profound regional differences have now been identified and juxtaposed in Eric Cline’s new book After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilizations, which will be released immediately before the workshop. Focusing on the dynamics of the interaction between different regional processes at the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition, the international experts contributing to this workshop will present the results of recent fieldwork and new finds, and the research questions which have emerged in the last few years to complement and enrich Cline’s vision.

9:30am COFFEE AND CHECK-IN

9:45am WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Antonis Kotsonas (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU)

10:00am EGYPT AND NORTHEAST AFRICA
Kathryn Howley (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU)

10:30am THE LEVANT
Assaf Yasur-Landau (Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, Haifa University)

11:00am ANATOLIA AND MESOPOTAMIA
Lorenzo d’Alfonso (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU)

11:30am THE AEGEAN
John Papadopoulos (University of California, Los Angeles)

12:00pm ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
with Eric Cline (George Washington University)
moderated by Daniel Fleming (NYU)

This morning symposium will be followed by an evening lecture at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. For the details of that event, please click here.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. For more information, please contact the Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or ancient.studies@nyu.edu