The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the Rose-Marie Lewent Conference Feeding Cities: Antiquity to the Middle Ages Thursday-Friday, April 4-5, 2024 @ 12:00-2:30pm via Zoom This virtual event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please register using the links below. Ancient and medieval cities were home to many people […]

Lecture 1: Great Zimbabwe: Archaeological Science, Globalisation and Humans with a Different History Shadreck Chirikure,University of Oxford This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS THIS LINK.. The Rostovtzeff Lectures are supported in part by a generous endowment fund given by Roger and Whitney Bagnall. How humans in different places interacted […]

Lecture 2: Archaeological Science and Internal African Globalisation Shadreck Chirikure, University of Oxford This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. The Rostovtzeff Lectures are supported in part by a generous endowment fund given by Roger and Whitney Bagnall. How humans in different places interacted with their environments and with each […]

Lecture 3: Archaeological Science, Globalisation and the Atlantic-Indian Ocean System – Oranjemund Shipwreck Shadreck Chirikure, University of Oxford This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. The Rostovtzeff Lectures are supported in part by a generous endowment fund given by Roger and Whitney Bagnall. How humans in different places interacted with […]

Lecture IV: Homo faber and Homo dolor: Archaeological Science, Globalisation and (Un)sustainability Shadreck Chirikure, University of Oxford This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. The Rostovtzeff Lectures are supported in part by a generous endowment fund given by Roger and Whitney Bagnall. How humans in different places interacted with their […]

Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York Speaker: Javier Urcid, Professor in Anthropology, and Jane's Chair in Latin American Studies, Brandeis University Title: Coloring the Script of Teotihuacan It has long been recognized that Teotihuacan was a colored city, yet epigraphic data is usually published in black and white. The rendering of multiple painted surfaces, or […]

This conference will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. The Smith Collection of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University, which was cataloged by renowned historian of mathematics Professor David Pingree, contains a wealth of materials for researching astronomy, mathematics, astrology, and omens in South Asia. Most […]

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 […]

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. This lecture coincides with the launch of Eric Cline's book, After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations. This new book is the sequel to the award-winning 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. A pair of respondents, Sarah Morris (UCLA) and Nathan Lovejoy (Università Ca' […]

Speaker: Prof. Clemente Marconi (The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), Director, IFA–NYU and UniMi project in Selinunte Dr. Rosalia Pumo (The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), Deputy Director, IFA–NYU and UniMi project in […]

Cyprus and the Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age: Commercial and Cultural Connectivity on the Longue Durée   Artemis Georgiou and Anna Georgiadou University of Cyprus […]