Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

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15 E 84th St, New York, NY 10028

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Upcoming Events (25)

Hymn to Apollo Virtual Tour

Thu, Oct 8, 2026

Clare Fitzgerald, ISAW Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator

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There Goes the Neighborhood: Gentrification and Urban Redevelopment in Roman North Africa

Mon, Oct 12, 2026

J. Andrew Dufton, ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor

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Exhibition Lecture: I Call Upon You, Gods of the Night: Protecting against Witchcraft and Demons in Mesopotamia

Wed, Oct 14, 20265:30 PM

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Conserving Cairo 1882-2012

Sat, Oct 17, 2026

ARCE Lecture Nicholas Warner, American University in Cairo

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Chinese Bronze Age Economics: A Multi-sited Approach to Shang Dynasty Bone Crafting

Fri, Oct 23, 2026

Roderick B. Campbell, ISAW Associate Professor of East Asian Archaeology and History

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Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology

Sat, Oct 24, 2026

AIA Lecture Jason Ur, Harvard University

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Death and Taxes?: Economy, Society and the Imperial State in Babylonia in the Sixth Century BCE

Sun, Oct 25, 2026

Michael Jursa, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, Corresponding Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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The Education and Miseducation of an Administrator in Late Roman Egypt

Thu, Oct 29, 2026

Alexander Jones, ISAW Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity Roger S. Bagnall, ISAW Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Leon Levy Director Emeritus

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The Migrations of Islamic Science in Renaissance Europe

Fri, Oct 30, 2026

Exhibition Lecture Robert Morrison, Bowdoin College

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Exhibition Workshop: Halloween Amulet Making

Sat, Oct 31, 202611:00 AM

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From a Roman House to a Bourbon Palace: Finding Ancient Rome on the Bay of Naples

Tue, Nov 3, 2026

Exhibition Lecture Carol Mattusch, George Mason University

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Decrepit Rome, your morals disintegrate, your walls collapse!: Critique of Rome in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Tue, Nov 3, 2026

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Exhibition Lecture: Cursing, Curing, Creating: The Culture of Magic in Ancient Egypt

Wed, Nov 4, 20265:30 PM

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From Hebrew Bible Studies to the Studies of the Ancient Near East: Approaches Towards a History of Religion of Mesopotamia

Fri, Nov 6, 2026

Beate Pongratz-Leisten, ISAW Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

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Mobile Cosmopolitanism: Diversity and Exchange in the Uyghur Steppe Empire (744-840)

Fri, Nov 6, 2026

16th Annual Leon Levy Lecture Michael R. Drompp, Rhodes College

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Defining ‘Xian’: Methodological Approaches and Questions to the Study of Zoroastrianism in Medieval China

Sun, Nov 8, 2026

Pénélope Riboud, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar

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A People Without a Name or, Who Were the Hittites?

Tue, Nov 10, 2026

10th Annual Leon Levy Lecture Theo van den Hout, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization and of Hittite and Anatolian Languages, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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Day 1

Wed, Nov 11, 2026

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Galen's Gynaeocology

Wed, Nov 11, 2026

Exhibition Lecture Rebecca Flemming, University of Cambridge

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Day 2

Thu, Nov 12, 2026

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Day 3

Fri, Nov 13, 2026

How Global Was the Early Medieval World? An Exploration of Worldwide Connections 500-1000 CE Erik Hermans, Independent Scholar & ISAW PhD Alumnus

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Theology of Liberation in the Second Millennium BCE: The Hurrian Song of Liberation

Fri, Nov 13, 2026

Eva von Dassow, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar

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Ancient Sundials: Art, Technology, and Culture

Sun, Nov 15, 2026

Exhibition Lecture James Evans, University of Puget Sound

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Fruits of the Silk Road: The Spread of Agriculture through Central Asia

Tue, Nov 17, 2026

Robert Spengler, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar

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Ancient World Research and Tools in Synergy

Sat, Nov 28, 2026

Mark Depauw, University of Leuven

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Recent Past Events at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Water in SumerMon, Oct 5, 2026

A Window into the Ptolemaic Mind: Woman Classifiers in the Egyptian ScriptFri, Oct 2, 2026

Herodes Atticus and the Greco-Roman World: Imperial Cosmos, Cosmic Allusions, Art and Culture in his Estate in Southern PeloponneseTue, Sep 29, 2026

Exhibition Workshop: The Poetry of Ancient MagicSat, Sep 26, 2026

The Scribal Mind: Textual Criticism in AntiquitySat, Sep 26, 2026

Arabic Cosmographical Maps: Reworking Ancient TraditionsThu, Sep 24, 2026

Day 2Tue, Sep 22, 2026

Acts of Remembering in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on SamothraceTue, Sep 22, 2026

Day 1Mon, Sep 21, 2026

A Paradise in the Caucasus: An Achaemenid Residence in AzerbaijanFri, Sep 18, 2026

Exhibition Lecture: Cursed! Curator's Gallery TalkThu, Sep 17, 2026

The Other Woman: Encoded Messages in Egyptian ArtSun, Sep 13, 2026

Ishtar Gate Virtual TourWed, Jul 22, 2026

Museum Mile Festival 2026Tue, Jun 9, 2026

Horus, Set, and Israel: Egyptian Literary Reflections in a Biblical MirrorTue, Jun 9, 2026

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