News

2009.10.23: Schedule for Visiting Research Scholars Lecture Series

NYU Press release (October 22, 2009), with schedule. Individual lectures will be added to the ISAW Events page as they approach.

2009.10.23: Public lecture: Mim Bower, "The Horse is Man's Wings: Archaeological Science and the Changing Nature of the Human-Horse Relationship in Central and East Asia in Prehistory"

October 27, 2009. Full details on our events page.

2009.10.21: Third Annual Leon Levy Lecture: Nicola Di Cosmo

November 5, 2009, 6p.m. "The Historian in the Future of the Ancient World: A View from Central Eurasia." Details:

2009.10.10: Public lecture: David Klotz, "The Temple of Osiris in Abydos during the Late Period"

October 20, 2009. Full details on our events page.

2009.09.30: Job opportunity for Systems Administrator

ISAW has an immediate opening in New York for a full-time systems administrator / web master at the Institute. A job description and application instructions may be viewed at http://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=51252.

2008.04.17: British PM cites NYU/King's collaboration

In an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal, Prime Minister Brown cited an NYU/King's study group aimed at intensifying "cooperation between UK and US institutions". He called for a higher level of cooperation between British and American universities. The study group, jointly headed by the principal of King's College, London and the president of NYU, will seek ways to intensify such collaboration, with an initial focus on transatlantic interactions between faculty and research personnel. The recently announced Concordia Project is an example of this sort of initiative, involving personnel from King's and ISAW.

2008.04.07: ISAW and King's College, London receive joint grant

ISAW was one of five U.S. institutions working on shared projects with scholars in the U.K. to receive a new Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a British advisory body promoting information technology in higher education. The resulting Concordia Project will bring together a variety of separate digital information (including papyrological documents, epigraphic texts and historical geographic data) to create a prototype research resource for Greek and Roman Libya and Egypt, and beyond. See further: NYU press release.