Fall 2009 Events Calendar
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November 5: Annual Leon Levy Lecture
Speaker: Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced
Study
Location: Oak Library, Second Floor
Date: November 5, 2009
Time:
6:00 p.m.
NYU Press Release
The Historian in the Future of the Ancient World: A View
from Central Eurasia
Much of the making of the ancient world has to do with
the movement of peoples, and with the languages, genes, and
material cultures they carried from place to place. Central
Eurasia from the Pontus to the Baikal was a major theater of
population movements from the dispersal of the
Indo-Europeans to the migratory waves of the early Middle
Ages. While often met with skepticism, the recent encounter
between molecular biology and genetic studies with
linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology has
heralded radical changes in the study of the ancient world,
if nothing else because all these disciplines have
consequently been thrown into closer contact with each
other. A dialogue has developed among geneticists,
linguists, archaeologists and anthropologists over the past
twenty-some years that, while sometimes dissonant and
acrimonious, has produced ideas and data that may prove
useful for historical research. How should the historian of
the ancient world view this development? Does the historian
have a role to play? This question will be discussed
especially in relation to the study of ancient Eurasian
nomads.
Limited seating available; to RSVP, please email isaw@nyu.edu
November 6: Ancient Romania 5000-3500 B.C.
Speaker: Dr. Nicolae Dragomir Popovici, Director of the Department of Archeology, National Museum of Romanian History
Location: Lecture Hall, Second Floor
Date: November 6, 2009
Time:
6:00 p.m.
Built and Unbuilt Space in the Neolithic Danube,
Ancient Romania 5000-3500 B.C.
This
lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition
The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley
5000-3500 BC, opening November 11th. For more
information, please see our exhibition website at http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/oldeurope.
November 12: Lecture: The Birth of European Painting in the Sands of Egypt
Speaker: Thomas Mathews
Location: Lecture Hall, Second Floor
Date: November 12th, 2009
Time: 6:00pm
The Birth of European Painting in the Sands of
Egypt
This lecture is a preliminary report
on a project studying some 62 painted panels from Roman
Egypt, which are practically the only surviving examples of
this important artistic genre from the ancient world.
Representing the Egyptian pantheon in its final
manifestation, they are an important document of the history
of religion. But the evidence also looks forward to the
continuance of panel painting in the medieval world,
introducing many of the formulae and compositions of
Byzantine icon painting, formulae which endured even to the
Renaissance.
