Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Video Lecture Archive
Videos of past events at ISAW are now available in the Video Archive found on our Events page. We will continue to add more recordings as they become available.
The following public lectures are available to watch online:
On Celts, Celticness, and Celtology: Reconciling Ancient and Modern Identities
18th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
Michael Dietler, University of Chicago
November 6, 2024Mobile Cosmopolitanism: Diversity and Exchange in the Uyghur Steppe Empire (744-840)
16th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
Michael R. Drompp, Rhodes College
November 3, 2022From a Roman House to a Bourbon Palace: Finding Ancient Rome on the Bay of Naples
Exhibition Lecture
Carol Mattusch, George Mason University
May 19, 2022If Ports Were Landscapes and Goods were Beings: Stories from First-Millennium South Asia
Divya Kumar-Dumas, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
May 9, 2022Evolving Identities in Sixth-Century East Asia
Scott Pearce, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
April 28, 2022Seeing the Early Indian Ocean as a Peopled Seascape
Ranabir Chakravarti, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Eivind Heldaas Seland, University of Bergen
April 25, 2022Pompeii in Color: Cycles of Discovery, Innovation, and Wonderment
Exhibition Lecture
Eric Poehler, University of Massachusetts Amherst
April 13, 2022From Ezra to Ashoka: Multilingualism and Governance in the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Rhyne King, ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor
March 24, 2022How Did Roman Painters Create Frescoes?
Exhibition Lecture
John Clarke, University of Texas at Austin
March 09, 2022Transplanting India: Luxury and an Ivory Statuette in Pompeii
Exhibition Lecture
Naman Ahuja, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Organized and moderated by Divya Kumar-Dumas, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
February 10, 2022The Creation of Worked Animal Objects in the Early Greek World
Adam DiBattista, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
November 11, 2021Galen's Gynaeocology
Exhibition Lecture
Rebecca Flemming, University of Cambridge
May 20, 2021As If: Fiction, Make-Believe, and the Legal World of Early Medieval Francia, 5th-9th Centuries AD
2021 Rostovtzeff Lectures
Alice Rio, King's College London
- May 10, 2021: What Was Legal about Early Medieval Legal Culture?
- May 12, 2021: Procedure: Heroic Fantasy and Bureaucratic Fancies
- May 14, 2021: Slaves and Slavery
- May 17, 2021: Legal Relationships and Density of Regulation: The Example of Families
Galen's Pergamon: Current Research on a Roman Metropolis and its Microregion
Exhibition Lecture
Felix Pirson, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
April 22, 2021Virtual Tour of The Empire's Physician
Clare Fitzgerald, ISAW Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator
April 7, 2021Wine and Feasting in the Ancient Mediterranean with Professors d'Alfonso and Kotsonas
Lorenzo d'Alfonso, ISAW Professor of Western Asian Archaeology and History
Antonis Kotsonas, ISAW Associate Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology
March 22, 2021Myth in the Urban Landscape and the Epiphany of the Assyrian King
Beate Pongratz-Leisten, ISAW Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
March 17, 2021Devotion and Decadence Virtual Tour
Clare Fitzgerald, ISAW Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator
December 16, 2020Chinese Frontiers and Central Eurasia: Art, Archaeology and History at the Turn of the Common Era
Online Conference
Organized by Fanghan Wang, ISAW PhD Student, and Shujing Wang, NYU Shanghai and ISAW PhD Alumna
December 4, 2020Re-Rolling the Past: Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games
Online Conference
Organized by Gabriel McKee, ISAW Library, and Daniela Wolin, Yale University and ISAW Research AffiliateHow Global Was the Early Medieval World? An Exploration of Worldwide Connections 500-1000 CE
Erik Hermans, Independent Scholar & ISAW PhD Alumnus
October 29, 2020The Education and Miseducation of an Administrator in Late Roman Egypt
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
October 8, 2020Hymn to Apollo Virtual Tour
Clare Fitzgerald, ISAW Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator
July 22, 2020Ishtar Gate Virtual Tour
Clare Fitzgerald, ISAW Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator
May 6, 2020Urbanism and the History of Architectural Restlessness
12th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
Monica L. Smith, University of California, Los Angeles
November 8, 2018Defining ‘Xian’: Methodological Approaches and Questions to the Study of Zoroastrianism in Medieval China
Pénélope Riboud, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
November 6, 2018From Hebrew Bible Studies to the Studies of the Ancient Near East: Approaches Towards a History of Religion of Mesopotamia
Beate Pongratz-Leisten, ISAW Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
October 30, 2018The Migrations of Islamic Science in Renaissance Europe
Exhibition Lecture
Robert Morrison, Bowdoin College
May 10, 2018Plato's advice to Alexander: Amir Khusraw's 'Mirror of Alexander' (1299)
Exhibition Lecture
Richard Stoneman, University of Exeter
May 3, 2018Alexander to Iskandar: Paintings from Persian and Turkish Manuscripts
Exhibition Lecture
Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, Brooklyn Museum
April 12, 2018The Sky over Ancient Iraq: Babylonian Astronomy in Context
2018 Rostovtzeff Lectures
Mathieu Ossendrijver, Humboldt University London
- March 28, 2018: Babylonian Astronomy: Interpreting an Ancient Science
- April 3, 2018: Keeping the Watch: Babylonian Astronomical Diaries and More
- April 4, 2018: Algorithms, Tables and Figures: New Insights into Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy
- April 11, 2018: Astronomers, Temples, and Society: Babylonian Astronomy in Context
Savoring the Past: The Archaeology of Food and Foodways
Katheryn Twiss, Stony Brook University
March 29, 2018Revisiting Harappan Iconography: Seals, Sealing and Tablets as Small Windows onto the Indus Valley Civilization
Marta Ameri, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
February 20, 2018Fragments of Greek Science in a Palimpsest from Bobbio
Alexander Jones, ISAW Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity
February 22, 2018Greeks in the North
Nathan Arrington, Princeton University
February 8, 2018Cutting Rome Down To Size
David Levene, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
January 30, 2018Tricks of the Trade: Scribal Creativity in Ancient Egypt
ARCE Lecture
Emily Cole, Visiting Assistant Professor
December 14, 2018The Silent Fall of an Empire in 1200 BCE
Lorenzo d'Alfonso, ISAW Associate Professor of Western Asian Archaeology and History
December 7, 2017The History of Eighth-century Khotan as Seen from Khotanese Documents
Zhan Zhang, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
December 5, 2017The Prehistory of Crete
Malcolm H. Wiener, Aegean Prehistorian
November 30, 2017Monumental Art and Political Change in Ancient Syria
Alessandra Gilibert, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
November 28, 2017Ancient World Research and Tools in Synergy
Mark Depauw, University of Leuven
November 13, 2017Theology of Liberation in the Second Millennium BCE: The Hurrian Song of Liberation
Eva von Dassow, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
October 24, 2017Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology
AIA Lecture
Jason Ur, Harvard University
October 23, 2017Chinese Bronze Age Economics: A Multi-sited Approach to Shang Dynasty Bone Crafting
Roderick B. Campbell, ISAW Associate Professor of East Asian Archaeology and History
October 17, 2017Conserving Cairo 1882-2012
ARCE Lecture
Nicholas Warner, American University in Cairo
October 12, 2017There Goes the Neighborhood: Gentrification and Urban Redevelopment in Roman North Africa
J. Andrew Dufton, ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor
October 10, 2017HERE
Exhibition Lecture
Elizabeth Price, Artist, Restoring the Minoans
October 5, 2017Water in Sumer
Stephanie Rost, ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor
September 26, 2017The Scribal Mind: Textual Criticism in Antiquity
Conference
Organized by Emily Cole, ISAW Visiting Assistant ProfessorArchitectural Conservation in Egypt’s Western Desert: The Amheida Project
Nicholas Warner, American University in Cairo
September 18, 2017A Paradise in the Caucasus: An Achaemenid Residence in Azerbaijan
Florian Knauss, Director of Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, München
May 2, 2017Excavating the Ancient City of Tenea
Dr. Eleni Korka, Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Athens
April 21, 2017A Portable Cosmos: The Antikythera Mechanism
Exhibition Lecture
Alexander Jones, ISAW Leon Levy Director Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity
April 6, 2017New Term Excavations at Kültepe: The First International Trade Center in Anatolia
Fikri Kulakoglu, Ankara University
March 28, 2017Globalising the Mediterranean's Iron Age
Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol
March 20, 2017Medicine and the Humanities from Ancient to Modern: The Varied Fortunes of Galen
Claire Bubb, Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow of Classical Literature and Science, ISAW
March 9, 2017Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Astrology
Exhibition Lecture
Stephan Heilen, University of Osnabrück
February 27, 2017Fantastical Space and Heroic Journeys in Mesopotamian Literature
Gina Konstantopoulos, ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor
February 21, 2017Enigmatic Sites and Headless Nubians: Exploring the Eastern Desert of Late Roman Egypt
ARCE Lecture
Colleen M. Darnell, University of Hartford
February 2, 2017Geographical Portable Sundials: Reliable Instruments or Roman Fashion Statements?
Exhibition Lecture
Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina
January 26, 2017A Cumulative Han Culture: Paradigms of Tradition and History in the Study of Early China
Yitzchak Jaffe, ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor
December 13, 2016Muhammad's Community and the Spread of Monotheism in Late Antique Arabia
Robert Hoyland, ISAW Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History
December 8, 2016Weeks, Months, and Years in Greek and Roman Calendars
Exhibition Lecture
Daryn Lehoux, Queen's University
December 1, 2016Late Antiquity in Early Modernity: Debating the End of the Roman World in the Centuries Before Gibbon
Frederic Clark, ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor
November 29, 2016Imhotep Comes Forth by Day
ARCE Lecture
Janice Kamrin, Metropolitan Museum of Art
November 17, 2016Fruits of the Silk Road: The Spread of Agriculture through Central Asia
Robert Spengler, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
November 15, 2016Ancient Sundials: Art, Technology, and Culture
Exhibition Lecture
James Evans, University of Puget Sound
November 10, 2016A People Without a Name or, Who Were the Hittites?
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
November 3, 2016Decrepit Rome, your morals disintegrate, your walls collapse!: Critique of Rome in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Maya Maskarinec, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
October 25, 2016Death and Taxes?: Economy, Society and the Imperial State in Babylonia in the Sixth Century BCE
Michael Jursa, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, Corresponding Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
September 29, 2016Herodes Atticus and the Greco-Roman World: Imperial Cosmos, Cosmic Allusions, Art and Culture in his Estate in Southern Peloponnese
Exhibition Lecture
Georgios Spyropoulos, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport, Directorate General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Athens
September 13, 2016The Other Woman: Encoded Messages in Egyptian Art
ACRE Lecture
Phyllis Saretta, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 9, 2016Horus, Set, and Israel: Egyptian Literary Reflections in a Biblical Mirror
ARCE Lecture
Gary Greenberg, Independent Scholar
May 12, 2016Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China: History Unearthed from Tombs
2016 Rostovtzeff Lectures
Jonathan K. Skaff, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
- March 29, 2016: A Slave Road? Sogdian Merchants and Foreign Slaves at Turfan
- April 5, 2016: Sogdians or Borderlanders?, Part I: Lives Revealed in Epitaphs
- April 12, 2016: Sogdians or Borderlanders?, Part II: Death Rituals Revealed in Tombs
- April 19, 2016: A Tang Dynasty Ally in War and Ritual: The Tomb of Pugu Yitu (635-678) in Mongolia
Memory, Tradition, and Image Production in Ancient Mesopotamia
Beate Pongratz-Leisten, ISAW Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
March 24, 2016
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