Archaeology News and Announcements

from Brown University's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

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Body Image Rome Conference 2025

The 9th Edition of the IPD/NPSA Rome Conference will take place on 25th and 26th January 2025. It will employ a hybrid format, offering the choice of attendance either in person at Hotel D’Azeglio or online.  

The conference will address the topic of body image construction, with a focus on both theoretical research into its formation and clinical research into eating disorders and dysmorphophobia.

On Saturday, a discussion on the construction of body image will draw upon the perspectives of Philosophy of Mind (S. Gallagher), Neuroscience (V. Gallese), and Neuroaesthetics (L. Oppenheim).  

On Sunday, clinical cases and a panel discussion will address the clinical issue of how to deal with body image disorders, with contributions from the audience.
The conference will be delivered in English with simultaneous translation into Italian.  
Early bird registration deadline: 30th September, 2024

Registration: www.ipdneuroscience.com
Program:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VFgR7SM80DZ-INOQ7eH7dcd4nF0tSsOv/view?usp=drive_link

ARCE 2025 Annual Meeting Student Access Grant

Apply Now for the ARCE Annual Meeting Student Access Grant (SAG)!

ARCE recognizes that there are many barriers that students face in the field of Egyptology. As an organization that hosts, arguably, the most significant Egyptology academic conference in the United States, we recognize our responsibility in creating pathways for students, especially those with financial need, to access the annual meeting, and in doing so, hopefully the field as well.

In recognition of this duty, ARCE is dedicated to offering a maximum of five (5) grants each year. Total grants awarded, however, may vary dependent on available funds achieved through fundraising.

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Student Access Grant (SAG) provides support for students to attend the in-person Annual Meeting (AM), with the ultimate goal being the creation of additional pathways to participation in the AM and, consequently, within the field of Egyptology.

The grant will cover a student’s hotel room for a maximum 4 nights, meeting registration, and up to $500 in travel.

Application Deadline: December 13, 2024 11:59 PM EST.

For the eligibility criteria & application: click HERE.

SCS Placement

The following advertisement has been added or updated on classicalstudies.org:

Position Title: Assistant Professor – Ancient Mediterranean World
Institution Name: Cornell University, Department of History
Position Rank: Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: Ancient Greece and Rome
Application Deadline: 2024-11-29

The Cornell University History Department seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of the ancient Mediterranean world, broadly conceived. A PhD in History or a related field with a specialization during any temporal period during the first millennium BCE is required. Among the topics of interest to our department are state-formation, colonization, cultural-intellectual exchange, trade, mobility, and connectivity within the Mediterranean, as well as to lands beyond the Mediterranean basin, to and with the Near East and Eurasia.

Pay Range: $83,200 – $120,000. Actual salary offers in the College of Arts and Sciences will be based on education, experience, discipline, and relevant skills.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website at https://classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/38474/assistan…

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World Neolithic Congress 2024 Announcement

The program of the World Neolithic Congress 2024 has been published on their website. You can review and download the general and detailed program documents.

Additionally, the e-abstracts will be published soon on the website.

Click here for the program 

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Public Searchable Database

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East now has a public searchable database for its collections. Explore the rich history of cultures connected by the family of Semitic languages: https://hmane.emuseum.com/collections

The museum cares for over 40,000 items, including pottery, cylinder seals, sculpture, coins, and cuneiform tablets. Many are from museum-sponsored excavations in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Cyprus, and Tunisia. See groups of artifacts such as Collection Highlights, Glass, Egypt, Tablets, Mesopotamia, and Tablets. The database is a work in progress and will be augmented periodically.

Met Fellowship Program 2025–2026

The application for the 2025–2026 Met Fellowship Program is open!

Each year, we cultivate a close-knit community of scholars whose intellectual interests and research collectively illuminate The Met collection, comprising artworks spanning 5,000 years of human creativity. We encourage fellows to expand on existing avenues of research and explore new ones throughout their time at the Museum.

Learn more about the types of fellowships offered.

Deadline for all application materials (including letters of recommendation):

  • History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowships: October 18, 5 pm ET
  • Interdisciplinary Fellowships: October 18, 5 pm ET
  • Leonard A. Lauder Fellowships in Modern Art: October 18, 5 pm ET
  • Eugene V. Thaw Fellowship for Collections Cataloguing: October 18, 5 pm ET
  • Conservation Fellowship and Scientific Research Fellowship: November 13, 5 pm ET

For questions, please contact Academic.Programs@metmuseum.org.

Apply Now

Three Libraries on Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

We are pleased to offer for sale three important libraries on Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts: the Libraries of Johannes Spalt, Oscar Reira Ojeda and Peter Tarantino, with additions from the Library of David Hanks. Each library is offered complete.

Prof. Johannes Spalt

The Library of a Viennese Architect. Architecture, Design, Urban Planning, with an Emphasis on European architecture & design from the 19th to the 20th. Professor Johannes Spalt

2,985 titles in circa 3,175 volumes

Link to the catalogue

Oscar Riera Ojeda

Contemporary Architectural Practice: The Library of Oscar Riera Ojeda
Part One: Architecture and Interior Design — Part Two: Photography, Fashion, Graphic Design, Product Design

3,158 titles in circa 3,375 volumes    

Link to the catalogue

Peter Ayers Tarantino & David A. Hanks

International Decorative Arts & Crafts, Folk Art, Design & Architecture. The Library of Peter-Ayers Tarantino,with additions from the Library of David A. Hanks

4,768 titles in over 4,900 volumes                    

Link to the catalogue

Please email us at orders@arslibri.com for inquiries and further details

Click here to view all available collections at our website

Creative Wealth : African Art, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

Arts and (re)Creation from Africas to the World presents…

Creative Wealth: African Art, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

The rich tapestry of African heritage within economic systems generates  “creative wealth,” a mode of value production that places art at the intersection of economic, social, and cultural development. This session addresses how African art is utilized, valued, and leveraged within the realms of commodity exchange, wealth building, and resource production—drawing from the perspective and experiences of African art entrepreneurs within the broad scope of creative industries.

October 25th, 2024
Time: 10am EST

Sign up today!

The Middle East & The Islamic World: 7 Libraries and 2 Archives

Each library is offered complete. Catalogues of the libraries in pdf format are to be found on our website. Our current stock of collections includes libraries on Archaeology, Art, Architecture & Design from the Ancient World to Contemporary Art.

Professor Sheila Blair and Professor Jonathan Bloom

Islamic Art & Architecture: The Library of Professor Sheila Blair and Professor Jonathan M. Bloom, joint holders of the Norma Jean Calderwood University Chair of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College, 2000-2018; and joint holders of the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 2006-2022

3,908 titles in circa 4,765 volumes

Link to the catalogue

Professor Daniel T. Potts

Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula, Central & Western Asia & The Indus Valley: The Library of Professor Daniel T. Potts. Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University; Freie Universität Berlin (1981-86); University of Copenhagen (1980-81, 1986-1991); Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology, University of Sydney (1991-2012); Founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

2,611 titles in over 3,165 volumes  

Link to catalogue

Professor Roy P. Mottahedeh

Islamic Civilization: The Library of Professor Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard University; Director of The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University from 1987-1990; Inaugural Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, 2006-2011; MacArthur Foundation Prize recipient, 1981; Founder of the journal Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review

6,527 titles in over 8,125 volumes

Link to the catalogue

Professor Baber Johansen

The Library of Professor Baber Johansen, Professor of Islamic Religious Studies and Research Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School; Acting Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School (2006-2010); Director of The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (2010-2013); Faculty Associate and Executive Committee Member of The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Professor for Islamic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (1972-1995); Directeur d’études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Centre d’étude des normes juridiques), Paris (1995-2005)

1,526 titles in circa 1,820 volumes

Link to the catalogue

The Ebrahim Motazedi Archive of Qajar Documents

The Ebrahim Motazedi Archive. A collection of more than 34 groups of documents and manuscripts of various size and character, dating from 1785-1925, largely of the Kings and Royal Court of Iran. Numbering in excess of 120,000 sheets of documents

Link to the prospectus

Art and Culture of Muslim Lands

The Library of a Private Collector of Persian Art

2,957 titles in over 3,000 volumes                         

Link to the catalogue

Dr. Mohammed B. Alwan

Photographs of the Near and Middle East, 1860s-1930s. The Dr. Mohammed B. Alwan Collection

An archive of circa 4,500 photographs, including albumen and silver prints, color photochroms, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, stereoviews, and glass magic lantern slides

Link to the prospectus

Professor Irene J. Winter

The Ancient Near East. he Library of Professor Irene J. Winter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, 1988-2010; Queens College, CUNY, 1971-1976; The University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1988; MacArthur Foundation Prize recipient, 1983; Editor of the Brill series, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

1,944 titles in over 2,110 volumes                          

Link to catalogue

Science & Philosophy in the Islamic World

The Library of a Private Collector

673 titles
12 titles printed in the 15th century (Incunabula)
56 titles printed in the 16th century
37 titles printed in the 17th century
20 titles printed in the 18th century
55 titles printed in the 19th century

Link to the catalogue

Cultures and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean Work-in-Progress Group Meeting

The next meeting of the Cultures and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean work-in-progress group will be held on Tuesday, October 15 at 12:00pm in Rhode Island Hall, Room 008.

The discussion will center on a paper by Robyn Price (JIAAW) entitled, “On Sensory Archaeology”.

CRAM is an interdisciplinary group aimed at graduate students, postdocs, and faculty whose research interests encompass the ancient Mediterranean, understood broadly both chronologically and geographically, and is supported by the Program in Early Cultures. We discuss pre-circulated work in progress in an informal atmosphere over lunch. All are welcome; we tend to form a community of regulars, but you are also very welcome to drop in and out over the course of the year as your interests and schedule dictate.

Please email Lauren Arsenault at lauren_arsenault@brown.edu if you plan to attend by Wednesday, October 9th with your dietary requirements to book your free lunch. Note that there’s no RSVP required to attend and participate.

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