Ancient History

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Please join us on Tuesday, March 9, 12–12:40 pm for our monthly series Sneak Peek: New Research from the Freer and Sackler. This month's lecture, Enduring Images: Repetition of Motifs in Ancient Near Eastern Seals, will be presented by Antonietta Catanzariti, Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar and Assistant Curator for the Ancient Near East at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.

Concepts of others, othering, self-representation  or  opposing worlds are topics of well-known 
conferences and publications over the last decades. Due to the relevance and width of the topic, 
the  announced  event  would  like  to  continue  the  investigations  and  furthermore  consider  the 
Greeks and Romans as strangers in other cultures and the location of the ancient world in global 
history.
Dealing with others and the demarcation of the self is a determining phenomenon of human 

In January 2021, DiploFoundation held the introductory session of its new series of open monthly Zoom discussions on the evolution of diplomacy and technology titled Diplomacy and Technology: A historical journey. 

The main aim of the series is to anchor current debates on artificial intelligence and the digital in a wider context of how humanity dealt with the emergence of new technologies in the past, and how we should/can deal with it today.  

When did diplomatic practice start? How did our ancestors solve conflicts? Are humans biologically more prone to conflicts or cooperation?

The Layered Image. Its Phenomena and Constructions in Ancient Art

A Conference at the Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Hamburg (online via Zoom)
Generously supported by the Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft e. V. (GiB) and by the Liebelt-Stiftung, Hamburg.

Organised by Jacobus Bracker, Fanny Opdenhoff and Martina Seifert.

Armenian School of Languages and Cultures - ASPIRANTUM is organizing Middle Persian (Pahlavi) online school. The 3 weeks Pahlavi online school will start on April 19, 2021, and last till May 7, 2021. The Middle Persian language online school will help the participants become skillful in reading and interpreting Pahlavi texts.

This 3 weeks Middle Persian online school will be organized on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays each week (4 days each week, 12 days during three weeks) and will include 42 hours of intensive Middle Persian teaching (3.5 hours during each day). 

Online, 4–5 March 21
Free Registration: https://matrixofmobility.com/

ASOR Annual Meeting (In-Person and Virtual Components)

"Cultures of Mobility and Borders in the Ancient Near East"

The Silk Road Centre in collaboration with Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations and Quaid-i-Azam University is organizing an international conference on Buddhism in Pakistan along with an art festival and sacred Buddhist site visits to promote the understanding and value of Buddhist heritage that flourished here between the 3rd century BCE and 10th century CE in contemporary Pakistan. The conference will be held in Islamabad from October 11-12, 2021. We are now accepting abstracts for the conference as well as art projects.