Events

Pourdavoud Lecture Series- Imperial Foundations of the Silk Road: Persian Roads and Han Walls with Wu Xin

Ancient Studies Faculty Writing Retreat

David Schaberg: Lineage Histories in Early Chinese Historiography

Cotsen Graduate Archaeology Conference

(Mis)using the Bible: White Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism in America

Joan Palevsky Lecture- The Brith of the Ancient Greek World: Migration, Urbanisation, and the Emergence of Greekness

Sitta von Reden: Climate Change along the Silk Road?

This paper discusses scholarship on climate-induced landscape transformation in the Tarim Basin (present-day Xinjiang) during the Han period, and puts it in dialogue with other archaeological and historical research.

Cotsen Wednesday Talk- Viking Architecture from the British Isles to Iceland: Exchange, Transatlantic Communities, and Turf Construction with Alex Casteel

Spread and Stack: The Development of the Roman Catholic Church from 33–461 with Gabriel Rossman

Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions

Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions, Global Antiquity's second annual symposium, aims to assess the state of ancient studies, its relevance to the Humanities today, and its future directions.