The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Hic Sunt Dracones: Creating, Defining, and Abstracting Place in the Ancient World
Workshop organized by Gina Konstantopoulos (ISAW)
Friday October 28, 2016
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
Chair of Morning Sessions: Lorenzo d'Alfonso (ISAW)
9:30am The Disciplines of Geography: Constructing Space in the Ancient World
Gina Konstantopoulos (ISAW)
10:00am A Land with No Borders: Mimesis and Alterity in Mesopotamian Representations of Space
Paul Delnero (Johns Hopkins University)
10:45am Coffee Break
11:15am "Imaginary Homelands”: Hittite Geography, Ancient and Modern
N. Ilgi Gerçek (Bilkent University)
12:00pm Assyrians Abroad: Expanding Borders through Identity in the Middle Bronze Age
Nancy Highcock (NYU)
12:45pm Lunch Break
Chair of Afternoon Sessions: Sarah Graff (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1:45pm Iron Age Empires as Peers and Fantasies: a Neo-Assyrian Perspective
Seth Richardson (University of Chicago)
2:30pm Neighbors through Imperial Eyes: Depicting Babylonia in Assyrian Campaign Reliefs
Michael Seymour (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
3:15pm Coffee Break
3:45pm Enemies, Lands, and Borders in Biblical Crossing Traditions
Stephen C. Russell (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
4:30pm The Navel of the Earth in Ancient Thought
Jennifer Finn (Marquette University)
5:15pm Closing Remarks and Final Discussion
This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp
Hic Sunt Dracones: Creating, Defining, and Abstracting Place in the Ancient World
