The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Text and ImageTransmedial Inquiries into Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
Friday, April 27, 2018
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Second Floor Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
9:30am - The Image in its Transmedial Context: Introduction
Beate Pongratz-Leisten (ISAW)
10:30am - From ‘Text and Image’ to ‘Image and Text’
Irene Winter (Harvard University)
11:45am - Presence and Mimesis: the Field of Visibility in the Ancient Near East and the Scholarship of the Iconic Turn
Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
12:45pm - Lunch
2:00pm - The Construction of Narrative in the Pictorial and Textual Media
Karen Sonik (Auburn University)
3:00pm - Gloria in excelsis Regi: Ambiguity in the Representations of Darius I
Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire)
4:15pm - Who Learned to Draw in Scribal School? Drawings on Scholarly Tablets
Natalie May (Freie Universität, Berlin)
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp
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Text and Image: Transmedial Inquiries into Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
