Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies
in the School of Historical Studies, has co-edited Empires and
Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity (Cambridge University
Press, 2018), which offers an integrated picture of Rome...
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has edited Studying the Near
and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
1935–2018 (Gorgias Press, 2018). The volume traces the history
of Near and Middle Eastern...
On April 26, 2018, the Institute community gathered to celebrate
Ideas 2017–18 with talks by IAS Members––deep ideas explained in
under 20 minutes with no slides or chalk––followed by audience
discussions moderated by Faculty. The program concluded...
This essay was first presented in Italian in a dialogue with
the physicist Tullio Regge, former Professor in the School of
Natural Sciences, as the fifth episode in a television series
“Dietro lo Specchio,” broadcast by RAI 2, in Turin,
Italy...
Most scholarship on Ottoman art takes the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries as their focus, the glorious periods of the
building of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, the well-known domed
mosques of the architect Sinan, the Iznik pottery, the
floral...
Harvard University Press has published Age of Conquests: The
Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the
School of Historical Studies, which provides a compelling narrative
of the main events that shaped ancient...
In this video, Kathleen Coleman, Elinor
Lunder Founders' Circle Member in the School of Historical Studies,
examines gladiatorial combat, beast displays, and staged executions
in order to understand why the violent spectacles of the
Roman...
Half a century ago a French historian of rural Languedoc
published a history of climate and people: climate changes, is
subject to fluctuations, and (since history is about change)
climate is the object of history.2 Le Roy Ladurie’s implied
(if...
