Bringing the Frontier to the Center: Empires and Nomads from Achaemenid Persia to Tang China
a lecture, presented by:Wu XinVisiting Research ScholarInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York UniversityThis paper presents a comparative consideration of the ideological strategies used by Achaemenid and the Tang empires to manage relations with their subjects living in Central Asia and on the Central to Eastern Eurasian steppe. For both empires, the nomadic communities to the north were an especially important constituency that was complicated by strong dynastic hereditary ties. In each case, a conscious program specifically addressing this complex and mobile community was developed and

Bridging Institutional Repository and Bibliographic Management
As an institution, ISAW has an interest in disseminating, preserving and promoting the research products and publications of its faculty, research staff, students, affiliates and collaborators. Our parent institution, NYU, has made a commitment to the persistent dissemination of such materials when voluntarily contributed to its Faculty Digital Archive (FDA). We'll use the FDA as a locus for materials that fit well into DSpace (with which the FDA is realized) and that aren't rights-constrained. But we also need mechanisms for developing and publi

La formation et la définition des frontières locales
By way of compitum.fr I learn about an interesting conference going on today in Poitiers:Information signalée par Renaud Alexandre La formation et la définition des frontières locales(paroisses, communautés d'habitants)Cycle de journées d'étude « Frontières et limites ». Session 3 Programme9 h 30Ouverture de la journée par Cécile Treffort, directrice adjointe du

The Horse is Man's Wings: Archaeological Science and the Changing Nature of the Human-Horse Relation
Dr. Mim Bower (Cambridge University) will give a free, public lecture at ISAW on 27 October 2009 at 6:00 p.m.More information, including an abstract of the talk, is available on the ISAW events page.

The Historian in the Future of the Ancient World: A View from Central Eurasia
ISAW has announced the third annual Leon Levy Lecture, to be held on November 5, 2009 at 6 p.m in the Oak Library, 2nd floor of the ISAW building, located at 15 East 84th Street in New York. The speaker will be Professor Nicola Di Cosmo of the Institute for Advanced Study. The lecture is free and open to the public but seating is limited. Interested individuals are requested to RSVP by calling 212.992.7818, or emailing isaw@nyu.edu.More information (including abstract) is available on the ISAW events pag