IAS News

Christian Mauder Receives 2018 Christian Gottlob Heyne Prize

November 09, 2018
Christian Mauder , Member in the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the 2018 Christian-Gottlob-Heyne-Preis. The prize, conferred by a committee from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, recognizes Mauder's dissertation, "In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī...
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Press Release

Israel Finkelstein Public Lecture to Examine Jerusalem in Biblical Times

November 07, 2018
Israel Finkelstein, Jacob M. Alkow Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University, will give the public lecture “Jerusalem in Biblical Times: Comments on the Archaeology and History ca. 1350–100 B.C.E.” on Friday, November 9 at 5:30...
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R. Martin Chavez Joins Institute for Advanced Study Board of Trustees

November 07, 2018
The Institute for Advanced Study appointed R. Martin Chavez to its Board of Trustees on October 27, 2018, effective immediately. “Based on a unique model of curiosity-driven basic research, the Institute for Advanced Study is laying the groundwork for intellectual and scientific breakthroughs that enrich...
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In the Media

Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point

November 02, 2018
Are we doomed? That's the question most commonly asked of Daniel Aldana Cohen , Member in the School of Social Science, when people learn that Cohen studies climate politics. Writing for The Nation , Cohen draws attention to the disparity between the message of...
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