On Thursday, November 17, Michael L. Galaty will present an online lecture on Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond, an exhibit at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.
Collective memory runs deep in the Balkans, and rituals observed in the archaeological record - like the funeral scene on the Dardania stela - can still be found today, in places like highland northern Albania. In this presentation, Professor Michael Galaty will demonstrate that avenues to political power in the ancient Balkans were not so different from today, revolving around land, marriage, religion, and, sometimes, violence.
Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond is organized in partnership with the Field Museum's First Kings of Europe project and has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. This exhibition at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is made possible by generous support from Nellie and Robert Gipson and the Leon Levy Foundation. Additional funding provided by The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Foundation and James H. Ottaway Jr.
Registration is required at THIS LINK. A Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants.
Above: Stela representing funeral procession, 500–100 BCE, stone, Kamenica, Kosovo. National Museum of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo: KA/2010. Photo © Field Museum, photographer Ádám Vágó.
