Public Programming

All events take place at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Unless otherwise noted, events are open to the general public.

Gallery Talk: Curators in Conversation  

November 19, 2025, 5:30 p.m.
Bénédicte Garnier, Musée Rodin and Carl Walsh, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University

Drawing and Watercolor Workshop 

December 6, 2025, 1 p.m.
Joan Chiverton

Public Lecture: “Living images? Bodies in Ancient Egyptian Art and Experience”

December 10, 2025, 5:30 p.m.
Rune Nyord, Emory University

Public Lecture: “They Keep No Count of Time: Rodin’s Assembled Sculptures.”

January 21, 2026, 5:30 p.m. 
Elyse Nelson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Public Lecture: “‘The caress of Rodin’s fingers’: Dance and Embodied Viewing in Auguste Rodin’s Sculpture”

January 29, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Juliet Bellow, American University

Public Lecture: “The Egyptian Body and the Idea of the Unconscious at the End of the Nineteenth Century”

February 23, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University

Public Lecture: The Sensorial Audience: Invisible Bodies of Ancient Egyptian Art

March 11, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Kathryn Howley, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University