Events
Events
James Fraser (Albright Institute – Dorot Director)
“The Site That Broke the Clock: Radiocarbon Dating, Pottery, and Rewriting the Early Bronze Age ‘Collapse’ in Jordan”
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Dieter Vieweger (DEI Jerusalem & Amman)
“The Wondrous Phenomenon of the Artesian Spring – New Excavations at Tall Zirāʿa”
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Luca Brancazi (Albright Institute – Marcia & Oded Borowski/George A. Barton Research Fellow, Sapienza University)
“Current Research on the Holy Sepulchre and Faunal Remains”
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Alon Arad (Emek Shaveh)
“Antiquities, Ruins, and Destruction: International Law and Israeli Archaeology”
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coming soon
Annual Meeting for the Early Bronze Age (W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research)
“Visual Culture in the Early Bronze Age Levant”
Salah Ad-Din St. 26, Jerusalem
Federica A. Broilo (Albright Institute – Annual Fellow)
“A Taste of the Holy Land? Exploring Travel and Hospitality in Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Palestine”
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Lorenzo Nigro (Albright Institute – Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor, Sapienza University)
“Jericho, the Biblical Bias, and Historically Founded Archaeology”
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coming soon
Blair Heidkamp (Albright Institute – Carol & Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, University of Texas at Austin)
“Hunting at the Edge: The Role of Kites and Projectile Points at the Close of the Neolithic”
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coming soon
Lorenzo Nigro (Albright Institute – Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor, Sapienza University)
“Urban Origins in the Southern Levant as Seen From Jericho and Batrawy”
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coming soon
The Albright Institute Dorot Director and Staff
“A Year in Review”
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coming soon
Past Events – 2025-2026
► June 10, 2026 – 17:00 – Zoom Lecture by Joel S. Burnett. “Iron Age Religion in the ‘Great’ City of the Ammonites.” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► June 3, 2026 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by C. Carter Barnett. “Biblical Eyes, Imperial Designs: The Architecture of Care and Control in Ottoman Palestine.” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► May 20, 2026 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by Katja Soennecken. “From Kaiser to AI – current projects of the DEI Jerusalem.” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► May 6, 2026 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by Jeff Blakely. “’What the Hell’s Going on Out There’: The Tell el-Hesi Region in a Long-Term Perspective.” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Apr 29, 2026 – 18:30 Reception; 19:30 ASOR Mini-Series Lecture by Yana Tchekhanovets. “New Excavations at Nessana, Negev: Late Antique Pilgrimage Hub on the Desert Fringe.” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Mar 18, 2026 – 17:00 – Zoom Lecture (Online only) by Kristin De Troyer. “Off the Beaten Track: Which Road to Follow for the Book of Joshua?” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Feb 25, 2026 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by Christie Pavey. Public event at the Albright and on Zoom. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Feb 17–19, 2026 – ISF Research Workshop organized by Igor Kreimerman, Michael Freikman, and James A. Fraser: Olives, Textiles and Households: Economic Systems and Social Dynamics in Iron Age Judah and Its Neighbours. Feb 17–18 in the Collections Room (5th Floor) of the Institute of Archaeology (HUJI). Feb 19 at the Albright. Download lecture program here.
► Feb 11, 2026 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by Bar Kribus. “The Religious Sites of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews) in the Context of the Religious Architecture of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands.” Public event at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Feb 8, 2026 – 15:00 – Keynote Address by Debora Sandhaus in conversation with Andrea M. Berlin. “Shared Pasts, Shared Futures: The IAA and American Archaeologists in Israel.” Recording here.
► Feb 4, 2026 – 18:30 Reception; 19:30 ASOR Mini-Series Lecture by Benyamin Storchan. “Unearthing an Imperially Glorious Byzantine Church near Bet Shemesh: From Fieldwork to Virtual Reality.” Public event at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Dec 17, 2025 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by James Fraser, “Albright 2025: The Year in Review.” Public event at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Dec 15, 2025 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by Benyamin Storchan and Josef Briffa, “Life in Light: Ancient Lamps, Faith, and Festivals of Illumination.” Public event at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Dec 10, 2025 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by Shulamit Miller, “The Rise of Christianity in Galilee: A Perspective from the Jewish Cities of Sepphoris and Tiberias.” Public event at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Nov 12, 2025 – 18:00 Reception; 19:00 ASOR Mini-Series Panel: American Archaeology through the Lens of Albright’s Work at Tel Beit Mirsim, and Beyond. Public event at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
- Program:
- Igor Kreimerman, “Tell Beit Mirsim in Perspective: Revisiting Albright’s excavations in Light of Renewed Work”
- Michael Freikman, “Going Where No One Has Gone Before: A Peek into the Intricacies of Albright’s Expedition at Tell Beit Mirsim”
- Rachel Hallote, “Tell Beit Mirism in Context: The American Archaeological Presence in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine Before and After Albright.”
- Program:
► Oct 29, 2025 – 17:00 – Book Launch – Rodney Aist’s new monograph, Walking the Jerusalem Circuit: In the Footsteps of Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Public Event at the Albright. No recording. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Oct 20, 2025 – 17:00 – Book Launch – Susan Weingarten’s new monograph, Ancient Jewish Food in Its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds? Public event at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Oct 15, 2025 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by Moritz F. Adam – “Flights of the Mind – Dreams, Visions, Journeys, and Authority Construction between Classical and Jewish Literature.” Public event at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Sept 17, 2025 – 17:00 – Public Lecture by Si Walsh – “MIND THE GAP! The Scribal Presentation of the War Rule (1QM).” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► Sept 10, 2025 – 18:30 Reception; 19:30 ASOR Mini-Series Lecture by Shua Kisilevitz. “Holier than Thou? The Temples at Moẓa and Reflections of Ritual Practices in Ancient Judah.” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► July 23, 2025 – 17:00 – Nadia Ben-Marzouk – “Crafting Communities into Contact: Contextualizing Glyptic Interconnections in the Levant, Egypt, and Aegean (ca. 2500-1500 BCE).” Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► May 14, 2025 – 17:00 – Timothy B. Sailors – Educational and Cultural Affairs Junior Research Fellow, Public lecture at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► May 7, 2025 – 17:00 – Eric Cline – Book Talk – After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations. Public event at the Albright. Recording coming soon. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► April 28, 2025 – 17:00 – Felix Höflmayer & Agnes Woitzuck, “A Biography of an Excavation: The Austrian-German Expedition to Tell Balata/Shechem 1913–1939.” Public lecture at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► April 16, 2025 – 17:00 – Kathleen Nicoll, “‘Trowel Blazers’ in the Archaeology of the Levant & Near East during the early 20th century.” Public lecture at the Albright. Recording coming soon. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► March 19, 2025 – 17:00 – Christian Schöne – “A Blank Space: Exploring the Hinterland of Elusa.” Public lecture at the Albright. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► March 12, 2025 – 17:00 – Michael Hasel – “Tel Lachish 2013-2017: Excavations of the Palace Domestic Quarter, Area AA Webinar ID.” Public lecture. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► March 5, 2025 – 17:00 – David Brown – “Refugees in the Early Iron Southern Levant.” Public lecture. Recording coming soon. Download Posters: Digital | Print
► February 12, 2025 – 17:00 – Alexander Dorr, “The Hula Provides: Reconstructing Animal Economy and Provisioning under Empire at Kedesh.” Public Lecture. Recording here. Download Posters: Digital | Print
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