Upcoming Events
SEPT 30
2026
17:00 IDT 10:00 EDT

Luca Brancazi (Albright Institute – Marcia & Oded Borowski/George A. Barton Research Fellow, Sapienza University)

“Current Research on the Holy Sepulchre and Faunal Remains”

Webinar ID: 810 4554 9308
Passcode: 009497
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OCT 14
2026
17:00 IDT 10:00 EDT

Alon Arad (Emek Shaveh)

“Antiquities, Ruins, and Destruction: International Law and Israeli Archaeology”

Webinar ID: 831 1243 5085
Passcode: 974287
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OCT 15
2026
8:45–17:00 IDT 1:45–10:00 EDT

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

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OCT 28
2026
17:00 IST 11:00 EDT

Federica A. Broilo (Albright Institute – Annual Fellow)

“A Taste of the Holy Land? Exploring Travel and Hospitality in Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Palestine”

Webinar ID: 883 6144 7977
Passcode: 946167
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NOV 11
2026
17:00 IST 10:00 EST

Lorenzo Nigro (Albright Institute – Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor, Sapienza University)

“Jericho, the Biblical Bias, and Historically Founded Archaeology”

Webinar ID: 870 1461 0106
Passcode: 600525
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NOV 25
2026
17:00 IST 10:00 EST

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”

Webinar ID: 874 4200 7780
Passcode: 477782
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DEC 9
2026
17:00 IST 10:00 EST

Lorenzo Nigro (Albright Institute – Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor, Sapienza University)

“Urban Origins in the Southern Levant as Seen From Jericho and Batrawy”

Webinar ID: 872 1644 0490
Passcode: 815139
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DEC 16
2026
17:00 IST 10:00 EST

The Albright Institute Dorot Director and Staff

“A Year in Review”

Webinar ID: 874 1738 8682
Passcode: 132839
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Past Events
SEPT 23
2026

Dieter Vieweger (DEI Jerusalem & Amman)

“The Wondrous Phenomenon of the Artesian Spring – New Excavations at Tall Zirāʿa”

SEPT 16
2026

James Fraser (Albright Institute – Dorot Director)

“The Site That Broke the Clock: Radiocarbon Dating, Pottery, and Rewriting the Early Bronze Age ‘Collapse’ in Jordan”

JUN 10
2026

Joel S. Burnett

“Iron Age Religion in the ‘Great’ City of the Ammonites”

JUN 3
2026

C. Carter Barnett

“Biblical Eyes, Imperial Designs: The Architecture of Care and Control in Ottoman Palestine”

MAY 20
2026

Katja Soennecken

“From Kaiser to AI – current projects of the DEI Jerusalem”

MAY 6
2026

Jeff Blakely

“‘What the Hell’s Going on Out There’: The Tell el-Hesi Region in a Long-Term Perspective”

APR 29
2026

Yana Tchekhanovets (ASOR Mini-Series Lecture)

“New Excavations at Nessana, Negev: Late Antique Pilgrimage Hub on the Desert Fringe”

MAR 18
2026

Kristin De Troyer (Online lecture)

“Off the Beaten Track: Which Road to Follow for the Book of Joshua?”

FEB 25
2026

Christie Pavey

“Willibald Goes to Jerusalem”

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 11
2026

Bar Kribus

“The Religious Sites of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews) in the Context of the Religious Architecture of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands”

FEB 8
2026

Debora Sandhaus in conversation with Andrea M. Berlin (Keynote Address)

“Shared Pasts, Shared Futures: The IAA and American Archaeologists in Israel”

Archive event
FEB 4
2026

Benyamin Storchan (ASOR Mini-Series Lecture)

“Unearthing an Imperially Glorious Byzantine Church near Bet Shemesh: From Fieldwork to Virtual Reality”

DEC 17
2025

James Fraser

“Albright 2025: The Year in Review”

DEC 15
2025

Benyamin Storchan and Josef Briffa

“Life in Light: Ancient Lamps, Faith, and Festivals of Illumination”

DEC 10
2025

Shulamit Miller

“The Rise of Christianity in Galilee: A Perspective from the Jewish Cities of Sepphoris and Tiberias”

NOV 12
2025

ASOR Mini-Series Panel

“American Archaeology through the Lens of Albright’s Work at Tel Beit Mirsim, and Beyond”

OCT 29
2025

Rodney Aist (Book Launch)

Walking the Jerusalem Circuit: In the Footsteps of Pilgrims Before the Crusades

OCT 20
2025

Susan Weingarten (Book Launch)

Ancient Jewish Food in Its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds?

OCT 15
2025

Moritz F. Adam

“Flights of the Mind – Dreams, Visions, Journeys, and Authority Construction between Classical and Jewish Literature”

SEPT 17
2025

Si Walsh

“MIND THE GAP! The Scribal Presentation of the War Rule (1QM)”

Archive event
SEPT 10
2025

Shua Kisilevitz (ASOR Mini-Series Lecture)

“Holier than Thou? The Temples at Moẓa and Reflections of Ritual Practices in Ancient Judah”

JUL 23
2025

Nadia Ben-Marzouk

“Crafting Communities into Contact: Contextualizing Glyptic Interconnections in the Levant, Egypt, and Aegean (ca. 2500–1500 BCE)”

JUL 2
2025

Aaron A. Burke (UCLA)

“Amorites, Their Origins, and Their Legacy”

MAY 14
2025

Timothy B. Sailors (Educational and Cultural Affairs Junior Research Fellow)

“Rethinking the Early Christian Book in the Eastern Mediterranean”

MAY 7
2025

Eric H. Cline (Book Talk)

After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

APR 28
2025

Felix Höflmayer & Agnes Woitzuck

“A Biography of an Excavation: The Austrian-German Expedition to Tell Balata/Shechem 1913–1939”

APR 16
2025

Kathleen Nicoll

“‘Trowel Blazers’ in the Archaeology of the Levant & Near East during the early 20th century”

MAR 19
2025

Christian Schöne

“A Blank Space: Exploring the Hinterland of Elusa”

MAR 12
2025

Michael G. Hasel

“Tel Lachish 2013–2017: Excavations of the Palace Domestic Quarter, Area AA”

MAR 5
2025

David Brown

“Refugees in the Early Iron Southern Levant”

FEB 12
2025

Alexander Dorr

“The Hula Provides: Reconstructing Animal Economy and Provisioning under Empire at Kedesh”

DEC 11
2024

Andrea M. Berlin

“From Ground to Page”

DEC 11
2024

James Fraser

“Man-Hunting in the Desert: The Ill-Fated Palmer Sinai Expedition of 1882”

DEC 4
2024

Rafi Greenberg

“Staying on the Surface at Qadas”

NOV 6
2024

Issam Halayqa

“Persian Coins from the Palestinian Territories”

OCT 9
2024

Roy Marom

“Rural Palestine Between Written and Oral Sources”

SEPT 25
2024

Yosef Garfinkel (IES/AIAR Book Launch)

“Colonial Archaeology in Palestine in the 1930s”

JUN 26
2024

Ron Hendel

“Giants and the Conquest of Canaan: On the Landscape of Memory”

JUN 10
2024

Jodi Magness (Book Launch)

Jerusalem Through the Ages

MAY 16
2024

Elisabetta Boaretto

“Radiocarbon Chronology in Historical Jerusalem”

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