ISAC Events
Join us for classes, workshops, lectures, and other events focusing on the cultures of West Asia and North Africa.
October 20, 2026
Book Talk: Omar Mohammed on “Mosul Eye,” in conversation with ISAC Director Tim Harrison
Historian Omar Mohammed, who secretly chronicled life under ISIS as the anonymous blogger “Mosul Eye,” presents his new book Mosul Eye: A Scholar’s Clandestine War Against ISIS. Following his talk,…
October 22, 2026
Stories Objects Hold: Exploring (Non)Material Remnants of Türkiye: Curator and Artist in Conversation on “Time, Fragmented”
What stories do objects carry long after the people and places that made them have changed? Join ISAC Museum curator Kiersten Neumann for a conversation with Defne Ergöz, curator of Time, Fragmented,…
November 7, 2026
ARCE-ISAC Joint Lecture: Treasure Fit for a Queen: Royal Burials from el-Kurru, Sudan
ARCE-ISAC November Lecture, 5–6pm in person and on Zoom, Dr. Denise Doxey, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Some of…