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David Danzig

David Danzig

Ancient Near Eastern historian; founder and Executive Director of Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA); PhD from NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Jul 13, 2026

24:49
[laughs]
24:50
We do have a pile of different potential topics that we like to talk about.
24:53
And one of the keys is trying to choose a topic that's going to be interesting to the general public, but also that's sort of current within academic circles.
25:03
So for this year's theme, talking about fashion and clothing and dress and weaving and how we create the things that would cover us, and then body adornment, and which is also about representation and combines basic human needs with identity and how we show each other things about ourselves.
25:23
It seemed to be a really great idea, and there are a niche group of archaeologists and historians who, and art historians also, who work on this.
25:33
And it's actually interesting because some of the different artifacts that are preserved from the ancient past that are most connected to a person and how they existed and lived in their life are actually pieces of clothing.
25:49
So there are the high level royalty fancy clothing like of the Royal Cemetery of Ur, the burial there of Queen Puabi, and then there's the burial clothing and other [laughs] things that were with-
28:10
Yeah

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