Kiersten Neumann’s research is grounded in theoretical approaches to ancient art, with a focus on sensory experience and visual culture of the first millennium BCE. Her many articles include topics of ritualized practice, built environments, and sensory experience in Assyria and Persia. Additionally, Neumann curates OI museum exhibitions, including “Persepolis: Images of an Empire” (2015–2017). Her current book projects include a volume on the sensory experience of the Neo-Assyrian Temple and The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East (Routledge, 2021), co-edited with Allison Thomason. Neumann is Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum and Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, and Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.
Two tours of the Oriental Institute Museum, a research organization and museum devoted to the study of ancient Near East at 1155 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
Tour 1: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Each tour leader of two will host a group of 20 people maximum or 40 people in total.
Tour 2: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Each tour leader of two tour leaders will host a group of 20 people maximum or 40 people in total.