The New York University Paris Science et Lettres Global Alliance presents
INSULARITIES: A DIACHRONIC INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATION
Thursday and Friday, December 7-8, 2017
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2017
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Jurow Lecture Hall
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Welcome
Katherine E. Fleming, Provost, NYU
Andrew Monson, Chair, Department of Classics, NYU
Introduction
NYU and Island Archaeology
Joan Breton Connelly, Department of Classics, NYU
Keynote Address
“Insularities Without Essentialism”
Francois de Polignac, Directeur d’études, École Pratique des Haute Ètudes, Paris, Doyen de la Section des Sciences religieuses
Response
Stefanos Geroulanos, Department of History, NYU
Reception with Cyprus wines and meze
Sponsored by the Cyprus Embassy Trade Center
This event is generously supported and co-sponsored by the NYU Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, Center for Ancient Studies, Department of Classics, Dean of the College of Arts and Science, and La Maison Française, and by the Cyprus Embassy Trade Center.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2017
INSULARITIES: A DIACHRONIC INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATION
The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, Screening Room and Atrium, 53 Washington Square South
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Marine Ecologies; Island Views
Tatiana Theodoropoulou, Institut d’Etudes Advancés de Paris
Continent or Island? Modern Ways of Looking at Sicily
Clemente Marconi, NYU
Questions of Insularity: Cults and Sanctuaries of the Cyclades
Erica Angliker, University of Zurich
Samothracian Agency: Islanders, Outsiders, and the Brokering of Cult
Bonna Wescoat, Emory University
A Ship out of Water: Maritime Monuments on Samothrace, Thasos, and the Macedonian Mainland
Philip Katz, NYU
Insularity and the Sacred: Yeronisos off Cyprus
Joan Breton Connelly, NYU
Linguistic Treasure Island
Joshua Katz, Princeton University
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 pm - 6:00 p.m.
Return to Antikythera: Advances in Subsea Archaeology Technology
Evan Kovacs, NYU ’96, Marine Imaging Technologies; Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Stones Cry Out: Objects, Buildings, and Island Marble Sources
Norbert S. Baer, NYU
Paros and the Cyclades at the end of the Bronze Age: Intra-Island Factions, Frictions, and Consequences
Robert Koehl, Hunter College
Islands and Mycenaean Maritime Networks
Thomas Tartaron, University of Pennsylvania
Cultic and Economic Connectivity in the Aegean Island World
Barbara Kowalzig, NYU
The Septinsular Republic between a Sea, a Nation, and Five Empires, 1797-1815
Yanni Kotsonis, NYU
Islands as Places of Exile? Tiberius on Rhodes
Michael Peachin, NYU
Imaginary Island Hopping: From Cyprus to Panchaia in Ovid’s Metamorphosis 10.300-310
Del Maticic, NYU
All are welcome! Our workshop format features papers varying from 15-30 minutes in length, allowing plenty of time for discussion. For further information or to join future meetings of our “Insularities Working Group” please contact joan.connelly@nyu.edu or joan@yeronisos.org.
This event is generously supported and co-sponsored by the NYU Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, Center for Ancient Studies, Department of Classics, Dean of the College of Arts and Science, and La Maison Française, and by the Cyprus Embassy Trade Center.