SPRING 2003
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The New York University Department of Classics and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
Past and Present in Roman Historiography
A Conference in Honor of A.J. Woodman
“The Multiple Audiences for Early Roman Historiography”
Christina Kraus, Oriel College, Oxford and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
“Winners and Losers: Characterization in Caesar’s Civil War”
John Dillery, University of Virginia, with response by John Marincola, NYU
“Death Becomes Him: Otho’s Grand Suicide in Tacitus’ Histories”
Cynthia Damon, Amherst College with response by Christopher Pelling, University College Oxford
“Memory in Tacitus”
Rhiannon Ash, University College London and Cornell University, with response by Jane Chaplin, Middlebury College
Keynote Address: “Tiberius and the Taste of Power: The Year 33 in Tacitus”
Charles W. Hedrick, University of California at Santa Cruz and Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison with response by Harriet Flower, Franklin and Marshall College
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
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The New York University Center for Ancient Studies presents:
The Ranieri Lecture in Ancient Studies
“Performing the Classics”
Olympia Dukakis
Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actress, director, producer, teacher, activist, and Visiting Scholar in the Center for Ancient Studies
Commentary
Daniel Mendelsohn
Author, critic, lecturer in Classics at Princeton University, and winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism
Thursday, April 10, 2003, 6:00 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East
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The New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies, the Religious Studies Program of New York University, and Brill Academic Publishers present:
“New Research into the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Chair, Mark S. Smith, NYU
“Israel at Sinai and the Community of the Scrolls”
James C. VanderKam, University of Notre Dame
“The Genesis Apocryphon: Some 'New' Questions About an 'Old' Text”
Moshe J. Bernstein, Yeshiva University
“The Rewritten Bible Texts and Issues of Canon”
George J. Brooke, University of Manchester
“Codification of Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Lawrence H. Schiffman, NYU
Monday, March 3, 2003, 4:30 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East