SPRING 2005
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The New York University Faculty Resource Network, in conjunction with NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies announces:
The Summer 2005 Seminar
“Global Mythologies”
Convener: Joy Connolly, Professor of Classics, NYU
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The New York University Institute of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents:
“Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Digging Deeper at Tell Brak”
Joan Oates, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge
Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 4:30 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
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The New York University Center for Ancient Studies, NYU’s Departments of Fine Arts and Classics and the NYU Gallatin School’s Classics and the Contemporary Series present:
“Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias 2000 – 2004”
Christopher Ratté, Associate Professor of Classics and Fine Arts and Co-Director of the Aphrodisias Excavations
Thursday, April 21, 2005, 5:00 pm
Silver Center Room 300
100 Washington Square East
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The New York University Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the Gallatin School for Individualized Study presents:
The Rose-Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies
“Democracy, Education, and the Classics”
“At the Shrine of the Bald Headed Tinker: Teaching Classics to the Poor”
Earl Shorris, Noted author, founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine
“Democracy and Knowledge”
Danielle Allen, Dean of the Humanities Division and Professor of Classics and Political Science, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
“World Enough and Time: Why There’s No Justice in Waiting to Teach the Classics”
Christopher Zinn, Executive Director, Oregon Council for the Humanities
Comments and Discussion
Moderated by John R. MacArthur, President and publisher of Harper’s Magazine, award-winning journalist and writer
Monday, April 18, 2005
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
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New York University's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimó presents:
“Politecnico di Milano: Late Renaissance Roman Villas and their Environment: Examples of Landscape Architecture”
Margherita Azzi Visentini, Noted Italian Author
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 6:00 pm
Casa Italiana
24 West 12th Street
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New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents:
Faculty Colloquium Series
Eliot Wolfson
Monday, April 11, 1005, 12:30 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
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The New York University Institute of Fine Arts presents:
The Silberberg Lecture
“Wonder, Radiance, and the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture”
Richard T. Neer, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago
Friday, April 8, 2005, 4:00 pm
Duke House Lecture Hall, Main Floor
One East 78th Street
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The New York University Taub Center for Israel Studies presents:
“Strange Bedfellows: Israel and China, 1948-2004”
Dr. Aron Shai, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 5:00 pm
19 University Place, 1st floor
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The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and the New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies present:
“Jews in the Greek and Roman Worlds”
A 3-part lecture series
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 7:00 pm
“Understanding Sepphoris (Zippori) Where the Mishnah Was Compiled: Archaeology and the Challenge of Multiculturalism”
Eric Meyers, Duke University
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 7:00 pm
“Crimean Jews in a Pagan and Christian World”
Doug Edwards, University of Puget Sound
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 7:00 pm
“The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
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The New York University Department of Hellenic Studies presents:
Modern Greek Film Series
Thursdays, 6:20 pm
Silver Center Room 207
100 Washington Square East
1/27: “Hard Goodbyes: My Father” by Penny Panayotopoulou (2001)
2/3: “The Traveling Players” by Theo Angelopoulos (1975)
2/10: “Ulysses' Gaze” by Theo Angelopoulos (1995)
2/17: “Anna's Engagement” by Pantelis Voulgaris (1972)
2/24: “Loafing and Camouflage” by Nikos Perakis
3/3: “Lefteris” by Pericles Hoursoglou (1993)
3/10: “End of an Era” by Antonis Kokkinos (1994)
3/24: “Truants” by Nikos Grammatikos (1996)
3/31: “The Cow's Orgasm” by Olga Malea (1996)
4/7: “From the Edge of the City” by Constantine Giannaris (1998)
4/14: “Think it Over” by Katerina Evangelakou
4/21: “The Cistern” by Christos Dimas (2001)
4/28: “A Touch of Spice” by Tassos Boulmetis (2003)
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The New York University Department of Anthropology presents:
“The History of Paleoanthropological Research in Indonesia”
Dr. Johan Arif, Department of Geology, Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia:
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 6:30 pm
Kriser room (first floor rear)
25 Waverly Place
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The New York University Classics Department presents:
“Livy, Aemilius Paullus, and the Ethics of Empire”
David Levene, Professor Latin Language & Literature, School of Classics, University of Leeds
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 2:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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New York University’s Skirball Center of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents:
Faculty Colloquium Series
Judah Cohen
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 12:30 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
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The New York University Department of Religious Studies & the New York University Department of Classics present:
“Ritualized Study as Christian Devotional Practice in Late Antique Mesopotamia”
Adam H. Becker, Candidate for Assistant Professor, Religious Studies & Classics, NYU
Monday, March 21, 2005, 5:30 p.m.
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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The New York University Taub Center for Israel Studies presents:
“Israel-Palestinian Relations after the Palestinian Elections”
Prof. Yaakov Bar Siman Tov, Head of the Jerusalem Institute and the Davis Institute at the Hebrew University
Monday, March 21, 2005, 5:00 pm
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
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The Archaeological Institute of America New York Society and the New York University Center for Ancient Studies present:
Louis Blumengarten Lecture in Urban Archaeology
“Is It Trash or Is It Treasure?”
Joan Geismar
Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 6:30 pm
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
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The New York University Department of Classics presents:
“What Did Tragedy Look Like, 430-330 B.C.?”
Edith Hall, Professor, Greek Cultural History, University of Durham, England; Co-Director Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama, University of Oxford
Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 12:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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The New York University Department of Classics presents:
“The Devil’s Actress as God’s Harlot: Pelagia of Antioch and the Performance of Subversive Holiness”
Dayna S. Kalleres, Religious Studies Department, Stanford University
Monday, March 7, 2005, 5:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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The New York University Center for Ancient Studies, NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, its Departments of Comparative Literature, English, French, History, Italian, Music, Medieval and Renaissance Center, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Programs of Africana Studies and Irish Studies & the NYU Medical School presents a 2004-5 workshop sponsored by the NYU Humanities Council:
“Storytelling in the Middle Ages”
“Storytelling in Performance”
Organized by: Professor Timmie (E. B.) Vitz, NYU; Professor Martha Hodes, NYU; and Professor Nancy Regalado, NYU
Moderator: Marilyn Lawrence, NYU
“The Art of the Medieval Welsh Story Teller”
Sioned Davies, University of Cardiff: Celtic Studies
“Erotic Reading and Re-performance of Medieval Romance”
Timmie (E.B.) Vitz, NYU
Respondents:
Laurie Postlewate, Barnard College
Kathryn Talarico, College of Staten Island, Romance Languages Department
Moderator: Mark Cruse, NYU
“Why Perform the Stories of Arthur?”
Nancy Freeman Regalado, NYU
“Dioneo and the Storyteller's Art in the Decameron”
John Ahern, Vassar College
Respondents:
Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Paris IV, Institut Universitaire de France
Jane Tylus, NYU
Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:00 pm
Maison Francaise
16 Washington Mews
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The New York University Classics Department and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
“What Oedipus and Tiresias Know and When They Know It”
John Gibert, Professor of Classics, University of Colorado
Thursday, March 3, 2005, 12:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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The New York University Department of Hellenic Studies and the New York Public Library present:
“The Way to the West—A Film Screening / Lecture”
Kyriakos Katzourakis
Thursday, March 3, 2005, 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library
455 Fifth Avenue
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The New York University Department of Hellenic Studies and the New York Public Library present:
“Painting with Cinema—An Art lecture-presentation”
Kyriakos Katzourakis
Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library
455 Fifth Avenue
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The New York University Religious Studies Department and NYU’s Department of Classics present:
“Household Conversions: Trust and Episcopal Authority in Late Antique Rome”
Kristina Sessa, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, Candidate for Assistant Professor, NYU Departments of Religious Studies and Classics
Monday, February 28, 2005, 5:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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The Aquila Theatre Company, Company-in-Residence of New York University’s Center for Ancient Studies, presents:
“Utopia Parkway”
A new musical comedy inspired by the works of Aristophanes
Friday, February 25, 2005, 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 26, 2005, 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm
Sunday, February 27, 2005, 3:00 pm
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 8:00 pm
Wednesday, March 2 - March 20, 2005:
Wednesday – Friday, 8:00 pm
Saturday, 5:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Sunday, 3:00 pm
BPAC (Baruch Performing Arts Center)
55 Lexington Avenue at 25th St (between Lexington & 3rd)
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The New York University Department of Classics presents:
“Exemplarity and Historical Time”
Charles Hedrick, Professor of Ancient History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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The New York University Department of Hellenic Studies and NYU’s Departments of Fine Arts and Mediterranean Studies present:
“Memories of Place in Modern Greece and Turkey”
Eleni Bastea, University of New Mexico
Thursday, February 24, 2005, 6:30 pm
Silver Center Room 207
100 Washington Square East
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New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents:
Faculty Colloquium Series
Lawrence Schiffman
Thursday, February 24, 2005, 12:30 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South, 404W
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La Mama ETC and East Coast Artists present:
“Yokastas—A New Play About an Old Story”
By Richard Schechner & Saviana Stanescu
Directed by Richard Schechner (New York University Professor, Department of Performance Studies)
Thursday through Saturday, February 24-26, 2005, 8:00 pm
La Mama Annex
74A East 4th Street
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The New York University Taub Center for Israel Studies presents:
“Learning from Success: the Israel-Egypt Peace Negotiations, 1977-1979”
Dr. Kenneth Stein, Emory University
Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 5:00 pm
The Screening Room, 53 Washington Square South [1st Floor]
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The New York University Humanities Council presents:
“Classics Now: Motivations and Strategies for Adapting the Classics for the Contemporary Stage”
A panel discussion and play reading
Introduction
Carol Martin, Associate Professor of Drama, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Keynote Speaker: Amy Green, author of The Revisionist Stage: American Directors Reinvent the Classics
Panelists:
Lenora Champagne, Solo performance artist, director and editor of Out From Under: Text by Women Performance Artists and former dramaturge for Classic Stage Company; Durst Chair and Associate Professor of Drama Studies, SUNY, Purchase
Sharon Friedman, Author of numerous articles on feminist theatre and drama, Associate Professor, The Gallatin School, NYU
Ellen McLaughlin, Author of numerous adaptations of classical Greek texts including Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Helen, and The Persians
Chiori Miyagawa, Conceiver of Antigone Project, an evening of five contemporary one act plays about Antigone, author of Red Again, America Dreaming and Nothing Forever among others; Associate Professor of Theater, Bard College
Staged Reading: Medallion by Tanya Barfield
A play inspired by Antigone
With Joey Collins and April Yvette Thompson
Moderator:
Laura Slatkin, Professor of Classics, The Gallatin School, NYU
Organized by Professors Sharon Friedman (NYU Gallatin) and Carol Martin (NYU TSOA)
Friday February 18, 2005, 12:30 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South
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The New York University Classics Department presents:
“Reason and Revelation in Apuleius”
James Rives, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, York University, Toronto
Thursday, February 17, 2005, 12:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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The New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies present:
A Colloquium in Memory of Sara Merdinger
An event in memory of Professor Sara Merdinger, with papers presented on Modern Hebrew Literature by both faculty and graduate students
Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 5:00 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South
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The New York University Department of Classics presents:
“Staging ‘Female’ Appetites in Aristophanes”
Nancy Worman, Assistant Professor of Classics and a participating member in the Comparative Literature Program at Barnard College
Thursday, February 3, 2005, 12:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
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New York University Foreign Visitor’s Fellowship presents:
“Aeschylus’ Agamemnon”
Adapted and Directed by Zvika Serper
In Hebrew with English subtitles
(Based on Aharon Shabtai’s Hebrew translation with additional material adapted from Aeschylus' Choephori and Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis)
Monday January 31, 2005, 6:00 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South
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The Archaeological Institute of America New York Society and New York University Institute of Fine Arts present:
The 2005 Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lecture:
“Excavations at Volubilis and the Islamization of the Berbers”
Dr. Lisa Fentress
Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 6:00 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
FALL 2004
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The New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
"Community and Biblical Interpretation: Judaism, Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls"
"Enochites, Qumranites, and Christians-Enlightened Communities Waiting for the End"
George S. Nickelsburg, Emeritus Professor of Religion, University of Iowa
"Biblical Exegesis in the Passion Narratives in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Lawrence H. Schiffman, Chair, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
"Structure and Exegesis in an Unusual 'Legal' Document from Qumran"
Moshe J. Bernstein, Associate Professor of Bible, Yeshiva University
“Intertextual Reading: The Case of David in the Cave 11 Psalms Scroll"
Mark S. Smith, Skirball Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Studies, NYU
Thursday, October 28, 2004, 4:30 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East
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The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences presents:
“If Archimedes Had a Computer: Continuing His Work on Floating Bodies”
Friday, October 15, 2004, 3:00 pm
Warren Weaver Hall, 1st floor
251 Mercer Street