SPRING 2008
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The NYU Department of Classics presents
300 (The movie)
A video conference with Royal Halloway, University of London
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
12:00p.m.
7 East 12th Street, Suite 500
NYU Classics will be holding its second video conference with Royal Holloway, University of London. Love it or hate it, Zack Snyder's movie "300", based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, has had people crying "Sparta!" for over a year now. Rather than one lecture, this event will consist of a series of 10-15 minute "provocations" and responses -- first by Professors Edith Hall and Ahuvia Kahan from Royal Holloway, and then one from the NYU Classics Department.
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The AIA New York Society presents
Yusef Komunyakaa
Professor, New York University Creative Writing Program
The Poets' Theatre II: Gilgamesh
Monday, April 28, 2008
Kaufmann Concert Hall
92nd Street Y
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Tickets: $18 all sections/ $10 age 35 and under
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and NYU professor Yusef Komunyakaa and dramaturge Chad Gracia have produced the first dramatic adaptation of the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh. Jane Hirshfield calls their work "fiercely brilliant in language and conception, uniquely stripped and centered for our own times". Scanlan's productions for the Poetry Center include Dante's Inferno and Samuel Beckett at 100: Three Plays.
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics Department present
Dr. Christos Tsagalis
Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Euripides' Erechtheus, CEG 594, and the Riddle of its Unknown Author
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
2:00p.m.-3:30p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics Department present
Dr. Anna Lamari
Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature, Arcadia University
Knowing a Story's End: Future Reflexive in the Narrative of the Argive Expedition Against Thebes
Monday, April 21, 2008
6:00p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics Department present
Dr. Christos Tsagalis
Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Intertextual Fissures: The Returns of Odysseus and the New Penelope
Thursday, April 17, 2008
6:00p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Judith Herrin
Kings College London
The Lure of Byzantuim: Medieval Western Attitudes to Princesses "Born in the Purple"
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
6:00p.m.
Salmon Room, 2nd Floor
15 East 84th Street
RSVP: isaw@nyu.edu
During the Middle Ages western European rulers displayed a constant awareness of Byzantine princesses ‘born in the purple’. Whenever they negotiated political alliances with the Eastern Empire, to be sealed by a marriage, they specified that they wanted such a princess. The epithet ‘porphyrogennitos’, purple-born, derives from the Porphyra, a purple chamber in the Great Palace of the emperors in Constantinople, where empresses gave birth to their children. In the mid-eighth century Emperor Constantine V built it as a device to perpetuate his ruling dynasty in Byzantium. It reflected his determination, as the son of a usurper, to bestow legitimacy on his eldest son and heir. Children of both sexes carried the title and princesses were regularly sought as ‘purple-born’ brides for western, Slavic and Russian rulers.
Part of the enduring attraction of such alliances was due to the spectacular Byzantine gifts that accompanied diplomatic embassies to all parts of the known world. Although neither Theophano nor Maria Agyropoulaina were in fact ‘born in the purple’, their lavish dowries confirmed western appreciation of Byzantine luxury objects: silks, enamels, ivories and jewelry. By the mid-eleventh century, however, Byzantine brides began to provoke anxiety, even condemnation, in the West. In this illustrated talk I will examine the reasons for this shift and set the purple-born princesses in the context of medieval international diplomacy.
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The NYU Department of Classics presents
Clemence Schultze
Durham University, United Kingdom
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
6:30p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Clemence Schultze from Durham University, UK will be speaking on Pliny the Elder. Prof. Schultze's broad range of work includes Roman republican history, Greek and Roman clothing, ancient historiography, and the reception of antiquity in later literature and art. She has written papers on Dionysius of Halicarnassus, sections of whose work she is currently engaged in translating and annotating, on the elder Pliny, and on the influence of Greek myth on the Victorian novelist Charlotte M. Yonge.
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The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
Olga Palagia
Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens
Monumental Sculpture from Samothrace
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
1:00p.m.
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
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The IHARE Presents
Guenter Kopcke
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
9th Century B.C.E. Finds from Biblical Yavneh (Israel): The First Foothold of Greeks in the Near East
April 7, 2008
7:00p.m.
The JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
Cost: $15 Public; $5 students and professional colleagues
The lecturer discusses a selection of replicas of elaborate cult equipment ritually dumped and deposited, subject of a recent exhibition in the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. The find is astonishing in numbers, but even more in lively narrative quality or "image friendliness" reminiscent of works of Greek invaders elsewhere, and earlier, along the path of "Philistines". The later gradual Hellenization of the Near East may have seen anearly beginning more intense and persevering than hitherto asserted. An equation Philistines = Greeks is perhaps in good part justified.
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the Department of Art History presents
Anthony Snodgrass
University of Cambridge
The Parthenon Divided
April 7, 2008
6:00p.m.
Room 300
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Professor Snodgrass is the Chairman of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles and Laurence Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
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The NYU Angle Saxon Studies Colloquium and the Medieval and Renaissance Center present
David Damrosch
Columbia University
A Rune of One's Own: Negotiating Latinity in Medieval Iceland and Colonial New Spain
Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:00p.m. (5:30p.m. reception)
13 University Place
Room 222
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The NYU Department of Classics presents
Denis Feeney
New York University
Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:30p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Book discussion with Denis Feeney on his 2007 book "Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History". The book, which originated in Feeney's 2004 Sather Lectures, has been hailed by scholars as "extraordinarily ambitious and brilliantly realized" and "an enormous amount of specialized material accessible to a wide audience". Unlike the usual lecture series, the book discussion format allows more time for conversation, as well as the opportunity to vent all or some of the questions that usualy arise from book-reading. Please come prepared, and bring questions!
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The AIA New York Society and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation present
Dr. Beryl Barr-Sharrar
Adjunct Associate Professor, NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies
New Reflections on the Derveni Krater and its Ancient Macedonian Context
Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:30p.m. (reception to follow)
Onassis Cultural Center - Olympic Tower Atrium
645 Fifth Avenue - Entrance on 52nd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues
RSVP: (212) 486-8314
The Derveni Krater is a large, elaborately ornamented bronze krater used as a sepulcher in an undisturbed 4th-century B.C. tomb near Thessaloniki in northern Greece. Dr. Barr-Sharrar discusses her dramatic new conclusions that the Dionysian images form a program alluding to the Underworld and the possibility of rebirth. Dr. Barr-Sharrar is the 2008 recipient of a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
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The NYU Department of Classics and the Department of Art History present
Josine Blok
Professor of Ancient History and Classical Culture at Utrecht University
The Politics of Allotment: Facts and Thoughts on Selection by Lot in Ancient Athens
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
11:00a.m.
Room 303
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
For further information please contact joan.connelly@nyu.edu
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The NYU Department of Classics presents
The Poetics and Theory Colloquium Series Spring 2008
Richard Sieburth
New York University
Traditore-traduttore: Translation and Treason at St. Elizabeths'
Friday, March 28, 2008
2:00p.m.
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Room 503
Richard Sieburth will examine the translations of Sophocles and Confucius undertaken by Ezra Pound while he was an inmate at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington, D.C.
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The NYU Insitute for International Law and Justice and The Program in the History and Theory of International Law present
A Just Empire? Rome's Legal Legacy and the Justification of War and Empire in International Law
Commemorative Conference on Alberico Gentili (1552-1608)
March 13-15, 2008
Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Floor
Furman Hall
245 Sullivan Street
Please RSVP to:
Nicola Mare
maren@exchange.law.nyu.edu
Thursday, March 13
4p.m. - 6p.m.: Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki/NYU): "Natural law between moral principal and raison d'etat: understanding the pre-history of international law"
7p.m. - 8:30p.m.: Welcome Reception, Silvano Lattanzi, 905 Madison Avenue (transportation will be provided by NYU School of Law)
Friday, March 14
9a.m.: Dean's Welcome
Panel 1, 9:15a.m - 10:45a.m.
Roman Law and Roman Imperialism in Classical Antiquity and in Early Modern International Thought"
John Richardson (Edinburgh): "The Meaning of imperium in the last century BC and the first AD"
Clifford Ando (Chicago): "Studying the development of Roman doctrines on the laws of war"
Benjamin Straumann (NYU): "The Corpus iuris civilis as a source of law between nations in Gentili's thought"
10:45a.m. - 11:15a.m. Coffee Break
Panel 2, 11:15a.m. - 12:45p.m.
Alberico Gentili's De Armis Romanis
Diego Panizza (Padua): "Alberico Gentili's De Armis Romanis: the Roman model of just empire"
Kaius Tuori (Helsinki/NYU)" "The invader's remorse: Gentili and the riticism of expansion in the Roman empire"
1p.m. - 2p.m. Lunch
Panel 3, 2p.m. - 3:30p.m.
Law, War and Empire in 16th and 17th Century International Theory
Peter Schroeder (UCL): "Vitoria, Gentili, Grotius and beyond: from universal bellum iustum to iustus hostis"
Christopher N. Warren (Chicago): "Gentili, the poets, and the laws of war"
Partel Piirimae (Tartu) "Impact of Gentili's ideas on the 17th Century"
Commentator: Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
3:30p.m. - 4p.m. Coffee Break
Panel 4, 4p.m. - 6p.m.
Law, War and Empire in the 16th and 17th Century Legal Practice
James Whitman (Yale): "Medieval battles and the law of war"
Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg): "Confronting late 16th and early 17th centuries practice with the Gentilian doctrine on self-defense and just war"
Lauren Benton (NYU): "The many legalities of the sea in Gentili's Advocatio Hispanica"
Noah Feldman (Harvard): "Just war and civil law"
Benedict Kingsbury (NYU) and Alexis Blane (NYU): "Punishment and the Ius post bellum"
Commentator: John Witt (Columbia)
Saturday, March 15
Panel 5, 9:15a.m. - 11a.m.
Law in 18th Century European International Political Thought on War, Commerce and Empire
Petter Korkman (Helsinki): "Barbeyrac and the eighteenth century debate on human rights and capitalism"
Robert Howse (Michigan): "Montesquieu"
Emmanuelle Jouannet (Paris I): "The disappearance of the concept of empire"
Chair: Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki/NYU)
Commentator: Jennifer Pitts (Chicago)
11a.m. - 11:15a.m.: Coffee Break
Panel 6, 11:15a.m. - 1:15p.m.
Beyond Europe: Extra-European and Global Dimensions
David Golove (NYU) and Daniel Hulsebosch (NYU): "The status of the law of nations in the early American republic"
Liliana Obregon (Bogota): TBA
Ileana Porras (Arizona State): TBA
Jeremy Waldron (NYU): "The ius gentium"
Chair: Rahul Rao (Oxford)
Commentators: Karen Knop (Toronto) and Anne Orford (Melbourne)
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents its Inaugural Exhibition
Wine, Worship and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani
March 12 - June 1, 2008
Free and open to the public
www.nyu.edu/isaw
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, Department of Art History, the Department of Classics, the Department of Anthropology and the Fine Arts Society presents
Professor Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
will deliver the Inaugural Lecture in the Ritchie and Charles Scribner Distinguished Lectures in the History of Art Series
The Destruction of the Past: Time to Say No
Monday, March 10, 2008
6:00p.m. (followed by reception)
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Lord Renfrew is the Disney Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, former Master of Jesus College, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies present
The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni
March 6-7, 2008
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco (Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science; Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies; Professor of Classics, New York University)
10:00a.m. - Session One: Rewriting the Bible
Erik Larson (Florida International University) - "On the Identification of Two Greek Texts of Enoch"
Mark S. Smith (New York University) - "In-between Texts": Biblical Texts, Inner-Biblical Interpretation, Second Temple Literature, and Textual Criticism"
Moshe Bernstein (New York University) - "The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity"
12:00p.m. - Lunch
1:30p.m. - Session Two: The Dead Sea Sect
Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers University) - "Language at Qumran"
Shani (Berrin) Tzoref (Hebrew University, University of Sydney) - "The Pesharim and the Pentateuch: Explicit Citations, Overt Typologies, and Implicit Interpretation"
Alexei Sivertsev (DePaul University) - "Sectarians and Householders"
4:00p.m. - Keynote Address
Lawrence H. Schiffman (New York University) - "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism and Christianity"
6:00p.m. - Reception
Friday, March 7, 2008
9:00a.m. - Session Three: The Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism
Alex Jassen (University of Minnesota) - "The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Study of Prophecy of Ancient Judaism"
Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University) - "Zoroastrianism and the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Joseph Angel (Yeshiha University) - "The Historical and Exegetical Roots of Eschatological Priesthood at Qumran"
11:00a.m. - Session Four: Judean Desert Texts
Judah Levkovits (Independent Scholar) - "The Copper Scroll (3Q15): A Reconsideration"
Baruch Levine (New York University) - "Judean Desert Documents of the Bar Kokhba Period: Epistolary and Legal"
Andrew Gross (University of Pittsburgh) - "The Judean Desert Sale Formulary: A Case Study in the Community and Innovation of Ancient Near Eastern Traditions"
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the NYU Department of Classics present
Barbara Kowalzig
Royal Holloway, University of London; Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University
Fishing for Fish Sacrifice: Local Economies and Religious Identity in the Greek Mediterranean
Monday, March 3, 2008
6:30p.m.
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Room 503
Current sacrificial theories tend to deny fish a place in the Cuisine du Sacrifice of the civic community. Fishing for Fish Sacrifice redresses these ideas by placing sacrifice of "seafood" in the wider context of Mediterranean religion and economy, and by tying it to religious communities other than the landed Greek polis - the multi-cultural world of seaborne communications, of travel and trade: it is from this milieu that we can capture evidence for feeding fish to the gods.
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The Center for Archaeology at Columbia University presents
The New York Archaeological Consortium Spring 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
12:00p.m.-2:00p.m.
Columbia University
612 Schermerhorn Hall
Serverin Fowles (Barnard College)
"The Gorge Project: Iconology, Ethnogeography, and the Mighty Rio Grande"
Terence D'Altroy (Columbia University)
Christopher Small (Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
"Digital Modeling the Inca Heartland; Conservation and Research"
Mara Horowitz (Postdoctoral Fellow, Alalakh Excavations)
"Ceramics and Typologies at the Alalakh Excavation Project"
Dr. Anthony Tuck (Assistant Professor of Classics, UMass Amherst; Director, Proggio Civitate Archaeological Project)
Jason Bauer (Franklin College Switzerland-NYC; Assistant Director, Proggio Civitate Archaeological Project)
"Recent Discoveries from Proggio Civitate, Murlo"
Pam Crabtree (New York University)
"Feeding Medieval Cities: Faunal Remains from Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Ipswitch"
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The NYU Department of Classics presents
The Poetics and Theory Colloquium Series Spring 2008
Barbara Vinken
New York University
Rome-Paris
Friday, February 29, 2008
2:00p.m.
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Room 503
Barbara Vinken will consider the Eusebian versus the Augustinian tradition in the return of Rome in French culture, culminating in Flaubert.
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the NYU Department of Classics present
David Levene
New York University
Oratorical Form and Rhetorical Effect in Tacitus' Histories
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
12:30p.m.
Fairchild Building, 7 East 12th Street
Suite 500
Professor Levene will inaugurate a new NYU Classics venue for lectures, via videoconference with Royal Holloway, London!
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The Smithsonian Institute Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World present
Wine, Worship and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani
Through February 24, 2008
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute
1050 Independence Avenue SW
Washington D.C.
(202)633-1000
http://www.asia.si.edu
The exhibition presents spectacular gold, silver, ceramic vessels, jewelry, greek bronze sculpture, Greek and Colchian coins, and Greek glassware. Together these objects provide a rich and informative view of the ancient land of Colchis and its principal sanctuary city, Vani, a town in the Imeriti region of western Georgia. The exhibit was made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation, the Georgian National Museum, and the Ministry of Culture, Monuments Protection and Sport of Georgia.
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The Fine Arts Society presents
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics and Art History, NYU
NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus): Cleopatra, Caesarion, and Boys' Rites of Passage
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
5:00p.m
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Room 300
Reception to follow
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the AIA present
Larissa Bonfante
Department of Classics, NYU
Love and Gender in Ancient Etruria
Thursday, February 14, 2008
6:30p.m.
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
Please RSVP to: lr186@columbia.edu
FALL 2007
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The New York University Deparment of Classics presents
Andrew Riggsby
University of Texas, Austin
Playing the Blame Game
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
5:30p.m.
Three case studies (across genres from the middle Republic to high Empire) of a peculiar Roman strategy of gendered "bait and switch" in ethical criticism. Consideration of cognitive and cultural contributions to the force of this rhetoric.
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The Department of Drama, The Department of Classics, and the Department of English's Callaway Lecture Series Present
David Wiles
Professor of Theatre and Head of Department at Royal Holloway University of London
The History of Theatrical Space; Telling it Through Pictures
Please note new time and location!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The Studio Theater
721 Broadway, 3rd Floor
4:30 PM
David Wiles is Professor of Theatre and Head of Department at Royal Holloway University of London. The Department of Drama and Theatre at RHUL is one of the largest theatre departments in the UK. David Wiles published_ A Short History of Western Performance Spac_e in 2003. He began his research career as a Shakespearean, and his books include_ Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse_ (1987). In recent years, his main focus has been Greek theatre, and in August he published his fourth book in this field:_ Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: from Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation.
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The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean presents
Spaces of Justice in the Roman World
Columbia University, November 16-17, 2007 (612 Schermerhorn Hall)
Friday, November 16th
Session 1 - 9:15AM-12:45PM
9:15-9:30: William V. Harris (Columbia University) - Introduction
9:30-10:15: Bruce W. Frier (University of Michigan) - “Finding a Place for Law in the High Empire”
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30: Katherine E. Welch (New York University) - “Judicial Process and Public Visibility in the Greek Agora, Roman Forum, and in Pagan and Early Christian Basilicas”
11:45-12:30: Ernest Metzger (University of Glasgow) - “Having an Audience with the Magistrate”
12:45-2:15 Lunch
Session 2 - 2:15-6:20PM
2:15-3:00: Eric Kondratieff (Temple University) - “Rome’s Evolving Civic Landscape in Context: Tribunes of the Plebs and the Praetor’s Tribunal in 75/74 BCE”
3:15-4:00: Richard Neudecker (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom) - “Rome: Law and Order in Sacred Spaces”
4:00-4:20 Coffee break
4:20-5:05: Leanne Bablitz (University of British Columbia) - “A Relief, Some Letters, and the Centumviral Court”
5:20-6:05: Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University) - “A Space for Public Communication: Graffiti and the Basilica of Pompeii”
6:30 Dinner
Saturday, November 17th
Session 3 - 9:15-12:55PM
9:15-10:00: Livia Capponi (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) - “Spaces of Justice in Roman Egypt”
10:15-10:35 Coffee break
10:35-11:20: Jean-Jacques Aubert (Université de Neuchâtel) - “The Setting and Staging of Christian Trials”
11:35-12:20: John Bodel (Brown University) - “Kangaroo Courts: Rough Justice in the Roman Novel”
12:35-12:55: Francesco de Angelis (Columbia University) - Conclusion: “On the Fringes of the Lawsuit”
1:00: Lunch
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The New York University Classics Department presents
Herodas’ 2nd Mimiambos: A discussion of Prof. Zanker’s forthcoming Herodas text & translation, as well as a critical interpretation of Herodas’ 2nd Mimiambos
Graham Zanker, University of Canterbury Christ Church, New Zealand
Wednesday, November 14, 5:30 pm
Classics Seminar Room
Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Room 503
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The IHARE presents
God(s) in Translation: Cross-Cultural Recognition of Deities in the Biblical World
Mark Smith, New York University
November 12, 2007, 7:00 PM
Jewish Community Center
334 Amsterdam Avenue (76th Street)
7th floor
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NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions Program in Educational Theatre presents
The Eumenides
by Aeschylus
Translation by Ted Hughes
Directed by Nan Smithner
Friday, October 26, 8pm
Saturday, October 27, 8pm
Sunday, October 28, 3pm
Thursday, November 1, 8pm
Friday, November 2, 8pm
Saturday, November 3, 8pm
Sunday, November 4, 3pm
Black Box Theatre
82 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
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The New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the NYU Center for Ancient Studies present
The 2007 Brush Lecture in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Canoe Travel and Sea Trade of the
Ancient Maya
Dr. Heather McKillop, Lousiana State University
October 23rd, 2007, 6:00 PM
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
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The New York University Classics Department presents
Public and Private in Republican Rome: Ambiguities and Peculiarities
Myles McDonnell, New York University
Thursday October 18, 5:30 pm
Classics Seminar Room
Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Room 503
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The IHARE presents
What Have We Learned from Hebrew Inscriptions from the Biblical Period
Baruch Levine, New York University
October 15, 2007, 7:00 PM
Jewish Community Center
334 Amsterdam Avenue (76th Street)
7th floor
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The Archaeological Institute of America and the NYU Center for Ancient Studies present
Portrait of a Priestess: The Hidden History of Women and Religion in Ancient Greece
Joan Breton Connelly, Professor of Art History, New York University
Tuesday, Oct. 9th 11:00 AM
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
To reserve call: 212-570-3949 or go to metmuseum.org/tickets
Tickets: $23
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The New York University Classics Department Presents
New Excavations on the Acropolis of Selinus (Sicily)
Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
September 27, 2007, 5:30pm
100 Washington Square East
Silver Center, Room 503
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New York University President John Sexton, Dean Matthew Santirocco, College of Arts and Science and John Brademas, President Emeritus Present
What Zeno of Cyprus Started: Why Stoic Thinking on Justice is Important
The Inaugural Lecture by Professor Richard Sorabji, Cyprus Global Distinguished Professor
to celebrate the establishment of the Cyprus Chair in the History and Theory of Justice at New York University in the presence of
His Excellency Mr. Tassos Papadopoulos, President of the Republic of Cyprus
Monday, September 24, 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Eisner and Lubin Auditorium
Kimmel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square South
Reception courtesy of the Cyprus Federation of America to follow
Please respond to 212.998.6880 or cas.alumni@nyu.edu
by September 19, 2007
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The Morse Academic Plan and The Center for Ancient Studies Present
The Conwest Colloquium Series
Greek Tragedy
Monday, September 10, 2007
John Hamilton Department of Comparative Literature
Plato
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Vincent Renzi, Associate Director of the Morse Academic Plan for the Foundations of Contemporary Culture
Early Christianity
Monday, September 17
Frank Peters, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Program in Religious Studies
Augustine's Confessions
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Phillip Mitsis, Department of Classics
Vergil's Aeneid
Monday, September 24
Joy Connolly, Department of Classics
This series is open only to College faculty teaching in the general education program, the Morse Academic Plan.