Spring 2011
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Nomadic Elements in the Kushan Empire in Light of New Documents
Frantz Grenet, EPHE/CNRS, Paris
Thursday, June 2, 2011,6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Seating is Limited; Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
NUBIA: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa Exhibition Lecture Series
Discovery of an Egyptian and Nubian City at Dukki Gel (Kerma-North. Province, Sudan)
Presented by Charles Bonnet, Member of the Institute of France, Director of the Excavations at Dukki Gel (Kerma)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 6PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Colloquium: Egyptian Liturgical Papyri in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Jacco Dieleman, UCLA/ ISAW
Friday, May 6, 2011, 10:15AM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Seating is Limited; Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Bugs Bunny and the Visigothic Kingdom: New Archaeological Sites and the Old Texts
Santiago Castellanos (University of Leon)
Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Seating is Limited; Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Center for the Study of Human Origins and NYU's Center for Ancient Studies present
Eurasian Archaeology Workshop
Presented by Rita Wright, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Participation is limited; if interested, contact Rita Wright at rita.wright@nyu.edu by April 18.
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Lecture (CNRS)
The Boundaries of the Late Antique World
Presented by Herve' Inglebert, Professor in Roman History, Universite' de Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Defense
Friday, April 29, 2011, 3:30PM- 5:30PM
4 Washington Square North, 2nd FL Conference Room
The Presentation will be followed by a discussion with Peter Brown (Princeton) and Siep Stuurman (Utrecht).
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
The Problem of the Continents in Ancient Geography
Presented by James Romm, Bard College
Thursday, April 28, 2011, 5:00PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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NYU's Center for the Study of Human Origins presents
Between Superstition and Science: Beads of Foragers, Farmers and Pastoralists in the Levant
Daniel Bar-Yosef Mayer, University of Haifa
Monday, April 25, 2011, 2:00PM
Kriser Room
25 Waverly Place, 1st Floor
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Second Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series
The Origins of Monsters: Image, Cognition, and State Formation in the Ancient World
Presented by David Wengrow, University College London
Wednesday April 20, 2011, 6:00PM
The Sumerian Innovation
Thursday, April 21, 2011, 6:00PM
The Cultural Ecology of Monsters
Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 6:00PM
Fantastic Creatures between Nature and Nurture
Thursday, April 28, 2011, 6:00PM
The Demonic State
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Seating is limited; please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu.
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NYU's Center for Ancient Studies and The Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives Program present
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Stage
Rose Marie Lewent Conference
April 20 and 21, 2011
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Wednesday April 20, 2011
4:30 P.M. Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, NYU
4:45 P.M. Keynote Address
David Konstan, NYU Denying Combat Trauma: The Missing Diagnosis in Ancient Greece
6:00 P.M. Reception
6:30 P.M. Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives Staged Reading
Selections from Homer's Odyssey, Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Sophocles' Ajax, and Euripides' Herakles
Peter Meineck, NYU, with Aquila Theatre and Friends
For reservations, please RSVP at aquilatheatre.com or call 212-998-8017
Thursday April 21, 2011
10:00 A.M. Session I
Dreams of My Father: Warfare, Paternity in Sophocles
Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University
Women After the War: Weaving Nostos in Homeric Epic and in the 21st Century
Lorinne Pache, Trinity University
Performing Greek Tragedy at GITMO: Excavating an Ancient Audience
Bryan Doerries, Theater of War Productions
12:00 P.M. Lunch Break
1:30 P.M. Session II:
Recollections of Combat Trauma in Dialogues of Plato
S. Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
When War is Performed, What Do Soldiers See and Hear, Think and Say- Or Not Say?
Tom Palaima, University of Texas at Austin
3:00pm- Break
3:30pm Session III
Of Dreamers and Ravished Minds: Surviving War, Surviving Trauma
Lawrence A. Tritle, Loyola Marymount University
The Veteran's Voice: A Town Hall Meeting
5-8:00pm- Dinner Break
8:00pm Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author
Aquila Theater at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
To purchase tickets, contact skirballcenter.nyu.edu or call 212-352-3101
9:20pm- Post-Show Discussion
This event was generously supported by The Humanities Initiative at New York University.
For more information please contact the College Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100 or e-mail ken.kidd@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
NUBIA: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa Exhibition Lecture Series
Discovering Empires: George Reisner in Nubia
Presented by Rita Freed, John F. Cogan and Mary L. Cornille Chair of Art of the Ancient World, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 6PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Hunters, Heroes, Kings: Ancient Macedonia's Royal Image
Hallie Frank, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, NYU
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 12:30PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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The NYU Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents
The Sigmund and Benita Stahl Lecture Series
Begetting Rabbinic Judaism: Moments of Religious Transformation in Second Temple Judaism
Professor Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame
Lecture Series
All lectures are free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow each lecture.
19 University Place, Room 102
Thursday April 7, 2011, 6:00PM
The Binding of Isaac
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 6:00PM
The Resurrection of the Dead
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 6:00PM
Jesus the Jew
Lunch Seminars
All seminars are 12:30PM-1:45PM. Lunch will be provided.
King Juan Carlos I Center
53 Washington Square South, Room 428
Thursday April 7, 2011, 12:30PM
The Akedah in the Synagogue Mosaic from Sepphoris
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 12:30PM
How does Almsgiving Deliver One from Death?
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:30PM
Is the Idea of Purgatory Jewish?
To reserve a space for a lecture or seminar, please email fas.hjst.events@nyu.edu or call 212-998-8981. Please include your name, the event you would like to attend and your email address.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Atalanta and the Erotic Achilles
Presented by Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College
Thursday, April 7, 2011, 5:00pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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The NYU Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents
Teaching Texts and Traditions: A Special Colloquium and Celebration in Honor of Professor Lawrence Schiffman
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 6:30pm
19 University Place
Reception to Follow. Seating is Limited; Please RSVP to fas.hjst.events@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Archaeologies of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space
Presented by Joan Breton Connelly, NYU
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 6:30pm
Columbia University
612 Schermerhorn Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
New Perspectives on Dynamic Social Trends in Central Eurasia During the Second and First Millenia BCE
Presented by Bryan Hanks, Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
Reception to Follow. Seating is Limited; Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Sculpture and Bricks as Evidence for Cross-Asian Contacts During the 3rd Century BC
Presented by Lukas Nickel, University College London
Monday, March 28, 2011, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
Seating is limited; please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Conference: A World of Cities
Presented by Norman Yoffee, ISAW Senior Fellow
Friday, March 25, 2011, All Day
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
Seating is limited; please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
NUBIA: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa Exhibition Lecture Series
In the Margins: The Latest Salvage Excavations in Nubia at the 4th Cataract of the Nile
Presented by Geoff Emberling, Guest Curator
Thursday, March 24, 2011, All Day
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, La Maison Francaise, and Theater Mitu presents
A Modern Oedipus: A Reading and Discussion of Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 6:00PM
19 Washington Square North, Event Space
Directed by Ruben Polendo, Associate Professor of Theater, NYU Abu Dhabi
Organized by Judith Miller, Professor of French, NYU
Moderated by Peter Meineck, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Studies, NYU
To attend, please RSVP to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and The American Turkish Society Lecture presents
Recent Archaeological Research in Zeugma
Presented by Kutalmis Gorkay, Ankara University
Thursday, March 21, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa
March 11, 2011- June 12, 2011
FREE ADMISSION
Hours: 11AM-6PM, Friday 11AM-8PM, Closed Monday
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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The Archaeological Institute of America and The NYU Center for Ancient Studies present
The Archaeology of Beer: A Comparison of the Adoption of this Beverage in the Old and New World
Presented by Christine Hastorf
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6:00PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Jurow Lecture Hall
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Soundings: Pliny on Planetary Motion
Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 5:00PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Bone Working at Tiesanlu, Anyang: Results and Potential
Presented by Roderick Campbell, Oxford University
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Jade and Chinese Culture: An Art Historical View
Presented by Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Monday, March 7, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Revelation and Science in Early Judiasm: Babylonian Sages, Heavenly Temples, and the Recovery of a Lost Moment in the History of Knowledge
Presented by Seth Sanders, Visiting Scholar
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Reception to Follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Diviners and Scribes: Reconstructing the Activities of East Asia's Earliest Literature Institution
Presented by Adam Smith, Columbia University
Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
The Poetics of Negative Exceptionalism in Lucretius, DRN 5
Brooke Holmes, Princeton University
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 5:00PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Fishing and Aquaculture in the Roman Mediterranean
Annalisa Marzano, Visiting Research Scholar
Friday, February 22, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Belgians at Bersha. Recent Fieldwork in the Old Kingdom Necropolis and the Intact Tomb of Henu
Presented by Marleen De Meyer, Catholic University of Leuven
Sunday, February 17, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Monsters and the Critics: Mesopotamian Heroes, Myths, and Monsters
Karen Sonik, Visiting Research Scholar
Friday, February 15, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The Center for Ancient Studies and Reading Odyssey present
Arrian's Alexander the Great--In a New Voice
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 6:00PM
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
James Romm, Editor, “Landmark Arrian--The Campaigns of Alexander”; James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics, Bard College
"Arrian on Alexander's Character"
Eugene Borza, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, Pennsylvania State University
"Arrian on the Aims of Alexander"
Kurt Raaflaub, Emeritus Professor of Classics and History, Brown University
"Alexander and the Historians' Celebration of Great Warriors"
Robert Strassler, Scholar, Founder and Editor of the Landmark Series--Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Arrian, and forthcoming titles
"The Landmark Series and the Special Case of Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander"
Moderator
Phil Terry, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Good; Founder, Reading Odyssey
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the College Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100 or e-mail ken.kidd@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Ahiqar the Seal-bearer of Sennacherib: Aramaic Folk Hero or Patriarch Manqué?
Presented by David Taylor, University of Oxford
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Language of the Qur'an and a Near Eastern Rip van Winkle
Presented by Robert Hoyland, University of Oxford
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Assyrians from History to Myth: The Creation of a Politico-Religious Concept in the Self-definition of Syriac Christian Communities
Presented by Muriel Debie, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
The Last Pagans of Rome
Presented by Alan Cameron, Charles Anthon Professor of Latin, Columbia University
Friday, January 28, 2011, 2:00PM
4 Washington Square North, 2nd FL
New York, NY 10003
For more information please contact cjg315@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Presented by Judith Lerner
Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Haremhab, The General Who Became King
Dorothea Arnold, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:00PM ARCE Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
Seating is limited; please RSVP to info@arceny.com
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Civilizations: Internationalism, Prestige, and Societies
Caroline Sauvage, Visiting Assistant Professor, ISAW
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The 'House of Mopos' and Assyria: On the Chronology of Karatepe in Plain Cilicia
Mirko Novak, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Continuity vs. Collapse? Some Thoughts on Central Anatolia After the Fall of the Hittite Empire
Lorenzo D'Alfonso, University of Pavia
Friday, January 14, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Lycians and their Tombs: Lycian Funerary Monuments as Representations of Social Affiliation and Individuality
Birgit Christiansen, Ludwig-Maximilians- University of Munich
Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
Fall 2010
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics
From Visible Fictions of Glasgow, Scotland
November 12, 2010 - December 17, 2010
FREE ADMISSION
Hours: 11AM to 6PM, Tuesday - Sunday
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Death in the Provice: Mortuary Practices and Roman Imperialism in Syria and Lebanon
Lidewijde de Jong, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the American Turkish Society present
Felix Pirson, Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts- Istanbul
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Reception to follow. Seating is limited; please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Late Roman Taxation: The East/West Divide
Gilles Bransbourg, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Religions in Contact: The Mesopotamian Goddess Nanaya at the Crossroads
Joan Westenholz, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
A Mathematician's Journeys: Otto Neugebauer Between History and Practice of the Exact Sciences
Friday, November 12, 2010, 9:00AM
Courant Institute
251 Mercer Street
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 9:00AM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Seating is limited; please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Three Ways of Getting Aristophanes Wrong
Brendan Boyle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Thursday, November 11, 2010, 5:00PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, 503
32 Waverly Place
For more information please contact cbs338@nyu.edu
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NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts presents
Jason and the Argonauts
From Visible Fictions of Glasgow, Scotland
Saturday, November 6, 2010, 2:00PM
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place
at Washington Square
New York, NY 10012
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NYU's Center for Ancient Studies, Abu Dhabi, and La Maison Française present
A Modern Aeneid: A Reading and Discussion of Olivier Kemeid's The Aeneid
Thursday November 4, 2010, 6:30PM
19 Washington Square North
New York, NY 10011
In his adaptation of The Aeneid, Canadian playwright Olivier Kemeid tells the tale of civil war, loss, and exile in the 21st century through the lens of Homers epic poem. The evening will include a reading of the play and a conversation with Kemeid. The program is the first in a series of readings of modern revisions of classical texts organized by Judith G. Miller, Professor of French, New York University.
Written by Olivier Kemeid, Artistic Director, Théâtre Espace Libre, Montreal
Directed by Kay Maschullat, Associate Teacher, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Casted by Catherine Coray, Associate Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Moderated by Joy Connolly, Associate Professor of Classics, NYU
To attend please RVSP to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Annual Leon Levy Lecture
The Cultural Dynamism of Astral Science in the Hellenistic Age
Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkley
Thursday, November 4, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Oak Library
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy - Science in Action
Mathieu Ossendrijver, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Hellenic Studies presents
The Bacchae: Notes Toward an Adaptation
Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 3:30PM
This seminar/workshop will look at the modes of adaptation proposed by the encounter between modernist and contemporary schools of performance with Greek tragedy, in their search not only for the “Greeks” but also for new languages of performance. From the Delphic modernist revivals to more recent postmodernist technologically-informed productions, the principle of adaptation has been crucial in creating specific languages of performance that in turn inform our concept of tragedy and its role within modernity. Some of these ideas will be examined through the lens of The Bacchae. Euripides’s last play—written in exile, and the last extant tragedy of the classical Athenian canon—has acquired in the long history of its reception apocalyptic and eschatological resonances; resonances that all challenge the limits of theater, the limits of the state and indeed the limits of the human. In a canon already saturated with matricide, parricide, infanticide and all aspects of dismemberment, The Bacchae also appears as an exceptional comment on the theatrical discourses about affect and spectacularization. This workshop will look at significant twentieth-century adaptations of The Bacchae (Dionysus 69, Terzopoloulos), while discussing general issues that relate to the process of adaptation (issues of faithfulness, relevance, context, theatrical form, reception etc.). It will invite the students to re-imagine the play for a contemporary audience, possibly moving beyond the pre-dominantly primitivist aesthetics that have dominated its modern reception.
For more information and to RSVP for this workshop, please contact Christos@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Hellenic Studies presents
Hellenism and Modernist Performance
Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh
Monday, November 1, 2010, 6:30PM
This talk will look at the ways in which the encounter with Greek Tragedy informs some of the most radical formal and thematic experiments within modernist performance and the historical avant-garde. Through a series of close readings of specific projects (Edward Gordon Craig, W.B Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, H.D., Dadaism), the lecture will examine how this battle between the ancients and the moderns is re-staged as part of the sometimes-utopian quest for a “new” and autonomous language of performance. Although many of these projects were successful and now form part of the received history of modernist and avant-garde performance, significantly many also remained unrealizable and/or utopian or actually failed in performance. Within this context, the talk will underline the significance of such “failures” and the constitutive role of modernist Hellenism in creating aesthetics of utopia within modernist performance.
For more information please contact Christos@nyu.edu
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and NYU Abu Dhabi present
From Plato to NATO and Confucius to Mao:
Did Ancient History Determine the Shape of the Modern World?
Ian Morris, Stanford University
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 6:30PM
19 Washington Square North
New York, NY 10011
Why does the west dominate the world--for now? In this talk Ian Morris will take a fresh look at what ancient history (roughly 1000 BCE-500 CE) meant for subsequent world history, comparing developments all across Eurasia from the Ice Age to the twenty-first century. Morris suggests that historians have often looked for explanations of the shape of world history in the wrong places, and proposes a new understanding of how ancient history shaped the world we live in.
To attend please RVSP to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu
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NYU's Center for Teaching Excellence presents
Reacting to the Past
Mark Carnes, Barnard College
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 12:30PM
194 Mercer Street, 4th floor
Honored with the 2004 Theodore Hesburgh Award for pedagogical innovation, this unique teaching method consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts in the history of ideas. Class sessions are run entirely by students; instructors advise and guide students and grade their oral and written work. The games seek to draw students into the past, promote engagement with big ideas, and improve intellectual and academic skills. Learn about the development, implementation, and assessment of the Reacting to the Past pedagogy through a demonstration of curriculum and faculty development activities.
Register at http://www.nyu.edu/cte/registrationonline.html
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Eunuch, Androgynos, Virgin: Who is Really Clitophon? A Gender Trouble in Achilles Tatius
Romain Brethes, Lycée Janson de Sailly
Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 1:00PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science
100 Washington Square East, Room 503
For more information please contact tvp214@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
The Explanatory Role of the Chora in Plato's Timaeus
Jonathan Beere, Humboldt University, Berlin
Friday, October 22, 2010, 12:30PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science
100 Washington Square East, Room 503
For more information please contact Matt Evans (me56@nyu.edu) or Phillip Mitsis (phillip.mitsis@nyu.edu)
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Astronomical Book of Enoch - Jewish Apocalypticism and the History of Science
Jonathan Ben-Dov, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Anthropology presents
Prehistoric and Bronze Age Cultural Interaction in the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean
Daniel Potts, University of Sydney
Monday, October 25, 2010, 5:00PM
New York University, Dept. of Anthropology
25 Waverly Place, Kriser Room
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Artemis Liturgical Papyrus
Jacco Dieleman, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Israeli Antiquities Authority present
Lod Mosaic Roundtable
Miriam Avissar, Israeli Antiquities Authority
Jacques Neguer, Israeli Antiquities Authority
Sarah E. Cox, Independent Scholar
Glen Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study
Christopher Lightfoot, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday, October 2, 2010, 10:30AM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
Limited seating available; to RSVP please email isaw@nyu.edu.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the Archaeological Institute of America present
Amheida, Excavating a City in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt
Roger Bagnall, Director, ISAW
Thursday, September 30, 2010, 6:30PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
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NYU's Center for Ancient Studies and Reading Odyssey present
The Context and Meaning of the Battle of Marathon: Why we are celebrating the 2,500 year anniversary
Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 5:30PM
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
A Lecture by Paul Cartledge, Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of Democracy at New York University; A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University
Introduction
Matthew S. Santirocco, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, New York University
Moderator
Phil Terry, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Good; Founder, Reading Odyssey
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the College Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100 or e-mail ken.kidd@nyu.edu
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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
Archaeologies of Yeronisos off Cyprus: the Island beyond the Island
In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus and the Twentieth Anniversary of the New York University Yeronisos Island Excavations.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
6:00 P.M. Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, NYU
6:10 P.M. Greetings
John Brademas, President Emeritus, NYU
6:15 P.M. Remarks
His Excellency the President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias
6:30 P.M. Keynote Address: The Charles and Ritchie Markoe Scribner (WSUC ’76) Distinguished Lecture in the History of Art
Saving and Exploring Yeronisos: A Cyprus-American Collaboration
Sophocles Hadjisavvas, Former Director, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus
Joan Breton Connelly, Professor of Classics, NYU and Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations
7:25 P.M. The Gift of History Charles Scribner, III, Friends of Yeronisos
7:30 P.M. Food & Wine Reception hosted by the Cyprus Embassy Trade Center, NY
Saturday, September 25, 2010
10:00 A.M. Session I
The Potential Role of Island Ecology in Island Archaeology
Peter P. Blanchard, III, Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Volunteer; Former Island Steward for Coastal Preserves
Yeronisos and the Archaeologies of Cult: Chalcolithic and Hellenistic, Cypriot and Egyptian
Joan Breton Connelly
Clearchus's Journey from Soloi to Ai Khanum: a Peripatetic tale of Old Cyprus
Paul Cartledge, Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of Democracy, NYU; A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University
Chair: Sophocles Hadjisavvas
12:30 P.M. Lunch Break
2:00 P.M. Session II:
Late Hellenistic Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Special Contribution of Yeronisos
Jolanta Mlynarczyk, Professor and Head, Division of Near Eastern Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw
Glass Finds from Yeronisos: Connections with the Phoenician/Palestinian Coast
Mariusz Burdajewicz, Keeper, Department of Near Eastern Christian Art, National Museum in Warsaw
Yeronisos and the Early Byzantine Art and Architecture of Western Cyprus
Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou, Professor of Byzantine Art and Architecture, Hellenic Open University; Director of the World Forum of Religions and Cultures of the Kykkos Monastery, Nicosia
Chair: Joan Breton Connelly
Co-sponsored by the Cyprus Embassy Trade Center, New York; the Cultural Services of the Ministry and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus; the Panpaphian Association of America, Inc.; the Friends of Yeronisos; and the NYU Department of Classics and Department of Art History.
The event is free of charge and open to the public, and seating is by general admission. For more information please call 212-998-8100 or email ken.kidd@nyu.edu.