Spring 2012
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
From the Excavation of a Frozen Tomb to the Writing of History: The Berel' 11 Barrow Project (Kazakhstan, Altai, Third Century BCE)
Henri-Paul Francfort (Maison René Ginouvès, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 6:00PM: Exhibition Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Between Belief and Science: The Contribution of Writing and Law to Ancient Religious Thought
Organized by Beate Pongratz-Leisten (ISAW). Participants: Jean-Jacques Glassner (CNRS, Paris), Francesca Rochberg (Berkeley), Gonzalo Rubio (Pennsylvania state University), Rita Watson (ISAW), Norman Yoffe (Emeritus, University of Michigan)
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 10:00AM - 6:00PM: Workshop
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Seating is limited; email isaw@nyu.edu to register
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NYU's Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Science presents
Commemoration of the Civil Wars: Representation of the Internal Enemy in the 4th Century AD
Ignazio Tantillo (Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale)
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 5:00-7:15PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Virtues and Vogues: Emperors and the Organ in Later Greco-Roman Culture
Johnnes Eberhardt (University of Erfurt)
Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 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
The Ideology of Power: Elites, Herders, and Farmers during the Iron Age in Southeastern Kazakhstan
Claudia Chang (Sweet Briar College)
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 6:00PM: Exhibition Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
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The Penn Museum presents
Climate Crises in Human History
Panelists: Robert Giegengack (University of Pennsylvania), Richard Hodges (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology), Jennifer R. Smith (Washington University in St. Louis).
Moderator: Matthew Santirocco (New York University)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 6:00PM: Panel Presentation Event
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Seating is limited; email isaw@nyu.edu to register
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and NYU's Center for Ancient Studies present
(Re)creating History in the Periochae of Livy
David Levene (New York University)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 5:00 - 7:15PM
4 Washington Square North, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Contact: cjg315@nyu.edu or (212) 992-7488 / 7493
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Fiction, History, Diction in Timotheus' Persians (PMG 791)
Pauline LeVen (Yale University)
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 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
The Origin of the "Terrace of the Great God?" Monuments of Egypt's Early Kings at Abydos
Matthew Douglas Adams (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU)
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 6:00PM: ARCE Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Seating is limited; email info@arceny.com to register
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Up Close and Personal: Revisiting the Parthenon's East Pediment
Dyfri Williams (Former Keeper and Research Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum)
Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 6:00PM: Guest Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Immortals in a Foreign Land: The Kargali Diadem
Katheryn M. Linduff (University of Pittsburgh)
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:00PM: Guest Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Topography and Religion: The Festivals of the Forum Boarium Area
John Scheid (Collège de France)
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:15PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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The NYU Institute of Fine Arts and NYU Abu Dhabi present
New Faces from Egypt: Hellenistic Panel Paintings and their European Consequence
Jas Elsner (Oxford University), Thomas F. Matthews (NYU)
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 7:00PM:
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
To make a reservation, email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Abu Dhabi 4/19" in the subject line.
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Don't Stop Me If You've Heard This One Already: Fabius and Minucius reprised in Tacitus, Annals 15
Arthur Pomeroy (Victoria University of Wellington)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 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 Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
On the Edge of an Empire: Kyzyltepa Project (2010-11 Seasons)
Wu Xin Sophie Descamps (University of Pennsylvania)
Monday, April 16, 2012, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
From Meeting to Text: The Contio and Public Persuasion in the Late Roman Republic
Henrik Mouritsen (King's College London)
Monday, April 16, 2012, 6:30PM
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 and the American Friends of the Louvre present
In the Kingdom of Alexander the Great - Ancient Macedonia
Sophie Descamps (Chief Curator, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Musée du Louvre)
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 6:30PM: Exhibition Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Seating is limited; email rsvp_exhibitions@nyu.edu to register
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Sacred Spaces and Human Sacrifice: The Nasca Lines in their Cultural and Religious Context
Christina Conlee (Texas State University at San Marcos)
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 6:30PM: Archaeological Institute of America Brush Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Excavations at Amheida 2012 Post-Season Presentation
Robert Bagnall (NYU), Roberta Casagrande-Kim (Columbia), Raffaella Cribiore (NYU), Sarah Jolly (NYU), Nicola Aravecchia (NYU), Emilio Santiago (Columbia)
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Seating is limited; email eb100@nyu.edu to register.
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NYU's A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies presents
American Academics Abroad: Cultural Responsibility and Ideology in the Cold War Era
Despoina Lalaki (New York University)
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 5:00PM
The Tamiment Library
70 Washington Square South, 10th floor (between LaGuardia and Green)
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Kingship in Imperial Fable
Dana Fields (Columbia University)
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 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
Monks, Manuscripts, and Muslims: Early Christian Reactions to the Rise of lslam
Michael Penn (Visiting Research Scholar)
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Kingship in Imperial Fable
Dana Fields (Columbia University)
Tuesday, April 5, 2012, 6:00PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Papyri Vergilianae: Contributions of Papyrology and Reading Virgil in the Pars Orientis of the Empire (I-VI century)
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (Université de Liège)
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:30PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Augustus and the Cutting Prophet: Some Thoughts on Dio 55.31
Bert Lott (Vassar College)
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 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 of Fine Arts presents
Looking for Justice: Space, Images, and Attention in the Forum Augustum in Rome
Francesco de Angelis (Columbia University)
Tuesday, March, 27 at 6:00pm: The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public, but an RSVP is required.
To make a reservation, email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Silberberg 3/27" in the subject line.
Seating is on a first-come first-served basis.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Imitating Saints, Painting Identities
Elizabeth S. Bolman (Temple University)
Thursday, March, 22 at 6:00pm: 3rd Annual M. I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public.
Seating is limited, RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Jean-Pierre Vernant: An Imaginative Explorer of Greek Thought and Culture
Stella Georgoudi, EPHE and Centre Louis Gernet, Paris
Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 6:30-8:30PM
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
Merging the Boundaries: Central Asian Oases and the Pastoral World
Fiona Kidd (Visiting Research Scholar)
Tuesday, March, 20 at 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The Morse Academic Plan of New York University presents
Ragging the Classics: The Story of the Music in James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912)
James Tatum, Piano
Tuesday, March, 20th at 5:15pm
703 Silver Center
100 Washington Square East
Entrance: North Side of Silver Center on 24 Waverly Place. Take elevator to seventh floor.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Masculinity, Animals and Asceticism
Elizabeth S. Bolman (Temple University)
Thursday, March, 15 at 6:00pm: 3rd Annual M. I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public.
Seating is limited, RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Death, Decorum and the Making of a Saint at the White Monastery
Elizabeth S. Bolman (Temple University)
Thursday, March, 8 at 6:00pm: 3rd Annual M. I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public.
Seating is limited, RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Upper Egypt and the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Elizabeth S. Bolman (Temple University)
Thursday, March, 1 at 6:00pm: 3rd Annual M. I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public.
Seating is limited, RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Food Practices as a Heuristic Tool for the Study of the Transformation of the Roman World
Emmanuelle Raga
Thursday, February 29, 2012, 6:00PM: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
The Double: Difference and Repetition in Ancient Art
Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 6:00PM: The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public, but an RSVP is required.
To make a reservation, email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Silberberg 2/28" in the subject line.
Seating is on a first-come first-served basis.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Sailing Seas of Rock and Sand: Protodynastic Imagery, Early Dynastic Inscriptions, and the Origins of the Royal Ritualist in the Egyptian Deserts
John Darnell (Yale)
Thursday, February 23 at 6:00pm: ARCE Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Seating is limited, RSVP to info@arceny.com
Events are free and open to public.
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Ancient Greek Pederasty and its "Problematization": The Visual Evidence
Andrew Lear
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 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 Department of Classics presents
Hellenistic Divine Images and the Power of Tradition
Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Columbia University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 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
Vassals and Adversaries: Mitannians, Hittites and Alalakh
K. Aslihan Yener (Koc University and University of Chicago)
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6:30 pm: Guest Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Hybridity, Metamorphosis, and Monstrosity: Defining Identity in Mesopotamia's First Cities
Karen Sonik (UCLA)
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 6:00 pm: Guest Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Objects, Agency, and the Mesopotamian Temple: Materializing Cultic Practice in the Third Millennium BC
Jean Evans (Northern Illinois University and The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 6:00 pm: Guest Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Philosophy presents
Biology and Teleology in Aristotle's Account of the City
Mariska Leunissen
Friday, February 3, 2012, 3:30-5:30 pm
5 Washington Place
2nd Floor Seminar Room
Events are free and open to public. For more information please contact leigh.bond@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Making of Sumeruians: Language, Literature, and Politics
Gonzalo Rubio (Pennsylvania State University)
Monday, January 30, 2012, 6:00 pm: Guest Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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The NY Classical Club & Herculaneum Society, NYU's Department of Classics and NYU's Center for Ancient Studies presents
The NYCC Conference on Herculaneum: Herculaneum: The Ancient City in Perspective
Saturday, January 28, 2012, 11:00AM-6:00PM
Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
10:30AM REGISTRATION
11:00AM "Literature and Culture in Herculaneum"
David Sider, NYU
12:00PM "Scribes and Scholars on the Bay of Naples"
Dirk Obbink, Oxford University
1:00PM LUNCH
2:00PM "Appearances Can Be Deceiving: The Presentation of Bronzes from Herculaneum and Pompeii"
Carol C. Mattusch, George Mason University
3:00PM "The Gardens of Herculaneum and its Environs: Recent Studies in Campanian Gardens"
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, City University of New York
4:20PM "Recreating the Villa of the Papyri in Malibu"
Kenneth Lapatin, Antiquities Department, Getty Museum
5:20PM RECEPTION
Registration (includes lunch): $20 members, $10 students, $30 non-members. Please pre-register with Professor Susanna McFadden sumcfadden@fordham.edu, NYCC Secretary-Treasurer, by Monday, January 23. Or sign-up & pay on-line at: http://www.nyclassicalclub.org/events.htm
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Magnificent Peutinger Map: Roman Cartography at its Most Creative
Richard Talbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 6:30 pm: AIA Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. 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
Facing the Indian Ocean: The Sasanids and the "Late Antique South"
George Hatke
Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6:00 pm: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to public. 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
Royal Figures from the Archaic and Predynastic Periods
Jack Josephson (IFA and American University of Cairo)
Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6:00 pm: ARCE Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Events are free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Seating is limited, RSVP to info@arceny.com
Fall 2011
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Exploring Responsibility: Historical Aetiology in Herodotus' Libyan Logos
Emily Baragwanath, UNC Chapel Hill
Thursday, December 15, 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
Maritime Commerce and Community: Toward an Economic Archaeology of the Roman East
Justin Leidwanger, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Reception to Follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Giving Words
Erik Gunderson, University of Toronto
Thursday, December 8, 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
Cities and Towns of the Roman Middle-Euphrates According to the Middle Euphrates Papyri
Jean Gascou, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
Thursday, December 8, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
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 presents
A Panel on Conservation in Turkey
Nicholas Cahill, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kent Severson, IFA-NYU and Donna Strahan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street,2nd FL Lecture Hall
Registration required. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
NYU Classics Department Graduate Student Conference 2011: Ancient Aitia: Explaining Matter Between Knowledge and Belief
Daryn Lahoux, Queen's University
Saturday, December 3, 2011, 10:00AM-6:00PM
Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
10:00AM BREAKFAST
9:30AM WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Inger Kuin, NYU
FIRST PANEL
Aitia in Imperial Greek Literature: Love and Faith
9:45AM "There Must be Something in the Water: The Questions of Bartholomew, Eve's Seduction, and the Functional Use of Aetiology in Two Coptic Magical Texts"
Ryan B. Knowles, Boston University
10:05AM RESPONSE AND DISCUSSION
Allan Georgia, Fordham University
10:20AM "Literary Functions of the Aetiological TextS in Parthenius Nicaea's Erotika Pathemata"
Marc Vandersmissen, Université de Liège
10:40AM RESPONSE AND DISCUSSION
Robyn Walsh, Brown University
10:55AM "The Social Side of Aitia: Demons, Seals, and Recipes in the Testament of Solomon and Late Antique Apotropaic Practices"
Katherine French, Boston University
11:15AM RESPONSE AND DISCUSSION
Zacharias Andreadakis, University of Michigan
11:30AM COFFEE BREAK
SECOND PANEL
Aitia in Science: Doctors, Rainbows and Stars
11:50AM "It is Evident That There is No Cause: Aitia in Early Greek Medicine"
David Camden, Harvard University
12:10PM RESPONSE AND DISCUSSION
Sara Agnelli, University of Florida
12:25PM "On Rainbows: Optical Technology and Meteorological Aitia"
Colin Webster, Columbia University
1:00PM "The Sidus Iulium:Political Advantage and Religious Truth"
Eric Tindale, University of Toronto
1:20PM RESPONSE AND DISCUSSION
Nicholas Geller, University of Michigan
1:35PM LUNCH
THIRD PANEL
The Aetiological Method: Time, Humor and Community
3:00PM "Illud Tempus in Orpheus' Song: Eliade, Apollonius, and Aetiological Time"
Kathryn Wilson, University of Pennsylvania
3:20PM RESPONSE AND DISCUSSION
Anke Walters, Universität Rostock
3:35PM "Comic First Inventions"
Alan Sumler, City University of New York Graduate Center
3:55PM RESPONSE AND DISCUSSION
Elda Granata, University La Sapienza Rome/ University of Michigan
4:10PM "Sublime Riddling: Self-Identity and Sense of Community in Symphosius' Aenigmata"
Adrienne Ho, University of Iowa
4:30PM RESPONSE AND DISCUSSION
Paul McBreen, City University of New York Graduate Center
4:45PM BREAK
5:00PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Daryn Lehoux, Queens University
6:00PM RECEPTION
This conference is co-sponsored by NYU Center for Ancient Studies, NYU College of Arts and Science, The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York Classical Club and The Classical Association of the Atlantic States.
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Designing Sacred Spaces in a Synagogue of Roman Dura-Europos
Karen B. Stern, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Thursday, December 1, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Center for Ancient Studies, The Center for international Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York presents
Performing Memory in the Ancient World: A Dialogue Between Past & Present
Rose Marie Lewent Conference
Thursday & Friday, December 1-2, 2011
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Thursday, December 1, 2011
10:00AM WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Matthew S. Santirocco, Senior Vice Provost, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, NYU
Antonino Baudry, Cultural Counselor, French Embassy, NYC
Christophe J. Goddard, CNRS-NYU
Peter W. Meineck, Aquila Theatre, NYU
10:30AM MEMORY AND MOURNING
Memory and the Memorialization of Defeats in the Roman Republic
Sylvie Pittia, Université de Paris I- Panthéon Sorbonne
Homecoming as Restoration: Mourning the Living and Remembering the Dead
Simon Stow, College of William and Mary commenting: Serguei A. Oushakin, Princeton University
12:00PM LUNCH
1:30PM REALMS OF MEMORY: SANCTUARIES OR MEMORIALS?
Performing Memory in a Colonial World: The Case of Sicily and South Italy
Clemente Marconi, NYU
The Roman Catacombs
Massimiliano Ghilardi, Insituto Nazionale di Studi Romani commenting: Clifford Chanin, National September 11 Memorial
3:15PM PERFORMING MEMORY ON STAGE
Performing Memory; In the Mind and on the Public Stage
Paul Woodruff, University of Texas, Austin commenting: Adam Brown, NYU School of Medicine;
Peter Meineck, NYU (moderator); Jess Prinz, CUNY; Brigitte Sion, Central Synagogue, NYU and CNRS-NYU
4:30PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Memorializing Violence in Athens and the Building of a Civic Identity
Francois Queyrel, Ecole Prattique des Hautes Etudes commenting: Edward Berenson, NYU
6:00PM RECEPTION
7:00PM STAGED READING
Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives: Performing Trauma
Aquila Theatre, Company In-Residence, NYU Center for Ancient Studies
Friday, December 2, 2011
9:00AM MEMORY RITUALS
Mythical Wars and Ritual Memories
Barbara Kowalzig, NYU
Remembrance and Ritual Dynamics: Genealogical Narratives on the Athenian Acropolis
Joan Breton Connelly, NYU
National Festivals and National Victories: Case Studies from Ancient Greece
Ian Rutherford, University of Reading
Memory and Cyclic Violence in Late Roman Africa
Bruno Pottier, Université d'Aix-Marseille commenting: Denis Peschanski, CNRS; Katherine Fleming, NYU; and Rita Wright, NYU
12:30PM LUNCH
1:30PM CONCLUSION
With Reverence and Love: Remembering Tragedy in the Ancient and the Modern
Hasia Diner, NYU
OPEN DISCUSSION
David Levene, NYU (moderator)
This conference received generous support from the Fonds d'Alembert, Inistitut francais, Minitsére des Affaires Ettangéres et Européennes.
For more information please contact Valerie Dubois at valerie.dubois@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Comparative Demonology: The Case of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Rita Lucarelli, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 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
Europos-Dura Between Rome and the Sasanian: The Fate of a City
Pierre Leriche, Mission Franco-Syrienne d'Europos-Dura
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
The Correspondence Between Seneca and Paul: Philology and Forgery
Ilaria Ramelli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:30PM
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
Dynamics of Acculturation and Integration: The Aegeo-Anatolian Interface in the Second and First Millennia BC
Alexander Dale, ISAW Visiting Scholar
Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Lecture Hall
Reception to Follow. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Greekfest
Friday, November 11, 2011, 10:00AM
Jurow Lecture Hall, 101A
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
For more information please contact david.sider@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
New Archaeological Discoveries in Afghanistan: Mes Aynak, Tepe Naranj and the Buddhist Art of the Kabul River Valley
Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna
Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 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
Religious Diversity and the Christian House-Church at Roman Dura-Europos
Michael Peppard, Fordham University
Thursday, November 3, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 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
Fifth Annual Leon Levy Lecture: A Greek Statuary Complex at the Sarapieion of Memphis and the Early Ptolemaic Kings
Marianne Bergmann, Director Emeritus of the Archaeologisches Institut, Universitaet Goettingen and ISAW Senior Fellow
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Oak Library
Reception to Follow. RSVP required to isaw@nyu.edu
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The President, Board of Governors & the Archaeology Committee of The National Arts Club presents
Greek Priestesses
Presented by Joan Breton Connelly, NYU
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 6:30PM
15 Gramercy Park South
Reception and book signing to Follow. For more information please contact 212-475-3424
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NYU's Center for Ancient Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature presents
Lucretius and Modernity Conference
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
October 26, 2011- October 28, 2011
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Wednesday October 26, 2011
4:00P.M. Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, NYU
Jacques Lezra, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, NYU
5:00 PM Keynote Address
Lucretius and the Speculative Science of Origins
Catherine Wilson, University of Aberdeen
6:00 PM Public Reception
Thursday October 27, 2011
9:30 AM Session I
WHAT IS MODERN ABOUT LUCRETIUS?
How Modern is the Problem of the Freedom of Will?
Philip Mitsis, NYU
All Sense-Perceptions are True: Epicurean Responses to Skepticism and Relativism
Katja Vogt, Columbia University
11:15 AM Session II:
WHAT IS LUCRETIAN ABOUT MODERNITY?
Newton's Swerve
Gerard Passannante, University of Maryland
Lucretius and the Symptomatology of Modernism
Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania
12:45PM Lunch Break
2:15PM-Session III:
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH LUCRETIUS: PHYSICS, POLITICS, POETICS I
Lucretius the Physicist and Modern Science
David Konstan, NYU
The Evolution of Lucretius
Brooke Holmes, Princeton University
4:00PM Session IV
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH LUCRETIUS: PHYSICS, POLITICS, POETICS II
Lucretius and Renaissance Hexameral Epic
Philip Hardie, Trinity College, Cambridge
Lucretius and French Libertinism in the 18th Century
Anne Deneys-Tunney, NYU
5:45PM Session V
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH LUCRETIUS: PHYSICS, POLITICS, POETICS III
On the Nature of Marx's Things
Jacques Lezra, NYU
Epicureanism Across the Revolution
Thomas Kavanagh, Yale University
Friday October 28, 2011
10:45 AM Concluding Session
FOLLOWING LUCRETIUS
Notes on Leo Strauss' "Notes on Lucretius
Alain Gigandet, Universite' de Paris XII Val de Marne
The Aleatory: Lucretius and Some Modern Authors
Yves-Charles Zarka, Universite' de Paris-Descartes/Sorbonne
From Clinamen to Conatus: Deleuze, Lucretius, Spinoza
Warren Montag, Occidental College
This event was generously supported by The Humanities Initiative at New York University, the Fund for Classics and the Contemporary World of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Medieval and Renaissance Center, the NYU Program in Poetics and Theory, and the Departments of Classics, English, French,, and Philosophy.
For more information please contact the Department of Comparative Literature at 212.998.8790 or e-mail liza.blake@nyu.edu
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Polytheism, Monotheism, and the Grey Areas in between: Antioch in the Fourth Century
Presented by Raffaella Cribiore, NYU
Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd FL Lecture Hall
For complete information, including abstracts, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/events
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Roman Citizenship and the Integration of Women in the Latin West
Presented by Emily Hemelrijk, University of Amsterdam
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 12:30PM
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 Ancient Studies presents
The Death of Alexander the Great: Causes and Consequences
James Romm, Bard College
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 6:00PM
Jurow Lecture Hall
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Reception and book signing to Follow. For more information please contact kthornton@randomhouse.com
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Leaves of Gold: Head Ornaments from Xianbei Tombs in Northeast China
Sarah Laursen, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, October 18, 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 Modern Greek Studies Association and The NYU Ancient Studies Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies presents
Greece in Crisis
Efi Avdela, University of Crete and Aristides Baltas, National Technical University of Athens
Friday, October 14, 2011, 7:30PM
Kimmel Center for University life
60 Washington Square South, 10 FL
For more information please contact christos@nyu.edu or 212-998-3979
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
The Gods in Fifth-Century Tragedy, and Their Reception in Fourth-Century Vase-Paintings
Presented by Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford
Friday, October 14, 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
The 'New Villa of Serenus' in Amheida
Dorothea Schulz, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, October 11, 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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Princeton University's Department of Classics presents
Towards An Archaeology of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space
Joan Connelly, NYU
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 4:30PM
Princeton University
East Pyne Building, 010
For more information please visit http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/events
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The Princeton University Program in the Ancient World presents
New Investigations on the Akropolis of Selinunte, Sicily: The Archaeology of a Greek Colony in the West
Clemente Marconi, NYU
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:30PM
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School, Robertson Hall, Bowl 2
For more information please visit http://web.princeton.edu/sites/Program-Ancient-World/events/
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The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Christian Wealth and the Challenge of Charity in Early Byzantium
Daniel Caner, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, October 4, 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 and The Onassis Foundation present
Quarreling, Arguing, Negotiating, Persuading, and Compromising: Rhetorical Strategies and Techniques in Late Antique Greek Papyrus Letters.
Presented by Amphilochios Papathomas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Tuesday, September 27, 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 Archaeological Institute of America presents
Abri Castanet (Dordogne) France: Archaeological Evidence for the Origins of Art in Europe
Presented by Randall White, NYU
Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:30PM
Kriser Room Theater
25 Waverly Place
Reception to Follow. For more information please contact info@aia-society.org
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Onomata Kala: The Politics of Suppliant Drama in Context
Presented by Thaleia Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Monday, September 19, 2011, 6:30PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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American Research Center in Egypt presents
Mysteries of Abydos: Excavating and Saving the Monuments of Egypt's Earliest Pharaohs
David O'Connor, NYU
Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 6:30PM
15th FL Lecture Room (Photo ID Required)
Alston & Bird LLP
90 Park Avenue (Between 39th and 40th Streets)
Reception to Follow. Please RSVP to info@arceny.com
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NYU's Department of Classics presents
Towards an Oral, Intertextual Neoanalysis
Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Monday, September 12 2011, 6:30PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)