Spring 2016
New York University hosts
2016 ADE-ADFL Summer Seminar East
This conference is sponsored by the following NYU units:the Office of the Provost, the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Studies, the Office of the Dean for Humanities, the Tisch School of the Arts, and the departments of comparative literature, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Thursday to Sunday, June 16-19, 2016
Attendance at this conference is by registration only. To view the program and learn more about registration and fees, please visit the event website:
https://ade.mla.org/Seminars/ADE-ADFL-Summer-Seminar-East
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
ARCE Lecture
The Other Woman: Encoded Messages in Egyptian Art
Phyllis Saretta (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Thursday, June 9, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Coptic Art, Modern Design, Art History: The Changing Value of Late Antique Textiles at the Brooklyn Museum
Edward Bleiberg (Brooklyn Museum)
Thursday, May 19, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
NEW YORK AEGEAN BRONZE AGE COLLOQUIUM
The Arrival of Monsters on Middle Minoan II Crete: Why Then, and What Happened Next?”
Judith Weingarten (British School of Archaeology in Athens)
Wednesday, May 18, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP call 212.992.5803 or email ifa.events@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Cult Practices in Ancient Literatures: Egyptian, Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Narratives in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Workshop organized by Franziska Naether (ISAW)
Monday and Tuesday, May 16-17, 2016
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
MONDAY, MAY 16
Chair, Morning Sessions: Beate Pongratz-Leisten (ISAW)
10:00am Welcome, Introduction, Methodology and Case Studies from Egypt
Franziska Naether (ISAW)
10:30am Wise Women and Benevolent Magic in Old Babylonian Literary Texts
Gina Konstantopoulos (ISAW)
11:00am The Fish and the Tamarisk: Symbolism and Ritual Instruction in “Lugalbanda and the Anzu Bird”
Ainsley Hawthorn (Yale University)
11:30am Coffee Break
12:00pm The Magician as a Literary Figure in Ancient Egyptian Texts
Rita Lucarelli (University of California, Berkeley)
12:30pm Lunch Break
Chair, Afternoon Sessions: Jennifer M. Babcock (ISAW)
2:00pm Incubation in Egyptian Literary Texts
Gil Renberg (Harvard University)
2:30pm Ritual Reality or Fictitious Fantasy? The Conceptualization and Narration of Magical Practice in Setne I and II and Their Relationship to the Practices of the Demotic and Greek Magical Papyri
Edward Love (University of Oxford and University of Heidelberg)
3:00pm A Wizard’s Spell, a Priest’s Ritual, a Pharaoh’s Duty? Deciphering Pharaoh Nectanebo’s “lekanomanteia” and Other Spells in the Alexander’s Romance
Philippe Matthey (Université de Liège and Université de Genève)
3:30pm Coffee Break
4:00pm Alcohol’s Magic in Antiquity or How to Be the Ass of Athens
Lucas Livingston (The Art Institute of Chicago)
TUESDAY, MAY 17
Chair, Morning Sessions: Marc LeBlanc (ISAW)
9:30am Revelatory Ingestion in Revelation: Hierophagy as Transformational Eating
Meredith J. C. Warren (University of Sheffield)
10:00am Interpreting God’s Words: The Performance of Oracles in Greek Comedy
Elena Chepel (University of Reading)
10:30am Coffee Break
10:45am Final Discussion
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please note that separate registration is required for each day of the workshop: May 16 (10:00am-4:30pm) and May 17 (9:30am-11:30am). To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp
The NYU Department of Philosophy and the New York Institute of Philosophy present
The Second Annual NYU Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
Friday and Saturday, May 13-14, 2016
5 Washington Place, Room 202
FRIDAY, MAY 13
10:00am Plato's Symposium on the Nature of Pursuits
Katja Vogt (Columbia University)
11:45am De Motu Animalium 7 on the Role of Reason in Action
John Cooper (Princeton)
1:15pm LUNCH BREAK
2:30pm Essence and Explanation in Aristotle
David Bronstein (Georgetown University)
4:15pm Aristotle's Hylomorphism in Metaphysics Theta
Mary Louise Gill (Brown University)
6:00pm RECEPTION
SATURDAY, MAY 14
10:00am Substantial Change and Alteration in Aristotle's Generation & Corruption I.4
Scott O’Connor (NJCU)
11:45am How Did Aristotle Understand Parmenides' Argument for Monism?
Tim Clarke (University of California, Berkeley)
1:15pm LUNCH BREAK
2:30pm The Structure of Aristotelian Motivation: Natural Virtue, Practical Wisdom, and the Case of the Social Virtues
Susan Sauvé Meyer (University of Pennsylvania)
4:15pm The Pitfalls of Perfection: Stoicism for Non-Sages
Brad Inwood (Yale University)
This workshop is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Marko Malink at mm7761@nyu.edu or Jessica Moss at jm5706@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
ARCE Lecture
Horus, Set and Israel: Egyptian Literary Reflections in a Biblical Mirror
Gary Greenberg (Independent Scholar)
Thursday, May 12, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Classics Department presents
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
Fluid Proofs: Dropsy as Argumentation in the Hippocratic Corpus
Calloway Scott (NYU)
Sex and the Psyche
David Konstan (NYU)
Thursday, May 4, 2016, 12:30pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
At the Intersection of Work, Economy, and Society: Cross-Industry Relations in the Roman World
Elizabeth Murphy (ISAW)
Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Iran Across the East/West Trade: Routes of Communication and Exchange, Products of Exchange, and Networks of Trade Circa 500-900 CE
Friday, April 22, 2016
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
9:30am Introduction and Opening Remarks: "Routes of Communication & Exchange, Products of Exchange & Networks of Trade circa 500-900 CE: Whither Iran?"
Parvaneh Pourshariati (ISAW)
10:00am Some Thoughts on the Northern Trade of Iran, Khorezm and Sogdiana, before the Samanids
Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University)
Discussant & Chair: Sören Stark (ISAW)
10:45am Coffee Break
11:15am Livestock on the Silk Road
Richard Bulliet (Columbia University)
Discussant & Chair: Roderick B. Campbell (ISAW)
12:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm The Slave Road? West Asian Slaves and Slavers at Turfan, 450-733
Jonathan Skaff (ISAW; Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant & Chair: Elizabeth Murphy (ISAW)
1:45pm Pearl Borders and Roundels Again: Central Asian Textile Patterns and Buddhist Art in the Northern Dynasties (386-589) in China and in Xinjiang
Annette Juliano (ISAW; Rutgers University, Newark)
Discussant & Chair: Judith Lerner (ISAW)
2:30pm Coffee Break
3:00pm Silk, Sasanians and Strategy: the View from Constantinople
John Haldon (Princeton University)
Discussant & Chair: Robert Hoyland (ISAW)
3:45pm Coins and Trade on the Silk Road
Michael Bates (American Numismatic Society)
Discussant & Chair: Richard Bulliet (Columbia University)
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Classics Department presents
Aristotle on Inquiry: A Workshop with Jim Lennox
The workshop is devoted to Jim Lennox's new book manuscript Aristotle on Norms of Inquiry.
Professor Lennox will kick off the discussion with an introductory presentation. Each of the following sessions is devoted to one chapter of his manuscript.
Friday and Saturday, April 22-23, 2016
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
10:00am Experience, Expertise and Induction: Aristotle on the Domain Specificity of Inquiry
Jim Lennox (University of Pittsburgh)
Jim Lennox (Pittsburgh)
12:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm Chapter 1: The Goal of Knowledge and Norms of Inquiry
Joshua Mendelsohn (University of Chicago)
Joshua Mendelsohn (University of Chicago)
3:15pm Chapter 2: An Erotetic Framework: The Posterior Analytics on Inquiry
Chapter 2: An Erotetic Framework: The Posterior Analytics on Inquiry"Marko Malink (NYU)
4:30pm Chapter 3: A Discourse on Methodos
Chapter 3: A Discourse on MethodosJoel Yurdin (Haverford College)
SATURDAY, APRIL 23
10:00am Chapter 4: Natural Science: Many Inquiries, One Science
Chapter 4: Natural Science: Many Inquiries, One SciencePieter Hasper (University of Indiana)
11:15am Chapter 7: The Soul: One Subject, Many Methods
Chapter 7: The Soul: One Subject, Many MethodsJessica Moss (NYU)
12:15pm Lunch Break
2:00pm Chapter 5: The Methodos of Nature
Chapter 5: The Methodos of NatureGregory Salmieri (Rutgers University)
3:15pm Chapter 6: The Methodos of Animals
Chapter 6: The Methodos of AnimalsClaire Bubb (NYU)
This workshop is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Marko Malink at mm7761@nyu.edu
The NYU Classics Department presents
'Everyday Poetry' in Greek Late Antiquity: Verse Inscriptions and Classical Paideia
Gianfranco Agosti (Sapienza University of Rome)
Thursday, April 21, 2016, 6:15pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China: History Unearthed from Tombs, IV
A Tang Dynasty Ally in War and Ritual: The Tomb of Pugu Yitu (635-678) in Mongolia
Jonathan K. Skaff (ISAW)
Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Global Eighth Century: A Comparative Assessment of Socio-economic and Political Developments in the Eighth Century CE Across Eurasia
Friday and Saturday, April 15-16, 2016
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
FRIDAY, APRIL 15
10:30 a.m. Introduction
Erik Hermans (ISAW)
Western Europe and Byzantium
10:45 a.m. The Political Economy of the Carolingian Empire
Jennifer Davis (The Catholic University of America)
11:15 a.m. Empire of the Five Seas: Byzantium in the Eighth Century
Michael Decker (University of South Florida)
11:45 a.m. Discussion
12:15 p.m. Lunch Break
The Caliphate and Central Asia
2:00 p.m. Ruptures and Continuities from the Umayyad to Abbasid Caliphate
Abigail Balbale (Bard Graduate Center)
2:30 p.m. The Heartland of Empires? Some Observations on the So-Called ‘Orkhon Tradition’ in Inner Asian Polities during the Eighth Century and Before
Sören Stark (ISAW)
3:00 p.m. Discussion
3:30 p.m. Tea Break
China and Japan
4:00 p.m. Economy and Society in Eighth Century Tang China: The Relationship between Metropolis and Provinces Reconsidered
Tineke D’Haeseleer (Princeton University)
4:30 p.m. Changing the Capitals: Imperial Peregrination in Eighth-Century Japan
Ross Bender (Independent Scholar)
5:00 p.m. Discussion
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
South Asia and Southeast Asia
9:00 a.m. Power, Belief, and Trade in Southeast Asia, Seventh to Ninth Centuries, Beginnings of the Charter States
John Whitmore (University of Michigan)
9:30 a.m. Transitional Eighth Century South Asia and Wider Indian Ocean Networked Communities
Kenneth Hall (Ball State University)
10:00 a.m. Discussion
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
Synthesis
11:00 a.m. From Scotland to Sumatra: Towards an Understanding of Simultaneous Developments across Eighth Century Societies
Erik Hermans (ISAW)
11:30 a.m. Final Discussion
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please note that separate registration is required for each day of the workshop: April 15th (10:30am-5:30pm) and April 16th (9:00am-1:00pm). To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Libraries present
Friday Afternoon Music Series
A Lecture-Recital on the Works of Andrew Norman featuring "A Companion Guide to Rome"
Speaker: Anne Lanzilotti (NYU)
Musicians: Aimee Niemann (violin), Alex Wong (viola), Aya Terki (cello)
Friday, April 15, 2016, 5:00pm
Avery Room
Bobst Library, 2nd Floor
70 Washington Square South
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kent Underwood at kent.underwood@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Gallery Talk: The Trade and Technique of Late Antique Textiles (second of two presentations)
Irene Soto (ISAW)
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
Please note that there is no seating available for this talk and that there will be no admittance to the galleries after the program has begun.
The NYU Classics Department presents
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
Treading the Path Untrodden: The Aesthetics of Novelty in Plautus’ Pseudolus and Casina
Emilia Barbiero (NYU)
The Singer's Shrine: Constructing Space for Poetic Immortality in Eclogue 5
Stephanie Crooks (NYU)
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 12:30pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China: History Unearthed from Tombs, III
Sogdians or Borderlanders? Part II: Death Rituals Revealed in Tombs
Jonathan K. Skaff (ISAW)
Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Formation of Cultural Memory: Ancient Mesopotamian Libraries and Schools and Their Contribution to the Shaping of Tradition and Identity
Friday April 8, 2016
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
10:00 a.m. Introduction: The Materiality and Presence of the Text as Artifact
Beate Pongratz-Leisten (ISAW)
10:30 a.m. Manufacturing Tradition & Textual Production in Third-Millennium Syria & Mesopotamia
Gonzalo Rubio (Pennsylvania State University)
11:30 a.m. Coffee Break
12:00 p.m. Mesopotamian Tablet Collections of the Second Millennium BCE: Speculations on the Flow of Textual Knowledge Outside of the Schoolroom
Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan)
1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. The Hands of Ba’lu-qarrad and Ba’lu-malik: Reconstructing Ritual Composition in the Diviner’s Archive at Emar
Daniel Fleming (NYU)
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. Medical Catalogues, Archives, and Libraries as Reflections of Canonicity
Mark Geller (Freie Universität Berlin)
4:30 p.m. Final Discussion
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Classics Department presents
A Brief History of Byzantine Slavery – 330-1453 CE
Noel Lenski (Yale University)
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 4:45pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
Excavations at Selinunte
Clemente Marconi (NYU)
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, contact the Institute of Fine Arts.
Aquila Theatre and GK ArtsCenter present
Sophocles' Philoctetes
April 6,7, 13, and 20, 2016
GK ArtsCenter
29 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
To purchase tickets, click here. Students, seniors and veterans can receive a 50% discount using codes STUDENT25, SENIOR25 or VETERAN25 upon checkout.
For more information, visit Aquila's website:http://www.aquilatheatre.com/home/ or call 914.401.9494
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China: History Unearthed from Tombs, II
Sogdians or Borderlanders? Part I: Lives Revealed in Epitaphs
Jonathan K. Skaff (ISAW)
Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies Program and the Dean of the College of Arts and Science presents
The Rose-Marie Lewent Conference - New Yorkers in the Land of the Pharaohs: Fieldwork in Egypt by New York Institutions
Thursday and Friday, March 31-April 1, 2016
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016
5:00 p.m. WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Matthew S. Santirocco, NYU
Ann Macy Roth, NYU
5:15 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Challenge and Achievement: Archaeology in Egypt Today
David O’Connor, NYU-IFA
6:15 p.m. PUBLIC RECEPTION
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
SESSION I: NYU IN EGYPT [Chair: Ann Macy Roth]
9:15 a.m. Excavating Mummies and Documenting Prisoner Statues:
The Discoveries of an NYU Student in Egypt
Tara Prakash, NYU-IFA
9:55 a.m. History and Myth at Abydos
Matthew Adams, NYU-IFA
10:35 a.m. The Abydos Temple of Ramesses II – Epigraphy, Conservation, and Restoration
Ogden Goelet, NYU and Sameh Iskander, NYU-ISAW
11:15 a.m. An Oasis City: A Decade of Excavations at Amheida
Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ISAW/Onassis Foundation USA
12:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
SESSION II: NEW YORK MUSEUMS IN EGYPT [Chair: Ogden Goelet]
1:00 p.m. Collecting and Excavating Egyptian Art for the Brooklyn Museum
Edward Bleiberg, The Brooklyn Museum
1:40 p.m. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Egyptian Expedition, 1906 to
the Present
Catharine H. Roehrig, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2:20 p.m. Metropolitan Museum Excavations at Middle Kingdom Sites:
Lisht and Dahshur
Diana Craig Patch, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
3:00 p.m. Exploring Egyptian Mastaba Tombs in New York and Egypt
Ann Macy Roth, NYU
This conference is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For more information, please contact the Center for Ancient Studies at ancient.studies@nyu.edu or at 212.992.7978
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
THE SEMINAR ON GREEK AND ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Archaeological Discoveries that Changed Greek History: The Athens Archaeological Society
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
The Archaeological Society at Athens and the Archaeological Society Foundation
Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
Archaeological Society at Athens: Excavations and Research
Angelos Chaniotis (Princeton University)
The Minoan Town at Akrotiri: A Brief Biography
Nanno Marinatos (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Mycenae: 140 Years
Dora Vassilikou (Athens Archaeological Society)
The New Mycenaean Palace at Iklaina and the Formation of the First States in Greece
Michael Cosmopoulos (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
The Sanctuary of Poseidon at Onchestos: Politics and Religion
Ioannis Mylonopoulos (Columbia University)
This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP call 212.992.5803
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Gallery Talk: The Trade and Technique of Late Antique Textiles
Irene Soto (ISAW)
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
Please note that there is no seating available for this talk and that there will be no admittance to the galleries after the program has begun.
The NYU Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, the American Friends of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, and the Yeshiva University Museum present
In the Valley of David and Goliath: Digging Up Evidence on the United Monarchy
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 6:30pm
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
212.294.8301
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Amanda Weiss (Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem)
Jacob Wisse (Yeshiva University Museum)
Alex Jassen (NYU)
Moderator: Jill Katz (Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University)
The Historical King David: New Light from Khirbet Qeiyafa Excavations
Yosef Garfinkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
How 66 Letters Make History
Shalom Holtz (Yeshiva University)
The United Monarchy: Rereading the Bible and the Archaeological Evidence
Lawrence H. Schiffman (NYU)
General Admission: $10
Seniors: $5
Free Admission with University ID and for Members of Yeshiva University Museum
For more information, email: afblmj@jksevents.com
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China: History Unearthed from Tombs, I
A Slave Road? Sogdian Merchants and Foreign Slaves at Turfan
Jonathan K. Skaff (ISAW)
Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Memory, Tradition, and Image Production in Ancient Mesopotamia
Beate Pongratz-Leisten (ISAW)
Thursday, March 24, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Classics Department presents
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sinon Says: Etymologising and Wordplay in Aeneid II
Celia Campbell (NYU)
Amicitia in Valerius Maximus
George Baroud (NYU)
Thursday, March 24, 2016, 12:30pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Through the Looking Glass: An Evolving Perspective on Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581) Buddhist Art
Annette Juliano (ISAW)
Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Brush Lecture (AIA)
Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Peoples Create and Conserve the Past
Patricia McAnany (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Monday, March 21, 2016, 6:30pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
NEW YORK AEGEAN BRONZE AGE COLLOQUIUM
Death in Bronze Age Pylos
Joanne Murphy (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Friday, March 11, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP call 212.992.5803
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
(Re-)Defining an Ancient Near Eastern Contact Zone: Northwest Arabia in the 2nd Millennium BC
Arnulf Hausleiter (ISAW)
Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Classics Department presents
Fighting for Rome in the Hellenistic Mediterranean: Foreign Soldiers in the Service of the Roman Republic
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, University of Oxford)
Monday, March 7, 2016, 4:45pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Classics Department presents
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
The Fifth Century Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus in Athens: The New Evidence
Peter Meineck (NYU)
Ovid's Make-Up World: The Kosmos of Ars Amatoria
Del Maticic (NYU)
Friday, March 4, 2016, 12:30pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Territorial Barriers in Central Asia: Investigating the "Long Wall" of Bukhara (Uzbekistan)
Sören Stark (ISAW)
Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Center for the Humanities, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Program in Poetics and Theory present
Great New Books in the Humanities: Lucretius and Modernity
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 6:00pm
20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor
212.998.2301
Lucretius’s long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science, but despite the poem’s new found influence and visibility, very little cross-disciplinary conversation has taken place. This event will celebrate the release of a new edited collection, Lucretius and Modernity, which brings together essays by distinguished scholars.
PANELISTS: Liza Blake (University of Toronto); Brooke Holmes (Princeton University); David Konstan (NYU); Jacques Lezra (NYU)
MODERATOR: Matthew S. Santirocco (NYU)
This event is free and open to the public but an RSVP is required. To register, please visit the Center for the Humanities' website: http://nyuhumanities.org/events
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
THE SEMINAR ON GREEK AND ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Houses of the Wealthy in Roman and Late Antique Sepphoris
Zeev Weiss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Thursday, February 25, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, call 212.992.5803
The NYU Classics Department presents
Male Speech in Euripides' Trojan Women
Judith Mossman (Nottingham University)
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 6:00pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
THE SEMINAR ON GREEK AND ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Aphrodite and Her Footwear: Sandals and Slippers for a Goddess
Sadie Pickup (Christies, London)
Thursday, February 18, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, call 212.992.5803
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the American Research Center in Egypt present
Middle Kingdom Clappers, Dancers, Birth Magic, and the Reinvention of Ritual
Ellen Morris (Barnard College)
Thursday, February 18, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, click here.
The NYU Tisch School of the Arts presents
Combat Trauma Beyond Ancient Greece: Does Greek Drama Reflect a Society Dealing with the Stresses of War and Can It Be Used to Help the Veteran Community Today?
Peter Meineck (NYU)
Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 6:00pm
Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway, 3rd floor Drama Conference Room
For more information, email petermeineck@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Shaping Religious Space in Roman and Late Antique Sepphoris
Zeev Weiss (ISAW)
Tuesday, February 16, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
THE NEW YORK AEGEAN BRONZE AGE COLLOQUIUM
New Insights into Central Anatolia after the Fall of the Hittite Empire: Reconsidering the Early Stages of Phrygia and the Neo-Hittite Polities
Lorenzo d'Alfonso (NYU)
Friday, February 12, 2015, 6:30pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, email IFA.events@NYU.edu or call 212.992.5803
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
Power and Planning in the Ancient Maya City
Timothy Pugh (Queens College, CUNY)
Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, email IFA.events@NYU.edu or call 212.992.5803.
The NYU Center for the Humanities presents
The Sense Matters Working Group
Emanuela Bianchi (NYU)
The Sense Matters Working Group is an interdisciplinary working group at the NYU Center for the Humanities dedicated to exploring theories of sensation and materiality. Our gathering this month features an informal conversation on sensation and affect in ancient thought. Readings are as follows:
1. "A Queer Feeling for Plato: Corporeal Affects, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and Queer Receptions" by Emanuela Bianchi
2. Introduction, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 from Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses edited by Shane Butler and Alex Purves.
Friday, February 5, 12:30pm
721 Broadway, Room 612 (the Performance Studies Studio at Tisch)
212.998.2301
This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP and receive the readings, send an email to ep1241@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
AIA Lecture: Narrative Approaches to Counting Roman Amphitheaters
Sebastian Heath (ISAW)
Thursday, February 4, 2016, 6:30pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The A. S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies presents
Aeschylus' Oresteia: Agamnenon
A lecture and discussion on the upcoming production at LaMaMa
Zishan Ugurlu (Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts)
Thursday, February 4, 2016, 5:00pm
285 Mercer Street, 8th Floor
212.998.3979
For more information, contact Malvina Kefalas malvina.kefalas@nyu.edu
The NYU Classics Department presents
Long Table's Journey into Nights: the Classical Paratext and the Post-Classical Edition
Joseph Howley (Columbia University)
Thursday, February 4, 2016, 4:45pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Excavating One Man’s Lifeworlds in Early China
Jue Guo (ISAW)
Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture presents:
MEDEA (dir. Frans Zwartjes, 1982), 46 min/ FRAGMENTS (dir. Frans Zwartjes, n.d.), 9 min. - introduced by Schtinter
Film Screening
Monday, February 1, 2016, 6:30pm
721 Broadway, Room 670
This screening is free and open to the public; for more information, contact Sukhdev Sandhu: ss162@nyu.edu
The New York Classical Club presents
Roman Dining and Cuisine: What, Where, and How the Romans Dined
Saturday, January 30, 2016, 11:00am-5:30pm
Jurow Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
The Banquet in Etruria and Latium Vetus during the Iron Age and the Orientalizing Period
Delphine Tonglet (Université Libre de Bruxelles and The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Cuisine and Cultural Identity: Food and Drink among the Romans
John Donahue (College of William and Mary)
Laissez les bons temps rouler -- ergo vivamus, dum licet esse bene: Drinks and Dinner chez Trimalchio
Gareth Schmeling (University of Florida)
Dining in Style on the Bay of Naples: The Archaeolgical and Art Historical Evidence for the Ancient Roman Dinner Party
Maryl Gensheimer (University of Maryland)
Reevaluating the comissatio: a Deep Dive into Roman Drunkenness
Matthew Roller (Johns Hopkins)
This conference is open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit the NYCC website: www.nyclassicalclub.org/events.htm or email: nyclassicalclub@gmail.com
This lecture has been CANCELLED and will be rescheduled at a later date
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
ARCE Lecture:
The Other Woman: Encoded Messages in Egyptian Art
Phyllis Saretta (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
Fall 2015
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias 2015
Roland R.R. Smith (IFA) and Alexander Sokolicek (IFA)
Thursday, December 10, 2015, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, email ifa.events@NYU.edu or call 212.992.5803
The NYU Classics Department presents
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
The Formation of Rome's Imperial Governmental/Administrative/Legal System
Mike Peachin (NYU)
Reading Cicero in Petronius' Satyrica
Ari Zatlin (NYU)
Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 12:30pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The First Investigations of the Antikythera Mechanism: 1901-1910
Alexander Jones (ISAW)
Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Defense Architecture and Assertion of Social Order: Fortifications in Greece and Anatolia in the Age of the Palaces (ca. 1650-1200 BCE)
Çiğdem Maner (Koç University)
Monday, December 7, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Classics Department presents
A Workshop on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Friday, December 4, 2015
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
10:00 Is the Wise Man Identical with the Man Who Is Wise?
Jacob Rosen (Harvard University)
11:40 Aristotle on Complete and Incomplete Actions
Sukaina Hirji (Princeton University)
2:00 Aristotle on the Finitude of Essence
Adam Crager (UCLA)
3:40 Ontological Priority in Aristotle's Categories: Two Recent Proposals
Riin Sirkel (University of Vermont)
5:20 Aristotle on the Snub
Stephen Menn (McGill University/Oxford)
For more information, contact Marko Malink: mm7761@nyu.edu or Jessica Moss: jm5706@nyu.edu
The NYU Classics Department presents
Greek Lyric Genres: Reflections on Recent Theory
Andrew Ford (Princeton University)
Thursday, December 3, 2015, 4:45pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Empire, Personhood, and Child Sacrifice: A Case for Africa’s "Romanization"
Matthew M. McCarty (University of British Columbia)
Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center presents
Moving Bodies, Moving Time: Understanding Motion through Sight and Sound: Figura, Diagram and the Medieval Latin Translation of Plato’s Timaeus
Nancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University)
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 6:00pm
13-19 University Place, Room 222
212.998.8698
For more information, please visit the website: marc.as.nyu.edu or send an email to: mar.center@nyu.edu.
The NYU Office of the Dean for the Humanities presents
The Urban Humanities Colloquium:
Rethinking Inca Architecture
Stella Nair (UCLA)
Monday, November 16, 2015, 12:30pm
19 Washington Square North, First Floor
For more information, please call 212.992.7989
The NYU Department of Classics, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the College of Arts and Science, and the New York Classical Club and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States present
Mirabile Dictu: Experiencing the Wondrous in the Ancient World
Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
9:30 Breakfast
10:00 Welcome and Introduction
First Panel - Moderator: Calloway Scott (NYU)
10:15 Homeric Templates of Oionomanteia and Signs of Allegory
Alexander Forte (Harvard University)
10:45 The Cosmic Barrier: The Isthmus of Corinth in Imperial Literature
David Wright (Rutgers University)
11:15 Exotic Wonders in Pausanias’ Periegesis Hellados
Jody Cundy (University of Toronto)
Second Panel - Moderator: Phil Katz (NYU)
12:00 A New Typology for Greco-Roman Magic Dolls
Amanda Ball (University of Pennsylvania)
12:30 The Pygmy Motif as Somatic Spectacle: Somatic Dialogues in the House of Menander, Pompeii
Evan Jewell (Columbia University)
1:00 A Beautiful Defect: The Rising Popularity of Physically Deformed Slaves in Early Imperial Rome
Laurien Zurhake (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
12:30 Lunch
Third Panel - Moderator: Ari Zatlin (NYU)
3:00 Verbal Wonderworking: θαῦμα and θαυματοποιία in Plato, Isoacrates and the Attic Orators
Jessica Lightfoot (Oxford University)
3:30 Monstrous Sound: Theorizing the Monster through Voice in Ancient Greek Literature
Hannah Silverblank (Oxford University)
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Keynote Address: Looking for the Marvelous in Ancient Greek Magic
Christopher Faraone (University of Chicago)
5:30 Reception
For more information, contact nyugradconference@gmail.com
The NYU Classics Department presents
The Hyporchema and Ancient Genre Theory
Peter Agocs (University College London)
Thursday, November 12, 2015, 4:45pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
After the Hittite Empire:
Phrygian Identities and the Political History of Central Anatolia in the Early First Millennium BCE
Lorenzo d'Alfonso (ISAW)
Thursday, November 12, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents
Literacy in Ancient Israel
Aaron Demsky (Bar Ilan University)
Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 4:00pm
14A Washington Mews, 1st Floor
For more information, please call 212.998.8980
The NYU Office of the Dean for the Humanities presents
The Urban Humanities Colloquium:
Window Views and Urban Visions: From Mesopotamia to Manhattan
Daniel Jütte (Harvard Society of Fellows/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Monday, November 9, 2015, 12:30pm
19 Washington Square North, First Floor
For more information, please call 212.992.7989
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Ninth Annual Leon Levy Lecture
Scythian Elite Burial Mounds in the Eurasian Steppes: New Discoveries for a Deeper Understanding
Hermann Parzinger (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
Friday, November 6, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. To register, please click here.
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
THE NEW YORK AEGEAN BRONZE AGE COLLOQUIUM
A Continuing Conversation about Alalakh: New Fresco Fragments from the Level VII Palace
Aslihan Yener (Koc University)
Friday, November 6, 2015, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, email IFA.events@NYU.edu or call 212.992.5803
The NYU Classics Department presents
Agricolan Paratexts
Christina Kraus (Yale University)
Thursday, November 5, 2015, 4:45pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Defining Elsewhere: The Abstraction and Othering of the Liminal in the Ancient Near East
Gina Konstantopoulos (ISAW)
Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Department of Art History presents
Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom - An Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum
Adela Oppenheim (Curator, Egyptian Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 6:00pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 301
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information please call 212.998.8180.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Statues of Amun: The Post-Amarna Period from an Art Historical Perspective
Marianne Eaton-Krauss (Independent Scholar)
Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Medieval & Renaissance Center presents
The Poetics of Space in the Personal Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 6:00pm
13-19 University Place, Rm 222
212.998.8698
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information please call 212.998.8698 or email mar.center@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
A Sanctuary of the Hellenistic Period at Torbulok (Tadjikistan): Excavations in 2014 and 2015
Gunvor Lindström (German Archaeological Institute)
Monday, October 26, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), the Dean of the College of Arts and Science, and Vanderbilt University and The Vanderbilt Divinity School announces the
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
TELLING MESOPOTAMIAN HISTORY: BRINGING TO LIFE THE STORIES OF CUNEIFORM WRITING In Honor of Jack M. Sasson
Thursday and Friday, October 22-23, 2015
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015
5:00 p.m. WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Matthew S. Santirocco, Senior Vice Provost, Professor of Classics, and Angelo J. Ranieri
Director of Ancient Studies, NYU
Daniel Fleming, Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Skirball Department
of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
5:15 p.m. KEYNOTE SESSION: TELLING MARI HISTORY
What We Should Not Know… about the Mari Intelligence Corps
Jean-Marie Durand, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris; former Chair of
Assyriology, Collège de France
Glimpses of Aleppo
Dominique Charpin, Chair of Mesopotamian Civilization, Collège de France
The Last Days of Samsi-Addu’s Empire
Nele Ziegler, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
7:00 p.m. PUBLIC RECEPTION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015
SESSION 1: TELLING THE NEAR EAST [Chair: Mark Smith, Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU]
10:00 a.m. Voices From the Underground: Contributions to Mesopotamian History and Culture from the World of Unprovenanced Texts
David Owen, Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (emeritus), Cornell University
10:45 a.m. Literary Production at Times of International Contact: The Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lim
Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, NYU-ISAW
11:30 a.m. Biblical Studies and Assyriology: Episodes from the Early History of an Uneasy Relationship
Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Harvard University
12:15 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 2: TELLING THE NEAR EAST [Chair: Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Associate Professor of Western Asian Archaeology and
History, NYU-ISAW]
1:15 p.m. Which Way the Wind Blows: Atrahasis Meets Adapa
Sara J. Milstein, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of British Columbia
2:00 p.m. Zu-Ashtarti and the Mysterious Demise of Emar Monarchy
Daniel Fleming, NYU
2:45 p.m. Reflections
Jack M. Sasson, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies,
Vanderbilt University
This conference is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Center for Ancient Studies at ancient.studies@nyu.edu, or at 212.992.7978
The NYU Classics Department presents
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dreams, Memory, and the Physiology of Phantasmata in Aristotle
Claire Bubb (NYU)
In the Footsteps of Democedes—Greek Medicine Abroad
Calloway Scott (NYU)
Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 12:30pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, the Friends of FAI, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Etruscan Foundation present
Poggio Civitate
Erik Nielsen (Franklin University)
Monday, October 19, 2015, 6:30pm
24 West 12th Street
212.998.8739
This lecture is free and open to the public.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Emporia and the Re-birth of Towns in Anglo-Saxon England: Evidence from Ipswich
Pam Crabtree (NYU)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
THE NEW YORK AEGEAN BRONZE AGE COLLOQUIUM
Recent Work at Gournia, 2008 - 2015: Finds and their Implications for Minoan Crete
L. Vance Watrous (SUNY Buffalo)
Friday, October 9, 2015, 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public.
The NYU Classics Department presents
The Daughters of Asopus: Choral Dancing, Rivers, and the Catalogue
Deborah Steiner (Columbia University)
Thursday, October 8, 2015, 4:15pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The National Arts Club presents
Excavating Yeronisos: Twenty-Five Years of Discovery on "Holy Island" off Cyprus
Ambassador Vasilios Philippou (Consul General of Cyprus)
Joan Breton Connelly (NYU)
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 6:30pm
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
For more information, contact the National Arts Club at 212.475.3424 or info@thenationalartsclub.org
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The First Pagan Historian: Dares Phrygius and the History of Forgery
Frederic Clark (ISAW)
Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Digital Antiquity Coffee House
A Linked Ancient World Data Initiative (LAWDI) event
Friday, October 2, 2015
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
10:00 am Welcome and Introductions
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Documenting Cappadocia and the Digital Catalog of Cappadocian Ceiling Crosses
Alice Lynn McMichael (CUNY Grad Center)
11:30 am Measuring Allusive Density in Lucan's Bellum Civile Using Tesserae
Patrick Burns (Fordham)
12:00 pm Lunch (for registered participants)
12:45 pm How To Track Magic Through Time and Space
Jacco Dieleman (UCLA)
1:15 pm New Developments in Digital Mapping at ISAW and Beyond
Tom Elliott (ISAW)
1:45 pm Encoding and Identifying Ancient Mathematical Texts
Christine Roughan (ISAW)
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm Data Mining and Visualizing Cuneiform Texts
Émilie Pagé-Perron (University of Toronto)
3:00 pm GitClassics: Collaborative Editing of Early Modern and Renaissance Texts through GitHub
Charles McNamara (Columbia)
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Digital Humanities in Teaching and Research: Case Studies from Egyptology and the Rosetta Stone Project
Franziska Naether (ISAW)
4:15 pm Link Well and Prosper
Sebastian Heath (ISAW)
5:00 pm Reception
If you would like to attend, please email David Ratzan at david.ratzan@nyu.edu by noon, Sept. 30, 2015.
The NYU Classics Department presents
Lysias in Rome
Laura Viidebaum (NYU)
Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 4:45 pm
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Contact: Laura Santander lss372@nyu.edu
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Wizard Wunderkinder and Vengeful Women: Cult Practices in Ancient Egyptian Literature
Franziska Naether (ISAW)
Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
AIA Lecture: Arabia at the Crossroads of Cultures: The Oasis of Tayma
Arnulf Hausleiter (ISAW)
Monday September 28, 2015, 6:30pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
This lecture is free and open to the public; admission to lecture closes 10 minutes after scheduled start time.
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
THE NEW YORK AEGEAN BRONZE AGE COLLOQUIUM
Feasting and Founding on 'Mycenaean' Melos: A New Look at an Old Deposit from Phylakopi
Jason Earle (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Friday, September 18, 2015, 6:30pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
212.992.5803
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. Call 212.992.5803 to RSVP.
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.