Fall 2016

Thursday, Sep 8 2016

Ancient Architecture in the Mississippi Valley: Monumentality Seen and Unseen

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Tuesday, Sep 13 2016

Herodes Atticus and the Greco-Roman World

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Wednesday, Sep 21 2016

Archaeological Research at Selinunte

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Thursday, Sep 22 2016

ARCE Lecture: The World of Egypt's Elephantine Island Recent Discoveries and New Approaches

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Wednesday, Sep 28 2016

Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Thursday, Sep 29 2016

Death and Taxes? Economy, Society and the Imperial State in Babylonia in the Sixth Century BCE

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron's Letters of Parasites

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Friday, Sep 30 2016

The Mechanics of Extraction: Comparing Principles of Taxation & Tax Compliance in the Ancient World

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Saturday, Oct 1 2016

The Mechanics of Extraction: Comparing Principles of Taxation & Tax Compliance in the Ancient World

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Thursday, Oct 6 2016

Columbia University's Excavation Project at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Onchestos

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Thursday, Oct 13 2016

The Fate of the Sacred Book of the Ancient Americas

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Thursday, Oct 20 2016

Workshop on The Roman Senatus Consulta

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Fluidity and Stasis in the Cityscape of Late Bronze Age Knossos

6:30pm - 8:00pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

The Religious World of Juvenal's Satires

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Friday, Oct 21 2016

In Stony Mirrors: Spectatorship, Performance, and Roman 'Historical Relief'

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Monday, Oct 24 2016

Terrace House 2 in Ephesos; Reconsidering Daily Life in the 3rd Century AD

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Tuesday, Oct 25 2016

Decrepit Rome, Your Morals Disintegrate, Your Walls Collapse!

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Thursday, Oct 27 2016

The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies: Classics and Cognitive Theory

Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Friday, Oct 28 2016

The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies: Classics and Cognitive Theory

Kimmel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square South, Room 802

Hic Sunt Dracones: Creating, Defining, and Abstracting Place in the Ancient World

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Thursday, Nov 3 2016

Tenth Annual Leon Levy Lecture: A People Without a Name or, Who Were the Hittites?

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

The Derveni Papyrus and the Fifth Century Enlightenment

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Friday, Nov 4 2016

Theater at Gallatin: Antigone

The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
1 Washington Place

Tuesday, Nov 8 2016

Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Thursday, Nov 10 2016

A Group of Inka Miniatures in Gold and Silver from the Far South Coast of Peru

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Women and the Public Sphere in Mycenaean Greece

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Ovidian Sex Objects: L’Ovide moralisé

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Casa Italiana Zerili-Marimò Library
24 West 12th Street

Tuesday, Nov 15 2016

Fruits of the Silk Road: The Spread of Agriculture through Central Asia

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Thursday, Nov 17 2016

ARCE Lecture: Imhotep Comes Forth by Day

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Dead Letters, Documentality, and Miscellaneous Aesthetics in Gellius' Attic Nights

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Friday, Nov 18 2016

A Prince of Pylos: The Tomb of the Griffin Warrior

6:30pm - 8:00pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Tuesday, Nov 29 2016

Late Antiquity in Early Modernity: Debating the End of the Roman World in Centuries Before Gibbon

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Wednesday, Nov 30 2016

The Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture: Style and Status in Early Athens

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Thursday, Dec 1 2016

Exhibition Lecture: Weeks, Months, and Years in Greek and Roman Calendars

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Manumission and Citizenship in Ancient Rome

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Monday, Dec 5 2016

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias 2016

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Wednesday, Dec 7 2016

Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Thursday, Dec 8 2016

To Have and to Hold: Captive Bodies and Captive Power in Ancient Maya Art

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Muhammad's Community and the Spread of Monotheism in Late Antique Arabia

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Ovid and Gender in Renaissance Literary Culture

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Casa Italiana Zerili-Marimò Library
24 West 12th Street

Saturday, Dec 10 2016

Workshop on Aristotle's Metaphysics

NYU Philosophy Department
5 Washington Place, Room 202

Sunday, Dec 11 2016

Workshop on Aristotle's Metaphysics

NYU Philosophy Department
5 Washington Place, Room 202

Tuesday, Dec 13 2016

A Cumulative Han Culture: Paradigms of Tradition and History in the Study of Early China

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall

Friday, Dec 16 2016

Late Mycenaean Transport Jars and Commodity Movement in Political Context

6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall

Fall 2016

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