Spring 2017
Events
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Event
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Location
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Thursday
Jan. 26
Geographical Portable Sundials: Reliable Instruments or Roman Fashion Statements?
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Saturday
Jan. 28
Greek Drama and Modern Realities
-Silver Center for Arts and Science, Jurow Hall
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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Tuesday
Jan. 31
Brahmins, Monks and Their Astral Lore
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Thursday
Feb. 2
Enigmatic Sites and Headless Nubians: Exploring the Eastern Desert of Late Roman Egypt
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Wednesday
Feb. 8
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
12:30pm-2:00pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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Thursday
Feb. 9
Economic Complexity in the 7th Century AD: From Small Assemblage to Big History
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall -
Entangled Tesserae: Looking at Classic Maya Political Society
6:00pm-7:30pmThe Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall -
Infernal Language and Bodies: Ovid and Dante
8:00pm-9:30pmDepartment of English
244 Greene Street, Room 306
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Friday
Feb. 10
Aztec Latinists: Classical Learning and Ethnohistory in 16th-Century Mexico
12:00pm-1:30pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access) -
Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus, 1600–1150 BCE: The Rise and Fall of a Trade Metropolis
6:00pm-7:30pmThe Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
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Wednesday
Feb. 15
The Great Leveler: Violence and Economic Inequality from the Stone Age to the Present
6:00pm-7:30pm20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
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Thursday
Feb. 16
Graduate Student Seminar Series
4:30pm-6:00pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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Tuesday
Feb. 21
Fantastical Space and Heroic Journeys in Mesopotamian Literature
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Friday
Feb. 24
Pergamon and the Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
10:00am-11:30amKimmel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square South, Room 905
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Monday
Feb. 27
Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Astrology
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall -
Cosmos, East and West
-Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Tuesday
Feb. 28
Inscribing Multilingual Texts in Egyptian Temples of the Graeco-Roman Period
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Friday
Mar. 3
Skeptical Aliefs? Making Sense of Sextus
10:00am-11:30amNYU Philosophy Department
5 Washington Place, Room 202
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Sunday
Mar. 5
Fifth Annual Regional Seminar in Ancient Judaism: A Graduate Student Conference
-King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
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Monday
Mar. 6
Fifth Annual Regional Seminar in Ancient Judaism: A Graduate Student Conference
-King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
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Wednesday
Mar. 8
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
12:30pm-2:00pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access) -
From Mycenaean to Classical Art: Evidence and Questions
6:30pm-8:00pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 300
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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Thursday
Mar. 9
Time Matters: Storage, Romanness, and Roman Imperialism
6:15pm-7:30pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access) -
Medicine and the Humanities from Ancient to Modern: The Varied Fortunes of Galen
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall -
Tales of the Moche Kings and Queens: The Lords and Ladies of the Northern Deserts of Peru
6:00pm-7:30pmThe Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall -
An Ovidian Reading of Chrétien de Troyes
8:00pm-9:30pmDepartment of English
244 Greene Street, Room 306
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Monday
Mar. 20
Globalising the Mediterranean's Iron Age
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Wednesday
Mar. 22
Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antique Egypt: The Struggle of Coptic for an Official Status, I
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Friday
Mar. 24
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium Veteran and Sacred Trees in Modern and Minoan Crete
6:30pm-8:00pmThe Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
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Monday
Mar. 27
Reassessing the Ptolemaic Settlement Policies: Another Look at The 'Poleis'
5:00pm-6:30pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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Tuesday
Mar. 28
New Term Excavations at Kültepe: The First International Trade Center in Anatolia
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Wednesday
Mar. 29
Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antique Egypt: The Struggle of Coptic for an Official Status, II
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall -
Jewish Culture and the Legacy of the Classical World
7:00pm-9:00pmCenter for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
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Thursday
Mar. 30
Shakespeare’s Ovidian Sources for Titus Andronicus
8:00pm-9:30pmDepartment of English
244 Greene Street, Room 306
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Monday
Apr. 3
Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
3:30pm-5:00pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 206
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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Wednesday
Apr. 5
Zeno of Elea Revisited
12:15pm-1:30pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access) -
The Rise of Legal Coptic and the Byzantine State
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Thursday
Apr. 6
And They Made a Pact Between Themselves: Female Financial Relationships in Roman Pompeii
6:15pm-7:30pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access) -
THE AGE OF EMPIRES: COMPARISONS AND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST IN ANTIQUITY
-The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
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Friday
Apr. 7
THE AGE OF EMPIRES: COMPARISONS AND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST IN ANTIQUITY
-The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
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Sunday
Apr. 9
THE AGE OF EMPIRES: COMPARISONS AND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST IN ANTIQUITY
-The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
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Wednesday
Apr. 12
Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar
12:30pm-2:00pmSilver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
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The Role of the Church in the Growth of Legal Coptic
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Thursday
Apr. 13
Were They Enslaved? Maya Figurines from Jaina and Beyond
6:00pm-7:30pmThe Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
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Friday
Apr. 14
Sirens and Centaurs
-19 University Place, First Floor
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Tuesday
Apr. 18
Landscapes of Death, Landscapes of Conflict (?)
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall -
Painters and Painting Practices in Ancient Egypt
6:00pm-7:30pmThe Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, Lecture Hall
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Friday
Apr. 21
Excavating the Ancient City of Tenea
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Tuesday
Apr. 25
The Mimesis of the Ancients
5:00pm-6:30pm19 University Place
First Floor Great Room
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Thursday
Apr. 27
The Wondrous Journey of Cicero's Head to Sardis
6:15pm-7:30pmNYU Classics Department
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access) -
Meet Madame Silsila: An Introduction and Updates from Gebel el Silsila
6:00pm-7:30pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall -
Remembering Ovidian Imagery, or Enough Text Already!
8:00pm-9:30pmDepartment of English
244 Greene Street, Room 306
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Friday
Apr. 28
The Core of a New Age: Northern Mesopotamia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age
9:30am-6:00pmInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
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Saturday
May. 13
Between Philosophy and Rhetoric
-Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 503
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
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Friday
May. 19
Ovid: A Graduate Symposium
1:00pm-7:00pmDepartment of English
244 Greene Street, Room 306
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Friday
Jun. 30
Medusa
-Villa La Pietra - NYU Florence
Courtyard, Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi, 1 50122 Firenze, ITALY
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