NYU SAS: Critical Conversations in Ancient Studies Series
Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 3:30pm EDT
Brooke McArdle (NYU; Classics)
Debby Sneed (California State University, Long Beach; Classics)
Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown; Jewish Studies)
Tara Wells (Duke University; Classical Studies)
Patricia Eunji Kim (NYU Gallatin)
"Beautiful and Queenly Bodies in the Hellenistic World"
Thursday, April 20, 2022, 5:00pm EDT
Ancient World Graduate Workshop Series - Joint Program of NYU SAS and ISAW Student Council
Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 5:00pm EDT
Rhiannon Pare (Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)
"In the Doghouse: Animals as Indicators of Domestic, Urban, and Suburban Space"
Abraham Lincoln Nutsugah (Philosophy and Classics, Univesity of Ghana)
"Distributive Justice Through Paideia in Plato's Republic: Implications"
Classics Department Series: Works in Progress
Rafaella Cribiore (Classics)
"Was the Practice of Frank Criticism an Optimistic Approach to Human Falliability?"
Tuesday, April 12, 12:30pm EDT
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)
"Sappho fr. 16 in the context of her ancient edition"
Thursday, March 24, 2022, 5:00pm EDT
Classics Department Series: Works in Progress
Rebekah Rust (Classics)
"Why is the Wild Lion Still and Silent? The Conceptual Metaphor of Thumos as a Lion in Euripides' Herakles 1210-1211"
Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 12:30pm EST
Ancient World Graduate Workshop Series - Joint Program of NYU SAS and ISAW Student Council
Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 1:00pm EST
Avery Warkentin (Department of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"An Archaeological Investigation of Trade Connections between Red Sea Ports and the Arabian-Persian Gulf Region"
Matthew Ong (Assyriology, UC Berkeley)
"Aspects of Creativity in the Assyrian Dream Book"
NYU Society for Ancient Studies: Fourth-Annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World
Friday, February 11, 2022, 9:00am-5:00pm EST
Keynote Speaker: Beate Pongratz-Leisten (NYU, ISAW)
"A Gesture, a Text, a Statue: How to Think About Text and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia"
Classics Department Series: Works in Progress
Ben Nikota (Classics)
"Theodotus' Reimagined Biblical World"
Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 12:30pm EST
Classics Department Series: Works in Progress
Mikael Papadimitriou (Classics)
"Merit and Morality in the Letters of Libanius: The Case of Ep. 359 and 366"
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 12:30pm EST
Ancient World Graduate Workshop Series - Joint Program of NYU SAS and ISAW Student Council
Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 5:00pm EST
Nenad Markovic (History, University of Novi Sad)
"Prosopographia sacerdotum Saiticorum: in search of priestly structures of the Saite-Persian Lower Egypt (664-332 BCE)"
Dan Zhao (Classics, University of Cambridge)
"The Politics of Freeing Slaves: The Manumission Laws of Augustus and Wang Mang Compared"
Hallie M. Franks (NYU Gallatin)
"Venus Envy: Ancient Sculpture, Modern Beauty"
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 5:00pm EST
Classics Department Series: Works in Progress
Ben Nikota (Classics)
"Theodotus' Reimagined Biblical World"
Tuesday, November 23, 2021, 12:30pm EST
NYU SAS: Critical Conversations in Ancient Studies Series
Friday, November 12, 2021, 6:00pm EST
Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky; Classics, African American and Africana Studies, Gender and Women Studies)
Jennifer T. Roberts (City University of New York; Classics and History)
Stephanie Wong (Brown University, History)
Biennial Graduate student Conference: Horror Vacui: Fear of Space in the Ancient World
Friday, November 5, 9:00am-5:30pm EDT
Keynote Speaker: Amy Russell (Brown University)
"On the Emptiness of Space"
Ancient World Graduate Workshop Series - Joint Program of NYU SAS and ISAW Student Council
Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 5pm EDT
Sinem Kılıç (Freie Universität Berlin, Philosophy)
"The Sound of Silence: On the Sonic Aspects in Plato's Cave"
Virginia Sommella (Bilkent University, Department of History)
"Ṭūr ‘Abdīn frontiers, new archaeological and historical perspectives on the Eastern border"
Classics Department Series: Works In Progress
Andrew Monson (Classics)
"The Limits of Despotism: Bureaucracy and Self-Governance in the Hellenistic East"
Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 12:30pm EDT
Classics Department Series: Works In Progress
Lorenzo Del Monte (Classics)
"Money and the State in Greece and the Near East: Two Faces of the Same Coin?"
Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 12:30pm EDT
SAS Annual Graduate Student Invited Lecture Series
Naila Razzaq (Yale University)
"At the Intersection of Historiography Exegesis: Ideologies of Language and Knowledge in the Book of Jubilee and Related Literature"
Thursday, October 14, 2021, 6pm EDT
Classics Department Series: Works In Progress
Meredith Millar (Classics)
"Complicating Archaeological Databases: Why do we use the language we use?"
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 12:30pm EDT
Ancient World Graduate Workshop Series - Joint Program of NYU SAS and ISAW Student Council
Tuesday, September 21, 2021, 5pm EDT
Dongming Wu (Columbia University, EALAC)
"Women in Charge and Empires in Change: The Lives of Non-Elite Women in the Qin-Han Transition in Ancient China"
Donna Jarjour (Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
"Dowry, 'Bride Price,' and the Dissolution of Marriage in Ancient Near Eastern Legal Codes and their Protections for Women"
Classics Department Series: Works In Progress
Del Maticic (Classics)
"Lucretius and Ovid on the Origins of Metallurgy"
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 12:30pm EDT