Ranieri Colloquia on Ancient Studies
The Center presents Ranieri Colloquia on Ancient Studies, which are free and open to the public.
Previous Ranieri Colloquia were:
- (Fall 2001) Revival of Ideas and Revival of Persons
- (Fall 2002) Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology
- (Spring 2003) Performing the Classics: Olympia Dukakis with comments by Daniel Mendelsohn
- (Spring 2004) From Athens to New York: Athletic Games/Civic Identity
- (Fall 2005) Conditions of Democracy: From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Iraq
- (Spring 2007) Herodotus Now: The Personal and the Political
- (Spring 2008) The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni
- (Spring 2009) Writing Science: Mathematical and Medical Authorship in Ancient Greece
- (Fall 2009) Legitimating Violence: Execution, Human Sacrifice, Assassination
- (Fall 2010) Archaeologies of Yeronisos off Cyprus: the Island beyond the Island
- (Fall 2011) Lucretius and Modernity
- (Fall 2013) Western Sicily Revisited: An Archaeology of Cross-Cultural Encounters
- (Spring 2015) Integrating Judaism and Christianity into the Study of the Ancient World
- (Fall 2015) Telling Mesopotamian History: Bringing to Life the Stories of Cuneiform Writing
- (Fall 2016) Classics and Cognitive Theory
- (Spring 2018) The Origins of the Arts: Expressive Culture of Early Homo sapiens
- (Spring 2019) Inequality: Ancient and Modern
- (Fall 2021) Work/Life: Institutions, Subjectivities, and Human Resources in the Roman World
- (Fall 2022) Before Emotion: A Conference on Conceptions of Affectivity in Pre-Modern Cultures
Rose-Marie Lewent Conferences in Ancient Studies
Each year the Center organizes a Rose-Marie Lewent Conference in Ancient Studies which addresses a topic within the general field. The Conference is free and open to the public.
Previous Lewent Conferences were:
- (Spring 1997) Last Things: Death and Immortality in the Ancient World
- (Spring 1998) A Future for the Past: Ancient Studies in the Modern University
- (Spring 1999) On Moderns on Ancients: Historicism and Philosophy in the Construction of Antiquity
- (Spring 2000) Postwar French Thought on Antiquity
- (Fall 2000) The Self: Ancient and Modern
- (Spring 2002) "Saving the City": War, Disaster, and Recovery in the Ancient World
- (Fall 2002) Just War, from Antiquity to Grotius
- (Spring 2004) Performing Justice
- (Spring 2005) Democracy, Education, and the Classics
- (Spring 2006) Enacting Medea: Theater, Opera, and Film
- (Spring 2007) "Finding a Place in an International World: How Ancient Peoples Viewed Themselves and Their Neighbors"
- (Fall 2008) Discourses of Republicanism
- (Fall 2009) Xenophon in a New Voice
- (Spring 2011) Combat Trauma and the Ancient Stage
- (Fall 2011) Performing Memory in the Ancient World: A Dialogue Between Past and Present
- (Spring 2013) Vergil's Aeneid and the Destiny of Italy: A Lecture by Alessandro Barchiesi
- (Spring 2014) Animals in Antiquity
- (Fall 2014) WarStories: Ancient and Modern Narratives of War
- (Spring 2016) New Yorkers in the Land of the Pharaohs: Fieldwork in Egypt by New York Institutions
- (Spring 2017) The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity
- (Fall 2017) The Dead Sea Scrolls at 70
- (Fall 2019) Persepolis, Then & Now
Additional Events
- (Spring 2007) Homer and His Worlds (graduate student conference with the Classics Dept.)
- (Fall 2008) Clytemnestra: Women and Power from Aeschylus to Martha Graham
- (Fall 2008) From Slavery to Freedom: Messene and the Cities of Messenia
- (Spring 2009) Democrats vs Republicans - Ancient Greek and Roman Style
- (Fall 2009) Honey on the Cup: Didactic Poetry in the Ancient World (graduate student conference with the Classics Dept., the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and ISAW)
- (Fall 2010) From Plato to NATO and Confucius to Mao: Did Ancient History Determine the Shape of the Modern World? (with NYUAD Institute)
- (Fall 2010) A Modern Aeneid: A Reading and Discussion of Olivier Kemeid’s Aeneid (with NYUAD Institute)
- (Fall 2010) The Context and Meaning of the Battle of Marathon: Why We Are Celebrating the 2,500 Year Anniversary (9/28/10)? (with the non-profit organization, Reading Odyssey)
- (Spring 2011) Arrian's Alexander the Great: In a New Voice
- (Spring 2011) A Modern Oedipus: A Reading and Discussion of Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched (with NYUAD Institute)
- (Spring 2011) Eurasian Archaeology workshop (with the Anthropology Department)
- (Fall 2011) The Death of Alexander the Great: Causes and Consequences
- (Fall 2011) Ancient Aitia: Explaining Matter between Belief and Knowledge (graduate student conference with the Classics Dept., the College of Arts and Science, ISAW, the New York Classical Club, and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States)
- (Spring 2013) Settling the West: Comparing Frontier Development between the New World and Ancient Greece (with the Classics Dept., the Humanities Initiative, and the Onassis Foundation
- (Spring 2013) Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage: A Conference in Honor of Omara Khan Masoudi (with ISAW, CNRS/NYU, the Center for the Study of Human Origins, and the Anthropology Dept.)
- (Spring 2013) Eleventh Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire: “Rome and the Worlds beyond Roman Frontiers” (with the Classics Dept., the Humanities Initiative, ISAW, Radbourd University Nijmegen, and the Dutch National Research School in Classical Studies)
- (Fall 2013) Why Does Formal Deductive Logic Begin with the Classical Greeks? (with Liberal Studies)
- (Fall 2013) Lying in and about the Ancient World (graduate student conference with the Classics Dept., the New York Classical Club, and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States)
- (Fall 2013) The Dynamics of Discovery: Unearthing Lost Histories of the Ancient World (with the Dean of the College of Arts and Science, the Dean for the Humanities, the Center for Teaching Excellence, the Classics Dept. and the Art History Dept.)
- (Spring 2014) The Sophistic Practice (a panel session at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, co-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Dept.)
- (Spring 2014) The Gods of Olympus: Travel and Transformation (with the Classics Dept. and the Dean for the Humanities)
- (Spring 2014) Taxation and Sovereignty: Explorations in Fiscal History from Antiquity to Modernity (with the Dept. of History and the Office of Global Programs)
- (Fall 2014) Posthuman Antiquities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference (with the Dept. of Comparative Literature, the Office of the Provost; the College of Arts and Science; the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science; the Humanities Initiative; the Office of the Dean for Humanities; the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; the Dept. of Philosophy; the Dept. of Classics; the Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication; and the A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies)
- (Fall 2014) Latinfest 2014: Claudian: De Raptu Proserpinae (with the Classics Dept.)
- (Spring 2015) A Conference on Archaeomusicology - Representations of Musicians in the Coroplastic Art of the Ancient World: Iconography, Ritual Contexts and Functions (with the Institute of Fine Arts)
- (Spring 2015) Annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (with the Anthropology Dept. and the Center for the Study of Human Origins)
- (Spring 2015) The Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and its Cultural World (with the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Dept.)
- (Fall 2015) Mirabile Dictu: Experiencing the Wondrous in the Ancient World (graduate student conference with 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)
- (Spring 2016) Book Party for Lucretius and Modernity (with Poetics and Theory and the Humanities Center)
- (Fall 2016) The Mechanics of Extraction: Comparing Principles of Taxation and Tax Compliance in the Ancient World (with ISAW and the Classics Department)
- (Spring 2017) Fifth Annual Regional Seminar in Ancient Judaism: A Graduate Student Conference (with the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Department, the Dean for the Humanities, the Center for the Humanities, GSAS, and the American Academy of Jewish Research)
- (Spring 2017) Between Philosophy and Rhetoric (with the Classics Dept. and the Philosophy Dept.)
- (Fall 2017) The Scribal Mind: Textual Criticism in Antiquity (with ISAW).
- (Fall 2017) Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds in Antiquity (graduate student conference with the Classics Dept.)
- (Fall 2017) Insularities: An Interdisciplinary Diachronic Investigation, NYU-PSL Workshop (with the Classics Dept.)
- (Spring 2018) The Relevance of Julius Caesar Today (with Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University and The Reading Odyssey)
- (Spring 2018) Conference on Talmudic Narratives (with the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Dept.)
- (Spring 2018) An Appetite for the Past (with ISAW, the Anthropology Dept., and the Nutrition and Food Studies Dept.)
- (Spring 2018) Future Philologies: Digital Directions in Ancient World Text (with ISAW)
- (Spring 2018) The Politics of Writing: Literary Form and Philosophical Engagement in Dio Chrysostom and the Early Empire (with the Classics Dept.)
- (Fall 2018) Cicero and Archimedes' Spheres (with the Society for Ancient Studies)
- (Fall 2018) Languages in Jewish Communities (with the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Dept.)
- (Fall 2018) Ancient History on Location, A lecture by Darius Arya
- (Fall 2018) Transforming Classics: 150 Years of Classical Studies in New York (with the Society for Classical Studies)
- (Spring 2019) Ovid and Art: A Symposium (with the Grey Art Gallery and the Art History Dept.)
- (Fall 2019) Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (with ISAW)
- (Fall 2019) Far From Godliness: Pollution in the Ancient World (graduate student conference with the Classics Department)
- (Spring 2020) Society for Ancient Studies: The Second-Annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World
- (Spring 2020) NYU Classics Department Annual Keynote Lecture: Greg Woolf, University of London (with the Classics Dept.)
- (Fall 2020) Topics for Challenging Times: Elections: Ancient and Modern
- (Fall 2020) Topics for Challenging Times: Monuments and Memory
- (Fall 2020) Topics for Challenging Times: Applied Ancient Studies: Outreach, Inclusivity, Community
- (Spring 2021) Topics for Challenging Times: Pandemics: In Antiquity and Beyond
- (Spring 2022) Antigone and Democracy (with Aquila Theatre's Warrior Chorus Program)