The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Center for the Humanities, the Classics Department, and the East Asian Studies Department present
The Scribal Mind: Textual Criticism in Antiquity
Conference organized by Emily Cole (ISAW)
Thursday and Friday, September 21-22, 2017
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
Friday, September 22, 2017
Panel 2: The Culture of Ancient Textual Criticism
Moderator: David Ratzan (ISAW)
Respondent: Daniel Fleming (NYU)
9:30am-12:30pm
Come Together: Collection Tablets and Scribal Composition
Jay Crisostomo (University of Michigan)
Copyists, Compilers, and Commentators: Constructing the Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year and the Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases
Anthony Barbieri-Low (University of California, Santa Barbara)
The Fidelity of Slaves: Servility, Forensics, and the Reproduction of Text at Rome
Joseph Howley (Columbia University)
Panel 3: Ancient Textual Criticism in Society
Respondent: Jacco Dieleman (University of California, Los Angeles)
1:30pm-5:00pm
Who Cares about Textual Criticism (in New Kingdom Egypt)?
Niv Allon (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Shifting Spaces of the Text: Multimodality and Paratext at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud and Ketef Hinnom
Alice Mandell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Scribal Minds and Scribal Acts: Textual Production and Religious Practices in South Asia
Jason Neelis (Wilfred Laurier University)
Please check isaw.nyu.edu for event updates.
Registration is required at isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp Please note that separate registration is required for Day 1 (September 21), Keynote Lecture (September 21), and Day 2 (September 22).