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NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the American Research Center In Egypt present
Up The Nile In Style: Travel In Egypt During The Early 20th Century
David Moyer, Marymount Manhattan College
Thursday, July 8, 2010, 6:00 P.M.
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, between 5th and Madison Aves.
This
slide-illustrated talk recreates a "grand tour" to Egypt by L. Frank
Baum, well-known author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and his wife
Maud in 1906. They embarked from Hoboken, New Jersey on January 27
bound for Naples where they were transferred to another ship which took
them to Alexandria and then by train to Cairo. After a few days in
Cairo with visits to the Egyptian Museum and the Giza Pyramids, they
boarded a Thomas Cook steamer bound for Luxor and Aswan with other
stops along the way, an itinerary nearly identical to many Egypt tours
today. One of Baum’s many hobbies was photography and he recorded
their trip in numerous photos, now in the possession of his
great-grandson. Moyer contacted him and arranged to have them converted
to slides. The majority of these now 104 year-old sepia-tone images
have held up well and in this lecture, they are juxtaposed with Moyer’s
own photos of the same sites taken decades later, most from the same
perspective. The contrast between how the ancient monuments looked in
1906 and how they appear today (some badly deteriorated and others that
have had some restoration) makes for a striking visual presentation.
During the lecture, Moyer quotes many of Maud Baum’s humorous and
sometimes poetic remarks drawn from her letters written to family
members during the trip describing their experiences and her impression
of the monuments they visited.
This event is free and open to the public. Please R.S.V.P. to isaw@nyu.edu.
NYU'S Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the American Research Center in Egypt present
The Dead at Home: Domestic Features in Early Egyptian Cemeteries
Ann Macy Roth, New York University
Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
NYU'S Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The First Annual M. I. Rostovtzeff Lectures
Authorship, Tradition, and Performance in Early China: The Staged Author and the Rise of Literature
Martin Kern, Princeton University
Monday May 24, 2010 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
The figure of the author—with the text read as personal expression and
the author understood or imagined through his text—appeared with the
empire. Just when the totalizing imagination of political unity had
turned into reality, the author entered the scene as a figure of
individuality and rupture: a tragic hero standing defiantly against his
time who found himself exiled, punished, and driven into a suicide all
the while lamenting his fate in elaborate literary composition. This
figure—with Qu Yuan as archetype—became created, staged, and performed
in his text, fusing biography (in Sima Qian’s case even autobiography)
with his own authorial voice. The result was an author-hero consumed by
fate and emotion that were both the cause and the consequence of his
textual creation.
Reception to follow. Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu indicating date(s) attending.
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The status of Late Bronze Age ships within eastern Mediterranean societies
Caroline Sauvage, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 6:00PM
Lecture Hall
ISAW Building
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
The
Late Bronze Age is known for its vast maritime exchange system and is
generally described as a period in which the major powers of the time
(Egypt, Hatti, Mitanni and Babylon) maintained intense relationships
marked by frequent exchanges of official and diplomatic correspondence.
These letters, preserved in royal or official archives, include
descriptions of gift exchanges, diplomatic marriages, and state
concerns. Among the various goods traded, prestige items (copper,
ivories, glass, incense, wood) are dominant in our sources as
exemplified by the Uluburun shipwreck. Prestige goods were shipped
alongside open shape ceramics and perishables such as grains or dried
fish. Besides these products, texts also indicate that ships, or parts
of ships, were traded between kingdoms such as Egypt, Cyprus, and the
Levant.
Late Bronze Age ships are known from textual as well as
iconographical sources, and have been previously well studied from a
structural or technical point of view, either as documentary evidence
for naval construction, or as a general indication of well-developed
international maritime commerce.
Ships were essential for
maintaining long distance trade, which allowed participating states to
keep their status while acquiring prestige goods. Furthermore, their
exchange among the club of big powers confirms their special status.
However, their vital importance for coastal regions is apparently
contradicted by the surprising paucity of pictorial representations in
the eastern Mediterranean.
This talk will explore another aspect
of ships’ representations and textual attestations. If we consider
material culture to be part of a people’s identity, then a pictorial
representation echoes a careful selection process reflecting the
owners’ world-view and their place within society. Thus objects and
their decoration allowed categories of people to define their relations
with others, institutions, and the spiritual world. It also enabled
them to place themselves within or outside of traditions. Our aim is to
investigate the impact of these objects on society and the “value” that
could have been associated with ships, through the diffusion, context
and frequency of ships’ representations.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.
NYU'S Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The First Annual M. I. Rostovtzeff Lectures
Authorship, Tradition, and Performance in Early China: Writing and Peformance
Martin Kern, Princeton University
Monday May 17, 2010 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Texts in early China were not disembodied ideas. As material artifacts
of bronze, bamboo, stone, silk, and wood, they served in a wide range
of contexts that all, in different ways, were fundamentally
performative—from the early bronze inscriptions used in the ancestral
sacrifices to the presentation and recitation of bamboo writings at the
early imperial court, from royal proclamations and ancestral hymns to
exercises of political persuasion and self-cultivation, from
manuscripts buried in tombs to stele inscriptions erected on mountains.
More often than not, the rhetoric of performance was one of explicit
and highly codified remembrance: remembering and reconstituting not
just the past but the memory of the past.
Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu indicating date(s) attending.
NYU'S Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the American Research Center in Egypt present
The Temple of Ramesses II: Examining Religious and Political History through New Epigraphical Methods
Ogden Goelet, New York University
Sameh Iskander, Project Director, Ramesses II Temple Excavation
Thursday, May 13, 2010, 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
NYU'S Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The First Annual M. I. Rostovtzeff Lectures
Authorship, Tradition, and Performance in Early China: Texts as Rewritten Traditions
Martin Kern, Princeton University
Monday May 10, 2010 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
In the emerging early Chinese written tradition, texts, or parts of
texts, were constantly quoted and transformed. Uninhibited by notions
of authorship or original composition, existing texts reappeared in
ever-changing contexts and formations. Textual chains of
re-compositions and continuations only gradually settled into
intellectual traditions while still being punctuated by explicit
quotations and references to anonymous earlier texts. This culture of a
borrowed past produced as its principal icon the figure of Confucius.
Credited with the dictum “I transmit but do not create,” Confucius was
nevertheless cherished as a new source of traditional authority—ready
to be invoked as he had invoked the kings of old.
Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu indicating date(s) attending.
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Visiting Research Scholar Lecture Series
Muriel Debie, Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU'S Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The First Annual M. I. Rostovtzeff Lectures
Authorship, Tradition, and Performance in Early China: Texts Without Authors
Martin Kern, Princeton University
Monday May 3, 2010 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
For
the first eight hundred years of the early Chinese textual tradition,
the notion of the author is nearly completely absent. Instead, texts
are presented in a totalizing vision: poetry representing the different
states within the early Chinese realm, royal speeches from different
periods, sweeping divinatory, cosmological, and historical accounts,
and a wide range of philosophical and technical writings encompassing
the entire social order. In all these, the notion of the author was not
merely absent; instead, texts were composed in a way that rendered any
authorial presence entirely invisible. No author could be held
responsible for them, nor could a text be defined through its
connection to an actual persona.
Reception will follow. Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu indicating date(s) attending.
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
American Research Center in Egypt Lecture
Lanny Bell, Brown University
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU'S Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
New Evidence from Dunhuang, China and Central Asia for the Kangju: An Enigmatic Power on the Silk Road
Bi Bo, Renmin University, Beijing
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Kangju
was a powerful nomadic state or confederacy in Central Asia two
thousand years ago. It was the first state in that region to send an
embassy to Han China (206 BCE-220 CE), and maintained contact with
China for about five hundred years. For this reason, the most important
sources of information about Kangju are the Chinese historical texts.
Unfortunately, their accounts tend to be short and lack details, so our
understanding of Kangju and its relations with ancient China has been
rather limited.
This lecture will focus on some important new
inscriptions recently discovered. They will not only help us check how
reliable the Chinese historical sources are, but also tell us much more
about the Kangju and their contacts with China.
The first group
consists of a dozen wooden slips with Chinese writing found at the
Xuanquan site in Dunhuang, China and dated to the late Western Han
Dynasty (206 BCE-24 CE). The second group is a set of Sogdian
inscriptions from Kultobe in Kazakhstan, deciphered by Prof. N.
Sims-Williams. Combining the Chinese historical records with the newly
discovered inscriptions, we can contextualize the Kultobe inscriptions,
assign a likely date to them, and elucidate the history of Kangju from
the first to the fourth century CE (i.e., from the Chinese Han to the
Jin Dynasty).
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
NYU'S Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Earliest Semitic Literature: The Road to Ebla
Gonzalo Rubio, Pennsylvania State University
Monday, April 26, 2010, 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
The
discovery of thousands of well-preserved cuneiform tablets dating to
the mid-third millennium B.C.E. at Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in northwestern
Syria, has revolutionized our knowledge of the history of the Semitic
languages and the ancient Near East. The Ebla corpus includes
administrative and chancellery documents, as well as lexical lists,
incantations, a royal ritual, and a number of literary compositions.
Most of these compositions are written in the local Semitic language,
Eblaite. Both the language of Ebla and its early Semitic literature
belong to a cultural continuum that stretched from southern Mesopotamia
all the way to northern Syria. Across this extended scribal landscape,
early Semitic and Sumerian traditions underwent various processes of
textualization and cross-pollination. Such interactions materialized in
a literature whose archaic nature makes it as captivating as it is
intellectually challenging.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu.
NYU's Department of Anthropology presents
Uncommitted generations of the Neolithic transition: The Middle Danube Basin frontier zone in the Mid-Sixth Millennium cal BC
Eszter Bánffy, Archaeological Institute HAS, Budapest
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 2:00PM
Kriser Room
Anthropology Department
25 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003
NYU's Department of Classics presents
On Not Writing History
A.J Woodman, University of Virginia
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 6:00PM
Classics Conference Room
Silver Center, 5th floor
100 Washington Square East
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Quartier du Stade on late Hellenistic Delos: a case study of rapid urbanization
Mantha Zarmakoupi, Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Excavations at Amheida: The 2010 Season
Roger Bagnall, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Pamela Crabtree, Ellen Morris, Adam Prins, Lisa Saladino, and Jennifer Thum, New York University
Monday, April 19, 2010, 6:00PM
Lecture Hall
ISAW Building
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Amheida
(ancient Trimithis) is a large urban settlement in Egypt's Dakhla
Oasis, with remains from the Old Kingdom to late Roman times, where a
team sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New
York University, and by Columbia University conducts excavations each
winter. (See www.amheida.org for past seasons and general information).
The excavation is part of a semester program for undergraduate students.
Seven
members of the Amheida field team will present the results of fieldwork
carried out this January and February. From decorated temple blocks to
a sigma-shaped dining feature, from privatized streets to pillared
halls, from dietary habits to an enigmatic mention of copper sulphate,
there’s something for every taste. Students considering applying to the
program are particularly encouraged to come, but the lecture is open to
all.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.
The New York University A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies presents
The Point of Reading: Some remarks on Plato’s Phaedrus and Theaetetus
Peter Szendy, Paris X, Nanterre
Socrates’ Dream
Laura Odello, translator and author
Respondent
Iakovos Vasiliou, City University of New York
Monday, April 19, 2010, 5:30PM
Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South, Suite 907
New York, NY 10012
Reception to follow
For more information please contact Christos Birkitt at Christos@nyu.edu, 212.998.3979
The City University of New York presents
New York’s Women in Archaeology: Perspectives From the Field
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 9:45 A.M.
Hunter College
Faculty Lounge, Hunter West, 8th Floor
9:45 A.M. Morning Reception
10:00 A.M. Welcome
Host Dené Rivera
10:10 A.M. Keynote Speaker
Two Views on NYC Archaeology
Nan Rothschild, Columbia University, Barnard College
10:40 A.M. New Amsterdam: The Subordination of a Native Space
Anne-Marie Cantwell, Rutgers University
11:00 A.M. Africans in Dutch New Amsterdam and 17th Century New York
Diana diZerega Wall, CUNY Graduate Center
11:20 A.M. The Rise of Urbanism in Anglo-Saxon England: Evidence from Zooarchaeology
Pamela Crabtree, New York University
11:40 A.M. Q&A
12:00 P.M. Lunch Break
1:30 P.M. Keynote Speaker
Is It Trash or Is It Treasure?
Joan H.Geismar, Archaeological Consultant
1:50 P.M. A View From Across the Pond: Sacred and Secular Space at the Monastery of Psalmodi in Southern France
Susan Dublin, Hunter College
2:10 P.M. From Manhattan to Harappa: Urbanism in the Indus civilization
Rita Wright, New York University
2:30 P.M. ’Redcoats Halt Subway in New York’: The South Ferry Terminal Project in Battery Park
Diane Dallal, Director of Archaeology, AKRF Inc.
2:50 P.M. Pot Bakers Hill, the African Burial Ground, and 9/11: Stonewares from 18th Century Manhattan
Meta Janowitz, URS Corp
3:10 P.M. Q&A
3:30 P.M. Student Session featuring Brook Hanna and Kimberly Consroe
For more information, please contact Dené Rivera.
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Georgy Valdchev & Lora Tchekoratova
This
wonderful performance featuring Bulgarian musicians, violinist Georgy
Valtchev and pianist Lora Tchekoratova will showcase works by Eastern
European composers inspired by the musical traditions of Bulgaria,
Romania and Moldova.
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Thinking about mathematics through lists in ancient Mesopotamia: an Old Babylonian sample
Christine Proust, Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Deconstructing the Myth of the Great Mother Goddess: Masking and Breaking the Human Body in Old Europe
Peter Biehl, SUNY Buffalo
Friday, April 2, 2010, 5:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Exhibition Movie Screening of East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?) (2006)
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Thursday, April 1, 7:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU's Department of Classics presents
Etruscan Inscriptions on Ivory Plaques from Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Rex Wallace, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 6:00PM
Classics Conference Room
Silver Center, 5th floor
100 Washington Square East
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the Archaeological Institute of America present
The Delphic Oracle: Modern Science Examines an Ancient Mystery
John Hale, University of Louisville
Thursday, March 25, 6:30PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Ancient
Greek and Roman authors stated that Apollo’s sacred oracle at Delphi
was located at the site of a chasm or fissure in the rock; an emission
of sweet-smelling vapor or gas; and a sacred spring. The priestess who
pronounced the oracles sat on a tall tripod above the fissure where she
could inhale the vapor, thus triggering a trance in which she could
serve as a medium for the prophetic oracles. Most scholars have been
skeptical of these reports, denying that there had ever been a fissure
or a gaseous emission in the crypt of the temple. However, in 1995 an
interdisciplinary team studied the evidence from geology, chemistry,
and toxicology that related to the oracle. The results vindicated the
ancient sources. Dr. Hale and his colleagues have gone on to study
Greek oracle sites elsewhere in the Aegean and Asia Minor, where they
have found similar geological features.
Reception to follow
For more information, please click here.
Stevens Institute of Technology presents
Greece: Ancient Legacy & Modern Technology
Perspectives on Ancient Technology
Markus Asper, New York University
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 4:30PM
Stevens Institute of Technology
Babbio 122
Hoboken, NJ
For more information, email slevin@stevens.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Riding from Hwang-Ho to the Danube: New Light on the Origin of the Alans
Oleksandr Symonenko, Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the American Turkish Society present
Probing and Preserving the Past in Western Turkey: The Central Lydia Archaeological Survey
Christopher Roosevelt, Boston University
Monday, March 15, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Rediscovering the Inscriptions of Campa (Vietnam)
Arlo Griffiths, French School of Asian Studies
Monday, March 8, 2010, 6:00PM
ISAW Building
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
The
aim of this lecture is to inform the interested New York public on
recent developments in the study of the written records of ancient
'Indianized' polities in Southeast Asia. We will take as example the
epigraphic corpus of the ancient Campa kingdom(s), which lay in what is
now central and southern Vietnam. The study of Campa epigraphy involves
texts in Sanskrit and in the poorly known vernacular Old Cam language,
which belongs to the Austronesian language family. This field of
research once flourished in French colonial times, then all but died
out after WW II, and has only recently been resuscitated from a coma
that lasted for decades. Newly discovered inscriptions have started to
be published again, and a census of Campa inscriptions was undertaken
last September-October in museums and archaeological sites of Vietnam.
The aim of the census was to up-date the general inventory of Campa
inscriptions, whose last published installment dates to 1942, and to
record essential data of previously known and newly discovered
epigraphical documents. The presentation will discuss general aspects
of Southeast Asian epigraphy, as well as specific aspects of the Campa
corpus and the history of its study. Some new inscriptions, which throw
interesting new light on the history of Campa and its place within the
larger scale development of Southeast Asian history, will be selected
for close inspection.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please email isaw@nyu.edu.
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Exhibition Movie Screening of Reenactment (Reconstituirea) (1968)
Directed by Lucian Pintilie
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 7:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Huns of Asia: New Archaeological Discoveries in Russia
Sergey Minyaev, Russian Academy of Sciences
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Early Christianity in the Western Desert of Egypt: New Evidence from the 2006-2008 Excavations at Ain el-Gedida, Dakhla Oasis
Nicola Araveccia, Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU's Department of Anthropology and Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies present
Life, Love, and Death on the Estate of a Princess in 21st Century BCE Mesopotamia
David Owen, Cornell University
Monday, March 1, 2010, 3:30PM
25 Waverly Place
Room 706
For more information please email rita.wright@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Exhibition Movie Screening of Wasps' Nest (Cuibul de Viespi) (1986)
Directed by Horea Popescu
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the Archaeological Institute of America, New York Society present
Living forever in ancient Egypt
Edward Bleiberg, Egyptian Department, Brooklyn Museum
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 6:30 PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
Ancient
Egyptian religion required people to prepare for their deaths by living
a life of justice and providing themselves with specific objects to
furnish a tomb. Fulfilling these spiritual and material requirements
would allow them to live forever in the afterlife. To lead a life of
justice, the god Osiris had established clear rules which every
educated Egyptian tried to learn. But the materials needed to furnish a
tomb could be an impediment for people who were neither royal nor
noble. Egyptians used a variety of methods to economize on these
necessities. This talk examines both the spiritual and material
struggles Egyptians underwent in order to live forever.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Temple Treasury Records and Local Politics in Ur III Mesopotamia
Xiaoli Ouyang, Visiting Research Scholar
Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 6:00 PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
This
lecture targets a group of Umma texts dated to the Ur III dynasty (c.
2112-2004 BCE), probably the best documented period in Mesopotamian
history. Umma is the province with the largest number of texts,
accounting for almost one third of the 90,000 or so records from this
period. This group of texts documents the delivery of treasures, mostly
objects made of precious metals and stones, to temple households as
ex-voto gifts, and the subsequent registration and disbursement of
these objects.
A prosopographical study identifies among the
donors governors, mayors, agricultural administrators, doctors,
merchants, and scribes. The recipients of the gifts include priests,
top officials in Umma’s four districts, and shepherds.
Evidence
demonstrates that the precious items were separated from the general
votive offerings and kept in a treasury called “house of the god,”
under the custody of a special guardian. Not only did he disburse the
treasures for their sanctioned use, he also funneled a great number of
valuables from the temple treasury to Umma governors for undisclosed
purposes. This indicates that the governor may well have maintained a
strong control over the temple households in Umma, a scenario that
hearkens back to a much earlier historical period despite the
unprecedented degree of centralization going on in the Ur III kingdom.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Deconstructing the Myth of the Great Mother Goddess: Masking and Breaking the Human Body in Old Europe
Peter Biehl, State University of New York at Buffalo
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Crossroad, Periphery, and Frontier: The Central Asian Heartland from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age
Wu Xin, Visiting Scholar, ISAW
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Exhibition Movie Screening of Morometii (The Journey) (1987)
Directed by Stere Gulea
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 7:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
The NYU Department of English and the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium present
Latinities in England, 894-1135
A workshop in two parts
David Townsend, University of Toronto
Friday, January 22, 2010
New York University
13-19 University Place
10:30AM Registration, Room 223
11:00AM Morning Session, Room 229
Asser and Æthelweard
2:00PM Afternoon Session, Room 229
Goscelin and William of Malmesbury
Please
note: the event is open to pre-registered participants only; for
pre-registration and recommended reading, please contact Gerald Song (geraldsong@mac.com)
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Folk and traditional songs of Romania
Christine Gezzo & Company
Friday, January 22, 2010, 7:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Oak Library
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Late Copper Age in the East Balkans and the Case of Varna
Vladimir Slavchev, Varna Regional Museum of History
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Living in the Heights: Hilltop settlement and the changing landscape of northern Hispania during late antiquity
Damian Fernandez, Visiting Research Scholar, ISAW
Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact isaw@nyu.edu
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) present
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets
Dr. Yekaterina Barbash, Assistant Curator of Egyptian Art, Brooklyn Museum
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 6:00PM
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street (between 5th and Madison Avenues)
New York, NY
For more information, please contact ARCE.NY@nyc.rr.com.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Comparing Cultural Configurations: Astrology and Divination in Cicero's De divinatione and Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
Darrel Rutkin, Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please click here.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
"So
that all the cultivated lands of Bukhara would be inside those walls" -
New research perspectives on Western Central Asian oasis walls and
territorial fortifications
Soeren Stark, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Friday, December 11, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please click here.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Attic Pottery in Scythian Graves
Friederike Fless, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please click here.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Alexander the Great and Dionysios in India: The Greek Interaction with Early Indian Buddhist Art
Osmund Bopearachchi, French National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please click here.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Decoration, Astrology, and Empire: A Textile of Han China Unearthed from the Taklamakan Desert
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Department of Art History, Yale University
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please click here.
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America present
Theme Parks, Treasure Hunters, and Tribal Icons: World Heritage in an Age of Globalization
Dr. Neil Silberman, Center for Cultural Heritage, University of Massachusetts
Monday, December 7, 2009, 6:00 PM
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center, Room 101A
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
This event is free and open to the public.
The NYU Departments of Art History and Classics and the NYU/NYPL Re:Enlightenment Project present
'Venerable Monitors': Looking at the Acropolis of Athens in the age of Enlightenment
William St. Clair, University of London
Monday, December 7, 2009, 6:00PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science
Room 300
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
The Eurasian Currents of Transmission and Adaptation: Four Case Studies
Anthony Barbieri-Low, University of California - Santa Barbara
Monday, December 7, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please click here.
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
The Rise and Fall of Old Europe
David W. Anthony, Hartwick College
'Old
Europe' refers to a cycle of Copper Age cultures in southeastern Europe
that rose to a surprising level of complexity between about 5000-3500
BC and then collapsed. The astonishing art, solidly built towns and
villages, and female-centered domestic cults that defined Old Europe
disappeared. The decline of Old Europe is poorly understood and hotly
debated.
This lecture reviews competing theories of the collapse
and suggests that pastoral herding societies from the arid steppes of
Ukraine might have played a significant role by destabilizing the
agricultural economies of Old European towns.
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
For more information please click here.
The NYU Department of Classics presents
NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations and Field School Information Session for Interested Students
Joan Breton Connelly, New York University
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 5:30PM
Silver Center for Arts and Science
Room 300
The NYU Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences presents
"From Athens to Bagdad to Timbuktu": transmitting philosophy in the Islamic world
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University
Monday, November 30, 2009, 4:00 PM
4 Washington Square North, Conference Room, 2nd Floor
Please contact ebn216@nyu.edu for more information.
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Bringing the Frontier to the Center: Empires and Nomads from Achaemenid Persia to Tang China
Wu Xin, Visiting Research Scholar
Monday, November 30, 2009, 6:00PM
Lecture Hall
ISAW Building
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This
paper presents a comparative consideration of the ideological
strategies used by Achaemenid and the Tang empires to manage relations
with their subjects living in Central Asia and on the Central to
Eastern Eurasian steppe. For both empires, the nomadic communities to
the north were an especially important constituency that was
complicated by strong dynastic hereditary ties. In each case, a
conscious program specifically addressing this complex and mobile
community was developed and was expressed through the official language
(text and images) of the imperial court. An exploration of those
programs reveals striking parallels in their approach to maintaining
imperial control and cooperation.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.
Columbia University presents
Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias
R.R.R. Smith, University of Oxford
Friday, November 20, 2009, 2:30PM
603 Hamilton
Reception to follow
For more information, please click here.
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Birth of European Painting in the Sands of Egypt
Thomas Mathews, John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
This
lecture is a preliminary report on a project studying some 62 painted
panels from Roman Egypt, which are practically the only surviving
examples of this important artistic genre from the ancient world.
Representing the Egyptian pantheon in its final manifestation, they are
an important document of the history of religion. But the evidence also
looks forward to the continuance of panel painting in the medieval
world, introducing many of the formulae and compositions of Byzantine
icon painting, formulae which endured even to the Renaissance.
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please email isaw@nyu.edu.
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 – 3500 BC
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
The
Lost World of Old Europe brings to the United States for the first time
more than 250 objects recovered by archaeologists from the graves,
towns, and villages of Old Europe, a cycle of related cultures that
achieved a precocious peak of sophistication and creativity in what is
now southeastern Europe between 5000 and 4000 BC, and then mysteriously
collapsed by 3500 BC. Long before Egypt or Mesopotamia rose to an
equivalent level of achievement, Old Europe was among the most
sophisticated places that humans inhabited. Some of its towns grew to
city-like sizes. Potters developed striking designs, and the ubiquitous
goddess figurines found in houses and shrines have triggered intense
debates about women’s roles in Old European society. Old European
copper-smiths were, in their day, the most advanced metal artisans in
the world. Their intense interest in acquiring copper, gold, Aegean
shells, and other rare valuables created networks of negotiation that
reached surprisingly far, permitting some of their chiefs to be buried
with pounds of gold and copper in funerals without parallel in the Near
East or Egypt at the time. The exhibition, arranged through loan
agreements with 20 museums in three countries (Romania, Bulgaria and
the Republic of Moldova), brings the exuberant art, enigmatic ‘goddess’
cults, and precocious metal ornaments and weapons of Old Europe to
American audiences.
For more information please click here.
New
York University's Center for Ancient Studies, Department of Classics,
Graduate School of Arts & Science, and Institute for the Study of
the Ancient World present
The New York University Graduate Conference
Honey on the Cup: Didactic in the Ancient World
Saturday, November 7, 2009, 9:00 A.M.
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center, Room 101A
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
9:00 A.M. Coffee and Registration
9:45 A.M. Welcoming Remarks
10:00 A.M. POETICS OF DIDACTIC
The Poetics of Knowledge in Oppian’s Halieutica
Emily Kneebone, Cambridge University
Looking at ‘Atomistic’ Repetition in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius
Timothy Haase, Brown University
Teaching Stoic(s) Thinking
Orazio Capello, University of Southern California
11:30 A.M. Break
11:45 A.M. RECEIVING DIDACTIC
Fretful Birds and Philosopher Cows: Cicero’s Prognostica and Aratus’s Diosemeia
Christopher Polt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Didactic, Rhetoric and Genre: Reading Lucian’s ‘Conversations with Hesiod
Sarah Olsen, University of California, Berkeley
From Libya to Egypt: Lucan and the Limits of Didactic Poetry
Patrick Glauthier, Columbia University
1:15 P.M. Lunch
3:15 P.M. QUESTIONING GENRE
Simonides’ Protagoras Fragment and the Problem of Didactic ‘Genre’
Alexander Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Thank You for Being a Friend: Ovid’s Euxine Instructions to Friends at Rome
Whitney Snead, University of Cincinnati
Experto c(r)edite: Vitruvius’ New Didactic
John Oksanish, Yale University
4:45 P.M. Break
5:00 P.M. Keynote Address: Ways of Knowing and Teaching in Early Greek Poetry
Prof. J.S. Clay, University of Virginia
Reception to Follow
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Annual Leon Levy Lecture
The Historian in the Future of the Ancient World: A View from Central Eurasia
Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Much
of the making of the ancient world has to do with the movement of
peoples, and with the languages, genes, and material cultures they
carried from place to place. Central Eurasia from the Pontus to the
Baikal was a major theater of population movements from the dispersal
of the Indo-Europeans to the migratory waves of the early Middle Ages.
While often met with skepticism, the recent encounter between molecular
biology and genetic studies with linguistics, archaeology, and physical
anthropology has heralded radical changes in the study of the ancient
world, if nothing else because all these disciplines have consequently
been thrown into closer contact with each other. A dialogue has
developed among geneticists, linguists, archaeologists and
anthropologists over the past twenty-some years that, while sometimes
dissonant and acrimonious, has produced ideas and data that may prove
useful for historical research. How should the historian of the ancient
world view this development? Does the historian have a role to play?
This question will be discussed especially in relation to the study of
ancient Eurasian nomads.
For more information please click here.
New York University's Department of Classics presents
Conception and practice of Roman rule: the example of transport infrastructure
Anne Kolb, University of Zurich
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 6:00PM
Classics Department Conference Room, 5th floor
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Lecture Series
The
Horse is Man's Wings: Archaeological Science and the Changing Nature of
the Human-Horse Relationship in Central and East Asia in Prehistory
Mim Bower, Cambridge University
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall, Second Floor
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
The
relationship between horses and humans reaches far back into
prehistory. At first, horses were a source of human food, but at some
time in the past, perhaps during the process of domestication, horses
took on a much greater role. Not only were they ridden, giving humans
the possibility of traveling with great speed over large distances, or
harnessed in chariots, which could be used to show status and power,
they became venerated in a way that no other domestic animals have
been. During the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, all across central and east
Asia, in harness or with chariots, in groups, or alone, horses were
buried along with their owners and carers, sometimes with the most
amazing grave goods. Ultimately, an entirely new way of life developed
from these practices: equestrian pastoral nomadism. But the importance
of the horse in central and east Asia does not end in prehistory. The
horse remains a powerful symbol in many cultures today and is
associated with ideas of identity and nationhood.
In this
presentation, Dr. Bower will report on the results of a large
interdisciplinary archaeological science project which explores the
evolving relationship between horses and humans, from prehistory to the
present day using a wide range of cutting edge archaeological science
methods, including archaeogenetics (living population genetics and
ancient DNA), geometric morphometrics, paleopathology, zooarchaeology
and ethnography, while working towards an understanding of the changing
relationship between humans and horses across time.
For more information, please click here.
New York University's Department of Classics presents
How Ancient Empires Govern
Anne Kolb, University of Zurich
Michael Peachin, New York University
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Classics Department Conference Room, 5th floor
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
For more information please contact hoyerdan@gmail.com.
New York University's Institute of Fine Arts presents
Archaeologies of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space
Joan Connelly, New York University
Friday, October 23, 2009, 4:00pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
New York, NY 10075
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.
New York University's Department of Classics presents
Fragments of an Imaginary Past: Strategies of Mythical Narration in Callimachus' Aitia
Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thursday, October 22, 2009, 6:00PM
Classics Department Conference Room, 5th floor
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
For more information please contact hoyerdan@gmail.com.
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Lecture Series
The Temple of Osiris in Abydos during the Late Period
David Klotz
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall, Second Floor
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
For more information, please click here.
New York University's Department of Classics presents
When Tragedy is Funny
Fred Ahl, Cornell University
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 12:30PM
Classics Department Conference Room, 5th floor
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
For more information please contact hoyerdan@gmail.com.
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Lecture Series
A Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire? The View from New York
David Taylor, University of Oxford
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 6:00PM
ISAW Lecture Hall, Second Floor
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
The
overwhelming majority of the surviving epigraphic texts of the Late
Antique Roman provinces of Syria and Mesopotamia are written in Greek,
and in a number of recent books and articles it has been argued that
Greek was in fact the ordinary daily language of the local populations.
By examining examples of the full available range of ancient linguistic
evidence, and drawing on sociolinguistic theory about multilingualism
and diglossia, this thesis will be challenged, and a more complex
pattern of language usage will be sketched out. The consequences of
this for issues of local identity and culture will then be explored.
For more information, please click here.
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Sarcophagus East and West
Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Jas Elsner, Oxford University
Friday, October 2- Saturday, October 3, 2009
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This
conference focuses mainly on decorated stone sarcophagi from around the
second century BCE to the third century CE, when this type of burial
equipment not only continued to develop in the parts of Europe
dominated by the Roman Empire, but also enjoyed considerable popularity
in East Asia. Whereas the chronological and formal developments of each
regional tradition remain an important research goal, this conference
encourages comparative observations and interpretations of ancient
sarcophagi in broader geo-cultural spheres and more specific
ritual/religious contexts. It is hoped that by addressing these two
research objectives simultaneously, this conference will help open new
ways to think about the development of art and visual culture in a
broadly defined ancient world, where the art historical materials
available are subject to comparable methodological constraints both
from archaeological excavation and from known literary and historical
contexts.
For more information please click here.
 The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the
Rose-Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies
Xenophon in a New Voice
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 5:30 P.M.
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco
Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, New York University
Discussants
Paul Cartledge
Hellenic
Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of
Democracy, New York University; A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek
Culture, Cambridge University
David Thomas
Independent Scholar; Contributor, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika
Robert B. Strassler
Independent Scholar; Editor, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika
Phil Terry
Chief Executive Officer, Creative Good; Founder, Reading Odyssey
All
events are free and open to the public. For more information about the
colloquium, please contact the College Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100
Fordham University presents
Invective and Its Audience From Demosthenes To Libanius
Raffaella Cribiore, New York University
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 3:00 P.M.
Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus
LL 518
For more information, please contact Robert J. Penella at 718-817-3137 or rpenella@fordham.edu
 The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
Legitimating Violence: Execution, Human Sacrifice, Assassination
A conference in honor of Larissa Bonfante
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
5:00 P.M. Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, New York University
Larissa Bonfante and NYU
David Levene, New York University
Legitimating Violence and Caesar's Toga
Michèle Lowrie, University of Chicago
5:45 P.M. Violence and Cruelty in Ritual
Henk Versnel, University of Leiden
7:00 P.M. Reception
Friday, September 25, 2009
9:00 A.M. Cicero's 'Gentleman's Guide to Lynching'
Andrew Riggsby, University of Texas at Austin
10:00 A.M. How Republican was the Roman Republic?
Clifford Ando, University of Chicago
11:30 P.M. "These Are Men Whose Minds the Dead Have Ravished": Combat Trauma and the Tragic Stage
Peter Meineck, New York University
12:30 P.M. Lunch Break
1:30 P.M. Vows and Violence: The Dilemma of Judge Jephthah of Israel
Jack Sasson, Vanderbilt University
2:30 P.M. Blood is Seed: Martyrdom and the Fracture of Ancient Political Theology
Adam Becker, New York University
This
colloquium is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the
Ancient World, the Institute of Fine Arts, and the Departments of
Classics, Anthropology, and Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU.
All
events are free and open to the public. For more information about the
colloquium, please contact the College Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100 or
e-mail ken.kidd@nyu.edu
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Digging Up the Remnants of Scientific Graeco-Syriaca - Chiefly from the Works of Barhebraeus
Hidemi Takahashi, University of Tokyo and Yale University MacMillan Center
Monday, September 21, 2009, 5:00 P.M.
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
2nd Floor Seminar Room
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Space is limited, please RSVP to alexander.jones@nyu.edu.
For more information, please click here.
The NYU Humanities Initiative and the Department of Classics present
Anti-democratic voices in ancient Greece and Rome (and their legacies)
Janet Coleman, New York University and London School of Economics
Thursday, September 17, 2009, 6:00 P.M.
20 Cooper Square (at East 5th Street), Room 503
Professor
Coleman will discuss anti-democratic arguments found in the literature
of ancient Greece and Rome, to illustrate the ever-present voices of
potentially or actually dispossessed elites and their attitudes to
'ordinary minds'. Beginning with what we today take equality and
democracy to mean, she seeks to demonstrate the uniqueness of what
Athens had as democratic with its rather startling view of the
political AS emotional. She will contrast this with Roman republican
and imperial attitudes to the emotions, especially as influenced by
Stoic philosophy, and with reference to their views of the emotionally
undisciplined mob. Developing an argument that distinguishes between
social free speech and political free speech, she wants to indicate
that we owe more to the Romans than to the Greeks in that we have kept
alive some of the most prominent anti-democratic voices of that ancient
past, in our own.
Reception to follow.
Events of 2008-2009
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Excavations At Amheida In Egypt
Roger Bagnall, Director, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 6:00PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Amheida
is a vast archaeological site on the western edge of Dakhla Oasis in
Egypt. A team of researchers led by Dr. Roger Bagnall, Director of the
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU, began the Amheida
Project in 2001 with an intensive investigation and survey of the site.
One
of the most spectacular discoveries, near the centre of the town in
Area 2, is the house of Serenus, who was part of the city council in
the middle of the 4th century. The structure contains fifteen rooms,
one of which was painted with classical wall scenes. On the northern
wall, to the left of the doorway, a mythological scene depicts the
legend of Perseus rescuing the beautiful Andromeda who is about to be
devoured by a sea-monster, while to the right of the door is the
Homeric scene of the Return of Odysseus to Ithaca, from his long voyage
which brought him to Egyptian shores.
The site at Amheida will
be part of a long-term scheme for the Dakhla Oasis Project. Please join
us for a presentation and discussion on Amheida and its archaeological
significance.
This lecture is free and open to the public, please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu. For more information please visit www.nyu.edu/isaw/events.htm or contact the ISAW events office directly at 212.992.7818.
The Martha Graham Dance Company
Presented by Paul Szilard Productions, Inc. in association with Attract Productions.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 – Saturday, May 16, 2009
Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South)
New York, NY 10012
The
Martha Graham Dance Company will be performing two programs, described
below, throughout their engagement with the Skirball Center in addition
to a special gala repertory program on May 14, honoring Paul Szilzard.
Program A: Clytemnestra
This
classic tale of love, betrayal and murder at the time of the Trojan War
is reimagined by America’s greatest choreographer through the eyes of
Agamemnon’s queen, the all-powerful Clytemnestra.
Program B: Lamentation Variations, Sketches from “Chronicle,” Errand into the Maze, Maple Leaf Rag
A
program of diverse repertory ranging from Graham’s compelling rejection
of war in Sketches from “Chronicle” to her lighthearted spoof, Maple
Leaf Rag. Plus, three contemporary choreographers offer their take on
Graham’s iconic solo Lamentation.
Please click here for more information.
New York University's Department of Classics presents
Rewriting History from Inscriptions: New Perspectives on Hadrian and the Bar Kochba Revolt
Werner Eck, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History, Universität Köln
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6:00 PM
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
New York University's Department of Classics presents
"All shapes, all objects multiplied from his"- On Some Metamorphoses of Proteus
Filippomaria Pontani, University of Venice
Monday, April 27, 2009, 6:00 PM
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Another Persian Crisis: the Persepolis Fortification Archive in Chicago
Matthew W. Stolper, Professor of Assyriology, John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies in the Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago
Friday April 24, 2009, 12:00 PM
Lecture Room, Second Floor
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E. 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
In
1933, Oriental Institute archaeologists working at Persepolis, clearing
the ruined palaces of Kings Darius, Xerxes, and their Achaemenid
Persian successors, found tens of thousands of clay tablets in a
bastion in the fortification wall at the edge of the great stone
terrace. These documents were pieces of a single, complex system, the
Persepolis Fortification Archive, that proved—after decades of
painstaking work—to be the largest and most important single source of
information from within the Persian Empire on Achaemenid Persian
languages, history, society, religion and art. Now, the Archive faces a
legal battle that could well lead to its dismemberment and loss if it
is seized and sold, and disappears into the holdings of private
collectors around the world. Fueled by this crisis the Persepolis
Fortification Archive Project is a new phase in recording and
distributing the results of the study of the archive, responding to
emergency conditions with electronic equipment and media alongside the
conventional tool-kits of philology and scholarship.
These lecture is free and open to the public, please RSVP to isawevents@nyu.edu. Please click here for more information.
 The NYU Center for Ancient Studies Presents
The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
Writing Science: Mathematical and Medical Authorship in Ancient Greece Thursday, April 23, 2009
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible)
5:30 p.m. Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, New York University
5:45 p.m. Keynote Talk: Authorship in Science, Ancient and Modern
Reviel Netz, Classics, Stanford University
Mario Biagioli, History of Science, Harvard University
7:00 p.m. Reception
Friday, April 24, 2009
9:00 a.m. GREEK MEDICINE
Writing the Animal
Heinrich von Staden, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Ways of Organizing (Medical) Knowledge and Questions of Authorship in Late Antiquity: Synopsis, Synagoge, Paraphrase, Epitome
Philip J. van der Eijk, Classics, Newcastle University
Chair: David Sider, Classics, New York University
11:00 a.m. GREEK MATHEMATICS
Hellenistic Introductions to the Science of the Heavens: Three Definitions of Astronomy in the First Century BC
Alan C. Bowen, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science, Princeton
Who Were the Authors of the Athenian Accounts? Between Authorship and Anonymity
Serafina Cuomo, History, Birkbeck College, London University
Chair: Alexander Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. SCIENCE WRITING AND/AS LITERATURE
In Strange Lands: Situating Knowledge in Odyssey 10 and Airs, Waters, Places
Brooke Holmes, Classics, Princeton University
The Name and Nature of Science
Paul Keyser, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Chair: Markus Asper, Classics, New York University
All
events are free and open to the public. For more information about the
colloquium, please contact the College Dean’s Office at 212.998.8100 or
e-mail ken.kidd@nyu.edu
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Transformation of material culture in the Frontier of the Han Empire (205 BC to 250 AD)
Dr. Zhefeng Yang, Peking University, China
Thursday, April 16, 2009, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is open to the public.
For more information click here.
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Publishing Archaeological Data on the Web
Digital Publication and Linked Data at Troy
Dr. Sebastian Heath, American Numismatic Society
Open Context: Digital Dissemination of Field Research and Museum Collections
Dr. Eric Kansa, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 7:30 PM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
This event is open to the public.
Click here for more information.
The Egyptological Seminar of New York presents
Egyptian Landscape Painting: The Old Kingdom Mastaba Chapel as a Map of the World
Ann
Macy Roth, Clinical Associate Professor of Egyptology; Clinical
Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Art History, New York
University
Friday, April 3, 2009, 6:30PM
The Art Study Room, Uris Center
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Just
as New Kingdom temple decoration represents an attempt to model the
world schematically in a building, the decoration in some Old Kingdom
mastaba chapels suggests a kind of modeling more literally tied to the
surrounding landscape. Some scenes were apparently placed on the walls
to make complex allusions to space and time, creating an internal world
that has some startling correlations with the external one. This kind
of mapping of the landscape alternated and combined with more
independent cosmological models, and can sometimes also be seen in the
decorative programs of later periods.
The Columbia Center For Archaeology presents
A Brown Bag Research Seminar
Archaeological survey in Central Yunnan: Documenting the Rise and Fall of the 'Dian' Kingdom
Professor Alice Yao, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 4:00PM
951 Schermerhorn Extension
1200 Amsterdam Avenue
Click here for more information.
The Center for Ancient Studies and the Department of Classics present
Democrats vs Republicans--Ancient Greek and Roman Style
March 30, 2009, 5:00 PM
Jurow Lecture Hall, Room 101A
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Paul Cartledge
Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of Democracy
Janet Coleman
Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of Democracy
Moderators
Joy Connolly, Associate Professor of Classics
Andrew Monson, Assistant Professor of Classics
The Archaeological Institute of America New York Society presents
Celluloid Idylls: Swords, Sandals & Sex, or How the Movies Made My Career
A
full day of cinema and archaeology, featuring excerpts C.B.De Mille's
1956 The Ten Commandments and the entire Indiana Jones: The Last
Crusade.
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 10:00AM
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
General public: $8 for the day. All students free with ID.
Featuring:
Brian Boyd, Columbia Department of Anthropology
Rock Brynner, Western Connecticut State University
Antonia Lant, New York University Cinema Studies
Mark Rose, Archaeology Magazine
Moderator
Peter Herdrich, Senior Producer, Inside Edition, Chair, Media Task Force, AIA National Governing Board
Morning session, 10:00 AM
Using
two Biblical epics made a generation apart, the often parallel universe
of archaeology in the cinema will be explored with respect to how it
influences mainstream views of what archaeology actually is and how it
has influenced the lives and career choices of individuals who have
been deeply affected by both.
Rock Brynner, a historian and the
son of Yul Byrnner (Ramses), brings an inside view of the world of
Hollywood and along with Antonia Lant, a scholar of Egyptomania in
film, they will discuss De Mille's second Ten Commandments and
archaeology & film.
Afternoon Session, 1:00 PM
Screening
of Indiana Jones followed by Brian Boyd, a working archaeologist, and
Mark Rose, a specialist in Bronze Age Greece, working in media at
Archaeology Magazine, will further our discussion by exploring how
movies present landscapes and develop the idea of "cinemagraphic"
archaeology.
Panel discussion and Q&A, 4:10 PM
Sponsored by:
New York Council for the Humanities--A State Affiliate of the NEH
Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in the program do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.
The American Institute of Archaeology, New York Society
The American Institute of Archaeology, New York Society Board
The Eccola Foundation
Columbia Center for Archaeology (CCA)
NYU College of Arts & Science
NYU Center for Ancient Studies
Please click here for more information.
New
York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Israel Antiquities Authority present
Gold Glass Through The Ages
Saturday, March 28th, 2009, 10:30 AM
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, New York
A
Roundtable to be held at The Institute for the Study of the Ancient
World in conjunction with the current exhibition of an Early Byzantine
Gold Glass Panel from Caesarea, Israel, on display in the Mary and
Michael Jaharis Galleries of Byzantine Art at The Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
Participants:
Dr. Christopher Lightfoot
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Associate Curator, the Greek and Roman Department
Gold Glass at the Met: From Classical to Christian Times
Yael Gorin-Rosen
Head of Ancient Glass
Israel Antiquities Authority
Byzantine Gold-Glass from the holy Land
Dr. David Whitehouse
Director, Corning Museum of Glass
Early Islamic Gold Glasses
Moderator:
Dr. Helen C. Evans
Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Following
the roundtable, participants can go to the Metropolitan Museum for
further discussion of the Gold Glass Panel. On Sunday March 29 at 3:00
p.m., Yael Gorin-Rosen will give a presentation on "Ancient Glass in
the Holy Land". Both events free with Museum admission.
Please RSVP to isaw@nyu.edu
The Columbia University Center for Archaeology presents
The New York Archaeological Consortium
Friday, March 27 2009, 2:10PM
614 Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
2:10PM Introductory Remarks
Professor Terence D'Altroy, Columbia University
Professor Brian Boyd, Columbia University
2:20PM Systematic
Sampling in Intensive Surface Survey: Initial Results and Implications
of Archaeological Research at Guicheng, Shandong, China
Elizabeth Berger, Columbia University
2:45PM Death and the Primitive Modern: Stone Bodies in a 19th Century Welsh Graveyard
Darryl Wilkinson, Columbia University
3:10PM Continuity and Change in North Iceland - 9th to 19th centuries - Zooarchaeology at Skutustaðir
Megan Hicks
3:35PM Coffee Break
4:00PM The 2008 Field Season at Dun Ailinne, Ireland
Professor Pamela Crabtree, New York University
Susanne Garrett, New York University
4:25PM Historical insights on an Ancient Calabrian Landscape
Paula Lazrus, Saint John's University
4:50PM Recent Discoveries from Poggio Civitate (Murlo): The 2008 Field Season
Jason Bauer, Assistant Director, Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project
Dr. Anthony Tuck, University of Massachussetts Amherst; Director, Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project
5:15PM Discussion
5:30PM The Faces of Phlamoudhi: a photographic essay of life in a northern Cypriot village, 1972
Ian J. Cohn
5:50PM Closing Remarks and Reception
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the Department of Classics present
The Greek Historians and the Intellectual World of Rome: Josephus and his "Colleagues"
Jonathan Price, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Tel Aviv University
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 6:30 PM
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study presents
The Book of Job: Tragedy and Politics
Professor Peter Euben, Duke University
Professor George Shulman, New York University
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6:30PM
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
For more information please contact 212-992-7766 or nd35@nyu.edu
New York University's Fine Arts Society presents
Ritual Movement through Sacred Space: Procession, Dance, and Footrace within Greek Landscapes
Joan
Breton Connelly, Professor of Classics and Art History, New York
University; Director, Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus
March 11, 2009, 6:30PM
Room 300
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
New York University's Institute of Fine Arts presents
Marble for Athens and the Ancient World: Pentelicon and Hymettos
Dr. Hans Rupprecht Goette, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
Friday, March 4, 2009, 1:00 PM
The Loeb Room at the Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
All are invited, and students in the ancient field are encouraged to attend.
For more information, please call 212-992-5800
New York University's Institute of Fine Arts presents
The Portraiture of the Roman Emperor Caligula and Its Message
Dr. Hans Rupprecht Goette, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 5:00 PM
Institute of Fine Arts Lecture Hall
1 East 78th Street
All are invited, and students in the ancient field are encouraged to attend.
For more information, please call 212-992-5800
The New York Classical Club and New York University's Department of Classics present
The 2009 New York Classical Club Winter Conference
Reading Greek and Roman Elegy
Saturday, February 28th, 2009, 10:30 AM
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
10:00 AM On-Site Registration
10:30 AM On Some Aspects of Solon’s Re-use and Reception
Dr. Maria Noussia, Georgetown University
11:30 AM The Origins of the Theognidea: A Modest Proposal
Dr. Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
12:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM A Recitation by Dr. Stephen Daitz and Jerise Fogel
2:00 PM Why Sulpicia is as good as Sappho
Dr. Mark Buchan, Columbia University
3:00 PM Tibullan Didaxis
Dr. Jeri DeBrohun, Brown University
4:00 PM Ipsa Dixerat: Women’s Words in Roman Love Elegy
Dr. Sharon James, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Registration Fees
$20 student members
$25 member pre-registration (By Feb. 20th)
$35 non- members and on-site registration
For Information please contact Lawrence Kowerski at lkowersk@hunter.cuny.edu
New York University's Department of Classics presents
Deborah Steiner, Professor of Classics, Columbia University
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 6:00 PM
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
New York University's Department of Classics presents
Lavinia's Pallor
Joseph Reed, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin, University of Michigan
Thursday, February 5, 2009, 6:00pm
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
This talk will cover the position of Lavinia in Virgil's *Aeneid*, particularly in the teleology of the poem.
New York University's Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents
New
Imaging Technologies and Ancient Texts: Employing Digital
Documentation for the Study, Decipherment and Distribution of Texts
from the Ancient Near East and Elsewhere
Dr. Bruce Zuckerman,
Myron and Marian Casden Director and Professor of Religion and
Linguistics, University of Southern California
Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 12:30pm
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
2nd Floor Library
53 Washington Square South
Lunch is provided. Food will be served at 12:30 and the lecture will begin at 12:45.
Please RSVP to gsas.hebrewjudaic@nyu.edu or 212-998-8981
New York University's Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of Classics present
What once was lost has not necessarily been found: How to read (and not to read) an ossuary inscription
Jonathan Price, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Tel Aviv University
Ancient
ossuaries, bone caskets used for Jewish burial in the first centuries
BCE and CE, were of interest only to specialists until recently, when
the inscriptions on certain modest pieces were linked to the family of
Jesus of Nazareth. But what looks simple is not, really.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 4:30pm
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
Portrait Room, First Floor
53 Washington Square South
This event is free and open to the public.
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Nubia's Other Civilization: the forgotten glories of the medieval kingdoms
William Y. Adams
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 12:00 noon
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd Floor
(between 5th Ave. and Madison Avenue)
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by emailing isaw@nyu.edu
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU presents
Antiquities Wars
A conversation about loot and legitimacy
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 7:00pm
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center for Arts and Science
100 Washington Square East
James Cuno
Director, The Art Institute of Chicago
Author, Who Owns Antiquity?
Sharon Waxman
Formerly of The New York Times
Author, Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher, Princeton University
Author, Cosmopolitanism
Daniel Shapiro
International Cultural Property Society
President Emeritus
Free to the public. For more information: (212) 998-2101 or nyih.info@nyu.edu
New York University's Deutsches Haus pressents
The Gift of the Political: Schiller and the Greeks
David S. Ferris, Professor and Chair
Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder
Friday, November 14, 2008, 3:30pm
Deutsches Haus
42 Washington Mews
 The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, Poetics and Theory, and the Department of Classics present
The Rose-Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies
Discourses of Republicanism
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center for Arts and Science
100 Washington Square East
4:30 pm Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco, Seryl
Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, Angelo J. Ranieri Director
of Ancient Studies, Professor of Classics, New York University
5:00 pm Why Republics Now?
Moderator Joy Connolly, Classics, New York University
Panelists Richard Falk, School of Law, University of California, Santa Barbara
Suzanne Wofford, Dean, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Richard Nelson, playwright
6:30 pm Reception
Friday, November 14, 2008
9:00 am REPRESENTATION
Shakespeare's Republic: no 'ism
Oliver Arnold, English, Princeton University
Philoctetes in the Bastille
Elizabeth Wingrove, Politics, University of Michigan
Framer: Philip Lorenz, English, Cornell University
11:30 am ACTION
A Matter of Choice and Taste: The Republic and Its Representatives in Ciceronian Thought
Alexander Arweiler, Classics, Universität Münster
Hannah Arendt and the Republican Tradition
Patchen Markell, Politics, University of Chicago
Framer: Nadia Urbinati, Politics, Columbia University
1:30 pm Lunch Break
2:30 pm AESTHETICS
Is Ethics to Politics as Responsibility is to Republicanism? (Levinas's Poisoned Tunic)
Jacques Lezra, Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature, New York University
The Babylonian republic: idolatry in Flaubert's Sentimental Education
Barbara Vinken, Institut für Romanistik, Munich
Framer: Michèle Lowrie, Classics, NYU
Saturday, November 15, 2008
10:00 am Seminar with Graduate Student Presentations
Seminar and graduate presentations sponsored by the Program for Poetics and Theory.
All
events are free and open to the public. For more information, please
contact the College Dean's Office (212) 998-8100; email ken.kidd@nyu.edu
Click here to download the poster
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
The Annual Leon Levy Lecture
The History of the Sahara in Antiquity: Mirage or Scientific Project?
Professor Mario Liverani, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd Floor
(between 5th Ave. and Madison Avenue)
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by emailing isaw@nyu.edu
New York University's Skirball Center presents
The Meaning of Monotheism in the Hebrew Bible
Nathan MacDonald, Professor of Bible at Saint Andrew's University
Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 12:30pm
King Juan Carlos II of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
Lunch will be provided
Please RSVP to slf1@nyu.edu
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Household and Family in Past Time: The Roman East and West
Sabine Huebner, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd Floor
(between 5th Ave. and Madison Avenue)
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by emailing isaw@nyu.edu
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Astralization of the Gods and the Concept of the Divine in Ancient Mesopotamia
Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Princeton University
Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd Floor
(between 5th Ave. and Madison Avenue)
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by emailing isaw@nyu.edu
New York University's Department of Classics presents
Inscribed Epigrams In and Out of Sequence
Peter Bing, Associate Professor of Classics, Emory University
Monday, November 10, 2008, 6:00pm
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Of Bricks and Bodies: Integrating history, archaeology and an anthropology of art in the study of the ancient Near East
Anne Porter, University of Southern California
Monday, November 10, 2008, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd Floor
(between 5th Ave. and Madison Avenue)
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by emailing isaw@nyu.edu
New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
East of Ur and west of Meluhha, or what Elam, Ansan, Dilmun, Magan, Marhasi and Simaski were up to in the late 3rd millennium BC
Daniel Potts, University of Sydney and The Institute for Advanced Study
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6:00pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, 2nd Floor
(between 5th Ave. and Madison Avenue)
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by emailing isaw@nyu.edu
New York University's Department of Classics presents
"Sex myths and stereotypes, from antiquity"
T. Corey Brennan, Associate Professor of Classics, Rutgers University
Monday, November 3, 2008, 6:00pm
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
The
aim of this talk is to examine some popular conceptions of sexuality
that emerged in the Greek and Roman world, and to see which dead-ended,
and which ones are still with us in one form or other today. Particular
attention will be paid to how the ancient Greeks and Romans mapped
quite specific sexual stereotypes onto various geographic areas, and
offer some explanations why they did so.
New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study presents
Penelope!
Featuring Ellen McLaughlin
Oct. 29-31 at 7 p.m.; Nov. 1 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
1 Washington Place
“Penelope”
is a music-theater piece featuring Ellen McLaughlin and a string
quartet with original music by Sarah Kirkland Snider. In the play, a
woman’s ex-husband appears at her door after an absence of 20 years,
suffering from brain damage. A veteran of a modern war, he doesn’t know
who he is and she doesn’t know who he’s become. While they wait
together for his return to himself, she reads him The Odyssey, and in
the journey of that book, she finds a way into her former husband’s
memory and the terror and trauma of war.
The event is free and
open to the NYU community ($10 for the general public), but tickets are
required for entry. For more information, call 212.998.4941.
New York University's Department of Classics and Department of Hellenic Studies present
Classicism, Primitivism, and Modernist Performance
Professor Olga Taxidou, Senior Lecturer in Drama, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 7:00pm
5 Washington Place, Room 101
New York University's Department of Classics presents
Ancient Education: the Papyri versus the Literary Sources
Raffaella Cribiore, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:15pm
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
This
talk covers the various levels of Greek education (from primary to
rhetorical) in a very long period, about 10 centuries between the
Hellenistic period and the Arab conquest of Egypt in the seventh
century AD. I intend to show how the papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt
illuminate and clarify what the literary sources have handed down to
us. I will mostly treat this long period as a continuum, in which the
basic lines of education remained unchanged, but I will point to some
subtle changes that sometimes took place. In this presentation there
will be plenty of images from papyri, sherds, tablets and mummy
portraits. At the end I will go over the texts recently discovered in
the excavation of Amheida that is now sponsored by NYU.
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America present
Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity
Dr. John Pollini, Professor of Art History and History, University of Southern California
Thursday, October 16, 2008, 6:30pm
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center, Room 101A
100 Washington Square East
In
popular culture Christianity is remembered for the art, architecture,
customs, rituals, and myths that it preserved from the classical past.
It is rarely acknowledged, however, that Christianity also destroyed a
great deal in its conversion of the Roman Empire. The material
evidence for Christian destruction has often been overlooked or gone
unrecognized even by archaeologists. Professor Pollini’s talk examines
various forms of Christian destruction and desecration of images of
classical antiquity during the fourth to seventh centuries, as well as
some of the attendant problems in detecting and making sense of this
phenomenon. This talk is based on Professor Pollini’s present book
project, "Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical
Antiquity: A Study in Religious Intolerance and Violence in the Ancient
World," for which he received fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
New York University's Department of Classics presents
“Boubrôstis, Meat Eating and Comedy: Erysichthon as Famine Demon in Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter"
Chris
Faraone, Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor
in the Humanities and the College, University of Chicago
Thursday, October 16, 2008, 12:30pm
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503A
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics Department present
Serena Connolly
Assistant Professor of Classics, Rutgers University
Forming Roman Minds: Roman Society in the Distichs of Cato
Monday, September 29, 2008, 6:30 pm
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503A
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
The
Distichs of Cato are among the most widely translated (and thus
disseminated) of all Latin texts, yet few Classicists know this
collection well or indeed know of it at all. Comprising about 150
motalizing sayings, the Distichs offered easily digestible instructions
for life served in simple language. The collection offers guidance on
every aspect of life: family matters, professional and private conduct,
duties to others and relationships with those in power.
Given
the popularity of the collection and its likely audience, the Distichs
are a valuable source of insights into how a large section on Romans
viewed their society. A brief survey of entires that concern Romans'
relationships with each other and their attitudes towards law reveals
an emphasis on self-preservation and pragmatism. This collection
teaches community-minded behavior, but also gives lessons in survival.
 The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents
From Slavery to Freedom: Messene and the Cities of Messenia
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center for Arts and Science
100 Washington Square East
6:00 PM: Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco
Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science; Angelo Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies; Professor of Classics, NYU
6:15 pm: Keynote Talk: Ancient Messene: Recent Discoveries
Petros G. Themelis
Professor
Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of Crete at Rethymnon,
President of the Society for Messenian Archaeological Studies
7:15 pm: Reception
Friday, September 26, 2008
9:00 am: Ritual Movement through Sacred Space: Lessons from the Sanctuary of Artemis Ortheia at Messene
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics and Art History, NYU; Director, Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus
10:30 am: The Reluctant Liberators: Athenians and Messenians in the Fifth Century
Nino Luraghi
Professor of Classics, Harvard University
12:00 pm: Lunch Break
1:30 pm: Greatest of the Ancient Greeks? Epameinondas the Liberator
Paul A. Cartledge
Hellenic Parliament
Global Distinguished Professor in the Theory and History of Democracy,
NYU; AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University
3:00 pm: Venice and Messenia during the Middle Ages
Andrea Nanetti
Lecturer, School of cultural Heritage Preservation, University of Bologna
For
their generous support of this conference, we wish to thank the
Hellenic Parliament, the Prefecture of Messenia, the Greek National
Tourist Board, and the Hellenic Manpower Employment Organization
All events are free and open to the public. For information about the conference, please contact the College Dean’s Office
(212) 998-8100; email:ken.kidd@nyu.edu Click here to download the poster.
The Gallatin School presents
The Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series and The Classics and the Contemporary Series
Is the East-West Divide the Fault of the Greeks?
Professor Paul Cartledge
Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor, NYU
Professor of Greek History, Cambridge University
Fellow of Clare College
With a response from Professor George Shulman
Monday, September 22, 2008, 6:00pm
The Bronfman Center
7 East 10th Street
First Floor, Main Room
 The Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance presents
Clytemnestra: Women and Power from Aeschylus to Martha Graham
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center for Arts and Science
100 Washington Square East
5:00 pm: Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco
Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science; Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies; Professor of Classics, NYU
5:15 pm: Aeschylus' Rebellious Women
Helene Foley
Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University
5:45 pm: Clytemnestra in Context: Real Women, Religion, and Power in Ancient Greece
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics and Art History, NYU; Director, Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus
6:15 pm: Creating Clytemnestra: Women and Power
Ellen Graff
Former member of the Martha Graham Company; Assistant Professor of Dance, Columbia University
6:45 pm: Curating Graham for the New Audience
Janet Eilber
Artistic Director, Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
7:15 pm: Graham, Women, and Power
A panel discussion moderated by LaRue Allen
Executive Director, Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
7:30 pm: Light Buffet
8:00 pm: Selected Readings by the Aquila Theatre Company
Peter Meineck
Artistic Director, Aquila Theatre Company; Clinical Assistant Professor of Classics, NYU
All
events are free and open to the public. For further information about
the conference, please contact the NYU College Dean's Office:
(212) 998-8100; email:ken.kidd@nyu.edu
Click here to download the poster.
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics Department present
Dr. Margaret Graver
Professor of Classical Studies, Dartmouth College
Stoic Emotions
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 12:30 pm
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Events 2007-2008
The NYU Department of Classics presents
300 (The movie)
A video conference with Royal Halloway, University of London
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
12:00p.m.
7 East 12th Street, Suite 500
NYU Classics will be holding its second video conference with Royal Holloway, University of London. Love it or hate it, Zack Snyder's movie "300", based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, has had people crying "Sparta!" for over a year now. Rather than one lecture, this event will consist of a series of 10-15 minute "provocations" and responses -- first by Professors Edith Hall and Ahuvia Kahan from Royal Holloway, and then one from the NYU Classics Department.
The AIA New York Society presents
Yusef Komunyakaa
Professor, New York University Creative Writing Program
The Poets' Theatre II: Gilgamesh
Monday, April 28, 2008
Kaufmann Concert Hall
92nd Street Y
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Tickets: $18 all sections/ $10 age 35 and under
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and NYU professor Yusef Komunyakaa and dramaturge Chad Gracia have produced the first dramatic adaptation of the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh. Jane Hirshfield calls their work "fiercely brilliant in language and conception, uniquely stripped and centered for our own times". Scanlan's productions for the Poetry Center include Dante's Inferno and Samuel Beckett at 100: Three Plays.
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics Department present
Dr. Christos Tsagalis
Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Euripides' Erechtheus, CEG 594, and the Riddle of its Unknown Author
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
2:00p.m.-3:30p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics Department present
Dr. Anna Lamari
Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature, Arcadia University
Knowing a Story's End: Future Reflexive in the Narrative of the Argive Expedition Against Thebes
Monday, April 21, 2008
6:00p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics Department present
Dr. Christos Tsagalis
Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Intertextual Fissures: The Returns of Odysseus and the New Penelope
Thursday, April 17, 2008
6:00p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Judith Herrin
Kings College London
The Lure of Byzantuim: Medieval Western Attitudes to Princesses "Born in the Purple"
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
6:00p.m.
Salmon Room, 2nd Floor
15 East 84th Street
RSVP: isaw@nyu.edu
During the Middle Ages western European rulers displayed a constant awareness of Byzantine princesses ‘born in the purple’. Whenever they negotiated political alliances with the Eastern Empire, to be sealed by a marriage, they specified that they wanted such a princess. The epithet ‘porphyrogennitos’, purple-born, derives from the Porphyra, a purple chamber in the Great Palace of the emperors in Constantinople, where empresses gave birth to their children. In the mid-eighth century Emperor Constantine V built it as a device to perpetuate his ruling dynasty in Byzantium. It reflected his determination, as the son of a usurper, to bestow legitimacy on his eldest son and heir. Children of both sexes carried the title and princesses were regularly sought as ‘purple-born’ brides for western, Slavic and Russian rulers.
Part of the enduring attraction of such alliances was due to the spectacular Byzantine gifts that accompanied diplomatic embassies to all parts of the known world. Although neither Theophano nor Maria Agyropoulaina were in fact ‘born in the purple’, their lavish dowries confirmed western appreciation of Byzantine luxury objects: silks, enamels, ivories and jewelry. By the mid-eleventh century, however, Byzantine brides began to provoke anxiety, even condemnation, in the West. In this illustrated talk I will examine the reasons for this shift and set the purple-born princesses in the context of medieval international diplomacy.
The NYU Department of Classics presents
Clemence Schultze
Durham University, United Kingdom
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
6:30p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Clemence Schultze from Durham University, UK will be speaking on Pliny the Elder. Prof. Schultze's broad range of work includes Roman republican history, Greek and Roman clothing, ancient historiography, and the reception of antiquity in later literature and art. She has written papers on Dionysius of Halicarnassus, sections of whose work she is currently engaged in translating and annotating, on the elder Pliny, and on the influence of Greek myth on the Victorian novelist Charlotte M. Yonge.
The NYU Institute of Fine Arts presents
Olga Palagia
Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens
Monumental Sculpture from Samothrace
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
1:00p.m.
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
The IHARE Presents
Guenter Kopcke
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
9th Century B.C.E. Finds from Biblical Yavneh (Israel): The First Foothold of Greeks in the Near East
April 7, 2008
7:00p.m.
The JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
Cost: $15 Public; $5 students and professional colleagues
The lecturer discusses a selection of replicas of elaborate cult equipment ritually dumped and deposited, subject of a recent exhibition in the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. The find is astonishing in numbers, but even more in lively narrative quality or "image friendliness" reminiscent of works of Greek invaders elsewhere, and earlier, along the path of "Philistines". The later gradual Hellenization of the Near East may have seen anearly beginning more intense and persevering than hitherto asserted. An equation Philistines = Greeks is perhaps in good part justified.
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the Department of Art History presents
Anthony Snodgrass
University of Cambridge
The Parthenon Divided
April 7, 2008
6:00p.m.
Room 300
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Professor Snodgrass is the Chairman of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles and Laurence Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
The NYU Angle Saxon Studies Colloquium and the Medieval and Renaissance Center present
David Damrosch
Columbia University
A Rune of One's Own: Negotiating Latinity in Medieval Iceland and Colonial New Spain
Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:00p.m. (5:30p.m. reception)
13 University Place
Room 222
The NYU Department of Classics presents
Denis Feeney
New York University
Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:30p.m.
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Book discussion with Denis Feeney on his 2007 book "Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History". The book, which originated in Feeney's 2004 Sather Lectures, has been hailed by scholars as "extraordinarily ambitious and brilliantly realized" and "an enormous amount of specialized material accessible to a wide audience". Unlike the usual lecture series, the book discussion format allows more time for conversation, as well as the opportunity to vent all or some of the questions that usualy arise from book-reading. Please come prepared, and bring questions!
The AIA New York Society and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation present
Dr. Beryl Barr-Sharrar
Adjunct Associate Professor, NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies
New Reflections on the Derveni Krater and its Ancient Macedonian Context
Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:30p.m. (reception to follow)
Onassis Cultural Center - Olympic Tower Atrium
645 Fifth Avenue - Entrance on 52nd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues
RSVP: (212) 486-8314
The Derveni Krater is a large, elaborately ornamented bronze krater used as a sepulcher in an undisturbed 4th-century B.C. tomb near Thessaloniki in northern Greece. Dr. Barr-Sharrar discusses her dramatic new conclusions that the Dionysian images form a program alluding to the Underworld and the possibility of rebirth. Dr. Barr-Sharrar is the 2008 recipient of a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
The NYU Department of Classics and the Department of Art History present
Josine Blok
Professor of Ancient History and Classical Culture at Utrecht University
The Politics of Allotment: Facts and Thoughts on Selection by Lot in Ancient Athens
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
11:00a.m.
Room 303
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
For further information please contact joan.connelly@nyu.edu
The NYU Department of Classics presents
The Poetics and Theory Colloquium Series Spring 2008
Richard Sieburth
New York University
Traditore-traduttore: Translation and Treason at St. Elizabeths'
Friday, March 28, 2008
2:00p.m.
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Room 503
Richard Sieburth will examine the translations of Sophocles and Confucius undertaken by Ezra Pound while he was an inmate at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington, D.C.
The NYU Insitute for International Law and Justice and The Program in the History and Theory of International Law present
A Just Empire? Rome's Legal Legacy and the Justification of War and Empire in International Law
Commemorative Conference on Alberico Gentili (1552-1608)
March 13-15, 2008
Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Floor
Furman Hall
245 Sullivan Street
Please RSVP to:
Nicola Mare
maren@exchange.law.nyu.edu
Thursday, March 13
4p.m. - 6p.m.: Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki/NYU): "Natural law between moral principal and raison d'etat: understanding the pre-history of international law"
7p.m. - 8:30p.m.: Welcome Reception, Silvano Lattanzi, 905 Madison Avenue (transportation will be provided by NYU School of Law)
Friday, March 14
9a.m.: Dean's Welcome
Panel 1, 9:15a.m - 10:45a.m.
Roman Law and Roman Imperialism in Classical Antiquity and in Early Modern International Thought"
John Richardson (Edinburgh): "The Meaning of imperium in the last century BC and the first AD"
Clifford Ando (Chicago): "Studying the development of Roman doctrines on the laws of war"
Benjamin Straumann (NYU): "The Corpus iuris civilis as a source of law between nations in Gentili's thought"
10:45a.m. - 11:15a.m. Coffee Break
Panel 2, 11:15a.m. - 12:45p.m.
Alberico Gentili's De Armis Romanis
Diego Panizza (Padua): "Alberico Gentili's De Armis Romanis: the Roman model of just empire"
Kaius Tuori (Helsinki/NYU)" "The invader's remorse: Gentili and the riticism of expansion in the Roman empire"
1p.m. - 2p.m. Lunch
Panel 3, 2p.m. - 3:30p.m.
Law, War and Empire in 16th and 17th Century International Theory
Peter Schroeder (UCL): "Vitoria, Gentili, Grotius and beyond: from universal bellum iustum to iustus hostis"
Christopher N. Warren (Chicago): "Gentili, the poets, and the laws of war"
Partel Piirimae (Tartu) "Impact of Gentili's ideas on the 17th Century"
Commentator: Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
3:30p.m. - 4p.m. Coffee Break
Panel 4, 4p.m. - 6p.m.
Law, War and Empire in the 16th and 17th Century Legal Practice
James Whitman (Yale): "Medieval battles and the law of war"
Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg): "Confronting late 16th and early 17th centuries practice with the Gentilian doctrine on self-defense and just war"
Lauren Benton (NYU): "The many legalities of the sea in Gentili's Advocatio Hispanica"
Noah Feldman (Harvard): "Just war and civil law"
Benedict Kingsbury (NYU) and Alexis Blane (NYU): "Punishment and the Ius post bellum"
Commentator: John Witt (Columbia)
Saturday, March 15
Panel 5, 9:15a.m. - 11a.m.
Law in 18th Century European International Political Thought on War, Commerce and Empire
Petter Korkman (Helsinki): "Barbeyrac and the eighteenth century debate on human rights and capitalism"
Robert Howse (Michigan): "Montesquieu"
Emmanuelle Jouannet (Paris I): "The disappearance of the concept of empire"
Chair: Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki/NYU)
Commentator: Jennifer Pitts (Chicago)
11a.m. - 11:15a.m.: Coffee Break
Panel 6, 11:15a.m. - 1:15p.m.
Beyond Europe: Extra-European and Global Dimensions
David Golove (NYU) and Daniel Hulsebosch (NYU): "The status of the law of nations in the early American republic"
Liliana Obregon (Bogota): TBA
Ileana Porras (Arizona State): TBA
Jeremy Waldron (NYU): "The ius gentium"
Chair: Rahul Rao (Oxford)
Commentators: Karen Knop (Toronto) and Anne Orford (Melbourne)
The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents its Inaugural Exhibition
Wine, Worship and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani
March 12 - June 1, 2008
Free and open to the public
www.nyu.edu/isaw
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, Department of Art History, the Department of Classics, the Department of Anthropology and the Fine Arts Society presents
Professor Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
will deliver the Inaugural Lecture in the Ritchie and Charles Scribner Distinguished Lectures in the History of Art Series
The Destruction of the Past: Time to Say No
Monday, March 10, 2008
6:00p.m. (followed by reception)
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Lord Renfrew is the Disney Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, former Master of Jesus College, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
 The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies present
The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni
March 6-7, 2008
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco (Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science; Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies; Professor of Classics, New York University)
10:00a.m. - Session One: Rewriting the Bible
Erik Larson (Florida International University) - "On the Identification of Two Greek Texts of Enoch"
Mark S. Smith (New York University) - "In-between Texts": Biblical Texts, Inner-Biblical Interpretation, Second Temple Literature, and Textual Criticism"
Moshe Bernstein (New York University) - "The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity"
12:00p.m. - Lunch
1:30p.m. - Session Two: The Dead Sea Sect
Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers University) - "Language at Qumran"
Shani (Berrin) Tzoref (Hebrew University, University of Sydney) - "The Pesharim and the Pentateuch: Explicit Citations, Overt Typologies, and Implicit Interpretation"
Alexei Sivertsev (DePaul University) - "Sectarians and Householders"
4:00p.m. - Keynote Address
Lawrence H. Schiffman (New York University) - "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism and Christianity"
6:00p.m. - Reception
Friday, March 7, 2008
9:00a.m. - Session Three: The Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism
Alex Jassen (University of Minnesota) - "The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Study of Prophecy of Ancient Judaism"
Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University) - "Zoroastrianism and the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Joseph Angel (Yeshiha University) - "The Historical and Exegetical Roots of Eschatological Priesthood at Qumran"
11:00a.m. - Session Four: Judean Desert Texts
Judah Levkovits (Independent Scholar) - "The Copper Scroll (3Q15): A Reconsideration"
Baruch Levine (New York University) - "Judean Desert Documents of the Bar Kokhba Period: Epistolary and Legal"
Andrew Gross (University of Pittsburgh) - "The Judean Desert Sale Formulary: A Case Study in the Community and Innovation of Ancient Near Eastern Traditions"
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the NYU Department of Classics present
Barbara Kowalzig
Royal Holloway, University of London; Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University
Fishing for Fish Sacrifice: Local Economies and Religious Identity in the Greek Mediterranean
Monday, March 3, 2008
6:30p.m.
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Room 503
Current sacrificial theories tend to deny fish a place in the Cuisine du Sacrifice of the civic community. Fishing for Fish Sacrifice redresses these ideas by placing sacrifice of "seafood" in the wider context of Mediterranean religion and economy, and by tying it to religious communities other than the landed Greek polis - the multi-cultural world of seaborne communications, of travel and trade: it is from this milieu that we can capture evidence for feeding fish to the gods.
The Center for Archaeology at Columbia University presents
The New York Archaeological Consortium Spring 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
12:00p.m.-2:00p.m.
Columbia University
612 Schermerhorn Hall
Serverin Fowles (Barnard College)
"The Gorge Project: Iconology, Ethnogeography, and the Mighty Rio Grande"
Terence D'Altroy (Columbia University)
Christopher Small (Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
"Digital Modeling the Inca Heartland; Conservation and Research"
Mara Horowitz (Postdoctoral Fellow, Alalakh Excavations)
"Ceramics and Typologies at the Alalakh Excavation Project"
Dr. Anthony Tuck (Assistant Professor of Classics, UMass Amherst; Director, Proggio Civitate Archaeological Project)
Jason Bauer (Franklin College Switzerland-NYC; Assistant Director, Proggio Civitate Archaeological Project)
"Recent Discoveries from Proggio Civitate, Murlo"
Pam Crabtree (New York University)
"Feeding Medieval Cities: Faunal Remains from Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Ipswitch"
The NYU Department of Classics presents
The Poetics and Theory Colloquium Series Spring 2008
Barbara Vinken
New York University
Rome-Paris
Friday, February 29, 2008
2:00p.m.
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Room 503
Barbara Vinken will consider the Eusebian versus the Augustinian tradition in the return of Rome in French culture, culminating in Flaubert.
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the NYU Department of Classics present
David Levene
New York University
Oratorical Form and Rhetorical Effect in Tacitus' Histories
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
12:30p.m.
Fairchild Building, 7 East 12th Street
Suite 500
Professor Levene will inaugurate a new NYU Classics venue for lectures, via videoconference with Royal Holloway, London!
The Smithsonian Institute Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World present
Wine, Worship and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani
Through February 24, 2008
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute
1050 Independence Avenue SW
Washington D.C.
(202)633-1000
http://www.asia.si.edu
The exhibition presents spectacular gold, silver, ceramic vessels, jewelry, greek bronze sculpture, Greek and Colchian coins, and Greek glassware. Together these objects provide a rich and informative view of the ancient land of Colchis and its principal sanctuary city, Vani, a town in the Imeriti region of western Georgia. The exhibit was made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation, the Georgian National Museum, and the Ministry of Culture, Monuments Protection and Sport of Georgia.
The Fine Arts Society presents
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics and Art History, NYU
NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus): Cleopatra, Caesarion, and Boys' Rites of Passage
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
5:00p.m
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Room 300
Reception to follow
The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the AIA present
Larissa Bonfante
Department of Classics, NYU
Love and Gender in Ancient Etruria
Thursday, February 14, 2008
6:30p.m.
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
Please RSVP to: lr186@columbia.edu
The New York University Deparment of Classics presents
Andrew Riggsby
University of Texas, Austin
Playing the Blame Game
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Classics Seminar Room, Room 503
5:30p.m.
Three case studies (across genres from the middle Republic to high Empire) of a peculiar Roman strategy of gendered "bait and switch" in ethical criticism. Consideration of cognitive and cultural contributions to the force of this rhetoric.
The Department of Drama, The Department of Classics, and the Department of English's Callaway Lecture Series Present
David Wiles
Professor of Theatre and Head of Department at Royal Holloway University of London
The History of Theatrical Space; Telling it Through Pictures
Please note new time and location!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The Studio Theater
721 Broadway, 3rd Floor
4:30 PM
David Wiles is Professor of Theatre and Head of Department at Royal Holloway University of London. The Department of Drama and Theatre at RHUL is one of the largest theatre departments in the UK. David Wiles published_ A Short History of Western Performance Spac_e in 2003. He began his research career as a Shakespearean, and his books include_ Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse_ (1987). In recent years, his main focus has been Greek theatre, and in August he published his fourth book in this field:_ Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: from Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation.
The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean presents
Spaces of Justice in the Roman World
Columbia University, November 16-17, 2007 (612 Schermerhorn Hall)
Friday, November 16th
Session 1 - 9:15AM-12:45PM
9:15-9:30: William V. Harris (Columbia University) - Introduction
9:30-10:15: Bruce W. Frier (University of Michigan) - “Finding a Place for Law in the High Empire”
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30: Katherine E. Welch (New York University) - “Judicial Process and Public Visibility in the Greek Agora, Roman Forum, and in Pagan and Early Christian Basilicas”
11:45-12:30: Ernest Metzger (University of Glasgow) - “Having an Audience with the Magistrate”
12:45-2:15 Lunch
Session 2 - 2:15-6:20PM
2:15-3:00: Eric Kondratieff (Temple University) - “Rome’s Evolving Civic Landscape in Context: Tribunes of the Plebs and the Praetor’s Tribunal in 75/74 BCE”
3:15-4:00: Richard Neudecker (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom) - “Rome: Law and Order in Sacred Spaces”
4:00-4:20 Coffee break
4:20-5:05: Leanne Bablitz (University of British Columbia) - “A Relief, Some Letters, and the Centumviral Court”
5:20-6:05: Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University) - “A Space for Public Communication: Graffiti and the Basilica of Pompeii”
6:30 Dinner
Saturday, November 17th
Session 3 - 9:15-12:55PM
9:15-10:00: Livia Capponi (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) - “Spaces of Justice in Roman Egypt”
10:15-10:35 Coffee break
10:35-11:20: Jean-Jacques Aubert (Université de Neuchâtel) - “The Setting and Staging of Christian Trials”
11:35-12:20: John Bodel (Brown University) - “Kangaroo Courts: Rough Justice in the Roman Novel”
12:35-12:55: Francesco de Angelis (Columbia University) - Conclusion: “On the Fringes of the Lawsuit”
1:00: Lunch
The New York University Classics Department presents
Herodas’ 2nd Mimiambos: A discussion of Prof. Zanker’s forthcoming Herodas text & translation, as well as a critical interpretation of Herodas’ 2nd Mimiambos
Graham Zanker, University of Canterbury Christ Church, New Zealand
Wednesday, November 14, 5:30 pm
Classics Seminar Room
Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Room 503
The IHARE presents
God(s) in Translation: Cross-Cultural Recognition of Deities in the Biblical World
Mark Smith, New York University
November 12, 2007, 7:00 PM
Jewish Community Center
334 Amsterdam Avenue (76th Street)
7th floor
NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions Program in Educational Theatre presents
The Eumenides
by Aeschylus
Translation by Ted Hughes
Directed by Nan Smithner
Friday, October 26, 8pm
Saturday, October 27, 8pm
Sunday, October 28, 3pm
Thursday, November 1, 8pm
Friday, November 2, 8pm
Saturday, November 3, 8pm
Sunday, November 4, 3pm
Black Box Theatre
82 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
The New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the NYU Center for Ancient Studies present
The 2007 Brush Lecture in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Canoe Travel and Sea Trade of the
Ancient Maya
Dr. Heather McKillop, Lousiana State University
October 23rd, 2007, 6:00 PM
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
The New York University Classics Department presents
Public and Private in Republican Rome: Ambiguities and Peculiarities
Myles McDonnell, New York University
Thursday October 18, 5:30 pm
Classics Seminar Room
Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Room 503
The IHARE presents
What Have We Learned from Hebrew Inscriptions from the Biblical Period
Baruch Levine, New York University
October 15, 2007, 7:00 PM
Jewish Community Center
334 Amsterdam Avenue (76th Street)
7th floor
The Archaeological Institute of America and the NYU Center for Ancient Studies present
Portrait of a Priestess: The Hidden History of Women and Religion in Ancient Greece
Joan Breton Connelly, Professor of Art History, New York University
Tuesday, Oct. 9th 11:00 AM
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
To reserve call: 212-570-3949 or go to metmuseum.org/tickets
Tickets: $23
The New York University Classics Department Presents
New Excavations on the Acropolis of Selinus (Sicily)
Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
September 27, 2007, 5:30pm
100 Washington Square East
Silver Center, Room 503
New York University President John Sexton, Dean Matthew Santirocco, College of arts and Science and John Brademas, President Emeritus Present
What Zeno of Cyprus Started: Why Stoic Thinking on Justice is Important
The Inaugural Lecture by Professor Richard Sorabji, Cyprus Global Distinguished Professor
to celebrate the establishment of the Cyprus Chair in the History and Theory of Justice at New York University in the presence of
His Excellency Mr. Tassos Papadopoulos, President of the Republic of Cyprus
Monday, September 24, 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Eisner and Lubin Auditorium
Kimmel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square South
Reception courtesy of the Cyprus Federation of America to follow
Please respond to 212.998.6880 or cas.alumni@nyu.edu
by September 19, 2007
The Morse Academic Plan and The Center for Ancient Studies Present
The Conwest Colloquium Series
Greek Tragedy
Monday, September 10, 2007
John Hamilton Department of Comparative Literature
Plato
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Vincent Renzi, Associate Director of the Morse Academic Plan for the Foundations of Contemporary Culture
Early Christianity
Monday, September 17
Frank Peters, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Program in Religious Studies
Augustine's Confessions
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Phillip Mitsis, Department of Classics
Vergil's Aeneid
Monday, September 24
Joy Connolly, Department of Classics
This series is not open to the general public, but only to College faculty teaching in the general education program, the Morse Academic Plan.
Events 2006-2007
New York University Faculty Resource Center Summer 2007 Seminar
"The Origins of Political Values in Ancient Greece and Their
Continuation into Modern Political Thought"
Convener: Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University
June 11-15, 2007
New York University and the University of Notre Dame present:
The Dead Sea Scrolls: New Perspectives
Discussions with:
Moshe Bernstein: "Rewriting the Bible: Two Views from Qumran"
James VanderKam: "Intramural Calendar Conflicts"
Gary Anderson: "Forgive us our debts: The Lord's Prayer in Light of Qumran"
Lawrence Schiffman: "Modifications of Biblical Law in the Temple Scroll"
Chair: Professor John Meier, University of Notre Dame
Wednesday - May 30, 2007, 4pm - 7pm
100 Washington Square East
This program is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP to gsas.hebrewjudaic@nyu.edu / 212-998-8981.
NYU classics department presents
Professor Elton Barker, Oxford University to speak on
'The Greatest Kinesas, so to speak': Thucydides and the Tradition of War Narrative
April 19, 12:30 p.m. in the seminar room.
This is the last lecture of our Spring series.
New York University Department of Art History Presents
Bahadir Yildirim, Director, American Research Institute in Turkey
April 17, 6:00 pm
Lecture Room 301, Silver Center (Department of Art History)
Rose Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies Presents
"Finding a Place in an International World: How Ancient Peoples Viewed
Themselves and Their Neighbors"
A symposium to inaugurate the Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies
Program at NYU
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 5:00 pm
Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 9:00 am
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
NYU Department of Art History Presents
"Bybassos and Kastabos on Larian Chersonese"
Winfried Held, Privatdozent, Universitat Wurzberg
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
6:00 p.m. Lecture in Room 301, Silver Center (Department of Art History)
New York University Center for Ancient Studies, the NYU Classics
Department, the Alexander S. Onassis Program in Helenic Studies at NYU,
and the Greek Ministry of Culture present:
"Laughter on (and behind) the Face of Socrates"
Stephen Halliwell, University of St. Andrews
Friday, April 6, 2007, 5:00 pm
Classics Department Conference Room
New York University Center for Ancient Studies, NYU College of Arts &
Science, NYU Anthropology Undergraduate Student Association and
Archaeological Institute of America New York Society present:
"Dual Passions: Archaeology & Filmmaking"
Films and Discussion:
Queen of the Mountain by Martha Goell Lubell
Taypi Kala: Six Visions of Tiwanku by Jeff Himpele
Mr. Mummy with Bob Brier
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom and Lost Warriors of the Clouds by Amy Bucher
Moderater: Peter Herdrich, ABC Entertainment News Inside Edition
Saturday, March 31, 2007, 9:00 am
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies Presents:
"Herodotus Now: The Personal and the Political"
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 6:00 pm
Friday, March 30, 2007, 9:00 am
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
New York University Center for Ancient Studies and the NYU Classics
Department present:
"Homer and His Worlds: A Graduate Student Conference at New York
University"
Keynote Speaker: Egbert J. Bakker, Yale University
Saturday, March 24, 2007, 9:30 am
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
New York University Classics Department presents:
"Martial: The World of the Epigram"
Professor William Fitzgerald
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 6:00 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
Archaeological Institute of America New York Society and the Alexander
S., Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (US) present:
"Portrait of A Priestess: Women in Ritual in Ancient Greece"
Professor Joan Breton Connelly, New York University
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 6:30 pm
Onassis Cultural Center Atrium
645 Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street
American Institute of Antiquity, New York State presents:
"Time and the Antique: Linear Causality and the Greek Art Narrative"
Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 6:30 pm
Silver Center Room 300
100 Washington Square East
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium presents
"The New York Bronze Age Symposium"
Keynote Speakers: Dorothea Arnold, Robert B. Koel
Friday, February 23, 2007, 6:00 pm
NYU Institute of Fine Arts
One East 78th Street
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“The Christianization of the Late Roman City”
Professor Johannes Hahn, Institut fur Epigraphik at Munich University
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 6:00 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Department of Anthropology presents:
“Afghanistan’s Hidden Past:
Rediscovering the Collections of the Kabul Museum”
Fredrik Hiebert, National Geographic Society
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 4:55 pm
Silver Center Room 207
100 Washington Square East
Co-sponsored with the Kevorkian Center
New York University Department of Classics presents:
Fall Lecture Series
“Leering for the Plot: Vision and Narrative Desire in Apuleius’
Metamorphosis'”
Dr. Kirk Freudenburg, Professor of Classics, Yale University
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 4:45 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Institute of Fine Arts presents:
“The Latest Finds from Byzantine Amorium: A Preliminary Report on the
2006 Excavation Season”
Dr. Christopher Lightfoot, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, November 16, 6:30 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th St.
The New York University Student Fine Arts Club presents:
“Cleopatra's Cyprus: The NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations”
Joan Breton Connelly, Department of Fine Arts, NYU
Wednesday, November 15, 2006,
Reception 5:00 pm
Lecture 5:30 pm
Silver Center, Room 300
100 Washington Square East
New York University School of Law and NYU Department of Fine Arts present:
“Thieves of Baghdad”
Illustrated Lecture and Book Signing
Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, US Marine Corps Reserve
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 7:00 pm
Tishman Auditorium
Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
Bard Graduate Center presents:
“Cleopatra’s Cyprus: Excavations on late Hellenistic Yeronisos”
Joan Breton Connelly, Department of Fine Arts, NYU
Wednesday October 25, 2006,
Reception 5:45 pm
Talk 6:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center
38 West 86th St.
New York University Institute of Fine Arts presents:
“The First Palace at Knossos”
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Colin MacDonald, The British School of Archaeology at Athens
Friday, October 20, 2006, 6:30 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) and New York
University Institute of Fine Arts present:
“Inside the Adyton of an Archaic Greek Temple: Excavations in Kythnos
(Cyclades)”
Professor Alexander Mazarakis Ainian, University of Thessaly, Volos
Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 6:00 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
New York University Department of Anthropology presents:
“The Harappan Settlement on the Gomal Plain”
A Lecture and Brown Bag Lunch
Professor Ihsan Ali, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 12:00 noon
Kriser Conference Room (first floor)
25 Waverly Place
Events 2005-2006
The New York University Faculty Resource Network, in conjunction with NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies announce:
The Summer 2006 Seminar
Conditions for Democracy: From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Iraq
Convener: Kurt Raaflaub, David Herlihy University Professor of Classics and History, Brown University
June 12-16, 2006
The New York University Center for Ancient Studies presents:
Rose-Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies
“Enacting Medea: Theatre, Opera, and Film”
Moderator, Peter Meineck, Artistic Director of the Aquila Theatre Company
and Clinical Assistant Professor of Classics, NYU
“Medea in 431 BC: Passions and Politics”
Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, Bard College
“Medea in Opera: Cherubini and Jiri Bender”
Michael Beckerman, Professor of Music, NYU
“Medea on Film: Passolini, Jules Dassin, and Lars von Trier”
Herbert Golder, Professor of Classics, Boston University
Performance: Selected scenes from Euripides and Cherubini
The Aquila Theatre Company
Thursday, June 1, 2006, 5:00 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center 102
100 Washington Square East
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York University Center for Ancient Studies present:
“Pyramid Envy: Middle Class Tombs at Giza, Egypt”
Ann Macy Roth, Professor, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
Saturday, May 20, 2006, 11:00 am
Sunday, May 21, 1:00 pm
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York University Department of Classics and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
“Music for Monsters: Bucolic Evolution and Bucolic Criticism in Ovid's Metamorphoses”
Alessandro Barchiesi, University of Siena (Arezzo) & Stanford University
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 6:30 pm
19 University Place, Room 101
New York University Deutsches Haus and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
“Poetics & Theory Conference at New York University: “Life - Ordinary vs. Biological”
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 6:00 pm
Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews
Friday, April 21, 2006, 9:30 am
19 University Place, Room 101
New York University Institute of Fine Arts presents:
“Scythian Elite Burials in the Siberian Steppes: New Discoveries at Arzhan in Tuva”
Hermann Parzinger, President of the German Archaeological Institute
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 6:00 pm
Institute of Fine Arts Seminar Room
1 East 78th Street
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“Preservation of Monuments as a Medium of Memory in Antiquity”
Ortwin Dally, German Archaeological Institute
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 8:00 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“Caesar's Massilia: Historiographical and Narratological Approaches”
Christina Kraus, Yale University
Friday, April 7, 2006, 7:00 pm
Kriser Room
25 Waverly Place, 1st floor
New York University Department of Classics and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
“Divination as a System of Knowledge and Belief in Classical Greece”
Michael Flower, Department of Classics, Princeton University
Monday, March 27, 2006, 6:30 pm
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101A
100 Washington Square East
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“Mastering History: Caesar and his Civil War”
Cynthia Damon, Amherst College
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 5:00 pm
Classics Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“Tel Zayit and Writing the ABC's in the Age of Solomon”
Ron Tappy, G. Albert Shoemaker Professor of Bible and Archaeology, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Monday, December 12, 2005, 11:00 am
Cantor Film Center, Room 101
36 East 8th Street
New York University Center for Ancient Studies presents:
The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
“Conditions of Democracy: From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Iraq”
“Does Democracy Have a History?”
Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, NYU
“Before Democracy: Mesopotamia and Greece”
Daniel Fleming, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
“Foundations of Democracy: Forms of Equality and People’s Power in Early Greece”
Kurt Raaflaub, David Herlihy University Professor of Classics and History, Brown University
“The Corpse in the City: Intramural Burial and Civic Space in Ancient Greece”
Christopher Ratté, Associate Professor of Classics and Fine Arts, NYU
“The Theory of Elective Autocracy in Ancient Israel”
Baruch Halpern, Chaiken Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Ancient Studies, Pennsylvania State University
“Precursors of Democracy: From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Talmudic Rabbis”
Lawrence Schiffman, Ethel and Irwin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
“Was Roman Voting a Consensus Ritual?”
Robert Morstein-Marx, Professor of Classics, University of California at Santa Barbara
“Lessons from the Roman Forum: The Chastening of Traditional Authority”
Joy Connolly, Assistant Professor of Classics, NYU
Panel Discussion
Lewis Lapham (Moderator), Editor, Harper’s Magazine
Chris Hedges, Journalist, Senior Fellow, the Nation Institute
Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, NYU
Bernard Manin, Professor of Politics, NYU
Ali Mirsepessi, Interim Dean, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU
Pasquale Pasquino, Global Distinguished Professor of Politics, NYU
Paul Woodruff, Darrell K. Royal Professor of Ethics and American Society, University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, November 3, 2005, 4:30 pm
Friday, November 4, 2005, 9:00 am
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East
The Archaeological Institute of America New York Society in conjunction with the New York University Institute of Fine Arts and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
The Ellen Sparry Brush Lecture
“Naj Tunich: The Discovery of the First Temple of the World”
James Brady, UCLA
Thursday, October 6, 2005, 6:30 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
The Archaeological Institute of America New York Society and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
“Recent Excavations at Aphrodisias in Caria”
Christopher Ratté, Dept. of Classics, NYU
Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 6:30 pm
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101A
100 Washington Square East
Events 2004-2005
The New York University Faculty Resource Network, in conjunction with NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies announce:
The Summer 2005 Seminar
“Global Mythologies”
Convener: Joy Connolly, Professor of Classics, NYU
New York University Institute of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art present:
“Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Digging Deeper at Tell Brak”
Joan Oates, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge
Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 4:30 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
New York University Center for Ancient Studies, NYU’s Departments of Fine Arts and Classics and the NYU Gallatin School’s Classics and the Contemporary Series present:
“Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias 2000 – 2004”
Christopher Ratté, Associate Professor of Classics and Fine Arts and Co-Director of the Aphrodisias Excavations
Thursday, April 21, 2005, 5:00 pm
Silver Center Room 300
100 Washington Square East
New York University Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the Gallatin School for Individualized Study present:
The Rose-Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies
“Democracy, Education, and the Classics”
“At the Shrine of the Bald Headed Tinker: Teaching Classics to the Poor”
Earl Shorris, Noted author, founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine
“Democracy and Knowledge”
Danielle Allen, Dean of the Humanities Division and Professor of Classics and Political Science, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
“World Enough and Time: Why There’s No Justice in Waiting to Teach the Classics”
Christopher Zinn, Executive Director, Oregon Council for the Humanities
Comments and Discussion
Moderated by John R. MacArthur, President and publisher of Harper’s Magazine, award-winning journalist and writer
Monday, April 18, 2005
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
New York University's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimó presents:
“Politecnico di Milano: Late Renaissance Roman Villas and their Environment: Examples of Landscape Architecture”
Margherita Azzi Visentini, Noted Italian Author
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 6:00 pm
Casa Italiana
24 West 12th Street
New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents:
Faculty Colloquium Series
Eliot Wolfson
Monday, April 11, 1005, 12:30 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
New York University Institute of Fine Arts presents:
The Silberberg Lecture
“Wonder, Radiance, and the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture”
Richard T. Neer, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago
Friday, April 8, 2005, 4:00 pm
Duke House Lecture Hall, Main Floor
One East 78th Street
NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies presents:
“Strange Bedfellows: Israel and China, 1948-2004”
Dr. Aron Shai, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 5:00 pm
19 University Place, 1st floor
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and the New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies present:
“Jews in the Greek and Roman Worlds”
A 3-part lecture series
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 7:00 pm
“Understanding Sepphoris (Zippori) Where the Mishnah Was Compiled: Archaeology and the Challenge of Multiculturalism”
Eric Meyers, Duke University
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 7:00 pm
“Crimean Jews in a Pagan and Christian World”
Doug Edwards, University of Puget Sound
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 7:00 pm
“The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
New York University Department of Hellenic Studies presents:
Modern Greek Film Series
Thursdays, 6:20 pm
Silver Center Room 207
100 Washington Square East
1/27: “Hard Goodbyes: My Father” by Penny Panayotopoulou (2001)
2/3: “The Traveling Players” by Theo Angelopoulos (1975)
2/10: “Ulysses' Gaze” by Theo Angelopoulos (1995)
2/17: “Anna's Engagement” by Pantelis Voulgaris (1972)
2/24: “Loafing and Camouflage” by Nikos Perakis
3/3: “Lefteris” by Pericles Hoursoglou (1993)
3/10: “End of an Era” by Antonis Kokkinos (1994)
3/24: “Truants” by Nikos Grammatikos (1996)
3/31: “The Cow's Orgasm” by Olga Malea (1996)
4/7: “From the Edge of the City” by Constantine Giannaris (1998)
4/14: “Think it Over” by Katerina Evangelakou
4/21: “The Cistern” by Christos Dimas (2001)
4/28: “A Touch of Spice” by Tassos Boulmetis (2003)
New York University Department of Anthropology presents:
“The History of Paleoanthropological Research in Indonesia”
Dr. Johan Arif, Department of Geology, Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia:
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 6:30 pm
Kriser room (first floor rear)
25 Waverly Place
New York University Classics Department presents:
“Livy, Aemilius Paullus, and the Ethics of Empire”
David Levene, Professor Latin Language & Literature, School of Classics, University of Leeds
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 2:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University’s Skirball Center of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents:
Faculty Colloquium Series
Judah Cohen
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 12:30 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
New York University Department of Religious Studies & New York University Department of Classics present:
“Ritualized Study as Christian Devotional Practice in Late Antique Mesopotamia”
Adam H. Becker, Candidate for Assistant Professor, Religious Studies & Classics, NYU
Monday, March 21, 2005, 5:30 p.m.
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Taub Center for Israel Studies presents:
“Israel-Palestinian Relations after the Palestinian Elections”
Prof. Yaakov Bar Siman Tov, Head of the Jerusalem Institute and the Davis Institute at the Hebrew University
Monday, March 21, 2005, 5:00 pm
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
The Archaeological Institute of America New York Society and the New York University Center for Ancient Studies present:
Louis Blumengarten Lecture in Urban Archaeology
“Is It Trash or Is It Treasure?”
Joan Geismar
Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 6:30 pm
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“What Did Tragedy Look Like, 430-330 B.C.?”
Edith Hall, Professor, Greek Cultural History, University of Durham, England; Co-Director Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama, University of Oxford
Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 12:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“The Devil’s Actress as God’s Harlot: Pelagia of Antioch and the Performance of Subversive Holiness”
Dayna S. Kalleres, Religious Studies Department, Stanford University
Monday, March 7, 2005, 5:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
The New York University Center for Ancient Studies, NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, its Departments of Comparative Literature, English, French, History, Italian, Music, Medieval and Renaissance Center, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Programs of Africana Studies and Irish Studies & the NYU Medical School presents a 2004-5 workshop sponsored by the NYU Humanities Council:
“Storytelling in the Middle Ages”
“Storytelling in Performance”
Organized by: Professor Timmie (E. B.) Vitz, NYU; Professor Martha Hodes, NYU; and Professor Nancy Regalado, NYU
Moderator: Marilyn Lawrence, NYU
Speakers:
“The Art of the Medieval Welsh Story Teller”
Sioned Davies, University of Cardiff: Celtic Studies
“Erotic Reading and Re-performance of Medieval Romance”
Timmie (E.B.) Vitz, NYURespondents:
Laurie Postlewate, Barnard College
Kathryn Talarico, College of Staten Island, Romance Languages Department
Moderator: Mark Cruse, NYU, French Department
Speakers:
“Why Perform the Stories of Arthur?” Nancy Freeman Regalado, NYU
“Dioneo and the Storyteller's Art in the Decameron” John Ahern, Vassar College
Respondents:
Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University, Italian Department
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Paris IV, Institut Universitaire de France, Visiting at Princeton University
Jane Tylus, NYU
Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:00 pm
Maison Francaise
16 Washington Mews
New York University Classics Department and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
“What Oedipus and Tiresias Know and When They Know It”
John Gibert, Professor of Classics, University of Colorado
Thursday, March 3, 2005, 12:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Department of Hellenic Studies and the New York Public Library present:
“The Way to the West—A Film Screening / Lecture”
Kyriakos Katzourakis
Thursday, March 3, 2005, 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library
455 Fifth Avenue
New York University Department of Hellenic Studies and the New York Public Library present:
“Painting with Cinema—An Art lecture-presentation”
Kyriakos Katzourakis
Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library
455 Fifth Avenue
New York University Religious Studies Department and NYU’s Department of Classics present:
“Household Conversions: Trust and Episcopal Authority in Late Antique Rome”
Kristina Sessa, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, Candidate for Assistant Professor, NYU Departments of Religious Studies and Classics
Monday, February 28, 2005, 5:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
The Aquila Theatre Company, Company-in-Residence of New YorkUniversity’s Center for Ancient Studies presents:
“Utopia Parkway”
A new musical comedy inspired by the works of Aristophanes
Friday, February 25, 2005, 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 26, 2005, 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm
Sunday, February 27, 2005, 3:00 pm
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 8:00 pm
Wednesday, March 2 - March 20, 2005:
Wednesday – Friday, 8:00 pm
Saturday, 5:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Sunday, 3:00 pm
BPAC (Baruch Performing Arts Center)
55 Lexington Avenue at 25th St (between Lexington & 3rd)
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“Exemplarity and Historical Time”
Charles Hedrick, Professor of Ancient History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Department of Hellenic Studies and NYU’s Departments of Fine Arts and Mediterranean Studies present:
“Memories of Place in Modern Greece and Turkey”
Eleni Bastea, University of New Mexico
Thursday, February 24, 2005, 6:30 pm
Silver Center Room 207
100 Washington Square East
New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies presents:
Faculty Colloquium Series
Lawrence Schiffman
Thursday, February 24, 2005, 12:30 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South, 404W
La Mama ETC and East Coast Artists Present:
“Yokastas—A New Play About an Old Story”
By Richard Schechner & Saviana Stanescu
Directed by Richard Schechner (New York University Professor, Department of Performance Studies)
Thursday through Saturday, February 24-26, 2005, 8:00 pm
La Mama Annex
74A East 4th Street
New York University Taub Center for Israel Studies presents:
“Learning from Success: the Israel-Egypt Peace Negotiations, 1977-1979”
Dr. Kenneth Stein, Emory University
Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 5:00 pm
The Screening Room, 53 Washington Square South [1st Floor]
The New York University Humanities Council presents:
“Classics Now: Motivations and Strategies for Adapting the Classics for the Contemporary Stage”
A panel discussion and play reading
Introduction
Carol Martin, Associate Professor of Drama, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Keynote Speaker: Amy Green, author of The Revisionist Stage: American Directors Reinvent the Classics
Panelists:
Lenora Champagne, Solo performance artist, director and editor of Out From Under: Text by Women Performance Artists and former dramaturge for Classic Stage Company; Durst Chair and Associate Professor of Drama Studies, SUNY, Purchase
Sharon Friedman, Author of numerous articles on feminist theatre and drama, Associate Professor, The Gallatin School, NYU
Ellen McLaughlin, Author of numerous adaptations of classical Greek texts including Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Helen, and The Persians
Chiori Miyagawa, Conceiver of Antigone Project, an evening of five contemporary one act plays about Antigone, author of Red Again, America Dreaming and Nothing Forever among others; Associate Professor of Theater, Bard College
Staged Reading: Medallion by Tanya Barfield
A play inspired by Antigone
With Joey Collins and April Yvette Thompson
Moderator:
Laura Slatkin, Professor of Classics, The Gallatin School, NYU
Organized by Professors Sharon Friedman (NYU Gallatin) and Carol Martin (NYU TSOA)
Friday February 18, 2005, 12:30 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South
New York University Classics Department presents:
“Reason and Revelation in Apuleius”
James Rives, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, York University, Toronto
Thursday, February 17, 2005, 12:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies present:
A Colloquium in Memory of Sara Merdinger
An event in memory of Professor Sara Merdinger, with papers presented on Modern Hebrew Literature by both faculty and graduate students
Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 5:00 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South
New York University Department of Classics presents:
“Staging ‘Female’ Appetites in Aristophanes”
Nancy Worman, Assistant Professor of Classics and a participating member in the Comparative Literature Program at Barnard College
Thursday, February 3, 2005, 12:30 pm
Classics Department Seminar Room
25 Waverly Place
New York University Foreign Visitor’s Fellowship presents:
“Aeschylus’ Agamemnon”
Adapted and Directed by Zvika Serper
In Hebrew with English subtitles
(Based on Aharon Shabtai’s Hebrew translation with additional material adapted from Aeschylus' Choephori and Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis)
Monday January 31, 2005, 6:00 pm
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South
The Archaeological Institute of America New York Society and New York University Institute of Fine Arts present:
The 2005 Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lecture:
“Excavations at Volubilis and the Islamization of the Berbers”
Dr. Lisa Fentress
Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 6:00 pm
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
The New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
"Community and Biblical Interpretation: Judaism, Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls"
"Enochites, Qumranites, and Christians-Enlightened Communities Waiting for the End"
George S. Nickelsburg, Emeritus Professor of Religion, University of Iowa
"Biblical Exegesis in the Passion Narratives in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Lawrence H. Schiffman, Chair, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
"Structure and Exegesis in an Unusual 'Legal' Document from Qumran"
Moshe J. Bernstein, Associate Professor of Bible, Yeshiva University
“Intertextual Reading: The Case of David in the Cave 11 Psalms Scroll"
Mark S. Smith, Skirball Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Studies, NYU
Thursday, October 28, 2004, 4:30 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences presents:
“If Archimedes Had a Computer: Continuing His Work on Floating Bodies”
Drexel University Professor-Emeritus
Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Friday, October 15, 2004, 3:00 pm
Warren Weaver Hall, 1st floor
251 Mercer Street
Events 2003-2004
New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center presents:
The Hagop Kevorkian Center's Middle East Research Workshop
“Thing, Object, Artefact: The Many Lives of Tut's Matter”
Elliot Colla, Brown University
Monday, April 19, 2004, 3:00 pm
The Hagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan St
Ettinghausen Library
The New York University Center for Ancient Studies presents:
Ranieri Conference on Ancient Studies
“Athens to New York: Athletic Games/Civic Identity”
Introduction:
Matthew S. Santirocco, Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science, NYU
Greetings:
John Brademas, President-Emeritus, NYU
Adamantios Vassilakis, Ambassador of Greece to the United Nations
Daniel L. Doctoroff, Deputy Mayor, City of New York, and NYC2012
Alexander Garvin, New York City Planning Commission and NYC2012
John Sexton, President, NYU
“The Legacy of Classical Athens in Post 9/11 New York”
Joan Breton Connelly, NYU
“Athenian Altruism in Euripides' Political Plays: Readings from the Erechtheus and Children of Herakle”
Lisa Harrow, Actress
“The Ancient Olympic Games: Cities and Athletes”
David Romano, University of Pennsylvania
“Heroes vs. Virgins: The Dilemmas of Civic Belonging on the Athenian Stage”
Daniel Mendelsohn, Critic and author
“The Modern Olympics: The Contradictory Symbolism of the Opening Ceremonies”
Allen Guttmann, Amherst College
“Urban Planning at Athens as a Reflection of Public Activities”
Manolis Korres, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and Committee for the Preservation of the Acropolis Monuments
“The Civic Role of the Games in New York City”
Diana Balmori, Balmori Associates and Yale University
Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:30 pm
Friday, March 5, 2004, 9:00 am
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East
New York University Center for Ancient Studies presents:
Rose-Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies
"Performing Justice"
Screening of Zvika Serper's Agamemnon
(Hebrew with English subtitles)
Zvika Serper (director), Tel Aviv University
and
Carol Martin, NYU
“Representations of Justice in Aeschylus' Oresteia”
Helene Foley, Barnard College/Columbia University
“Popular Culture and the Juridical Process”
Richard Schechner, NYU
“The Theater of Rules: Re-membering Law in Performance”
Bernard Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Comments and Discussion
Carol Martin, NYU
and
Danielle Allen, University of Chicago
“Theatre and Justice: The Exonerated”
Jessica Blank (author), Erik Jensen (author), and Robert Balaban (director)
“Agamemnons”
Laura Slatkin (NYU), John Chioles (NYU), Charles Mee (playwright), Peter Meineck & Robert Richmond (Aquila Theatre Company), Richard Schechner (NYU), and Zvika Serper (Tel Aviv University)
Thursday, February 5, 2004, 4:30 pm
Friday, February 6, 2004, 9:30 am
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East
The conference is held in conjunction with the Aquila Theatre Company's production of Agamemnon by Aeschylus.
Events 2002-2003
New York University Department of Classics and NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies present:
Past and Present in Roman Historiography
A Conference in Honor of A.J. Woodman
“The Multiple Audiences for Early Roman Historiography”
Christina Kraus, Oriel College, Oxford and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
“Winners and Losers: Characterization in Caesar’s Civil War”
John Dillery, University of Virginia, with response by John Marincola, NYU
“Death Becomes Him: Otho’s Grand Suicide in Tacitus’ Histories”
Cynthia Damon, Amherst College with response by Christopher Pelling, University College Oxford
“Memory in Tacitus”
Rhiannon Ash, University College London and Cornell University, with response by Jane Chaplin, Middlebury College
Keynote Address: “Tiberius and the Taste of Power: The Year 33 in Tacitus”
Charles W. Hedrick, University of California at Santa Cruz and Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison with response by Harriet Flower, Franklin and Marshall College
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Jurow Lecture Hall
Silver Center Room 101a
100 Washington Square East
New York University Center for Ancient Studies presents:
The Ranieri Lecture in Ancient Studies
“Performing the Classics”
Olympia Dukakis
Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actress, director, producer, teacher, activist, and Visiting Scholar in the Center for Ancient Studies
Commentary
Daniel Mendelsohn
Author, critic, lecturer in Classics at Princeton University, and winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism
Thursday, April 10, 2003, 6:00 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East
New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies, the Religious Studies Program of New York University, and Brill Academic Publishers present:
“New Research into the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Chair, Mark S. Smith, NYU
“Israel at Sinai and the Community of the Scrolls”
James C. VanderKam, University of Notre Dame
“The Genesis Apocryphon: Some 'New' Questions About an 'Old' Text”
Moshe J. Bernstein, Yeshiva University
“The Rewritten Bible Texts and Issues of Canon”
George J. Brooke, University of Manchester
“Codification of Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Lawrence H. Schiffman, NYU
Monday, March 3, 2003, 4:30 pm
Hemmerdinger Hall
Silver Center Room 102
100 Washington Square East
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