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 P.M. 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 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 P.M. 4 Washington Square North, Conference Room, 2nd Floor
Please contact ebn216@nyu.edu for more information. Columbia University presents Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias
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
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.
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.eduThe 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.eduNew 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
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.
