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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies Presents

The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
Writing Science: Mathematical and Medical Authorship in Ancient Greece

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

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    

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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

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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

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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

"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

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

"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

“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.

“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 78^th 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, 1^st 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, 1^st 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