Annual Symposia

CAS Annual Symposium Fall 2022
“Translation Projects Across the Ancient World”

April 20–21, 2018 This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Penn Museum and the University Research Foundation. This year’s annual symposium will be an interdisciplinary examination of the…

CAS Annual Symposium Spring 2022
“The Future of Ethnoarchaeology”

April 20–21, 2018 This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Penn Museum and the University Research Foundation. This year’s annual symposium will be an interdisciplinary examination of the…

CAS Annual Symposium Spring 2018
“Cities in the Ancient World”

April 20–21, 2018 This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Penn Museum and the University Research Foundation. This year’s annual symposium will be an interdisciplinary examination of the…

CAS Annual Symposium Fall 2013
“Cities in the Ancient World”

Ancient Drugs: Pharmacology across the Ancient World
Center for Ancient Studies Annual Symposium, 18 October 2013
Rainey Auditorium at the Penn Museum…

CAS Annual Symposium Spring 2010
“Connections You Believe In: Syncretism in the Ancient World”

Center for Ancient Studies Annual Symposium Connections You Can Believe In: Syncretism in the Ancient World and Beyond Program: 9:30 Coffee in the Mosaic Gallery 10:00 Morning Session Robert Ousterhout (Director, Center for Ancient Studies) Welcome and Introduction Caitlín Barrett (Columbia University) Religious…

CAS Annual Symposium Fall 2009
“Visualizing Jerusalem: Art and Sacred Topography”

Saturday, 24 October 2009 CAS Symposium 1:00 – 5:00 PM The city of Jerusalem exists both as a physical entity, fixed in time and place, and also as an idea that transcends its physical form. The symposium examines the monuments that testify to the sanctity…

CAS Annual Symposium Fall 2007
“Ancient Origins, Modern Identities”

Organized to complement the Penn Humanities Forum annual theme of “Origins,” the Center for Ancient Studies spring symposium takes the theme “Ancient Origins, Modern Identities,” examining the ways in which pre-modern history and civilizations have been invoked in the construction of modern group identities (national, religious, or ethnic). The all-day symposium will take…

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