Past Events | Center for Ancient Studies

Dec

ISAW, Exhibition Lecture: “Living Images? Bodies in Ancient Egyptian Art and Experience”

On December 10, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Dec

NYU, Department of Classics: “The Profitability of Roman Slavery”

On December 8, 2025 at 6:15 pm

Princeton, Department of Art & Archaeology: “Material Cultures for the Mobile Court of Philip the Bold of Burgundy”

On December 8, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA, Archaeology Lecture Series: “Tombs and Tumba: New perspectives on Late Bronze Age Greek Ceramics from Enkomi, Cyprus at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm”

On December 8, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Dec

Princeton, Department of Art & Archaeology: “Art as Proof: Statues and High Relief as Ideological Statements at the Time of the Image Controversy, c.750–850?”

On December 5, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Columbia University, Tang Center for Early China: “The Cult of the Yellow Emperor in China: Heritage, Identity, and Local Placemaking”

On December 5, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Bryn Mawr, Classics Colloquium: “Mediated Authority – Rethinking Greek Pseudepigraphy as a Discursive Phenomenon”

On December 5, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Dec

Penn, Center for East Asian Studies, Humanities Colloquium: “Poetic Presence and Absence: On Lyric Haunting”

On December 4, 2025 at 5:30 pm

ISAW, Library Event Series: “Nature’s Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity”

On December 4, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Penn, Classical Studies, Department Colloquium: “What is ‘the phlattothrat’?: A Joke in Aristophanes and the Early Poetry of Aeschylus”

On December 4, 2025 at 4:45 pm

Dec

ISAW, Expanding the Ancient World Workshop: “State Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamia: Egypt, the Neo-Assyrians, and Rome”

On December 3, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Princeton, Program in the Ancient World: “The Economy of Madness in the Greek and Roman World: Coining the Irrational”

On December 3, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Dec

Princeton, Department of Classics: “Distributed Authorship in the Sulpicia Corpus”

On December 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Dec

ISAW: “Framing Conquest as Deliverance: Lessons from Assyria in the 10th – 9th Centuries BCE”

On December 1, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Columbia University, Department of Classics: “Numismatics with Tears”

On December 1, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA, Archaeology Lecture Series: “Babylon and Its Many Ends”

On December 1, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Penn, Anthropology Colloquium: “Fugitive Bioarchaeology”

On December 1, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Nov

Penn, Center for Ancient Studies: “Lectures on Archaeological Sites in Diyala Province, Iraq”

On November 24, 2025 at 4:00 pm

Nov

Penn, Center for Ancient Studies: “Sanskrit Day: A Series of Short Lectures and Presentations in Sanskrit”

On November 22, 2025 at 9:30 am

Nov

Bryn Mawr, Classics Colloquium: “Athenian Metics and the Law: Legal ‘Isolation’ or Political Inclusion”

On November 21, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Princeton, Department of Art & Archaeology: “Making As Studying Ancient Greek Pottery”

On November 21, 2025 at 2:00 pm

AAMW, Colloquium: “Roman Cities As Decelerators “

On November 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Nov

Penn, Classical Studies: “The World of Penelope”

On November 20, 2025 at 4:45 pm

NYU, Center for Ancient Studies: “Larissa Bonfante Workshop of Etruscan and Italic Arts: Arts of Ancient Apulia in Dialogue”

From November 20, 2025 to November 21, 2025

Penn, Kislak Center, Free Library of Philadelphia: “Interpreting the Ancients”

From November 20, 2025 to November 22, 2025

Nov

NYU, Center for Ancient Studies: “The Development of Elite Cuisines in Southern India: Constructing and Consuming Difference in the Southern Deccan”

On November 19, 2025 at 6:00 pm

ISAW, Exhibition Lecture: “Rodin’s Egypt Galley Talk: Curators in Conversation”

On November 19, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Nov

Penn, Workshop in the History of Material Texts: “Scribe 106: The Portfolio of a Florentine Humanistic Scribe”

On November 17, 2025 at 5:15 pm

Princeton, Department of Classics: “Transformation, Regulation, and Pluriformity in Jewish Textuality”

On November 17, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA, Archaeology Lecture Series: “Making Waves: Maritime Archaeology in Lebanon”

On November 17, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Princeton, Department of Near Eastern Studies: “New Digital Tools for Reading and Studying the Shāhnāma”

On November 17, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Penn, Anthropology Colloquium: “The Body”

On November 17, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Nov

ARCE – PA: “The Second Style at Saqqara during the Late Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period”

On November 15, 2025 at 3:30 pm

Nov

Swarthmore, Department of Classics: “Pliny’s Natural History and the Quest for Comprehensive Knowledge”

On November 14, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Bryn Mawr, C. Densmore Curtis Lecture: “From an Elephantine Jar: Gender, Marriage and Sex in early Hellenistic Egypt”

On November 14, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Columbia University, Classics Departmental Lecture Series: “Time, Space, and Experientiality on Roman Sarcophagi”

On November 14, 2025 at 4:10 pm

Nov

Penn, Classical Studies: “The Linguistic Roots of Ancient Greek: Some Takeaways for Nonspecialists”

On November 13, 2025 at 4:45 pm

Princeton, Department of Classics: “Gabii and the Archaeology of Roman Urbanism: Recent Discoveries and New Directions”

On November 13, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Nov

ISAW, Expanding the Ancient World Workshop: “Between the Temple and the Gymnasium: Forging the Body in Greco-Roman Antiquity”

On November 12, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Nov

ISAW: “From Samarkand to Samarra: Turks in the Army of the Abbasid Caliphs (9th Century CE)”

On November 11, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Princeton, Department of Classics: “On Fear and the Familial Undead in Homer’s Odyssey and the Films of George A. Romero”

On November 11, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Nov

NYU, Department of Classics: “The Korai Deposit of the Acropolis of Athens as a Foundation Deposit: Clearing the Path to a New Beginning after the Persian Destruction of 480/479 BCE”

On November 10, 2025 at 6:15 pm

Penn, Workshop in the History of Material Texts: “Binding and The Discipline: Some Paths Around the Classics”

On November 10, 2025 at 5:15 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA, Archaeology Lecture Series: “Eating and Drinking in a Classical Greek Harbor Town: The Archaeological Science of Cuisine”

On November 10, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Nov

Penn, The Pre-Columbian Society: “Astronomy before Chankillo: the development of ideas that led to the world’s most impressive monumental solar calendar.”

On November 8, 2025 at 1:30 pm

Nov

Bryn Mawr, Classics Colloquium: “Tempus in Ovid’s Exile Poetry: Conceptualizing and Narrating Time at the Edge of the Empire”

On November 7, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Nov

ISAW: “Or, Why One Rhinoceros Fewer from India Would Not Have Hurt the Ancient Economy”

On November 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Penn, Classical Studies: “Romulus, the Pantheon, and Decastyle Buildings in Ancient Rome”

On November 6, 2025 at 4:45 pm

Princeton, Department of Classics: “Apollopop”

On November 6, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Nov

Penn, History of Art: “Disabling the Classical”

On November 5, 2025 at 3:00 pm

Nov

The Penn Undergraduate Classics Board: “November Roundtable”

On November 4, 2025 at 5:30 pm

ISAW: “Craftsmen’s Marks on Glazed Bricks and Ivories from the 1st Millenium BCE in the Ancient Near East and What They can Tell us About Their Makers”

On November 4, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Princeton, Department of Classics: “Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed”

On November 4, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Nov

Penn State, CAMS: “Who Really Wrote the Bible? The Story of Professional Scribes”

On November 3, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA, Archaeology Lecture Series: “In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia”

On November 3, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Penn Anthropology, Colloquium Series: “Environment”

On November 3, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Oct

Bryn Mawr, Classics Colloquium: “Epic Reformed: The “New Poets” of Christian Byzantium

On October 31, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Princeton, Department of Anthropology: “Ecologies of Confinement and the Reality of the Unreal

On October 31, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Oct

PSCO: “Haunting Houses: Property As Evidence for the Unseen in Late Ancient Christianity”

On October 30, 2025 at 6:30 pm

Penn, Classical Studies: Dr. Jinyu Liu “Unstable Origins: Ethnicity, Slavery, and the Case for Social Death in Roman History”

On October 30, 2025 at 4:45 pm

Oct

Temple University, Department of Greek and Roman Classics: “Foreign Bodies: Wet Nurses And Mothers in the Ancient World”

On October 29, 2025 at 11:00 am

Oct

ISAW: “Crossing the Yellow Sea: The Exchange of Metalworking Knowledge and Technologies in the Interconnected East Asia World”

On October 28, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Princeton, Department of Classics: “The Nile Flows with Gold: Money and the Global Economy of Egypt “

On October 28, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Oct

Bryn Mawr, CNEA, Archaeology Lecture Series: “Twelve Millennia of Farming in Anatolia: A Paleoethnobotanical Perspective”

On October 27, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Princeton, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity: “Syriac Philosophy: Between the Greeks and the Arabs”

On October 27, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Oct

Bryn Mawr, Classics Colloquium: Dr. Justine McConnell “Stitching the Odyssey Anew in Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage”

On October 24, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Penn, Center of Ancient Studies: “Using Games to Teach the Ancient World”

From October 24, 2025 4:00 pm to October 25, 2025 6:00 pm

Oct

Penn, Classical Studies: Dr. Ronnie Ancona “Martha Graham, Isamu Noguchi, and Greek Myth-Based Dances”

On October 23, 2025 at 4:45 pm

John Hopkins, Department of Classics: Dr. Evan Jewell “Body Work, Biohacking, and the Enslaved Boy in the Roman Empire”

On October 23, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Princeton, Department of Art & Archaeology: Dr. Eleni Hasaki “Potters’ Workflows and Energetics in Ancient Greece”

On October 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Princeton, Late Antiquity, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop: Jeremy Stitts “The Contest of Capitals: Trier, Milan, and the Cementing of Western Orthodoxy under the Valentinian Dynasty”

On October 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm

NYU, Center for Ancient Studies & Aquila Theatre: “Odyssey: A Cathartic Journey”

On October 23, 2025 at 8:45 am

Oct

ISAW, Expanding the Ancient World Workshop: Kimiko Adler “Foreign Cults in Imperial Rome: Long Since Has the Syrian Orontes Flowed into the Tiber”

On October 22, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Princeton, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity: Dr. Eric Goldberg “Rapine, The Carolingians, and The Transformation of Frankish Society”

On October 22, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Princeton, Program in the Ancient World: Dr. Jinyu Liu “(Im)migrants in the Occupational World in the Roman Empire: Exclusion versus Integration”

On October 22, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Oct

NYU, ISAW: Dr. Jay Stephens “Mapungubwe Beyond the Golden Rhino: Inferring Local Dynamics for Southern Africa’s First State through the Provenance of Copper and Bronze”

On October 21, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Princeton, Program in Judaic Studies: Dr. Julia Rhyder “Calendar and Commemoration: Memorializing War in the Hebrew Bible”

On October 21, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Columbia University, Department of Classics: Dr. Cat Lambert

On October 21, 2025 at 4:10 pm

Penn State, CAMS: Rev. Ethan Johnson “‘What you sew, you shall rip’: The Bible, Horror, and Captivity in Appalachia”

On October 21, 2025 at 12:15 pm

Princeton, Department of Classics: Dr. Ronald Kim “The synchrony, diachrony, and anachrony of Sievers’s Law in Gothic”

On October 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Oct

NYU, Department of Classics: Dr. Melissa Mueller “Democracy and the Earth in Aeschylus’ Suppliants”

On October 20, 2025 at 6:15 pm

Bryn Mawr, Archaeology Lecture Series: Dr. Thomas Tartaron “Korphos-Kalamianos: Twenty-five Years of Research at a Mycenaean Harbor”

On October 20, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Penn, Anthropology, Colloquium Series: “Religion”

On October 20, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Oct

Penn, Center of Ancient Studies: Dr. Todd Lewis “An Epic of the Buddha: Sources and Sentiments in Sugata Saurabha”

On October 17, 2025 at 6:00 pm

Columbia University, Tang Center for Early China: Dr. Andrew Meyer “Master, State, and Patron: Three Models of Literati Engagement During the Warring States Period (481 B.C.E. – 221 B.C.E.)”

On October 17, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Columbia University, Classical Studies: “Adventures in Verse Translation: An American Poet & Classicist in Greece”

On October 17, 2025 at 4:10 pm

Penn State, CAMS: “The Politics of the Roman Slave Revolts”

On October 17, 2025 at 4:00 pm

Oct

Penn, Classical Studies: Dr. A.E. Stallings “Homer as the Muse: Poems in Conversation with Classical Literature”

On October 16, 2025 at 4:45 pm

Oct

Penn, History of Art, Thune Lecture: Dr. C.C. McKee “White Flesh, Black Antiquity: Guillaume Lethière’s Neoclassical Figuration and Revolutionary Politics”

On October 15, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Oct

The Aeneid : Translating the Classics with Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright

On October 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm

ISAW: Dr. Brian Lander “How China’s Early Empires Conquered and Transformed the Yangtze Delta”

On October 14, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Penn, Center of Ancient Studies: Dr. Frank Hoffman “Ancient Pali Buddhist Ethics and the Environment”

On October 14, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Oct

Penn, ARCE-PA: Molly Gleeson “A Monumental Undertaking: Conservation for the Penn’s Museum new Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries”

On October 11, 2025 at 3:30 pm

Penn, The Pre-Columbian Society: Dr. Brian Hayden “The Sky is Was the Limit: The Role of Secret Societies in Creating Complex Cultures in the New World”

On October 11, 2025 at 1:30 pm

Oct

Penn State, CAMS: “Myth Retellings Book Club Discussion: Circe”

On October 9, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Swarthmore, Department of Classics: Dr. A.E. Stallings “Austerity and Abundance: Poetry and Translations from the Greek Crisis and Beyond”

On October 9, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Princeton, Department of Art and Archaeology, AIA Thompson Lecture: Dr. Sarah Morris “The Kingdom of Philoktetes: Northern Greece in the Age of Homer”

On October 9, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Oct

Princeton, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity: Dr. Thomas Schmidt “Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ”

On October 8, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Oct

Princeton, Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop for Graduate Students: Ilia Curto Pelle “An Eternal Home Away from Home: The Epigraphy of Migrant and Itinerant Merchants in the Early Byzantine Period (5th – 7th c.)”

On October 7, 2025 at 6:00 pm

Oct

Penn’s Workshop in the History of Material Texts: Drs. Dee Andrews & Christopher Parmenter “Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: Radical Antislavery, Classical Reception, and Abolitionist Print in the Age of Revolution”

On October 6, 2025 at 5:15 pm