Past Events | Center for Ancient Studies

Feb

Penn Museum: Dr. Michael Danti and Dr. Richard Zettler, “Preserving Assyria: Curators Lecture”

On February 8, 2025 at 2:00 pm

Pre-Columbian Society: Dr. Sarah Newman, “The ‘Good Farmers’: Soil Types and Soil Transformations in the Codex Vergara and the Codex de Santa María Asunción”

On February 8, 2025 at 1:30 pm

NYU, ISAW: Joan Chiverton, “Exhibition Drawing Workshop at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World”

On February 8, 2025 at 1:00 pm

Feb

NYU, Institute of Fine Arts: Dr. Sarah Lepinski, “‘A large Sarcophagus, magnificently carved.’ Chronicling the Ancient and Modern Histories of a third-century CE Strigilated Sarcophagus”

On February 7, 2025 at 6:30 pm

Columbia, Tang Center: Dr. Fan Zhang, “Staging the Corpse: Performativity and Materiality in Northern Wei Mortuary Art”

On February 7, 2025 at 4:30 pm

AAMW: Dr. Nathan Arrington, “Sick Suppliants: Subjectivity, Authority, and the Senses in the Asklepieion”

On February 7, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Feb

Classical Studies: Dr. Carman Romano, “Mortal divinity: Epiphanic feeling in the Theogony, Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and beyond”

On February 6, 2025 at 4:45 pm

Feb

Penn Museum: Dr. Holly Pittman, “Modern Techniques for an Ancient Mesopotamian City”

On February 5, 2025 at 7:00 pm

Feb

NYU, Institute of Fine Arts: Dr. Claudia Brittenham, “The Interconnected Mesoamerican World”

On February 3, 2025 at 6:00 pm

NYU, CAS: “How to Read a Roman Historian: A Symposium Celebrating the Publication of Professor David Levene’s New Volumes of Livy”

On February 3, 2025 at 5:15 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA: Dr. J.J. Shirley, “One Tomb, Two Kings: Unlocking the Sequence of Construction and Decoration in Theban Tomb 110”

On February 3, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Jan

Swarthmore, Classics: Dr. Mary Beard, “The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass At The British Museum”

On January 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm

AAMW: Dr. Breton Langendorfer, “Highland, Lowland: Exploring the Landscape of the Halil Rud in the 3rd mil. BCE through a Chlorite Vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”

On January 31, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Jan

Classical Studies: Dr. Dylan Kenny, “Pindar’s second Paean and the idea of order at Abdera”

On January 30, 2025 at 4:45 pm

Jan

NYU, Classics: Dr. Rebecca Benefiel, “Reading Public Prestige and Personal Loss in Pompeii”

On January 27, 2025 at 6:15 pm

Anthropology: Dr. Sabrina Sholts, “Ethical Changes for Human Remains in Museums: Developing the Human Dignity Program at the Smithsonian Institution”

On January 27, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Jan

Bryn Mawr, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies: Dr. Pauline LeVen, “Allusion As Alluvium: Reading Helen’s Liquid Commons”

On January 24, 2025 at 4:30 pm

Jan

Classical Studies: Dr. Kassandra J. Miller, “Tinkering with Body Clocks: Inducing Menstruation in Imperial Rome”

On January 23, 2025 at 4:45 pm

Jan

AIA: Dr. Uzma Rizvi, “Caring for MohenjoDaro”

On January 22, 2025 at 8:00 pm

Jan

EALC: Dr. Etienne de la Vaissiere, “How to write a comprehensive history of Early Medieval Central Asia?”

On January 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Dec

ARCE-PA: Dr. Shelby Justl, “Researching in the arc-‘hives’: Ancient Egyptian honey and beekeeping” & Annual Potluck

On December 14, 2024 at 3:30 pm

Pre-Columbian Society: Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth, “Crocodiles in Classic Maya Art & Swamps of Guatemala”

On December 14, 2024 at 1:30 pm

Dec

Princeton, Classics: Dr. Brian Rose, “Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia”

On December 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Dec

NYU, Institute of Fine Arts: “Africa’s Past, Black Futures: The Afterlives of Pharaonic Egypt in Art and Politics”

On December 9, 2024 at 6:00 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA: Dr. Lara Fabian, “Pithos burials and the Puzzle of the Parthian Empire”

On December 9, 2024 at 12:30 pm

Dec

South Asia Studies: Dr. Deven M. Patel,”A Gathering of Mid-Atlantic Sanskritists”

On December 7, 2024 at 2:00 pm

NYU, ISAW: Joan Chiverton, “Exhibition Drawing Workshop at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World”

On December 7, 2024 at 1:00 pm

Dec

Bryn Mawr, Classics: Dr. Mary Hamil Gilbert, “Hecuba and the Politics of Care in Euripides’ Trojan Women”

On December 6, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Princeton, Program in the Ancient World: Dr. Serena Connolly, “Qualis artifex pereo! Nero the Great Contriver”

On December 6, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Nov

NYU, ISAW: Drs. Artemis Georgiou & Anna Georgiadou, “Cyprus and the Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age: Commercial and Cultural Connectivity on the Longue Durée”

On November 25, 2024 at 5:30 pm

Nov

Bryn Mawr, Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies: Dr. Lea Schroeder, “Seeing Motion and Moving Objects in Plato’s Timaeus and Theatetus”

On November 22, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Columbia, Classics: Dr. Jeffrey Ulrich, “The Shadow of an Ass. Philosophical Choice and Aesthetic Experience in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses”

On November 22, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Princeton, Seeger Center: Dr. Luca Zavagno, “Cities on Edge: Re-Envisioning the History of Urbanism Along Early Medieval Mediterranean Island and Coastal Frontiers”

On November 22, 2024 at 12:30 pm

Princeton, Classics: Dr. Yanxiao He, “Elagabalus, Charicleia, and Pantomime: A Trans-media Reading of the Afro-Syrian Novel Aethiopica in Light of Severan Greek Historiography”

On November 22, 2024 at 12:00 pm

EALC: Dr. Zeng Xiuwei May, “Through the Looking-Glass: A Glimpse into the Linguistic Ecology of Hainan Island”

On November 22, 2024 at 5:30 am

Nov

NYU, Institute of Fine Arts: “Annual Selinunte Lecture”

On November 21, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Classical Studies: Dr. Patrice D. Rankine, “On Being at Home”

On November 21, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Penn State, CAMS: Dr. Gad Barnea, “Prophets, intrigue and redemption at the Achaemenid court: 4Q550 as Irano-Judaic literature in Qumran”

On November 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm

Nov

NYU, Institute of Fine Arts: Summer Projects Day III

On November 20, 2024 at 6:00 pm

Nov

Johns Hopkins, History of Art: Dr. Anthony Joshua Meyer, “On Arrangement, or The Making of Relationships in Nahua Religion”

On November 19, 2024 at 6:00 pm

Columbia, Art History and Archaeology: Dr. Martin J. Devecka, “Can Pre-Islamic Architecture be Islamic Architecture? The Rock-Cut Tombs at Hegra”

On November 19, 2024 at 6:00 pm

Classical Studies: Dr. Patrice D. Rankine, “Streets’ Disciples”

On November 19, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Princeton, Art and Archaeology: Dr. Peter J. Cobb, “More Love for the Common Body Sherd: Implications and Challenges of 3D Scanning All Your Pottery”

On November 19, 2024 at 3:00 pm

Princeton, Judaic: Dr. Ilana Pardes, “David’s Inner Court: Dynasties and Their Discontents”

On November 19, 2024 at 11:30 am

Nov

NYU, Classics: Dr. Shane Butler, “Classics and the Atmospheric Turn”

On November 18, 2024 at 6:15 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA: Dr. Peter van Alfen, “Power, Money, and Art: Who and What do (Archaic) Coins Represent?”

On November 18, 2024 at 12:30 pm

Nov

Bryn Mawr, CNEA: Dr. Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, “Settlement, Irrigation and Landscape Commemoration in the Core of the Assyrian Empire: Sennacherib’s Irrigation System in the Nineveh Hinterland and the Salvage of the Assyrian Faida Canal and its Rock-reliefs (Iraq)”

On November 15, 2024 at 4:30 pm

NYU, ISAW: Dr. Anke Hein, “Multidisciplinary and Multiperspective Engagement with Early Ceramics: The Intersection of Past, Present, and Future in Research on Painted Pottery”

On November 15, 2024 at 1:00 pm

Princeton, Seeger Center: Dr. David Romano, “Recent Research at Mt. Lykaion and the Creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos”

On November 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm

AAMW: Dr. Peter J. Cobb, “Fieldwork and Public Outreach in the Vedi River Valley of Armenia”

On November 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Nov

Classical Studies: Dr. Patrice D. Rankine,”Fiery Towers: A Professional Classicist’s Manifesto”

On November 14, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Cultural Heritage Center: Zach MacDonald, “Ground-Truthing Historical Memory: Virtually Reconstructing Destroyed Villages of the Salvadoran Civil War”

On November 14, 2024 at 12:30 pm

NYU, CAS: “Larissa Bonfante Workshop of Etruscan and Italic Arts: Shaping Spaces”

From November 14, 2024 to November 15, 2024

Nov

AIA-Philadelphia: Dr. Andrew L. Goldman, “Treasures from the Sea Floor: Military Finds from the Battle of the Aegates Islands”

On November 12, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Princeton, Classics: Dr. Ellen Oliensis,”Niobe’s Transformations, Between Ovid and Wheatley”

On November 12, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Princeton, Art and Archaeology: Drs. Vizenz Brinkmann & Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, “Reconstruction as a research tool: The Frankfurt Liebieghaus Polychromy research project”

On November 12, 2024 at 3:00 pm

Nov

NYU, Classics: Dr. Fabio Tutrone,”A Timely Death? On the Philosophical Thanatology of Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam”

On November 11, 2024 at 6:15 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA: Dr. Tyler Franconi, “Health and wealth at Roman and early medieval Vacone, Italy”

On November 11, 2024 at 12:30 pm

Princeton, Near Eastern Studies: Dr. Ahmed al-Jallad, “The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia”

On November 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Nov

ARCE-PA: Dr. Chelsea Kaufman, “No Ordinary Dogs: Canine Behavior in Theban Tombs”

On November 9, 2024 at 3:30 pm

Pre-Columbian Society: Natalia Sánchez Steiner, “Cosmological relations in the Muisca myth of Bachue”

On November 9, 2024 at 1:30 pm

Nov

Columbia, Tang Center: Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, “A Deep History of Human Activity in the Jiuzhaigou National Park”

On November 8, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Bryn Mawr, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies: Dr. Thomas Clements, “Hollow Lakedaimon? Spartan Power, Territoriality, and Overlapping Identities”

On November 8, 2024 at 4:30 pm

AAMW: Dr. Murali Balaji, “Making Your Pedagogy Practical: How to Help Build A More Inclusive Classroom Through Teaching”

On November 8, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Columbia, CLST: Dr. Simcha Gross, “Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity”

On November 8, 2024 at 11:00 am

Nov

Princeton, Classics: “Anon(ymous), a conversation with Naomi Iizuka”

On November 7, 2024 at 5:30 pm

Classical Studies: Christopher Childers, “A Mockingbird Among Nightingales: Translating Form and Voice in Classical Lyric Verse”

On November 7, 2024 at 4:45 pm

Princeton, PAW: ‘A sad view of how pagans felt about their neighbors’: New evidence for magical practices in Carthage

On November 7, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Nov

Penn Museum: Dr. Sarah Linn & Dr. Megan Kassabaum, “Excavating West Philadelphia’s Black Bottom”

On November 6, 2024 at 7:00 pm

NYU, ISAW: Dr. Michael Dietler, “On Celts, Celticness, and Celtology: Reconciling Ancient and Modern Identities”

On November 6, 2024 at 5:30 pm

Princeton, CLSA: Dr. Kristina Sessa, “Explaining Disasters in Late Antiquity (ca. 300-700 CE)”

On November 6, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Nov

Penn Museum: “The Deep Dig: The Science and Art of Conserving Egypt’s Ancient Wonders”

From November 5, 2024 6:30 pm to November 26, 2024 8:00 pm

Nov

Classical Studies: Dr. Phoebe Giannisi, “Chimeras: poetics of assemblage and becoming”

On November 4, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Bryn Mawr, CNEA: Dr. Jason Herrmann, “Space and Identity in Ancient Motya (Sicily)” (Tentative Title)

On November 4, 2024 at 12:30 pm

Anthropology: Dr. Krupa Rajangam, “Surviving Monumentality: UNESCO’s World Heritage Regime and The Everyday in Hampi, India”

On November 4, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Nov

Bryn Mawr, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies: Dr. Sebastian Zerhoch, “Heroic Libations: Ritual and Emotion in Homer”

On November 1, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Oct

Classical Studies: Dr. Marc Domingo Gygax, “Beyond Exclusion: Non-Citizens in the Greek Cities of Hellenistic Asia Minor”

On October 31, 2024 at 4:45 pm

Oct

NYU, ISAW: Madinat al-Zahra Gallery Talk

On October 30, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Oct

AIA-Philadelphia: Dr. Müge Durusu-Tanriover, “Of Cities and Landscapes: Results from the Polatlı (Türkiye) Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project (PLAS)”

On October 29, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Oct

Bryn Mawr, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology: Dr. Jeffrey Becker, “Situating the Roman City”

On October 28, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Anthropology: Dr. Jerry DeSilva, “Old Footprints, New Questions”

On October 28, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Oct

Bryn Mawr, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies: Dr. Nathan Arrington, “Thinking Through Skin: Art, Philosophy and Medicine in Ancient Greece”

On October 25, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Oct

Classical Studies: Dr. Claire Taylor, “Who cooked Aristotle’s dinner? Women and the ancient (Greek) economy”

On October 24, 2024 at 4:45 pm

Oct

History of Art: Ann Kuttner, “Shiny Worlds, Gleaming Histories in Friendly Hands: The Boscoreale Cups at their Roman Tables”

On October 23, 2024 at 3:00 pm

Oct

Classical Studies Department: Maria Dahvana Headley, Title TBD

On October 17, 2024 at 4:45 pm

Oct

Columbia, Tang Center: Dr. Jae-hoon Shim, “Localizing Sagehood: Cultural Memory of Yao, Shun, and Yu in Shanxi”

On October 11, 2024 at 4:30 pm

AAMW: Dr. Rocco Palermo, “From Complex Societies to Territorial Empires. Three Seasons of Investigations at Gird-I Matrab (Iraqi Kurdistan)”

On October 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Oct

Columbia, Art History and Archaeology: Dr. Trenton D. Barnes, “The Problem of Plurality in the Teotihuacan Walking Scenes”

On October 10, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Religious Studies: Dr. Julia Rhyder, “The Ark of the Covenant at War and Peace: Festivals and Commemoration in the Biblical Ark Traditions”

On October 10, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Classical Studies: Dr. Erika L. Weiberg, “Euripides’ ‘Helen’ and the Trauma of Survival”

On October 10, 2024 at 4:45 pm

Johns Hopkins, Classics: Dr. Amy Russell, “Women and Roman politics: Citizenship and Belonging”

On October 10, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Oct

NYU, ISAW: Dr. Abigail Hoskins, “Living in a Culture of the Past: The Life and Work of a Scribe in Hellenistic Uruk”

On October 9, 2024 at 5:30 pm

Oct

Princeton, Religion: Dr. des. Leah Mascia, “Writing on Stone, Wood, Cartonnage, Linen and Papyrus: The Materiality of Death in Roman and Late Antique Egypt”

On October 8, 2024 at 4:30 pm

NYU, CSHO: Dr. Nicholas Conard, “Excavations in the Ach- and Lone Valleys of SW Germany and the Origins of Art and Music”

On October 8, 2024 at 3:00 pm

Oct

NYU, Classics: Dr. Rachel Love, “History Notes: Latin Historiography and the Ancient Commentarial Tradition”

On October 7, 2024 at 6:15 pm

Johns Hopkins, History of Art: Dr. Edhem Eldem, “How local can you go? Revisiting archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman lands in the 19th century”

On October 7, 2024 at 6:00 pm

Anthropology: Drs. Meg Kassabaum & Sarah Linn, “Community Archaeology in West Philadelphia: Collaboration from Inception to Installation”

On October 7, 2024 at 12:00 pm

Bryn Mawr, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology: Dr. Asil Yaman, “Agricultural Organization at Hellenistic Phoenix in Rhodian Peraea”

On October 7, 2024 at 12:00 am

Oct

Bryn Mawr, Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies: Dr. Celia Sanchez Natalias, “Magic in Roman Carthage: Context, Texts and Agents”

On October 4, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Columbia, CLST: Dr. Lea Niccolai, “Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power”

On October 4, 2024 at 11:00 am