April 10: Brittany Hayden (NELC), TBA

April 17: Josiah Ober (Stanford), “Weighted Expertise Aggregation: An Aristotelian Middle Way for Epistemic Democracy”

April 24: Dominique Charpin (Sorbonne), “The Archives of Alamush-nasir: An Example of Estate Managing in Babylonia, 18th c. BCE”

May 8: Tytus Mikolajczak (NELC), “Textual Patterns on Sealed Registers in the Persepolis Fortification Archive”

May 15: Larisa Masri (History), TBA

May 29: Megan Nutzman (PAMW), TBA

All workshops will be held at 3:30 pm in Classics 21 (unless otherwise noted) and will be followed by a wine and cheese reception in the Classics Lounge.

Questions? Please contact Kassandra Jackson (kajackson@uchicago.edu).

Joseph Manning will be joining us from Yale University to present his paper, “At the Intersection of Law and Economics: Transaction Costs and Ptolemaic Governance” on Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 3:30 pm in Classics 21. He will offer a few introductory remarks to his paper, but asks that those attending read the full paper in advance so that the majority of the time can be spent in discussion. The paper can be downloaded here: Ptolemaic givernancve and transaction costs. Please do not cite or circulate without the author’s permission.

Michèle Lowrie (UChicago, Classics) and Susanne Lüdemann (UChicago, German Studies) are jointly coordinating an international conference on “Exemplarity/Singularity” Thursday, March 8 – Saturday, March 10. The schedule can be found here: Chicago program exemplarity. Please join us!

Jean-Jacques Aubert will be visiting from the Université de Neuchâtel to present his paper “Roman Business Law” at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, Jan. 24 in Classics 21.

Please read his paper in advance, but refrain from citing or circulating it without the author’s permission.

Due to scheduling conflicts, Felix Pirson will be speaking on FRIDAY, Feb. 3 at 5 PM in Classics 21.

January 10: Joachim Quack, “”New Sources for Imhotep and His Veneration”

January 17: Paul Vadan, “Hellenism in the Wake of the Galatian Invasion”

January 24: Jean-Jacques Aubert, TBA

January 31: Felix  Pirson, “Pergamon and its Maritime Satellite Elaia: New Research on Urban Space and the Territory of a Hellenistic Capital”

February 3-4: CONFERENCE: The Urban Economy in the Roman World (Organized by Emanuel Meyer and Cam Hawkins). For conference schedule, see http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/urbaneconomy/

February 14: Joe Manning, “At the intersection of law and economics: transaction costs and Ptolemaic governance”

February 21: Megan Nutzman, TBA

February 28: Josh Cannon, “”Transmission of Myth and Motif across the Bronze Age Aegean”

March 13: Edward Harris,  “A New Approach to Credit and Real Security in Classical Athens”

All workshops, unless otherwise noted, will be held at 3:30 pm in Classics 21

If you have any questions, please contact Kassandra Jackson at kajackson@uchicago.edu

Our November 22 speaker has changed. Christian Thomsen will be presenting his paper, “Corporate Endorsement – Private Associations and Public Figures in Hellenistic Rhodes.”

Emily Wilson’s talk, “Religion and the glyptic iconography of the Aramaic tablets in the Persepolis Fortification Archive,” will now take place in the winter quarter.

The updated Fall Schedule is as follows:

October 18th: Cliff Ando, “Legal Pluralism and Legal Change in the Roman Empire”

October 25th: David Schloen, “Economy and Society in Ugarit, a Late Bronze Age Kingdom on the Syrian Coast”

November 8th: Jacobo Myerston, “The Derveni Papyrus and Akkadian Commentaries”

November 15th: Brian Muhs, “Literacy, Law and the Economy in Ancient Egypt”

November 22nd: Christian Thomsen, “Corporate Endorsement – Private Associations and Public Figures in Hellenistic Rhodes”

November 29th: Paul Keen, “Towards the Koinon Kyprion: Cypriot Cities in the Ptolemaic Empire”

The first workshop of this quarter will take a different format than Ancient Societies has traditionally used. Cliff Ando is pre-circulating his paper and asks that workshop participants come prepared with questions and comments on the text. The speaker will open with a brief overview of his paper, but the majority of the session will consist of discussion between speaker and audience. We hope to see you there!

Welcome to Ancient Societies 2011-2012! Here is the schedule for fall quarter:

October 18th: Cliff Ando, “Legal Pluralism and Legal Change in the Roman Empire”

October 25th: David Schloen, “Economy and Society in Ugarit, a Late Bronze Age Kingdom on the Syrian Coast”

November 8th: Jacobo Myerston, “The Derveni Papyrus and Akkadian Commentaries”

November 15th: Brian Muhs, “Literacy, Law and the Economy in Ancient Egypt”

November 22nd: Emily Wilson, “Religion and the glyptic iconography of the Aramaic tablets in the Persepolis Fortification Archive”

November 29th: Paul Keen, “Towards the Koinon Kyprion: Cypriot Cities in the Ptolemaic Empire”

All talks, unless otherwise noted, will be held at 3:30 pm in CL 21. They will be followed by a reception in the Classics Lounge.