11 October – Anthony Kaldellis (UChicago, Classics)
“A thousand pages for a thousand years: Merging the granular and the macroscopic”
25 October – Luiza Osorio Guimaraes da Silva (UChicago, NELC)
“Was Pharaoh Egypt?: The Monumentalization of Kingship in the Past and Present”
15 November – Sunwoo Lee (UChicago, NELC)
“What does Pharaoh have to do with Medicine?”
29 November – Sophia Alkhoury (UChicago, Classics)
“Addressing the Gods: Language and Strategies in the Metrical Logoi of GEM 57”
Thursday, March 31 – Jeremy Hartnett (Wabash College)
in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
“Copa Campana: Reconsidering Pompeian Tavern Workers’ Social Roles”
Monday, April 4 – Arkady Kovelman (Moscow State University)
in collaboration with the Jewish Studies Workshop
“Extasis and Exodus in the Interpretation of Philo of Alexandria”
Tuesday, April 26 – Christian Borgen (UChicago, MA)
“Classifying and Quantifying Ur III Labor at Garšana”
Tuesday, May 10 – Yanxiao He (UChicago, NELC)
“Elagabalus, Alternative Masculinity and its Discontents”
Tuesday, May 17 – Eduardo García-Molina (UChicago, Classics)
“A Reexamination of the Assassination of Gnaeus Octavius”
This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.
At the current moment, we will be meeting in Classics 021 at 3:30pm for our meetings unless otherwise noted. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email (lexladge@uchicago.edu).
Tuesday, January 11 – Madelaine Thompson (UChicago, Classics) *ZOOM
in collaboration with the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
“Dreamscapes and Waking Worlds in Plautus”
Tuesday, January 25 – Tom Zhuohun Wang (UChicago, MAPH)
“Mark Antony’s Asia: A New Monetary Approach (41-31 BCE)”
Tuesday, February 8 – Doug Inglis (UChicago, Oriental Institute)
“Boats of the Dead: Uncovering the Ancient Vessels Hidden Beneath Egypt’s Sands”
Tuesday, February 22 – Jennifer Finn (Loyola University, Chicago)
“The Seven Wonders of the World and the Hellenistic Imaginary’
This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.
At the current moment, we will be meeting in Classics 021 at 3:30pm for our meetings unless otherwise noted. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email (lexladge@uchicago.edu).
Tuesday, October 12 – Laura Bevilacqua (UChicago, Classics)
“Dice oracles, polytheism and the mechanisms of decision-making in imperial Asia Minor”
Tuesday, November 9 – Madeleine Harris (UChicago, MAPH)
“Understanding the Athenian Arrhephoria: female initiation rite or civic rite?”
Tuesday, November 30 Taco Terpstra (Northwestern)
Silver Production from the Phoenicians to the Romans: A Sardinian Case Study
This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.
At the current moment, we will be meeting in Classics 021 at 3:30pm for our meetings. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email (lexladge@uchicago.edu).