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Winter Quarter 2015 Schedule

Please find below the Ancient Societies Workshop schedule for this quarter. We are excited about the speakers that we have scheduled for this term, and we are looking forward to the conversations that their work will bring about.
January 13th, 4:30 pm Kent Rigsby (Duke University, Classics)
“Pericles’ Law Censoring Comedy.”
January 20th, 5pm Taco Terpstra (Northwestern University, Classics)
“The Imperial Cult and the Sacred Bonds of Roman Overseas Commerce.”
January 27th Kenneth Yu (University of Chicago, Divinity School)
“The Hermeneutics of Sacrifice in The Homeric Hymn to Hermes and in the Selinuntine lex sacra.”
February 17th Ortal-Paz Saar (Safed Academic College, Judaic Studies)
“Graeco-Roman Binding Spells and Babylonian Magic Bowls: Conceptual Parallels.”
February 24th Yann Berthelet (French National Centre for Scientific Research, ANHIMA)
“Consecratio and sacrifice in Ancient Rome.”
March 3rd Kate Agnew (University of Chicago, Classics)
“Greek cult institutions and the religious subject in Roman Asia Minor.”
Please note the unusual time of the first two meetings. All meetings will be held in Classics 21, and the latter four meetings of the quarter will convene at 3:30 pm.
I hope to see you all at these workshop meetings, and I am looking forward to another quarter of discussion and exchange of ideas!
Sincerely,
Nick Venable
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Updated Fall 2014 Schedule

Dear Ancient Societies Workshop Participants,

I would like to announce a revision to the Ancient Societies workshop schedule for this quarter. Please find the revised schedule below. Please note that because of the Classical Lecture Series lectures, we will not be holding a reception after either of the November lectures.

On November 11th the Center for the Study of Ancient Religions will be sponsoring a talk by Mark Munn (Pennsylvania State University) on “The Mother of the Gods and Empire”
On November 18th, Goda Thangada (University of Chicago, Classics) will deliver a paper on “Athletics and Female Initiation in Ancient Greece.”
On December 2nd (5 pm), Kassandra Jackson (University of Chicago, Classics) will deliver a paper on “Down to the Hour: Timing Systems in Galen’s Medical Writings.”

We are excited to have such a strong slate of speakers to finish out the quarter, and I look forward to seeing you all at these workshop meetings.

Sincerely,
Nick Venable

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Fall Quarter Schedule 2014

Welcome back to a new academic year and to the fall quarter of the Ancient Societies Workshop. As was announced at the end of last year, I will be the student coordinator of Ancient Societies for the 2014-2015 academic year, and the faculty sponsors are Chris Faraone and Sofia Torallas. We are very excited for our lineup of fall quarter speakers:

October 7th: James Keenan (Loyola University Chicago, Classics)
“‘Known Unknowns’: Thoughts on Lost (Papyrus) Evidence.”
October 14th: Ilan Peled (UChicago, NELC)
“Writing Cultural (Mis)conceptions: Hittite Borrowing of Mesopotamian Third-Gender Terminology”
October 21: Aaron Tugendhaft (UChicago, Harper Fellow)
“The Politics of Writing in the Late Bronze Age”
November 11: Goda Thangada (UChicago, Classics)
Title TBA
December 2nd (5 pm): Kassandra Jackson (UChicago, Classics)
“Down to the Hour: Timing Systems in Galen’s Medical Writings”

Please note that the workshop will typically meet at 3:30 pm on Tuesdays, with the exception of Kassi’s presentation on December 2nd, which will take place at 5pm.

All workshops will meet in Classics 21 and will be followed by the traditional wine and cheese reception, unless otherwise noted.