Dear Ancient Societies Workshop Participants,

We have an exciting schedule of speakers this spring continuing our theme of “Political Economies.”  All talks will be held at 3:30 pm in Classics 21.  All talks this quarter are on a Tuesday.

April 4 – Julie Hanlon (PhD Student, UChicago Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations) – “Jain Monks and Merchants in the Political Economy of Early Historic Tamil Nadu”

April 11 – Jordan Johansen (PhD Student, UChicago Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World) – “The Medinet Madi Paradox: The δεκάτη in the Hymns of Isidorus.”

April 25 – Prof. John Weisweiler (Assistant Professor, History, University of Maryland) – “Élite Formation, Roman Style: Violence, Predation and the Making of the Early Imperial Senate (c. 14-235 CE)”

May 2 – Prof. Muriel Debié (CNRS: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes) –  “Jerusalem in the 7th c. : A Case of Divided Memories.”

May 9 –  Prof. Susanne Paulus (Assistant Professor of Assyriology, UChicago) –  “No Coins, No Silver but Gold (?) – How to Pay in Babylonia in 1200 BC.”

May 23 – Tim Clark (PhD Student, UChicago Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World) – “The Forum Augustum: Movement, Social Space, and A New Vision for Roman Foreign Policy”

May 30 – Thalia Lysen (PhD Student, UChicago Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) – “Staging Kingship: A Case Study of Kings, Power and Ideology in Hittite Anatolia”

I hope to see you all there!

If you have any questions, please contact me at rhyne AT uchicago.edu.

Best,

Rhyne King

PhD Student, The University of Chicago

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Ancient Near Eastern History

Dear Ancient Societies Workshop Participants,

Welcome back to Chicago and happy New Year!  We have an exciting schedule of speakers lined up for this quarter continuing the theme “Political Economies.”  All talks are in Classics 21 at 3:30pm.  All talks are on Tuesday, unless noted otherwise.

Jan. 10 – Dr. Eva Mol (Post-Doctoral Fellow, UChicago Classics) – “Making myth real, the agency of objects in Herodotus’ Histories: an archaeological inquiry”

Jan. 24 – Lara Fabian (PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World) – “Coins, Mints and Mountain Passes: Geospatial Modeling of Numismatic Communities in the South Caucasus”

Feb. 7 – Prof. Brian Muhs (Associate Professor of Egyptology, UChicago NELC) and Dr. Tasha Vorderstrasse (Research Associate, UChicago Oriental Institute) – “The State’s Role in Monetary Circulation in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Egypt and Bactria”

Feb. 14 – Prof. Wouter Henkelman (Maître de conférences ‘Mondes élamites et achéménides,’ École Pratique des Hautes Études) – “The empire at Persepolis: economy, society, religion”

Feb. 23 (Thursday) – Kassandra Jackson Miller (PhD Student, UChicago Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World) – “From Critical Days to Critical Hours: Galenic Refinements of Hippocratic Models”

Feb. 28 – Prof. Jonathan Hall (Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and Professor in the Departments of History and Classics and the College, UChicago) – “Telesilla and her Afterlife”

Mar. 7 – David Perry (PhD Student, UChicago Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World) – “Classical Impressions of Ancient Law”

I hope to see you all there!

Best,

Rhyne King

PhD Student, University of Chicago

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Ancient Near Eastern History

If you have any questions, you can contact me at rhyne AT uchicago.edu

Dear Ancient Societies Workshop participants,

Welcome back to Chicago for a new academic year!  We have an exciting group of talks lined up for this autumn with the theme “Political Economies.”  All talks will be held at 3:30 in Classics 21, with a reception following.  All talks are on a Tuesday this quarter.

Oct. 4 – Prof. Peter Bang (University of Copenhagen), “Rome in the World History of Universal Empire”

Oct. 18 –  Prof. Emily Mackil (University of California at Berkeley ), “Property, Debt, and Revolution in Ancient Greece”

Nov. 1 – Prof. John Ramsey (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Catiline’s Conspiracy:  How did it Relate to the Timing of the Elections in 63?”

Nov. 8 – Mills McArthur (University of Chicago, Classics), “Athenian Shipbuilders”

Nov. 22 – Emily Wilson (University of Chicago, Classics), “Sacred Ionia: Identity and the Religious Experience in Archaic Anatolia”

I hope to see you all there.

Best,

Rhyne King

PhD Student, The University of Chicago

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Ancient Near Eastern History

For any questions or comments, you can contact me at rhyne @ uchicago.edu