Please also note a new addition to the Ancient Societies schedule:
Leslie Kurke (co-hosted with Rhetorics & Poetics and CLS)
UC – Berkeley
Tuesday, May 28
3:30 PM
Please also note a new addition to the Ancient Societies schedule:
Leslie Kurke (co-hosted with Rhetorics & Poetics and CLS)
UC – Berkeley
Tuesday, May 28
3:30 PM
April 9: Greg Woolf, St. Andrews, “The Memory of the Gods. Divine and human agency in Roman sanctuaries”
April 23: Jonathan Edmondson, York University, “”Towards a reconstruction of the elogium of Aeneas from the Forum Augustum: reflections on the copies from Augusta Emerita and Pompeii”
April 30: Vincent van Exel, Chicago (NELC), TBA
May 14: Greg Anderson, Ohio State University (co-sponsored with the Classical Lecture Society), TBA
May 21: James Rives, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Animal Sacrifice between Romans and Christians”
June 4: Andrew Dix, Chicago (NELC), TBA
Unless otherwise stated, all talks will be held at 3:30 in Classics 21.
Our Winter Quarter Schedule is as follows: All of our meetings, aside from the Amulets Conference, will be held on Tuesdays in Classics 21 at 3:30 PM and will be followed by a brief reception.
February 12: Todd Hickey (Berkeley)
February 15-17: Amulets Conference (Franke Institute for the Humanities – Co-hosted with CSAR
Student presenters include:
Megan Nutzman (Classics, Chicago)
Kassandra Jackson (Classics, Chicago)
Walter Shandruck (Classics, Chicago)
February 26: Ann Patnaude (Chicago, Art History)
March 12: Tonio Hölscher (Heidelberg)
Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please call Kathy Fox at 773-702-8514.
Welcome to the 2012-2013 Ancient Societies Workshop! This year’s theme is “Texts and Archaeology,” a diverse theme which allows for the exploration of the relationship between documentary texts and archaeological excavation as sources of evidence, to study ancient documents in their contexts of use and production, and to evaluate the history of their use, re-use, reception, and disposal. This workshop aims to promote conversation among philologists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians regarding historical and comparative contextualization in the evaluation of these materials.
October 9th – David Grewal, Yale Law
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