Ancient Societies Workshop

Megan Nutzman, November 19

Please join the Ancient Societies Workshop for our next meeting of the 2013-14 academic year. Tuesday, November 19, 3:30PM Classics 21 Megan Nutzman (UChicago, Classics) on “Holy Healers: Exorcism in Roman and Late Antique Palestine” A reception will...

Lara Weiss, October 29

Please join the Ancient Societies Workshop for our next meeting of the 2013-14 academic year. Tuesday, October 29, 3:30PM Classics 21 Dr. Lara Weiss (Universität Erfurt) on “Lived Ancient Religion at Karanis” A reception will follow in the Classics lounge....

Andrew Dix, October 22

Please join the Ancient Societies Workshop for our next meeting of the 2013-14 academic year. Tuesday, October 22, 3:30PM Classics 21 Andrew Dix (UChicago, NELC) on “The Archive of Bēlšunu (aka Belesys, Governor of Syria)” A reception will follow in the...

Theo van den Hout, October 8

Please join the Ancient Societies Workshop for our inaugural meeting of the 2013-14 academic year. Tuesday, October 8, 3:30PM Classics 21 Theo van den Hout (UChicago, NELC) on “The Problem with Hittite Scholars” A reception will follow in the Classics...

Autumn Quarter 2013 Schedule

Ancient Societies is proud to present the following schedule for Autumn 2013: Tuesday, 8 October: Theo van den Hout (UChicago) “The Problem with Hittite Scholars” Tuesday, 22 October: Andrew Dix (UChicago) “The Archive of Bēlšunu (aka Belesys,...

New Addition to Spring Schedule

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

Spring Quarter Schedule

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...

Winter Quarter Schedule

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...

Fall 2012 Schedule

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,...

Spring 2012 Schedule

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...