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...
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...
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...
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:...
Our November 22 speaker has changed. Christian Thomsen will be presenting his paper, “Corporate Endorsement – Private Associations and Public Figures in Hellenistic Rhodes.” Emily Wilson’s talk, “Religion and the glyptic iconography of the...
The first workshop of this quarter will take a different format than Ancient Societies has traditionally used. Cliff Ando is pre-circulating his paper and asks that workshop participants come prepared with questions and comments on the text. The speaker will open with...
Welcome to Ancient Societies 2011-2012! Here is the schedule for fall quarter: October 18th: Cliff Ando, “Legal Pluralism and Legal Change in the Roman Empire” October 25th: David Schloen, “Economy and Society in Ugarit, a Late Bronze Age Kingdom on the Syrian Coast”...
April 5: Emily Wilson (Classics, PAMW) “The Odeion of Pericles, the East, and the Empire of Athens” April 8-10: Theogonies Conference: “Imagined Beginnings: The Poetics and Politics of Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogony in the Ancient World“ Apr. 19: Jas Elsner...
Winter 2011 Schedule: Jan. 11: Cliff Ando (Classics) “Objects in Roman Cult” Please note that this is the second in a sequence of two lectures, the first of which, “Praesentia numinis”, will be presented on Jan. 10th, 4:30pm, in the Early...
