Events

SPRING 2013

John Marincola (Florida State University)
Thursday, February 7, 6:15 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “History without Malice? Plutarch Rewrites the Persian Wars”

Franco De Angelis (University of British Columbia)
Tuesday, February 12, 5 pm, Humanities Initiative (20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor)
Title: “Settling the West: Comparing Frontier Development between the New World and Ancient Greece”
RSVP at http://settlingthewest.eventbrite.com
Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, NYU Department of Classics, Humanities Initiative at NYU, and NYU Center for Ancient Studies

Franco De Angelis (University of British Columbia)
Wednesday, February 13, 5:30 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “From Backwardness to Leapfrogging? Rethinking 'The Greek Miracle' in the Cultural Development of Pre-Roman Italy”
Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, NYU Department of Classics, and NYU Center for Ancient Studies

Maria Georgopoulou (Director, Gennadius Library)
Thursday, March 14, 6:15 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: "The Landscape of Medieval Greece"

Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University and University of Siena at Arezzo)
Tuesday, April 2, 12:30 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “Italy as a Wild Landscape in Virgil’s Aeneid”

Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University and University of Siena at Arezzo)
Wednesday, April 3, 5:00 pm, Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science
Title: "Vergil's Aeneid and the Destiny of Italy"
Sponsored by the NYU Center for Ancient Studies, Office of the Dean of Humanities, and Department of Classics

Denis Feeney (Princeton University)
Thursday, April 11, 5:30 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “Horace and the Roman Past: Lyric, Epic, and History in Odes 4”

Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen)
Wednesday, April 17, 6:15 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “Orpheus, Orphism, and the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries: New Discoveries, Old Problems”

Jinyu Liu (DePauw University)
Thursday, May 2, 6:15 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “Craftsmen, Occupations, and Voluntary Associations in the Roman World: New Perspectives”

Conference: Rome and the Worlds Beyond Roman Frontiers
Friday, June 14 - Sunday, June 16, Silver Center 503 and ISAW
See program and poster for a schedule of papers.
For more information, email nik212@nyu.edu.


FALL 2012

Juanita Ruys (University of Sydney)
Wednesday, September 12, 4:30 pm, 4 Washington Sq. N., Dean’s 2nd Floor Conference Room
Title: “Sadness in Demons: A Mediaeval Emotional Dilemma”
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Mediaeval Emotions Colloquium

Kaius Tuori (NYU/University of Helsinki)
Tuesday, September 18, 6:45 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “Raving Lunatics and Kind Fathers: The Image of the Emperor as Judge in the Early Principate”

Dimitri Gutas (Yale University)
Thursday, October 11, 6:00 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: "Graeco-Arabic Studies, in Classics and NELC Combined:  Future Prospects"

Workshop: Public and Private in the Roman House
Friday, October 12, 1 pm - Saturday, October 13, 6 pm, Silver Center 503
Keynote speaker: Leanne Bablitz (British Columbia)
Abstracts of all papers are available at romanhouse.org.
Seating is limited; please RSVP to romanhouse2012@gmail.com.

Taneli Kukkonen (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Monday, October 22, 5:30 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “Aristotle's Cosmology: Is There one?"

Richard Hunter (Cambridge University)
Thursday, November 8, 5:00 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: “Sweet Stesichorus: Theocritus 18 and the Helen Revisited”

Christer Bruun (University of Toronto)
Monday, November 26, 6:00 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: "Historical Memory in Roman Ostia"

Robert Kaster (Princeton)
Tuesday, December 4, 6:45 pm, Silver Center 503
Title: "Making Sense of Suetonius in the Twelfth Century"