The Center for the
Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University seeks to link
together all the faculty, students and numerous departments
that have an interest in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean
and adjoining areas. It is simultaneously a mechanism for
coordinating courses, an information source, and a means of
organizing conferences and other scholarly encounters.
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Upcoming Numismatics Seminar:
On CAM's initiative, Dr Andrew Meadows, curator at the American Numismatic Society, will be teaching an undergraduate seminar in the spring semester of 2009. Details will be announced shortly. The course will also be open to graduate students.
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Friday September 19th
Penelope Allison (University of Leicester)
will give a talk entitled:
"Investigating household practices: Pompeian case studies"
in the 5th Floor Conference Room of the Italian Academy.
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Friday October 17th at 11 am
Richard Sorabji (NYU)
will give a talk entitled:
'Gandhi's ethics: a model for the ancient Stoic sage?'
in the 5th Floor Conference Room of the Italian Academy.
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Upcoming Conference:
24-25 October 2008, Department of Classics, Columbia University
"Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica"
See the conference website below for more information:
www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/Manilius%20website%20info/
Manilius%20conference.htm
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Upcoming Conference:
3-4 April 2009
"Wisdom in Ancient Thought"
Philosophia promises, by its very name, to be a love of wisdom. But what is this wisdom philosophers love? The question turns out to be far from simple, both because various ancient philosophers disagree among themselves as to what wisdom is, and because philosophy, right from the start, seeks to situate itself vis-à-vis other conceptions of wisdom, including what one might think of as the ‘traditional’ one (or ones), as well as various ‘new-fangled’ notions of wisdom that come on the scene in the fifth century B.C.E.
The conference will be devoted to investigating the notion of wisdom—more precisely, it will be focused on the cluster of concepts: sophia, phronêsis, and theôria, as they occur in ancient philosophy, in the earlier Greek tradition, and in later antiquity, as part of the long Nachleben of ancient Greek philosophy.
Please contact Professor Katja Vogt (kv2101@columbia.edu) or Professor Wolfgang Mann (wrm4@columbia.edu) for further details.
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The Center's Steering Committee comprises:
Zainab Bahrani, Art History and Archaeology
Angelos Chaniotis, Oxford University
David Damrosch, English and Comparative Literature
Francesco De Angelis (Vice-Director), Art History
William V. Harris (Chair), History
Trinity Jackman, Heyman Center
Susanne Saïd, Classics
Seth Schwartz, Jewish Theological Seminary
Katja Vogt, Philosophy
Katharina Volk, Classics
Gareth Williams, Classics
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