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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