The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University
invites you to hear the reports of the recipients of CAM travel
grants in 2005.
Lisa Mignone (Classics)
Taco Terpstra (History)
Jason Governale (History)
Patrick Crowley (Art History)
Rebecca Reidel (Art History)
Erin Thompson (Art History)
These students will talk about their travels and their contributions
to their doctoral research.
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
12:00 noon
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
1161 Amsterdam Ave (btw. 116th and 118th St.)
New York, NY 10027
Only open to Columbia faculty and students, and Fellows of CAM
NOVEMBER 15th, 2005
The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University
invites you to a series of talks on Friday November 18th:
Professor Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh)
will deliver a lecture on "Bullish looks and sidelong glances: social interaction and the eyes in Greek Antiquity."
11:00 a.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
From 2:30 to 3:30 pm, there will be presentations from members of the CAM community:
Jason Governale (Ph.D. student, Department of History, Columbia University)
will give a talk on "Proxeny, Perfidy and Piracy."
Then,
Clemente Marconi (Professor, Department of Art History, Columbia University)
will give a talk on "The Temples of Selinus: New Restorations, New Interpretations."
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
Italian Academy,
1161 Amsterdam Ave (btw. 116th and 118th St.)
New York, NY 10027
DECEMBER 2nd, 2005
Professor Alexander Jones (University of Toronto)
will deliver a lecture on "Publishing science on stone: an astronomical inscription from Hellenistic Rhodes"
A Greek inscription dating from about 100 B.C. found a century ago near Lindos on Rhodes is an unknown astronomer's summary of his theories of the motions of the planets. Since this is practically the only document having to do with this kind of astronomy from the Hellenistic period, the "Keskinto Inscription," as it is known, is both very important and very puzzling, which is perhaps the reason that historians of science have for the most part said nothing about it. In the present talk I will discuss the nature of the Keskinto Inscription as a form of ancient scientific publication and attempt to explain without technicalities what its contents mean and what it tells us about the long "dark period" in the history of Greek astronomy.
11:00 a.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
