SEPTEMBER 15th, 2006
Professor Salvatore Settis (Scuola Normale, Pisa)
will deliver a lecture, "The Ancient Art of Drawing and the Newly Discovered Papyrus of Artemidorus"
11 a.m.
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
SEPTEMBER 22nd and 23rd, 2006
THE ROMANS AND WATER: MANAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE
The Roman Empire is famous for its aqueducts, for its maritime trade, and for its cities -- great consumers of water. How did the Romans -- that is, the peoples of the whole Roman Empire –manage their water resources, and how did they think about them?
Speakers: Pascal Arnaud; Abigail Graham; Rodolfo Bargnesi; Wolfgang Habermann; C. Ohlig; M. Peachin; Zena Kamash; D. Kehoe; A. Ammerman; Zena Kamash; F. Beltran Lloris; Christer Bruun; Kathryn Gleason; Fiona Greenland; Nicholas Purcell; Betsey Ann Robinson; Rabun Taylor; Andrew Wilson; Jason Governale; and Lisa Mignone.
For a complete program of the conference, click here.
The conference will be held in 501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University.
OCTOBER 5th, 2006
Martin Stadler (Würzburg)
will deliver a lecture on
"The Resurrection of an Egyptian Temple: Cult, Ritual and Mythology of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayyum"
5:00 pm
Schermerhorn Hall, Room 832
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Columbia Center for Archeology.
OCTOBER 26th, 2006
Professor Shaye Cohen (Harvard)
will deliver a lecture on "Alexander the Great and the King of Utopia: Folklore, Ethics, and Law"
5 p.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
NOVEMBER 17th, 2006
Professor Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
will deliver a lecture on "Persius, the Cannibal Satirist"
11 a.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
DECEMBER 8th, 2006
HIPPOCRATES AND HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE: THE CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH
Three of the world's leading scholars of ancient medicine will speak at the Center:
Jacques Jouanna (Sorbonne): The Origins of Man's Nature: Hippocrates, Galen, and the Other Hippocrates
Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Study): The Hellenistic Hippocrates
Philip van der Eijk ( University of Newcastle): Is there such a thing as Hippocratic medicine?
The lectures will be at 9:30, 11, and 2:30.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
