JANUARY
19, 2002
A
SYMPOSIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN FRIENDSHIP
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Italian
Academy, 5th floor Seminar Room
Gabriel
Herman (Hebrew U.),"Friendship and Enmity in Democratic Athens"
David
Konstan (Brown), "Betraying Friends"
Elizabeth
Belfiore (Minnesota), "Eros and Philia in Plato's Symposium"
Jerise
Fogel (Columbia), "How Roman was Cicero's amicitia?"
Sandra
Citroni Marchetti (Florence): "The Best Friend: Roman Friendship
and the Beginning of the Principate"
Christopher
Jones (Harvard), "Kissing"
John
T. Fitzgerald (Miami), "Friendship Language in Early Christianity"
Alan
Cameron (Columbia), "Friendship Pagan and Christian"
JANUARY
21, 2002
"MARCELLUS
IN SENECA, BRUTUS AND CICERO"
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Dr
Sarah Thea Cohen conducted a seminar on the topic above at 2:30pm
in the 6th floor seminar room in the Classics Department (Hamilton
Hall).
FEBRUARY
23, 2002
SOCIAL
LIFE IN THE PAST: OBJECTS, IDENTITY AND POLITICS
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGY
For
more information, please contact Kyle
Killian or Matthew
Palus
MARCH
9, 2002
THE
ART OF ROME: SHIFTING BOUNDARIES, EVOLVING INTERPRETATIONS
Barnard
Hall, Broadway and 117th St
SPONSORED
BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND BARNARD COLLEGE
The
following speakers presented papers in honor of Professor Richard
Brilliant:
Tonio
Hoelscher, Heidelberg University
Agnes
Rouveret, University of Paris
Salvatore Settis, Scuola Normale, Pisa
Susan Walker, British Museum
Richard Brilliant, Columbia University
For further information, contact conference organizers Elizabeth
Bartman, Bettina
Bergmann, or Michael
Koortbojian.
MARCH
11, 2002
THE NECROPOLIS OF
SABRATHA, LIBYA: BETWEEN PUNIC TRADITION AND ROMANIZATION
5th
Floor Conference Room, Italian Academy
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Dr
Benedetta Bessi conducted a seminar on the topic above at
1:30 pm.
MARCH
23-24, 2002
GREEK
PAINTED POTTERY: IMAGES, CONTEXTS AND CONTROVERSIES
501 Schermerhorn
Hall, Morningside Campus
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
SATURDAY,
MARCH 23
John
Oakley (College of William and Mary), "Pity in Classical Athenian
Vase- Painting"
Clemente
Marconi (Columbia), "Images for a Warrior: On a Group of Athenian
Vases and their Public"
Luca
Giuliani (Munich), "Odysseus and Kirke. Iconography in a Pre-literate
Culture"
Robin
Osborne (Cambridge), "Putting Athletes into the City of Images"
Beth
Cohen (New York), "Bubbles = Baubles, Bangles and Beads: Added
Clay in Athenian Vase Painting and its Significance"
Alan
Shapiro (Johns Hopkins), "Satyrs, Maenads, and their Families"
Rachel
Kousser (Columbia), "The World of Aphrodite in Late Fifth- century
Vase Painting"
SUNDAY,
MARCH 24
Judith
Barringer (Yale), "Panathenaic Games and Panathenaic Amphorae
under Macedonian Rule"
Jenifer
Neils (Case Western), "Homer, Hera and Vases from Paestum"
Erika
Simon (Wu"rzburg), "The Painter Asteas from Poseidonia/Paestum"
MARCH
25, 2002
"EURIPIDES' IPHIGENIA AT AULIS AND THE WINDS OF CHANGE"
Italian
Academy, 5th floor Conference room
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Dr
Pantelis Michelakis gave a lecture on the topic above at 1:30pm.
MARCH
29-30, 2002
THE
ROMAN STATE BETWEEN ETRUSCAN KINGS AND PLEBEIAN CONSULS
Italian
Academy, Teatro
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
FIRST SESSION - FRIDAY
MARCH 29
Nicola
Terrenato (University of North Carolina), "The Resilient Clans:
the Nature of Power in Early Roman Society"
Albert
Ammerman (Colgate), "Early Rome in Profile"
SECOND
SESSION - SATURDAY MARCH 30
Carmine
Ampolo (Scuola Normale, Pisa): "Documents and Monuments: Ancient
and Modern Reconstructions of Roman History from the Late Sixth
to the Early Fourth Centuries"
Richard
Billows (Columbia), "Houses without Fathers: the Origins of the
Distinction between Patricians and Plebeians"
Maddalena
Paggi (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), "Roman Cultural
Identity in the Visual Arts? The Case of the Praenestine Cistae"
T.J.
Cornell (Manchester), "Laws and Plebiscites in Dionysius of Halicarnassus"
THIRD
SESSION - SATURDAY MARCH 30
Myles
McDonnell (Fordham), "Equites and rex"
Roberta
Stewart (Dartmouth), "Livy's Unwritten History"
Jürgen
von Ungern-Sternberg (Basel), "Famine and Famine Relief in Fifth-century
Rome"
APRIL
16, 2002
ROMAN SOLDIERS, MILITARY DIPLOMAS, AND THE BAR KOZEBAH REVOLT IN
JUDEA
ITALIAN
ACADEMY, TEATRO
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Dr
James Russell
Professor
Emeritus at the University of British Columbia
Former
President, Archaeological Institute of America
gave a seminar on the topic above at 4:10 pm
