FEBRUARY 6th, 2006
Professor Suzanne Said (Columbia University)
will deliver a lecture on "Myth and Classical Greek Historiography"
11 a.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
MARCH 3rd-4th, 2006
Translatio: Translation and Cultural Appropriation in the Ancient World
The conference will focus on bilingualism, especially in instances involving scribal cultures engaging a reference culture (Rome/Greece, Japan/China, Akkadian/Sumerian, early Indian vernaculars vis-a-vis Sanskrit). Discussion will be framed both via contemporary translation theory and in consideration of the early cultures which offer much not usually seen in modern-based translation studies.
This conference is jointly organized by CAM, the Columbia University Society of Fellows, and Columbia University's departments of English, Classics, and EALAC (East Asian Languages and Cultures). For more information please visit the conference's web page here. The conference is located in 501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University.
MARCH 31st, 2006
Professor Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
will deliver a lecture on "Viewing Ariadne: From Ekphrasis to Wall Painting in the Roman World"
The talk will look at the way both ekphrasis and images develop the notion of points of view within a narrative or story or picture, playing on competing and sometimes contradictory ways of seeing an event. This in turn reflects on the way such images (or images as described by texts) were themselves viewed.
11 a.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
APRIL 11th, 2006
Professor Jean-Jacques Aubert
will deliver a lecture on "Dealing with the Abyss: The Rhodian Sea-law and the Making of Justinian's Digest"
11 a.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
APRIL 11th, 2006
The Center invites you to a party celebrating the presentation of
A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of the Ancient World. Essays in Honor of William V. Harris
Edited by JEAN-JACQUES AUBERT and ZSUZSANNA VÁRHELYI
and
The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation
(Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, volume XXVII)
Edited by W.V. HARRIS
5-7 p.m.
Italian Academy
APRIL 21st, 2006
Professor John Moles (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
will deliver a lecture on "Jesus and Dionysus in the Acts of the Apostles and Early Christianity"
4 p.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
