FEBRUARY
3, 2005
Professor
Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale)
will
deliver a lecture on "Dante's Greeks."
It
is well known that Dante did not know Greek. But he knew about
the
Greeks, and his views on the Greeks tell us much about his own understanding
of himself and his world.
1:00 p.m.
Italian
Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
FEBRUARY
11, 2005
Andrew
George (School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London)
will
deliver a lecture on "Translating the Epic of Gilgamesh."
12:15 p.m.
Italian
Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
This
event is cosponsored by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
and the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
FEBRUARY
26, 2005
Graduate
Student Conference: People
and the Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean
10am-4pm
10-11am
Keynote address: H.W.
Pleket, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Epigraphy
at the University of Leiden "The Roman Empire
and the Economy: Between Fragmentation and Integration"
11.30-12.45pm
Anna
Clare (University of Otago) "People
and the Sea in Homeric Epic"
Jason
Governale (Columbia) "If They Only
Had Farms! Environmental Constraints and Predatory Behavior in
Ancient Corsair Communities"
1.45-3.30pm
David
Yoon "Imperial-Scale Processes and
Local Ecology"
Joseph
Lemak (New York State University at Buffalo) "More
Meat for Rome: Pastoralism and Landscape Exploitation in
the Roman Empire"
Craig
Caldwell (Princeton) "Contested Resources
and Roads in the Fouth Century CE Provinces of Southwastern
Europe"
Lunch
will be served between the sessions, and a reception will follow.
Italian
Academy
5th
floor Conference Room
Click
here to view conference abstracts
APRIL
6th 2005
Dr.
Lynn Catterson-Silver (Columbia
University)
"Michelangelo's
Loacoon?"
7:00 p.m.
Italian
Academy, Teatro
This
lecture is cosponsored by the Italian Academy. Please RSVP to
itacademy@columbia.edu or et157@columbia.edu by April 1st.
APRIL
8-9 , 2005
Conference:
The Nature of Ancient Money
Friday,
April 8th, 2005
beginning with intrrductory remarks at 9:45 am
501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Saturday, April 9th, 2005
beginning with introductory remarks at 10:00 am
301 Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University
Friday, April
8:
10-10:30 Edward E. Cohen (University of Pennsylvania), "The
Elasticity of the Money Supply at Athens"
10:30-11:00 David Schaps (Bar-Ilan University), "What Was
and What Was Not Money in Classical Greece"
11:40-12:10 Apostolos Pierris (Institute for Philosophical
Research, Patras), "The Origin of Coinage: the Nature, Function and Value of
Money in Archaic Greece"
12:10-12:40 Robert Mundell (Columbia University), title to
be announced
2:15-2:45 Jack Kroll (University of Texas), "Documenting the
Monetary Use of Weighed Bullion in Archaic Greece"
2:45-3:15 Ute Wartenberg (American Numismatic Society), "Early
Greek Coinage: Evidence from an Unpublished Hoard"
4:00-4:30: Richard Seaford (University of Exeter), "Money
and Athenian Tragedy"
4:30-5:00 Walter Scheidel (Stanford University), "The Monetary
Systems of the Han and Roman Empires"
Saturday, April 9th
10:15-10:45 Jean Andreau (EHESS, Paris), "The Use of Money
in the Vesuvian Cities"
10:45-11:15 Peter Temin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
and David Kessler (Harvard University), "Money and Prices in the Early Roman
Empire"
12:00-12:30: David
Hollander (Iowa State University), "Coinage in Context:
the Demand for Money and Other Assets in Late Republican
Rome"
2:00-2:30 Constantina Katsari (National University of Ireland,
Galway), "Reconsidering the Monetisation of the Roman Empire: Trade, Urbanisation
and the Army in the Eastern Provinces"
2:30-3:00 Elio Lo Cascio (University of Naples), "The Function
of Gold Coinage in the Monetary Economy of the Roman Empire"
3:00-3:30 William Metcalf (Yale University), "The Role of
Provincial Silver Coinage in the Early Roman Empire"
4:15-4:45 Peter van Minnen (University of Cincinnati), "To
Have or Not to Have: Money, Credit and Capital in Roman Egypt"
4:45-5:15 Ronald Findlay (Columbia University), Final Remarks
APRIL
15-16, 2005
CAM
Spring Film Festival and Symposium: The
Ancient World in Film
On April
15th and 16 th the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at
Columbia University will present a film festival and symposium: The
Ancient World on Film. Panelists will explore how ideology
and individuals have shaped the ancient past on film in different
ways over the one hundred years of cinema, discussing nationalism,
gender roles, the Cold War, and the pornography of violence.
April 15th: Christianity
and Judaism
1 p.m.:
Comic Relief: Montey Python's Life of Brian
2:30 to
5 p.m. Panel discussion, during which panelists will illustrate
their points with various film clips. Panelists: Martin Winkler,
Alan Cameron, and Elizabeth Castelli.
5:30 to
8 p.m. Feature Film: The Last Temptation of Christ
April 16th: Slavery
and War
1 p.m.:
Comic Relief: Asterix et Cleopatra (in French, with
English subtitles) introduced by Marc Van de Mieroop
2:30 to
5 p.m. Panel discussion, during which panelists will illustrate
their points with various film clips. Panelists: Martin Winkler,
Marie Regan, Lewis Cole, Kristina Milnor, and Suzanne Said.
5:30 to
8 p.m. Feature Film: Cabiria
All
films and discussions are in 612 Schermerhorn Hall,
Columbia University.
APRIL
22nd, 2005
Professor
David Potter (University
of Michigan)
"Gladiators
in Training"
11:00
a.m.
Italian
Academy, 5th floor conference room
SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2005
Professor Leslie Kurke (Berkeley)
will deliver a lecture on "Herodotus and Aesop, or the Socio-Politics of Prose."
11:00 a.m.
Italian Academy, 5th Floor Conference Room
