New York University Department of Classics

Graduate students at the department holiday party yesterday!

Congratulations to graduate student, Lorenzo Del Monte, who defended his doctoral prospectus last week. We are excited to follow his work on the economies of Archaic Greece, Rome, and the Near East!

The NYU Department of Classics is delighted to be hosting the 2019 regional Greekfest! Contingents from Columbia, Penn, Rutgers, and Princeton joined us to discuss Galen’s de Indolentia, a second century treatise on loss and literature rediscovered in a monastery in 2005. NYU’s participants, mentored by Prof. David Sider (center), include (l-r) Stephanie Savage, Francie Merrill, Joshua Williams, Rebecca Sausville, Meredith Millar, Ricarda Meisl, and Poppy Steel Swayne (not pictured). Thank you to all who made the trek to participate!

Congratulations to Del A. Maticic for defending his dissertation proposal this past Monday! We look forward to following your work on materiality and chaos!

We had numerous NYU Classics undergrads last year. This is a great opportunity!

We're excited to announce the CFP for our second-annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World, to be held in NYC in February 2020. Please circulate to your colleagues and students, and consider applying if you're an undergraduate! Last year saw speakers from all over the US.

We are excited to announce the Inaugural NYU Classics Department Speaker: Ineke Sluiter of Leiden University!

Starting this semester, the NYU Classics Department will, once a year, a invite distinguished speaker to New York to work with graduate students in a masterclass and deliver a public lecture. We hope you can join us for Ineke's talk, "Anchoring Innovation," on Thursday, March 7 at 3:00pm in the Classics Department Seminar Room (Silver Center 503).

Happening in our department today!

Our undergraduate conference is happening NOW. If you are at or around today, drop by the Classics Department (Silver Center 503)! For the schedule, check out our website.

https://nyusasugconference.webs.com/

From our colleagues in the NYU Society for Ancient Studies!

We are very excited to announce a CFP for a regional undergraduate conference that we will be hosting this coming February! Submissions will be considered from all areas of study in the ancient world

Over the past three years, several of our graduate students have worked with colleagues in other departments to build the NYU Society for Ancient Studies, a cross-departmental graduate student collaborative seeking to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars with interests in the ancient world. They regularly organize happy hours, work-in-progress seminars, lectures, panel discussions, and more. If this interests you, be sure to check them out!

Check out their webpage for more information: http://as.nyu.edu/ancientstudies/society-for-ancient-studies.html

It’s been a long summer, but we’re glad to be back—and with a new look! Our new logo features the familiar torch logo of New York University surrounded by a series of abbreviations in various ancient languages. In creating these hypothetical abbreviations, we sought to represent our university’s abbreviation—NYU—in the respective alphabets and syllabaries of several of the ancient languages that our members study. We recognize that the terms “New York” and “University” were not present in the languages employed, so we used the sound and order of the English abbreviation as a model to formulate the most appropriate order of letters and symbols in these ancient languages for approximating the sound of “NYU.” The hypothetical abbreviations are meant to be an entertaining way of advertising the cross-disciplinary approach to research on the ancient world that we promote.

Tell us what you think, and feel free to share our new look with friends!

We want to wish a hearty congratulations to all of our 2018 Classics majors, especially those who wrote honors theses on topics ranging from ancient substance abuse to the nature of medical training in the first century CE. Special recognition was given at our end-of-the-year reception on Friday to the recipients of our named prizes in Classics, which are awarded for language skills and general contributions to the department. This year's winners were Adrian Zias, Claire Seidler, and Yesenia Brambila -- all of whom are going on to pursue graduate work in ancient disciplines. Εὖγε! Bonam fortunam!

The NYU team at Latinfest 2018. Thanks to UPenn for hosting. We had a great time discussing some poems from the appendix vergiliana!

The 2017 biennial NYU Classics Graduate Student Conference was held on November 4 at NYU's Jurow Hall, overlooking Washington Square Park. Special thanks from the organizers are due to the NYU Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Office of the Dean for Humanities, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York Classical Club, and Classical Association of the Atlantic States. We also thank each of our 8 participating graduate students and our three NYU graduate student respondents for their thoughtful takes on the conference theme, with particular thanks to Prof. Emily Greenwood of Yale Classics for her stirring keynote. Lastly, a large thank you to our graduate students and the staff of Silver Center for taking diligent care of our visitors -- and to Rebekah Rust for her lovely photos.

The 2017 biennial NYU Classics Graduate Student Conference was held on November 4 at NYU's Jurow Hall, overlooking Washington Square Park. Special thanks from the organizers are due to the NYU Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Office of the Dean for Humanities, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York Classical Club, and Classical Association of the Atlantic States. We also thank each of our 8 participating graduate students and our three NYU graduate student respondents for their thoughtful takes on the conference theme, with particular thanks to Prof. Emily Greenwood of Yale Classics for her stirring keynote. Lastly, a large thank you to our graduate students and the staff of Silver Center for taking diligent care of our visitors -- and to Rebekah Rust for her lovely photos.

Phil Katz speaks on ship monuments at the Insularities Conference

We invite you all to join us this evening at 6:15 for our penultimate lecture of the semester, during which we will be hearing from Prof. Ilaria Marchesi of Hofstra Classics on "Signs of the Times: [The Semiotics of] Women in Martial’s Epigrams". As usual, the talk will take place in Silver Center 503, with wine and cheese to follow.

Our 2017 Graduate Student Conference begins tomorrow at 9:15! We are looking forward to a day of dynamic papers and discussions centered around "Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds in Antiquity," capped off by a keynote lecture by Prof. Emily Greenwood of Yale Classics. This event is free and open to the public -- just come on down/up/over to NYU's Silver Center and take part.

Join us during your lunch-hour tomorrow afternoon (November 2) for our next talk of the semester, as we hear from Prof. Joshua Billings of Princeton Classics speak on "The 'agon sophias' in the late fifth century." His talk will take place in Silver Center 503 at 12:30 p.m., and will be followed by a reception.

The program for the 2017 NYU Classics Graduate Student Conference is now available. We hope many of you can rove through some or all of these panels with us on November 4 in Washington Square. All are welcome!

RSVP and get more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/134935653899236

Spend your Tuesday lunch hour with us in Silver Center 503 tomorrow (October 17) at 12:30 p.m. to hear Prof. John Marincola (of FSU Classics) speak on "The Anxieties of the Contemporary Historian", an abstract of which you can find here: http://as.nyu.edu/classics/events/Marincola1017Abstract.html

All are welcome, and a reception shall follow.

We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our fast-approaching 2017 Graduate Student Conference! Check it out below, and stay tuned to this space for event details and updates.

Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds Program November 3, 2017 | 9:15 - 5:30 | Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square E. New York, NY 10003 Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds Program 9:15-9:45: Breakfast 9:45-10:00: Introductions (Del Maticic, Rebecca Sausville) Panel One: Devising the Wild Respondent: Stephanie Crooks (NYU) 10:00...

We invite you to Washington Square East tomorrow afternoon (October 5) to hear Courtney A. Roby of Cornell Classics give a lecture entitled "Experimental text: seeing through the book in Hero of Alexandria." Prof. Roby will be speaking in Silver Center 503 at 4:15 p.m., with a reception in the department to follow. All are welcome!

We are looking forward to kick off our fall lecture series tomorrow afternoon with Prof. Josine Blok of Utrecht University. Prof. Blok will be joining us in Silver Center 503 at 4:15 p.m. for a talk and discussion about her new book, "Citizenship in Classical Athens" (Cambridge, 2017).

A reception will follow. All are welcome!

(And check out our other upcoming events for the 2017-2018 year here: http://as.nyu.edu/classics/events.html)

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the graduate student conference, "Wilderness, Frontiers and New Worlds in Antiquity" to [email protected] by Aug. 16th! You can find more information about this year's graduate student conference on our website.

http://as.nyu.edu/classics/events/WFNW2017.html

Graduate Student Conference 2017: Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds in Antiquity Call for Papers: Wilderness, Frontiers, and New Worlds in Antiquity Biennial Classics Graduate Student Conference New York University November 4, 2017 Unfamiliar, unexplored, and unsettled places captivated the ancient imagination and were of pressing importance not only to poets and prose writers o...

Tonight is our LAST event of the spring semester (already?) -- please join us in Washington Square (Silver Center 503) at 6:15 to hear Prof. Regina Höschele of the University of Toronto deliver a talk entitled "The Wondrous Journey of Cicero's Head to Sardis: Hellenic Identity and Biculturalism in a Greek Imperial Epigram." A reception will follow the lecture and Q&A.

All are invited!

Come to Washington Square East tomorrow evening (April 6) to hear Barnard College's Kristina Milnor give a lecture entitled "And They Made a Pact Between Themselves: Female Financial Relationships in Roman Pompeii." Prof. Milnor will be speaking in Silver Center 503 at 6:15 p.m., with a reception in the department to follow. All are welcome!

This evening (Thursday, March 9) we are looking forward to a lecture from Cornell's Astrid Van Oyen, who will be speaking to us on storage in imperial Rome:

"Time Matters: Storage, Romanness, and Roman Imperialism"
Prof. Astrid Van Oyen (Cornell)
March 9, 2017, 6:15 p.m.
Silver Center 503

All are welcome at the lecture and the subsequent reception!

POSTPONED: Since NYU is closed tomorrow, February 9, due to winter weather, we are rescheduling Prof. Laird's talk to FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, at 12 p.m. We hope to see many of you there despite the change in time! A reception will still follow.

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Tomorrow evening (Thursday, February 9) we're delighted to host Brown's Prof. Andrew Laird as our first speaker of the spring semester. Join us in Silver Center at 6:15 to hear him speak on "Aztec Latinists: Classical Learning and Ethnohistory in 16th-century Mexico."

As always, a reception in the department will follow.