Campus Events
Upcoming Events:
“World of Signs: Coins and the Tree Shrines of Bharhut (ca. 200 B.C.E.-100 C.E.),” Charlotte Gorant (Columbia University), 05/17/2024, Kresge 2-410, 3.30-5 PM.
“Mithridates, He Died Old: The History of Theriac,” Nick Winters (Northwestern University), 05/03/2024, Kresge 4-364, 3.30-5 PM.
Previous Events:
“Teaching Museum Literacy”, Ashley Arico (Associate Curator of Ancient Egyptian Art) and Lisa Cakmak (Chair of Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium Department), The Art Institute of Chicago, 03/12/2024, 1-4 PM.
“Shadows of Time: The Science and Art of the Ancient Sundial,” Nick Winters (Northwestern University), 02/16/2024, Kresge 4-364, 12-2 PM.
“The First Kings of Europe: An International Exhibition about the Prehistoric Balkans,” William Parkinson (Field Museum), 11/17/2023, Kaplan Seminar Room 2-351, 3.30PM-5PM.
“How to become a successful ruler? A philosophical re-examination of the Arthaśāstra,” Agnieszka Rostalska (Ghent University), 11/7/2023, Kaplan Seminar Room 2-351, 3.30 PM-5PM.
“Global Antiquities Graduate Social,” Five and Dime, 1026 Davis St., Evanston, IL, 10/27/2023, 4PM-6PM
“From the Ashes? Transformations of Italian Cities during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,” Andrea Augenti (University of Bologna), 4/21/2023
Teaching Antiquity Symposium, Keynote by Yurie Hong (Gustavus Adolphus College), 4/15/2023
Empire and the Limits of Exploitation: Wealth and Power between Imperial Centre and Provincial City in the Roman World, Arjan Zuiderhoek (Ghent University), 3/10/2023
Byzantine Influence on Old Rus’: A Reassessment, Sergey Ivanov (British Academy Fellow; Northwestern University Visiting Scholar), 1/6/2023
Capillary Networks in a Contact Zone: Upper Indus Rock Inscriptions and Petroglyphs, Jason Neelis (Wilfred Laurier University), 11/18/2022
Philosophy, Happiness, and Liberation: Protreptic in Plato and Vātsyāyana, Blaze Marpet (Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy, Northwestern), with comments from Hande Akyar, 10/21/2022
The Last Plans of Alexander, Reconsidered, Professor Jennifer Finn (Loyola University Chicago), 5/19/2022
Mobility and the Consolidation of Empire: The Case of a Local Official during Late Western Han, Professor Griet Vankeerberghen (McGill University), 4/14/2022
Horse Sacrifice at Phaleron? Interpreting Ancient Greek Horse Burials, Dr. Flint Dibble (Cardiff University), 3/11/2022
The Snakes of Athens: Imagery and Legitimacy in Euripides’ Ion, Professor Anna Darden (Classics), 12/2
A Viewing and Tour of the Block Museum’s New Exhibit “Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection,” led by Essi Rönkkö (Block Museum) with discussion from Taco Terpstra (Classics), 11/17/2021
A Culture of Empire and the Neo-Assyrian World, Professor Ann Gunter (Art History), 5/28/2021
Going, going, gone!: The Online Market in Mesopotamian Antiquities in Times of Conflict, Professor Oya Topçuoğlu (Middle East and North African Languages), 2/19/2021
The Political Status of Women in the Ancient Confucian Classics, Professor Loubna El Amine (Political Science), 11/18/2020
The Trappings of Power in the Han and Roman Bureaucracies, Taco Terpstra (Classics) at McGill University’s Global Antiquities workshop Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China, 10/15/2020
The (W)Hole Story: People, Pots, and Planes along the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan, Professor Morag Kersel (Anthropology, DePaul University), 2/28/2020
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Afghanistan, Professor Gil J. Stein (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago), 1/17/2020
Empires Ancient and Modern, Professor Taco Terpstra (Classics) and Daniel Immerwahr (History), 12/5/2019
Making Classics Public, Keynote Address, Professor Sarah Bond (History, University of Iowa) and Donna Zuckerberg (editor of Eidolon), Co-sponsored with Classics Department and the Society for Classical Studies, 10/15/2019