Conferences, Lectures, and Meetings

The international conference RECENT WORK ON THE CULTS OF BOEOTIA: ARCHAEOLOGY, EPIGRAPHY, AND HISTORY will be held in Athens and available online, December 4-6. Co-organized with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia, all events will take place at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

We will begin with a keynote lecture on Monday, December 4 at 7:00 pm (Athens time):
Elena Kountouri, Η ακρόπολη του Γλα. Ακρογωνιαίος λίθος του μυκηναϊκού ανακτορικού κωπαϊδικού πεδίου; Ανασκόπηση

FIEC is proud to announce the first series of lectures celebrating the 75th anniversary of the foundation of FIEC, to be held online in November and December 2023. A second series of lectures will be organized in the course of 2024.

To see the full schedule and for the links to online lectures, visit: 75 years of FIEC

Colloquium in Memory of Penelope Biggs
Umrath Lounge, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Saturday, December 2nd, 2023, 8:30AM-3:00PM Central Standard Time

The University of Southern California's Levan Institute for the Humanities is hosting an upcoming Levan Book Chat, featuring William G. Thalmann's new book, Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire (Oxford University Press, 2023). William G. Thalmann is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He will be joined in conversation by Frederick T. Griffiths (Amherst College) and Susan Stephens (Stanford University), moderated by Vincent Farenga (USC).

CASSAS SEMINAR IN GREEK LAW AND SOCIETY
Fall 2023
Organizer: Ifigeneia Giannadaki (University of Florida)

Fridays at 12 noon ET via Zoom

For more information, please visit: Cassas Seminar in Greek Law and Society, Fall 2023

20 OCTOBER
Dimos Spatharas (University of Crete), ‘Emotions and the law in the courts of classical Athens’

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents:
BEFORE EMOTION II: FURTHER CONVERSATIONS ON AFFECTIVITY IN PRE-MODERN CULTURES

Thursday - Friday, November 9-10, 2023
All times are Eastern Standard Time
Zoom webinar
Registration is free and required - click here for registration information

Bard Graduate Center
Exhibiting Africa: State of the Field in African Art and the Diaspora
A research symposium presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum

DATE: October 19–20, 2023, 1:30 – 5:15 pm
LOCATION: 38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall / Brooklyn Museum
CONTACT: public.humanities@bgc.bard.edu

Bard Graduate Center Stages Historic “Exhibiting Africa” Symposium with Brooklyn Museum.

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU (ISAW)

17th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
In Search of the “Evanescent” Garamantes: The Central Sahara in the 1st Millennium BCE

Lucia Mori
Sapienza Università di Roma

Hesperides is delighted to share that they have been able to organize another Rare Books workshop on the classical tradition—similar to the 2023 Annual Meeting—with Chicago's iconic Newberry Library through its Center for Renaissance Studies, available to SCS 2024 Annual Meeting attendees.

Event Date: Thursday, January 4th, 2:00–3:30PM

Location: Newberry Library, Chicago (Google Maps)

The Archaeological Institute of America's virtual Archaeology Hour returns in September!

The AIA's 2023/2024 virtual lecture season begins tomorrow, with Elise A. Friedland’s lecture, “Classical Washington: Greece & Rome in the Art and Architecture of DC."

See this fall's schedule of upcoming lectures, on classical art and architecture, tattooing in ancient Egypt, and the cuisine of ancient Peru: AIA Archaeology Hours