Events Archive

Events Archive - 2015

Lecture: Christoph Markschies, "Nag Hammadi Library"
Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Speaker
Stewart Lecture: Christoph Markschies, "The Nag Hammadi Library: A Coptic-Gnosrtic Collection or Christian-Monastic LIterature from Egypt"
Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
010 East Pyne
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Work in Progress Talk: Els Rose, "The Semantics of Citizenship, 500-1250"
Wed, Nov 18, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 209
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Faber Lecture: Dimitri Gutas, "Aristotle 600-1200 AD: The Syriac and Arabic Phase"
Tue, Oct 6, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
010 East Pyne
Speaker
Graduate Student Seminar: “Greco-Arabic and the Reception of Aristotle”
Mon, Oct 5, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
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Welcome Party
Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 6:00 pm6:00 pm
Book Club: "Ransom of the Soul" by Peter Brown
Wed, May 6, 2015, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Graduate Students
Class Presentation: Antioch Through the Ages
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 6:00 pm6:00 pm

The students in the course ART 418/HLS 418/CLA 418 “Antioch Through the Ages” will present the results of this semester's work reconstructing the history of a sector of Princeton's Antioch excavations from the 1930s. Sector 17-O was considered a failure by the excavators of the period, as it failed to uncover the Forum of Valens or museum…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Lecture and Lunch: "Reading the ‘Citizenship Papyrus’ (P.Giss. I 40)"
Fri, Apr 24, 2015, 11:30 am11:30 am
Location
209 Scheide Caldwell House
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Lecture: "The Rediscovery of Sogdian"
Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
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Sinai Icons Conference - "A New Look: Sinai and Its Icons in Light of the Digitization of the Weitzmann Archive"
Fri, Apr 17, 2015Sat, Apr 18, 2015

There is no registration fee, but please register for the conference as seating is limited.  http://www.princeton.edu/visualresources/sinai-and-its-icons/registration/

Location
McCormick Hall 101
Book Group: "Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things" by Robert Bartlett
Thu, Apr 9, 2015, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House 103
Graduate Students
Peter Brown and Helmut Reimitz in Conversation
Thu, Apr 2, 2015, 6:00 pm6:00 pm

The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of…

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Workshop: “Framing Early Medieval Coinage”
Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 9:00 am9:00 am

Please go to the Framing Early Medieval Coinage website.

 

After two years of work, the Framing Coinage project has finished surveying the important changes in minting during the transition from the ancient to the medieval periods throughout Europe, North Africa and…

Faber Lecture: Christopher Jones, "Isidore of Pelusium, Sophist and Monk"
Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsors: 

the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Council of the Humanities the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in celebration of their 35th Anniversary of Hellenic Studies at Princeton.
Location
East Pyne 010
Speaker
Graduate Student Coffee Break
Thu, Mar 5, 2015, 10:30 pm10:30 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House 203
Speaker
Graduate Students
Lecture: "A Really Bad Hair Day: The Science Behind Ovid's Amore 1.14"
Wed, Feb 25, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Janet Stephens, Hair Archaeologist
Poster

Cosponsored by Gender, Sexuality and Religion group

Location
Room 103, Scheide Caldwell House
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NES Lecture: “Archaeological Evidence and the Study of the Economy of the Early Islamic Middle East”
Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
Jones 202
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"Procopius of Caesarea and the Sasanian Empire: Images of Persia in Late-Antique Historiography"
Thu, Feb 5, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Co-Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World and the Committee for Study of Late Antiquity
Poster

Location
010 East Pyne
Speaker
Workshop on Jacob of Serugh
Sat, Jan 31, 2015Sun, Feb 1, 2015

Workshop on Jacob of Serugh
Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Program

Saturday, 1/31  

11:30-12:30
Professor Jeff Childers (Abilene Christian University), “Jacob’s New Testament Text”

12:30:…

Location
Jones Hall 102