Events Archive

Events Archive - 2017

Lecture: Alberto Camplani, "The Making of the Patriarchate of Alexandria: Forms of Self-representation and Traces of Lost Archives in Recently Discovered Sources in Ethiopic, Syriac, and Latin"
Mon, Dec 4, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

The recently published History of the Episcopate of Alexandria (ed. A. Bausi and A. Camplani, Adamantius 22, 2016, 249-302), preserved in Ethiopic, Latin, Greek, and Syriac manuscripts and fragments, offers an exceptional opportunity to study not only the self-representation of the Alexandrian bishopric at the end of the fourth century, but…

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Scheide Caldwell 103
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Workshop: "After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the 10-11th Centuries"
Sat, Dec 2, 2017, 9:30 am9:30 am

This conference and edited volume represent the first international effort dedicated to exploring continental European illuminated manuscripts from the multifaceted, still poorly understood era of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The project demonstrates how the study of manuscripts revises and enriches our knowledge of this elusive historical…

Location
144 Lewis A. Simpson International Building
Workshop: "After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the 10-11th Centuries"
Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 9:30 am9:30 am

This conference and edited volume represent the first international effort dedicated to exploring continental European illuminated manuscripts from the multifaceted, still poorly understood era of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The project demonstrates how the study of manuscripts revises and enriches our knowledge of this elusive historical…

Location
144 Lewis A. Simpson International Building
Conference: Judaism in the 7th and 8th Centuries
Sun, Nov 12, 2017Tue, Nov 14, 2017
Location
Monday Location: 8:30-11:45am, 202 Jones Hall; 1:00-3:00pm, 100 Jones Hall; 3:00-6:00pm, 202 Jones Hall
Stewart Lecture: Béatrice Caseau, "Tasting and Touching: Tactile Piety in the Late Antique and Byzantine Religious Culture"
Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

By his incarnation, Christ had made it possible to touch God through objects sanctified by his contact. He could be experienced through different material objects such as the consecrated bread and wine, or relics such as the wood of the Cross. The faithful were called to "Taste and see that the Lord is good" (Psalm 34:8). We find numerous…

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Scheide Caldwell 103
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Lecture: Byron MacDougall, "Christmas in Constantinople: Gregory of Nazianzus and the Performance of Theoria in Late Antiquity"
Wed, Oct 18, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

The orations of Gregory of Nazianzus on the major feasts of the Christian calendar ranked among the most popular and most widely translated works of literature in the Byzantine world. However, before being canonized as Saint Gregory the Theologian, Gregory was an Athenian-trained teacher of Classical Greek literature and as such learned to…

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Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
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Lecture: Kimberly Bowes, "Landscapes of the Poor in Late Antiquity"
Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

The fate of the countryside in late antiquity has been hotly debated, with much recent work on the continuity - or not - of villas, trade and agricultural production in different parts of the empire. This paper presents new work from central Italy, gathered during a project focused on the lives and landscapes of the rural poor. The questions of…

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Room 103 Scheide Caldwell House
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Classics Conference: “Subjects of Empire: Political and Cultural Exchange in Imperial Rome, A Conference in honor of Brent Shaw”
Fri, May 12, 2017Sun, May 14, 2017

Further information including participants, schedule, and rsvp.

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Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
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Medieval Graduate Conference: “Vulnerability in the Middle Ages”
Fri, Apr 28, 2017, 12:00 amSat, Apr 29, 2017, 6:00 pm
Work in Progress: Dina Boero, "Remaking the Saint: Antonius’ Life of Symeon the Elder and the Cult of Symeon the Younger"
Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Work in Progress

Remaking the Saint:

Antonius’ Life of Symeon the Elder

and the Cult of Symeon the Younger
 

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103 Scheide Caldwell
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Workshop: "Family in the Premodern World"
Fri, Apr 7, 2017, 2:00 pmSat, Apr 8, 2017, 6:00 pm

Further information for workshop schedule and papers.

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209 Scheide Caldwell House
Lecture: Robert Brody, "Aspects of Literacy and Orality among Medieval Jews and Their Neighbors"
Wed, Mar 29, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Robert Brody is professor emeritus of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Best known for his work on the literature of the Babylonian Geonim, he has also published extensively on Mishnah and Tosefta as well as issues concerning the Babylonian Talmud and the textual history and…

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1879 Hall, Religion Department Lounge
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Lecture: Robert Brody, "Looking for Early Composite Sugyot"
Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Robert Brody is professor emeritus of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Best known for his work on the literature of the Babylonian Geonim, he has also published extensively on Mishnah and Tosefta as well as issues concerning the Babylonian Talmud and the textual history and…

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203 Scheide Caldwell House
Speaker
Lecture: Columba Stewart, "Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the (Pointless) Search for the Origins of Christian Monasticism"
Mon, Mar 27, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
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103 Scheide Caldwell House
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Faber Lecture: John Matthews, "Lost Monuments of Fourth-Century Constantinople"
Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
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Class Presentation: "Antioch Through the Ages: the Theater at Daphne"
Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Antioch-on-the-Orontes has been the focus for scholarly attention at Princeton since the excavations of the 1930s. Last year a class in the Art and Archaeology Department taught by Alan Stahl studied a sector of the site excavated within the ancient city itself and reported on it at a public program. This year’s class…

Location
103 Scheide Caldwell House