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Spring 2024

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Graduate Student Conference
March 8, 2024 - March 9, 2024
Early Modern Translations and the Classics
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Conference
March 4, 2023 - March 5, 2023
Ancient Graeco-Roman Medicine and Biology Workshop

for graduate and early career researchers

 

Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

 

 

10:00 am - 6:00 pm
03/04/2023
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10:00 am - 4:30 pm
03/05/2023
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Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301

Department of Classics, Department of Philosophy, Program in Classical Philosophy, Humanities Council, Program in the History of Science, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Center for Human Values, IHUM, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Program in the Ancient World

Spring 2022

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Conference
May 21, 2022
“Comparative Mysticisms"

For more information and to register click on the following link.


https://comparativemysticisms.wordpress.com
 

9:45 am - 5:00 pm
Zoom

Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics

Poster for Flame Project
Conference
March 18, 2022 - March 20, 2022
Networks in Transition: Monetary Exchange from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

How to register:
The event is open to the Princeton community as well as to the public. Registration is required for on-campus attendees, as well as those attending virtually. To do so, please visit: https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/8875023

 

For more information visit https://coinage.princeton.edu/flame-conference-march-2022/

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
East Pyne 010 and Firestone C10H

Co-sponsored by Princeton University Library’s Department of Special Collections, Center for Collaborative History, Center for Digital Humanities, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Comparative Antiquity—A Humanities Council Global Initiative, Department of Art & Archaeology, Department of Classics, Princeton Humanities Council, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Program in the Ancient World, Program in Medieval Studies, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Event Poster
Conference
February 19, 2022
Antiquity in Early Modern France
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Zoom

Sponsored by Princeton University Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Fall 2021

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Conference
October 8, 2021 - October 9, 2021
Idyll and Utopia
Via Zoom

Sponsored by the German Department .

Co-Sponsored by the Program in European Cultural Studies, the Department of Classics, the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Program in Media and Modernity.

Spring 2021

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Conference
May 14, 2021 - May 15, 2021
'Specialized Labor in Classical Antiquity: Economy, Community, Identity'

For more information, including the schedule, please visit https://sites.rutgers.edu/laborclassics21/

To register, please use the following link: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XFIoGtCQT0aV935avg4MVw
 

9:00 am - 5:30 pm
May 14, 2021
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9:00 am - 5:30 pm
May 15, 2021
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Conference
April 16, 2021 - April 17, 2021
“Contact, Colonialism, and Comparison”
11:00 am - 4:35 pm
April 16, 2021
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11:15 am - 5:05 pm
April 17, 2021

Organized by Antiquity in the Americas and co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Humanities Council, and the Comparative Antiquity Initiative

2018-2019 Spring

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Conference
May 16, 2019 - May 18, 2019
"The Roman Republic in the Long Fourth Century"

Please RSVP by May 10, 2019 to [email protected]

LOCATION CHANGED AS FOLLOWS:
May 16 - East Pyne 111 / May 17 & 18 - Louis A. Simpson A71

SPONSORED BY The Princeton University Department of Classics, The Humanities Council, The Department of Art and Archaeology, The Program in the Ancient World, The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, The Center for Collaborative History, The Princeton Environmental Institute, and the University Center for Human Values

2018-2019 Fall

Conference
October 4, 2018 - October 5, 2018
"Domestic Violence: The Limits and Possibilities of a Concept"
Betts Auditorium

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics

2017-2018 Spring

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Conference
April 20, 2018
“Women in Classics, Women on Classics”
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
106 McCormick
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Humanities Council, Program in the Ancient World, Department of Art and Archaeology, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of Philosophy, Center for Human Values
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Symposium
April 13, 2018
"How Literatures Begin: A Comparative Approach to Problems and Methods"
9:00 am - 6:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Organized by Denis Feeney and Joel Lande. Sponsored by the Department of German, Department of Classics, East Asian Studies, The Humanities Council, Comparative Literature, and Slavic.
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Conference
March 16, 2018 - March 17, 2018
"Racing the Classics"
9:15 am - 6:10 pm
103 Chancellor Green
Please RSVP by March 8, 2018 to [email protected] Sponsored by Princeton University Humanities Council Global Initiative, Princeton University Department of Classics, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Postclassicisms, Brown University Department of Classics
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Student Competition
February 24, 2018
"Princeton Certamen"

The Princeton Classics Club announces the first annual Princeton Certamen — a quiz-bowl with questions based on Roman history, culture, mythology, literature, and language. Hosting high school and middle school students from all over the country, the Club hopes to inspire passion for the Classics and the Junior Classical League (JCL) with a competitive yet friendly contest. Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta will deliver the keynote address.

8:30 am - 6:30 pm
McCosh Hall

2017-2018 Fall

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Conference
September 22, 2017
Religion and the State in Classical Greece and Rome
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
103 Chancellor Green
Lyric Age of Greece Conference Poster
Conference
September 8, 2017 - September 9, 2017
Culture and Society in the Lyric Age of Greece
A Joint Conference with the European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History and the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song
9:00 am - 7:00 pm
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
Department of Classics, Humanities Council, Program in the Ancient World

2016-2017 Spring

Subjects of Empire conference poster
Conference
May 12, 2017 - May 13, 2017
Subjects of Empire: Political and Cultural Exchange in Imperial Rome
A Conference in Honor of Brent Shaw
1:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
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8:45 am - 6:30 pm
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
Department of Classics, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Humanities Council, Program in the Ancient World, Department of History, Department of Religion, and the Stanley J. Seeger '52 Center for Hellenic Studies

2015-2016 Fall

Behind the Symbol: the Context and Legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria conference poster
Conference
December 11, 2015 - December 12, 2017
Behind the Symbol: the Context and Legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
Conference
December 5, 2015 - December 6, 2015
Program in Classical Philosophy - Classical Philosophy Conference

2014-2015 Spring

Sound of Sense event poster
Conference
May 16, 2015 - May 17, 2015
The Sound of Sense
Orality/Aurality in Byzantine Texts and Contexts
9:00 am
106 McCormick
Conference
Decreations 2015
A Graduate Symposium on the Work of Anne Carson
1:30 pm
TBA

2012-2013 Spring

Conference
April 19, 2013 - April 20, 2013
Vital Traditions: Greco-Roman Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Twenty-First Century
A Conference in Honor of Heinrich von Staden
9:00 am
Rotunda - Chancellor Green
At Princeton University: David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project (Council of the Humanities), Department of Anthropology, Department of Art & Archaeology, Department of Classics, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Stanley J. Seeger ’52 Center for Hellenic Studies, University Center for Human Values, Program in the Ancient World, Program in History of Science, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities At Yale University: Department of Classics, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Section of the History of Medicine (Yale School of Medicine)

2011-2012 Spring

Classics Technology Conference
Deciphering Papyri
New Techniques for Reconstructing the Herculaneum Papyri
12:00 pm
Frist - MPR C
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Humanities Council, Princeton University. Lunch provided. RSVP to [email protected]

2010-2011 Spring

Conference
Department of Classics Technical Workshop
9:00 am
010 East Pyne
This workshop is open to faculty, staff and students in the Department of Classics. Not open to the public.