2018 - 2019 Archive
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Inner Purity and Pollution in Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Beyond [Conference]
Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic, University of Virginia
Thursday May 9 - Saturday May 11
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Organized by the Laboratory for Cultural Pluralism, Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures, and the Department of Classics, University of Virginia.
Those wishing to attend the conference are encouraged to contact the organizers in advance (ivana.petrovic@virginia.edu, andrej.petrovic@virginia.edu). There is no attendance fee.
The principal aim of this conference is to throw more light on the categories of inner purity and pollution in ancient religious traditions (variously grasped as moral, ethical, or more generally spiritual purity and pollution). A further goal is to illuminate the way individual communities reacted to other purity beliefs and the impact of other societies on individual communities’ purity and pollution beliefs. The conference brings together experts in ancient Egyptian religion, ancient Judaism, early Christianity, Greek and Roman religions, and ancient Buddhism.
Thursday 9th May
5-5.15 PM Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic: Introduction
5.15-6.15 PM John Gee: Ancient Egyptian Purity in Practice
6.15-7.15 PM Ivana Petrovic: Justice and Inner Purity in Greek Philosophy and Cult
Friday 10th May
10-11AM Andreas Bendlin: Inner Purity, the Moral Self, and Roman Religion: From the Republic to the 4th Century CE
11AM-12PM Jacob Mackey: The Fetial Oath: Inner Purity, Divine Punishment, & Large-scale Cooperation in Roman Italy
Lunch break
1.30-2.30PM Ian Werrett: Voices in the Wilderness: Qumran, Jesus, and the Purity Systems of Second Temple Judaism
2.30-3.30PM Andrej Petrovic: On Clear Conscience: Syneidesis between Greek Cults and Early Christianity
Coffee break
4-5PM Moshe Blidstein: Ritualization of Inner Purity or Internalization of Ritual Purity? The Early Christian Case
5-6PM Reception at the Department of Classics
Saturday 11 May
10-11AM Lily Vuong: ‘Without Stain or Corruption’: The Virgin Mary and Inner Purity in Apocryphal Literature
11AM-12PM Sonam Kachru: Inner Purity: South Asian Prospects for a Comparative Category
12-12.30PM Final discussion
Classical Association of Virginia
Saturday, May 4
Randolph-Macon College, Ashland
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Collège de France and the University of Liège
"Daimôn in Archaic Greek Poetry and the Representation of Divine Action in the World"
Friday, April 26, 12:00pm
Wilson 142
Dobbinalia: A Symposium in Honor of John Dobbins' Career and Retirement
Friday, April 26, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Harrison Small Special Collections Auditorium
Reception to follow
RSVP to cjw9bs@virginia.edu
Guest Speakers:
Jared Benton, Kevin Cole, Steve Gavel, Anne Laidlaw, Ismini Miliaresis, Elizabeth Molacek, Eric Poehler, Dylan Rogers, Peter Schertz, Bill Westfall
Full program available here: http://bit.ly/dobbinaliaprogram
Ancient History Jamboree
Friday, April 19, 3:30-6:00pm
Nau 342
Hank Lanphier, ‘The Functionality of the Archaic Hoplite Panoply’
Joshua MacKay, ‘Making Megalopolis’
Kevin Woram, ‘Marketplace Overseers in the Provincial Cities of the Roman Empire: Aediles, Agoranomoi and Maintaining Public Order’
Sophia Papaioannou, University of Athens
"The Transformation(s) of the Epic Catalogue in Ovid’s Metamorphoses"
Thursday, April 18, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Islamic Studies Lecture Series
Geoffrey Mosley, Vanderbilt University
‘The Arabic Plato"
Wednesday, April 17, 3:30pm
114 Cocke Hall
Margaret Lowe Memorial Undergraduate Lecture
Andrew Becker, Virginia Tech
"Beyond Scansion: Reading the Rhythms of Latin Verse"
Monday, April 15, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
MESALC Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
Valerie Stoker, Wright State University
"Loss, Corruption, Theft: The Perilous Lives of Texts in Medieval South India"
Friday, April 12, 3:30pm
301 Wilson Hall
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley
"The Sibylline Oracles: Jewish Adaptation of Greek Tradition as Resistance to Rome?"
Friday, April 12, 12noon
Newcomb 177
lunch provided
Archaeological Institute of America Kress Lecture
Filomena Limão, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
“In search of Roman Lisbon (Olisipo): What lies beneath our feet?”
Thursday, April 11, 5:30pm
Campbell Hall 158
Two decades after the 1755 earthquake that devastated the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, a series of underground galleries dated to the Roman period was discovered in the downtown. This infrastructure of vaulted passages served as a hidden portico (cryptoporticus), used by the Romans to level the sandy soil and help support the buildings above. Now known as the Roman Galleries of Lisbon, this network of subterranean passages is opened only once or twice a year to the public, and has become a sought-after tourist destination. In her lecture, In search of Roman Lisbon (Olisipo): What lies beneath our feet?, Dr. Filomena Limão will explore the ancient galleries in the context of the western suburb of the Roman city beside the river Tagus, with its harbor and salted fish workshops. The lecture will also provide information about the work being done by the Centre of Archaeology of Lisbon (CAL) to investigate the role of the galleries in the planning of Roman Lisbon, and the buildings which may have stood above.
Brian Catlos, University of Colorado Boulder
“A Forgotten History: The Muslims of Medieval Europe”
Wednesday, April 10, 3:30-5:00
Nau 342
Classics Garden Talk 2019
Katherine von Stackelberg, Brock University
"Inseminating Empire: Columella, Colonialism, and Garden Politics"
Monday, April 8, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University
"The Myth of the PreRacial in the Postmodern Past"
Friday, April 5, 12:00pm
Newcomb 177
Kostas Paschalidis, National Archaeological Museum at Athens
"The Battle Krater from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae: a Story Retold"
Thursday, April 4, 1:00pm
R-Lab, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library
Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Grave Circle A at Mycenae were completed in a hasty manner, without necessary recording procedures and in poor weather conditions. Panagiotis Stamatakis, the Ephor of Antiquities at the time, recorded the excavations in his own diary and
arranged for the finds to be transported to Athens soon after the excavations. This diary, kept at the National Archaeological Museum, allows for a detailed study of the assemblage of Shaft Grave IV. In this seminar, Kostas Paschalidis focuses on the intriguing 'Prince with the
Battle Krater', an 18-year old man buried in this grave with a silver pictorial krater, in an attempt to re-tell the story of both the excavation and this individual.
Graduate student colloquium
Vox Populi: Populism and Popular Culture in Ancient Greece and Rome
Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University (keynote)
Saturday, March 30, 9:00am - 5:15pm
Minor Hall, Room 125
Details here: http://classics.as.virginia.edu/2019-graduate-colloquium
Albrecht Diem, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
"Hildemar’s Queer Anxieties: Carolingian Monastic Reform and Same-Sex Sexuality"
Friday, March 29, 4:00pm
Campbell 160
Hildemar of Corbie’s Commentary to the Rule of Benedict belongs to the most prolific sources on monastic life in the period after Carolingian monastic reforms. In a sentence-by-sentence explanation of the Rule Hildemar digresses not only into theological questions but also into various aspects of everyday life, conflicts within the monastery, transgressions and sanctions. In various contexts Hildemar addresses the topic of the vitium sodomiticum, adulterium and fornicatio among monks. Instead of simply condemning same-sex sexuality, Hildemar fully recognizes its existence, proposes elaborate techniques of surveillance and prevention and acknowledges their failure. His attitude appears to be deeply personal and oscillates between anxiety and understanding.
Beyond stating the obvious – that monks committed same-sex transgressions – Hildemar’s deeply personal queer anxiety gives access to various aspects of monastic life and that would otherwise be invisible: boundaries between purity and pollution drawn in rather unexpected ways; boundaries between the inner and outer, both of the individual monk, the monastic community and the monastic space, and a radical reconfiguration of the Rule that had allegedly become the binding norm for all monasteries within the Carolingian kingdoms.
MESALC Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
Jean Dangler, Tulane University
"The Representation of the City in the Strophic Poetry (Azjal) of Ibn Quzman"
Friday, March 29, 3:30pm
301 Wilson Hall
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Florida State University
"Eat. Pray. Heal."
Friday, March 29, 12:00pm
Wilson 142
"Eat. Pray. Heal." Philosophy and religion often meet at the crossroads of antiquity. One of them is their relation to medicine and specifically the process of healing. Plato and Plotinus offer two interesting patient case studies. In a famous episode in the Charmides (155b–157d), Socrates offers the young Charmides an herbal remedy for his headache, but warns him that it will be ineffective unless accompanied by an incantation. In an equally famous episode in Ennead IV.4, dealing with Problems Concerning the Soul (40–45), Plotinus discusses the influence of magic and incantations on the health of the single living of the kosmos, held together under the spell of Nature’s sympathetic bonds. This presentation will examine the (Neo)Platonic understanding of the holistic nature of healing, involving both the body of the universe and the body of the individual, and the contribution of medicine, religion, and Platonic philosophy to it.
Matthieu Herman van der Meer, Syracuse University
“Editing a ninth-century work-in-progress: Glosae collectae in regula S. Benedicti”
Friday, March 29, 12:00noon
Fayerweather Lounge
please RSVP to Keith Robertson (zkr7e)
lunch provided
The Page-Barbour Lecture Series
Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College
"ON DIGRESSION: Narrative Afterlives of the Odyssey"
A Series of Three Lectures
"Auerbach, Homer, Eustathius, Fénelon: Circling Toward Identity (Time)"
Tuesday, March 26, 4:00pm
Harrison/Small Auditorium
"Fénelon, Herodotus, Kâmil Pasha, Proust: Meandering Across Genre (Space)"
Wednesday, March 27, 4:00pm
Harrison/Small Auditorium.
"Proust, Joyce, Sebald, Auerbach: Perambulating with Memory (History)"
Thursday, March 28, 4:00pm
Harrison/Small Auditorium
Kerem Cosar, University of Virginia
"Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age"
Wednesday, March 27, 12:00pm
Monroe 120
Refreshments provided
We analyze a large dataset of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the 19th Century BCE. Using the information collected from these records, we estimate a structural gravity model of long-distance trade in the Bronze Age. We use our structural gravity model to locate lost ancient cities. In many instances, our structural estimates confirm the conjectures of historians who follow different methodologies. In some instances, our estimates confirm one conjecture against others. Having structurally estimated ancient city sizes, we offer evidence in support of the hypothesis that large cities tend to emerge at the intersections of natural transport routes, as dictated by topography. We also document persistent patterns in the distribution of city sizes across four millennia, find a distance elasticity of trade in the Bronze Age close to modern estimates, and show suggestive evidence that the distribution of ancient city sizes, inferred from trade data, is well approximated by Zipf’s law.
Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture
Ethan Gruber, American Numismatic Society
Renee Gondek, University of Mary Washington
Tyler Jo Smith (in absentia), University of Virginia
“Kerameikos.org: A Network Science Approach to the Study of Greek Pottery”
Friday, March 22, 4:00pm
Brooks Hall Conference Room
Light refreshments provided
Abstract:
Our presentation will outline the NEH-funded project “Kerameikos.org.” Kerameikos.org is an international effort to define the intellectual concepts of Archaic and Classical Greek pottery following the methodologies of Linked Open Data (LOD). These concepts include categories such as shapes, artists, styles, and production places. When linked externally to other LOD thesauri, such as the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Kerameikos.org allows for the normalization and aggregation of disparate museum and archaeological datasets into an information system that facilitates broader public access (e.g., Pelagios Commons). Beyond the definition of pottery concepts, following open web standards, Kerameikos.org will standardize and document an ontology and model for exchanging pottery data, provide easy-to-use interfaces to visualize geographic and quantitative distributions of Greek pottery, and publish a series of data manipulation web services enabling archaeologists and museum professionals to contribute data to this ecosystem.
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Cornelia Horn, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
"Refractions of Revelations and Sacred Books at the Intersection of Christian Oriental Traditions and Early Islam"
Friday, March 22, 12:00pm
Wilson 142
McIntire Lecture Series
Simon Rettig, Freer | Sackler Galleries
"Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and his Manuscripts: New Directions in Persian Arts of the Book around 1400"
Thursday, March 21, 6:30 PM
Campbell Hall, Room 160
Stocker Lecture
Christina Kraus, Yale University
"Livy’s Faliscan Schoolmaster"
Tuesday, March 19, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Tuesday Classics Luncheon
John Dobbins, University of Virginia
"Omnes Viae Romam Ducunt"
Tuesday, March 5, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45
Room E1 of the Garden Room
Fralin Museum Weedon Lecture
Katheryn Linduff, University of Pittsburgh
"How Burials Shaped Life and Death in Pazyryk Culture (4th-3rdc. BCE) in Eastern Eurasia"
Thursday, February 28, 6:00pm
Campbell 158
From the perspective of an art historian and archaeologist, I hope to show how we can begin to understand the essential role that material culture played in a remote, non-literate culture such as Pazyryk located where mobile pastoral peoples lived and buried their dead in Siberia where present-day Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia come together. Exciting new finds and scientific examination of perfectly preserved goods found there in permafrost offer an opportunity to sharpen our understanding of the past and present a more credible picture of the Pazyryk people than the highly romanticized portrait of them presented by Herodotus and Sima Qian as warrior nomads who were constantly on the move raiding and terrorizing their neighbors.
Tuesday Classics Luncheon
Holly Maggiore, University of Virginia
"Clodius furens: Cicero and Varro’s theologia tripartita in the de Haruspicum Responsis"
Tuesday, February 26, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45
Room E1 of the Garden Room
***cancelled - to be rescheduled***
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Dan-el Pedilla Peralta, Princeton University
"From Pluralism to Epistemicide: Religions in the Imperial Roman Republic"
Friday, February 22, 12:00pm
Wilson 142
Tuesday Classics Luncheon
Peter Moench, University of Virginia
"Pindar’s Manipulations of Time and Space in Nemean 6"
Tuesday, February 19, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45
Room E1 of the Garden Room
Tuesday Classics Luncheon
John Miller, University of Virginia
"The Lover’s Calendar"
Tuesday, February 12, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45
Room E1 of the Garden Room
Prof. Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria
“Architecture, Ornament and the Qur’an Fragments from the Mosque of San’a’ in Yemen”
Friday, February 15, 4:30p.m.
106 McCormick Hall
The cache of ancient parchment fragments recovered from the Great Mosque in Sana‘a’ in Yemen included two folios with elaborate architectural designs. While their provenance remains the subject of speculation, there is broad scholarly agreement that these folios were originally frontispieces or finispieces from a luxury Qur’an. It is plausible that this Qur’an was produced in Damascus in the early part of the eighth century, perhaps as part of a set that were distributed to the major mosques of the Umayyad empire. There has been general acceptance that the paintings themselves are attempts to depict aspects of the plan, exterior features and interior spaces of a courtyard mosque. Some features, such as the vegetal framing band, have drawn comparisons with the decorative components in the Great Mosque of Damascus, commissioned by caliph al-Walid I (r. 705-15). The images are problematic, however, in that they are not composed according to the conventions employed in the ancient world for the representation of standing buildings. This paper offers a detailed compositional analysis of these important paintings, seeking to locate them in the tradition of Late Antique architectural ornamentation in the Mediterranean and Middle East. It is argued that the form of the early Islam courtyard mosque represented a unique challenge for the established modes of architectural representation, and that this problem has implications for our understanding of the goals of the designers of the Sana‘a’ frontispieces. The last part of the paper assesses the importance of these manuscript images in the evolution of early Islamic ornament.
MESALC Interdisciplinary Forum
Sherif Abdelkarim, University of Virginia
Seminar: “Of fals ymaginacioun: Poetics of Hypocrisy in Medieval Anglo-Arabic Texts”
Thursday, 31 January, 3:30pm
144 New Cabell Hall
Archaeology Brown Bag Workshop
Claire Weiss, University of Virginia
"The Space Between: Sidewalks, Social Integration, and Economic Structure in Roman Italy"
Friday, December 7, 4:30pm
Brooks Hall Conference Room
light refreshments will be served
Abstract: Sidewalks were central features of ancient Roman urban life and society. This study combines an analysis of textual, juridical, and physical evidence for the construction of sidewalks, or their absence, at four ancient Roman cities: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, and Minturnae. At Pompeii and Herculaneum, sidewalk construction, or curbing at least, seems to have been legally required of buildings with street frontages, since sidewalks were constructed against nearly every building façade. In these cities, sidewalks existed, in part, to separate pedestrians from street traffic, keeping them removed from hazards, but they also facilitated social and economic interconnections that were characteristic of the late Republican and early Imperial periods. At Ostia and Minturnae, there were fewer sidewalks and curbs. Instead, corridors and alleys provided pedestrians with access routes through and between buildings, away from the view and the social display of the streets. These high-imperial cities seem to have no longer required sidewalks as a legal condition of construction, their façades instead overwhelmingly dedicated to commercial endeavors. At these cities during the high empire, economic competition was no longer so indelibly tied to social connections, just as domestic and economic properties had been disentangled and resituated into more discretely defined buildings. The four cities examined in this study allow for the suggestion that there was diachronic change in Roman social and economic relationships evident from the differing construction arrangements of the four cities’ frontages. The alteration in access and provisioning for pedestrians is suggestive of a larger shift in social and economic behavior that removed the focus of interaction from the public street to the privacy of indoors. Using Structure from Motion and GIS to record and analyze the façades of these cities, this study determines that the way these cities provided for pedestrians reflected the prevailing urban social and economic culture, a culture that differed from city to city and transformed over time.
Material of Christian Apocrypha Conference
Friday, November 30-December 1
Wilson Hall 142
https://www.materialofchristianapocrypha.com/
Hosted by the University of Virginia’s Department of Religious Studies and McIntire Department of Art, under the auspices of the North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature, this conference assembles a group of participants who will address two interrelated yet distinct topics: 1) the physicality of our apocryphal texts (i.e. various aspects of the manuscripts or papyri themselves), and 2) the representation of apocryphal narratives in other forms of material culture (e.g. frescos, mosaics, sculptures, icons, pilgrimage objects, reliquaries, etc.). By drawing our collective attention to the material aspects of the literary and the literary aspects of the material, we hope to spark a fruitful and enduring exchange between scholars and students rooted in both areas.
Sara Ritchey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Rhythmic Medicine: Poetry and the Pulse in Thirteenth-Century French Psalters”
Friday, November 30, 4:00pm
New Cabell Hall 323, with reception to follow in NCH 349
Presented by the Program in Medieval Studies, the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion, the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, the Department of English, the Corcoran Department of History, the Page-Barbour Fund, the UVA Center for Poetry & Poetics, and the Department of French.
Constantine Lecture
Susan Stephens, Stanford University
"Greek Chariot Racing: A Sport for Kings (and Queens)"
Thursday, November 15, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Graduate Student Research Showcase
Friday, November 9, 12:00pm
Wilson 142
Speakers:
Janet Dunkelbarger (Mediterranean Art and Archeology),
Najee Olya (Mediterranean Art and Archeology),
Jeannie Sellick (Religeous Studies)
Archaeology Brownbag Workshop
Kevin Daly and Stephanie Larson, Bucknell University
"The Ismenion Hill in Thebes: Temples, Tombs, and Traditions"
Friday, November 2, 4:00pm
Brooks Hall Conference Room
light refreshments will be served
Abstract. Kevin Daly and Stephanie Larson will present some of the preliminary results from their excavations on the Ismenion Hill, Thebes, Greece, from 2011-2016. This multi-period site has revealed new facets of the ancient temple to Apollo, the early Byzantine cemetery, and late Byzantine neighborhood life in this area that offer new insights on aspects of healing, disease and death in the Eastern Mediterranean. [Our own Dr. Fotini Kondyli is the main Byzantine pottery specialist working on the medieval material from this excavation.]
Gildersleeve Inaugural Lecture
Tony Corbeill, University of Virginia
"Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero"
Thursday, 1 November, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Tuesday Classics Luncheon
Brett Evans, University of Virginia
Tuesday, October 30, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45
Room E1 of the Garden Room
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Ann Marie Yasin, University of Southern California
Friday, October 26, 12:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Richard Utz, Georgia Tech
"What, in the World, Is Medievalism?"
Thursday, October 25, 5:30pm
Dumbarton Oaks Music Room
1703 32nd Street NW
Washington, DC 20007
The President of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism and author of Medievalism: A Manifesto, Professor Richard Utz (School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech) takes a democratic approach to medieval studies and public scholarship. This lecture will address modern engagement with medieval culture, echoing the theme of the exhibition.
Medievalism refers to the life of the Middle Ages beyond its own time. Elements of the medieval have appeared in art, architecture, and culture, from the Renaissance to the present. Our enduring fascination with the Middle Ages can be seen in the popularity of fantasy novels, television shows, and video games set in quasi-medieval worlds. The Juggling the Middle Ages exhibition and programming consider how medievalism has transformed over time, and what that transformation reveals.
Juggling the Middle Ages
Featuring more than 100 objects, Juggling the Middle Ages explores the influence of the medieval world by focusing on a single story with a long-lasting impact—Le Jongleur de Notre Dame or Our Lady’s Tumbler. The exhibit follows the tale from its rediscovery by scholars in the 1870s to its modern interpretations in children’s books, offering viewers a look at a vast range of objects, including stained glass windows, illuminated manuscripts, household objects, and vintage theater posters.
Tuesday Classics Luncheon
Giulio Celotto, University of Virginia
Tuesday, October 23, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45
Room E1 of the Garden Room
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen
“Early Christians in Corinth (AD 50-200): Religious Insiders or Outsiders?”
Friday, October 19, 12:00pm
Wilson 142
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen
“Religious Pluralism in Antiquity: Curiosity, Irritation and Dialogue from Herodotus to Late Antiquity”
Wednesday, October 17, 5:00 - 6:30pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity Colloquium
Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen
"Author, Date, and Provenance of the Protoevangelium Jacobi"
Wednesday, October 17, 1:00pm
Nau 441
Weedon Lecture
Subhashini Kaligotla, Yale University
"Writ in Stone: Epigraphs and the Presence of Medieval Indian Makers"
Tuesday, October 16, 6:00pm
Campbell 158
Subhashini Kaligotla specializes in Deccan India of the first millennium, with research interests in sacred architecture, the agency of makers and images, and historiography. She is working on a book project titled "Cosmopolitan Craftsmen and Sacred Space in Medieval India," which is interested in what it means to make in early medieval India. The book examines the material and metaphoric resources available to a range of makers from temple builders and sculptors, poets and writers, to ruling houses and patrons. Kaligotla is Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at Yale University.
Tuesday Classics Luncheon
Dan Kinney, University of Virginia
Tuesday, October 16, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45
Room E1 of the Garden Room
Muhsin Al-Musawi, Columbia University
"The City in the Medieval and Modern Arabic Narrative"
Friday, October 12, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Wilson Hall 130
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Osmund Bopearachchi, University of California, Berkeley
“Greek inspirations on early Buddhist art in Gandhara (ancient India)”
Friday, October 12, 3:00pm
Monroe 116
Tailored to the interests of the Lab
Coffee and light refreshments provided
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Osmund Bopearachchi, University of California, Berkeley
"Diffusion of Buddhist Philosophies and Art Along the Maritime Silk Routes,"
Friday, October 12, 12:30pm
Nau 342
Although this talk is geared toward Religious Studies specialist, all are welcome
Lunch will be provided
Sergio Casali, University of Rome
"The Kings of the Laurentes: Self-Reflexive Contradictions in Virgil’s Aeneid"
Wednesday, October 10, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Archaeology Brownbag Workshop
Katherine M. Harrell
"Power, Honor, and Violence in Mycenaean Greece: The Archaeology and the Images"
Friday, October 5, 4:00pm
Brooks Hall Conference Room
Tuesday Classics Luncheon
Ted Lendon, University of Virginia
Tuesday, October 2, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45
Room E1 of the Garden Room
Archaeological Institute of America - La Follette Lecture
Maria Liston, University of Waterloo
“The Holy Disease: Evidence for Leprosy and the Origins of the Hospital in Byzantine Thebes”
Thursday, September 27, 5:30pm
Campbell 158
Excavations in the Sanctuary of Ismenion Apollo in Thebes also revealed a later cemetery of Early and Middle Byzantine burials. Analysis of these burials has generated new information about burials and society in the transition from late Antique to Christian Greece. Analysis of the skeletons showed that a remarkably high percentage of individuals suffered from significant, pathologies, including cancers, brucellosis, extensive trauma, and particularly leprosy (Hansen’s disease). The very high percentage of individuals with leprosy indicates they were associated with a nearby leprosarium or hospital. Hospitals serving the community as a whole were an early innovation of the Byzantine church in Greece, and this project provides a vivid glimpse of the patients whose lives ended there
Distinguished Lecture in Poetry and Politics, Medieval Studies
Ardis Butterfield, Yale University
“Medieval Lyric: A Translatable or Untranslatable Zone?”
Tuesday, September 25, 5:30pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Identity Politics-Medieval/Modern Conference
Friday, September 21, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Carolyn Dinshaw, NYU [Plenary Address]
"Sign of the Times: The Medieval Foliate Head and the Imagery of Brexit"
Participants:
Matthew Gabriele
Nizar Hermes
Wan-Chuan Kao
Sara Lipton
Sierra Lomuto
Nina Rowe
Archaeology Brownbag Workshop
Erika Brant, University of Virginia
"Houses for the Living, Houses for the Dead: Mortuary Feasts and Social Inequality at a Post-Collapse Andean Necropolis (AD 1000-1450)"
Friday, September 21, 4:00pm
Brooks Hall Conference Room
Abstract. The collapse of the highland state of Tiwanaku around AD 1000 was accompanied by a dramatic uprising against the ruling elite. Elite ancestor effigies placed in large open plazas were iconoclastically disfigured, while the Putuni Palace, home to Tiwanaku's ruling elite, was leveled. In the post-collapse period, Titicaca Basin people abandoned the symbols of Tiwanaku's authority. A 1500-year tradition of ritual architecture and craft goods disappeared, and ritual practice turned to the worship of ancestors placed in modest burial towers, or chullpas. Does such a transition in ritual architecture and the abandonment of state-affiliated material culture signal a reinvention or, conversely, a rejection of hierarchy in the post-collapse period? Excavations conducted at the post-collapse Colla necropolis of Sillustani revealed a series of kin-focused ritual compounds as well as a previously understudied domestic sector characterized by multiple elite houses. Ceramic, faunal and architectural findings indicate a more segmented, and possible situational, role of leadership during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1450).
Dissecting Cultural Pluralism Lab
Introductory lunch
Friday, September 21, 12:00noon
Wilson 142
We are pleased to invite you to our first event of the 2018-2019 academic year. Please join us as we introduce our scheduled events, speakers, and activities for the coming year over lunch. We look forward to introducing ourselves to new participants and reconnecting with those of you who have participated in the past!
Archaeology Night!
Wednesday, September 19, 6:00-7:30 pm
Brooks Hall Commons
First annual meeting of all archaeology majors and minors, graduate students, and faculty for an evening of pizza and conversation. This is an opportunity to meet with fellow archaeologists and to hear about summer fieldwork, research interests, and future plans of people at all stages in the UVA archaeological community. In addition, internships, collaborative research efforts for students and faculty, and support for summer plans will be discussed. As is our tradition this is a casual event—come as you are, stay as you can.
Archaeology Brownbag Workshop
Introductory Meet and Greet
Friday, September 7, 4:00pm
Brooks Hall Conference Room
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