workshops
Ancient Societies Workshop
Spring Quarter 2025:
Tuesday, April 1 – Arie Neuhauser (UChicago Classics PhD)
“Norms of Violence in Byzantine Civil Wars: Compatriots and the Ethnic Other”
Thursday, April 10 at 5pm in Swift 200 – Han Yang (UChicago Classics PhD)
“Polis Religion and Carthage: Recontextualizing the Punic Tariff Inscriptions” (co-sponsored with the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop)
Tuesday, April 15 – Lorenzo Miletti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
“The Fall of Byzantium and the Translation of Greek Works in Renaissance
Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous”
Tuesday, April 22 – Christopher Simon (UChicago Classics)
“Plato on the Failed Exemplarity of Brutus”
Tuesday, May 6 – Daniel Ruprecht (UChicago Classics PhD)
“Mandating Guilt: “ἐνθυμιστόν” in Legal Decrees from 4th Century Thasos”
Tuesday, May 20 – Lindsey Mazurek (Indiana University Bloomington)
“Expanding the Limits of Private Portraiture: Flavia Mysta’s Family Group in the Kalindoia Sebasteion”
The workshop meets Tuesdays at 3:30pm in Classics 21.
Contact Kodie Bastian at kbastian@uchicago.edu if you have any questions or are interested in presenting in future quarters.
Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
Spring Quarter 2025:
2 April
Dr Sabina Cveček
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Field Museum of Natural History
Çatalhöyük and Houses Without History: The Many Ways of Becoming Kin
16 April
Henry Bacha
PhD Student, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Toward a GIS and remote sensing approach to camelid movement in the Andean Late Horizon: Preliminary reflections
23 April
Dr Luis Muro Ynoñán
Anthropology Curator, Field Museum of Natural History
TBA
7 May
Dr Edward Swenson
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
TBA
14 May
Yuwei Zhou
PhD Candidate, EALC, University of Chicago
Inscription Before Interment: Networks of Burials and Glyphs in the Mortuary Landscape of Anyang, China
21 May
Joseph Harris
PhD Student, MES, University of Chicago
Looking at the Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent through Braidwood’s Legacy Collections
All workshop sessions will be held, unless otherwise noted, on Wednesdays from 3:30 – 5 pm in the Lasalle Banks Room of the ISAC Museum or in room 315 in Haskell Hall.
To be added to our mailing list, and for copies of papers, please email us at willshine@uchicago.edu and llollkova@uchicago.edu. IAW continues to accept proposals on a rolling basis for Winter and Spring quarters. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Other UChicago Workshops of Interest
The University of Chicago sponsors over 70 interdisciplinary workshops on a wide range of themes. These venues bring together graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars from multiple disciplines to discuss cutting edge work in progress (book or dissertation chapters, journal articles, etc.).