New York University Department of Classics

12/07/2019

Graduate students at the department holiday party yesterday!

11/05/2019

Congratulations to graduate student, Lorenzo Del Monte, who defended his doctoral prospectus last week. We are excited to follow his work on the economies of Archaic Greece, Rome, and the Near East!

10/18/2019

The NYU Department of Classics is delighted to be hosting the 2019 regional Greekfest! Contingents from Columbia, Penn, Rutgers, and Princeton joined us to discuss Galen’s de Indolentia, a second century treatise on loss and literature rediscovered in a monastery in 2005. NYU’s participants, mentored by Prof. David Sider (center), include (l-r) Stephanie Savage, Francie Merrill, Joshua Williams, Rebecca Sausville, Meredith Millar, Ricarda Meisl, and Poppy Steel Swayne (not pictured). Thank you to all who made the trek to participate!

10/09/2019

Congratulations to Del A. Maticic for defending his dissertation proposal this past Monday! We look forward to following your work on materiality and chaos!

09/17/2019

We had numerous NYU Classics undergrads last year. This is a great opportunity!

We're excited to announce the CFP for our second-annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World, to be held in NYC in February 2020. Please circulate to your colleagues and students, and consider applying if you're an undergraduate! Last year saw speakers from all over the US.

02/28/2019

We are excited to announce the Inaugural NYU Classics Department Speaker: Ineke Sluiter of Leiden University!

Starting this semester, the NYU Classics Department will, once a year, a invite distinguished speaker to New York to work with graduate students in a masterclass and deliver a public lecture. We hope you can join us for Ineke's talk, "Anchoring Innovation," on Thursday, March 7 at 3:00pm in the Classics Department Seminar Room (Silver Center 503).

02/08/2019

Happening in our department today!

Our undergraduate conference is happening NOW. If you are at or around today, drop by the Classics Department (Silver Center 503)! For the schedule, check out our website.

https://nyusasugconference.webs.com/

10/30/2018

From our colleagues in the NYU Society for Ancient Studies!

We are very excited to announce a CFP for a regional undergraduate conference that we will be hosting this coming February! Submissions will be considered from all areas of study in the ancient world

08/29/2018

Over the past three years, several of our graduate students have worked with colleagues in other departments to build the NYU Society for Ancient Studies, a cross-departmental graduate student collaborative seeking to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars with interests in the ancient world. They regularly organize happy hours, work-in-progress seminars, lectures, panel discussions, and more. If this interests you, be sure to check them out!

Check out their webpage for more information: http://as.nyu.edu/ancientstudies/society-for-ancient-studies.html

It’s been a long summer, but we’re glad to be back—and with a new look! Our new logo features the familiar torch logo of New York University surrounded by a series of abbreviations in various ancient languages. In creating these hypothetical abbreviations, we sought to represent our university’s abbreviation—NYU—in the respective alphabets and syllabaries of several of the ancient languages that our members study. We recognize that the terms “New York” and “University” were not present in the languages employed, so we used the sound and order of the English abbreviation as a model to formulate the most appropriate order of letters and symbols in these ancient languages for approximating the sound of “NYU.” The hypothetical abbreviations are meant to be an entertaining way of advertising the cross-disciplinary approach to research on the ancient world that we promote.

Tell us what you think, and feel free to share our new look with friends!

05/06/2018

We want to wish a hearty congratulations to all of our 2018 Classics majors, especially those who wrote honors theses on topics ranging from ancient substance abuse to the nature of medical training in the first century CE. Special recognition was given at our end-of-the-year reception on Friday to the recipients of our named prizes in Classics, which are awarded for language skills and general contributions to the department. This year's winners were Adrian Zias, Claire Seidler, and Yesenia Brambila -- all of whom are going on to pursue graduate work in ancient disciplines. Εὖγε! Bonam fortunam!

04/07/2018

The NYU team at Latinfest 2018. Thanks to UPenn for hosting. We had a great time discussing some poems from the appendix vergiliana!

01/21/2018

The 2017 biennial NYU Classics Graduate Student Conference was held on November 4 at NYU's Jurow Hall, overlooking Washington Square Park. Special thanks from the organizers are due to the NYU Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Office of the Dean for Humanities, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York Classical Club, and Classical Association of the Atlantic States. We also thank each of our 8 participating graduate students and our three NYU graduate student respondents for their thoughtful takes on the conference theme, with particular thanks to Prof. Emily Greenwood of Yale Classics for her stirring keynote. Lastly, a large thank you to our graduate students and the staff of Silver Center for taking diligent care of our visitors -- and to Rebekah Rust for her lovely photos.