Working Calendar of Events for Academic Year

 

FALL SEMESTER

August 24 (Friday; 1:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Dissertation colloquium (Panagiota Pantou).

August 27 (Monday): Classes begin.

August 29 (Wednesday; 3:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320):  Dissertation defense (Jeanette Cooper).

September 8 (Saturday, 5:00-9:00 PM; 120 Brantwood Road, Amherst): Faculty/staff/ graduate student cookout.

September 12 (Wednesday; 4:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Dissertation colloquium (Benjamin Costello).

September 27 (Thursday; 6:30 PM; Fillmore 343):  Seminar presentation:

Papyri and Homer (Rafaella Cribiore, Columbia University).

September 28 (Friday; 1:00 PM; Fillmore 320): Lecture: Ancient Education and the Papyri (Rafaella Cribiore, Columbia University).

September 29 (Saturday; 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM): Field trip to Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario.

October 8 (Monday; 4:00-5:00 PM; Richmond 3, Room 355): IEMA Lecture: The Exploitation of Animals at the Heart of the Serenissima and Beyond:

Venetian Colonial Expansion in the Medieval Mediterranean (Krish Seetah, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge).

October 10 (Wednesday; 3:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Dissertation colloquium: Controlling the Sacred Past: Christian Archaeology in the 19th century at Rome (Jamie Erenstoft).

October 17 (Wednesday; 1:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Lecture: The Romans and Ritual Murder (Celia Schultz, Yale University).

October 26-27 (Friday – Saturday): University at Buffalo Humanities Institute Annual Conference: Human Trafficking.  Including:

October 26 (Friday; 2:00-3:15; Center for the Arts): Lecture: ‘With This Wet Clay You Can Make Whatever You Please’: The Sale of Slaves in Ancient Rome.  (Sandra Joshel, University of Washington)

October 30 (Tuesday; 5:00 PM Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): AIA lecture: Chasing a Roman Soldier (James Russell, University of British Columbia).

November 5 (Monday; 4:00 PM Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Lecture: Pythagoras and Numa: Exile at the Beginning of Roman Religion and Law (Matthew McGowan, Fordham University).

December 7 (Friday): Classes end.

December 13 (Thursday; 4:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Practice presentations for Archaeological Institute of America meeting (Matt Buell, Scott Gallimore, Adam Hyatt).

December 18 (Tuesday): Winter recess begins.

 

SPRING SEMESTER

January 14 (Monday): Classes begin.

January 22 (6:00 PM/Clemens 120 IS): Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Lecture: From Çatalhöyük to Knossos and from Knossos to Kane?: Relations between Central Anatolia and Crete in the 8th and 2nd  millennium BC  (Tristam Carter, McMaster University).

January 31 (Thursday; 5:00 PM/Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Lecture: Is imperialism infectious?  The case of Athens and Sparta (Sarah Bolmarcich, University of Texas).

February 7 (Thursday; 5:00 PM/Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Lecture: Framing the role of the army in Ptolemaic Egypt (323-31 BC). (Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Stanford University).

February 11 (Monday; 5:00 PM; Park 280):  Institute for Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture Lecture: Rabbis, Romans, and Ritual Baths: Jews and their Neighbors in Ancient Sepphoris (Stuart Miller, University of Connecticut).

February 12 (Tuesday; 2:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320):  Institute for Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture Lecture: Sages and Commoners: New Perspectives on Roman Palestine and Rabbinic Judaism (Stuart Miller, University of Connecticut).

February 20 (Wednesday; 5:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Lecture:

Tyrannicide and the Democratization of Hellenistic Erythrai (David Teegarden, Wellesley College).

February 27 (Wednesday; 6:00 PM; MFAC 355): IEMA Lecture: Unsettled

Landscapes: Viking-Age Settlement Patterns and the Development of Social Inequality in Northern Iceland (Douglas Bolender, IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow, University at Buffalo).

March 28 (Friday 9:15 AM-1PM): Departmental Open House for Area High School Students.

April 2 (Wednesday; 5:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Archaeological Institute of America lecture: The Invisible Sex: Some Thought on the Role of Women in Prehistory (James Adovasio, Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute).

April 3 (Thursday) Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Inauguration.  Keynote speaker: Graeme Barker (Director, McDonald Institute of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).  For more information see:

http://www.iema.buffalo.edu/IEMAConf2008.html

April 4-5 (Friday-Saturday) First Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Postdoctoral Fellowship Conference: Towards an Eventful Archaeology.  For more information see: http://www.iema.buffalo.edu/IEMAConf2008.html

April 8 (Tuesday; 2:00 PM; Fillmore 343) Seminar presentation: Oedipus Rex: Notions of Tyranny and Power (Lowell Edmonds, Rutgers University).

April 9 (Wednesday; 2:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320) Lecture: Oedipus in Paris: Max Ernst's Oedipus Rex (Lowell Edmonds, Rutgers University).

April 17  (Thursday, 5:00 PM. Goetz library/Fillmore 320)  Lecture: Epitaphic Gestures in the Aeneid (Martin Dinter, King’s College London).

April 22 (Tuesday; 5:00 PM; venue tbd): Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Lecture: Figurines in the Balkans (Douglas Bailey, Cardiff University and Stanford University).

April 23 (Wednesday, 3:00 PM.  Goetz Library/Fillmore 320) Lecture: Beyond Rhetoric: Cicero's
Use of Judicial Theater (Jon Hall, University of Otago)

April 28 (Monday): Classes end.

April 29 (Tuesday; 2:00 PM; Seminar Room/Fillmore 343): Undergraduate Awards Ceremony.

May 11 (Sunday): Commencement

May 13 (Tuesday; 2:00 PM; Goetz Library/Fillmore 320): Dissertation

colloquium:  Hierapitna: A Cretan Port City and its Role in the Cretan and Pan-Mediterranean Imperial roman Economy (Scott Gallimore).