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SUMMARY:Magie Lecture:  Entrepreneuring Women: The spaces of textile manufacture in classical Greek cities
DESCRIPTION:Named after David Magie ’97\, the distinguished Princeton Roman historian\, the Magie Lecture represents the most prestigious event hosted by PAW. Ever since the inaugural lecture delivered by Christian Habicht in 1988\, and published under the title Hellenistic Athens and Her Philosophers\, year after year speakers from many different countries have addressed topics spanning the whole remit of PAW\, from archaeology to religion\, from archaic Greece to the Late Antique Mediterranean. \nTextile production was a vital part of classical Greek economies\, predominantly managed and carried out by women. Recent scholarship\, shaped by New Institutional Economics\, suggests a division of labor where men wove luxury textiles in workshops for the market\, while women created basic textiles at home for domestic use. However\, this view\, based largely on literary sources\, marginalizes women’s contributions and overlooks substantial archaeological evidence. The material record shows that most textiles\, including high-quality items\, were produced by women in household settings\, as indicated by the widespread presence of textile tools in residential spaces and the absence of specialized workshops. \nAbout the Speaker: \nLin Foxhall is Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. She also serves as Editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (Cambridge University Press). Previously she was Dean of the School of Histories\, Languages and Cultures at Liverpool and led the University-wide Heritage Research Theme\, Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester\, and Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History\, where she played a major part in leading the team that discovered the body of King Richard III. She has held posts at St Hilda’s College\, Oxford and University College London\, and Visiting Professorships in Germany\, Denmark and the USA. She studied at Bryn Mawr College\, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Liverpool. \nAn active field archaeologist\, she has led and participated in collaborative research projects in Greece and Southern Italy\, and has written extensively on agriculture\, rural economies\, landscapes\, land use\, material culture and gender in the ancient Mediterranean\, and especially the Greek world\, mostly between the Bronze Age and Classical periods. \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/magie-lecture-entrepreneuring-women-the-spaces-of-textile-manufacture-in-classical-greek-cities/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Lunch Seminar with PAW Fellow
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, the Program invites a distinguished scholar from one of its fields to spend a week in Princeton. The PAW fellows usually deliver one lecture and one seminar and meet the PAW graduate students in an informal setting\, sharing their professional experience. \nInformal seminar with small group of PAW graduate students to conversation with 2024-25 PAW Fellow Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner about his academic trajectory and research. \nPlease send your RSVP to Kristina Corvin at kcorvin@princeton.edu. \nSebastian Schmidt-Hofner is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen. He is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (AEK) in Munich\, which he has chaired since 2023. His research focuses on the history of Late Antiquity\, especially the fourth century\, questions of statehood and state formation in the Roman Imperial period\, Late Roman law\, and spatial planning in the cultures of Archaic-Classical Greece.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/graduate-student-lunch-seminar-with-sebastian-schmidt-hofner/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:PAW Fellow Lecture: The Aesthetics of Being a Citizen: Habitus and Political Imagery in Classical Athens
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, the Program invites a distinguished scholar from one of its fields to spend a week in Princeton. The PAW fellows usually deliver one lecture and one seminar and meet the PAW graduate students in an informal setting\, sharing their professional experience. \nThis paper contributes to an ongoing debate on the representations of citizens and the normative discourses about their habitus and comportment in literary and some visual sources of Classical Athens. It argues that these representations had elitist connotations that were in conflict with egalitarian ideals developed in fifth-century Athens\, and it explores some consequences this had for the political culture in the Athenian polity. In doing so\, it contributes to current debates about the different conceptions of citizenship in Athens and other Greek poleis\, to the much-debated interaction between elites and non-elites in Athenian democracy\, and to the exploration of the political imaginary in contemporary political discourse. \nSebastian Schmidt-Hofner is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen. He is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (AEK) in Munich\, which he has chaired since 2023. His research focuses on the history of Late Antiquity\, especially the fourth century\, questions of statehood and state formation in the Roman Imperial period\, Late Roman law\, and spatial planning in the cultures of Archaic-Classical Greece.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/paw-fellow/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz\, washington road\, Princeton
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SUMMARY:PAW Fellow Lunch Talk: Narrative and the Drama of Government: A Narratological Approach to Late Roman Legislation
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, the Program invites a distinguished scholar from one of its fields to spend a week in Princeton. The PAW fellows usually deliver one lecture and one seminar and meet the PAW graduate students in an informal setting\, sharing their professional experience. \nThe methods of narratological analysis have rarely been applied to legal texts\, and never to late Roman legislation. This paper is a foray into this largely unexplored territory and aims to demonstrate the potential of this approach by applying it to late Roman imperial constitutions. It will demonstrate the elaborateness of narrativity often displayed in these texts and elucidate key narrative devices they employ. In a second step the paper asks why and to what ends late Roman constitutions developed these elaborate narrative qualities. It will be argued that their narrative character responded to new (and perhaps somewhat unexpected) needs of imperial representation and communication in the later Roman empire and simultaneously  was embedded in a fundamental transformation of contemporary political culture: the ‘dramatization’ of government. \nRSVP Here. \nSebastian Schmidt-Hofner is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen. He is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (AEK) in Munich\, which he has chaired since 2023. His research focuses on the history of Late Antiquity\, especially the fourth century\, questions of statehood and state formation in the Roman Imperial period\, Late Roman law\, and spatial planning in the cultures of Archaic-Classical Greece.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lunch-talk-narrative-and-the-drama-of-government-a-narratological-approach-to-late-roman-legislation/
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SUMMARY:Concealing/Revealing: Depictions of the Enslaved in Late Antique Interiors
DESCRIPTION:A large furnishing textile from late antique Egypt\, now held at the MFA Boston\, depict nearly life-sized people performing the work of entertaining and welcome\, decorations in what would have once been a richly appointed household run through their enslaved labor. Contextualizing evidence from documentary texts\, material culture\, and architecture\, this lecture situates these individuals and their representations in the late antique household\, tracing the ways labor was revealed\, concealed\, parodied\, and amplified in elite interiors. \nElizabeth Dospěl Williams is Penny Vinik Chair of Fashion\, Textiles and Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, responsible for global collections from ancient to contemporary. She was previously Curator of the Byzantine Collection at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington\, D.C.\, where curated special exhibitions including Rich in Blessings: Women\, Wealth\, and the Late Antique Household (2023) and Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt (2019). \nDospěl Williams has authored numerous chapters and exhibition catalogue essays\, with a focus on wearable arts\, interior design\, provenance history\, and comparative art historical approaches. Her research is forthcoming or has appeared in Speculum\, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts\, Design History\, and Material Culture\, Dumbarton Oaks Papers\, and The Textile Museum Journal. With Eiren Shea and Patricia Blessing\, she recently co-authored Medieval Textiles across Eurasia\, c. 300-1500 for the Cambridge Elements in the Global Middle Ages Series (2023). Dospěl Williams holds a Ph.D. in Byzantine and Islamic art history and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University. \nRead more about Dr. Williams on the MFA website. 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/concealing-revealing-depictions-of-the-enslaved-in-late-antique-interiors/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:(Im)migrants in the Occupational World in the Roman Empire: Exclusion versus Integration
DESCRIPTION:Numerous inscriptions illustrate the mobility of tradesmen and craftsmen throughout the Roman Empire\, eliciting inquiries regarding their experiences\, reception in host cities\, and available support structures. Scholarly discourse addressing these inquiries has considerably intensified over the past few decades\, revealing a prevailing inclination toward a favorable\, and arguably\, excessively optimistic\, evaluation of the interactions between (im)migrants and local populations. A widely accepted viewpoint holds that occupational associations (collegia) admitted practitioners of specific trades irrespective of their geographic or ethnic backgrounds. Based on a close examination of select records of mobile and resident alien craftsmen and tradesmen —drawn from epigraphic\, papyrological\, literary\, and legal sources—this presentation challenges the assumption that occupational associations universally facilitated inclusivity\, emphasizing instead the complex dynamics of social closure\, competition for resources\, and the persistence of ethnic and occupational hierarchies in the Roman world. \nJinyu Liu\, PhD from Columbia University\, is the Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History at Emory University. Before that\, she was professor of Classics at DePauw University\, and has been a Distinguished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University since 2014. Her research interests include social relations in Roman cities\, the non-elite in the Roman Empire\, Latin epigraphy\, the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China\, as well as translating classical texts in a global context. She is the author of the monograph Collgia Centonariorum: The Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West (Brill\, 2009)\, and coedited (with Thomas R. Blanton IV and Agnes Choi)\, Taxation\, Economy and Revolt in Ancient Rome\, Galilee\, and Egypt (Routledge\, 2022) and (with Thomas Sienkewicz)\, Ovid in China: Reception\, Translation\, and Comparison (Brill\, 2022). Her book An Introductory Research Guide to Roman History (in Chinese) was first published by Peking University in 2014 and the second\, expanded edition came out in 2021. She is the editor of a two-volume book entitled New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (in Chinese; Peking University Press\, 2021).  She was a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship (2011-2014) and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (2018-2019). She has been organizing the Guangqi Classics Lecture and Seminar Series in China since 2015 and has been the Principal Investigator of “Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid into Chinese with Commentaries\,” a multi-year project sponsored by a National Social Science Fund of China Major Grant. She is currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for a project titled “Outsiders in Town: Mobility\, Exclusion\, and Negotiation in the Roman West (First – Third Centuries CE) \nPlease register here. \n  \nJinyu Liu\, Emory University
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/jinyu-liu-emory-university/
LOCATION:301 Laura Wooten Hall
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SUMMARY:PAW Lunch Talk: The Economy of Madness in the Greek and Roman World: Coining the Irrational
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the intersections between madness and economy in Greek and Roman antiquity\, arguing that mental illness was conceptualized not only as a medical or moral condition but also as a financial and social phenomenon. Drawing on literary\, legal\, medical\, and philosophical sources\, the paper investigates how metaphors of currency and ownership shaped ancient understandings of mental disorder. Terms such as parakopê (“cutting a false coin”) and alienatio (“transfer of property”) reveal how financial language was used to describe the loss of rational control and personal coherence. The paper further examines legal procedures\, including the graphê paranoias and the Roman cura furiosi et prodigi\, alongside discussions in Plato’s Laws and in Roman jurisprudence on the sale of slaves with mental defects. By integrating insights from disability studies and ancient economic history\, the paper demonstrates how madness was regulated\, commodified\, and moralized through economic logic. In doing so\, it reframes ancient narratives of unreason within the dynamics of property\, debt\, and social order\, revealing money as a structuring principle even in the realm of irrationality. \nGeorge Kazantzidis (BA\, Thessaloniki; DPhil\, Oxford) is Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Patras and a 2025–2026 Member at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton. He has also held appointments as Visiting Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University\, Visiting Research Fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University\, Research Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies\, Harvard University\, Nafplion\, and Onassis Visiting Professor at Boğaziçi University. His research explores intersections between literature\, medicine\, and emotion in classical antiquity\, with a particular focus on mental illness and the medical imagination in Greek and Roman culture. He is the author of Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in De rerum natura (De Gruyter\, 2021) and History of Mental Disorders in Classical Antiquity: Mania and Melancholia (in Modern Greek; Kallipos\, 2025). He has co-edited volumes on topics such as Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity (CUP\, 2023) and Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond (Bloomsbury\, 2025). His current project at IAS\, “The Economy of Madness in the Greek and Roman World\,” investigates how the everyday realities and metaphors of money\, debt\, and ownership informed ancient conceptions of mental disorder\, combining approaches from economic history\, disability studies\, and the history of medicine. \nPlease RSVP for the lunch talk here.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/the-economy-of-madness-in-the-greek-and-roman-world-coining-the-irrational/
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SUMMARY:Reading Roman Manumission Legislations: the Leges Fufia Caninia et Aetia Sentia in Gaius
DESCRIPTION:All interested graduate students please  join us for this semester’s edition of Program in the Ancient World Workshop and Papers! \nOne of the greatest challenges of studying Roman law is the state of preservation of source material.  The challenge is even greater in the case of Republican and early imperial legislations.  For in most cases we do not have the original legislative texts and what we do have comes from much later secondary and tertiary sources.  Even these later sources themselves can be deceptively difficult to navigate.  Take for example the Institutes by the second-century CE jurist Gaius\, one of our most important sources on Roman law.  It is easy to forget that the Institutes was a textbook or rather a collection of lecture notes meant for aspiring law students\, not a law code like the Digest\, much less a transcript of legislative texts.  This sometimes results in erroneous understanding of specific legislations.  To illustrate some of these interpretive difficulties we will look at what Gaius says and equally important what he does not say about the Lex Fufia Caninia of 4 BCE and the Lex Aelia Sentia of 2 CE\, two of the legislative pillars of Augustus’ manumission reform.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/reading-roman-manumission-legislations-the-leges-fufia-caninia-et-aetia-sentia-in-gaius/
LOCATION:012 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Magie Lecture - Divining Scriptures: Homer\, the Gospels\, and Divination
DESCRIPTION:Divinatory machines are found in stone\, papyrus\, parchment\, and bone in the ancient Mediterranean. Many balanced randomness—a dice throw—with personal messages from the gods\, sometimes offered through a line of Homer or the Bible. These devices allowed for an epistemic stretch from and to the divine. By beginning with these devices\, rather than with philosophical-theological texts\, we can tell a story of how the less than elite (as well as elite) wrestled with theodicy and epistemology. A focus on these devices broadens our understanding of the production and uses of scriptures\, whether Homeric texts or the Bible\, and shows that sophisticated mechanisms of meaning-making\, including abstraction and allegory\, were materially instantiated and used in ritual practice. These also allow us to pause and to think about how and why to write history. \nLaura Nasrallah is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University (jointly appointed in Religious Studies and Divinity). Her research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with the archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world\, and often engage issues of colonialism\, gender\, race\, status\, and power. She is author of Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic\, Aesthetics\, and Justice (Cambridge University Press\, 2024);  Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (Oxford University Press\, 2019); Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (Cambridge University Press\, 2010); and An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (Harvard Theological Studies\, 2004). She is co-editor\, with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza\, of Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race\, Gender\, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies (Fortress Press\, 2009); with Charalambos Bakirtzis and Steven J. Friesen\, of From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē: Studies in Religion and Archaeology (Harvard University Press\, 2010)\, and\, with AnneMarie Luijendijk and Charalambos Bakirtzis\, of From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: Studies in Religion and Archaeology (Mohr Siebeck\, 2020). In 2014\, she conducted the online course module Early Christianity: The Letters of Paul\, offered through HarvardX/edX. Longer term projects include a commentary on 1 Corinthians for the Hermeneia series; a short book titled The Letters of Paul: A Love/Hate Story; and projects on divination and scripture\, ritual at Corinth’s Fountain of the Lamps\, and envy and its consequences. \nReception to follow. \nimage: Hellenistic to Roman Imperial Period (ca. 30 BCE–476 CE)\, Turkey\, 2nd century BCE–1st century CE\, Astragalos. Transparent glass\, light green; 1.4 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm. Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University (2002-13)
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/magie-lecture-laura-nasrallah-yale-university/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Masterpieces in Miniature: An Introduction of Ancient Greek & Roman Engraved Gems
DESCRIPTION:Kenneth Lapatin\, Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum\, will be coming to Princeton in the spring as the 2025-2026 Program in the Ancient World Fellow. \nFrom the  Bronze Age through Late Antiquity\, gem engraving (aka glyptic) was a highly prized craft\, not only for the skill of its practitioners\, but also for the great value placed on the materials employed – cornelian\, amethyst\, rock crystal\, chalcedony\, jasper\, and\, eventually\, emerald\, garnet\, and sapphire – often imported from distant lands.  Although often overlooked today as modern art historical taxonomies have privileged architecture\, sculpture\, and painting\, gems in antiquity functioned as markers of personal identity\, status\, divine protection\, and cultural currency. This lecture introduces the materials and techniques of ancient Greek and Roman gem engraving\, what we can recover about the lives of the carvers and others “behind the stones”\, the wide range of iconography and differing functions of intaglios and cameos\, and something of their continuing allure in the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Enlightenment to today. \nRead more about Kenneth on the Getty Museum website.  \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/2025-26-paw-fellow-kenneth-lapatin-getty-museum/
LOCATION:Tuttle Lecture Hall\, Art Museum (Room 134)
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SUMMARY:From Archetype to Ecosystem: Funerary Stelai and the Dynamics of Cultural Symbiosis
DESCRIPTION:This workshop offers a broader outlook on the vast body of material of funerary stelai. Taking Classical Athens and Attica as a reference point for what defines our understanding of the archetypal stele form\, this workshop ventures a journey along the chronological and geographical axes from Classical and Hellenistic Macedonia to Roman northern Syria and Upper Mesopotamia. It explores how Classical forms underwent multiple transformations (μεταμορφώσεις) of their shaping parameters. The workshop will attempt to shift our perspective from strict binary conceptual models to a multi-cellular cosmos of cultural antithesis and symbiosis \nMyrina Kalaitzi\, from the National Hellenic Research Foundation\, is the Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow\, Spring 2026.  Read her full biography on the Hellenic Studies website. \nRespondent: Nathan Arrington\, Art and Archaeology and Hellenic Studies \nBeverages and pastries will be served following the workshop. \nPlease register to attend. 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/from-archetype-to-ecosystem-funerary-stelai-and-the-dynamics-of-cultural-symbiosis/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell House\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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