The Yale Interdisciplinary Working Group for the Study of Antiquity will hold its fourth meeting of the academic year Thursday, March 9th, from 4:30-6:00 in Phelps 310.
YIWSA is a forum for graduate students who take the distant past as their object of study. Once a month participants gather to hear two students from different departments give papers that serve as the basis for a broader discussion across conventional disciplinary boundaries. Our scope for the term “antiquity” (or “antiquities”) is broad: we welcome students of cultures across the globe and periods across the ages to share their approaches to the past.
This week our presentations will be by Jeffrey Niedermaier (EALL) ”By Any Other Name: Towards a Bilingual Poetics of Reference in Classical Japanese Literature” and Kyle Conrau-Lewis (CLSS) ”Is there a Handbook in this Class? Valerius Maximus, Redaction and Reception”