The Yale Interdisciplinary Working Group for the Study of Antiquity will hold its seventh meeting of the academic year Thursday, April 6th, 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 Klaus Wagensonner (NELC) “Early Threads of Knowledge: On Ancient Mesopotamian Lexical Compositions” and James Nati (RLST) “Material Philology and the Ontology of Literature in Early Judaism.”
Refreshments will be provided.