The Yale Interdisciplinary Working Group for the Study of Antiquity will hold its second meeting on Thursday, November 3rd, from 4:00 to 5:30pm in Phelps Hall 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 month’s presentations are organized under the title Identities in Diasporas and Borderlands. Elisa Uusimäki (RLST) will give a paper titled “Managing the Ancestral Way of Life in the Roman Diaspora: The Use of Biblical Figures in the Philosophical Introduction to 4 Maccabees”, and Miriam Müller (NELC) will follow with a talk titled “Identity and Social Memory in Egypt’s Borderlands.”