Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 5:30pm
Phelps Hall, Rm 310
344 College St
New Haven, CT
06511
The Yale Interdisciplinary Working Group for the Study of Antiquity will hold its first meeting on Thursday, October 6th from 4:00 to 5:30pm in Phelps Hall, Room 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
Accounting for Difference
, Human and Textual
. Tyler Griffith (PhD Yale, ‘15) will give a paper titled
“The Medical Lexicon of Human Difference (Race) from Hippocrates to Paul of Aegina.”
Matthew Larsen (Yale Religious Studies) will follow with a presentation on textual difference, titled
“Comparing Textual Multiplicity at Qumran and Herculaneum.”
Refreshments will be provided.