July 2013
Symposium: Self and Space: Household Identity and Domestic Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Self and Space: Household Identity and Domestic Cult
in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
A Graduate Student Symposium
April 12, 2014,
Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall Street) Room 208
8:45-9:15am: Registration
9:15am: Introductory Remarks
9:30-10:45am: Panel One: Defining ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ through Domestic Cult
Yale Interdisciplinary Working Group for the Study of Antiquity
The Yale Interdisciplinary Working Group for the Study of Antiquity (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.
In Memoriam: Edmund S. Morgan
Edmund S. Morgan, an award-winning historian who illuminated the intellectual world of the Puritans, explored the paradox of freedom and slavery in colonial Virginia and, in his 80s, wrote a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin, died on Monday in New Haven. He was 97. Read the complete article at the New York Times website.
Op-Ed by George Chauncey: The Long Road to Marriage Equality
George Chauncey testified as an expert witness on the history of antigay discrimination in both of the same-sex marriage cases decided by the Supreme Court in June: Hollingsworth v. Perry, which invalidated California’s Prop 8 and restored the right to marry to that state’s gay couples, and Windsor v.