Religious practices and sacred spaces operated at the crux of Greek and Roman society, acting as both a source of social cohesion and a locus of divisive tension throughout antiquity. Greek and Roman religious practices, generally characterized as conservative and stable, underwent several phases of radical upheaval during moments of shifting political or cultural circumstances. The purpose of this workshop is to explore these moments of religious change in the ancient Mediterranean world, broadly conceived as any instance of transition, disruption, cooperation, reconsideration or resistance related to religion from the Archaic to the Byzantine period.... Read more about Dynamics of Religion and Religious Space in the Ancient Mediterranean (GSAS Workshop, 2018–19)

The aim of this workshop is to encourage graduate students and faculty from the Departments of Classics, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Archaeology to meet and get to know each other’s work in order to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. The workshop will facilitate this...

This workshop is intended to foster discussion between students of all disciplines whose work relates to Greek and Roman antiquity. Discussion will focus specifically on the interface of culture and politics in the ancient world. Broadly construed, the theme of the workshop encompasses...

This workshop seeks to interrogate the concept of the "post-classical" as it is articulated in literature from antiquity to the present day, combining two fields of literary analysis that have only since recently been considered side by side.... Read more about Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond (GSAS Workshop, 2016–18)

This workshop is intended to foster discussion between students of all disciplines whose work relates to Greek and Roman antiquity. Discussion will focus upon theoretical frameworks whose promise extends to a broad variety of research projects incorporating literary, epigraphic, archaeological, and/or numismatic evidence from the ancient Mediterranean.... Read more about New Approaches to Ancient Evidence (Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, 2016–17)

Scholarly approaches to ancient technical traditions (τέχνη/ars) in Greco-Roman antiquity tend to focus on theoretical assessments of technical knowledge that are dominated by Classical Greek thought, especially by the writings of Plato and Aristotle. The viewpoints of others, not least...