2019-2020
September 19, 2020
Luke Yarbrough, UCLA
“Persuasion and Competition at the Sultan’s Court: Inferring the Themes of Mamluk Political Thought”
November 8, 2019
Claudia Rapp, University of Vienna
“The Monastery of Saint Catherine: A Magnet for Medieval Christendom”
February 18, 2020
Paul Kosmin, Harvard University
“Trading Values Ethnography and Exploration in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”
March 4, 2020
Andrea Moudarres, UCLA
“Political Monsters: Centaurs in Renaissance Florence”
2018-2019
September 20, 2018
Maya Maskarinec, USC
“The Houses of Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome”
February 7, 2019
Alessandro Schiesaro, Manchester University
“Roman Apocalypses and the Future of Empire”
2017-2018
January 19, 2018
Colloquium: “Beyond Precarity and Trust: The Experience of Mobility Across Time”
Cédric Brélaz, University of Fribourg
“Deviating Soldiers: Officials on the Move and Local Communities at Risk in the Roman East”
Adam Kosto, Columbia University
“Safety ‘Coming and Going’ in the Middle Ages”
Juliette Bourdin, Université Paris 8
“The Mechanisms of Trust: The Emigrants’ Response to the Dangers of the Overland Trails to Oregon and California in the 1840s”
Emmanuelle Chevreau, Université Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas
“Contractual Clauses Facilitating the Mobility of People and Goods in the Roman Empire”
Rowan Dorin, Stanford University
“Migrant, Moneylenders and the Threat of Expulsion in Medieval Europe”
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz, Université Paris 1-IHMC/ConfigMedERC/
“Being a Foreigner at Court: Jews in Livorno, Mobility and Litigation in the 18th Century”
Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA
“Legal Framework and Policy Issues Raised by Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Forced Migrants in the 20th Century US”
Jennifer Devereaux, USC
“Human Mobility: From Vulnerability to Collectivity in the Ancient World”
Susan Lape, USC
“Female Immigrants in New Comedy: Precarity and Accommodation”
Jessica Goldberg, UCLA
“Becoming a Local: Migration and Identity in the Medieval Islamic World”
Emily Ryo, USC
“Fostering Legal Cynicism in Immigrant Detention”
Nayan Shah, USC
“Precarious Materiality and Visual Exhibition of Refugees”
February 23, 2018
Stephen Harrison, Oxford University
“An Issue of Genre and Form in Roman Literature: Expanded Epigram in Horace and Propertius”
March 27, 2018
Giuseppe Pezzini, St. Andrews University
“Terence and the Speculum Vitae: A Journey into Comic Realism”
2016-2017
October 25, 2016
Martina Minas-Nerpel, Swansea University and Getty Scholar
“Ptolemaic Queens in Egyptian Temple Reliefs: Intercultural Reflections of Political Authority, or Religious Imperatives?”
November 8, 2016
David Levene, New York University
“Historical Method and National Identity”
January 19, 2017
Eric Rebillard, Cornell University
“Frauds, Forgeries, Fictions: What Kind of Writings are the Acts of the Martyrs?”
January 19, 2017
Cavan Concannon, USC
“Trade, Networks, and Early Christian Difference: Deleuze, Latour, and Dionysios of Corinth in the Second Century”
2015-2016
October 31, 2015
Joe Manning, Yale University
“Climate Change, Social Unrest, and the Economy in Hellenistic Egypt: Global Implications?”
January 16, 2016
Stéphane Benoist, Université Lille, CNRS, Ministére de la Culture et de la Communication
“The Body Politic and the Roman Emperor: A Few Perspectives about the Body and Divinity of the Princeps, from Augustus to Constantine”
April 13, 2016
E. Igor Mineo, Universitá degli Studi di Palmero
“Political Mediterraneanism? About Conflictuality, Informal Powers, and Communities”
April 21, 2016
Laurent Bricault, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurés, Getty Villa Scholar
“From Alexandria to Rome: The Many Faces of Isis and Serapis on Ancient Coins”
2014-2015
November 17, 2014
Jessica Goldberg, UCLA
“Reading Other People’s Mail: Perspectives from the Cairo Geniza”
April 21, 2015
Christel Müller, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense
“The ‘Common Emporion of Greece’: Groups and Subgroups of Foreigners in Late Hellenistic Delos”
April 21, 2015
Frédéric Hurlet, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense
“Spaces of Indignity: Being Deprived of Friendship of the Prince and Banned from Court”
2013-2014
September 18, 2013
John W.I. Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Gender and Power in the West Anatolian Borderlands during the Achaemenid Period”
2012-2013
November 9, 2012
William Harris, Columbia University
“Mental Illness according to Greek Medicine”
November 26, 2012
“Humanities in Europe and in America”
Pascal Arnuad, Université Lyon 2
Thomas Habinek, USC
Peggy Kamuf, USC
Vanessa Schwartz, USC
November 27, 2012
Pascal Arnaud, Université Lyon 2
“New Perspectives in Ancient Maritime History and Archaeology”
February 7, 2013
Ian Moyer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“A Polis of Priests”
April 29, 2013
Barbara Kowalzig, New York University
“Religion and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Greek Mediterranean”
2011-2012
September 23, 2011
Christelle Fischer-Bovet, USC
“The Use of Ethnicity in Administrative Categories: Comparing Hellenistic and Roman Egypt”
October 3, 2011
Jessica Marglin, Princeton University
“Jews in Islamic Courts: The Moroccan Legal System in the Nineteenth Century”
October 21, 2011
Clifford Ando, University of Chicago
“Improvisation in Legal and Religious Ritual in the Roman World”
October 25, 2011
Christophe Picard, La Sorbonne
“The Defense of the Ports in the Islamic Mediterranean: Sources and Methods”
November 28, 2011
Symposium: Beyond Braudel: Seas, Wars, and Long-Run Changes
John Wills, Jr., USC & R. Bin Wong, USC
April 19, 2012
Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Fat Peasant, a Giant, and the Magic Swan: Looking Back at the First Crusade”
April 26, 2012
Jean-Luc Fournet, Directeur d’études à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études
“Multilingualism and Literacy in Greco-Roman Egypt”
2010-2011
September 29, 2010
Ann Marie Yasin, USC
“‘Sacred Places’ Wordy Walls: The Materiality of Early Christian Devotional Graffiti”
October 28, 2010
Michael McCormick, Harvard University
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecture: “Can we feel the pulse of ancient economies? Markets and Shipwrecks in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean”
October 29, 2010
Michael McCormick, Harvard University
“Ben Franklin, Charlemagne, and the Volcanoes”
December 7, 2010
Lucette Valensi, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
“Crossing the Mediterranean, 16th-19th. c”
2009-2010
October 26, 2009
Jean-Loup Amselle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
“What is at stake in the deconstruction of the West?”
October 30, 2009
Jocelyne Dakhlia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
“Lingua Franca: Conflict and Hybridity in the Mediterranean”
November 12, 2009
Brian Catlos, University of California, Santa Cruz
“The Convenience Principle: Religious Identity and Politics in the Medieval Mediterranean”
