PSCO

Schedule

2013–2014 Topic:
“Rethinking Josephus’ Antiquities”

Unless otherwise noted, meetings are scheduled for 7:00-9:00 pm on Thursday evenings. Meetings are currently scheduled as follows.

Thursday, 24 Oct. 2013
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
Opening Panel Discussion: “Antiquities 1–4”

Natalie Dohrmann, Bob Kraft, Alex Ramos, and Annettee Yoshiko Reed

audio recording

Thursday, 12 Dec. 2013
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
Antiquities 5-9
(Judges, Monarchy, Assyrian Conquest)

Steve Weitzman (Stanford)

Tuesday, 14 Jan. 2014
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
Antiquities 10–11
(Babylonian Conquest, Exile, and Return)”

Hindy Najman (Yale)

audio recording

Thursday, 27 Feb. 2014
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
Antiquities 12–16
(Alexander the Great to the Death of Herod)

Paul Kosmin (Harvard)

audio recording

Thursday, 27 March 2014
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
“Novelistic Digressions in Josephus' Antiquities 18 and 20: On the Moral Logic of Triumph and Disaster”

Ra‘anan Boustan (UCLA)

audio recording

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
Rethinking Josephus’ Antiquities:
A Wrap-up Session

Alex Ramos, Jacob Feeley, and Jae Hee Han

audio recording

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