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Classical Dialogue: Jessica Lamont (Yale University, Department of Classics)

  • Department of Classics at Columbia University in the City of New York 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, 509 Hamilton Hall, MC 2861 New York, NY 10027 USA (map)

Jessica Lamont (Yale University)
Friday, October 6, 2023, 11:00 am ET 
509 Hamilton Hall, Department of Classics, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027

As part of its Classical Dialogues series, the Classical Studies Graduate Program at Columbia University is pleased to welcome Jessica L. Lamont, Assistant Professor of Classics at Yale University

Jessica L. Lamont will discuss her book In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece (Oxford UP, 2023), which offers "the first historical study of ancient Greek curse rituals, binding spells, and incantations" while uniting "epigraphic, historical, literary, archaeological, and material evidence to expand understandings of daily life in ancient communities." Introduction by Sailakshmi Ramgopal (Columbia University) with commentary by Giovanni Lovisetto (Columbia University)

Earlier Event: September 29
Classical Dialogue: Johannes Haubold (Princeton University)
Later Event: October 6
GRC Genres of Academic Writing in Classics: The Journal Article (Katharina Volk)

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