The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies recently launched a Wintersession Institute seminar program at the Princeton Athens Center. A companion program to the center’s Summer Institute, the new workshop series coincides with the University’s Wintersession.
From January 13-24, two cohorts of graduate students participated in “Coin Production and Circulation in Byzantine Greece and Anatolia, 325-750″ and “The Monarchic Paradigm: Transregional Imperial Ideology at the End of Late Antiquity.”
“Now that the academic calendar includes Wintersession events in January, that gives us an opportunity to host a Wintersession Institute program at the Princeton Athens Center,” said director Dimitri Gondicas (Seeger Center). “Like the Summer Institutes at the Princeton Athens Center, they enable us to include Princeton students and other international students in intensive two-week workshops.”
The workshops emphasized interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and collaborative learning. Seminars were held on weekday mornings at the Princeton Athens Center, enriched by student presentations and lectures from visiting scholars. Afternoons were devoted to on-site study at museums, libraries, and archaeological sites. Participants gained deep knowledge of the seminar topics, expanded scholarly networks, and new perspectives on their dissertation research.
Alan Stahl (Princeton University Library) led the numismatics workshop, which was cosponsored by the Humanities Council, the Princeton University Library, the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, and the Department of Art and Archaeology.
