Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar 2007 Schedule - updated 6/4/07

2007 ANS Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar

Schedule

Week One: Numismatic Skills and Methodologies

Monday, June 4            

10:00 Welcome, Introductions, and Tour (van Alfen)

1:00   Library Orientation (Campbell)

2:00   Digital Photography and Numismatic Databases (Heath)

Tuesday, June 5           

9:00  History of Numismatics and Overview of Numismatic Publications (Meadows)

2:00  History of the ANS (Ciccone)

3:00  ANS Coin Vault Tour (van Alfen)

Wednesday, June 6           

10:00 Individual Project Meetings/ Advisor assignments

2:00   Stylistic Analysis (van Alfen)

Thursday, June 7           

10:00 Archaic and Classical Greek Coinage (van Alfen)

2:00   Die Studies (Witschonke)

Friday, June 8

10:00 Hellenistic Coinages (Meadows)

2:00   Coin Exercise 1 assignment

3:30   Welcoming Party and Photos

Week Two: Introductions to Coinages and Monetary Systems

Monday, June 11

10:00 Why Coinage? (van Alfen)

2:00   Roman Republican Coinage (Witschonke)

Tuesday, June 12                                               

10:00 Roman Imperial and Provincial Coinage (Weisser)

1:00   Hoard Studies (Witschonke)

3:00   Coinage and the Ancient Economy (van Alfen)

Wednesday, June 13

10:00 Metrology and Weight Standards (Meadows)

1:00   Byzantine Coinage (Stolyarik)

3:00   Medieval Coinage (Hoge)

Thursday, June 14

10:00 Vault Access Period

1:00   Islamic Coinage (Bates)

3:00   Modern and American Coinage (Hoge)

Friday, June 15

10:00 Advisor Meetings

2:00   Coin Exercise 1 presentations

3:00   Group Discussion

Week Three: Special Topics

Monday, June 18

10:00 Reflections of a U.S. Mint Chief Engraver (Elizabeth Jones)

2:00   Cistophoric Coinage (Witschonke)

Tuesday, June 19

10:00 Legal and Ethical Issues in Numismatics (Witschonke),

2:00   Coin Grading and Cataloging (Witschonke)

3:30   Coin Forgery (Hoge)

Wednesday, June 20

10:00  The Coinage of Imperial Pergamum (Weisser)

2:00   19th & 20th c. Medals (van Alfen)

Thursday, June 21

10:00 Vault Access Period

2:00   Coin Exercise 2 Presentation

3:00   Group Discussion

Friday, June 22

ANS closed

Week Four: Projects

Monday, June 25

2:00   Regionalism in the Imperial Coinage of Asia Minor (Metcalf)

Tuesday, June 26

10:00 Diana on a New Aureus of Trajan (Damsky)

2:00   Renaissance Coin Collecting and the Origins of the Portrait Medal (Scher)

Wednesday, June 27

2:00   Money Before Machinery (Bates)

6:00   The UK Portable Antiquities Scheme (Bland)

Thursday, June 28

10:00 Vault Access Period

11:00 Advisor Meetings

1:00   Coin Exercise 3 Presentation

2:00   Metalurgical Analysis (Keyser)

Friday, June 29

10:00 Tour of the ANS exhibits at the FED; Monuments, Medals, and Metropolis; BBQ in Brooklyn (wear good walking shoes!)

Week Five: Midterm

Monday, July 2

10:00 Iconography: Aesclepius and his Family (Weisser)

Wednesday, July 4

ANS closed

Thursday, July 5

10:00 Vault Access Period

2:00   Interim Reports, Annotated Bibliographies due

Friday, July 6

3:00  Group Discussion

Week Six: Projects

Tuesday, July 10

10:00 South Asian Coinage (Bhandare)

Wednesday, July 11

6:00   'Not Just a Pretty Face': Interpretation of Alexander Images' on Coins from the Hellenic East (Bhandare)

Thursday, July 12

10:00 Vault Access Period

2:00   Publishing Excavation Coins (Evans)

Friday, July 13

10:00 The RPC Project (Weisser)

3:00   Group Discussion

5:30   New York Numismatic Club Meeting. Treasures from the Museum Island in Berlin: The Coin Cabinet Reopens to the Public (Weisser)

Week Seven: Projects

Monday, July 16

10:00 Faustus' Choice: A Lesson in the Construction of History from 56 BC (Yarrow)

Thursday, July 19

10:00 Vault Access Period

Friday, July 20

3:00   Group Discussion

Week Eight: Final Presentations

Thursday, July 26

10:00 Student Presentations