Yale-NUS College

News: When Yale-NUS met a Roman Poet in China

12 September 2019 (Thu)

Assoc. Prof. Steven Green presenting at the Yale-NUS workshop (Feb 19) For the past three years, Associate Professor Steven Green has been involved in a Chinese-government-sponsored project which is charged with translating into Mandarin, and providing commentaries for, the entire corpus of Ovid, the mercurial Roman poet of the first century BCE...

News: Joshua Goh at the Lincoln Archaeological ...

12 September 2019 (Thu)

This past summer, Joshua Goh conducted an archaeological field trip. He has this to say about his experience: “Last summer, I participated in Bishop Grosseteste University’s (BGU) annual archaeological field school, where I had the chance to excavate the remains of the tenement blocks of several late Roman traders. This experience not only...

The Journey of a Letter Collection in Premodern...

15 November 2019 (Fri) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At Saga Private Dining Room

Liu Chen is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at NUS.

Open House

12 November 2019 (Tue) , 5 - 6:30 PM

At Cendana Common Lounge

Talk by Prof Amber Carpenter

4 November 2019 (Mon) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At Saga Private Dining Room

Amber Carpenter is an Associate Professor of Humanities (Philosophy) at Yale-NUS College.

Reading Between Languages: Literary Afterlives ...

31 October 2019 (Thu) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At Cendana Private Dining Room

Origins: Ancient Greek Myths of Migration and E...

24 October 2019 (Thu) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At Saga Private Dining Room

Naoíse Mac Sweeney is an Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester.

Why is a Haystack Not Like an Elephant: Similar...

9 October 2019 (Wed) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At Saga Private Dining Room

Malcolm Keating is an Assistant Professor of Humanities (Philosophy) at Yale-NUS College.

The Lord of Immortality: the Netra Tantra and i...

11 September 2019 (Wed) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At CR16

Gavin Flood is the Yap Kim Hao Visiting Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS.

Ibn Tufayl and the Language of Thought

9 September 2019 (Mon) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At Saga Private Dining Room

Taneli Kukkonen is a Professor of Philosophy, and Interim Dean, Arts and Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Timeliness, Chance and Sagacity in Early Chines...

28 August 2019 (Wed) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At Saga Private Dining Room

Lisa Raphals is a Professor of Chinese, Classics, and Comparative Literature at University of California, Riverside.

Comparative Global Antiquity Conference

2 August 2019 (Fri) , 9:15 AM

At KC Room

End-of-Year Celebration

30 April 2019 (Tue) , 4 - 6 PM

At Elm Rector's Commons

We held our end-of-year celebration on the 30th of April. Here are some photos from the event:

Trans-species Empathy in Homer and Valmiki

16 April 2019 (Tue) , 12 - 1:30 PM

At Cendana Private Dining Room

How Not to Rectify Names: Confucius on the Phil...

3 April 2019 (Wed) , 6 PM

At Cendana Private Dining Room

The Transcendent Dao and the Nature of Language...

13 March 2019 (Wed) , 5:30 - 7 PM

At CR5

Dao, in a number of early Daoist and “Huang-Lao” texts, appears as something akin to a transcendent ground of being. While dao is ineffable, beyond our capacity to fully characterize through language, it can be manifest in certain kinds of activity. A number of texts suggest this transcendent dao becomes manifest in human action as...

Coffee Break: The Nature of the Self in Mesoame...

12 March 2019 (Tue) , 2:30 - 3:15 PM

At CR7

Ancient History, Modern Identities, and the Cul...

12 March 2019 (Tue) , 12 - 1 PM

At Saga LT 1

From Tomis to China: Ovid’s Exile Poetry ...

25 February 2019 (Mon)

Prof. Steven Green will be running a two-day workshop (25-26 February, 2019) on Ovid’s exile poetry, which is designed to support an existing international project charged with translating into Mandarin, and providing commentaries for, the entire corpus of Ovid. Three international Chinese scholars working on the translation project will be atte...

Deadline to apply for Yale Humanities Summer Se...

1 February 2019 (Fri)

For more information, please refer to the CIPE and Yale Study Abroad websites. Apply here.

Global Antiquity Minor Open House

31 January 2019 (Thu) , 5.30 PM - 7 PM

At Elm Common Lounge

Please join faculty and students in the Global Antiquity Minor to talk about our course offerings, ancient languages, and how a minor in Global Antiquity can complement your intellectual interests in any major. All are welcome, tasty refreshments served! Please contact Prof. Mira (Advisor, Global Antiquity), with any questions.

Yale Humanities Summer Session in Rome Informat...

25 January 2019 (Fri) , 12 PM

At Saga Private Dining Room

Interested in summer programs in Global Antiquity? Student participants will discuss their experiences at the Yale Humanities Summer Session in Rome. Prof. Mira (Advisor, Global Antiquity Minor), and a representative from CIPE will also be available to answer questions. Yale Humanities Summer Session application deadline: FEBRUARY 1.

Introduction to Oral Sanskrit Verse

15 January 2019 (Tue) , 4.30 PM - 6 PM

At Classroom 16

An introductory lesson to spoken Sanskrit, and a workshop on Sanskrit poetic meters with Pandit Premraj. Light refreshments will be served; no prior Sanskrit knowledge is required. Premraj Neupane is a Sanskrit scholar from Nepal. Raised in a traditional setting, he grew up speaking Sanskrit and has committed numerous texts to memory. Premraj is...

Elm Rector’s Tea: “The Language of ...

14 January 2019 (Mon) , 6 PM - 7.30 PM

At Elm Rector's Commons

Pandit Premraj will talk about his traditional Sanskrit training in Nepal and his current work in spoken Sanskrit. Premraj Neupane is a Sanskrit scholar from Nepal. Raised in a traditional setting, he grew up speaking Sanskrit and has committed numerous texts to memory. Premraj is an Assistant Professor at Nepal Sanskrit University, where he tea...

The Tower and the Garden: Tropes of Translation...

7 November 2018 (Wed) , 12:30-1:30 PM

At Saga Common Lounge

Conceiving Women: Reproduction and Representati...

5 November 2018 (Mon) , 4:30 PM

At Elm Common Lounge

Lunch Talk: On the Deep Roots of Pure Land Budd...

29 October 2018 (Mon) , 12:30-1:30 PM

At Cendana Private Dining Room

Aspirations for heaven realms for both monastics and laity were central to Buddhist traditions from early times. The “dharmalogical heavens” of Mainstream traditions and their beliefs and practices provided an explicit precedent for the Mahayana pure lands. Buddhist devas are blessed ancestors who ascend, never to fall, to pure realm...

Workshop on Chinese Philosophy

25 October 2018 (Thu) , 9:30 AM

At Classroom 16

Public Lecture: Confucianism as a Way of Life

24 October 2018 (Wed) , 6:30-8PM

At TCT Lecture Theatre

Dante

7 November 2018 (Wed) , 12 PM

At TBA

An Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk with Professor Simone Marchesi from Princeton University.

Latin Literature

5 November 2018 (Mon) , 4:30 PM

At TBA

An Ancient Worlds talk with Professor Ilaria Marchesi from Fordham University.

Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk: On the Relation betw...

17 October 2018 (Wed) , 12-1 PM

At Cendana Private Dining Room

An Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk with Lecturer Paolo di Leo from SUTD.

Latin Literature: History, Politics and Vergil’...

15 October 2018 (Mon) , 4:30 PM

At TBA

Stephen Harrison has been teaching Classics at Corpus since 1987. His main research and teaching interests are in Latin literature and its reception. He has written books on Virgil, Horace and on the Roman novelist Apuleius, and has edited, co-edited or co-authored more books on Virgil, Horace, the Roman Novel, Classics and literary theory and...

Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk: Malcolm Keating

12 September 2018 (Wed) , 12-1 PM

At Cendana Private Dining Room

An Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk with Professor Malcolm Keating from Yale-NUS College.

Learned Craftsmen: Vocational Training as an Al...

29 August 2018 (Wed) , 12-1 PM

At Cendana Private Dining Room

An Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk with Professor Emanuel Mayer from Yale-NUS College.

Poems and Manuscripts in Early China: Questions...

14 August 2018 (Tue) , 12-1:30 PM

At Elm College Private Dining Hall

In this lecture, Professor Martin Kern introduces the case of “Xi shuai” 蟋蟀, a poem from the Shijing now also available in a recently discovered bamboo manuscript from ca. 300 BCE. Comparing the manuscript version and the traditional poem raises numerous questions: about the nature, composition, and boundaries of ancient Chinese poetry, author...

Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk: Bart van Wassenhove

4 April 2018 (Wed) , 12 pm

At Cendana Classroom 21

Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk: The Neronian Paris o...

28 March 2018 (Wed) , 12 pm

At Cendana Classroom 21

The neglected Latin poem, Ilias Latina (‘the Latin Iliad’), is not the colourless summary of a Greek classic that it is often thought to be. Composed during the reign of Nero (c. AD 54-65), the poem re-calibrates the heroism of its key characters, most notably Paris, who is depicted as an emotional figure who nonetheless displays both...

Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk: Psychic Immortality ...

21 March 2018 (Wed) , 12 pm

At Cendana Classroom 21

Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk: Predicting the Past:...

7 March 2018 (Wed) , 12 pm

At Cendana Classroom 21

Ancient Worlds Lunch Talk: Buddhist Narratives ...

24 January 2018 (Wed) , 12 pm

At Cendana Classroom 21

An Iliad: a Play by Lisa Peterson and Denis O&#...

7 March 2018 (Wed) , 8 PM

At Yale-NUS College Black Box Theatre

Come watch this play directed by Professor Lee Chee Keng! More details can be found in the poster below.

Roland Fletcher Public Lecture

14 February 2018 (Wed) , 6-8pm

At Cendana Rector's Commons

YSS in Rome Info Talk

19 January 2018 (Fri) , 11.30am-1pm

At Venue Changed: Elm College Student Commons

Come hear about the Yale Summer Session in Rome from three veterans from last summer! The session will be held at the Elm College Student Commons.

Fashion Victims: Female Hair and the Roman Body...

17 January 2018 (Wed) , 6-8 pm

At Tan Chin Tuan Lecture Theatre

A talk by Nandini Pandey as part of the Ancient World Speaker Series. This paper suggests that women’s hair, hairdressing, and hair loss provided a metaphorical vehicle by which Ovid (especially in Amores 1.11-12, 2.7-8, 1.7, and 1.14) interrogated the power relationships that underpinned Roman society: between master and slave, women and ...