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Altay Coşkun 20 January 2013
2011-12: I ran a Research Colloquium for graduate and advanced undergraduates in the Fall 2011
and Winter 2012, ca. 2 x 6 meetings of 90 min. In the Spring Term 2012, it was replaced by a
one-day thesis workshop (June 21, 7 presentations).
2011-12: I offered a German Reading Group for students enrolled in a Classical Studies program in
Fall 2011 and Winter 2012; ca. 2 x 6 meetings of 90 min.
WT 2010: Contribution on the history of Roman citizenship to the Arts Lecture Series Cultural
Encounters – Encountering Cultures (http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/; cf. the
accompanying interview with Prof. James Skidmore: http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/
coskun.html). An article on the same topic was published in the departmental online journal for
high school students (Labyrinth 91, http://classics.uwaterloo.ca/labyrinth/?p=101).
FT 2010 and 2011 Contributions on Roman History (1 / 3 hrs.) to CLAS 100 (organized by Sheila
Ager).
J. Selection of OTHER ACADEMIC AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
1) Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (WIHS), UW
2015-13 Director
present-2008 Member of the Steering Committee.
present-2010 Support of the design & development of Communication Tools:
Supervisor of Website in 2010 and again since Dec. 2011, with technical support from
Tanner Rudnik (present-2012), Bashar Jabbour (2011-12), Louise Frost (2010)
(http://www.wihs.uwaterloo.ca).
Support of Riemer Faber in the production of WIHS Newsletter 1-2.
Work on Hellenistic Databases:
– Genealogical Tables in the Hellenistic World (GTHW) with technical support from
Tanner Rudnik (present-2012), Ryan Walsh (2011-2012), Bashar Jabbour (2012)
(http://wihs.uwaterloo.ca/genealogical-tables).
– Amici Populi Romani (http://apr.uwaterloo.ca), with technical support from Tanner
Rudnik (present-2012), Ryan Walsh (2011-2012), and Henrik Prantl (2007-2008).
present-2011 (2010) Initiator and Coordinator of the Seleucid Study Group
2013-2012 Preparation of Seleucid Study Bibliography together with Alex McAuley MA (McGill)
and the further support of David Engels (Brussels) and Kyle Erickson (Lampeter, UK).
2012 (Fall) Launch of Seleucid Study Group website; main responsibility: Alex McAuley:
http://seleucid-genealogy.com/ssg.html.
2014-2011 Preparation of Seleucid Study Day IV: Seleucid Royal Women together with Alex
McAuley and Hans Beck, to be hosted at McGill, Montreal, Feb. 20-23, 2013, and to be
published 2014.
2012-2011 Support of the organization of Seleucid Study Day III: War within the Family: A
Reassessment of the First Century of Seleucid Rule, Bordeaux (5-7 Sep. 2012); main
convenor: Kyle Erickson; reports: WIHS website; H-Soz-u-Kult 2012; ClassBull.
2011 Seleucid Study Day II, Waterloo (9 Nov. 2011); reports: WIHS website and WIHS
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