Cornell Wall Street (CWS) and Cornell On the Road (COR) present "An Important Lesson in Finance; Bailing Out the Roman Empire" featuring Kim Bowes, author, archaeologist, Cornell University Assistant Professor, and recipient of the Milstein Faculty Fellowship
Think the economy is bad now? Kim Bowes, assistant professor of Classics, recommends, "Try living through the third century A.D.!" Runaway inflation, political turmoil, constant war - the end of the world really seemed at hand.
Come join us for an intimate gathering to hear how two Roman emperors instituted the world's greatest bailout package and saved the Roman empire - and how archaeology is now revealing the brilliance, and cost, of their plan.
About Our Speaker
Kim Bowes has published on subjects ranging from Christian archaeology and domestic architecture to settlement dynamics and the late Roman economy; her most recent book, published in 2008, is "Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity." Kim is also a practicing field archaeologist, and has excavated sites ranging from Israel to Portugal; most recently she has been working on the excavation of a Roman estate village in central Sicily (Sofiana Project). She received her PhD from Princeton University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, and has also taught at Fordham University.
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 6:30PM - 9PM
6:30PM Registration/Light Reception
7:30PM Presentation/Q&A
8:30PM Open Mike/Networking
9:00PM Event concludes
Location: Weill Greenberg Center, 1305 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
Cost: $30 per person, Space is very limited so register early!
