Opening Celebration of the Frank L. Kovacs Numismatic Library (Open House and Lecture)

Opening Celebration of the Frank L. Kovacs Numismatic Library (Open House and Lecture)
Date
Wed May 11th 2016, 3:30pm
Event Sponsor
Department of Classics, Stanford University Libraries
Location
Green Library

Please join us for the opening celebration of the Frank L. Kovacs Numismatic Library on Wednesday, May 11. Free and open to the public.  Please RSVP by May 9 to David Jordan: dajordan [at] stanford.edu (dajordan[at]stanford[dot]edu) or 650-723-3866. 

Open House

3:30-4:30PM
Raubitschek Room, 3rd Floor, Green Library East Wing

Lecture and Discussion by Bernhard Woytek, "Numismatics and the Mind of Man: The Study of Ancient Coins from the Renaissance to the 21st Century"
5:00-6:30pm
Bender Room, 5th Floor, Green Library Bing Wing

 

Bernhard Woytek is a Visiting Associate Professor Classics for the Spring Quarter.  He is the head of the Division "Documenta Antiqua" (a research center for numismatic, epigraphy and papyrology) at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.  Dr. Woytek specializes in the study of ancient numismatics, financial history of the ancient world, and the history of classical scholarship.

 

Event sponsors: Department of Classics and Stanford University Libraries

Full event details: http://events.stanford.edu/events/583/58343/