Each year the Center organizes a Rose-Marie Lewent Conference in Ancient Studies which addresses a topic within the general field. The Conference is free and open to the public. The Lewent Conference for 2004-2005 is
"Democracy, Education, and the Classics" on April 18th, 2005.
Previous conferences were:
- (Fall 1997) Last Things: Death and Immortality in the Ancient World
- (Fall 1998) A Future for the Past: Ancient Studies in the Modern University
- (Fall 1999) On Moderns on Ancients: Historicism and Philosophy in the Construction of Antiquity
- (Spring 2000) Postwar French Thought on Antiquity
- (Fall 2000) The Self: Ancient and Modern
- (Spring 2002) "Saving the City": War, Disaster, and Recovery in the Ancient World
- (Fall 2003) Just War, from Antiquity to Grotius
- (Spring 2004) Performing Justice
