Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #8 (10/28/05)
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Mon., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife: The Helen Myth in Comparative
Perspective"
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
"Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten"
A celebration to honor David Mitten's 70th birthday and his retirement
after thirty years
as Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard University Art Museums
Reception and keynote address on Friday evening; symposium on Saturday
Contact: Amy Brauer (brauer(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Karen Manning
(kmanning(a)fas.harvard.edu), 617-495-3393
See Appendix for details
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6
Hotel Marlowe, 2nd Floor, 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars
& Critics (ALSC)
Featuring readings by Robert Fagles, and panels on Ancient Poetry & War,
Classical Mythology in the K-12 Classroom, and Poetry & Empire
For further information, see Appendix below as well as the conference
website at http://www.bu.edu/literary/conferences/index.html
Mon., Nov. 7, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Sergio Casali (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
"Killing the Father: Ennius, Naevius, and Virgil's Julian Intertextual
Imperialism"
*Wed. Nov. 9, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 104, Cambridge, MA
Catherine Morgan (Kings College, London)
"Imports on the Dining Table? Attic Finewares in the Bosphoran Kingdom"
Wed. Nov. 9, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Zvi Lederman (Co-director, Beth-Shemesh Excavations [Israel])
"Recent Excavations at Beth-Shemesh: Pigs, Riddles, and Golden
Mice--Forging Identity on the Philistine Periphery"
For more information, contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
*Tues., Nov. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Edward Cohen (University of Pennsylvania)
"Wealthy and Powerful Slaves at Athens: Juridical Theory and Economic
Reality"
*Tues. Nov. 15, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University)
"The Babylonian Period in the Archaeology of Palestine: A Regional
Approach"
Reception at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, at 6:15 p.m.
For more information contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
Wed., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
"Virgil and History"
Michael Putnam, (Brown University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Wed., Nov. 16, 6:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Sharon Salvadori (John Cabot University, Rome)
"The Early Christian Orant: The Remaking of a Female Image in Late
Antique Rome"
Free and open to the public; MFA admission not required
Co-sponsored by the International Catacomb Society, the Boston Society
of the
Archaeological Institute of America, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Thurs., Nov. 17, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Eran Lupu (George Washington University)
"The Hellenization of Palestine: An Epigraphic Perpective"
Thurs., Nov 17, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street,
Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture
Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland)
"Roman Sexualities: Women in Ancient Rome -- Their Image, Reality, and
Influence"
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
The lecture is free and open to all inside and outside the Brandeis
community
Thurs. Nov. 17, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman St.,
Providence, RI
Catherine Kiessling (Georgetown University)
"Portraits in Ancient Greece: An Alternative History"
Mon., Nov. 28, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Maurice Rehn (Stanford University)
"Antigone and Family Values"
Mon., Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA
"The Barberini Faun and Hellenistic Royal Fantasy"
Jean Sorabella (Adelphi University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Dec. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Mark Schiefsky (Harvard University)
"Machines and Morals: Technology and its Uses in Ancient Medicine"
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA
"Life and Death in Roman Dura-Europus"
Simon James, (University of Leicester)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
APPENDIX
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
"Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten"
(see entry above)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Friday, November 4, 6:00 p.m.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
"Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Harvard-Vatican Boy"
John J. Herrmann, Jr. (Curator of Classical Art, Emeritus, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston)
A reception following the lecture has been generously funded by James
E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell at the Fogg Art Museum, Calderwood
Courtyard
SYMPOSIUM:
Saturday, November 5, 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
MORNING SESSION:
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.: Complimentary coffee
"D.G. Mitten: Curator, Teacher, and Friend"
Colette Czapski Hemingway (Writer)
"Archaic Hedgehog Aryballos: David Mitten's First Purchase as Curator
of Ancient Art"
Kimberley Patton (Harvard Divinity School)
"'Mistress' Bronzes from the Classical World"
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"An Etruscan Twist on the Story of Troilus"
Susan Woodford (The British Museum)
"Harvard Collects: Four Greek Vases"
J. Michael Padgett (Princeton University Art Museum)
"Drawing upon Greek Vases: Makron and the Antiphon Painter"
Aaron Paul (Independent Curator, Washington, DC)
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch break
AFTERNOON SESSION:
"Teaching the Art of Curatorship"
Henry Kim (The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)
"David G. Mitten: A Keeper"
Caroline Houser (Professor Emeritus, Smith College, and Visiting
Professor, University of Washington)
"The Minoan Bronze Votive Statuette of a Woman at the Harvard
University Art Museums"
Sean Hemingway (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"Geometric Incised Personal Ornaments at Harvard"
Michael Bennett (The Cleveland Museum of Art)
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6
ALSC Conference (see entry above)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
FRIDAY, NOV. 4
10 a.m. Registration Begins
2:00-3:45 p.m.
Panel One: Ancient Poetry and War. Chair: Helene Foley (Barnard College)
Neil Bernstein (Ohio University): "Eyes Wide Shut: Virgil, Statius, and
the Aestheticization of Martial Violence"
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University): "Catachreses: Epic Pain and the
Wound of Agamemnon"
Stephen Owen (Harvard University): "Ordering Violence: Combat in
Ancient Chinese Literature"
4:00-5:30 p.m.: Readings
"The Last Hours of Troy"
Robert Fagles (Emeritus, Princeton University) reads from his version
of Virgil's *Aeneid*
"Borges the Poet"
Robert Mezey (Emeritus, Pomona College) reads from his own translations
of Borges' poetry, and from Borges translations by the late Dick Barnes
6:00-7:00 p.m.: Reception, with address by ALSC President Rosanna Warren
8:30-10:30 p.m.
Viewing of the Egyptian film *Miramar*, based on the novel by Naguib
Mahfouz (or of *Palace Walk*, or of another screenplay based on a
Mahfouz novel)
8:30-10:00 p.m.
ALSC Coffeehouse, with Lee Oser (College of the Holy Cross) presiding
Papers, to be more or less immediately followed by an Open Mike, when
our members are invited to read or recite for the pleasure of it
SATURDAY, NOV. 5
8:30-10:15 a.m.: CONCURRENT SEMINARS
Seminar One: Poetic Translation in a Global Context
Chair: Christopher Maurer (Boston University)
Seminar Two: Experimental Poetics, 1580 to the Present
Chair: Stephen Cushman (University of Virginia)
Seminar Three: Writing About Cities - The New Urban Literature
Chair: Phillip Lopate (Hofstra University)
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Two: Mythology in the K-12 Classroom. Chair: Howard Gardner
(Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Liz Craig-Olins (Newton North High School): "Adventure, Reflection and
Transformation"
Lucy Robb (The Park School): "Greek Mythology and the Nine Year Old: A
Perfect Fit"
Helaine L. Smith (The Brearley School, NYC): "Hera's Beguilements and
Hephaestus' Skill: Teaching Mythology from Primary Sources: Three
Sample Curricula"
1:30-3:15 p.m.
Panel Three: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz. Chair: Roger Allen
(University of Pennsylvania)
Mona El-Sherif (University of California, Berkeley): "The Writing of
Tradition and Masculinity in the Canon of Arabic literature: a
Comparative Study of Taha Husayn, Tawfiq al-Hakim, and Mahfouz"
Walid Hamarneh (University of Western Ontario): "Naguib Mahfouz's
Cairo: The Private/Public Nexus"
Shakir Mustafa (Boston University): "Mahfouz's Parables and the
Contemporary Arabic Novel"
3:30-5:15 p.m.
Panel Four: Writing in the Wake of the Quixote. Chair: Roberto
Gonzalez-Echevarria (Yale University)
Carmen Boullosa (The City College of New York): "Suing Miguel de
Cervantes"
Laura Jane Ress (Boston University): "Tristram Shandy and the Knight of
the Mournful Countenance"
Michael Scham (University of St. Thomas): "Quixotic Communitas and
Redemption in Nabokov's *Lolita*"
8 p.m. Dinner, followed by guest speaker Norman Mailer's conversation
with the scholar, archivist, and bibliographer J. Michael Lennon from
Wilkes University in Pennsylvania
SUNDAY, NOV. 6
8:30-10:15 a.m.
Panel Five: Poetry and Empire. Chair: Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston
University)
Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University): "Czeslaw Milosz and the
Mystery of the Missing 'Second World'"
Richard K. Cross (University of Maryland, College Park): "The Breaking
of Nations: Scotland, Czechoslovakia, and the Poetry of Edwin Muir"
Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston University): "Joseph Brodsky and Empire"
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Six: New Approaches to Modernism. Chair: Ronald Bush (Oxford
University)
Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan): "Monstrous Modernism:
Metamorphoses of *The Dybbuk*"
Christine Froula (Northwestern University): "Modernism and Worldliness"
Vicki Mahaffey (University of Pennsylvania): "Challenging Fictions: The
Reader's Stake in Modern Literature"
Wheelchair access:
to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off
Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to
the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the
basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the
elevator
to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first
floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted
entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the
Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic
Museum
at Harvard.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #7 (10/21/05)
This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming
events and subscription requests should be sent to an address
dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu.
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Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued
the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible.
PLEASE NOTE:
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** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Fri., Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union, Conference Auditorium,
775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
The Ernest R. Graham Lecture in Ancient Architecture
Peter Richardson (University of Toronto)
"Herod's Innovative Architecture, between Rome and the Levant"
Sponsored by Boston Society of The Archaeological Institute of America
Free and open to the public
*Mon., Oct. 24, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 318, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Stephanie Dalley (The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
"The Hanging Gardens of Babylon"
Tues., Oct 25, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Christian Jacob (EHESS and CNRS, Paris)
"Material books, living libraries: games of scholarship in Antonine
Rome"
Sponsored by the Seminar on the History of the Book and the Department
of the Classics
Wed., Oct 26, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH
8th Annual John C. Rouman Lecture Series
Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley College)
"Greek Gods, Human Lives"
For information/directions: contact Stephen Brunet, sabrunet(a)unh.edu or
603-862-2077
Thurs., Oct 27, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street,
Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture
Victor Bers (Yale University)
"Greek Tragedy's Exotic and Irrational Entertainment?"
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
The lecture is free and open to all inside and outside the Brandeis
community
Thurs., Oct. 27, 5:30-9:30 p.m.
ST. ANSELM COLLEGE, President's Dining Room, Manchester, NH
Matthew P. Gonzales (St. Anselm College)
"Binding Ares in Myth and Cult" with comments by a respondent to be
announced
Wine and cheese at 5:30, Dinner at 6:30, Discussion at 7:30
For more information contact David George (dgeorge(a)anselm.edu;
603-641-7069) or Cynthia Damon (cdamon(a)amherst.edu; 413-542-8126)
Mon., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife: The Helen Myth in Comparative
Perspective"
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
"Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten"
A celebration to honor David Mitten's 70th birthday and his retirement
after thirty years
as Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard University Art Museums
Reception and keynote address on Friday evening; symposium on Saturday
Contact: Amy Brauer (brauer(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Karen Manning
(kmanning(a)fas.harvard.edu), 617-495-3393
See Appendix for details
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6
Hotel Marlowe, 2nd Floor, 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars
& Critics (ALSC)
Featuring readings by Robert Fagles, and panels on Ancient Poetry & War,
Classical Mythology in the K-12 Classroom, and Poetry & Empire
For further information, see Appendix below as well as the conference
website at http://www.bu.edu/literary/conferences/index.html
Mon., Nov. 7, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Sergio Casali (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
"Killing the Father: Ennius, Naevius, and Virgil's Julian Intertextual
Imperialism"
Wed. Nov. 9, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Zvi Lederman (Co-director, Beth-Shemesh Excavations [Israel])
"Recent Excavations at Beth-Shemesh: Pigs, Riddles, and Golden
Mice--Forging Identity on the Philistine Periphery"
For more information, contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
Wed., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
"Virgil and History"
Michael Putnam, (Brown University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Nov. 17, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Eran Lupu (George Washington University)
"The Hellenization of Palestine: An Epigraphic Perpective"
Thurs., Nov 17, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street,
Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture
Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland)
"Roman Sexualities: Women in Ancient Rome -- Their Image, Reality, and
Influence"
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
The lecture is free and open to all inside and outside the Brandeis
community
Thurs. Nov. 17, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman St.,
Providence, RI
Catherine Kiessling (Georgetown University)
"Portraits in Ancient Greece: An Alternative History"
Mon., Nov. 28, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Maurice Rehn (Stanford University)
"Antigone and Family Values"
Mon., Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA
"The Barberini Faun and Hellenistic Royal Fantasy"
Jean Sorabella (Adelphi University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Mon., Dec. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Mark Schiefsky (Harvard University)
"Machines and Morals: Technology and its Uses in Ancient Medicine"
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA
"Life and Death in Roman Dura-Europus"
Simon James, (University of Leicester)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
APPENDIX
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
"Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten"
(see entry above)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Friday, November 4, 6:00 p.m.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
"Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Harvard-Vatican Boy"
John J. Herrmann, Jr. (Curator of Classical Art, Emeritus, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston)
A reception following the lecture has been generously funded by James
E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell at the Fogg Art Museum, Calderwood
Courtyard
SYMPOSIUM:
Saturday, November 5, 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
MORNING SESSION:
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.: Complimentary coffee
"D.G. Mitten: Curator, Teacher, and Friend"
Colette Czapski Hemingway (Writer)
"Archaic Hedgehog Aryballos: David Mitten's First Purchase as Curator
of Ancient Art"
Kimberley Patton (Harvard Divinity School)
"'Mistress' Bronzes from the Classical World"
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"An Etruscan Twist on the Story of Troilus"
Susan Woodford (The British Museum)
"Harvard Collects: Four Greek Vases"
J. Michael Padgett (Princeton University Art Museum)
"Drawing upon Greek Vases: Makron and the Antiphon Painter"
Aaron Paul (Independent Curator, Washington, DC)
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch break
AFTERNOON SESSION:
"Teaching the Art of Curatorship"
Henry Kim (The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)
"David G. Mitten: A Keeper"
Caroline Houser (Professor Emeritus, Smith College, and Visiting
Professor, University of Washington)
"The Minoan Bronze Votive Statuette of a Woman at the Harvard
University Art Museums"
Sean Hemingway (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"Geometric Incised Personal Ornaments at Harvard"
Michael Bennett (The Cleveland Museum of Art)
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6
ALSC Conference (see entry above)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
FRIDAY, NOV. 4
10 a.m. Registration Begins
2:00-3:45 p.m.
Panel One: Ancient Poetry and War. Chair: Helene Foley (Barnard College)
Neil Bernstein (Ohio University): "Eyes Wide Shut: Virgil, Statius, and
the Aestheticization of Martial Violence"
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University): "Catachreses: Epic Pain and the
Wound of Agamemnon"
Stephen Owen (Harvard University): "Ordering Violence: Combat in
Ancient Chinese Literature"
4:00-5:30 p.m.: Readings
"The Last Hours of Troy"
Robert Fagles (Emeritus, Princeton University) reads from his version
of Virgil's *Aeneid*
"Borges the Poet"
Robert Mezey (Emeritus, Pomona College) reads from his own translations
of Borges' poetry, and from Borges translations by the late Dick Barnes
6:00-7:00 p.m.: Reception, with address by ALSC President Rosanna Warren
8:30-10:30 p.m.
Viewing of the Egyptian film *Miramar*, based on the novel by Naguib
Mahfouz (or of *Palace Walk*, or of another screenplay based on a
Mahfouz novel)
8:30-10:00 p.m.
ALSC Coffeehouse, with Lee Oser (College of the Holy Cross) presiding
Papers, to be more or less immediately followed by an Open Mike, when
our members are invited to read or recite for the pleasure of it
SATURDAY, NOV. 5
8:30-10:15 a.m.: CONCURRENT SEMINARS
Seminar One: Poetic Translation in a Global Context
Chair: Christopher Maurer (Boston University)
Seminar Two: Experimental Poetics, 1580 to the Present
Chair: Stephen Cushman (University of Virginia)
Seminar Three: Writing About Cities - The New Urban Literature
Chair: Phillip Lopate (Hofstra University)
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Two: Mythology in the K-12 Classroom. Chair: Howard Gardner
(Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Liz Craig-Olins (Newton North High School): "Adventure, Reflection and
Transformation"
Lucy Robb (The Park School): "Greek Mythology and the Nine Year Old: A
Perfect Fit"
Helaine L. Smith (The Brearley School, NYC): "Hera's Beguilements and
Hephaestus' Skill: Teaching Mythology from Primary Sources: Three
Sample Curricula"
1:30-3:15 p.m.
Panel Three: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz. Chair: Roger Allen
(University of Pennsylvania)
Mona El-Sherif (University of California, Berkeley): "The Writing of
Tradition and Masculinity in the Canon of Arabic literature: a
Comparative Study of Taha Husayn, Tawfiq al-Hakim, and Mahfouz"
Walid Hamarneh (University of Western Ontario): "Naguib Mahfouz's
Cairo: The Private/Public Nexus"
Shakir Mustafa (Boston University): "Mahfouz's Parables and the
Contemporary Arabic Novel"
3:30-5:15 p.m.
Panel Four: Writing in the Wake of the Quixote. Chair: Roberto
Gonzalez-Echevarria (Yale University)
Carmen Boullosa (The City College of New York): "Suing Miguel de
Cervantes"
Laura Jane Ress (Boston University): "Tristram Shandy and the Knight of
the Mournful Countenance"
Michael Scham (University of St. Thomas): "Quixotic Communitas and
Redemption in Nabokov's *Lolita*"
8 p.m. Dinner, followed by guest speaker Norman Mailer's conversation
with the scholar, archivist, and bibliographer J. Michael Lennon from
Wilkes University in Pennsylvania
SUNDAY, NOV. 6
8:30-10:15 a.m.
Panel Five: Poetry and Empire. Chair: Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston
University)
Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University): "Czeslaw Milosz and the
Mystery of the Missing 'Second World'"
Richard K. Cross (University of Maryland, College Park): "The Breaking
of Nations: Scotland, Czechoslovakia, and the Poetry of Edwin Muir"
Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston University): "Joseph Brodsky and Empire"
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Six: New Approaches to Modernism. Chair: Ronald Bush (Oxford
University)
Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan): "Monstrous Modernism:
Metamorphoses of *The Dybbuk*"
Christine Froula (Northwestern University): "Modernism and Worldliness"
Vicki Mahaffey (University of Pennsylvania): "Challenging Fictions: The
Reader's Stake in Modern Literature"
Wheelchair access:
to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off
Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to
the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the
basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the
elevator
to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first
floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted
entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the
Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic
Museum
at Harvard.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #6 (10/14/05)
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Fri., Oct. 14, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
John Penwill (Latrobe University, Australia)
"Philosophy in Performance: Seneca's *Trojan Women*"
Fri., Oct. 14, 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Avenue,
Room 101, Boston, MA
Claude Calame (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre
Louis Gernet de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes, and
Universite de Lausanne)
"Authorship and Poetic Identity: the 'birth' of the individual in
lyric poetry from Sappho to Goethe"
For more information, please contact Sal Sordillo: salvy(a)bu.edu,
617-353-2427
*Mon., Oct. 17, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Hermann J. Kienast (German Archaeological Institute, Athens)
"Constructing Greek Architecture"
Co-sponsored by Harvard University Art Museums and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Mon., Oct. 17, 5:00 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Neilson Browsing Room, Neilson Library, Northampton, MA
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University)
"Epiphany, Miracle, Mystery: The Dynamics of Divine Self-Revelation in
the *Homeric Hymn to Demeter* and Euripides' *Bacchae*"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
Tues., Oct. 18, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA.
Hermann J. Kienast (German Archaeological Institute, Athens)
"The Tower of the Winds"
Reception to follow
Co-sponsored by Harvard University Art Museums and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Fri., Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union, Conference Auditorium,
775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
The Ernest R. Graham Lecture in Ancient Architecture
Peter Richardson (University of Toronto)
"Herod's Innovative Architecture, between Rome and the Levant"
Sponsored by Boston Society of The Archaeological Institute of America
Free and open to the public
Tues., Oct 25, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Christian Jacob (EHESS and CNRS, Paris)
"Material books, living libraries: games of scholarship in Antonine
Rome"
Sponsored by the Seminar on the History of the Book and the Department
of the Classics
Wed., Oct 26, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH
8th Annual John C. Rouman Lecture Series
Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley College)
"Greek Gods, Human Lives"
For information/directions: contact Stephen Brunet, sabrunet(a)unh.edu or
603-862-2077
Thurs., Oct 27, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street,
Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture
Victor Bers (Yale University)
"Greek Tragedy's Exotic and Irrational Entertainment?"
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Thurs., Oct. 27, 5:30-9:30 p.m.
ST. ANSELM COLLEGE, President's Dining Room, Manchester, NH
Matthew P. Gonzales (St. Anselm College)
"Binding Ares in Myth and Cult" with comments by a respondent to be
announced
Wine and cheese at 5:30, Dinner at 6:30, Discussion at 7:30
For more information contact David George (dgeorge(a)anselm.edu;
603-641-7069) or Cynthia Damon (cdamon(a)amherst.edu; 413-542-8126)
Mon., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife: The Helen Myth in Comparative
Perspective"
**Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5 (NOTE PROGRAM DETAILS IN APPENDIX)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
"Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten"
A celebration to honor David Mitten's 70th birthday and his retirement
after thirty years
as Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard University Art Museums
Reception and keynote address on Friday evening; symposium on Saturday
Contact: Amy Brauer (brauer(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Karen Manning
(kmanning(a)fas.harvard.edu), 617-495-3393
See Appendix for details
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6
Hotel Marlowe, 2nd Floor, 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars
& Critics (ALSC)
Featuring readings by Robert Fagles, and panels on Ancient Poetry & War,
Classical Mythology in the K-12 Classroom, and Poetry & Empire
For further information, see Appendix below as well as the conference
website at http://www.bu.edu/literary/conferences/index.html
Mon., Nov. 7, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Sergio Casali (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
"Killing the Father: Ennius, Naevius, and Virgil's Julian Intertextual
Imperialism"
*Wed. Nov. 9, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Zvi Lederman (Co-director, Beth-Shemesh Excavations [Israel])
"Recent Excavations at Beth-Shemesh: Pigs, Riddles, and Golden
Mice--Forging Identity on the Philistine Periphery"
For more information, contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
Wed., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
"Virgil and History"
Michael Putnam, (Brown University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Nov. 17, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Eran Lupu (George Washington University)
"The Hellenization of Palestine: An Epigraphic Perpective"
Thurs., Nov 17, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street,
Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture
Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland)
"Roman Sexualities: Women in Ancient Rome -- Their Image, Reality, and
Influence"
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Thurs. Nov. 17, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman St.,
Providence, RI
Catherine Kiessling (Georgetown University)
"Portraits in Ancient Greece: An Alternative History"
Mon., Nov. 28, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Maurice Rehn (Stanford University)
"Antigone and Family Values"
Mon., Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA
"The Barberini Faun and Hellenistic Royal Fantasy"
Jean Sorabella (Adelphi University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA
"Life and Death in Roman Dura-Europus"
Simon James, (University of Leicester)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
APPENDIX
**Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
"Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten"
(see entry above)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Friday, November 4, 6:00 p.m.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
"Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Harvard-Vatican Boy"
John J. Herrmann, Jr. (Curator of Classical Art, Emeritus, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston)
A reception following the lecture has been generously funded by James
E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell at the Fogg Art Museum, Calderwood
Courtyard
SYMPOSIUM:
Saturday, November 5, 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
MORNING SESSION:
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.: Complimentary coffee
"D.G. Mitten: Curator, Teacher, and Friend"
Colette Czapski Hemingway (Writer)
"Archaic Hedgehog Aryballos: David Mitten's First Purchase as Curator
of Ancient Art"
Kimberley Patton (Harvard Divinity School)
"'Mistress' Bronzes from the Classical World"
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"An Etruscan Twist on the Story of Troilus"
Susan Woodford (The British Museum)
"Harvard Collects: Four Greek Vases"
J. Michael Padgett (Princeton University Art Museum)
"Drawing upon Greek Vases: Makron and the Antiphon Painter"
Aaron Paul (Independent Curator, Washington, DC)
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch break
AFTERNOON SESSION:
"Teaching the Art of Curatorship"
Henry Kim (The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)
"David G. Mitten: A Keeper"
Caroline Houser (Professor Emeritus, Smith College, and Visiting
Professor, University of Washington)
"The Minoan Bronze Votive Statuette of a Woman at the Harvard
University Art Museums"
Sean Hemingway (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"Geometric Incised Personal Ornaments at Harvard"
Michael Bennett (The Cleveland Museum of Art)
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6
ALSC Conference (see entry above)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
FRIDAY, NOV. 4
10 a.m. Registration Begins
2:00-3:45 p.m.
Panel One: Ancient Poetry and War. Chair: Helene Foley (Barnard College)
Neil Bernstein (Ohio University): "Eyes Wide Shut: Virgil, Statius, and
the Aestheticization of Martial Violence"
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University): "Catachreses: Epic Pain and the
Wound of Agamemnon"
Stephen Owen (Harvard University): "Ordering Violence: Combat in
Ancient Chinese Literature"
4:00-5:30 p.m.: Readings
"The Last Hours of Troy"
Robert Fagles (Emeritus, Princeton University) reads from his version
of Virgil's *Aeneid*
"Borges the Poet"
Robert Mezey (Emeritus, Pomona College) reads from his own translations
of Borges' poetry, and from Borges translations by the late Dick Barnes
6:00-7:00 p.m.: Reception, with address by ALSC President Rosanna Warren
8:30-10:30 p.m.
Viewing of the Egyptian film *Miramar*, based on the novel by Naguib
Mahfouz (or of *Palace Walk*, or of another screenplay based on a
Mahfouz novel)
8:30-10:00 p.m.
ALSC Coffeehouse, with Lee Oser (College of the Holy Cross) presiding
Papers, to be more or less immediately followed by an Open Mike, when
our members are invited to read or recite for the pleasure of it
SATURDAY, NOV. 5
8:30-10:15 a.m.: CONCURRENT SEMINARS
Seminar One: Poetic Translation in a Global Context
Chair: Christopher Maurer (Boston University)
Seminar Two: Experimental Poetics, 1580 to the Present
Chair: Stephen Cushman (University of Virginia)
Seminar Three: Writing About Cities - The New Urban Literature
Chair: Phillip Lopate (Hofstra University)
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Two: Mythology in the K-12 Classroom. Chair: Howard Gardner
(Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Liz Craig-Olins (Newton North High School): "Adventure, Reflection and
Transformation"
Lucy Robb (The Park School): "Greek Mythology and the Nine Year Old: A
Perfect Fit"
Helaine L. Smith (The Brearley School, NYC): "Hera's Beguilements and
Hephaestus' Skill: Teaching Mythology from Primary Sources: Three
Sample Curricula"
1:30-3:15 p.m.
Panel Three: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz. Chair: Roger Allen
(University of Pennsylvania)
Mona El-Sherif (University of California, Berkeley): "The Writing of
Tradition and Masculinity in the Canon of Arabic literature: a
Comparative Study of Taha Husayn, Tawfiq al-Hakim, and Mahfouz"
Walid Hamarneh (University of Western Ontario): "Naguib Mahfouz's
Cairo: The Private/Public Nexus"
Shakir Mustafa (Boston University): "Mahfouz's Parables and the
Contemporary Arabic Novel"
3:30-5:15 p.m.
Panel Four: Writing in the Wake of the Quixote. Chair: Roberto
Gonzalez-Echevarria (Yale University)
Carmen Boullosa (The City College of New York): "Suing Miguel de
Cervantes"
Laura Jane Ress (Boston University): "Tristram Shandy and the Knight of
the Mournful Countenance"
Michael Scham (University of St. Thomas): "Quixotic Communitas and
Redemption in Nabokov's *Lolita*"
8 p.m. Dinner, followed by guest speaker Norman Mailer's conversation
with the scholar, archivist, and bibliographer J. Michael Lennon from
Wilkes University in Pennsylvania
SUNDAY, NOV. 6
8:30-10:15 a.m.
Panel Five: Poetry and Empire. Chair: Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston
University)
Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University): "Czeslaw Milosz and the
Mystery of the Missing 'Second World'"
Richard K. Cross (University of Maryland, College Park): "The Breaking
of Nations: Scotland, Czechoslovakia, and the Poetry of Edwin Muir"
Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston University): "Joseph Brodsky and Empire"
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Six: New Approaches to Modernism. Chair: Ronald Bush (Oxford
University)
Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan): "Monstrous Modernism:
Metamorphoses of *The Dybbuk*"
Christine Froula (Northwestern University): "Modernism and Worldliness"
Vicki Mahaffey (University of Pennsylvania): "Challenging Fictions: The
Reader's Stake in Modern Literature"
Wheelchair access:
to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off
Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to
the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the
basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the
elevator
to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first
floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted
entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the
Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic
Museum
at Harvard.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #5 (10/7/05)
This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming
events and subscription requests should be sent to an address
dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu.
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PLEASE NOTE:
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** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Tues., Oct. 11, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv University)
"Mediterranean Networks: Between Rhodes and Naukratis"
Tues., Oct. 11, 5:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Tony Woodman (University of Virginia)
"Making History: The Heading of Augustus' *Res Gestae*"
Wed., Oct. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
"Medieval Archaeology in the 21st Century" Lecture Series
Patrick Perin (Musee des antiquites nationales) and Thomas Calligaro
(The Louvre)
"Archaeology, Science and Medieval History at the Crossroads: Garnets,
Merovingian Jewelry, and Southeast Asia"
A reception will follow at the Faculty Club
Sponsored by the Committees on Archaeology and Medieval Studies,
Harvard University, and made possible by a Mellon Foundation Award
Fri., Oct. 14, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
John Penwill (Latrobe University, Australia)
"Philosophy in Performance: Seneca's *Trojan Women*"
Fri., Oct. 14, 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Avenue,
Room 101, Boston, MA
Claude Calame (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre
Louis Gernet de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes, and
Universite de Lausanne)
"Authorship and Poetic Identity: the 'birth' of the individual in
lyric poetry from Sappho to Goethe"
For more information, please contact Sal Sordillo: salvy(a)bu.edu,
617-353-2427
*Mon., Oct. 17, 5:00 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Neilson Browsing Room, Neilson Library, Northampton, MA
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University)
"Epiphany, Miracle, Mystery: The Dynamics of Divine Self-Revelation in
the *Homeric Hymn to Demeter* and Euripides' *Bacchae*"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
Tues., Oct. 18, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA.
Hermann J. Kienast (German Archaeological Institute, Athens)
"The Tower of the Winds"
Co-sponsored by HUAM and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit
Foundation
Fri., Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union, Conference Auditorium,
775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
The Ernest R. Graham Lecture in Ancient Architecture
Peter Richardson (University of Toronto)
"Herod's Innovative Architecture, between Rome and the Levant"
Sponsored by Boston Society of The Archaeological Institute of America
Free and open to the public
*Tues., Oct 25, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Christian Jacob (EHESS and CNRS, Paris)
"Material books, living libraries: games of scholarship in Antonine
Rome"
Sponsored by the Seminar on the History of the Book and the Department
of the Classics
Wed., Oct 26, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH
8th Annual John C. Rouman Lecture Series
Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley College)
"Greek Gods, Human Lives"
For information/directions: contact Stephen Brunet, sabrunet(a)unh.edu or
603-862-2077
*Thurs., Oct 27, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street,
Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture
Victor Bers (Yale University)
"Greek Tragedy's Exotic and Irrational Entertainment?"
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
*Thurs., Oct. 27, 5:30-9:30 p.m.
ST. ANSELM COLLEGE, President's Dining Room, Manchester, NH
Matthew P. Gonzales (St. Anselm College)
"Binding Ares in Myth and Cult" with comments by a respondent to be
announced
Wine and cheese at 5:30, Dinner at 6:30, Discussion at 7:30
For more information contact David George (dgeorge(a)anselm.edu;
603-641-7069) or Cynthia Damon (cdamon(a)amherst.edu; 413-542-8126)
Mon., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife: The Helen Myth in Comparative
Perspective"
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA (specific location TBA)
"Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten"
A celebration to honor David Mitten's 70th birthday and his retirement
after thirty years
as Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard University Art Museums
Reception and keynote address on Friday evening; symposium on Saturday
Contact: Amy Brauer (brauer(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Karen Manning
(kmanning(a)fas.harvard.edu), 617-495-3393
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6
Hotel Marlowe, 2nd Floor, 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars
& Critics (ALSC)
Featuring readings by Robert Fagles, and panels on Ancient Poetry & War,
Classical Mythology in the K-12 Classroom, and Poetry & Empire
For further information, see Appendix below as well as the conference
website at http://www.bu.edu/literary/conferences/index.html
*Mon., Nov. 7, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Sergio Casali (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
"Killing the Father: Ennius, Naevius, and Virgil's Julian Intertextual
Imperialism"
Wed., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
"Virgil and History"
Michael Putnam, (Brown University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Nov. 17, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Eran Lupu (George Washington University)
"The Hellenization of Palestine: An Epigraphic Perpective"
*Thurs., Nov 17, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street,
Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture
Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland)
"Roman Sexualities: Women in Ancient Rome -- Their Image, Reality, and
Influence"
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Thurs. Nov. 17, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman St.,
Providence, RI
Catherine Kiessling (Georgetown University)
"Portraits in Ancient Greece: An Alternative History"
Mon., Nov. 28, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Maurice Rehn (Stanford University)
"Antigone and Family Values"
Mon., Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA
"The Barberini Faun and Hellenistic Royal Fantasy"
Jean Sorabella (Adelphi University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA
"Life and Death in Roman Dura-Europus"
Simon James, (University of Leicester)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
APPENDIX
Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6
ALSC Conference (see entry above)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
FRIDAY, NOV. 4
10 a.m. Registration Begins
2:00-3:45 p.m.
Panel One: Ancient Poetry and War. Chair: Helene Foley (Barnard College)
Neil Bernstein (Ohio University): "Eyes Wide Shut: Virgil, Statius, and
the Aestheticization of Martial Violence"
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University): "Catachreses: Epic Pain and the
Wound of Agamemnon"
Stephen Owen (Harvard University): "Ordering Violence: Combat in
Ancient Chinese Literature"
4:00-5:30 p.m.: Readings
"The Last Hours of Troy"
Robert Fagles (Emeritus, Princeton University) reads from his version
of Virgil's *Aeneid*
"Borges the Poet"
Robert Mezey (Emeritus, Pomona College) reads from his own translations
of Borges' poetry, and from Borges translations by the late Dick Barnes
6:00-7:00 p.m.: Reception, with address by ALSC President Rosanna Warren
8:30-10:30 p.m.
Viewing of the Egyptian film *Miramar*, based on the novel by Naguib
Mahfouz (or of *Palace Walk*, or of another screenplay based on a
Mahfouz novel)
8:30-10:00 p.m.
ALSC Coffeehouse, with Lee Oser (College of the Holy Cross) presiding
Papers, to be more or less immediately followed by an Open Mike, when
our members are invited to read or recite for the pleasure of it
SATURDAY, NOV. 5
8:30-10:15 a.m.: CONCURRENT SEMINARS
Seminar One: Poetic Translation in a Global Context
Chair: Christopher Maurer (Boston University)
Seminar Two: Experimental Poetics, 1580 to the Present
Chair: Stephen Cushman (University of Virginia)
Seminar Three: Writing About Cities - The New Urban Literature
Chair: Phillip Lopate (Hofstra University)
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Two: Mythology in the K-12 Classroom. Chair: Howard Gardner
(Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Liz Craig-Olins (Newton North High School): "Adventure, Reflection and
Transformation"
Lucy Robb (The Park School): "Greek Mythology and the Nine Year Old: A
Perfect Fit"
Helaine L. Smith (The Brearley School, NYC): "Hera's Beguilements and
Hephaestus' Skill: Teaching Mythology from Primary Sources: Three
Sample Curricula"
1:30-3:15 p.m.
Panel Three: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz. Chair: Roger Allen
(University of Pennsylvania)
Mona El-Sherif (University of California, Berkeley): "The Writing of
Tradition and Masculinity in the Canon of Arabic literature: a
Comparative Study of Taha Husayn, Tawfiq al-Hakim, and Mahfouz"
Walid Hamarneh (University of Western Ontario): "Naguib Mahfouz's
Cairo: The Private/Public Nexus"
Shakir Mustafa (Boston University): "Mahfouz's Parables and the
Contemporary Arabic Novel"
3:30-5:15 p.m.
Panel Four: Writing in the Wake of the Quixote. Chair: Roberto
Gonzalez-Echevarria (Yale University)
Carmen Boullosa (The City College of New York): "Suing Miguel de
Cervantes"
Laura Jane Ress (Boston University): "Tristram Shandy and the Knight of
the Mournful Countenance"
Michael Scham (University of St. Thomas): "Quixotic Communitas and
Redemption in Nabokov's *Lolita*"
8 p.m. Dinner, followed by guest speaker Norman Mailer's conversation
with the scholar, archivist, and bibliographer J. Michael Lennon from
Wilkes University in Pennsylvania
SUNDAY, NOV. 6
8:30-10:15 a.m.
Panel Five: Poetry and Empire. Chair: Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston
University)
Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University): "Czeslaw Milosz and the
Mystery of the Missing 'Second World'"
Richard K. Cross (University of Maryland, College Park): "The Breaking
of Nations: Scotland, Czechoslovakia, and the Poetry of Edwin Muir"
Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston University): "Joseph Brodsky and Empire"
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Six: New Approaches to Modernism. Chair: Ronald Bush (Oxford
University)
Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan): "Monstrous Modernism:
Metamorphoses of *The Dybbuk*"
Christine Froula (Northwestern University): "Modernism and Worldliness"
Vicki Mahaffey (University of Pennsylvania): "Challenging Fictions: The
Reader's Stake in Modern Literature"
Wheelchair access:
to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off
Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to
the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the
basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the
elevator
to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first
floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted
entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the
Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic
Museum
at Harvard.
