Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #32 (4/29/05)
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Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome"
(NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY)
Tues., May 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar
Silke Knippschild (Technical University Dresden)
"Spoils and Iconoclasm in Ancient West Asia and Greece: The Role of
Art in Creating and Destroying Identities"
*Wed,, May 4, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Diana Stein (Birkbeck College, University of London)
"The Sacred Tree and Winged Disk at Nuzi: The Background of Two
Imperial Motifs"
A reception for the speaker follows the lecture
For more information, contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631)
<davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond"
Thurs., May 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Barbara Borg (University of Exeter)
"Monuments for Eternity or Brilliant Performance? Changes in the
Representational Behaviour of the Roman Elite in the Third Century AD"
LECTURE CANCELLED:
Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History
Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris)
"From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word
in Greek culture"
Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
See Appendix for details
APPENDIX
Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
The Director of the Iraq Museum, Dr. Donny George, will present an
illustrated lecture on
the current status of material looted from the Iraq Museum, half of
which is still missing
today. Dr. George will discuss the ongoing efforts to restore the
objects damaged during
the war and its aftermath, and to recover the objects still missing.
Dr. George will also
talk about the new publication, *The Looting of the Iraq Museum,
Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia*, which presents the
art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and
the story of the development of civilization. A percentage of the
proceeds from the sale of
this book will be donated to the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage.
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 2004/2005: #31 (4/22/05)
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*Thurs., Fri., Apr. 21, 22, 7:30 p.m.,
Sat., Apr. 23, 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Agassiz Theater, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Classical Club presents:
"The Mostellaria of Plautus" in original translation
Directed by Christopher Kukstis, '05
Produced by Alexandra Helrpin, '07 Ticket Price: $5.00
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
See Appendix for details
Fri., Apr, 22, 5:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Campus Center 101, Amherst, MA
Sharon Herbert (University of Michigan)
"In Search of the 'Last' of the Phoenicians: Evidence for Interaction
Between Greeks and Phoenicians in Hellenistic Galilee"
This lecture is sponsored by the family of the late Prof. David Grose
and the Department of Classics. For further information, contact
Prof. Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu)
Mon., April 25, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
"Seneca's Medea, or the Stoic as Monster"
Tues., Apr. 26, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT
Archaeological Institute of America - New Haven Society
Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan)
"The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Contexts and Meanings"
For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu)
Tues., Apr. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 1: "Before Excavation: Legends and their Reception"
Wed., Apr. 27, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Johannes Koder (University of Vienna)
"The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist and their Potential Role as Mass Propaganda"
Wed., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History of the Book Seminar
Seth Lehrer (Stanford University)
"Aesop in the Middle Ages: Authority and Authorship in the History of
Children's Literature"
Thurs., Apr. 28, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 2: "The Lydian City"
Thurs., April 28, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy
Thomas Johansen (Edinburgh University)
"In Defense of Aristotelian Common Sense"
Response: Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College)
Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome"
(NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY)
Tues., May 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar
Silke Knippschild (Technical University Dresden)
"Spoils and Iconoclasm in Ancient West Asia and Greece: The Role of
Art in Creating and Destroying Identities"
Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond"
Thurs., May 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Barbara Borg (University of Exeter)
"Monuments for Eternity or Brilliant Performance? Changes in the
Representational Behaviour of the Roman Elite in the Third Century AD"
LECTURE CANCELLED:
Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History
Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris)
"From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word
in Greek culture"
Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
See Appendix for details
APPENDIX
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University)
"Religion and Power in the Early Empire"
James Rives (York University)
"Reason and Revelation in Apuleius"
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
"Catullus Among the Christians"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
The Director of the Iraq Museum, Dr. Donny George, will present an
illustrated lecture on
the current status of material looted from the Iraq Museum, half of
which is still missing
today. Dr. George will discuss the ongoing efforts to restore the
objects damaged during
the war and its aftermath, and to recover the objects still missing.
Dr. George will also
talk about the new publication, *The Looting of the Iraq Museum,
Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia*, which presents the
art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and
the story of the development of civilization. A percentage of the
proceeds from the sale of
this book will be donated to the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage.
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 2004/2005: #31 (4/15/05)
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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the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible.
PLEASE NOTE:
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Fri., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Brooks Emmons Levy (Princeton University)
"Holy Shekels: the Currency of Jerusalem's Temple Tax"
Free admission: a reception will follow
*Mon., Apr. 18, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA
The Religions and Cultures of Mediterranean Antiquity Workshop
Youval Rotman (Yale University)
"Slavery between Antiquity and the Middle Ages"
For more information contact Kyle Harper, jharper(a)fas.harvard.edu
Mon., Apr. 18, 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT
Hartford Society, AIA Lecture
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
"Water Colors of the Villa of the Mysteries by Maria Barosso:
Archaeology, Art, and Politics of Italy of the 1920s"
Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Burkhard Meissner (Brown University)
"Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents,
Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu)
Tues., Apr. 19, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Oswyn Murray (Balliol College, Oxford)
"Zeno and the Art of Polis Maintenance"
Wed., Apr. 20, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 105, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
"Happiness and the causes of things: physics and ethics in Stoicism"
Thurs., Apr. 21, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Maurizio Giangiulio (University of Trento)
"Oral tradition and narrative strategies in Herodotus: the speech
of the Corinthian Socles"
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
See Appendix for details
Fri., Apr, 22, 5:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Campus Center 101, Amherst, MA
Sharon Herbert (University of Michigan)
"In Search of the 'Last' of the Phoenicians: Evidence for Interaction
Between Greeks and Phoenicians in Hellenistic Galilee"
This lecture is sponsored by the family of the late Prof. David Grose
and the Department of Classics. For further information, contact
Prof. Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu)
Mon., April 25, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
"Seneca's Medea, or the Stoic as Monster"
Tues., Apr. 26, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT
Archaeological Institute of America - New Haven Society
Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan)
"The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Contexts and Meanings"
For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu)
Tues., Apr. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 1: "Before Excavation: Legends and their Reception"
Wed., Apr. 27, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Johannes Koder (University of Vienna)
"The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist and their Potential Role as Mass Propaganda"
Wed., Apr. 27 [time TBA]
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA [specific location TBA]
English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History of the Book Seminar
Seth Lehrer (Stanford University)
"Aesop in the Middle Ages: Authority and Authorship in the History of
Children's Literature"
Thurs., Apr. 28, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 2: "The Lydian City"
Thurs., April 28, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy
Thomas Johansen (Edinburgh University)
"In Defense of Aristotelian Common Sense"
Response: Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College)
Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome"
(NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY)
Tues., May 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar
Silke Knippschild (Technical University Dresden)
"Spoils and Iconoclasm in Ancient West Asia and Greece: The Role of
Art in Creating and Destroying Identities"
Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond"
Thurs., May 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Barbara Borg (University of Exeter)
"Monuments for Eternity or Brilliant Performance? Changes in the
Representational Behaviour of the Roman Elite in the Third Century AD"
LECTURE CANCELLED:
Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History
Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris)
"From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word
in Greek culture"
Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
See Appendix for details
APPENDIX
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University)
"Religion and Power in the Early Empire"
James Rives (York University)
"Reason and Revelation in Apuleius"
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
"Catullus Among the Christians"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
The Director of the Iraq Museum, Dr. Donny George, will present an
illustrated lecture on
the current status of material looted from the Iraq Museum, half of
which is still missing
today. Dr. George will discuss the ongoing efforts to restore the
objects damaged during
the war and its aftermath, and to recover the objects still missing.
Dr. George will also
talk about the new publication, *The Looting of the Iraq Museum,
Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia*, which presents the
art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and
the story of the development of civilization. A percentage of the
proceeds from the sale of
this book will be donated to the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage.
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 2004/2005: #30 (4/8/05)
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.
Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown
below instead of as word-processor file attachments.
NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL
APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK.
Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued
the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Fri., April 8, 4:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies,
Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409,
Boston, MA
Michael Silk (King's College, London, and Boston University)
"The Invention of Greek: Poets, Macedonians, and Others"
For more information, please contact Salvatore Sordillo,
salvy(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427
Fri., Apr. 8, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
"The Gaze in and out of Ekphrasis: Visualizing Ariadne from Catullus
to Pompeii"
Sat., Apr. 9, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"The Cankered Muse: In Search of Modern Greek Satire": A Graduate
Student Conference in
Modern Greek Studies
Sponsored by The George Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies in the
Department of the Classics
See Appendix for details
Sun., Apr. 10, 10:30 a.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Sponsored by SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone)
Roger Atwood (author of "Stealing History")
Tour of MFA discussing provenance of objects
Fee: $30 plus museum admission; student discounts available
To make a reservation for the tour, please visit
http://www.savingantiquities.org/g-whatwedosafetours.htm
For more information, please email tours(a)savingantiquities.org
*Mon., Apr. 11, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Evangelos Moutsopoulos (University of Athens, Academy of Athens)
"The Psychology of Music in Plato"
This lecture is co-sponsored by the George Seferis Chair of Modern
Greek Studies;
The Alexander Onassis Foundation, USA; and The Greek Consulate, Boston
Wed., April 13, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Martin Dreher (University of Magdeburg)
"'Primitive' Sparta: Reflections on Sparta's Early Constitution"
Wed., Apr. 13, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Lawrence E. Stager (Harvard University)
"The Rise and Fall of the Canaanites (c. 1900-1175 BCE)"
Wed., Apr. 13, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Christian
Lecture Room, 3rd floor,
Cambridge, MA
A seminar sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
Carlos A. Picon (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"The Reinstallation of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art"
For more information contact Amy Brauer (brauer(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Wed., Apr. 13, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Lawrence E. Stager (Harvard University)
"The Arrival of the Philistines"
Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
Thurs., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Lawrence E. Stager (Harvard University)
"Ashkelon on the Eve of Destruction"
Thurs., Apr. 14, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 105, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wayne Hankey (Dalhousie University)
"Reevaluating E. R. Dodds' Platonism"
Thurs., Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center,
855 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Carlos Norena (Yale University)
"Local Honors for the Roman Emperor: Notes on a Silent Revolution"
Commentator: Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
Wine and cheese at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, paper at 7:30
For further information: Allen M. Ward, ward(a)uconnvm.uconn.edu
Fri., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Brooks Emmons Levy (Princeton University)
"Holy Shekels: the Currency of Jerusalem's Temple Tax"
Free admission: a reception will follow
Mon., Apr. 18, 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT
Hartford Society, AIA Lecture
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
"Water Colors of the Villa of the Mysteries by Maria Barosso:
Archaeology, Art, and Politics of Italy of the 1920s"
Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Burkhard Meissner (Brown University)
"Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents,
Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu)
Tues., Apr. 19, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Oswyn Murray (Balliol College, Oxford)
"Zeno and the Art of Polis Maintenance"
Wed., Apr. 20, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 105, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
"Happiness and the causes of things: physics and ethics in Stoicism"
Thurs., Apr. 21, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Maurizio Giangiulio (University of Trento)
"Oral tradition and narrative strategies in Herodotus: the speech
of the Corinthian Socles"
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
See Appendix for details
Fri., Apr, 22, 5:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Campus Center 101, Amherst, MA
Sharon Herbert (University of Michigan)
"In Search of the 'Last' of the Phoenicians: Evidence for Interaction
Between Greeks and Phoenicians in Hellenistic Galilee"
This lecture is sponsored by the family of the late Prof. David Grose
and the Department of Classics. For further information, contact
Prof. Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu)
Mon., April 25, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
"Seneca's Medea, or the Stoic as Monster"
Tues., Apr. 26, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT
Archaeological Institute of America - New Haven Society
Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan)
"The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Contexts and Meanings"
For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu)
Tues., Apr. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 1: "Before Excavation: Legends and their Reception"
Wed., Apr. 27, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Johannes Koder (University of Vienna)
"The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist and their Potential Role as Mass Propaganda"
Wed., Apr. 27 [time TBA]
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA [specific location TBA]
English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History of the Book Seminar
Seth Lehrer (Stanford University)
"Aesop in the Middle Ages: Authority and Authorship in the History of
Children's Literature"
Thurs., Apr. 28, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 2: "The Lydian City"
Thurs., April 28, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy
Thomas Johansen (Edinburgh University)
"In Defense of Aristotelian Common Sense"
Response: Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College)
Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome"
(NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY)
Tues., May 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar
Silke Knippschild (Technical University Dresden)
"Spoils and Iconoclasm in Ancient West Asia and Greece: The Role of
Art in Creating and Destroying Identities"
Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond"
Thurs., May 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Barbara Borg (University of Exeter)
"Monuments for Eternity or Brilliant Performance? Changes in the
Representational Behaviour of the Roman Elite in the Third Century AD"
LECTURE CANCELLED:
Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History
Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris)
"From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word
in Greek culture"
*Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
See Appendix for details
APPENDIX
**Sat., April 9, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (NOTE ADDED PROGRAM DETAILS)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA.
"The Cankered Muse: In Search of Modern Greek Satire": A Graduate
Student Conference; sponsored by the George Seferis Chair of Modern
Greek Studies and the Department of the Classics; organized by
Nikos Panou and Nikos Poulopoulos.
The conference aims to account for the prolific and uninterrupted
presence of satire in modern Greek literature throughout its long
history, and to explore and elaborate on its nature and function,
both as an individual genre with a unique literary background and
exclusive discursive characteristics, and as a kind of "Protean"
literary mode that quite often interacts with other genres and puts
them into a totally new perspective, affecting their generic
identity, enriching their established reservoir of themes and
tropes, and expanding their traditionally ascribed limits.
10:00-10:15: Panagiotis Roilos - Nikos Panou: Introductory comments
10:15-11:00: Keynote speaker: Katerina Kostiou (University of Patra),
"The Rhetoric of Subversion as an Element of Style"
11:00-11:30: Nikos Panou (Harvard University), "The Devil's Playground:
Pre-phanariot Satire in the Danubian Principalities"
11:30-11:45: Coffee break
11:45-12:15: Annie Malama (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), "An
Academy without Academics: The Satirical Reception of the Construction
of the Academy Building and its Monumental Decoration in 19th Century
Athens"
12:15-12:45: Ioanna Naoum (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki),
"The Laughter of the Centuries: Towards a Genealogy of K. G. Karyotakes'
Poetics"
12:45-1:15: Discussion
1:15-3:00: Lunch break
3:00-3:30: Nikos Poulopoulos (Harvard University), "Black Humor or
Black Bile: Aspects of Humor and Melancholy in Modern Greek Satire"
3:30-4:00: Georgia Pateridou (University of Birmingham), "The Role
of Parody in Psycharis's 'To Taksidi mou'"
4:00-4:30: Ilia Lakidou (University of Athens), "Theatrical Satire
and Dictatorship: The case of the "Eleuthero Theatro" and the show
'Ki esu xtenizesai', Summer 1973"
4:30-5:00: Discussion
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University)
"Religion and Power in the Early Empire"
James Rives (York University)
"Reason and Revelation in Apuleius"
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
"Catullus Among the Christians"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
*Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum"
The Director of the Iraq Museum, Dr. Donny George, will present an
illustrated lecture on
the current status of material looted from the Iraq Museum, half of
which is still missing
today. Dr. George will discuss the ongoing efforts to restore the
objects damaged during
the war and its aftermath, and to recover the objects still missing.
Dr. George will also
talk about the new publication, *The Looting of the Iraq Museum,
Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia*, which presents the
art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and
the story of the development of civilization. A percentage of the
proceeds from the sale of
this book will be donated to the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage.
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 2004/2005: #29 (4/1/05)
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.
Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown
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Fri., Apr. 1, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Photonics Center, 2 St.
Mary's St.,
Room 205, Boston, MA
Friday Colloquium Series
Michael Silk (King's College, London, and Boston University)
"Nietzsche's Socrateases"
For electronic copy of pre-circulated paper, please contact John
Manna, casphilo(a)bu.edu
Sun., Apr. 3, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Estell Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture
Richard Brilliant (Columbia University)
"Hope that Unlocks the Gates of Hades: Roman Funerary Arts"
Presented with the support of the International Catacomb Society
Open to the public; free tickets available at Remis Box Office on day
of lecture
Thurs., Apr. 7, 5:30 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington
Avenue, Boston, MA
Co-sponsored by The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The
Archaeological Institute of America, Boston Society
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"The Dramatic Rescue of the Mosaics of Zeugma: Greek Life along the Euphrates"
Free and open to the public; MFA admission not required
Fri., April 8, 4:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies,
Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409,
Boston, MA
Michael Silk (King's College, London, and Boston University)
"The Invention of Greek: Poets, Macedonians, and Others"
For more information, please contact Salvatore Sordillo,
salvy(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427
Fri., Apr. 8, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
"The Gaze in and out of Ekphrasis: Visualizing Ariadne from Catullus
to Pompeii"
*Sat., Apr. 9, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"The Cankered Muse: In Search of Modern Greek Satire": A Graduate
Student Conference in
Modern Greek Studies
Sponsored by The George Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies in the
Department of the Classics
See Appendix for details
Sun., Apr. 10, 10:30 a.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Sponsored by SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone)
Roger Atwood (author of "Stealing History")
Tour of MFA discussing provenance of objects
Fee: $30 plus museum admission; student discounts available
To make a reservation for the tour, please visit
http://www.savingantiquities.org/g-whatwedosafetours.htm
For more information, please email tours(a)savingantiquities.org
Wed., April 13, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Martin Dreher (University of Magdeburg)
"'Primitive' Sparta: Reflections on Sparta's Early Constitution"
Wed., Apr. 13, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Lawrence E. Stager (Harvard University)
"The Rise and Fall of the Canaanites (c. 1900-1175 BCE)"
Wed., Apr. 13, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Christian
Lecture Room, 3rd floor,
Cambridge, MA
A seminar sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
Carlos A. Picon (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"The Reinstallation of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art"
For more information contact Amy Brauer (brauer(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Wed., Apr. 13, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Lawrence E. Stager (Harvard University)
"The Arrival of the Philistines"
Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
Thurs., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Lawrence E. Stager (Harvard University)
"Ashkelon on the Eve of Destruction"
Thurs., Apr. 14, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 105, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wayne Hankey (Dalhousie University)
"Reevaluating E. R. Dodds' Platonism"
Thurs., Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center,
855 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Carlos Norena (Yale University)
"Local Honors for the Roman Emperor: Notes on a Silent Revolution"
Commentator: Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
Wine and cheese at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, paper at 7:30
For further information: Allen M. Ward, ward(a)uconnvm.uconn.edu
Fri., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Brooks Emmons Levy (Princeton University)
"Holy Shekels: the Currency of Jerusalem's Temple Tax"
Free admission: a reception will follow
Mon., Apr. 18, 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT
Hartford Society, AIA Lecture
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
"Water Colors of the Villa of the Mysteries by Maria Barosso:
Archaeology, Art, and Politics of Italy of the 1920s"
Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Burkhard Meissner (Brown University)
"Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents,
Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu)
Tues., Apr. 19, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Oswyn Murray (Balliol College, Oxford)
"Zeno and the Art of Polis Maintenance"
Wed., Apr. 20, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 105, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
"Happiness and the causes of things: physics and ethics in Stoicism"
Thurs., Apr. 21, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Maurizio Giangiulio (University of Trento)
"Oral tradition and narrative strategies in Herodotus: the speech
of the Corinthian Socles"
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
See Appendix for details
*Fri., Apr, 22, 5:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Campus Center 101, Amherst, MA
Sharon Herbert (University of Michigan)
"In Search of the 'Last' of the Phoenicians: Evidence for Interaction
Between Greeks and Phoenicians in Hellenistic Galilee"
This lecture is sponsored by the family of the late Prof. David Grose
and the Department of Classics. For further information, contact
Prof. Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu)
Mon., April 25, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
"Seneca's Medea, or the Stoic as Monster"
Tues., Apr. 26, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT
Archaeological Institute of America - New Haven Society
Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan)
"The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Contexts and Meanings"
For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu)
Tues., Apr. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 1: "Before Excavation: Legends and their Reception"
Wed., Apr. 27, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Johannes Koder (University of Vienna)
"The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist and their Potential Role as Mass Propaganda"
Wed., Apr. 27 [time TBA]
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA [specific location TBA]
English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History of the Book Seminar
Seth Lehrer (Stanford University)
"Aesop in the Middle Ages: Authority and Authorship in the History of
Children's Literature"
Thurs., Apr. 28, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 2: "The Lydian City"
Thurs., April 28, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy
Thomas Johansen (Edinburgh University)
"In Defense of Aristotelian Common Sense"
Response: Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College)
Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome"
(NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY)
Tues., May 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar
Silke Knippschild (Technical University Dresden)
"Spoils and Iconoclasm in Ancient West Asia and Greece: The Role of
Art in Creating and Destroying Identities"
Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond"
Thurs., May 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Barbara Borg (University of Exeter)
"Monuments for Eternity or Brilliant Performance? Changes in the
Representational Behaviour of the Roman Elite in the Third Century AD"
LECTURE CANCELLED:
Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History
Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris)
"From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word
in Greek culture"
APPENDIX
*Sat., Apr. 9, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"The Cankered Muse: In Search of Modern Greek Satire": A Graduate
Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies
Sponsored by The George Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies in the
Department of the Classics, and organized by Nikos Panou and Nikos
Poulopoulos
The conference aims to account for the prolific and uninterrupted
presence of satire in modern Greek literature throughout its long
history, and to explore and elaborate on its nature and function,
both as an individual genre with a unique literary background and
exclusive discursive characteristics, and as a kind of "Protean"
literary mode that quite often interacts with other genres and puts
them into a totally new perspective, affecting their generic
identity, enriching their established reservoir of themes and
tropes, and expanding their traditionally ascribed limits.
Keynote speaker: Katerina Kostiou (University of Patra), "The Rhetoric
of Subversion as an Element of Style"
Speakers:
Nikos Panou, "The Devil's Playground: Pre-phanariot Satire in the
Danubian Principalities"
Annie Malama, "An Academy without Academics: The Satirical Reception
of the Construction of the Academy Building and its Monumental
Decoration in 19th Century Athens"
Nikos Poulopoulos, "Black Humor or Black Bile: Aspects of Humor and
Melancholy in Modern Greek Satire"
Ioanna Naoum, "The Laughter of the Centuries: Towards a Genealogy
of K. G. Karyotakes' Poetics"
Georgia Pateridou, "The Role of Parody in Psycharis's 'To Taksidi mou'"
Ilia Lakidou, "Theatrical Satire and Dictatorship: the case of the
"Eleuthero Theatro" and the show 'Ki esu xtenizesai', Summer 1973"
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University)
"Religion and Power in the Early Empire"
James Rives (York University)
"Reason and Revelation in Apuleius"
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
"Catullus Among the Christians"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
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.
