Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #4 (9/30/05)
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Mon., Oct. 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Arrowsmith/Lindsay Library, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston
The Institute for the Classical Tradition and the Study Group on Myth
and Religion in the Ancient World
Aldo Setaioli (Universita di Perugia)
"Seneca and the Divine"
For more information, contact Sal Sordillo, 617-353-2427,
salvy(a)bu.edu. Refreshments will be served
Mon., Oct. 3, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street,
Providence RI
Paul Cartledge (Cambridge University)
"Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past"
Thurs., Oct. 6, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Braun Room, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
In conjunction with the American Schools of Oriental Research and
Massachusetts Archaeology Month
Dr. Holly Pittman (University of Pennsylvania)
"An Iranian Nexus of Trade and Commerce at 2500 B.C."
Reception following lecture at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (617 495 4631)
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
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
Thurs., 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
*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
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
Wed., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
On the Aeneid (exact title TBA)
Michael Putnam, (Brown University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thu., 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"
Thu. 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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #3 (9/23/05)
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
Mon., Oct. 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Arrowsmith/Lindsay Library, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston
The Institute for the Classical Tradition and the Study Group on Myth
and Religion in the Ancient World
Aldo Setaioli (Universita di Perugia)
"Seneca and the Divine"
For more information, contact Sal Sordillo, 617-353-2427,
salvy(a)bu.edu. Refreshments will be served
Mon., Oct. 3, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street,
Providence RI
Paul Cartledge (Cambridge University)
"Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past"
Thurs., Oct. 6, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Braun Room, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
In conjunction with the American Schools of Oriental Research and
Massachusetts Archaeology Month
Dr. Holly Pittman (University of Pennsylvania)
"An Iranian Nexus of Trade and Commerce at 2500 B.C."
Reception following lecture at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (617 495 4631)
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
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
*Thurs., 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
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
Wed., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
On the Aeneid (exact title TBA)
Michael Putnam, (Brown University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thu., 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"
Thu. 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
Title TBA
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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #2 (9/16/05)
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., Sept. 16, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence
RI
Alan Boegehold (Brown University)
"Ways of Reading Archilochus, fr. 2 West"
*Wed., Sept. 21, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Crystal Room of Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting Street,
Providence RI
The Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge University)
"Models for Living in Ancient Greece and China"
Thurs., Sept. 22 - Sat., Sept. 24
YALE UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, Phelps Hall, 344 College
Street, New Haven, CT
Conference: The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual
For information: http://www.yale.edu/classics/emperor_conf.html
*Mon., Oct. 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Arrowsmith/Lindsay Library, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston
The Institute for the Classical Tradition and the Study Group on Myth
and Religion in the Ancient World
Aldo Setaioli (Universita di Perugia)
"Seneca and the Divine"
For more information, contact Sal Sordillo, 617-353-2427,
salvy(a)bu.edu. Refreshments will be served
*Mon., Oct. 3, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman Street,
Providence RI
Paul Cartledge (Cambridge University)
"Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past"
*Thurs., Oct. 6, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Braun Room, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
In conjunction with the American Schools of Oriental Research and
Massachusetts Archaeology Month
Dr. Holly Pittman (University of Pennsylvania)
"An Iranian Nexus of Trade and Commerce at 2500 B.C."
Reception following lecture at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (617 495 4631)
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
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*"
*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. 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. 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
*Wed., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
On the Aeneid (exact title TBA)
Michael Putnam, (Brown University)
Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Thu., 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"
*Thu. 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
Title TBA
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
APPENDIX
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.
Wed., November 16, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst College
Campus
On the Aeneid (title to be announced)
Michael Putnam, W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics,
Brown University
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Reception Following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Mon., December 5, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst
College Campus
Title to be Announced
Jean Sorabella, Professor of Art History, Adelphi University
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Reception Following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Mon., April 10, 2006, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst
College Campus
Title: Life and Death in Roman Dura-Europus
Simon James, Reader in Archaeology, University of Leicester
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Reception Following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu)
Sara Upton
