Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #18 (1/27/06)
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*Thurs., Feb. 2, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA
A Panel Discussion, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
Professors Paul Morrison (English), Ibrahim Sundiata (History),
Jonathan Unglaub (Fine Arts), and Cheryl Walker (Classics), Brandeis
University
"HBO's ROME Series: A Panel Discussion on its Historic Figures and its
Message"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
For further information, contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Free and open to the public (for directions:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
Thurs., Feb. 9, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"The Virtues of Violence: The Spectacles of the Roman Amphitheatre"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
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)
Free and open to the public (for directions:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
Thurs., Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room
525, Boston, MA
Professor Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
"Aristotelian Substance, Functional Unity, and Embedded Matter"
Commentary by Mary Louise Gill (Brown/Radcliffe)
For more information, contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
Wed. Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Kathryn Bard and Dr. Rodolpho Fattovich (Boston University and
University of Naples)
"Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in
Wadi Gawasis"
Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information, contact Dena Davis at davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
(617-495-4631)
Mon., Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA
Five College Lecture in Classical Archaeology
"New Discoveries at Aphrodisias"
Christopher Ratte (New York University)
Reception following; for more information contact Geoffrey Sumi
(gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu)
Sponsored by the Five College Classics Departments
Thurs., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
"Some Aspects of Rhetoric and Character in Euripides"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Wed., Mar. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
Yelena Baraz (Trinity College)
"From the Academy to the Forum: Cicero's Philosophical Politics"
Reception to follow
Free and open to the public
For further information, contact Sara Upton <swupton(a)amherst.edu>
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Thurs., Mar. 16, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Walsh Function Room, Chestnut Hill, MA
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute)
"Introspection, Plotinian and Augustinian"
Commentary by John Kenney (St. Michael's, VT)
For more information, contact Gary Gurtler, gurtlerg(a)bc.edu
Tues., Mar. 28, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Ralph J. Hexter (Hampshire College)
"Stories of War and Return" — The Nostoi Project
For further information please contact Robert Meagher
<remHA(a)hampshire.edu>
Sponsored by Hampshire College, The Nostoi Project
Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 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
Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Suicide in Byzantium"
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Simon James (University of Leicester)
"Desert Fortress: Life and Violent Death in Roman Dura-Europos, Syria"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Christof Boehringer (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the
University of Göttingen, Germany)
"Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of
Sicily"
*Fri., Apr. 21, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
The Twelfth Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
Denis Feeney (Princeton University), "Founding and Re-founding the City
of Rome"
Ann Vasaly (Boston University), "Characterization and Complexity:
Caesar, Sallust, and Livy"
Tony Woodman (University of Virginia), "Mutiny and Madness: Annals
1.16-51"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference. For registration
and other information see http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact Prof. Pat Larash or Mr. Ben Thompson at the Department of
Classical Studies (617-353-2426 or romstud(at)bu.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Mon., Apr. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Hermann Parzinger (German Archaeological Institute)
"Monumental Kurgans in the Siberian Steppe: The Scythian Elite Burial
from Arzhan in Tuva"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard Art Museums, and
the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College
Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA
Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of
London)
Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and
Discussion
For more information, contact Cynthia Damon, <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>,
413-542-8126
Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA
16th Annual Lehmann Lecture
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
*Thurs., May 18, 7:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
David Reeve (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Plato's Goat-Stags: Philosophers and Cities in the *Republic*"
Commentary by Mark McPherran (U Maine, Farmington)
For more information, contact Margaret Graver,
margaret.r.graver(a)dartmouth.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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #17 (1/20/06)
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the following week.
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PLEASE NOTE:
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** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Fri., Jan. 20, 4:00 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, 401 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT
Roman Topics Seminar
John Bodel (Brown University)
"From Columbarium to Catacombs: Communities of the Dead in Pagan and
Christian Rome"
Thurs., Feb. 9, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"The Virtues of Violence: The Spectacles of the Roman Amphitheatre"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
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)
Free and open to the public (for directions:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
*Thurs., Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room
525, Boston, MA
Professor Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
"Aristotelian Form, Function and Definition"
For more information, contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
Wed. Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Kathryn Bard and Dr. Rodolpho Fattovich (Boston University and
University of Naples)
"Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in
Wadi Gawasis"
Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information, contact Dena Davis at davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
(617-495-4631)
*Mon., Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA
Five College Lecture in Classical Archaeology
"New Discoveries at Aphrodisias"
Christopher Ratte (New York University)
Reception following; for more information contact Geoffrey Sumi
(gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu)
Sponsored by the Five College Classics Departments
*Thurs., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
"Some Aspects of Rhetoric and Character in Euripides"
Reception following
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
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Tues., Mar. 28, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Ralph J. Hexter (Hampshire College)
"Stories of War and Return" — The Nostoi Project
For further information please contact Robert Meagher
<remHA(a)hampshire.edu>
Sponsored by Hampshire College, The Nostoi Project
Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 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
Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Suicide in Byzantium"
**Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m. (NOTE REVISED TITLE AND SPONSORSHIP)
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Simon James (University of Leicester)
"Desert Fortress: Life and Violent Death in Roman Dura-Europos, Syria"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Christof Boehringe (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the
University of Göttingen, Germany)
"Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of
Sicily"
*Mon., Apr. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Hermann Parzinger (German Archaeological Institute)
"Monumental Kurgans in the Siberian Steppe: The Scythian Elite Burial
from Arzhan in Tuva"
Cosponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Boston Society of
the Archaeological Institute of America
Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College
Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA
Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of
London)
Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and
Discussion
For more information contact Cynthia Damon, <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>,
413-542-8126
*Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA
16th Annual Lehmann Lecture
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
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: #16 (1/13/06)
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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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., Jan. 20, 4:00 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, 401 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT
Roman Topics Seminar
John Bodel (Brown University)
"From Columbarium to Catacombs: Communities of the Dead in Pagan and
Christian Rome"
*Thurs., Feb. 9, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"The Virtues of Violence: The Spectacles of the Roman Amphitheatre"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
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)
Free and open to the public (for directions:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
*Wed. Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Kathryn Bard and Dr. Rodolpho Fattovich (Boston University and
University of Naples)
"Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in
Wadi Gawasis"
Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information, contact Dena Davis at davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
(617-495-4631)
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"
Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 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
Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Suicide in Byzantium"
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
*Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Christof Boehringe (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the
University of Göttingen, Germany)
"Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of
Sicily"
*Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College
Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA
Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of
London)
Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and
Discussion
For more information contact Cynthia Damon, <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>,
413-542-8126
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.
