Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #8 (10/27/06)
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Tues., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Colloquium sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Francesco Stella (University of Siena)
"Digital Philology and the Corpus Rhythmorum"
Thurs., Nov. 2, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Providence, RI
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
Fri., Nov. 3, 4:00 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
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
Mon., Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI
Scott McGill (Rice University)
"Imitation or Plagiarism? The Case of Virgil in Macrobius' Saturnalia"
Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA
Susan Alcock (Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts
17th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
"A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia"
Reception following in the Atrium
For more information contact Scott Bradbury (sbradbur(a)email.smith.edu)
Wed., Nov. 8, 7:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 201 Eaton Hall, Medford, MA
Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series
Josephine Crawley Quinn (Worcester College, University of Oxford)
"Negotiating Power in the Hellenistic West: Numidian Architecture in
Context"
For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Hall,
Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Cities" Lecture Series
David Mitten (Harvard University)
"Thessaloniki: Second City of the Aegean"
Thurs., Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University)
"Virgil and History"
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture
Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland)
"Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman
Alexandria"
Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are
required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office
on the day of the event.
*Tues., Nov. 21, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Harvard Semitic Museum, History of Art and
Architecture, and Ancient Egypt Research Associates
Barry Kemp (University of Cambridge)
"Life and Religion at Tell el-Amarna"
Reception preceding at 6:00 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu or
617-495-4631)
Free and open to the public
Thurs., Nov. 30, 3:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Golding 103, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series Lecture sponsored by the
Department of Classical Studies
Yumna Khan (Brandeis University)
"The Mythical Mystery Tour of Dionysius of Alexandria"
Light refreshments will be served
For more 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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College)
"Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of
Freedmen in the Roman World"
Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross)
Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion
For more information contact Kathleen Coleman
(kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024)
Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Aristotle on Political Animals"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #7 (10/20/06)
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Fri., Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Colloquium sponsored by the Department of the Classics
T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge)
"Understanding the Oedipus Rex"
This lecture will last 2 hours, followed at 4:00 p.m. by refreshments
and discussion
*Sat., Oct. 21, 2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Forms of Address: A Conference Sponsored by The English Institute
Shane Butler (UCLA)
"Prolusiones on the Backward Glance"
A journey though Poliziano, Vergil, and Ovid to find a definitive --
and surprising -- answer to the question, "Why does Orpheus look back?"
For more information on this panel and for conference registration,
see www.english-institute.org
Sun., Oct. 22, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
"Robots and Ancient Shipwrecks in the Deep Aegean Sea"
Tickets: $10 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $13 (non-MFA
members); MFA admission not required
Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box
office at 617-369-3306
Mon., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI
Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College)
"Self and Poetry in the Work of Prudentius"
Mon. Oct. 23; Wed., Oct. 25; and Fri., Oct. 27, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, 745 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, MA
Three seminars on Aristotle's conception of Psuche (De Anima II.1-4),
Telos (Physics, II.7-9), and Orexis (De Anima, III.7-8)
Alfred and Maria Miller (Catholic University of America)
For more information contact David Roochnik, roochnik(a)bu.edu
**Mon., Oct. 23, 6:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN
CANCELLED)
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series
T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge)
"The Coins of Marc Antony"
For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Oct. 25, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building 010, 1730
Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Committees on Archaeology and Medieval Studies and
made possible by a Mellon Foundation Award and Michael McCormick,
Department of History
Opening lecture in a new series, "Medieval Archaeology in the 21st
Century"
Martin Carver (University of York)
"Sutton Hoo in the Light of the New Excavations: a Political
Weathervane of the Seventh Century"
A reception will follow at the Faculty Club
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Harvard University)
"East and Further East: Syriac Christianity at the End of the Ancient
World"
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Thurs., Oct. 26, 8:00 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, 5 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA
John Herrmann (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and Annewies van den Hoek
(Harvard Divinity School)
"St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls, Rome: New Studies of the Old Basilica"
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the Boston Theological
Institute, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater
Boston area (http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/
patristica_bostoniensia.htm)
Tues., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Colloquium sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Francesco Stella (University of Siena)
"Digital Philology and the Corpus Rhythmorum"
Thurs., Nov. 2, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Providence, RI
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
Fri., Nov. 3, 4:00 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
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
Mon., Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI
Scott McGill (Rice University)
"Imitation or Plagiarism? The Case of Virgil in Macrobius' Saturnalia"
Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA
Susan Alcock (Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts
17th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
"A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia"
Reception following in the Atrium
For more information contact Scott Bradbury at sbradbur(a)email.smith.edu
*Wed., Nov. 8, 7:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 201 Eaton Hall, Medford, MA
Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series
Josephine Crawley Quinn (Worcester College, University of Oxford)
"Negotiating Power in the Hellenistic West: Numidian Architecture in
Context"
For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Hall,
Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Cities" Lecture Series
David Mitten (Harvard University)
"Thessaloniki: Second City of the Aegean"
Thurs., Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University)
"Virgil and History"
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture
Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland)
"Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman
Alexandria"
Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are
required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office
on the day of the event.
Thurs., Nov. 30, 3:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Golding 103, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series Lecture sponsored by the
Department of Classical Studies
Yumna Khan (Brandeis University)
"The Mythical Mystery Tour of Dionysius of Alexandria"
Light refreshments will be served
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College)
"Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of
Freedmen in the Roman World"
Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross)
Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion
For more information contact Kathleen Coleman at
kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024
Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Aristotle on Political Animals"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #6 (10/13/06)
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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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., Oct. 13 - Sat., Oct. 14
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street, Providence, RI
Colloquium in Honor of Charles Fornara's 70th Birthday, with papers
by Deborah Boedeker (Brown University), Alan Boegehold (Brown
University), Mortimer Chambers (University of California, Los
Angeles), Michael A. Flower (Princeton University), Carol King (Trent
University), John Marincola (Florida State University), Alden
Mosshammer (University of California, San Diego), Martin Ostwald
(Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania), David
Phillips (University of California, Los Angeles), Kurt Raaflaub
(Brown University), Loren J. Samons (Boston University), Adele
Scafuro (Brown University). For more information go to www.brown.edu/
Departments/Classics
Tues., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.
NEWTON FREE LIBRARY, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre, MA
Sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America
Dr. Richard Pearson (Independent Scholar)
"The Tomb Burials of Japan and Korea, 250 to 600 A.D. - A Story of
Gold Crowns, Swords, and Warrior Figures"
*Wed., Oct. 18, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
The Reading the Past: History and Historiography of the Ancient Near
East Workshop presents its first lecture
P. Oktor Skjaervo (Harvard University)
"Immigrants in the Ancient Near East: Who were the Iranians, where
did they come from, and how did they live with their neighbors?"
Snacks and drinks will be served after the lecture
Wed., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH
The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series, Fall 2006 Lecture
"From House to Church: Charting the Course of Artistic
Transformations in Early Byzantine Art"
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Free and open to the public; small reception to follow
For more information contact Thelma Sidmore at 603-862-3522 or
tss(a)cisunix.unh.edu
Fri., Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Colloquium sponsored by the Department of the Classics
T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge)
"Understanding the Oedipus Rex"
This lecture will last 2 hours, followed at 4:00 p.m. by refreshments
and discussion
Sun., Oct. 22, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
"Robots and Ancient Shipwrecks in the Deep Aegean Sea"
Tickets: $10 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $13 (non-MFA
members); MFA admission not required
Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box
office at 617-369-3306
Mon., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI
Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College)
"Self and Poetry in the Work of Prudentius"
*Mon. Oct. 23; Wed., Oct. 25; and Fri., Oct. 27, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, 745 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, MA
Three seminars on Aristotle's conception of Psuche (De Anima II.1-4),
Telos (Physics, II.7-9), and Orexis (De Anima, III.7-8)
Professors Alfred and Maria Miller (Catholic University of America)
For more information contact David Roochnik, roochnik(a)bu.edu
Mon., Oct. 23, 6:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series
Prof. T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge)
"The Coins of Marc Antony"
For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Oct. 25, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building 010, 1730
Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Committees on Archaeology and Medieval Studies and
made possible by a Mellon Foundation Award and Michael McCormick,
Department of History
Opening lecture in a new series, "Medieval Archaeology in the 21st
Century"
Martin Carver (University of York)
"Sutton Hoo in the Light of the New Excavations: a Political
Weathervane of the Seventh Century"
A reception will follow at the Faculty Club
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Harvard University)
"East and Further East: Syriac Christianity at the End of the Ancient
World"
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
*Thurs., Oct. 26, 8:00 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, 5 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA
John Herrmann (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and Annewies van den Hoek
(Harvard Divinity School)
"St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls, Rome: New Studies of the Old Basilica"
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the Boston Theological
Institute, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater
Boston area (http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/
patristica_bostoniensia.htm)
Tues., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Colloquium sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Francesco Stella (University of Siena)
"Digital Philology and the Corpus Rhythmorum"
Thurs., Nov. 2, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Providence, RI
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
Fri., Nov. 3, 4:00 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
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
Mon., Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI
Scott McGill (Rice University)
"Imitation or Plagiarism? The Case of Virgil in Macrobius' Saturnalia"
Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA
Susan Alcock (Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts
17th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
"A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia"
Reception following in the Atrium
For more information contact Scott Bradbury at sbradbur(a)email.smith.edu
Wed., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Hall,
Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Cities" Lecture Series
David Mitten (Harvard University)
"Thessaloniki: Second City of the Aegean"
Thurs., Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University)
"Virgil and History"
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture
Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland)
"Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman
Alexandria"
Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are
required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office
on the day of the event.
*Thurs., Nov. 30, 3:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Golding 103, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series Lecture sponsored by the
Department of Classical Studies
Dr. Yumna Khan (Brandeis University)
"The Mythical Mystery Tour of Dionysius of Alexandria"
Light refreshments will be served
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College)
"Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of
Freedmen in the Roman World"
Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross)
Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion
For more information contact Kathleen Coleman at
kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024
Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Aristotle on Political Animals"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #5 (10/6/06)
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.
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., Oct. 6 - Sat., Oct. 7
YALE UNIVERSITY, 102 Linsly-Chittenden Hall, High Street, New Haven, CT
"The Romans in Asia," a conference celebrating the revival of
numismatics at Yale and the acquisition of the collection of Peter R.
and Leonore Franke. The conference will feature papers by Michel
Amandry (Paris), Francois de Callatay (Brussels), Peter R. Franke
(Munich), Ann Johnston (Cambridge), Christopher Jones (Harvard),
Dietrich Klose (Munich), Katherine Welch (NYU-IFA), Greg Woolf (St.
Andrews) and William E. Metcalf (Yale)
Free and open to the public. For more information go to http://
www.yale.edu/classics/news.html
Wed., Oct. 11, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Peter derManuelian (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Excavations at the Giza Pyramids: Old Digs, New Technologies"
Reception preceding lecture at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity
Avenue, Cambridge
For more information contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
Fri., Oct. 13 - Sat., Oct. 14
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street, Providence, RI
Colloquium in Honor of Charles Fornara's 70th Birthday, with papers
by Deborah Boedeker (Brown University), Alan Boegehold (Brown
University), Mortimer Chambers (University of California, Los
Angeles), Michael A. Flower (Princeton University), Carol King (Trent
University), John Marincola (Florida State University), Alden
Mosshammer (University of California, San Diego), Martin Ostwald
(Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania), David
Phillips (University of California, Los Angeles), Kurt Raaflaub
(Brown University), Loren J. Samons (Boston University), Adele
Scafuro (Brown University). For more information go to www.brown.edu/
Departments/Classics
Tues., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.
NEWTON FREE LIBRARY, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre, MA
Sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America
Dr. Richard Pearson (Independent Scholar)
"The Tomb Burials of Japan and Korea, 250 to 600 A.D. - A Story of
Gold Crowns, Swords, and Warrior Figures"
*Wed., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH
The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series, Fall 2006 Lecture
"From House to Church: Charting the Course of Artistic
Transformations in Early Byzantine Art"
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Free and open to the public; small reception to follow
For more information contact Thelma Sidmore at 603-862-3522 or
tss(a)cisunix.unh.edu
Fri., Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge)
"Understanding the Oedipus Rex"
This lecture will last 2 hours, followed at 4:00 p.m. by refreshments
and discussion
Sun., Oct. 22, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
"Robots and Ancient Shipwrecks in the Deep Aegean Sea"
Tickets: $10 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $13 (non-MFA
members); MFA admission not required
Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box
office at 617-369-3306
Mon., Oct. 23, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series
Prof. T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge)
"The Coins of Marc Antony"
For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu
Mon., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI
Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College)
"Self and Poetry in the Work of Prudentius"
*Wed., Oct. 25, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building 010, 1730
Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Committees on Archaeology and Medieval Studies and
made possible by a Mellon Foundation Award and Michael McCormick,
Department of History
Opening lecture in a new series, "Medieval Archaeology in the 21st
Century"
Martin Carver (University of York)
"Sutton Hoo in the Light of the New Excavations: a Political
Weathervane of the Seventh Century"
A reception will follow at the Faculty Club
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Harvard University)
"East and Further East: Syriac Christianity at the End of the Ancient
World"
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
*Tues., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Colloquium sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Francesco Stella (University of Siena)
"Digital Philology and the Corpus Rhythmorum"
Thurs., Nov. 2, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Providence, RI
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
*Fri., Nov. 3, 4:00 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
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
Mon., Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI
Scott McGill (Rice University)
"Imitation or Plagiarism? The Case of Virgil in Macrobius' Saturnalia"
Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA
Susan Alcock (Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts
17th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
"A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia"
Reception following in the Atrium
For more information contact Scott Bradbury at sbradbur(a)email.smith.edu
Wed., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Hall,
Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Cities" Lecture Series
David Mitten (Harvard University)
"Thessaloniki: Second City of the Aegean"
Thurs., Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University)
"Virgil and History"
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 go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture
Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland)
"Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman
Alexandria"
Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are
required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office
on the day of the event.
Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College)
"Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of
Freedmen in the Roman World"
Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross)
Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion
For more information contact Kathleen Coleman at
kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024
Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Aristotle on Political Animals"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University at 617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu
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.
