Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #4 (9/29/06)
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*Mon., Oct. 2, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Sappho Old and New"
Wed., Oct. 4, 7:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
"The Journey to Recover the Stolen Treasures of Baghdad"
Matthew Bogdanos (Author and Manhattan District Attorney)
Book-signing to follow (Thieves of Baghdad, chronicling the recovery
of over 5000 antiquities)
Tickets: $15 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $18 (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
Thurs., Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture
Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Nancy Stephenson Nichols Lecture
Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford)
"Greeks Going East"
*Thurs., Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Philosophy Department, 54 College Street, Room 119,
Providence, RI
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Pierre-Marie Morel (University of Paris I: Sorbonne)
"Method and Evidence (enargeia): The Epicurean Prolepsis"
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"
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"
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., 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"
*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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #3 (9/22/06)
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Fri., Sept. 22, 4:00 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, 407 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT
Topics in Classical Studies
Raffaella Cribiore (Columbia University)
"Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric"
Wed., Oct. 4, 7:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
"The Journey to Recover the Stolen Treasures of Baghdad"
Matthew Bogdanos (Author and Manhattan District Attorney)
Book-signing to follow (Thieves of Baghdad, chronicling the recovery
of over 5000 antiquities)
Tickets: $15 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $18 (non-MFA
members); MFA admission not required
Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box
office (617-369-3306)
Thurs., Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture
Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Nancy Stephenson Nichols Lecture
Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford)
"Greeks Going East"
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>
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"
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 (617-369-3306)
*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: http://www.brandeis.edu/
overview/directions.html)
Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA
Susan Alcock (Artemis, and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
Lehmann Lecture: "A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project,
Southern Armenia"
8:45 Reception in the Atrium
For more information contact Scott Bradbury <sbradbury(a)mac.com>
*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: 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.
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: #2 (9/15/06)
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., Sept. 22, 4:00 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, 407 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT
Topics in Classical Studies
Raffaella Cribiore (Columbia University)
"Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric"
*Wed., Oct. 4, 7:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
"The Journey to Recover the Stolen Treasures of Baghdad"
Matthew Bogdanos (Author and Manhattan District Attorney)
Book-signing to follow (Thieves of Baghdad, chronicling the recovery
of over 5000 antiquities)
Tickets: $15 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $18 (non-MFA
members); MFA admission not required
Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box
office (617-369-3306)
Thurs., Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture
Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Nancy Stephenson Nichols Lecture
Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford)
"Greeks Going East"
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>
*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"
Fri., Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 203, 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 (617-369-3306)
*Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA
Susan Alcock (Artemis, and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
Lehmann Lecture: "A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project,
Southern Armenia"
8:45 Reception in the Atrium
For more information contact Scott Bradbury <sbradbury(a)mac.com>
*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.
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: #1 (9/8/06)
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
*Mon., Sept. 11, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
The Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies
"Civic and Epistemic Values in Science"
Registration not necessary; free food and refreshments
For more information contact atauber(a)bu.edu
See Appendix for details
*Thurs., Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m.
Boston University, School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room
525, Boston, MA
Raphael Woolf (Harvard University)
"Misology and Truth"
*Thurs., Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture
Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Nancy Stephenson Nichols Lecture
Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford)
"Greeks Going East"
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), François de Callataÿ (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. 20, 2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 203, 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
APPENDIX:
*Mon., Sept. 11, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
The Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies"
"Civic and Epistemic Values in Science"
Registration not necessary; free food and refreshments
For more information contact atauber(a)bu.edu
Moderator: Robert S. Cohen (Boston University)
10 a.m. –12 p.m.:
Steven DeLue (Miami University), "The Problematic Implications of
Multicultural Toleration for the Values of Science"
Charles Weijer (The University of Western Ontario), "Trust in
Clinical Science"
2 – 5 p.m.:
Keith Parsons (University of Houston), "Can Science Tell Us the Truth
about Truth?"
Ron Giere (University of Minnesota), "Science and Secularism"
Noretta Koertge (Indiana University), "Why It Is Intelligent to Look
for Design in Nature"
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.
To whom it may concern:
I apologize, for the following information is probably not in the
right format for the Classics listing, but I do not have an old email
to use as a model. In any case, if the following item could be
broadcast, I'd be grateful:
September 14, 7:30 p.m. Boston University, School of Theology (745
Commonwealth Avenue), Room 525. Raphael Woolf, Harvard University,
"Misology and Truth."
Greetings,
The Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science will be kicking off its
47th annual season on Monday, Sept. 11. Please join us! See details
concerning the event below:
Contact atauber(a)bu.edu for more information.
The Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
/The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies/
*CIVIC AND EPISTEMIC*
* VALUES IN SCIENCE*
* *
Date:* Monday, September 11, 2006*
Location: *Boston** University**, The Castle, 225 Bay State Road*
Moderator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University
/10 a.m. - 12 p.m./
Steven DeLue, Miami University
*/The Problematic Implications of Multicultural Toleration for the
Values of Science/*
Charles Weijer, The University of Western Ontario
*/Trust in Clinical Science/**//*
/2 p.m. - 5 p.m./
Keith Parsons, University of Houston
*/Can Science tell us the Truth about Truth?/*
Ron Giere, University of Minnesota
*/Science and Secularism/*
Noretta Koertge, Indiana University
*/Why It Is Intelligent to Look for Design in Nature/*
Registration not necessary. Free food and refreshments will be provided.