PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE NO NEW ENTRIES THIS WEEK.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2007/2008: #11 (11/30/07)
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Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor
Galleries,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
See Appendix for details on Gallery Talks and Symposium
Tues., Dec. 4, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Classical Traditions
Timothy Rood (University of Oxford)
"A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque"
Fri., Dec. 7 - Sat., Dec. 8
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
International Conference on C. P. Cavafy
"In Fantasy and Logos": Desire, Intertext, and Fragmentation in C. P.
Cavafy"
Sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program (Department of the
Classics)
and the Humanities Center
See Appendix for details
Tues., Dec. 11, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
James Osborne (Graduate Student in the Deptartment of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations)
"Excavations at the Aramaean Capital of Kunulua in the Plain of Antioch"
Reception preceeding at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum, Harvard University
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Fall 2007 Gallery Report
Due to ongoing construction at the museum, some Classical installations
have been temporarily
de-installed. We expect that as the fall term begins, the following
galleries will be OPEN on a regular
basis: East Greek Art (1A11); Etruscan Art (1A01); Archaic Greek Art
(1A06 and 1A04b); Classical
Greek Art (2A02); Roman Art (2A06); and Art of the Eastern Roman
Empire, including the Antioch
Marine mosaic (2A07). We hope to have the gallery of South
Italian/Hellenistic Art (2A12), which
abuts the construction site, re-opened as soon as possible. We thank
you for your patience and
understanding. If you have questions about particular pieces, you can
reach the Classical offices at
(617) 369-3259.
APPENDIX:
Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor
Galleries,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
GALLERY TALKS:
Sun., Nov.18, 2:00 p.m.
Sun., Jan. 20, 2:00 p.m.
Andreya Mihaloew, PhD candidate, Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec.13, 2:00 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and polychrome
Asian sculpture, with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of Japanese
art
Sat., Dec. 15, 11:30 a.m.
Emily Gangemi, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern and PhD candidate,
Department of the Classics
Thurs., Jan. 10, 2:00 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and photography,
with Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography
SYMPOSIUM: December 7-8
"Superficial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture"
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
Fri., Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m.
Keynote lecture
"Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity"
Vinzenz Brinkmann
Director of the Antiquities Collection, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt
7:00-8:00 p.m. Reception
Sat., Dec. 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. Coffee
9:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art,
Harvard University
Art Museums
"New Research on the Polychromy of Roman Statuary"
Mark B. Abbe, Research Scholar, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects
Conservation,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Was Traditional Chinese Sculpture Ever Unadorned?"
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard
University
11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:15 a.m.
"Questions about Painted Sculpture in South India"
Padma Kaimal, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Colgate
University
"Mesoamerican Technicolor: Recreating and Preserving a Vivid Past"
Barbara W. Fash, Director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic
Inscriptions,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
12:30 p.m. Lunch break
2:00 p.m.
"Difficult: Some Remarks on the Rise of Monochrome Sculpture in the
Renaissance"
Frank Fehrenbach, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
University
2:45-4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Mark B. Abbe, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Barbara W. Fash,
Frank Fehrenbach,
Padma Kaimal, Eugene Wang
Fri., Dec. 7 - Sat., Dec. 8
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
International Conference on C. P. Cavafy
"In Fantasy and Logos": Desire, Intertext, and Fragmentation in C. P.
Cavafy"
Sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program (Department of the
Classics)
and the Humanities Center
Fri., Dec. 7
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University)
Who Abandons Whom? Intertextual and Cultural Disconnects in
"The God is Leaving Anthony"
Christopher Jones (Harvard University)
The Lamia's Tale: Philostratos, Keats, Cavafy
Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of Wisconsin)
Synaesthesia in the Poetry of Cavafy and Sappho
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Diana Haas (University of Patras)
Aspects of Desire in Kavafes' Poetry: Around the Versions of
"In an Old Book" (1922-1929)
Paola Minucci (University of Rome)
Memory's Desire in Kavafes
Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)
Metonymies: Economics of Desire in Konstantinos Kavafes
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Ioli Kalavrezou (Harvard University)
"Completing Life": The Effect of Techne in Kavafes
Diskin Clay (Duke University)
Cavafy's Greece
Nikolaos Poulopoulos (Harvard University)
Post-Ego: Memory, Posterity, and the Erotics of Versification in
D. Paparregopoulos and K. Kavafes
6:00 p.m.
The Twenty-First Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek
Studies
Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
Fragmented Bodies: Egyptian Myth and the Poetics of K.P. Kavafes
Sat., Dec. 8
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
C. P. Cavafy and Douglas Livingstone: An African Legacy
Richard Thomas (Harvard University)
Leaving Alexandria/Alexandria Leaving: Cavafy to Cohen
Mark Doty (University of North Texas)
"Transformed Into Feeling": An American Poet Considers Cavafy's
Influence
Coffee/Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Paola Marrati (The Johns Hopkins University)
Transience
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (The Johns Hopkins University)
Rites of Indulgence: Ritual Poetics in K. P. Kavafes
Richard Dellamora (Trent University)
Greek Desire and the Invention of Modern Sexualities
John Chioles (New York University)
Stoicism, Skepticism, The Unhappy Consciousness in the Poetry of Cavafy
4:00 p.m.
Closing Lecture
Eve Sedgwick (CUNY)
Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods
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 2007/2008: #10 (11/16/07)
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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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:
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Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor
Galleries,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
See Appendix for details on Gallery Talks and Symposium
Mon., Nov. 26, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion
David Konstan (Brown University)
"Assuaging Rage: Remorse, Repentance, and Forgiveness in the Classical
World"
Thurs., Nov. 29, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Department of
Classical Studies
Adam Kolman Marshak (Brandeis University)
"The Pathways and Palaces of Herod the Great: Excavating Hellenistic
History in Ancient Judaea"
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., Nov. 29, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall, Room 104, Cambridge, MA
Joan Connelly (New York University)
"Visual Space / Ritual Space and the Agency of the Greek Priestess"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Tues., Dec. 4, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Classical Traditions
Timothy Rood (University of Oxford)
"A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque"
*Fri., Dec. 7 - Sat., Dec. 8
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
International Conference on C. P. Cavafy
"In Fantasy and Logos": Desire, Intertext, and Fragmentation in C. P.
Cavafy"
Sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program (Department of the
Classics)
and the Humanities Center
See Appendix for details
*Tues., Dec. 11, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
James Osborne (Graduate Student in the Deptartment of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations)
"Excavations in the Plains of Antioch: Past, Present, and Future"
Reception preceeding at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum, Harvard University
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Fall 2007 Gallery Report
Due to ongoing construction at the museum, some Classical installations
have been temporarily
de-installed. We expect that as the fall term begins, the following
galleries will be OPEN on a regular
basis: East Greek Art (1A11); Etruscan Art (1A01); Archaic Greek Art
(1A06 and 1A04b); Classical
Greek Art (2A02); Roman Art (2A06); and Art of the Eastern Roman
Empire, including the Antioch
Marine mosaic (2A07). We hope to have the gallery of South
Italian/Hellenistic Art (2A12), which
abuts the construction site, re-opened as soon as possible. We thank
you for your patience and
understanding. If you have questions about particular pieces, you can
reach the Classical offices at
(617) 369-3259.
APPENDIX:
Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor
Galleries,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
GALLERY TALKS:
Sun., Nov.18, 2:00 p.m.
Sun., Jan. 20, 2:00 p.m.
Andreya Mihaloew, PhD candidate, Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec.13, 2:00 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and polychrome
Asian sculpture, with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of Japanese
art
Sat., Dec. 15, 11:30 a.m.
Emily Gangemi, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern and PhD candidate,
Department of the Classics
Thurs., Jan. 10, 2:00 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and photography,
with Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography
SYMPOSIUM: December 7-8
"Superficial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture"
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
Fri., Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m.
Keynote lecture
"Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity"
Vinzenz Brinkmann
Director of the Antiquities Collection, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt
7:00-8:00 p.m. Reception
Sat., Dec. 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. Coffee
9:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art,
Harvard University
Art Museums
"New Research on the Polychromy of Roman Statuary"
Mark B. Abbe, Research Scholar, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects
Conservation,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Was Traditional Chinese Sculpture Ever Unadorned?"
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard
University
11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:15 a.m.
"Questions about Painted Sculpture in South India"
Padma Kaimal, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Colgate
University
"Mesoamerican Technicolor: Recreating and Preserving a Vivid Past"
Barbara W. Fash, Director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic
Inscriptions,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
12:30 p.m. Lunch break
2:00 p.m.
"Difficult: Some Remarks on the Rise of Monochrome Sculpture in the
Renaissance"
Frank Fehrenbach, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
University
2:45-4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Mark B. Abbe, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Barbara W. Fash,
Frank Fehrenbach,
Padma Kaimal, Eugene Wang
*Fri., Dec. 7 - Sat., Dec. 8
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
International Conference on C. P. Cavafy
"In Fantasy and Logos": Desire, Intertext, and Fragmentation in C. P.
Cavafy"
Sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program (Department of the
Classics)
and the Humanities Center
Fri., Dec. 7
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University)
Who Abandons Whom? Intertextual and Cultural Disconnects in
"The God is Leaving Anthony"
Christopher Jones (Harvard University)
The Lamia's Tale: Philostratos, Keats, Cavafy
Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of Wisconsin)
Synaesthesia in the Poetry of Cavafy and Sappho
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Diana Haas (University of Patras)
Aspects of Desire in Kavafes' Poetry: Around the Versions of
"In an Old Book" (1922-1929)
Paola Minucci (University of Rome)
Memory's Desire in Kavafes
Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)
Metonymies: Economics of Desire in Konstantinos Kavafes
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Ioli Kalavrezou (Harvard University)
"Completing Life": The Affect of Techne in Kavafes
Diskin Clay (Duke University)
Cavafy's Greece
Nikolaos Poulopoulos (Harvard University)
Post-Ego: Memory, Posterity, and the Erotics of Versification in
D. Paparregopoulos and K. Kavafes
6:00 p.m.
The Twenty-First Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek
Studies
Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
Fragmented Bodies: Egyptian Myth and the Poetics of K.P. Kavafes
Sat., Dec. 8
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
C. P. Cavafy and Douglas Livingstone: An African Legacy
Richard Thomas (Harvard University)
Leaving Alexandria/Alexandria Leaving: Cavafy to Cohen
Mark Doty (University of North Texas)
"Transformed Into Feeling": An American Poet Considers Cavafy's
Influence
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Paola Marrati (The Johns Hopkins University)
Transience
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (The Johns Hopkins University)
Rites of Indulgence: Ritual Poetics in K. P. Kavafes
Richard Dellamora (Trent University)
Greek Desire and the Invention of Modern Sexualities
John Chioles (New York University)
Stoicism, Skepticism, The Unhappy Consciousness in the Poetry of Cavafy
4:00 p.m.
Closing Lecture
Eve Sedgwick (CUNY)
Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods
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 2007/2008: #9 (11/9/07)
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
Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor
Galleries,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
See Appendix for details on Gallery Talks and Symposium
Fri., Nov. 9, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Brunswick, ME
Mary-Kay Gamel (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Greece: Past into Present" lecture series
"Revising 'Authenticity' in Staging Ancient Mediterranean Drama"
Common Hour Lecture, with additional sponsorship from the Niarchos
Foundation
Sat., Nov. 10 - Sun., Nov. 11
AMHERST COLLEGE and THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST,
Amherst, MA
"See How I Rip Myself!" Rome and its Civil Wars
Keynote Address: T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"The Two-Headed State: How Romans Explained Civil War"
For registration, speakers, and program see http://www.umass.edu/
civilwars/
Tues., Nov. 13, 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Gregory Jusdanis (Ohio State University)
"Does Greek Speak the Language of World Literature?"
Co-sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program and the Greek Study
Group at the
Center for European Studies
*Tues., Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m.
WHEATON COLLEGE, Knapton Lecture, 26 E. Main Street, Norton, MA
Joseph Leichter (independent scholar)
"Arabic Mathematics and Renaissance Astronomy: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's
Theorem on
Rectilinear Motion as Evidence of Arabic Influence on Copernicus"
Reception to follow
For further information contact Joel C. Relihan (508-286-3662 or
jrelihan(a)wheatonma.edu)
Free and open to the public (for directions: http://
www.wheatoncollege.edu/about/travel.html)
Mon., Nov. 26, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion
David Konstan (Brown University)
"Assuaging Rage: Remorse, Repentance, and Forgiveness in the
Classical World"
Thurs., Nov. 29, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Department of
Classical Studies
Adam Kolman Marshak (Brandeis University)
"The Pathways and Palaces of Herod the Great: Excavating Hellenistic
History in Ancient Judaea"
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., Nov. 29, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall, Room 104, Cambridge, MA
Joan Connelly (New York University)
"Visual Space / Ritual Space and the Agency of the Greek Priestess"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Tues., Dec. 4, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Classical Traditions
Timothy Rood (University of Oxford)
"A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque"
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Fall 2007 Gallery Report
Due to ongoing construction at the museum, some Classical
installations have been temporarily
de-installed. We expect that as the fall term begins, the following
galleries will be OPEN on a regular
basis: East Greek Art (1A11); Etruscan Art (1A01); Archaic Greek Art
(1A06 and 1A04b); Classical
Greek Art (2A02); Roman Art (2A06); and Art of the Eastern Roman
Empire, including the Antioch
Marine mosaic (2A07). We hope to have the gallery of South Italian/
Hellenistic Art (2A12), which
abuts the construction site, re-opened as soon as possible. We thank
you for your patience and
understanding. If you have questions about particular pieces, you can
reach the Classical offices at
(617) 369-3259.
APPENDIX:
Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor
Galleries,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
GALLERY TALKS:
Sun., Nov.18, 2:00 p.m.
Sun., Jan. 20, 2:00 p.m.
Andreya Mihaloew, PhD candidate, Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec.13, 2:00 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and polychrome
Asian sculpture, with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of
Japanese art
Sat., Dec. 15, 11:30 a.m.
Emily Gangemi, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern and PhD candidate,
Department of the Classics
Thurs., Jan. 10, 2:00 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and photography,
with Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography
SYMPOSIUM: December 7-8
"Superficial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture"
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
Fri., Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m.
Keynote lecture
"Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity"
Vinzenz Brinkmann
Director of the Antiquities Collection, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt
7:00-8:00 p.m. Reception
Sat., Dec. 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. Coffee
9:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art,
Harvard University
Art Museums
"New Research on the Polychromy of Roman Statuary"
Mark B. Abbe, Research Scholar, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects
Conservation,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Was Traditional Chinese Sculpture Ever Unadorned?"
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard
University
11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:15 a.m.
"Questions about Painted Sculpture in South India"
Padma Kaimal, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Colgate
University
"Mesoamerican Technicolor: Recreating and Preserving a Vivid Past"
Barbara W. Fash, Director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic
Inscriptions,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
12:30 p.m. Lunch break
2:00 p.m.
"Difficult: Some Remarks on the Rise of Monochrome Sculpture in the
Renaissance"
Frank Fehrenbach, Professor of History of Art and Architecture,
Harvard University
2:45-4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Mark B. Abbe, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Barbara W. Fash,
Frank Fehrenbach,
Padma Kaimal, Eugene Wang
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 2007/2008: #8 (11/2/07)
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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**Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008 (note updated schedule of talks)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor
Galleries,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
See Appendix for details on Gallery Talks and Symposium
Wed., Nov. 7, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Emmanuele Curti (Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia, Matera,
University of Basilicata)
"Digging the History of Pompeii: New Perspectives on the 'Buried' City"
Wed., Nov. 7, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Room 010,
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
"Medieval Archaeology in the 21st Century" lecture series
Mark Thomas (University College, London)
"No Sex Please, We're English: Genes, Anglo-Saxon Apartheid, and the
Early Medieval Settlement of Britain"
Chris Loveluck (Nottingham/Harvard), Michael McCormick (Harvard
University), Nick Patterson (Broad Institute)
and David Reich (Harvard Medical School) will comment on this
pioneering venture into genomic archaeology
Wed., Nov. 7, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2 Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Christopher Parslow (Wesleyan University)
"Love and Life in the Properties of Julia Felix in Pompeii"
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)
Fri., Nov. 9, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Brunswick, ME
Mary-Kay Gamel (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Greece: Past into Present" lecture series
"Revising 'Authenticity' in Staging Ancient Mediterranean Drama"
Common Hour Lecture, with additional sponsorship from the Niarchos
Foundation
Sat., Nov. 10 - Sun., Nov. 11
AMHERST COLLEGE and THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST,
Amherst, MA
"See How I Rip Myself!" Rome and its Civil Wars
Keynote Address: T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"The Two-Headed State: How Romans Explained Civil War"
For registration, speakers, and program see http://www.umass.edu/
civilwars/
*Tues., Nov. 13, 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Gregory Jusdanis (Ohio State University)
"Does Greek Speak the Language of World Literature?"
*Mon., Nov. 26, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion
David Konstan (Brown University)
"Assuaging Rage: Remorse, Repentance, and Forgiveness in the
Classical World"
Thurs., Nov. 29, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Department of
Classical Studies
Adam Kolman Marshak (Brandeis University)
"The Pathways and Palaces of Herod the Great: Excavating Hellenistic
History in Ancient Judaea"
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., Nov. 29., 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall, Room 104, Cambridge, MA
Joan Connelly (New York University)
"Visual Space/Ritual Space and the Agency of the Greek Priestess"
Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Tues., Dec. 4, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Classical Traditions
Timothy Rood (University of Oxford)
"A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque"
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Fall 2007 Gallery Report
Due to ongoing construction at the museum, some Classical
installations have been temporarily
de-installed. We expect that as the fall term begins, the following
galleries will be OPEN on a regular
basis: East Greek Art (1A11); Etruscan Art (1A01); Archaic Greek Art
(1A06 and 1A04b); Classical
Greek Art (2A02); Roman Art (2A06); and Art of the Eastern Roman
Empire, including the Antioch
Marine mosaic (2A07). We hope to have the gallery of South Italian/
Hellenistic Art (2A12), which
abuts the construction site, re-opened as soon as possible. We thank
you for your patience and
understanding. If you have questions about particular pieces, you can
reach the Classical offices at
(617) 369-3259.
APPENDIX:
**Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008 (note updated schedule of talks)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor
Galleries,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
GALLERY TALKS:
Thurs., Nov. 8, 12:15 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and medieval
sculpture
with Stephan Wolohojian, curator of painting, sculpture, and
decorative arts
Sun., Nov.18, 2:00 p.m.
Sun., Jan. 20, 2:00 p.m.
Andreya Mihaloew, PhD candidate, Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec.13, 2:00 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and polychrome
Asian sculpture, with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of
Japanese art
Sat., Dec. 15, 11:30 a.m.
Emily Gangemi, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern and PhD candidate,
Department of the Classics
Thurs., Jan. 10, 2:00 p.m.
Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and photography,
with Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography
SYMPOSIUM: December 7-8
"Superficial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture"
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
Fri., Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m.
Keynote lecture
"Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity"
Vinzenz Brinkmann
Director of the Antiquities Collection, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt
7:00-8:00 p.m. Reception
Sat., Dec. 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. Coffee
9:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art,
Harvard University
Art Museums
"New Research on the Polychromy of Roman Statuary"
Mark B. Abbe, Research Scholar, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects
Conservation,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Was Traditional Chinese Sculpture Ever Unadorned?"
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard
University
11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:15 a.m.
"Questions about Painted Sculpture in South India"
Padma Kaimal, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Colgate
University
"Mesoamerican Technicolor: Recreating and Preserving a Vivid Past"
Barbara W. Fash, Director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic
Inscriptions,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
12:30 p.m. Lunch break
2:00 p.m.
"Difficult: Some Remarks on the Rise of Monochrome Sculpture in the
Renaissance"
Frank Fehrenbach, Professor of History of Art and Architecture,
Harvard University
2:45-4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Mark B. Abbe, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Barbara W. Fash,
Frank Fehrenbach,
Padma Kaimal, Eugene Wang
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.
