Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #26 (4/24/09)
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Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner
“Novel Ideas”
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), “Petronius and the Greek Novel”
Niall Slater (Emory University), “Various Asses”
Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), “Imagined Communities in Ancient
Fictions”
For further information, contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or
Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation
Mon., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Deborah Beck (Swarthmore College)
“Begging, Pleading, and Supplicating: Speech Representations in
Phoenix’s Speech to Achilles (Iliad 9.434-605)”
Tues., Apr. 28, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Nick Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Sardis under the Achaemenid Satraps”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology Talk Series
Emanuel Mayer (University of Chicago)
“Of Garden Gnomes and Silvercups: Kitsch and the Aesthetics of
Standardization in Roman Art”
Wed., Apr. 29, 8:00 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather, Room 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall),
Amherst, MA
Henry Bender (College of the Holy Cross and The Hill School)
“The Parthenon and the Pantheon as Cultural Symbols”
Free and open to the public
For further information please contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund
Thurs., Apr. 30, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, Room 318,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Andrew Burnett (The British Museum)
“What Were Roman Emperors Really Called? Coins as Models of
Dissemination”
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
Thurs., Apr. 30, 8:00 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall,
Braun Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Euthimio Souloyannis (The Academy of Athens)
“The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa”
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater
Boston area.
For more information, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit the website at
http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
Fri., May 8, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
THE BOSTON PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND INSTITUTE, 15 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA
“The Tragic Perspective in Literature, Politics and Treatment: A
Symposium in Honor of Bennett Simon”
Presenters: Jonathan Lear (Chicago) and Stanley Cavell (Harvard) in
discussion with Bennett Simon (Harvard)
Moderators: Humphrey Morris (Harvard) and Jack Foehl (Harvard)
Please RSVP to the BPSI Administrative office (office(a)bostonpsychoanalytic.org
or 617-266-0953)
*Sat., May 9, 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Humanities Center Symposium
“Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in the Greek World”
Free and open to the public
For further information or to RSVP, contact Julia Wilker (wilker(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
See Appendix for details
*Wed., May 13, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sperry Hall, Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Mark Lehner (Ancient Egypt Research Associates)
“Old Kingdom Urban History at Giza: Excavation in the Khentkawes
Temple Town”
Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 2nd floor, 6
Divinity Avenue
Free and open to the public
For more information, contact Dena Davis at 617 495 4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum
APPENDIX:
*Sat., May 9, 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Humanities Center Symposium
“Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in the Greek World”
Free and open to the public
For further information or to RSVP, contact Julia Wilker (wilker(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
SCHEDULE:
9:00: Welcome
9:10: Kurt Raaflaub (Brown), “Greek Concepts and Theories of Peace in
a Mediterranean Perspective”
9:55: David Elmer (Harvard), “The Truce in Iliad 3/4”
10:40: Coffee break
11:00: Natasha Bershadsky (University of Chicago), “The Battle over
Cynuria and Argive-Spartan Relations”
11:45: Sarah Bolmarcich (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), “The
Art of Negotiation in the Peloponnesian War Period”
12:30: Lunch break
2:00: Peter Hunt (University of Colorado, Boulder/Harvard), “Legalism
and Peace in Classical Greece”
2:45: Julia Wilker (Freie Universität Berlin/Humanities Center
Fellow), “War and Peace at the Beginning of the Fourth Century”
3.30: Coffee break
3:50: Polly Low (University of Manchester), “Greek Reply to the
Satraps’ Revolt”
4:35: Maria Brosius (Newcastle University), “Persian Diplomacy between
‘Pax Persica’ and ‘O-Tolerance’”
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 2008/2009: #25 (4/17/09)
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Fri., Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Pantelis Nigdelis (Institute for Advanced Study)
“The Institution of Ephebeia in Roman Macedonia. A Particular Kind of
Ephebeia?”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Sat., Apr. 18, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Student Union, 2nd floor Conference
Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Graduate Conference
“Outlaws and Brigands and Pirates, Oh My! Conventions of Criminality
in the Ancient World”
Keynote Speaker: John Bodel (Brown University)
For more information, contact Miska Vincze (mjvincze(a)bu.edu) or the
Department of Classical Studies at BU (617-353-2427)
Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting
scholar, Brown University)
“Socrates’ Unconventional Eros”
Tues., Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Jane Fejfer (University of Copenhagen)
“Marble Mania: Sculptural Materiality and Roman Cyprus”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Apr. 22, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Chapin Lounge, Amherst, MA
Alan Boegehold (Brown University)
“What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Most’?”
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Wed. Apr. 22, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
David Schloen (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
“The Soul in the Stone: The New ‘Kuttamuwa Stele’ from Iron Age
Zincirli (Sam’al), Turkey”
Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity
Avenue, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public
For more information, contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum and Dept. of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations
Thurs., April 23, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Downey House, Room 200, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT
Petra Schierl (University of Basel; Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study)
“Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Recontextualizing Virgil’s Bucolic Deus”
Free and open to the public
For further information, contact dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner
“Novel Ideas”
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), “Petronius and the Greek Novel”
Niall Slater (Emory University), “Various Asses”
Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), “Imagined Communities in Ancient
Fictions”
For further information, contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or
Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation
Mon., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Deborah Beck (Swarthmore College)
“Begging, Pleading, and Supplicating: Speech Representations in
Phoenix’s Speech to Achilles (Iliad 9.434-605)”
*Tues., Apr. 28, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Nick Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Sardis under the Achaemenid Satraps”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology Talk Series
Emanuel Mayer (University of Chicago)
“Of Garden Gnomes and Silvercups: Kitsch and the Aesthetics of
Standardization in Roman Art”
*Wed., Apr. 29, 8:00 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather, Room 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall),
Amherst, MA
Henry Bender (College of the Holy Cross and The Hill School)
“The Parthenon and the Pantheon as Cultural Symbols”
Free and open to the public
For further information please contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund
Thurs., Apr. 30, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, Room 318,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Andrew Burnett (The British Museum)
“What Were Roman Emperors Really Called? Coins as Models of
Dissemination”
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
*Thurs., Apr. 30, 8:00 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall,
Braun Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Euthimio Souloyannis (The Academy of Athens)
“The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa”
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater
Boston area.
For more information, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit the website at
http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
Fri., May 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
THE BOSTON PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND INSTITUTE, 15 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA
“The Tragic Perspective in Literature, Politics and Treatment: A
Symposium in Honor of Bennett Simon”
Presenters: Jonathan Lear (Chicago) and Stanley Cavell (Harvard) in
discussion with Bennett Simon (Harvard)
Moderators: Humphrey Morris (Harvard) and Jack Foehl (Harvard)
Please RSVP to the BPSI Administrative office (office(a)bostonpsychoanalytic.org
or 617-266-0953)
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 2008/2009: #24 (4/10/09)
**PLEASE NOTE**
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**Mon., Apr. 13, 4:15 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Jane Lightfoot (New College, University of Oxford)
“‘Running Water is Beautiful Water’: Rivers in the Geographical
Writing of Dionysius the Periegete”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)
“Women in Roman Private Legal Documents”
Tues., Apr. 14, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather, Room 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall),
Amherst, MA
John Younger (University of Kansas)
“Mycenae Invents Itself”
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia)
“Taking Sides: Issues of Allegiance in the Reception of Lucan’s Civil
War”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Gerhard Thuer (Universities of Graz)
“Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens”
Wed., Apr. 15, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Gerhard Thuer (University of Graz)
“How to Lease an Orphan’s Estate in Classical Athens: New Data from
the Archimedes Palimpsest”
Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School and the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Apr. 16 - Sat, Apr. 18, 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Loeb Experimental Theater, 64 Brattle Street,
Cambridge, MA
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
The Harvard Classical Club presents its annual play, translated from
the Greek by its members
Please note there is also a matinee performance on Saturday, April 18,
at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are free of charge and can be reserved by e-mailing lysistrata.loeb.ex(a)gmail.com
**Thurs., Apr. 16, 8:00 p.m. (THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FALL
2009)
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Bernhard Music Center, Brooks Rogers Recital Hall,
54 Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown, MA
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
“Life and Art in Roman Villas on the Bay of Naples”
Sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
Fri., Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Pantelis Nigdelis (Institute for Advanced Study)
“The Institution of Ephebeia in Roman Macedonia. A Particular Kind of
Ephebeia?”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting
scholar, Brown University)
“Socrates’ Unconventional Eros”
Tues., Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Jane Fejfer (University of Copenhagen)
“Marble Mania: Sculptural Materiality and Roman Cyprus”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Apr. 22, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Chapin Lounge, Amherst, MA
Alan Boegehold (Brown University)
“What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Most’?”
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Wed. Apr. 22, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
David Schloen (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
“The Soul in the Stone: The New ‘Kuttamuwa Stele’ from Iron Age
Zincirli (Sam’al), Turkey”
Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity
Avenue, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public
For more information, contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum and Dept. of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations
Thurs., April 23, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Downey House, Room 200, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT
Petra Schierl (University of Basel; Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study)
“Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Recontextualizing Virgil’s Bucolic Deus”
Free and open to the public
For further information, contact dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner
“Novel Ideas”
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), “Petronius and the Greek Novel”
Niall Slater (Emory University), “Various Asses”
Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), “Imagined Communities in Ancient
Fictions”
For further information, contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or
Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation
Mon., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Deborah Beck (Swarthmore College)
“Begging, Pleading, and Supplicating: Speech Representations in
Phoenix’s Speech to Achilles (Iliad 9.434-605)”
Wed., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology Talk Series
Emanuel Mayer (University of Chicago)
“Of Garden Gnomes and Silvercups: Kitsch and the Aesthetics of
Standardization in Roman Art”
Thurs., Apr. 30, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, Room 318,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Andrew Burnett (The British Museum)
“What Were Roman Emperors Really Called? Coins as Models of
Dissemination”
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
*Fri., May 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
THE BOSTON PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND INSTITUTE, 15 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA
“The Tragic Perspective in Literature, Politics and Treatment: A
Symposium in Honor of Bennett Simon”
Presenters: Jonathan Lear (Chicago) and Stanley Cavell (Harvard) in
discussion with Bennett Simon (Harvard); moderators: Humphrey Morris
(Harvard) and Jack Foehl (Harvard)
Please RSVP to the BPSI Administrative office (office(a)bostonpsychoanalytic.org
or 617-266-0953)
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.
Please note REVISED location for the following lecture on Monday:
Mon., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 211, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Claudia Rapp (UCLA)
“Christians on Earth, Citizens in Heaven: The City as Metaphor in
Early Byzantine Political Thought”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #23 (4/3/09)
**PLEASE NOTE**
WE HAVE ADDED A GOOGLE CALENDAR LISTING FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS
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events and subscription requests should be sent to an address
dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu.
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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., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Claudia Rapp (UCLA)
“Christians on Earth, Citizens in Heaven: The City as Metaphor in
Early Byzantine Political Thought”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
*Mon., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Classical Traditions
Timothy Reiss (New York University)
“Descartes, Latinity and War: Metaphors and Practices of an Epochal
Transition”
*Tues., Apr. 7, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Center for Government and International
Studies (CGIS-SOUTH), Room S-040, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Stamos Metzidakis (Washington University in St. Louis)
Free and open to the public
For directions, see http://www.map.harvard.edu/
**Mon., Apr. 13, 4:15 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 211, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Jane Lightfoot (New College, University of Oxford)
“‘Running Water is Beautiful Water’: Rivers in the Geographical
Writing of Dionysius the Periegete”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)
“Women in Roman Private Legal Documents”
Tues., Apr. 14, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather, Room 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall),
Amherst, MA
John Younger (University of Kansas)
“Mycenae Invents Itself”
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia)
“Taking Sides: Issues of Allegiance in the Reception of Lucan’s Civil
War”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Gerhard Thuer (Universities of Graz)
“Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens”
Wed., Apr. 15, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Gerhard Thuer (University of Graz)
“How to Lease an Orphan’s Estate in Classical Athens: New Data from
the Archimedes Palimpsest”
Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School and the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Apr. 16 - Sat, Apr. 18, 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Loeb Experimental Theater, 64 Brattle Street,
Cambridge, MA
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
The Harvard Classical Club presents its annual play, translated from
the Greek by its members
Please note there is also a matinee performance on Saturday, April 18,
at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are free of charge and can be reserved by e-mailing lysistrata.loeb.ex(a)gmail.com
Thurs., Apr. 16, 8:00 p.m.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Bernhard Music Center, Brooks Rogers Recital Hall,
54 Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown, MA
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
“Life and Art in Roman Villas on the Bay of Naples”
Sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
Fri., Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Pantelis Nigdelis (Institute for Advanced Study)
“The Institution of Ephebeia in Roman Macedonia. A Particular Kind of
Ephebeia?”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting
scholar, Brown University)
“Socrates’ Unconventional Eros”
Tues., Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Jane Fejfer (University of Copenhagen)
“Marble Mania: Sculptural Materiality and Roman Cyprus”
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Apr. 22, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Chapin Lounge, Amherst, MA
Alan Boegehold (Brown University)
“What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Most’?”
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Wed. Apr. 22, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
David Schloen (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
“The Soul in the Stone: The New ‘Kuttamuwa Stele’ from Iron Age
Zincirli (Sam’al), Turkey”
Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity
Avenue, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public
For more information, contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum and Dept. of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations
*Thurs., April 23, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Downey House, Room 200, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT
Petra Schierl (University of Basel; Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study)
“Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Recontextualizing Virgil’s Bucolic Deus”
Free and open to the public
For further information, contact dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner
“Novel Ideas”
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), “Petronius and the Greek Novel”
Niall Slater (Emory University), “Various Asses”
Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), “Imagined Communities in Ancient
Fictions”
For further information, contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or
Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation
*Mon., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Deborah Beck (Swarthmore College)
“Begging, Pleading, and Supplicating: Speech Representations in
Phoenix’s Speech to Achilles (Iliad 9.434-605)”
*Wed., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology Talk Series
Emanuel Mayer (University of Chicago)
“Of Garden Gnomes and Silvercups: Kitsch and the Aesthetics of
Standardization in Roman Art”
Thurs., Apr. 30, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, Room 318,
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Andrew Burnett (The British Museum)
“What Were Roman Emperors Really Called? Coins as Models of
Dissemination”
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
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.
