Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 28, 2010
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Mon., Nov. 1
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Beverly Kienzle, Travis Stevens (Harvard Divinity School)
Kienzle is the John H. Morison Professor of the Practice of Latin and
Romance Languages, Lecturer on Medieval Christianity, and Director of
Language Studies
"Preaching, Heresy, and the Writing of Female Hagiography" with
response from Catherine Mooney (Boston College)
*Wed., Nov. 3
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Katherine Eremin (Straus Center for Conservation)
"Copper-Zinc Alloys at Nuzi: Dilemmas from an Early Archaeological
Collection"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum, Harvard Near East
Society, and Harvard Art Museums
Reception to be held afterwards
For more information please call email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu
Thurs., Nov. 4
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
06457
David Konstan (Brown University)
"Lucretius and the Epicurean Attitude toward Grief"
Sponsored by Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Nov. 4
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, room 108, Providence RI 02912
Cyprian Broodbank (University College London)
"Before Corruption? The Making of the Mediterranean."
Reception to follow the lecture
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
Thurs., Nov. 4
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525, Boston, MA, 02215
Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
"An Aristotelian Distinction Between Two Types of Knowledge"
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Commentary by David Bronstein (Boston University)
For more information contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
Mon., Nov. 8
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave,
Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
David Hillman (University of Wisconsin Colleges)
"A Woman Inspired: Founders of Greek Civilization and the Christian
lens of Classical Studies"
David Hillman is the author of "The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the
Roots of Western Civilization, St. Martin's Press, 2008). He will be
in conversation with Carl Ruck (Boston University).
Refreshments will be served. Funded by the Department of Classical
Studies and the Boston University Humanities Foundation
Tues., Nov. 9
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
Brown-Yale Meeting
Seminar for Classics graduate students and faculty of both institutions
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
"Plutarch as a Source for the Athenian Theater"
Respondent: Pauline LeVen (Yale University)
Wed., Nov. 10
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown building, auditorium 2, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Professor David Elmer (Harvard University)
Martin Weiner lecture
"It's Not Me, It's You, Socrates: The Problem of the Charismatic
Teacher in Plato's Symposium"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thurs., Nov. 11
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Paino Lecture Hall, Earth Sciences Building, Amherst,
MA 01002
Anthony Corbeill (University of Kansas)
"Androgynous Gods, Androgynous Nouns, and the Invention of
Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund
Free and Open to the Public
Thurs., Nov. 11
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth, Chestnut Hill, MA
02467
Hildtrud Westermann-Angerhausen (Director Emeritus, Schnuetgen Museum,
Cologne)
"Statements of Rank and Sanctity: Spolia in Royal Reliquaries"
A free lecture open to the public.
Sponsored by the McMullen Museum and Forsyth Lecture on Medieval Art,
International Center of Medieval Art.
For more information call 617-552-8587.
Mon., Nov. 15
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave,
Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Ilaria Ramelli (University of Milan)
"Platonic (Pagan and Christian) Responses to Stoic Allegory"
Funded by the Department of Classical Studies, the Department of
Religion, the School of Theology Brown Lecture Series, and the Boston
University Humanities Foundation. Refreshments will be served.
Tues., Nov. 16
4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West (All Souls, Oxford)
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
Tues., Nov. 16
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street,
New Haven, CT 06510
Stephen Haber (Standford University)
The Third Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture in Ancient History
Keynote speaker: Stephen Haber (A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan
Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University)
"Natural Resources and the Institutions of Governance: Evidence from
the Ancient and Modern Worlds"
Response by: (Naomi Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics & History, Yale
University)
Reception to follow in room 108.
http://www.yale.edu/classics/rostovtzeff_lecture.html
Wed., Nov. 17
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Phelps Hall, Room 401, 344 College Street, New Haven,
CT 06511
Symposium Topic: "The Resource Curse in Historical Perspective"
Presenters:
Alain Bresson (Department of Classics, University of Chicago)
Fabian Drixler (Department of History, Yale University)
Timothy Guinnane (Department of Economics, Yale University)
John Haldon (History Department, Princeton University)
Bruce R. Hitchner (Department of Classics, Tufts University)
Joseph G. Manning (Department of Classics, Yale University)
Peter C. Perdue (Department of History, Yale University)
Walter Scheidel (Department of Classics, Stanford University)
Admission is free for the symposium, but space is limited. Please call
to register.
For more information contact Nancy Genga at 203-432-0978 or nancy.genga(a)yale.edu
or visit our website: http://www.yale.edu/classics/about.html
Wed., Nov. 17
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 113, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
01002
Elisabeth Dutton (Worcester College, University of Oxford)
"Stage Latin" – Text and Side-Text Before the Professional Playhouse
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics, English, and Theater and Dance
Free and Open to the Public
https://www.amherst.edu/map/index.html
Thurs., Nov. 18
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ruldolf Haensch (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich)
"The Christian Appropriation of Temples and Synagogues in Late
Antiquity: Its Frequency and Significance."
Thurs., Nov. 18
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Egyptology, NELC, Harvard)
"Art as Writing: the Magic of Egyptian Hieroglyphs"
Visible Language Lecture series, Peabody Museum
Thurs., Nov. 18
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Wilson Hall, Room 102, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
Tues., Nov. 30
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Herbert Golder (Boston University)
"Medea's Afterlife in Film"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Tuesday, November 30
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G12, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
Jennifer Eastman lecture
"Who did the Romans think they were?"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thursday, December 2
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Machinist (Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, NELC, Harvard)
"The Alphabet: its Origins and Early History" Visible Language Lecture
series, Peabody Museum
Friday-Sunday, December 3-5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Conference: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of
Milman Parry and Albert Lord
Organized by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard
University
Some 30 scholars from around the world will present papers on
theoretical and practical aspects of the study of oral traditions.
This conference is free and open to the public. Please e-mail singersandtales(a)chs.harvard.edu
to register, and see the website below for more information: http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=3141
Monday, December 6
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Providence, RI 02912
63rd Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-third annual program
of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely
in Latin.
Thursday, February 17
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Constanze Güthenke (Princeton University)
"The Language of Classical Scholarship: Philology, Empathy, and
Wilamowitz' Plato"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Title: TBA
April 11, 12, 14, 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
CalClass
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fax: (617) 496-6720
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 22, 2010
**PLEASE NOTE**
We have a Google Calendar: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/calendar.html
One can subscribe to it using their own Google Calendar account by
clicking the link at the bottom of the calendar on the above page. One
can subscribe to receive calendar emails at the following link: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list
This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming
events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
. Please send information as a plain text email in the format shown
below instead of as file attachments.
NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM ON WEDNESDAY WILL
APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK.
Any items received after that time may not be appear in the Calendar
until the following week.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Sat., Oct. 23
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Providence RI 02912
Joukowsky Institute Open Morning: Archaeology in Action
Come visit the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient
World in Rhode Island Hall. Faculty and students will be on hand to
tour you through the newly renovated building, as well as to show you
artifacts and images, both from some of our current fieldwork (in the
Caribbean, Egypt, Jordan, and Rhode Island) and from the Institute’s
collections.
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
Mon., Oct. 25
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA 02215
Ruth Bielfeldt / New England Ancient History Colloquium
"Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic
City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene"
5:30-6:30 p.m. Cocktails and conversation (with cash bar)
6:30-7:30 p.m. Dinner
7:30-9:30 p.m. Brief introduction and highlights of the pre-circulated
paper by Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University), commentary by Kenneth
Sacks (Brown University), and general discussion. For dinner, please
pre-register with Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu)
Tues., Oct. 26
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, room 108, Providence RI 02912
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University and Columbia University)
"Does Ancient History Matter? The Rise and Demise of Universal Empire
in Rome, Europe and China"
Reception to follow the lecture
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
*Thurs., Oct. 28
4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh University)
"Hellenism, Primitivism, and Modernist Performance"
Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Chairs: Panagiotis Roilos, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Thurs., Oct. 28
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
Bruce Heiden (Ohio State University)
"Civilizing Desire: Olympian Love in the *Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite*"
*Thurs., Oct. 28
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jeffrey Becker (Brown University)
"City and Symbol in Republican Italy"
Presented by: the Core Group Classical Archaeology
Mon., Nov. 1
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Beverly Kienzle, Travis Stevens (Harvard Divinity School)
Kienzle is the John H. Morison Professor of the Practice of Latin and
Romance Languages, Lecturer on Medieval Christianity, and Director of
Language Studies
"Preaching, Heresy, and the Writing of Female Hagiography" with
response from Catherine Mooney (Boston College)
Thurs., Nov. 4
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
06457
David Konstan (Brown University)
"Lucretius and the Epicurean Attitude toward Grief"
Sponsored by Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Nov. 4
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, room 108, Providence RI 02912
Cyprian Broodbank (University College London)
"Before Corruption? The Making of the Mediterranean."
Reception to follow the lecture
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
Thurs., Nov. 4
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525, Boston, MA, 02215
Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
"An Aristotelian Distinction Between Two Types of Knowledge"
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Commentary by David Bronstein (Boston University)
For more information contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
*Mon., Nov. 8
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave,
Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
David Hillman (University of Wisconsin Colleges)
"A Woman Inspired: Founders of Greek Civilization and the Christian
lens of Classical Studies"
David Hillman is the author of "The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the
Roots of Western Civilization, St. Martin's Press, 2008). He will be
in conversation with Carl Ruck (Boston University).
Refreshments will be served. Funded by the Department of Classical
Studies and the Boston University Humanities Foundation
Tues., Nov. 9
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
Brown-Yale Meeting
Seminar for Classics graduate students and faculty of both institutions
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
"Plutarch as a Source for the Athenian Theater"
Respondent: Pauline LeVen (Yale University)
Wed., Nov. 10
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown building, auditorium 2, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Professor David Elmer (Harvard University)
Martin Weiner lecture
"It's Not Me, It's You, Socrates: The Problem of the Charismatic
Teacher in Plato's Symposium"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thurs., Nov. 11
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Paino Lecture Hall, Earth Sciences Building, Amherst,
MA 01002
Anthony Corbeill (University of Kansas)
"Androgynous Gods, Androgynous Nouns, and the Invention of
Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund
Free and Open to the Public
Thurs., Nov. 11
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth, Chestnut Hill, MA
02467
Hildtrud Westermann-Angerhausen (Director Emeritus, Schnuetgen Museum,
Cologne)
"Statements of Rank and Sanctity: Spolia in Royal Reliquaries"
A free lecture open to the public.
Sponsored by the McMullen Museum and Forsyth Lecture on Medieval Art,
International Center of Medieval Art.
For more information call 617-552-8587.
*Mon., Nov. 15
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave,
Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Ilaria Ramelli (University of Milan)
"Platonic (Pagan and Christian) Responses to Stoic Allegory"
Funded by the Department of Classical Studies, the Department of
Religion, the School of Theology Brown Lecture Series, and the Boston
University Humanities Foundation. Refreshments will be served.
Tues., Nov. 16
4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West (All Souls, Oxford)
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
Tues., Nov. 16
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street,
New Haven, CT 06510
Stephen Haber (Standford University)
The Third Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture in Ancient History
Keynote speaker: Stephen Haber (A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan
Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University)
"Natural Resources and the Institutions of Governance: Evidence from
the Ancient and Modern Worlds"
Response by: (Naomi Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics & History, Yale
University)
Reception to follow in room 108.
http://www.yale.edu/classics/rostovtzeff_lecture.html
Wed., Nov. 17
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Phelps Hall, Room 401, 344 College Street, New Haven,
CT 06511
Symposium Topic: "The Resource Curse in Historical Perspective"
Presenters:
Alain Bresson (Department of Classics, University of Chicago)
Fabian Drixler (Department of History, Yale University)
Timothy Guinnane (Department of Economics, Yale University)
John Haldon (History Department, Princeton University)
Bruce R. Hitchner (Department of Classics, Tufts University)
Joseph G. Manning (Department of Classics, Yale University)
Peter C. Perdue (Department of History, Yale University)
Walter Scheidel (Department of Classics, Stanford University)
Admission is free for the symposium, but space is limited. Please call
to register.
For more information contact Nancy Genga at 203-432-0978 or nancy.genga(a)yale.edu
or visit our website: http://www.yale.edu/classics/about.html
**Wed., Nov. 17
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 113, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
01002
Elisabeth Dutton (Worcester College, University of Oxford)
"Stage Latin" – Text and Side-Text Before the Professional Playhouse
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics, English, and Theater and Dance
Free and Open to the Public
https://www.amherst.edu/map/index.html
Thurs., Nov. 18
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ruldolf Haensch (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich)
"The Christian Appropriation of Temples and Synagogues in Late
Antiquity: Its Frequency and Significance."
Thurs., Nov. 18
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Egyptology, NELC, Harvard)
"Art as Writing: the Magic of Egyptian Hieroglyphs"
Visible Language Lecture series, Peabody Museum
Thurs., Nov. 18
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Wilson Hall, Room 102, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
Tues., Nov. 30
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Herbert Golder (Boston University)
"Medea's Afterlife in Film"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Tuesday, November 30
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G12, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
Jennifer Eastman lecture
"Who did the Romans think they were?"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thursday, December 2
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Machinist (Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, NELC, Harvard)
"The Alphabet: its Origins and Early History" Visible Language Lecture
series, Peabody Museum
Friday-Sunday, December 3-5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Conference: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of
Milman Parry and Albert Lord
Organized by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard
University
Some 30 scholars from around the world will present papers on
theoretical and practical aspects of the study of oral traditions.
This conference is free and open to the public. Please e-mail singersandtales(a)chs.harvard.edu
to register, and see the website below for more information: http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=3141
Monday, December 6
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Providence, RI 02912
63rd Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-third annual program
of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely
in Latin.
Thursday, February 17
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Constanze Güthenke (Princeton University)
"The Language of Classical Scholarship: Philology, Empathy, and
Wilamowitz' Plato"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Title: TBA
April 11, 12, 14, 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 15, 2010
**PLEASE NOTE**
We have a Google Calendar: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/calendar.html
One can subscribe to it using their own Google Calendar account by
clicking the link at the bottom of the calendar on the above page. One
can subscribe to receive calendar emails at the following link: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list
This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming
events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
. Please send information as a plain text email in the format shown
below instead of as file attachments.
NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM ON WEDNESDAY WILL
APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK.
Any items received after that time may not be appear in the Calendar
until the following week.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Mon. & Tues., Oct. 18-19
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Usdan Student Center, International Lounge,
Waltham, MA 02454
Conference: Patronage and the Sacred Book in the Medieval Mediterranean
Organized by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and The
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University
with the support of the European Research Council.
Conference sessions are open to the Brandeis community and the public.
For a complete program, please visit the conference website:
http://www.congresos.cchs.csic.es/patronage_and_the_sacred_book/content/pre…
Mon., Oct. 18
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School)
Legal History Workshop
(Medieval Studies Seminar at the Humanities Center)
Tues., Oct. 19
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, McMullen Museum of Art, 140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Devlin Hall, Room 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Daria Borghese (American University, Rome)
Palazzo Colonna: The Construction of a Family Through the Building of
its Residence
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 617.552.8587
A Priscilla Durkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the McMullen Museum
in memory of Priscilla Durkin, NC '65 and Nancy Durkin Orazem, NC '70
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/events-calendar/index.html
Tues., Oct. 19
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
John Hamilton (Harvard University)
"SECVRITAS: Safety, Neglect, and Incurability--A Comparative
Philological Approach to Security Studies"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
**Wed., Oct. 20
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Prof. Maria-Paz Garcia Bellido (Spanish High Council for Scientific
Research [CSIC], Madrid)
"Portraits through coins: Carthaginian Spain"
Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.
Wed., Oct. 20
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH 03824
Prof. Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series
"What is Democracy? What is it Good For?"
Free and open to the public.
For more information call 603.862.3522
Thurs., Oct. 21
3:40 p.m. – 5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Hamilton-Smith Hall, Room 127, Durham, NH
03824
Dr. Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
"The Poison King: Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy"
Free and open to the public.
For more information call 603.862.3522
Friday, October 22
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Brown mini-conference
Mini-conference on the letters of Pliny the Younger featuring Ilaria
Marchesi (Hofstra) and Roy Gibson (Manchester)
Time and location, TBA, details forthcoming from Lisa Mignone
Fri., Oct. 22
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02115
Karen Stern (Brooklyn College, the City University of New York)
"Synagogues as Design for the Divine: Jewish Cultural Identity and
Constructions of Sacred Space in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology
Sat., Oct. 23
10:30a.m. – 12 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Providence RI 02912
Joukowsky Institute Open Morning: Archaeology in Action
Come visit the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient
World in Rhode Island Hall. Faculty and students will be on hand to
tour you through the newly renovated building, as well as to show you
artifacts and images, both from some of our current fieldwork (in the
Caribbean, Egypt, Jordan, and Rhode Island) and from the Institute’s
collections.
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
Mon., Oct. 25
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA 02215
Ruth Bielfeldt / New England Ancient History Colloquium
"Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic
City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene"
5:30-6:30 p.m. Cocktails and conversation (with cash bar)
6:30-7:30 p.m. Dinner
7:30-9:30 p.m. Brief introduction and highlights of the pre-
circulated paper by Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University), commentary by
Kenneth Sacks (Brown University), and general discussion. For dinner,
please pre-register with Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu)
Tues., Oct. 26
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, room 108, Providence RI 02912
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University and Columbia University)
"Does Ancient History Matter? The Rise and Demise of Universal Empire
in Rome, Europe and China"
Reception to follow the lecture
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
Thurs., Oct. 28
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
Bruce Heiden (Ohio State University)
"Civilizing Desire: Olympian Love in the *Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite*"
**Mon., Nov. 1
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Beverly Kienzle, Travis Stevens (Harvard Divinity School)
Kienzle is the John H. Morison Professor of the Practice of Latin and
Romance Languages, Lecturer on Medieval Christianity, and Director of
Language Studies
"Preaching, Heresy, and the Writing of Female Hagiography" with
response from Catherine Mooney (Boston College)
*Thurs., Nov. 4
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
06457
David Konstan (Brown University)
"Lucretius and the Epicurean Attitude toward Grief"
Sponsored by Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Nov. 4
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, room 108, Providence RI 02912
Cyprian Broodbank (University College London)
"Before Corruption? The Making of the Mediterranean."
Reception to follow the lecture
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
Thurs., Nov. 4
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525, Boston, MA, 02215
Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
"An Aristotelian Distinction Between Two Types of Knowledge"
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Commentary by David Bronstein (Boston University)
For more information contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
Tues., Nov. 9
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
Brown-Yale Meeting
Seminar for Classics graduate students and faculty of both institutions
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
"Plutarch as a Source for the Athenian Theater"
Respondent: Pauline LeVen (Yale University)
Wed., Nov. 10
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown building, auditorium 2, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Professor David Elmer (Harvard University)
Martin Weiner lecture
"It's Not Me, It's You, Socrates: The Problem of the Charismatic
Teacher in Plato's Symposium"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thurs., Nov. 11
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Paino Lecture Hall, Earth Sciences Building, Amherst,
MA 01002
Anthony Corbeill (University of Kansas)
"Androgynous Gods, Androgynous Nouns, and the Invention of
Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund
Free and Open to the Public
*Thurs., Nov. 11
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth, Chestnut Hill, MA
02467
Hildtrud Westermann-Angerhausen (Director Emeritus, Schnuetgen Museum,
Cologne)
"Statements of Rank and Sanctity: Spolia in Royal Reliquaries"
A free lecture open to the public.
Sponsored by the McMullen Museum and Forsyth Lecture on Medieval Art,
International Center of Medieval Art.
For more information call 617-552-8587.
Tues., Nov. 16
4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West (All Souls, Oxford)
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
*Tues., Nov. 16
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street,
New Haven, CT 06510
Stephen Haber (Standford University)
The Third Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture in Ancient History
Keynote speaker: Stephen Haber (A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan
Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University)
"Natural Resources and the Institutions of Governance: Evidence from
the Ancient and Modern Worlds"
Response by: (Naomi Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics & History, Yale
University)
Reception to follow in room 108.
http://www.yale.edu/classics/rostovtzeff_lecture.html
*Wed., Nov. 17
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Phelps Hall, Room 401, 344 College Street, New Haven,
CT 06511
Symposium Topic: "The Resource Curse in Historical Perspective"
Presenters:
Alain Bresson (Department of Classics, University of Chicago)
Fabian Drixler (Department of History, Yale University)
Timothy Guinnane (Department of Economics, Yale University)
John Haldon (History Department, Princeton University)
Bruce R. Hitchner (Department of Classics, Tufts University)
Joseph G. Manning (Department of Classics, Yale University)
Peter C. Perdue (Department of History, Yale University)
Walter Scheidel (Department of Classics, Stanford University)
Admission is free for the symposium, but space is limited. Please call
to register.
For more information contact Nancy Genga at 203-432-0978 or nancy.genga(a)yale.edu
or visit our website: http://www.yale.edu/classics/about.html
Thursday, November 18
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ruldolf Haensch (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich)
"The Christian Appropriation of Temples and Synagogues in Late
Antiquity: Its Frequency and Significance."
Thursday, November 18
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Egyptology, NELC, Harvard)
"Art as Writing: the Magic of Egyptian Hieroglyphs"
Visible Language Lecture series, Peabody Museum.
Thursday, November 18
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Wilson Hall, Room 102, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
**Tuesday, November 30
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Herbert Golder (Boston University)
"Medea's Afterlife in Film"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Tuesday, November 30
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G12, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
Jennifer Eastman lecture
"Who did the Romans think they were?"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thursday, December 2
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Machinist (Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, NELC, Harvard)
"The Alphabet: its Origins and Early History" Visible Language Lecture
series, Peabody Museum
Friday-Sunday, December 3-5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Conference: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of
Milman Parry and Albert Lord
Organized by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard
University
Some 30 scholars from around the world will present papers on
theoretical and practical aspects of the study of oral traditions.
This conference is free and open to the public. Please e-mail singersandtales(a)chs.harvard.edu
to register, and see the website below for more information: http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=3141
Monday, December 6
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Providence, RI 02912
63rd Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-third annual program
of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely
in Latin.
Thursday, February 17
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Constanze Güthenke (Princeton University)
"The Language of Classical Scholarship: Philology, Empathy, and
Wilamowitz' Plato"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Title: TBA
April 11, 12, 14, 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
CalClass
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October 8, 2010
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Tuesday, October 12
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library Rm. 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215
Arthur Eckstein (University of Maryland) and Zsuzsanna Varhelyi
(Boston University)
"Roman Human Sacrifice: A Conversation between Eckstein and Varhelyi
on Roman Religion and Warfare"
Tuesday, October 12
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Richard Salomon (University of Washington)
"When Worlds Collide: New Perspectives on Hellenism and Indo-Buddhist
Cultures in Ancient Afghanistan"
Wednesday, October 13
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
"Ambiguity in the Personal Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus"
Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies
http://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/
Thursday, October 14
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane Seminar Room, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI 02912
George Huxley
"Piety and Power in the Antigone of Sophocles"
Thursday, October 14
6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Mystic Arts Center, 9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Durable, Colorful, Whimsical: Mosaics of the Roman Empire"
Friday, October 15
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
Paul Zanker (University of Munich)
"The Arch of Constantine as a Senatorial Monument"
*Monday, October 18
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School)
Legal History Workshop
(Medieval Studies Seminar at the Humanities Center)
Tuesday, October 19
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, McMullen Museum of Art, 140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Devlin Hall, Room 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Daria Borghese (American University, Rome)
Palazzo Colonna: The Construction of a Family Through the Building of
its Residence
Free and open to the public; For more information, call 617.552.8587
A Priscilla Durkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the McMullen Museum
in memory of Priscilla Durkin, NC '65 and Nancy Durkin Orazem, NC '70
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/events-calendar/index.html
*Tuesday, October 19
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
John Hamilton (Harvard University)
"SECVRITAS: Safety, Neglect, and Incurability--A Comparative
Philological Approach to Security Studies"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Wednesday, October 20
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Prof. Maria-Paz Garcia Bellido (Spanish High Council for Scientific
Research [CSIC], Madrid)
"Portraits through coins: Carthaginian Spain"
Wednesday, October 20
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH 03824
Prof. Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series
"What is Democracy? What is it Good For?"
Free and open to the public.
For more information call 603.862.3522
Thursday, October 21
3:40 p.m. – 5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Hamilton-Smith Hall, Room 127, Durham, NH
03824
Dr. Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
"The Poison King: Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy"
Free and open to the public. For more information call 603.862.3522
Friday, October 22
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Brown mini-conference
Mini-conference on the letters of Pliny the Younger featuring Ilaria
Marchesi (Hofstra) and Roy Gibson (Manchester)
Time and location, TBA, details forthcoming from Lisa Mignone
Friday, October 22
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02115
Karen Stern (Brooklyn College, the City University of New York)
"Synagogues as Design for the Divine: Jewish Cultural Identity and
Constructions of Sacred Space in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology
*Saturday, October 23
10:30am – 12 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Providence RI 02912
Joukowsky Institute Open Morning: Archaeology in Action
Come visit the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient
World in Rhode Island Hall. Faculty and students will be on hand to
tour you through the newly renovated building, as well as to show you
artifacts and images, both from some of our current fieldwork (in the
Caribbean, Egypt, Jordan, and Rhode Island) and from the Institute’s
collections.
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
**Monday, October 25
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA 02215
Ruth Bielfeldt / New England Ancient History Colloquium
"Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic
City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene"
5:30-6:30 p.m. Cocktails and conversation (with cash bar)
6:30-7:30 p.m. Dinner
7:30-9:30 p.m. Brief introduction and highlights of the pre-circulated
paper by Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University), commentary by Kenneth
Sacks (Brown University), and general discussion. For dinner, please
pre-register with Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu)
*Tuesday, October 26
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, room 108, Providence RI 02912
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University and Columbia University)
"Does Ancient History Matter? The Rise and Demise of Universal Empire
in Rome, Europe and China"
Reception to follow the lecture
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
Thursday, October 28
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
Bruce Heiden (Ohio State University)
"Civilizing Desire: Olympian Love in the *Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite*"
*Monday, November 1
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Beverly Kienzle, Travis Stevens (Harvard UNIVERSITY)
"Preaching, Heresy, and the Writing of Female Hagiography" with
response from Catherine Mooney (Boston College)
*Thursday, November 4
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, room 108, Providence RI 02912
Cyprian Broodbank (University College London)
"Before Corruption? The Making of the Mediterranean."
Reception to follow the lecture
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/events/
Thursday, November 4
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525, Boston, MA, 02215
Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
"An Aristotelian Distinction Between Two Types of Knowledge"
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Commentary by David Bronstein (Boston University)
For more information contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
Tuesday, November 9
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
Brown-Yale Meeting
Seminar for Classics graduate students and faculty of both institutions
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
"Plutarch as a Source for the Athenian Theater"
Respondent: Pauline LeVen (Yale University)
Wednesday, November 10
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown building, auditorium 2, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Professor David Elmer (Harvard University)
Martin Weiner lecture
"It's Not Me, It's You, Socrates: The Problem of the Charismatic
Teacher in Plato's Symposium"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
*Thursday, November 11
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Paino Lecture Hall, Earth Sciences Building, Amherst,
MA 01002
Anthony Corbeill (University of Kansas)
"Androgynous Gods, Androgynous Nouns, and the Invention of
Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund
Free and Open to the Public
**Tuesday, November 16
4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West (All Souls, Oxford)
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
*Thursday, November 18
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ruldolf Haensch (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich)
"The Christian Appropriation of Temples and Synagogues in Late
Antiquity: Its Frequency and Significance."
Thursday, November 18
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Egyptology, NELC, Harvard)
"Art as Writing: the Magic of Egyptian Hieroglyphs"
Visible Language Lecture series, Peabody Museum.
Thursday, November 18
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Wilson Hall, Room 102, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
*Tuesday, November 30
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Medea's Afterlife in Film"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Tuesday, November 30
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G12, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Professor Emma Dench (Harvard University)
Jennifer Eastman lecture
"Who did the Romans think they were?"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thursday, December 2
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Machinist (Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, NELC, Harvard)
"The Alphabet: its Origins and Early History" Visible Language Lecture
series, Peabody Museum
Friday-Sunday, December 3-5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Conference: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of
Milman Parry and Albert Lord
Organized by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard
University
Some 30 scholars from around the world will present papers on
theoretical and practical aspects of the study of oral traditions.
This conference is free and open to the public. Please e-mail singersandtales(a)chs.harvard.edu
to register, and see the website below for more information: http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=3141
Monday, December 6
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Providence, RI 02912
63rd Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-third annual program
of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely
in Latin.
*Thursday, February 17
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Constanze M. Guthenke (Princeton University)
Title: TBA
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
TBA
April 11, 12, 14, 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 1, 2010
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Monday, October 4
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin)
"Sermo, Style & Satire: Lucilius' Language"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Monday, October 4
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Alumni Auditorium 30, Providence, RI 02912
Yasunori Kasai
Student Performance/Workshop: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, with comments by
Yanunori Kasai
Part of the International Graduate Student Colloquium, hosted by the
Department of Classics
Monday, October 4
8:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno, Room G01, Providence, RI 02912
Oedipus Rex
Movie screening of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. Part of the International
Graduate Students Colloquium.
*Wednesday, October 6
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for Government and International Studies
(CGIS) South Building 010 Tsai Auditorium (S-010) 1730 Cambridge
Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Professor Gil Stein (Professor of Archaeology, Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations, and Director of the Oriental Institute, University
of Chicago)
The Opening of Fall Term Event Organized by the Standing Committee on
Archaeology
"Conquest, Colonialism, and Contact. Rethinking Models of Ancient
Inter-regional Interaction."
Thursday, October 7
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macmillan Hall, Room 115, Providence, RI 02912,
details TBA
Yasunori Kasai
"The Diffusion of Cultures and the problem of Translation from the
West to Japan, and Japan to Asia ( Korea/ China ) and the West"
Part of the International Graduate Students Colloquium
Thursday, October 7
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-
Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Max Deeg (Cardiff University, Wales)
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP
"The 'Brilliant Teaching': The Rise and Fall of
'Nestorianism' (Jingjiao) in Tang China."
For more information, please, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard
Divinity School, ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu.
Tuesday, October 12
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library Rm. 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215
Arthur Eckstein (University of Maryland) and Zsuzsanna Varhelyi
(Boston University)
"Roman Human Sacrifice: A Conversation between Eckstein and Varhelyi
on Roman Religion and Warfare"
Tuesday, October 12
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Richard Salomon (University of Washington)
"When Worlds Collide: New Perspectives on Hellenism and Indo-Buddhist
Cultures in Ancient Afghanistan"
*Wednesday, October 13
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
"Ambiguity in the Personal Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus"
Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies
http://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/
Thursday, October 14
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane Seminar Room, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI 02912
George Huxley
"Piety and Power in the Antigone of Sophocles"
Thursday, October 14
6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Mystic Arts Center, 9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Durable, Colorful, Whimsical: Mosaics of the Roman Empire"
Friday, October 15
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
Paul Zanker (University of Munich)
"The Arch of Constantine as a Senatorial Monument"
Tuesday, October 19
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, McMullen Museum of Art, 140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Devlin Hall, Room 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Daria Borghese (American University, Rome)
Palazzo Colonna: The Construction of a Family Through the Building of
its Residence
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 617.552.8587
A Priscilla Durkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the McMullen Museum
in memory of Priscilla Durkin, NC '65 and Nancy Durkin Orazem, NC '70
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/events-calendar/index.html
Wednesday, October 20
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Prof. Maria-Paz Garcia Bellido (Spanish High Council for Scientific
Research [CSIC], Madrid)
"Portraits through coins: Carthaginian Spain"
*Wednesday, October 20
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH 03824
Prof. Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series
"What is Democracy? What is it Good For?"
Free and open to the public.
For more information call 603.862.3522
*Thursday, October 21
3:40 p.m. – 5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Hamilton-Smith Hall, Room 127, Durham, NH
03824
Dr. Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
"The Poison King: Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy"
Free and open to the public.
For more information call 603.862.3522
Friday, October 22
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Brown mini-conference
Mini-conference on the letters of Pliny the Younger featuring Ilaria
Marchesi (Hofstra) and Roy Gibson (Manchester)
Time and location, TBA, details forthcoming from Lisa Mignone
*Friday, October 22
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02115
Karen Stern (Brooklyn College, the City University of New York)
"Synagogues as Design for the Divine: Jewish Cultural Identity and
Constructions of Sacred Space in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology
Monday, October 25
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA 02215
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
"Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic
City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene"
Commentary by Kenneth Sacks (Brown University)
Thursday, October 28
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
Bruce Heiden (Ohio State University)
"Civilizing Desire: Olympian Love in the *Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite*"
Thursday, November 4
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525, Boston, MA, 02215
Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
"An Aristotelian Distinction Between Two Types of Knowledge"
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Commentary by David Bronstein (Boston University)
For more information contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
Tuesday, November 9
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
Brown-Yale Meeting
Seminar for Classics graduate students and faculty of both institutions
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
"Plutarch as a Source for the Athenian Theater"
Respondent: Pauline LeVen (Yale University)
*Wednesday, November 10
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown building, auditorium 2, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Professor David Elmer (Harvard University)
Martin Weiner lecture
"It's Not Me, It's You, Socrates: The Problem of the Charismatic
Teacher in Plato's Symposium"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Tuesday, November 16
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West (All Souls, Oxford)
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
Thursday, November 18
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Egyptology, NELC, Harvard)
"Art as Writing: the Magic of Egyptian Hieroglyphs"
Visible Language Lecture series, Peabody Museum.
Thursday, November 18
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Wilson Hall, Room 102, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
*Tuesday, November 30
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G12, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Professor Emma Dench (Harvard University)
Jennifer Eastman lecture
"Who did the Romans think they were?"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thursday, December 2
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Machinist (Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, NELC, Harvard)
"The Alphabet: its Origins and Early History" Visible Language Lecture
series, Peabody Museum
*Friday-Sunday, December 3-5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Conference: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of
Milman Parry and Albert Lord
Organized by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard
University
Some 30 scholars from around the world will present papers on
theoretical and practical aspects of the study of oral traditions.
This conference is free and open to the public. Please e-mail singersandtales(a)chs.harvard.edu
to register, and see the website below for more information:
http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=3141
Monday, December 6
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Providence, RI 02912
63rd Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-third annual program
of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely
in Latin.
Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
TBA
April 11, 12, 14, 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
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