Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(2/26/10)
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*Mon., Mar. 1 4:00-6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
The Classical Traditions Seminar at the Humanities Center presents:
Dr. Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute, London)
"Mnemosyne, the Muses and Apollo: Mythology as Epistemology in Aby
Warburg's Picture-Atlas"
Mon., Mar. 1, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108 (on the Main Green at
the corner of Prospect and George Streets) Providence, RI
Denver Graninger (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
"Civic Memory in Archaic Ambracia"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Tues, Mar. 2, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Seelye Hall 106, Northampton, MA
Justina Gregory (Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures,
Smith College)
"Cheiron the Centaur: Some Reflections on Teachers and Teaching"
The 52nd annual Katharine Asher Engel Lecture
Reception to follow
Wed., Mar. 3, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
In-Sight Lecture Series
Amy Brauer (Harvard Art Museum)
"Mosaic of Two Figures Seated on a Couch"
In the 1930s excavations along the banks of the Orontes River (modern
Asi) in Turkey uncovered nearly 300 mosaic pavements from the ancient
city of Antioch. Depicting interiors, landscapes, classical figures,
and decorative devices, they provide a sample of the pictorial arts of
the Roman East. This fragmentary mosaic floor representing two figures
lay for years crated and nearly forgotten in the subbasement storage
rooms of the Harvard Art Museum. Its recent conservation reveals much
about Roman domestic arts, ancient manufacturing, and modern salvation
techniques.
In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently, a new lecture series,
explores individual works of art from a variety of global traditions.
Approaching each work from multiple perspectives, we examine
techniques, contexts, and stories that have shaped it, and its
significance to the Art Museum. Tickets are $18 (members of Harvard
Art Museum $12, students with valid ID $8, Harvard students free on a
first-come, first-served basis). Space is limited, and registration is
encouraged. Please call 617-495-4544 or email artmuseum_membership(a)harvard.edu
for further information. Complimentary parking at Broadway Garage.
Tues, Mar. 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Tau Zeta Epsilon House, Wellesley, MA
Amy Cohen (Randolph College)
"Ancient Theatrical Masks in Performance"
For further Information email bburns(a)wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/CampusMaps/
*Tues., Mar. 9, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 133 Barker, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Pietro Bortone (University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for
Advanced Studies, Berlin, Germany)
"G(Dis)continuities in Ethnic Identification and Linguistic Behavior:
Greek Speakers in Northeast Turkey"
Seminar chairs: Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu) and
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu).
This event is open to the public.
Tues. Mar. 9, 7:00 p.m.,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
The Semitic Museum presents a lecture by:
Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)
Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in "The Land of Palistin": Recent
Discoveries at Tell Tayinat on the Plain of Antioch
A reception is to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries
on the 2nd floor at 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge. For more information
please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Wed., Mar. 17, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Basil Dufallo (University of Michigan)
"The Challenge of Rustic Art: Ecphrasis, Greek Culture, and Social
Order in Vergil's Eclogue 3"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Jacob Howland (University of Tulsa)
"Plato and the Talmud"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu.
Fri., Mar. 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Harems and Harridans? Gender and Narrative in Herodotus"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
*Fri.-Sat., Mar. 19-20
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Annual Meeting
Moses Brown School, Providence, RI
Speakers include:
Eleanor Winsor Leach (Indiana University)
Reading Half the Dialogue: Cicero's Correspondence with C. Trebatius
Testa
Jeri Blair DeBrohun (Brown University)
Mothers and Sons: Seneca's Oedipus and Euripides' Bacchae
Raymond Starr, Wellesley College
"cui dono lepidum novum libellum? Corneli, tibi": Cornelius Nepos and
Catullus 1
More information (including registration) can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org
.
Sat., Mar. 20, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall, School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA
2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, "Ancient Chimeras: Composite
Creatures, Cultures, and Genres"
Guy M. Hedreen, Professor of Art (Williams College), will deliver the
keynote address entitled, "Bild, Mythos, and Ritual: Choral Dance in
Theseus’ Cretan Adventure on the François Vase."
This event is open to the public. For more information, please visit
our website http://www.bu.edu/classics/gsconference/index.html or e-
mail sophiek(a)bu.edu.
*Monday, March 22, 5:15-6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Susan Alcock (Brown University, Director of the Joukowsky Institute
for Archaeology)
"What to Do with the Wonder of the World: The Puzzle of Petra (Jordan)"
Professor Alcock will discuss the puzzle and paradox of Petra. A
'star' site of global heritage, as witnessed by its Hollywood
popularity and its 'modern seven wonders' status, it remains in many
ways poorly understood, not least in terms of its long-term historical
evolution. Fieldwork has been undertaken in the city for many years by
Brown University, but a new phase of that work is now beginning,
leading us to ask advice on the question: 'What to do with a Wonder of
the World'?
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies at Brandeis University
For further Information, please contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (781-736-2180
or hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu). Free and open to the public (for
directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
Wed. March 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Brien Garnand (Whitman College)
"Why Little Girls are Good to Kill--Child Sacrifice in Greek Myth and
Phoenician Practice"
Thursday, March 25, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Bartlett 65, Amherst, MA
John Oakley (College of William and Mary)
"Children in Wartime: Ancient Athens and Modern Europe"
The 6th Annual David F. Grose Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by Charles Grose and the Classics Department, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
Thurs., Mar. 25, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College St.,
Providence, RI
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Orchestrated Violence: Music in the Roman Amphitheatre"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel (Architect, Historic Monuments in France)
"Splendors and Highlights of Stained Glass at Chartres: Restoration,
Newest Techniques and Latest Discoveries"
Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, under the
patronage of The French Consul General Christophe Guilhou, with
participation of Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of Art & Architecture,
Harvard University; Servane de Layre-Matheus, President, Chartres
Sanctuaire du Monde (http://www.chartres-csm.org/); and Monika Riely,
President, American Friends of Chartres (http://friendsofchartres.org/).
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information contact Geoffrey Sumi gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Fri., Apr. 2, Time TBA
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: TBD
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Room 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
*Sat. Apr. 10, 9:30 a.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Fifth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Department of the Classics
"Pros and Cons: Professionalism and Expertise in the Ancient World"
Keynote Speaker: Dirk Obbink (Oxford University/University of Michigan)
For more information please visit http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65290&pageid=icb.page318254
or email harvardclassicsconference(a)gmail.com
*Mon., Apr. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Weaving Christ’s body: clothing, femininity and sexuality in the
Marian imagery of Byzantium"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
*Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 515, Cambridge, MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Female threads of salvation: the Mother of God, the veil of the
Incarnation and the Sevastokratorissa Eirene in twelfth-century
Constantinople"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
Title: TBA
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
Wed. Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University)
"Humans and Animals, or the Instability of Species and Gender in
Ancient Greece"
Thurs., Apr. 22, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Michael Fontaine (Cornell University)
"The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in
Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus, and Terence)"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
Sat., Apr. 24, 8:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Jewett Auditorium, 106 Central St Wellesley, MA
An Evening with Anne Carson and Dancers
Bracko and Cassandra Float Can: Reading and Performance
Panel to follow
Wed. Apr. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"The Politics of Beauty in Ancient Greek Art"
Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Fri., April 30, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, George Sherman Union, 775
Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
"Shrinking the Muse: Psychoanalysis and Literature"
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"Psychoanalytic Interpretation: Greek Myths and Roman Poems"
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University)
"Hippolytus Takes a Girlfriend: A Psychoanalytic Crux"
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
"Loving writing: Ovid's Amores"
Reception and dinner to follow. To register for dinner or for more
information, please visit www.bu.edu/classics/news/roman_studies.html
or contact Ms. Stacy Fox or Professor Patricia Johnson, e-mail: romstud(a)bu.edu
.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation at Boston University
*Mon.-Sat., Jul. 12-17
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Summer Institute
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lecturers, Guest Speakers and Course Instructors will include:
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
"Songs About me: Why the Humanities Matter More Than Ever" AND "Games,
Gods and Generals: Video Games and the Ancient World"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"The Making of Sappho, Old and New"
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Quintus Sulpicius Maximus: A Roman Schoolboy Learning Greek in A.D.
94" AND "A Year in the Roman Empire: The Problem of Hindsight"
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
The Origins of Political Values in Ancient Greece: Justice, Equality,
Liberty, and Democracy
Phyllis Katz (Dartmouth College)
In a Different Voice: The Poetry of Sappho and Emily Dickinson
Eleanor Leach (Indiana University)
Storytelling in Roman Letters
Peter Machinist (Harvard University)
Between the Ancient Near East and the Classical World: The Case of the
Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Greek Athletics in Its Social Context
Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College)
Translating for Today: Some Case Studies
More information and registration can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org/csi/CSI2010Brochure.pdf
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.
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Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(2/19/10)
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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 will appear in the Calendar issued
the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible. More details about some of the
events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Wed., Feb. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 133, 12
Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Alexander Kitroeff, Associate Professor of History (Haverford College)
"Greece's 'Great Idea' & the Politics of Cultural Nationalism in the
1850s"
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
This is open to the public.
You can access this information by visiting the official website of
the Program of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard at the following link:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html
Thursday, February 25, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Ann Hanson (Yale University)
"Is there a Healer in the House? Therapies and recipes from Greek and
Roman Antiquity"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:00 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Dewey Common Room, Dewey Hall, Northampton, MA
Christopher Trinacty (Amherst College)
"Another Oedipus: The Reception of the Oedipus Myth by Seneca and Ted
Hughes"
Sponsored by: Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
For further information please contact nshumate(a)email.smith.edu.
Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge, 415 South St., Waltham, MA
Ann Vasaly, Associate Professor of Classical Studies (Boston University)
"Livy's Early Books: The Voice of the People"
It is often taken for granted that, in his history, Livy consistently
expressed his fear and mistrust of the masses and hostility toward
popular leaders. Professor Vasaly will challenge that notion by
reexamining the historian's depiction of the populus in the crucial
years of the Republic.
Reception to follow.
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies at Brandeis University
For further Information, please contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (781-736-2180
or hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu).
Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
*Thurs, Feb. 25, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College St.,
Providence, RI
Elizabeth Meyer (The University of Virginia)
"The Coming of Roman-Style Freed Status to Greece: An Early Case of
West-East Influence?"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Feb. 26, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
David Sider (New York University)
"Ancient Views of the Book"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
*Mon., Mar. 1, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108 (on the Main Green at
the corner of Prospect and George Streets) Providence, RI
Denver Graninger (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
"Civic Memory in Archaic Ambracia"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Tues, Mar. 2, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Seelye Hall 106, Northampton, MA
Justina Gregory (Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures,
Smith College)
"Cheiron the Centaur: Some Reflections on Teachers and Teaching"
The 52nd annual Katharine Asher Engel Lecture
Reception to follow
Wed., Mar. 3, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
In-Sight Lecture Series
Amy Brauer (Harvard Art Museum)
"Mosaic of Two Figures Seated on a Couch"
In the 1930s excavations along the banks of the Orontes River (modern
Asi) in Turkey uncovered nearly 300 mosaic pavements from the ancient
city of Antioch. Depicting interiors, landscapes, classical figures,
and decorative devices, they provide a sample of the pictorial arts of
the Roman East. This fragmentary mosaic floor representing two figures
lay for years crated and nearly forgotten in the subbasement storage
rooms of the Harvard Art Museum. Its recent conservation reveals much
about Roman domestic arts, ancient manufacturing, and modern salvation
techniques.
In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently, a new lecture series,
explores individual works of art from a variety of global traditions.
Approaching each work from multiple perspectives, we examine
techniques, contexts, and stories that have shaped it, and its
significance to the Art Museum. Tickets are $18 (members of Harvard
Art Museum $12, students with valid ID $8, Harvard students free on a
first-come, first-served basis). Space is limited, and registration is
encouraged. Please call 617-495-4544 or email artmuseum_membership(a)harvard.edu
for further information. Complimentary parking at Broadway Garage.
Tues, Mar. 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Tau Zeta Epsilon House, Wellesley, MA
Amy Cohen (Associate Professor of Classics, Randolph College)
"Ancient Theatrical Masks in Performance"
For further Information email bburns(a)wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/CampusMaps/
Tues. Mar. 9, 7:00 p.m.,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
The Semitic Museum presents a lecture by:
Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)
Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in "The Land of Palistin": Recent
Discoveries at
Tell Tayinat on the Plain of Antioch
A reception is to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries
on the 2nd floor at 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge. For more information
please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu.
*Wed., Mar. 17, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Basil Dufallo (University of Michigan)
"The Challenge of Rustic Art: Ecphrasis, Greek Culture, and Social
Order in Vergil's Eclogue 3"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Jacob Howland (Professor of Philosophy, University of Tulsa)
"Plato and the Talmud"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu.
Fri., Mar. 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Harems and Harridans? Gender and Narrative in Herodotus"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
*Sat., Mar. 20, 10:00 a.m.-4:00p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall, School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA
2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, "Ancient Chimeras: Composite
Creatures, Cultures, and Genres"
Guy M. Hedreen, Professor of Art (Williams College), will deliver the
keynote address entitled, "Bild, Mythos, and Ritual: Choral Dance in
Theseus’ Cretan Adventure on the François Vase."
This event is open to the public. For more information, please visit
our website http://www.bu.edu/classics/gsconference/index.html or e-
mail sophiek(a)bu.edu.
*Wed. March 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Brien Garnand (Whitman College)
"Why Little Girls are Good to Kill--Child Sacrifice in Greek Myth and
Phoenician Practice"
*Thursday, March 25, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Bartlett 65, Amherst, MA
John Oakley, Chancellor Professor and Forrest D. Murden, Jr. Professor
of Classical Studies (College of William and Mary)
"Children in Wartime: Ancient Athens and Modern Europe"
The 6th Annual David F. Grose Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by Charles Grose and the Classics Department, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
*Thurs., Mar. 25, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College St.,
Providence, RI
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Orchestrated Violence: Music in the Roman Amphitheatre"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel, Architect in Chief, Historic Monuments in France
"Splendors and Highlights of Stained Glass at Chartres: Restoration,
Newest Techniques and Latest Discoveries"
Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, under the
patronage of The French Consul General Christophe Guilhou, with
participation of Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of Art & Architecture,
Harvard University; Servane de Layre-Matheus, President, Chartres
Sanctuaire du Monde (http://www.chartres-csm.org/); and Monika Riely,
President, American Friends of Chartres (http://friendsofchartres.org/).
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (History, North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information contact Geoffrey Sumi gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Fri., Apr. 2, Time TBA
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: TBD
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
Title: TBA
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
*Wed. Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University)
"Humans and Animals, or the Instability of Species and Gender in
Ancient Greece"
*Thurs., Apr. 22, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Michael Fontaine (Cornell University)
"The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in
Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus, and Terence)"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
*Sat., Apr. 24, 8:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Jewett Auditorium, 106 Central St Wellesley, MA
An Evening with Anne Carson and Dancers
Bracko and Cassandra Float Can: Reading and Performance
Panel to follow
*Wed. Apr. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"The Politics of Beauty in Ancient Greek Art"
Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (Professor, University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
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.
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
Due to unforeseen circumstances "The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen
Hundred Years--and the Next Five Hundred Plus" hosted by the Classical
Traditions Seminar and scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 16, 4-6 will have to be
postponed to a later (as yet unknown) date in the semester.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(2/12/10)
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the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible. More details about some of the
events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
**Tues., Feb. 16, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
"The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years--and the
Next Five Hundred Plus"
Professors Stephanie Kamath (Univ. of Massachusetts, Dep. of English),
Luis Girón-Negrón (Harvard, Dep. of Lit. and Comp. Lit), Richard
Thomas (Harvard, Dep. of the Classics), and Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard,
Dep. of the Classics) present and discuss the Virgilian Tradition:
aspects and approaches.
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Tues., Feb. 16, 8:00-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford, MA
Reinhard Foertsch, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Institute of
Archaeology, University of Cologne)
"The Discourse of Space"
A Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture in the Classical Culture as Digital
Information, Languages of Materiality for 2010
For further Information, visit our website at http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures
or email david.proctor(a)tufts.edu
Tues., Feb. 17, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262),
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Ruth Phillips (William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of
Canadian Studies; Professor of Art History, School for Studies in Art
and Culture; Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture, Carleton
University, Ottawa
"Artistic Primitivism and the Emergence of Indigenous Modernisms:
Western Discourse, Global Diaspora"
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Cultural Politics Seminar
Wed., Feb. 17, 8:00-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford, MA
Reinhard Foertsch, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Institute of
Archaeology, University of Cologne)
"The Inoperability of Culture"
A Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture in the Classical Culture as Digital
Information, Languages of Materiality for 2010
For further Information, visit our website at http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures
or email david.proctor(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Feb. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 133, 12
Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Alexander Kitroeff, Associate Professor of History (Haverford College)
"Greece's 'Great Idea' & the Politics of Cultural Nationalism in the
1850s"
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
This is open to the public.
You can access this information by visiting the official website of
the Program of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard at the following link:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html
*Thursday, February 25, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Ann Hanson (Yale University)
"Is there a Healer in the House? Therapies and recipes from Greek and
Roman Antiquity"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:00 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Dewey Common Room, Dewey Hall, Northampton, MA
Christopher Trinacty (Amherst College)
"Another Oedipus: The Reception of the Oedipus Myth by Seneca and Ted
Hughes"
Sponsored by: Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
For further information please contact nshumate(a)email.smith.edu.
Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge, 415 South St., Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies at Brandeis University
Ann Vasaly, Associate Professor of Classical Studies (Boston University)
"Livy's Early Books: The Voice of the People"
It is often taken for granted that, in his history, Livy consistently
expressed his fear and mistrust of the masses and hostility toward
popular leaders. Professor Vasaly will challenge that notion by
reexamining the historian's depiction of the populus in the crucial
years of the Republic.
Reception to follow.
For further Information, please contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (781-736-2180
or hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu).
Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
Fri., Feb. 26, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
David Sider (New York University)
"Ancient Views of the Book"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Wed., Mar. 3, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
In-Sight Lecture Series
Amy Brauer (Harvard Art Museum)
"Mosaic of Two Figures Seated on a Couch"
In the 1930s excavations along the banks of the Orontes River (modern
Asi) in Turkey uncovered nearly 300 mosaic pavements from the ancient
city of Antioch. Depicting interiors, landscapes, classical figures,
and decorative devices, they provide a sample of the pictorial arts of
the Roman East. This fragmentary mosaic floor representing two figures
lay for years crated and nearly forgotten in the subbasement storage
rooms of the Harvard Art Museum. Its recent conservation reveals much
about Roman domestic arts, ancient manufacturing, and modern salvation
techniques.
In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently, a new lecture series,
explores individual works of art from a variety of global traditions.
Approaching each work from multiple perspectives, we examine
techniques, contexts, and stories that have shaped it, and its
significance to the Art Museum. Tickets are $18 (members of Harvard
Art Museum $12, students with valid ID $8, Harvard students free on a
first-come, first-served basis). Space is limited, and registration is
encouraged. Please call 617-495-4544 or email artmuseum_membership(a)harvard.edu
for further information. Complimentary parking at Broadway Garage.
*Tues, Mar. 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Tau Zeta Epsilon House, Wellesley, MA
Amy Cohen (Associate Professor of Classics, Randolph College)
"Ancient Theatrical Masks in Performance"
For further Information email bburns(a)wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/CampusMaps/
*Tues. Mar. 9, 7:00 p.m.,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
The Semitic Museum presents a lecture by:
Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)
Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in "The Land of Palistin": Recent
Discoveries at
Tell Tayinat on the Plain of Antioch
A reception is to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries
on the 2nd floor at 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge. For more information
please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Thurs., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Jacob Howland (Professor of Philosophy, University of Tulsa)
"Plato and the Talmud"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu.
Fri., March 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Harems and Harridans? Gender and Narrative in Herodotus"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
**Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel, Architect in Chief, Historic Monuments in France
"Splendors and Highlights of Stained Glass at Chartres: Restoration,
Newest Techniques and Latest Discoveries"
Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, under the
patronage of The French Consul General Christophe Guilhou, with
participation of Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of Art & Architecture,
Harvard University; Servane de Layre-Matheus, President, Chartres
Sanctuaire du Monde (http://www.chartres-csm.org/); and Monika Riely,
President, American Friends of Chartres (http://friendsofchartres.org/).
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (History, North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information contact Geoffrey Sumi gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Fri., Apr. 2, Time TBA
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: TBD
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
Title: TBA
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
*Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (Professor, University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
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.
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(2/5/10)
**PLEASE NOTE**
WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU
CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL:
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NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM ON WEDNESDAY WILL
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the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible. More details about some of the
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PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Mon., Feb. 8, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford, MA
Reinhard Foertsch, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Institute of
Archaeology, University of Cologne)
"The Morphology of Objects"
A Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture in the Classical Culture as Digital
Information, Languages of Materiality for 2010
For further Information, visit our website at http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures
or email david.proctor(a)tufts.edu
Tues., Feb. 9, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for Government and International Studies –
South S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Susan Alcock (Brown University, Director of the Joukowsky Institute
for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Joukowsky Family Professor in
Archaeology, Professor of Classics)
"A Conversation on Staking out Space for Archaeology in the North
American Academy"
Second Opening of Term Event hosted by the Standing Committee on
Archaeology, Harvard University
A reception will follow.
http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=&tile=F7&quadrant=B&series=M
Tues., Feb. 9, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford, MA
Reinhard Foertsch, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Institute of
Archaeology, University of Cologne)
"The Syntax of Contextualization"
A Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture in the Classical Culture as Digital
Information, Languages of Materiality for 2010
For further Information, visit our website at http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures
or email david.proctor(a)tufts.edu
Tues., Feb. 16, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
"The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years--and the
Next Five Hundred Plus"
Professors Barbara Hillers (Harvard, Dep. of Celtic Lang. and Lit.),
Stephanie Kamath (Univ. of Massachusetts, Dep. of English), Luis Girón-
Negrón (Harvard, Dep. of Lit. and Comp. Lit), Richard Thomas (Harvard,
Dep. of the Classics), and Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard, Dep. of the
Classics) present and discuss the Virgilian Tradition: aspects and
approaches.
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Tues., Feb. 16, 8:00-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford, MA
Reinhard Foertsch, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Institute of
Archaeology, University of Cologne)
"The Discourse of Space"
A Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture in the Classical Culture as Digital
Information, Languages of Materiality for 2010
For further Information, visit our website at http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures
or email david.proctor(a)tufts.edu
Tues., Feb. 17, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262),
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Ruth Phillips (William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of
Canadian Studies; Professor of Art History, School for Studies in Art
and Culture; Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture, Carleton
University, Ottawa
"Artistic Primitivism and the Emergence of Indigenous Modernisms:
Western Discourse, Global Diaspora"
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Cultural Politics Seminar
Wed., Feb. 17, 8:00-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford, MA
Reinhard Foertsch, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Institute of
Archaeology, University of Cologne)
"The Inoperability of Culture"
A Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture in the Classical Culture as Digital
Information, Languages of Materiality for 2010
For further Information, visit our website at http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures
or email david.proctor(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Feb. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, 133 Barker, 12
Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Alexander Kitroeff, Associate Professor of History (Haverford College)
"Greece's 'Great Idea' & the Politics of Cultural Nationalism in the
1850s"
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
This is open to the public.
You can access this information by visiting the official website of
the Program of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard at the following link:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html
*Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:00 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Dewey Common Room, Dewey Hall, Northampton, MA
Christopher Trinacty (Amherst College)
"Another Oedipus: The Reception of the Oedipus Myth by Seneca and Ted
Hughes"
Sponsored by: Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
For further information please contact nshumate(a)email.smith.edu.
*Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge, 415 South St., Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies at Brandeis University
Ann Vasaly, Associate Professor of Classical Studies (Boston University)
"Livy's Early Books: The Voice of the People"
It is often taken for granted that, in his history, Livy consistently
expressed his fear and mistrust of the masses and hostility toward
popular leaders. Professor Vasaly will challenge that notion by
reexamining the historian's depiction of the populus in the crucial
years of the Republic.
Reception to follow.
For further Information, please contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (781-736-2180
or hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu).
Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
*Fri., Feb. 26, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
David Sider (New York University)
"Ancient Views of the Book"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Wed., Mar. 3, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
In-Sight Lecture Series
Amy Brauer (Harvard Art Museum)
"Mosaic of Two Figures Seated on a Couch"
In the 1930s excavations along the banks of the Orontes River (modern
Asi) in Turkey uncovered nearly 300 mosaic pavements from the ancient
city of Antioch. Depicting interiors, landscapes, classical figures,
and decorative devices, they provide a sample of the pictorial arts of
the Roman East. This fragmentary mosaic floor representing two figures
lay for years crated and nearly forgotten in the subbasement storage
rooms of the Harvard Art Museum. Its recent conservation reveals much
about Roman domestic arts, ancient manufacturing, and modern salvation
techniques.
In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently, a new lecture series,
explores individual works of art from a variety of global traditions.
Approaching each work from multiple perspectives, we examine
techniques, contexts, and stories that have shaped it, and its
significance to the Art Museum. Tickets are $18 (members of Harvard
Art Museum $12, students with valid ID $8, Harvard students free on a
first-come, first-served basis). Space is limited, and registration is
encouraged. Please call 617-495-4544 or email artmuseum_membership(a)harvard.edu
for further information. Complimentary parking at Broadway Garage.
*Thurs., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Jacob Howland (Professor of Philosophy, University of Tulsa)
"Plato and the Talmud"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu.
*Fri., March 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Harems and Harridans? Gender and Narrative in Herodotus"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel, Architect in Chief, Historic Monuments in France
"Splendors and Highlights of Stained Glass at Chartres: Restoration,
Newest Techniques and Latest Discoveries"
Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, under the
patronage of The French Consul General Christophe Guilhou, with
participation of Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of Art & Architecture,
Harvard University; Servane de Layre-Matheus, President, Chartres
Sanctuaire du Monde (http://www.chartres-csm.org/); and Monika Riely,
President, American Friends of Chartres (http://friendsofchartres.org/).
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (History, North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information contact Geoffrey Sumi gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Fri., Apr. 2, Time TBA
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: TBD
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
*Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
Title: TBA
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
**Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
**Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is 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.
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
