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Boston Area Classics Calendar 4/30/2010

by CalClass

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010 (4/30/10) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… 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 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 Fri., Apr. 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 will 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., May 3, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS S20 Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA The Medieval Studies Seminar presents Michael McCormick, Guoping Huang, Kelly Gibson, et al. in "The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations: A Friendly Introduction and Public Launch." A reception will follow. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization, with support from the Center for Geographic Analysis and the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation. Tues., May 4, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Luca Graverini (University of Arezzo) "Love, 'Sweetness,' and Amazement: The Ancient Novel and Philosophy" Sponsored by the Department of Classics. Tues., May 4, 4:00 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 113, Amherst, MA Jiři Machaček (Archaeology Institute, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) "Between West and East. The Archaeology of the Early Mediaeval East- Central Europe" A reception will follow the lecture. *Wed., May 5, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie- Vernon Room (K262), Cambridge, MA Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard Research Seminar on Cultural Politics David Bell (Princeton University) "The Imminent End of War: 1750-2010" Moderators/Chairs: Panagiotis Roilos and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m. HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group "Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and life in Alexandria Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 4/23/2010

by CalClass

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010 (4/23/10) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… 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 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 *Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 110 Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA Demetrios Pandermalis (Director, new Acropolis Museum) "The New Acropolis Museum: Its Exhibits and Architecture" The Lecture is co-sponsored by the George Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies, Harvard University, The Federation of Hellenic American Societies of New England, and the Consulate General of Greece in Boston A Reception will follow in Ticknor Lounge. For more information, please contact: rapti(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-384-7794 or greeceinboston(a)gmail.com, 617-775-5334. (For a map please visit this link: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=C&s…) 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 Tues., Apr. 27, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Thomas E. Levy (Department of Anthropology, University of California) King Solomon's Mines: New Data and Debates from South Jordan Reception to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA For more information please call (617) 495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu . This lecture is presented by the Semitic Museum and the Center for Jewish Studies, and sponsored by the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund. 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, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Haun Saussy (Yale University) "Créolité for Everybody" Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Seminar on Cultural Politics This event is open to the public. For further information, please visit this webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html Fri., Apr. 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 will 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., May 3, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS S20 Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA The Medieval Studies Seminar presents Michael McCormick, Guoping Huang, Kelly Gibson, et al. in "The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations: A Friendly Introduction and Public Launch." A reception will follow. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization, with support from the Center for Geographic Analysis and the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation. Tues., May 4, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Luca Graverini (University of Arezzo) "Love, 'Sweetness,' and Amazement: The Ancient Novel and Philosophy" Sponsored by the Department of Classics. Tues., May 4, 4:00 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 113, Amherst, MA Jiři Machaček (Archaeology Institute, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) "Between West and East. The Archaeology of the Early Mediaeval East- Central Europe" A reception will follow the lecture. Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m. HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group "Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and life in Alexandria Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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Lecture on the New Acropolis Museum by its Director, Dimitrios Pantermalis

by roilos＠fas.harvard.edu

Dear all, The Modern Greek Studies Program, Department of the Classics, Harvard University, invites you to a lecture on the New Acropolis Museum by its Director, Dimitrios Pantermalis (Professor Emeritus, Aristotle University of Thessalonike) on Friday, April 23, 6:00pm. For further details please visit: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html Sincerely, Panagiotis Roilos Panagiotis Roilos Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University

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Canceled: Claudio Bizzarri lecture on 4/22/10 at UMass Boston

by CalClass

Dear all, The Claudio Bizzarri lecture on 4/22/10 at UMass Boston is unfortunately canceled due to travel complications caused by the volcano. We will try again in the fall. Sincerely, Kenneth Rothwell CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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R.R.R. Smith lecture on 4/20 canceled

by Alyson Lynch

> We are very sorry to inform you that R.R.R. Smith's lecture on April > 20th, Tuesday > is canceled. Despite rescheduling his flight more than once, the > lecturer > could not fly to the U.S. because of the continuous flight > cancellations in > Europe due to volcanic activity in Iceland. > > HAA Graduate Student Lecture Committee > Alyson A. Lynch [alynch(a)fas.harvard.edu] Dept. of the Classics, 204 Boylston Hall Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: 617-495-4120; fax: 617-496-6720 www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 4/16/2010

by CalClass

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010 (4/16/10) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… 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 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 Fri. and Sat., Apr. 16-17 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA M. Victor Leventritt Symposium "Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens" (a two-day symposium) Organized by Anna Knaap, Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, in conjunction with the temporary installation "Rubens and the Baroque Festival," on view March 19-August 28 at the museum. See the event's website for a detailed schedule and list of presenters. http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=27895 For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu . Fri., Apr. 16, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Valeria Cinaglia (University of Exeter) "Understanding, Perception, Emotion. Aristotle and Menander." Sponsored by the Department of Classics Mon. Apr. 19, 12:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Braun Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA Carlin Barton (UMass Amherst) "The Emotional Economy of Ancient Roman Sacrifice and its Disturbance in the Period of the Roman Civil Wars." Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Julia Hejduk (Baylor University) "Jupiter Amans" Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome *Mon., Apr. 19, 6:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI Rhiannon Ash (University of Oxford) "Tiberius the Satirist" Inaugural Grimshaw-Gudewicz Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics. 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" *Wed., Apr. 21, 7:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DeMeritt Hall 112, Durham, NH Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland at College Park) "Edith Hamilton and New England: The Making of a Revolutionary Classicist" The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series Thurs., Apr. 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON, Campus Center Room 3545, Dorchester, MA Claudio Bizzarri (Director of the Archaeological Park of Orvieto) "The Fanum Voltumnae and Etruscan Archaeology in Orvieto" Note: Regular shuttle bus service runs from the JFK/UMass Red Line stop directly to the Campus Center. For further information: kenneth.rothwell(a)umb.edu or 617-287-6120. 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 Tues., Apr. 27, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Thomas E. Levy (Department of Anthropology, University of California) King Solomon's Mines: New Data and Debates from South Jordan Reception to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA For more information please call (617) 495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu . This lecture is presented by the Semitic Museum and the Center for Jewish Studies, and sponsored by the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund. 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, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Haun Saussy (Yale University) "Créolité for Everybody" Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Seminar on Cultural Politics This event open to the public. For further information, please visit this webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html 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., May 3, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS S20 Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA The Medieval Studies Seminar presents Michael McCormick, Guoping Huang, Kelly Gibson, et al. in "The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations: A Friendly Introduction and Public Launch." A reception will follow. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization, with support from the Center for Geographic Analysis and the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation. *Tues., May 4, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Luca Graverini (University of Arezzo) "Love, 'Sweetness,' and Amazement: The Ancient Novel and Philosophy" Sponsored by the Department of Classics. *Tues., May 4, 4:00 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 113, Amherst, MA Jiři Machaček (Archaeology Institute, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) "Between West and East. The Archaeology of the Early Mediaeval East- Central Europe" A reception will follow the lecture. Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m. HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group "Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and life in Alexandria Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 4/9/2010

by CalClass

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010 (4/9/10) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… 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 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 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 Sat. Apr. 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m. HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA Coh. I Pannoniorum, Coh II Nabetea Sagittarii (members of Leg. III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group) "Roman Auxiliary Soldiers" Presentation on Auxiliaries: non-citizen soldiers serving Rome in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, and training Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org Auxiliary / Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.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 Tues., Apr. 13, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 133 Barker, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Maria Koundoura (Emerson College) "On Transnational Literacy or, Notes from a Modern Poetics" The Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture This event is open to the public. For further information, please visit this webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html 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 Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA David Wengrow (University College London) "What Can We Learn From Monsters?" Cognitive Anthropology and the Bronze Age "Reading the Past: The History and Historiography of the Ancient Near East" Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum and The Harvard GSAS Workshop Reception to be held afterwards in the Semitic Museum galleries, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue For more information please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.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. Fri. and Sat., Apr. 16-17 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA M. Victor Leventritt Symposium "Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens" (a two-day symposium) Organized by Anna Knaap, Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, in conjunction with the temporary installation "Rubens and the Baroque Festival," on view March 19-August 28 at the museum. See the event's website for a detailed schedule and list of presenters. http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=27895 For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu . Fri., Apr. 16, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Valeria Cinaglia (University of Exeter) "Understanding, Perception, Emotion. Aristotle and Menander” Sponsored by the Department of Classics Mon. Apr. 19, 12:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Braun Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA Carlin Barton (UMass Amherst) "The Emotional Economy of Ancient Roman Sacrifice and its Disturbance in the Period of the Roman Civil Wars." Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Julia Hejduk (Baylor University) "Jupiter Amans" 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, 4:30-6:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON, Campus Center Room 3545, Dorchester, MA Claudio Bizzarri (Director of the Archaeological Park of Orvieto) "The Fanum Voltumnae and Etruscan Archaeology in Orvieto" Note: Regular shuttle bus service runs from the JFK/UMass Red Line stop directly to the Campus Center. For further information: kenneth.rothwell(a)umb.edu or 617-287-6120. 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 Tues., Apr. 27, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Thomas E. Levy (Department of Anthropology, University of California) King Solomon's Mines: New Data and Debates from South Jordan Reception to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA For more information please call (617) 495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu . This lecture is presented by the Semitic Museum and the Center for Jewish Studies, and sponsored by the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund. 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, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED! HARVARD UNIVERSITY Peter Garnsey (University of Cambridge) Thurs., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Haun Saussy (Yale University) "Créolité for Everybody" Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Seminar on Cultural Politics This event open to the public. For further information, please visit this webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html 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 Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m. HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group "Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and life in Alexandria Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010 (4/1/10) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… 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 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 Fri., Apr. 2, 12-2:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) "What Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy? Plato’s Invention of an Ancient Dispute (Republic 10.607b-c)" Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome Lunch will be provided. 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 . Wed., April 7, 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA Robin Fleming (Boston College, Radcliffe Institute Fellow) "Early Medieval History and the Lost Word of Things" http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2010rfleming.aspx Thurs., April 8, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Helene P. Foley (Barnard College) "Classical Muses: How Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Women Re- imagined Greek Tragedy for the U.S. Stage" Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu ) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ 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 Sat. April 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m. HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA Coh. I Pannoniorum, Coh II Nabetea Sagittarii (members of Leg. III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group) "Roman Auxiliary Soldiers" Presentation on Auxiliaries: non-citizen soldiers serving Rome in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, and training Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org Auxiliary / Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.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 *Tues., Apr. 13, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 133 Barker, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Maria Koundoura (Emerson College) "On Transnational Literacy or, Notes from a Modern Poetics" The Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture This event is open to the public. For further information,please visit this webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html 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 *Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA David Wengrow (University College London) "What Can We Learn From Monsters?" Cognitive Anthropology and the Bronze Age "Reading the Past: The History and Historiography of the Ancient Near East" Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum and The Harvard GSAS Workshop Reception to be held afterwards in the Semitic Museum galleries, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue For more information please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.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. Fri. and Sat., Apr. 16-17 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA M. Victor Leventritt Symposium "Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens" (a two-day symposium) Organized by Anna Knaap, Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, in conjunction with the temporary installation "Rubens and the Baroque Festival," on view March 19-August 28 at the museum. See the event's website for a detailed schedule and list of presenters. http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=27895 For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu . Fri., Apr.16, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Valeria Cinaglia (University of Exeter) "Understanding, Perception, Emotion. Aristotle and Menander" Sponsored by the Department of Classics *Mon. Apr. 19, 12:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Braun Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA Carlin Barton (UMass Amherst) "The Emotional Economy of Ancient Roman Sacrifice and its Disturbance in the Period of the Roman Civil Wars." Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Julia Hejduk (Baylor University) "Jupiter Amans" 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, 4:30-6:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON, Campus Center Room 3545, Dorchester, MA Claudio Bizzarri (Director of the Archaeological Park of Orvieto) "The Fanum Voltumnae and Etruscan Archaeology in Orvieto" 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 *Tues., Apr. 27, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Thomas E. Levy (Department of Anthropology, University of California) King Solomon's Mines: New Data and Debates from South Jordan Reception to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA For more information please call (617) 495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu . This lecture is presented by the Semitic Museum and the Center for Jewish Studies, and sponsored by the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund. 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 *Thurs., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Haun Saussy (Yale University) "Créolité for Everybody" Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Seminar on Cultural Politics This event open to the public. For further information, please visit this webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html 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 Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m. HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group "Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and life in Alexandria Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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