Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 24, 2010
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Monday, September 27
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Patricia Ybarra (Brown University)
"Performing Colonial History in Saltillo, Mexico"
Thursday, September 30
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Anton Bierl (Basel / IAS)
"Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes: Some Thoughts
on the Doloneia."
Free and open to the public.
Friday, October 1
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Shelly Pollock (Columbia University)
"Re-disciplining Philology"
Proseminar address on the culture and ideology of Sanskrit (which he
speaks and writes about under the rubric of 'the Sanskrit cosmopolis')
Monday, October 4
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin)
"Sermo, Style & Satire: Lucilius' Language"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Monday, October 4
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Alumni Auditorium 30, Providence, RI 02912
Yasunori Kasai
Student Performance/Workshop: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, with comments by
Yanunori Kasai
Part of the International Graduate Student Colloquium, hosted by the
Department of Classics
Monday, October 4
8:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno, Room G01, Providence, RI 02912
Oedipus Rex
Movie screening of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. Part of the International
Graduate Students Colloquium.
Thursday, October 7
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macmillan Hall, Room 115, Providence, RI 02912,
details TBA
Yasunori Kasai
"The Diffusion of Cultures and the problem of Translation from the
West to Japan, and Japan to Asia ( Korea/ China ) and the West"
Part of the International Graduate Students Colloquium.
*Thursday, October 7
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-
Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Max Deeg (Cardiff University, Wales)
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP
"The 'Brilliant Teaching': The Rise and Fall of
'Nestorianism' (Jingjiao) in Tang China."
For more information, please, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard
Divinity School, ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu.
Tuesday, October 12
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library Rm. 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215
Arthur Eckstein (University of Maryland) and Zsuzsanna Varhelyi
(Boston University)
"Roman Human Sacrifice: A Conversation between Eckstein and Varhelyi
on Roman Religion and Warfare"
Tuesday, October 12
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Richard Salomon (University of Washington)
"When Worlds Collide: New Perspectives on Hellenism and Indo-Buddhist
Cultures in Ancient Afghanistan"
Thursday, October 14
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane Seminar Room, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI 02912
George Huxley
"Piety and Power in the Antigone of Sophocles "
Thursday, October 14
6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Mystic Arts Center, 9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Durable, Colorful, Whimsical: Mosaics of the Roman Empire"
Friday, October 15
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
Paul Zanker (University of Munich)
"The Arch of Constantine as a Senatorial Monument"
Tuesday, October 19
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, McMullen Museum of Art, 140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Devlin Hall, Room 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Daria Borghese (American University, Rome)
Palazzo Colonna: The Construction of a Family Through the Building of
its Residence
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 617.552.8587
A Priscilla Durkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the McMullen Museum
in memory of Priscilla Durkin, NC '65 and Nancy Durkin Orazem, NC '70
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/events-calendar/index.html
*Wednesday, October 20
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Prof. Maria-Paz Garcia Bellido (Spanish High Council for Scientific
Research [CSIC], Madrid)
"Portraits through coins: Carthaginian Spain"
Friday, October 22
Brown mini-conference
Mini-conference on the letters of Pliny the Younger featuring Ilaria
Marchesi (Hofstra) and Roy Gibson (Manchester)
Time and location, TBA, details forthcoming from Lisa Mignone
Monday, October 25
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA 02215
Ruth Bielfeldt / New England Ancient History Colloquium
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
"Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic
City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene"
Commentary by Kenneth Sacks (Brown University)
Thursday, October 28
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
Bruce Heiden (Ohio State University)
"Civilizing Desire: Olympian Love in the *Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite*"
Thursday, November 4
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525, Boston, MA, 02215
Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
"An Aristotelian Distinction Between Two Types of Knowledge"
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Commentary by David Bronstein (Boston University)
For more information contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
Tuesday, November 9
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
Brown-Yale Meeting
Seminar for Classics graduate students and faculty of both institutions
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
"Plutarch as a Source for the Athenian Theater"
Respondent: Pauline LeVen (Yale University)
Tuesday, November 16
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West (All Souls, Oxford)
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
*Thursday, November 18
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Egyptology, NELC, Harvard)
"Art as Writing: the Magic of Egyptian Hieroglyphs"
Visible Language Lecture series, Peabody Museum.
Thursday, November 18
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Wilson Hall, Room 102, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
*Thursday, December 2
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Machinist (Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, NELC, Harvard)
"The Alphabet: its Origins and Early History" Visible Language Lecture
series, Peabody Museum
Monday, December 6
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Providence, RI 02912
63rd Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-third annual program
of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely
in Latin.
**Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
TBA
April 11, 12, 14, 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 17, 2010
**PLEASE NOTE**
We have a Google Calendar: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/calendar.html
Users can subscribe to the calendar by clicking the link on the at the
bottom of the calendar on the above page. 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 p.m. ON WEDNESDAY WILL
APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK.
Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued
the following week.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
*Monday, September 20
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room
K354, Cambridge, MA, 02138
David Aberbach (McGill University)
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Research Seminar on Cultural Politics
"Byron to D'Annunzio: From Liberalism to Fascism in National Poetry,
1815-1920"
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/cultural_politics/schedulehttp://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/
Monday, September 20
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law School)
"Law and Order in Classical Athens"
Humanities Center Seminar on Ancient Greece and Rome
Thursday, September 23
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
"Laid Out for Posterity: A Roman Tombstone Carved with a Child’s
Portrait and His Poem"
An elaborate funerary altar of Parian marble was discovered immured
inside the Aurelian Wall in Rome in 1871. It commemorates Q. Sulpicius
Maximus, who died in AD 94 at the age of 11. This lecture explores the
technical and aesthetic challenges facing the masons’ workshop in
incorporating a statue, a 43-line Greek poem, a Latin epitaph, and two
10-line Greek epigrams on a surface just over five feet high and three
and a half feet wide.
*Monday, September 27
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Patricia Ybarra (Brown University)
"Performing Colonial History in Saltillo, Mexico"
*Thursday, September 30
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Anton Bierl (Basel / IAS)
"Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes: Some Thoughts
on the Doloneia."
Free and open to the public.
*Friday, October 1
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Shelly Pollock (Columbia University)
"Re-disciplining Philology"
Proseminar address on the culture and ideology of Sanskrit (which he
speaks and writes about under the rubric of 'the Sanskrit cosmopolis')
Monday, October 4
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin)
"Sermo, Style & Satire: Lucilius' Language"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Monday, October 4
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Alumni Auditorium 30, Providence, RI 02912
Yasunori Kasai
Student Performance/Workshop: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, with comments by
Yanunori Kasai
Part of the International Graduate Student Colloquium, hosted by the
Department of Classics
*Monday, October 4
8:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno, Room G01, Providence, RI 02912
Oedipus Rex
Movie screening of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. Part of the International
Graduate Students Colloquium.
*Thursday, October 7
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macmillan Hall, Room 115, Providence, RI 02912,
details TBA
Yasunori Kasai
"The Diffusion of Cultures and the problem of Translation from the
West to Japan, and Japan to Asia ( Korea/ China ) and the West"
Part of the International Graduate Students Colloquium.
*Tuesday, October 12
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Richard Salomon (University of Washington)
"When Worlds Collide: New Perspectives on Hellenism and Indo-Buddhist
Cultures in Ancient Afghanistan"
*Thursday, October 14
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane Seminar Room, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI 02912
George Huxley
"Piety and Power in the Antigone of Sophocles "
Thursday, October 14
6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Mystic Arts Center, 9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Durable, Colorful, Whimsical: Mosaics of the Roman Empire"
Friday, October 15
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
Paul Zanker (University of Munich)
"The Arch of Constantine as a Senatorial Monument"
Tuesday, October 19
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, McMullen Museum of Art, 140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Devlin Hall, Room 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Daria Borghese (American University, Rome)
Palazzo Colonna: The Construction of a Family Through the Building of
its Residence
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 617.552.8587
A Priscilla Durkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the McMullen Museum
in memory of Priscilla Durkin, NC '65 and Nancy Durkin Orazem, NC '70
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/events-calendar/index.html
*Friday, October 22
BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA
Brown mini-conference
Mini-conference on the letters of Pliny the Younger
Featuring Ilaria Marchesi (Hofstra) and Roy Gibson (Manchester)
Details forthcoming from Lisa Mignone
Monday, October 25
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA 02215
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
"Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic
City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene"
Commentary by Kenneth Sacks (Brown University)
*Thursday, October 28
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
Bruce Heiden (Ohio State University)
"Civilizing Desire: Olympian Love in the *Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite*"
*Thursday, November 4
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525, Boston, MA, 02215
Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
"An Aristotelian Distinction Between Two Types of Knowledge"
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Commentary by David Bronstein (Boston University)
For more information contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
*Tuesday, November 9
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
Brown-Yale Meeting
Seminar for Classics graduate students and faculty of both institutions
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
"Plutarch as a Source for the Athenian Theater"
Respondent: Pauline LeVen (Yale University)
Tuesday, November 16
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West (All Souls, Oxford)
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
*Thursday, November 18
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Wilson Hall, Room 102, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
*Monday, December 6
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Providence, RI 02912
63rd Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-third annual program
of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely
in Latin.
Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein
TBA
**April 11, 12, 14, 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 10, 2010
**PLEASE NOTE**
We have a Google Calendar:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/calendar.html
Users can subscribe to the calendar by clicking the link on the at the
bottom of the calendar on the above page.
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 NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
*Monday, September 13
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Stephan Heilen (Universität Osnabrück)
"Astrological *concilia deorum* in Late Medieval and Early Modern
Latin Poetry"
*Thursday, September 16
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
02138
Kendra Eshleman (Boston College), "Becoming Heretical: Affection and
Ideology in Recruitment to 'Heretical' Christianities"
For more information, please contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard
Divinity School, ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu
*Monday, September 20
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law School)
"Law and Order in Classical Athens"
Humanities Center Seminar on Ancient Greece and Rome
*Thursday, September 23
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Laid Out for Posterity: A Roman Tombstone Carved with a Child's
Portrait and His Poem"
An elaborate funerary altar of Parian marble was discovered immured
inside the Aurelian Wall in Rome in 1871. It commemorates Q. Sulpicius
Maximus, who died in AD 94 at the age of 11. This lecture explores the
technical and aesthetic challenges facing the masons' workshop in
incorporating a statue, a 43-line Greek poem, a Latin epitaph, and two
10-line Greek epigrams on a surface just over five feet high and three
and a half feet wide.
*Monday, October 4
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin)
Sermo, Style & Satire: Lucilius' Language
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Thursday, October 14
6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Mystic Arts Center, 9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Durable, Colorful, Whimsical: Mosaics of the Roman Empire"
*Friday, October 15
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
Paul Zanker (University of Munich)
"The Arch of Constantine as a Senatorial Monument"
*Tuesday, October 19
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, McMullen Museum of Art, 140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Devlin Hall, Room 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Daria Borghese (American University, Rome)
Palazzo Colonna: The Construction of a Family Through the Building of
its Residence
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 617.552.8587
A Priscilla Durkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the McMullen Museum
in memory of Priscilla Durkin, NC '65 and Nancy Durkin Orazem, NC '70
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/events-calendar/index.html
*Monday, October 25
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA 02215
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
"Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic
City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene"
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Commentary by Kenneth Sacks (Brown University)
*Tuesday, November 16
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
*Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein
TBA
*April 11 - 15
Jackson Lectures
Speakers and dates TBA
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
