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Boston Area Classics Calendar, December 3, 2014

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*Thu Dec 4: Beverly Kienzle (Harvard University) 5:15 to 7 p.m. HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL, Common Room of the Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Professor Kienzle will discuss her new translation and critical introduction to Hildegard of Bingen's Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions. Her talk will be followed by responses from Catherine Mooney (Boston College School of Theology) and Alison More (University of Edinburgh and Harvard Divinity School). This event is free and open to the public. http://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/upcoming-events Mon Dec 8: Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras) 4 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave) Boston, MA 02215 "Comic Money: The Case of Hetairai and Fishmongers" The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World series. Free and open to the public. http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth… *Mon Dec 8: María Victoria Vaello Rodríguez (Universidad de Complutense de Madrid) 7 p.m. THE GREEK INSTITUTE, 1038 Massachusetts Ave, MA 02138 "Dionysos' party. The Dionysiac festivals in Attica in the Classical Period" Every year people of Attica participated in a number of religious festivals organized by public authorities. In the Classical Period (5th - 4th c. BCE), four of these festivals were dedicated to Dionysos, the god of wine and theatre. Such celebrations were the Anthesteria, the Lenaia, the City Dionysia and the Rural Dionysia, which included parades, theatrical competitions, wine drinking and animal sacrifices, among other things. Sponsored by The Greek Institute and the Real Colegio Complutense. http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/dionysios-party-dionysiac-festivals-attica-cla… Poster: http://rcc.harvard.edu/files/rcc/files/flyer_dionysos_party.pdf Mon Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham) 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Obesity, Corpulence, and Emaciation in Roman Art" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre… Wed Feb 25: Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Title: TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop: "Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy" Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu; Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu Wed Mar 11: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop: "Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy" Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu; Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu Thu Mar 12 to Fri Mar 13: CON-IH 15--Transitions: States and Empires in the Longue Durée HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (Con-IH) has become an annual event, organized by graduate students in International History at Harvard University. Please visit the conference website, http://con-ih.com, for more information, and please email any enquiries to the organizing committee at ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu. Mon Mar 23: Mildenberg Lecture 2015: Stefan Ritter (Institute of Classical Archaeology, LMU Munich) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138 The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Title TBA. *Tue Mar 24: Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Title: TBA Loeb Lecture *Tue Mar 24: Sean Kelly (Harvard University) 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Techne, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cognitive Theory and the Arts http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts Fri Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Title: TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre… **Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting 5 to 10 p.m. PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918 Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College) "Reading Religious Transgression in Thucydides’ Delion Debate (Thuc. 4. 89-101)" The New England Ancient Historians Colloquium: a meeting of professors and graduate students of ancient history. http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1 *Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 4 to 7:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, TBD, Boston MA 02215 "Public Life of Roman Women" Amy Richlin (UCLA): "Slave-women and Freedwomen: Political Culture from Below in the 200s BCE" Patricia Johnson (BU): "The Female Kin of Sempronius Tuditanus: A Prosopography of Women’s Political Engagement" Barbara Gold (Hamilton College): "Perpetua and the Women of the Novel and the Apocryphal Acts: How Public and Private Interact" Papers will be followed by dinner (optional) http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-2014-boston-area-roman-studies-c… Mon Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum) 6 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum) The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury M. Victor Leventritt Lecture *Tue, Apr 14; Wed, Apr 15; Thu Apr 16; Fri, Apr 17: Barbara Borg (University of Exeter) 5 to 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Jackson Lecture Series Four lectures: Titles TBA Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Event submission: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. PLEASE send event information in the format modeled above. Calendar entries that require significant editing may not be included. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Event submission: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. PLEASE send event information in the format modeled above. * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry

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