The Boston Area Classics Calendar for December 4, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Studies in Honor of John F. Cherry
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 02912
Fri., Dec. 4, 5 p.m. – Sat., Dec. 5, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
On December 4th and 5th 2015, a two-day event will be held at Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World in Providence, RI, to celebrate John Cherry’s long career in archaeology. (Fri., Dec. 4, 2015, 5 - 6:45 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 5, 2015, 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
This event will involve some light-hearted reminiscences and socializing on Friday evening, followed by substantive papers reflecting Professor Cherry’s wide influence on the field on the following day. The program will be oriented around the (appropriately broad) theme of regional approaches to society and complexity.
There is no cost to attend any portion of this conference, but registration is required.
More info: www.brown.edu…<http://www.brown.edu/go/jfc>
*Conference—Building the Canon: Italian Renaissance and the Creation of a Literary Tradition
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sat., Dec. 5 – Sun., Dec. 6, 2015
Schedule:
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Morning
8:30–9:15 Breakfast
9:15–9:30 Introduction and Opening Remarks
9:30–10:30 Keynote Address. Christopher Celenza (JHU), “Canons and the Language of the Italian Renaissance”
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 Panel I. The Idea of Canon
Chair: James Hankins (Harvard)
M.G. Eisner (Duke), “Dante, Ovid, and the Making of Machiavelli’s Prince: Contaminating Canons in the Letter to Vettori"
F. Venturi (Durham), "Self-Exegesis and Self-Canonization in Renaissance Poetry”
N. Cannata (Roma 1), “Building the canon in 1530s Rome: Colocci’sepigrammatari as a test case”
12:30–2:00 Lunch
Afternoon
2:00–3:30 Panel II. Back to the Greeks
Chair: Francesco Marco Aresu (Wesleyan)
J.S. Boparai (Cambridge), “Pindar, Tragedy and Poliziano’s Notion of ‘Classical’ Greek”
M. De Caro (Roma 3 / Tufts), “Was Galileo a Platonist?”
F. Pagani (Dumbarton Oaks), “Re-establishing Plato in the Classical Canon”
3:30–4:00 Coffee Break
4:00–5:00 Keynote Address. Carlo Caruso (Durham), “Editing vernacular classics in the early sixteenth century: ancient models and modern solutions”
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Morning
8:30–9:00 Breakfast
9:00–9:15 Introduction
9:15-10:45 Panel III. Ancient and Modern Canons
Chair: Corrado Confalonieri (Harvard)
V. Prosperi (Sassari), “The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance Canon”
M. Signorini (Roma 2), “Boccaccio as Homer: a recently discovered self-portrait and the ‘modern’ canon”
T. Juliani (Unicamp), “In the center of the kaleidoscope: Ovidian poetic image and Boccaccio’s self-representation in De mulieribus claris”
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:15 Keynote Address. Daniel Javitch (NYU), “How (and why) didOedipus Tyrannus become part of the canon?”
12:15-1:30 Lunch
Afternoon
1:30–3:00 Panel IV. Canons and Authority
Chair: Chiara Trebaiocchi (Harvard)
G. Comiati (Warwick), “Horace’s biographies as a means to legitimize the inclusion of Horace in the fifteenth-century canon of classical authorities”
F. Caneparo (UPenn), “The Renaissance literary canon and the arts: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso as a turning point”
I. Fantappiè (HU Berlin), “Anticlassicists’ Classical Canon. Pietro Aretino”
3:00–3:30 Coffee Break
3:30–4:00 Final Discussion
Keynote speakers:
Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University)
Carlo Caruso (Durham University)
Daniel Javitch (New York University)
Organizing Committee:
Marco Romani Mistretta
Eloisa Morra
With the generous support of the “Lauro De Bosis Fund in the History of Italian Civilization” and “Villa I Tatti — The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies”
More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/building-canon-italian-renaissance-and…>
James Uden (Boston University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Dec. 7, 2015, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"Satire and Superstition in Second-Century Rome"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/satire-and-superstition-s…>
Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Plutarch, Lucian and the Sixth Century BC"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Mar. 1, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity
Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sat., Mar. 5, 2016
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)
See link for more info. and Call for Papers.
Event Series: Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/biennal-graduate-student-conference>
Hans Beck (McGill University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 7, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Topic: Greek koinon
Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World”
Johannes Nollé (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Title: TBA
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
Ann Kuttner (University of Pennsylvania)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 8, 2016, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Subject: ethnicity and material culture
Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World”
John Miller (University of Virginia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Apr. 19, 2016
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity
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