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Boston Area Classics Calendar, March 27, 2015

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The Boston Area Classics Calendar for March 27, 2015 PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Wed Apr 1: Vivian Nutton, Historian of Medicine (University College London) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Science Center 469, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Vesalius Correcting Vesalius" Department of the History of Science Wed Apr 1 (rescheduled from Wed Feb 11): Mary-Louise Gill, Professor of Classics and Philosophy (Brown University) 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/) "True Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato's 'Phaedrus'" Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series Tue Apr 7: Ufuk Kocabaş (Istanbul University) 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. (lecture) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Library, Yenching Auditorium (room 18), 2 Divnity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 “Theodosian Harbor Excavations and 37 Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı in Istanbul-Turkey” Sponsored by: Consulate General of Turkey in Boston and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art + Architecture, Standing Committee on Archaeology, and Standing Committee on Medieval Studies A reception after the lecture will take place from 7pm-8pm at the Yenching Library common room (room 136). Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting; Speaker: Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College) 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918 "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 for dinner and discussion of paper by Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College). Proffesor Jay Samons (Boston University) will give commentary on the paper. http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1 **Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Metcalf Science Center Room 109, 590 Commonwealth Ave., 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-boston-area-roman-studies-confer… Sun Apr 12: Legion III Cyrenaica Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA Legion III Cyrenaica is a Roman Legion living history organization based in the New England area, and seeks to accurately portray the Legion as it existed in Roman-Egypt in the 1st Century. Presentations on the Roman military as well as civilians/women are given at Worcester Art Museum at 12:30 and 2:30, free with museum admissions. Worcester Art Museum now houses the world renowned arms and armor collection of the former Higgins Armory Museum, where the Legion had presented from 2004 to 2013. Leg. III inquiries can be emailed to qmj52 @netzero.net or palusbuteo @hotmail.com Mon Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (J. Paul Getty Museum) 6 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury" M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will be open for one hour. Free parking available in Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 (Tue) 1. In search of deceased senators: a contextual approach (Wed) 2. Reviving tradition in Hadrianic Rome: from incineration to inhumation (Thu) 3. Family matters: the long life of Roman tombs (Fri) 4. Straddling the borderline: divine connotations in funerary commemoration Wed Apr 15: Thomas Forrest Kelly, Professor of Music (Harvard University) 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building E51-275, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/) "Capturing Music: The Story of Medieval Notation" Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series Fri Apr 17: Elizabeth M. Greene (University of Western Ontario) 4:30-6:00 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "Soldiers' Families in the Military Communities of the Western Roman Empire" This presentation addresses the evidence for the presence and social role of women and families in Roman military communities in the western Roman provinces. Sat Apr 18: Under the Influence: Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean (Graduate Student Symposium) 1 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G03, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453 Dedicated to Professor Leonard C. Muellner Keynote Speaker: Professor Gregory Nagy The Ancient Greek and Roman Studies M.A. Program at Brandeis University is accepting papers until Friday, February 13 for its second annual Graduate Student Symposium "Under the Influence: Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean." Hosted By: The Ancient Greek and Roman Studies M.A. Program, Department of Classical Studies, Brandeis University Flyer: https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10915316_9181162148799… *Mon Apr 27: Eileen Joy (BABEL Working Group) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 202, Harvard Yard. Cambridge, MA 02138 "Pursuing a Vagabond, Promiscuous Humanities: The BABEL Project" Medieval Studies Workshop **Mon Apr 27: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Harvard Yard. Cambridge, MA 02138 “The Warren Cup - Ancient or Modern? Problems of Method and Interpretation” **Tue Apr 28: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 “The Paradigm of Textual Criticism: Its Use and Abuse in Classical Archaeology” Wed Apr 29: Prof. Dr. Frank Ruehli, Director, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (University of Zurich) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 201, Harvard Yard. Cambridge, MA 02138 "Of mummies and skeletons: when the dead teach the living" http://www.iem.uzh.ch/people/frankruehli.html *Wed May 6: Arthur Bahr, Associate Professor of Literature (MIT) 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139 Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series “Denouement: Speculating on Sir Gawain’s 'Endeles Knot'” Sun May 10: Legion III Cyrenaica Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA Legion III Cyrenaica is a Roman Legion living history organization based in the New England area, and seeks to accurately portray the Legion as it existed in Roman-Egypt in the 1st Century. Presentations on the Roman military as well as civilians/women are given at Worcester Art Museum at 12:30 and 2:30, free with museum admissions. Worcester Art Museum now houses the world renowned arms and armor collection of the former Higgins Armory Museum, where the Legion had presented from 2004 to 2013. Leg. III inquiries can be emailed to qmj52 @netzero.net or palusbuteo @hotmail.com Sun Jun 14: Legion III Cyrenaica Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA Legion III Cyrenaica is a Roman Legion living history organization based in the New England area, and seeks to accurately portray the Legion as it existed in Roman-Egypt in the 1st Century. Presentations on the Roman military as well as civilians/women are given at Worcester Art Museum at 12:30 and 2:30, free with museum admissions. Worcester Art Museum now houses the world renowned arms and armor collection of the former Higgins Armory Museum, where the Legion had presented from 2004 to 2013. Leg. III inquiries can be emailed to qmj52 @netzero.net or palusbuteo @hotmail.com Mon Jul 13 to Sat Jul 18: Classical Association of New England Summer Institute at Brown University BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA A week-long experience for middle school, high school or college teachers of Latin, Greek, English, History, or related disciplines, undergraduates, graduate students, and devoted lifelong learners. The CANE Summer Institute provides an enriching educational experience of a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, and special events while also offering ample opportunity for collegial interaction between participants. Contact: CANE.Summer.Institute.2015(a)gmail.com More information on lectures and courses at http://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=165 Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list New event submissions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. PLEASE send event information in the format modeled above. Calendar entries that require significant editing may not be included. * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry

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Boston Area Classics Calendar, March 13, 2015 Event Update

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**Tue Apr 7: Ufuk Kocabaş (Istanbul University) 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. (lecture) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Library, Yenching Auditorium (room 18), 2 Divnity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 “Theodosian Harbor Excavations and 37 Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı in Istanbul-Turkey” Sponsored by: Consulate General of Turkey in Boston and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art + Architecture, Standing Committee on Archaeology, and Standing Committee on Medieval Studies A reception after the lecture will take place from 7pm-8pm at the Yenching Library common room (room 136).

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Boston Area Classics Calendar, March 12, 2015

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The Boston Area Classics Calendar for March 12, 2015 PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Thu Mar 12: Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago) 5 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, Inn & Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA 01852 2nd Annual Zamanakos Lecture in Hellenic Studies: “Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern” Contact: paul_keen(a)uml.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,http://con-ih.com, for more information, and please email any enquiries to the organizing committee at ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu. Fri Mar 13: Niels Gaul (Central European University, Budapest; Dumbarton Oaks) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Three Steps Towards Comparing Networks of Learning in Byzantium and the ‘Latin’ West, c.900–1200" Thu Mar 19: Jessica Moss (New York University) 4 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, STH Room 508, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 "Aristotle's Casual Compatibilism: Responsibility in Nicomachean Ethics III.” Department of Philosophy For more information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu Mon Mar 23: Stefan Ritter, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich) 6 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Buildings on Roman Coins: The Visualization of Urban Atmosphere in Roman Art" The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will be open for one hour. Free parking available in Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 **Tue Mar 24: Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 104, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Trifling with the performative: Catullus and the poetics of the nugatory" 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 Wed Mar 25: Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 6 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 “Sardis Biennial Lecture: New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey” Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Thu Mar 26: The Second Annual “Lectures in Modern Philhellenism”: The Modern West: Have We Lived up to the Standards of Ancient Greece? 7 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Photonics Building Room 206, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA 02215 Lecturers: Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies); Professor Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts University); Professor Stephanie Nelson (Boston University); Professor Loren J. Samons (Boston University) Sponsored by Ifigenia Kanara (Consul General of Greece in Boston), Boston University Philhellenes, Boston University Department of Classical Studies, Boston University Core Curriculum http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/lectures-in-philhellenism/ *Thu Mar 26: Legion III Cyrenaica Assumption College, Worcester MA Legion III Cyrenaica will be attending the AIA Lecture on Cleopatra proving a display of Roman Legion replica artifacts, arms and armor. Leg. III was based in Egypt for over 100 years, and originally claimed loyalty to Marcus Antonius before defecting to Octavian/Augustus during the battle of Actium, an act that likely spared the Legion's existence. http://www.archaeological.org/events/16485. Leg. III inquiries can be emailed to qmj52(a)netzero.net or palusbuteo(a)hotmail.com Fri Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Horace's Hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19): Poetics and Politics" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre… *Wed Apr 1: Vivian Nutton, Historian of Medicine (University College London) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Science Center 469, Cambridge, MA 02138they "Vesalius Correcting Vesalius" Department of the History of Science Wed Apr 1 (rescheduled from Wed Feb 11): Mary-Louise Gill, Professor of Classics and Philosophy (Brown University) 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/) "True Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato's 'Phaedrus'" Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series Tue Apr 7: Ufuk Kocabas (Istanbul University) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Building, Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 “Theodosian Harbor Excavations and 37 Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapi in Istanbul-Turkey” Sponsored by: Consulate General of Turkey in Boston and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art + Architecture, Standing Committee on Archaeology, and Standing Committee on Medieval Studies A reception before the lecture will take place at 4:30 in the Sackler Building lobby. Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting; Speaker: Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College) 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918 "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 for dinner and discussion of paper by Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College). Proffesor Jay Samons (Boston University) will give commentary on the paper. http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1 Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 4 p.m. 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… *Sun Apr 12: Legion III Cyrenaica Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA Legion III Cyrenaica is a Roman Legion living history organization based in the New England area, and seeks to accurately portray the Legion as it existed in Roman-Egypt in the 1st Century. Presentations on the Roman military as well as civilians/women are given at Worcester Art Museum at 12:30 and 2:30, free with museum admissions. Worcester Art Museum now houses the world renowned arms and armor collection of the former Higgins Armory Museum, where the Legion had presented from 2004 to 2013. Leg. III inquiries can be emailed to qmj52 @netzero.net or palusbuteo @hotmail.com Mon Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (J. Paul Getty Museum) 6 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury" M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will be open for one hour. Free parking available in Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 **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 (Tue) 1. In search of deceased senators: a contextual approach (Wed) 2. Reviving tradition in Hadrianic Rome: from incineration to inhumation (Thu) 3. Family matters: the long life of Roman tombs (Fri) 4. Straddling the borderline: divine connotations in funerary commemoration Wed Apr 15: Thomas Forrest Kelly, Professor of Music (Harvard University) 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building E51-275, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/) "Capturing Music: The Story of Medieval Notation" Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series Fri Apr 17: Elizabeth M. Greene (University of Western Ontario) 4:30-6:00 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "Soldiers' Families in the Military Communities of the Western Roman Empire" This presentation addresses the evidence for the presence and social role of women and families in Roman military communities in the western Roman provinces. *Sat Apr 18: Under the Influence: Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean (Graduate Student Symposium) 1 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G03, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453 Dedicated to Professor Leonard C. Muellner Keynote Speaker: Professor Gregory Nagy The Ancient Greek and Roman Studies M.A. Program at Brandeis University is accepting papers until Friday, February 13 for its second annual Graduate Student Symposium "Under the Influence: Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean." Hosted By: The Ancient Greek and Roman Studies M.A. Program, Department of Classical Studies, Brandeis University Flyer: https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10915316_9181162148799… Mon Apr 27: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 “The Warren Cup - Ancient or Modern? Problems of Method and Interpretation” Tue Apr 28: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 “The Paradigm of Textual Criticism: Its Use and Abuse in Classical Archaeology” Wed Apr 29: Prof. Dr. Frank Ruehli, Director, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (University of Zurich) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 201, Harvard Yard. Cambridge, MA 02138 "Of mummies and skeletons: when the dead teach the living" http://www.iem.uzh.ch/people/frankruehli.html *Sun May 10: Legion III Cyrenaica Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA Legion III Cyrenaica is a Roman Legion living history organization based in the New England area, and seeks to accurately portray the Legion as it existed in Roman-Egypt in the 1st Century. Presentations on the Roman military as well as civilians/women are given at Worcester Art Museum at 12:30 and 2:30, free with museum admissions. Worcester Art Museum now houses the world renowned arms and armor collection of the former Higgins Armory Museum, where the Legion had presented from 2004 to 2013. Leg. III inquiries can be emailed to qmj52 @netzero.net or palusbuteo @hotmail.com *Sun Jun 14: Legion III Cyrenaica Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA Legion III Cyrenaica is a Roman Legion living history organization based in the New England area, and seeks to accurately portray the Legion as it existed in Roman-Egypt in the 1st Century. Presentations on the Roman military as well as civilians/women are given at Worcester Art Museum at 12:30 and 2:30, free with museum admissions. Worcester Art Museum now houses the world renowned arms and armor collection of the former Higgins Armory Museum, where the Legion had presented from 2004 to 2013. Leg. III inquiries can be emailed to qmj52 @netzero.net or palusbuteo @hotmail.com Mon Jul 13 to Sat Jul 18: Classical Association of New England Summer Institute at Brown University BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA A week-long experience for middle school, high school or college teachers of Latin, Greek, English, History, or related disciplines, undergraduates, graduate students, and devoted lifelong learners. The CANE Summer Institute provides an enriching educational experience of a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, and special events while also offering ample opportunity for collegial interaction between participants. Contact: CANE.Summer.Institute.2015(a)gmail.com More information on lectures and courses at http://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=165 Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list New event submissions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. PLEASE send event information in the format modeled above. Calendar entries that require significant editing may not be included. * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry

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Boston Area Classics Calendar, March 6, 2015 Additional Event

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*Mon Mar 9: Eleni Mantzourani (University of Athens) 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 114 (Kresge Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Disease and Therapy" Sponsored by the University Seminars Program of the Onassis Foundation (USA)

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Boston Area Classics Calendar, March 6, 2015

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The Boston Area Classics Calendar for March 6, 2015 PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Mon Mar 9: Margaret Mullett (Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks) 5:30 p.m. (recption preceding at 4:30 p.m.) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 110, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Byzantium on the Move: Mobile Empire, Traveling Textiles" The 2015 Harvard Medieval Material Cultures Lecture and Workshop Mon Mar 9: Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) 5 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Bartlett Hall 65, Amherst MA 01003 “Song 17 of Sappho revisited (in the light of new supplements).” The 11th annual David Grose Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics at UMass Amherst. For more information contact Brian Breed (bbreed(a)classics.umass.edu) Tue Mar 10: Ray Starr, Professor of Classical Studies (Wellesley College) 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/) "Reading Bronze and The Text on It: The Res gestae divi Augusti in Rome" Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series *Wed Mar 11: Gudrun Buehl, Anne Driesse, Katherine Eremin, Eurydice Georganteli, Brandie Ratliff, Georgina Rayner, and Elizabeth Williams 10:30 a.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Art Study Center, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Interwoven: Textiles from the Medieval Mediterranean" A workshop exploring the uses and meanings of textiles in the Byzantine, Islamic, and Latin Mediterranean basin. Materials drawn from the rich collections of the Harvard Art Museums. Note: space is limited; to reserve a space, please contact dana_ciccotello(a)harvard.edu by March 9. *Wed Mar 11: Kristine M. Trego (Bucknell University) 5 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Earth Sciences Building, #107 (Paino) "Ancient Shipping and Underwater Archaeology in the Mediterranean" Sponsored by the Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful World, the Archaeological Institute of America, Western MA Society, and the Department of Classics at Amherst College. https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures **Wed Mar 11: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Changing Concpeptions of the Roman empire - atrophy and the alternatives" 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: Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago) 5 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, Inn & Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA 01852 2nd Annual Zamanakos Lecture in Hellenic Studies: “Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern” Contact: paul_keen(a)uml.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,http://con-ih.com, for more information, and please email any enquiries to the organizing committee at ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu. *Fri Mar 13: Niels Gaul (Central European University, Budapest; Dumbarton Oaks) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Three Steps Towards Comparing Networks of Learning in Byzantium and the ‘Latin’ West, c.900–1200" *Thu Mar 19: Jessica Moss (New York University) 4 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, STH Room 508, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 "Aristotle's Casual Compatibilism: Responsibility in Nicomachean Ethics III.” Department of Philosophy For more information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu Mon Mar 23: Stefan Ritter, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich) 6 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Buildings on Roman Coins: The Visualization of Urban Atmosphere in Roman Art" The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will be open for one hour. Free parking available in Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 Wed Mar 25: Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 6 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 “Sardis Biennial Lecture: New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey” Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Thu Mar 26: The Second Annual “Lectures in Modern Philhellenism”: The Modern West: Have We Lived up to the Standards of Ancient Greece? 7 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Photonics Building Room 206, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA 02215 Lecturers: Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies); Professor Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts University); Professor Stephanie Nelson (Boston University); Professor Loren J. Samons (Boston University) Sponsored by Ifigenia Kanara (Consul General of Greece in Boston), Boston University Philhellenes, Boston University Department of Classical Studies, Boston University Core Curriculum http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/lectures-in-philhellenism/ **Fri Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Horace's Hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19): Poetics and Politics" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre… Wed Apr 1 (rescheduled from Wed Feb 11): Mary-Louise Gill, Professor of Classics and Philosophy (Brown University) 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/) "True Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato's 'Phaedrus'" Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series *Tue Apr 7: Ufuk Kocabaş (Istanbul University) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Building, Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 “Theodosian Harbor Excavations and 37 Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı in Istanbul-Turkey” Sponsored by: Consulate General of Turkey in Boston and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art + Architecture, Standing Committee on Archaeology, and Standing Committee on Medieval Studies A reception before the lecture will take place at 4:30 in the Sackler Building lobby. **Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting; Speaker: Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College) 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918 "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 for dinner and discussion of paper by Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College). Proffesor Jay Samons (Boston University) will give commentary on the paper. http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1 Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 4 p.m. 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 (J. Paul Getty Museum) 6 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury" M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will be open for one hour. Free parking available in Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 Wed Apr 15: Thomas Forrest Kelly, Professor of Music (Harvard University) 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building E51-275, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/) "Capturing Music: The Story of Medieval Notation" Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series Fri Apr 17: Elizabeth M. Greene (University of Western Ontario) 4:30-6:00 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "Soldiers' Families in the Military Communities of the Western Roman Empire" This presentation addresses the evidence for the presence and social role of women and families in Roman military communities in the western Roman provinces. Mon Apr 27: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin) 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 “The Warren Cup - Ancient or Modern? Problems of Method and Interpretation” Tue Apr 28: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 “The Paradigm of Textual Criticism: Its Use and Abuse in Classical Archaeology” **Wed Apr 29: Prof. Dr. Frank Ruehli, Director, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (University of Zurich) 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 201, Harvard Yard. 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9 years, 1 month

event Tuesday, March 3: Claude Calame at Harvard University

by Boston Area Classics Calendar

Tue Mar 3, 2015 5:30 P.M. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02143 (map <http://map.harvard.edu/?ctrx=759577.5&ctry=2961302.5&level=9&layers=Campus%…> ) Claude Calame (University of Lausanne, École des hautes études en sciences sociales) "Sappho and Gender: Female Statuses, Enunciative Relationships, and the Pragmatics of Melic Erotic Poetry (A Workshop on the New Fr. 58b)."

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