The Boston Area Classics Calendar for January 27, 2017
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
Welcome to the first edition of the Boston Area Classics Calendar for 2017. Please send your submissions in the format below as indicated at the end of this email. We look forward to the semester and events ahead!
*Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (Harvard University)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Jan. 30, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"In Search of an Imperial Idiom: Kingship in the Literatures of the Roman Empire"
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics…>
*Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Pomona College)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Thu., Feb. 2, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"Animals and Apuleius' Ethics of Translation"
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics…>
*Critical Perspectives on the Practice of Digital Archaeology
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Feb. 3, 2017, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The creation, management, sharing, and preservation of digital data and media have gained great prominence in archaeological research, grant making, policy making, and software and systems development. Digital data has much promise. It can help us engage with wider communities, explore new research questions, and create and preserve a vastly enriched body of archaeological documentation. Digital data also has a certain glamor, gained in large part through its associations with the burgeoning tech industry. However, does our celebration of speed, efficiency, precision and innovation sometimes make technology a superficial distraction rather than a substantive means toward learning? How do we encourage more meaningful intellectual engagement with new media as they transform archaeology? This conference represents an opportunity to take stock and more thoughtfully consider how our embracement of digital technologies is transforming archaeological practice.
More info: archaeology.harvard.edu…<http://archaeology.harvard.edu/event/critical-perspectives-practice-digital…>
*Critical Perspectives on the Practice of Digital Archaeology
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sat., Feb. 4, 2017, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The creation, management, sharing, and preservation of digital data and media have gained great prominence in archaeological research, grant making, policy making, and software and systems development. Digital data has much promise. It can help us engage with wider communities, explore new research questions, and create and preserve a vastly enriched body of archaeological documentation. Digital data also has a certain glamor, gained in large part through its associations with the burgeoning tech industry. However, does our celebration of speed, efficiency, precision and innovation sometimes make technology a superficial distraction rather than a substantive means toward learning? How do we encourage more meaningful intellectual engagement with new media as they transform archaeology? This conference represents an opportunity to take stock and more thoughtfully consider how our embracement of digital technologies is transforming archaeological practice.
More info: archaeology.harvard.edu…<http://archaeology.harvard.edu/event/critical-perspectives-practice-digital…>
*Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (High Point University)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Feb. 6, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"The Song of Ismenias in the Alexander Romance: Imperial Prose Fiction Critiques the Canon"
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics…>
*Samuel Ellenport, Master Bookbinder and Historian
AMHERST COLLEGE, Morgan Hall, Room 110, 165 S Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
Thu., Feb. 9, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
“The Classics and the Information Revolution of the Late 15th Century”
*Tyler Jo Smith (University of Virginia)
Wellesley College, Founders Hall Room 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481
Thu., Feb. 9, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"War and Peace: Trojan Narratives on Ancient Greek Vases"
The Archaeological Institute of America’s 2017 Noble Lecture co-sponsored by the Wellesley Department of Classical Studies.
For parking information, please see web.wellesley.edu…<http://web.wellesley.edu/map/>
**Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Mon., Feb. 13, 2017, 5 p.m.
"The personified state in classical Athens”
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…>
*Anke Walter (University of Rostock)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Feb. 13, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"Anniversaries in Statius' Thebaid: Order and Disorder of Time"
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics…>
Hellenistic Sardis Project
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Feb. 23 – Fri., Feb. 24, 2017
TBA
Carlos Noreña (University of California, Berkeley)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Mon., Feb. 27, 2017, 6 p.m.
"Romanization in the Middle of Nowhere: The Case of Segobriga"
This paper addresses the problem of historical change in a small town in the provincial backwater of a large, premodern empire. It examines the evidence for urban form, cultural identity, political organization, and social hierarchy in Segobriga, an insignificant Roman municipality in central Spain (in the province of Hispania Tarraconensis), during the period c. 200 BCE to 200 CE. Emphasis is placed not on local particularism in Segobriga, but rather on the town’s adherence to empire-wide patterns in urbanization and urbanism; its assimilation to Roman cultural norms; and its incorporation into a supraregional sociopolitical order. Drawing upon insights from historical sociology and cultural anthropology, and focusing on questions of motivation, agency (both individual and collective), and causation, the paper argues that changes in the politics, society, and culture of Segobriga all went together in a recursive manner, and that they were ultimately triggered by what I call a “general convergence” of social power in the Mediterranean world near the end of the first millennium BCE. The transformation of Segobriga, the paper concludes, should be seen as a case study in the process of “Romanization”—not, however, defined as an index of acculturation, but rather as an umbrella term for the making of a distinctively Roman configuration of power. The goals of the paper, then, are both substantive and conceptual, and are meant to contribute to a wider discussion of the intersection between (asymmetric) power and (translocal) culture in the premodern world.
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop: New Approaches to Ancient Evidence
*Roger Wilson (University of British Columbia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 6, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
TBA
First lecture of two.
*Roger Wilson (University of British Columbia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Mar. 7, 2017, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
TBA
Second lecture of two.
*Stefan Hagel (Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 20, 2017, 4 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…>
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (Univ. of Southern California)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 20, 2017, 5 p.m.
TBA
*Andrew Ollett
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 22, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Complementizers in Middle Indic"
*New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street (use entrance on Broadway), Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 22, 2017, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Research from the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in western Turkey, sponsored by Harvard and Cornell Universities, continues to produce exciting and unexpected surprises. In this lecture, Director Nicholas Cahill, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present recent results from the expedition. Cahill will discuss ongoing excavation at a sanctuary of the Roman imperial cult and its transformation in late antiquity; work in the area believed to be the palace of Croesus and new evidence for the earliest occupation of the city; one of the largest Roman triumphal arches known; and conservation and restoration projects.
Free admission. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, in Cambridge. For more information, please contact Robin Woodman at 617-495-3940 or robin_woodman(a)harvard.edu<mailto:robin_woodman@harvard.edu>.
The Sardis Biennial Lecture is sponsored by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis to present new excavation finds and current research. Work at Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and Cornell University since 1958.
Event Series: Sardis Biennial Lecture
More info: archaeology.harvard.edu…<http://archaeology.harvard.edu/event/new-digs-and-discoveries-sardis-turkey>
*Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA
Thu., Mar. 23, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale"
The Archaeological Institute of America’s 2017 Norton Lecturer will speak as part of Harvard's East Asian Archaeology Seminar series.
*Charles Bartlett (Harvard University)
COLLGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
Thu., Mar. 23, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"Sovereign Debt in the Hellenistic World"
with commentary by Joseph Manning (Yale University)
For more information: allen.m.ward(a)att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
*Gasper Begus (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"A Diachronic Model for Explaining Unnatural Sound Changes”
**Paolo Visonà (University of Kentucky)
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 6 p.m.
"From Byrsa to the Tiber: Carthaginian Coins and History"
New evidence from hoards, overstrikings, and excavation finds across the western Mediterranean in the last 50 years has significantly increased our knowledge of Carthaginian coins and their circulation patterns in the core regions of the Punic world, from North Africa to Spain. As mediums of payment, stores of value, and social artifacts, Carthaginian coins were used in diverse contexts and by different ethnicities.
In this lecture, Paolo Visonà, associate professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, will discuss how these coins provide essential information on the history and the economy of Carthage, underscoring its connectivity with other Punic centers and its relations with its Mediterranean neighbors and rivals, particularly Cyrene, Syracuse, and Rome.
Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will remain open until 8pm.
Free admission. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
To honor the memory of renowned numismatist and scholar Leo Mildenberg (1912–2001) and his years of friendship with Harvard University, a fund was established by his friends and colleagues and endowed in 2005 by his wife, Ilse Mildenberg-Seehausen.
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
More info: www.harvardartmuseums.org<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/>
*Eric Frederickson (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 103, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 12, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Dating (Classical Hebrew) Texts Linguistically: A Bayesian Approach.”
**Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/gsas-workshop-postclassicisms%C2%A0li…>
*Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 26, 2017
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
*Adam Gitner (Indiana University, Bloomington)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Wed., May 3, 2017, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
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