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Boston Area Classics Calendar, January 26, 2018

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Boston Area Classics Calendar February 2018 Eileen Reeves (Princeton University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Feb. 1 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Galileo, New Stars, and the Afterlife of the *Eclogues*" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Feb. 5, 5 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 <https://maps.google.com/?q=133,+12,+Quincy+Street,+Cambridge,+MA+02138&entr…> "Translating the *Odyssey*: Why and How" https://www.classics.upenn.edu/people/emily-wilson <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.classics.upenn.edu…> Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu. <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> MorgantinaVR: Visualizing Material Culture in Virtual and Augmented Reality <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Feb. 7, 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cabot Science Library, Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA 02138 Please join us for the first event of 2018 in the Digital Futures Discovery Series, a year-long program led by Harvard's Digital Futures Consortium that explores the ongoing transformation of scholarship through innovative technology. Alex Walthall (UT Austin, Harvard University) and Luke Hollis (Archimedes Digital) will present MorgantinaVR, a product of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project. Digital Futures Discovery Series <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.digitalfuturesconso…> www.digitalfuturesconsortium.org. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.digitalfuturesconso…> [image: MorgantinaVR: Visualizing Material Culture in Virtual and Augmented Reality] Recycling, Revision, and Relocation in the Middle Ages <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Feb. 9 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lamont Library Forum Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 A day-long symposium, featuring a keynote address by Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University and Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Co-sponsored with the Department of English, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, and the Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities. For the full schedule and to register, click here <https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/RRRMA>. medieval.fas.harvard.edu. <https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/RRRMA> Dean Hammer (Franklin & Marshall College) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Feb. 15, 5 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Roman Republic and the Crisis of American Democracy: Echoes of the Past" GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome" Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin - Madison) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Feb. 15, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 <https://maps.google.com/?q=60+George+Street,+Room+108,+Providence,+RI+02912…> "Vergil via Ovid on the Semiotics of Augustan Victory" www.brown.edu. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> [image: Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin - Madison)] Kimberly Bowes (UPenn) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Feb. 15, 5:30 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 <https://maps.google.com/?q=1737+Cambridge+Street,+Cambridge,+MA+02138&entry…> "The Archaeology of Poverty: How poor were Roman peasants? Did they get poorer?" Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard <https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/> sohp.fas.harvard.edu. <https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/event/sohp-lecture-kimberly-bowes-%E2%80%9C-ar…> [image: Kimberly Bowes (UPenn)] Jan Bloemendal (Princeton University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Feb. 22, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Multi-Lingualism in Early Modern Europe: Readings of the Praise of Folly" GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" Emily Hauser (Harvard Society of Fellows) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Feb. 28, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Singer/man: The craft of (male) authorship from Homer to Plato" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" March 2018 Deborah Beck (The University of Texas, Austin) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, third floor. 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453 <https://maps.google.com/?q=415+South+Street,+Waltham,+MA+02453&entry=gmail&…> "Fathers, Sons, and Similes in Homer Odyssey 16" In this lecture Professor Beck explores the father-son relationship between Odysseus and Telemachus as well as Laertes through similes, which feature powerful and moving perspectives on the disruption of their relationships. Directions to Event: www.brandeis.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.brandeis.edu_&d=DwM…> . Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments will follow from 6:00-6:30 p.m. More info: Professor Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu). Martin Hallmansecker (University of Oxford) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections" Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Mar. 21, 6 - 7 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts" Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds. Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture. Mildenberg Lecture www.harvardartmuseums.org. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…> April 2018 Nathan Sivin (UPenn) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Apr. 4, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" View the entire calendar online <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ calclass-list Subscribe to calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics- calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send event information in the format modeled above.

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