Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2018
Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Contexts and Meanings<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 2, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge, MA 02138
Robert Koehl, of Hunter College, and Kimberley Patton, of Harvard, will explore why animal shapes were such popular forms for ancient vessels.
In this lecture, leading scholars will offer perspectives on the social and symbolic importance of the vessels featured in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, on view September 7, 2018 through January 6, 2019.
Following their presentations, Koehl and Patton will be joined in conversation by Susanne Ebbinghaus, the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Ebbinghaus curated the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Following the lecture, guests are invited to view the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition on Level 3 until 8 p.m.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…>
*Martin Revermann (University of Toronto)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 4, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Translation Prefaces”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Documentary Screening: The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Filmmaker Peter Brosnan, lead archaeologist Colleen Hamilton, and executive producer Francesca Silva will be in attendance for the screening of The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille. There will be a panel/Q&A after the screening.
New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Smith House, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Registration information: lauren.caldwell(a)trincoll.edu<mailto:lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu>
Timothy Joseph of College of the Holy Cross will offer for discussion his paper "Lucan, Carthage, and Roman Historical Epic," with commentary from Andrew Johnston of Yale University
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Thomas Biggs (University of Georgia)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 18, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Civil War, Sovereignty, and the Poetic ‘State of Exception’ in Lucan’s Bellum Civile”
www.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…>
**Nadav Asraf (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 23, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Room 110, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'When I leave the beautiful and severe Hellenism': On Cavafy's Translations into Hebrew"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and Culture<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-a…>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-a…>
*Hannah Čulik-Baird (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 24, 5 – 7 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Room 303, Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, Waltham, MA 02453
"Loss and Recovery of Knowledge at Rome"
How well do the Romans know their own history? In a world where records of the past rot away, are eaten by worms, mice, larvae, are accidentally or deliberately set on fire, how is a Roman of the late Republic supposed to understand Rome's past? In the De Lingua Latina (5.5), Varro wrote: uetustas pauca non deprauat, multa tollit; “there is little that time does not distort, much it obliterates completely.” Join me in an exploration of the challenges faced by Romans interested in understanding their city's history, and what kind of strategies they developed to recover "lost" knowledge.
Reception to follow immediately after the talk from 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Open to the public. Free parking. For a campus map and parking information, please see
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.brandeis.edu_about_…>
Contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallis(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:hmcallis@brandeis.edu>) or Sybil Schlesinger (sybilsch(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:sybilsch@brandeis.edu>) with any questions.
Sarah Spence (Medieval Academy of America)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 24, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 90 George Street, Room 208, Providence, RI 02912
“‘The little of our earthly trust’: Vergil's Aeneid and the Geography of Loss”
Sarah Spence is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia and Editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
The Michael C.J. Putnam Lecture
www.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…>
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Oct. 26, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its founding in 1958 by Harvard and Cornell Universities, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has excavated, conserved, and published on aspects of the ancient city of Sardis in western Turkey from prehistoric through Islamic periods. The expedition is one of the longest running international projects sponsored at Harvard and is one of the oldest classical archaeological projects in the Mediterranean. Harvard students who participate in the program gain academic, professional, and cultural experience while contributing to archaeological research, conservation efforts, presentations, and publications related to the site.
As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2018, this event brings together the museums staff and Harvard faculty and students involved in the project to discuss their work and to illuminate how team members from various fields and institutions around the world collaborate to advance research about Sardis. Speakers will include Nicholas Cahill, field director of the Sardis expedition and the Simona and Jerome Chazen Distinguished Chair in Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Adrian Stähli, professor of classical archaeology in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University; Susanne Ebbinghaus, the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums; Frances Gallart Marques, the Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art at the Harvard Art Museums; and Bahadır Yıldırım, expedition administrator for Sardis at the Harvard Art Museums.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 2:30pm.
Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The excavation at Sardis is conducted with the permission and support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. Current conservation work at Sardis is also supported by an award provided by the United States Government, Department of State, U.S. Embassy Ankara.
Worldwide Week at Harvard 2018 (October 22–26, 2018) showcases the remarkable breadth of Harvard’s global engagement. During Worldwide Week, Harvard schools, research centers, departments, and student organizations host academic and cultural events with global or international themes.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…>
November 2018
Symposium—Between Art and Asset: Silver Vessels from Antiquity to Today<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Nov. 3, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Silver vessels have been prized possessions in many cultures, both ancient and modern. Some of the most elaborate vessels in the Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings exhibition are fashioned from silver. What makes this material attractive for artists, and what makes drinking from silver vessels pleasant to the palate? Which intangible qualities have promoted the material’s use? How has appreciation of the vessels been influenced by the fact that silver often served as bullion and coins—and hence could be “cashed in”? This symposium will bring together art historians, a conservator, a numismatist, and a silversmith to explore these and related questions, including the function and uses of precious metal vessels, the role of craftsmanship, the symbolic qualities of silver, and silver’s relationship to other luxury materials. The presentations will focus on the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, the Byzantine world, China, and the Americas.
Speakers:
Angela Chang, Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Head of the Objects Lab, and Assistant Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums
Henry Colburn, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eurydice Georganteli, Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture and Medieval Studies in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University
Kenneth Lapatin, Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Ethan Lasser, Theodore Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art and Head of the Division of European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums
François Louis, Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies at the Bard Graduate Center
Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Adam Whitney, Silversmith
The symposium will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 9:30am.
Free admission, but seating is limited.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…>
*The Odyssey in Song: A Folk Opera by Joe Goodkin<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Nov. 5, 5 – 7 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Room 002, Lown Center, Waltham, MA, 02453
Joe Goodkin's Odyssey is a 30 minute original musical performance of 24 original songs with lyrics inspired by Odysseus' famous exploits. It represents in a contemporary musical mode both the abridged plot and the performance circumstances of Homer's original oral composition of The Odyssey. A discussion will follow the performance. Joe has performed his Odyssey over 270 times in 36 U.S. states and Canada, and has been honored with several ASCAP Composers awards. More information can be found at www.joesodyssey.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.joesodyssey.com_&d=…>
Reception to follow immediately after the talk from 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Open to the public. Free parking. For a campus map and parking information, please see
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.brandeis.edu_about_…>
Contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallis(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:hmcallis@brandeis.edu>) or Sybil Schlesinger (sybilsch(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:sybilsch@brandeis.edu>) with any questions.
Alain Schnapp (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
Nina Papathanasopoulou (Connecticut College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Serpent Heart: Animality, Jealousy, and Transgression in Martha Graham's Medea (Cave of the Heart)”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
R. R. R. Smith (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 29 – Fri., Nov. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
December 2018
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Dec. 7, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
Nino Luraghi (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Dec. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Peloponnesian Peace"
March 2019
Bernard Frischer (Indiana University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Mar. 13
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Rome Reborn"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…>
Catherine Grandjean (Université de Tours, France)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The coinage of the Achaian koinon, between federal authority and civic autonomy.”
Ancient galleries open until 8 p.m.
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
April 2019
New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 2018
Texts, Authors, and Readers: a conference in honor of Richard Tarrant<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Sep. 21 – Sat., Sep. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday 21 September
SESSION I Presider: David Elmer, Harvard University
1:00 Welcome
1:15-1:45 Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University: Welcome and opening remarks
1:45-2:30 Jeanne Neumann, Davidson College: “Est enim difficilis cura rerum alienarum: Terence and his contemporary adulescentes”
2:30-3:15 Jarrett Welsh, University of Toronto: “Listening to Roman Comic Verse”
3:15-3:45 break
SESSION II Presider: Jared Hudson, Harvard University
3:45-4:30 Gianpiero Rosati, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: “Pauca meo Stellae…Genres and poetic models in Statius’ Silva 1.2”
4:30-5:15 Richard Thomas, Harvard University: “Aesthetics, Form and Meaning in the Georgics”
5:15-6:00 Thomas Jenkins, Trinity University: “Augustan poetry and the Age of Rust: Music and metaphor in Mitchell’s Hadestown”
Reception to follow at the Harvard Faculty Club, East Dining Room (6-7.30pm). All are welcome
Saturday 22 September
SESSION III Presider: Leah Kronenberg, Boston University
9:00-9:45 Michael Reeve, University of Cambridge: “Iuppiter imperator?”
9:45-10:30 Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania: “Medius aliqui sensus interuenit: On (authorial and other) parentheses in Caesar and Tacitus”
10:30-11:00 break
SESSION IV Presider: Stephanie Frampton, MIT
11:00-11:45 Rebecca Benefiel, Washington and Lee University: “Editing ancient handwriting”
11:45-12:30 Alison Keith, University of Toronto: “Epicurean Postures in Martial, Epigrams 10.47—48”
12:30–2:00 lunch
SESSION V Presider: Julia Dyson Hejduk, Baylor University
2:00-2:45 Gareth Williams, Columbia University: “Ax of Love: Clytemnestra’s Motivation for Murder in Seneca’s Agamemnon’
2:45-3:30 James Ker, University of Pennsylvania: “It’s the Animae, Stupid: The End of Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam”
3:30-4:15 Lauren Curtis, Bard College: “Causation and complaint in Ovid’s exile poetry”
4:15-4:30 break
SESSION VI Presider: Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University
4:30-5:15 Irene Peirano Garrison, Yale University: “Nescit quod bene cessit relinquere: Ovid the rhetorician”
5:15-6:00 Frank Coulson, The Ohio State University: “Ceyx and Alcyone in the medieval school tradition on Ovid”
Jason Pedicone (Paideia Institute)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Sep. 25, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Mather Hall, Rittenberg Lounge, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
"How to Build a Humanities Start-Up: Social Entrepreneurship and the Future of the Liberal Arts"
Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Sep. 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho”
The Department of Classics cordially invites you to join us for “Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho,” a lecture presented by Kirk Ormand from Oberlin College. Prof. Ormand will be speaking on Thursday, September 27, 2018 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm in Rhode Island Hall, Room 108.
Kirk Ormand is the Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (2014),and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2018); editor of A Companion to Sophocles (2012) and co-editor (with Ruby Blondell) of Ancient Sex: New Essays (2015). He has published articles on Homer, Hesiod, Hipponax, Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, Lucan, the Greek novel, Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, and Michel Foucault.
www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/events>
October 2018
Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Contexts and Meanings<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 2, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge, MA 02138
Robert Koehl, of Hunter College, and Kimberley Patton, of Harvard, will explore why animal shapes were such popular forms for ancient vessels.
In this lecture, leading scholars will offer perspectives on the social and symbolic importance of the vessels featured in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, on view September 7, 2018 through January 6, 2019.
Following their presentations, Koehl and Patton will be joined in conversation by Susanne Ebbinghaus, the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Ebbinghaus curated the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Following the lecture, guests are invited to view the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition on Level 3 until 8 p.m.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/5295/animal-shaped-vess…>
Martin Revermann (University of Toronto)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 4, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Translation Prefaces”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Documentary Screening: The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Filmmaker Peter Brosnan, lead archaeologist Colleen Hamilton, and executive producer Francesca Silva will be in attendance for the screening of The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille. There will be a panel/Q&A after the screening.
New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Smith House, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Registration information: lauren.caldwell(a)trincoll.edu<mailto:lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu>
Timothy Joseph of College of the Holy Cross will offer for discussion his paper "Lucan, Carthage, and Roman Historical Epic," with commentary from Andrew Johnston of Yale University
New England Ancient History Colloquium
*Thomas Biggs (University of Georgia)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 18, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Civil War, Sovereignty, and the Poetic ‘State of Exception’ in Lucan’s Bellum Civile”
www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/academics-classics/files/Big…>
*Sarah Spence (Medieval Academy of America)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 24, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 90 George Street, Room 208, Providence, RI 02912
“‘The little of our earthly trust’: Vergil's Aeneid and the Geography of Loss”
Sarah Spence is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia and Editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. Her work has focused on the poetry of Vergil and on the process of poetic adaptation and reception of the classics in the Middle Ages and beyond. She is the author of three monographs and several edited volumes as well as many articles and reviews. Founding editor of Literary Imagination, the review of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, she has also served as editor of Vergilius (the journal of the Vergilian Society of America) and, currently, Speculum, the flagship journal of the Medieval Academy of America. In 2014 she published, with Elizabeth Wright and Andrew Lemons, a translation and commentary on Latin poems written about the 1571 Battle of Lepanto during the first year following the battle. She is currently completing a book on the poetic treatment of the island of Sicily in works from Cicero to Dante.
www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/academics-classics/files/Spe…>
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Oct. 26, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its founding in 1958 by Harvard and Cornell Universities, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has excavated, conserved, and published on aspects of the ancient city of Sardis in western Turkey from prehistoric through Islamic periods. The expedition is one of the longest running international projects sponsored at Harvard and is one of the oldest classical archaeological projects in the Mediterranean. Harvard students who participate in the program gain academic, professional, and cultural experience while contributing to archaeological research, conservation efforts, presentations, and publications related to the site.
As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2018, this event brings together the museums staff and Harvard faculty and students involved in the project to discuss their work and to illuminate how team members from various fields and institutions around the world collaborate to advance research about Sardis. Speakers will include Nicholas Cahill, field director of the Sardis expedition and the Simona and Jerome Chazen Distinguished Chair in Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Adrian Stähli, professor of classical archaeology in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University; Susanne Ebbinghaus, the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums; Frances Gallart Marques, the Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art at the Harvard Art Museums; and Bahadır Yıldırım, expedition administrator for Sardis at the Harvard Art Museums.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 2:30pm.
Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The excavation at Sardis is conducted with the permission and support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. Current conservation work at Sardis is also supported by an award provided by the United States Government, Department of State, U.S. Embassy Ankara.
Worldwide Week at Harvard 2018 (October 22–26, 2018) showcases the remarkable breadth of Harvard’s global engagement. During Worldwide Week, Harvard schools, research centers, departments, and student organizations host academic and cultural events with global or international themes.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/archaeological-exploration…>
Nadav Asraf (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 30, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'When I leave the beautiful and severe Hellenism': On Cavafy's Translations into Hebrew"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and Culture<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-a…>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-a…>
November 2018
Symposium—Between Art and Asset: Silver Vessels from Antiquity to Today<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Nov. 3, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This symposium will bring together art historians, a conservator, a numismatist, and a silversmith to explore the enduring appeal of silver.
Alain Schnapp (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
*Nina Papathanasopoulou (Connecticut College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Serpent Heart: Animality, Jealousy, and Transgression in Martha Graham's Medea (Cave of the Heart)”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
R. R. R. Smith (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 29 – Fri., Nov. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
December 2018
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Dec. 7, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
Nino Luraghi (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Dec. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Peloponnesian Peace"
March 2019
Bernard Frischer (Indiana University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Mar. 13
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Rome Reborn"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…>
Catherine Grandjean (Université de Tours, France)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The coinage of the Achaian koinon, between federal authority and civic autonomy.”
Ancient galleries open until 8 p.m.
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
April 2019
New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 2018
*Tour of Higgins Armory Installation<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sun., Sep. 16, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609
All Classicists and those with an interest in Classics are invited to attend a special event sponsored by the American Classical League.
What: docent-led tours of the new Higgins Armory installation, catered lunch, free time to view Roman mosaics, etc.
Cost: gratis, including parking
N.B. Lunch will be served at 12:15.
Register on line at www.aclclassics.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.aclclassics.org_&d=…>
www.aclclassics.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.aclclassics.org_&d=…>
Texts, Authors, and Readers: a conference in honor of Richard Tarrant<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Sep. 21 – Sat., Sep. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday, September 21
1:00–1:45 Welcome and opening remarks
1:45–3:15 Paper session 1
3:15–3:45 Break
3:45–6:00 Paper session 2
6–7:30 Reception, Harvard Faculty Club, East Dining Room
Saturday, September 22
9:00–10:30 Paper session 3
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Paper session 4
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–4:15 Paper session 5
4:15–4:30 Break
4:30–6:00 Paper session 6
*Jason Pedicone (Paideia Institute)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Sep. 25, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Mather Hall, Rittenberg Lounge, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
"How to Build a Humanities Start-Up: Social Entrepreneurship and the Future of the Liberal Arts"
**Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Sep. 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho”
The Department of Classics cordially invites you to join us for “Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho,” a lecture presented by Kirk Ormand from Oberlin College. Prof. Ormand will be speaking on Thursday, September 27, 2018 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm in Rhode Island Hall, Room 108.
Kirk Ormand is the Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (2014),and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2018); editor of A Companion to Sophocles (2012) and co-editor (with Ruby Blondell) of Ancient Sex: New Essays (2015). He has published articles on Homer, Hesiod, Hipponax, Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, Lucan, the Greek novel, Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, and Michel Foucault.
www.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…>
October 2018
Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Contexts and Meanings<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 2, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge, MA 02138
Robert Koehl, of Hunter College, and Kimberley Patton, of Harvard, will explore why animal shapes were such popular forms for ancient vessels.
In this lecture, leading scholars will offer perspectives on the social and symbolic importance of the vessels featured in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, on view September 7, 2018 through January 6, 2019.
Following their presentations, Koehl and Patton will be joined in conversation by Susanne Ebbinghaus, the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Ebbinghaus curated the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Following the lecture, guests are invited to view the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition on Level 3 until 8 p.m.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…>
*Martin Revermann (University of Toronto)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 4, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Translation Prefaces”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Documentary Screening: The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Filmmaker Peter Brosnan, lead archaeologist Colleen Hamilton, and executive producer Francesca Silva will be in attendance for the screening of The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille. There will be a panel/Q&A after the screening.
*New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Smith House, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Registration information: lauren.caldwell(a)trincoll.edu<mailto:lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu>
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Nadav Asraf (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 30, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'When I leave the beautiful and severe Hellenism': On Cavafy's Translations into Hebrew"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and Culture<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-a…>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-a…>
November 2018
Symposium—Between Art and Asset: Silver Vessels from Antiquity to Today<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Nov. 3, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This symposium will bring together art historians, a conservator, a numismatist, and a silversmith to explore the enduring appeal of silver.
Alain Schnapp (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
R. R. R. Smith (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 29 – Fri., Nov. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
March 2019
Bernard Frischer (Indiana University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Mar. 13
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Rome Reborn"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…>
Catherine Grandjean (Université de Tours, France)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The coinage of the Achaian koinon, between federal authority and civic autonomy.”
Ancient galleries open until 8 p.m.
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
April 2019
New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
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September 2018
*Texts, Authors, and Readers: a conference in honor of Richard Tarrant<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Sep. 21 – Sat., Sep. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday, September 21
1:00–1:45 Welcome and opening remarks
1:45–3:15 Paper session 1
3:15–3:45 Break
3:45–6:00 Paper session 2
6–7:30 Reception, Harvard Faculty Club, East Dining Room
Saturday, September 22
9:00–10:30 Paper session 3
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Paper session 4
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–4:15 Paper session 5
4:15–4:30 Break
4:30–6:00 Paper session 6
October 2018
*Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Contexts and Meanings<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 2, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge, MA 02138
Robert Koehl, of Hunter College, and Kimberley Patton, of Harvard, will explore why animal shapes were such popular forms for ancient vessels.
In this lecture, leading scholars will offer perspectives on the social and symbolic importance of the vessels featured in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, on view September 7, 2018 through January 6, 2019.
Following their presentations, Koehl and Patton will be joined in conversation by Susanne Ebbinghaus, the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Ebbinghaus curated the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Following the lecture, guests are invited to view the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition on Level 3 until 8 p.m.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…>
*Documentary Screening: The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Filmmaker Peter Brosnan, lead archaeologist Colleen Hamilton, and executive producer Francesca Silva will be in attendance for the screening of The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille. There will be a panel/Q&A after the screening.
November 2018
*Symposium—Between Art and Asset: Silver Vessels from Antiquity to Today<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Nov. 3, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This symposium will bring together art historians, a conservator, a numismatist, and a silversmith to explore the enduring appeal of silver.
*Alain Schnapp (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
*R. R. R. Smith (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 29 – Fri., Nov. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
February 2019
*Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 15, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho”
The Department of Classics cordially invites you to join us for “Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho,” a lecture presented by Kirk Ormand from Oberlin College. Prof. Ormand will be speaking on Thursday, September 27, 2018 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm in Rhode Island Hall, Room 108.
Kirk Ormand is the Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (2014),and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2018); editor of A Companion to Sophocles (2012) and co-editor (with Ruby Blondell) of Ancient Sex: New Essays (2015). He has published articles on Homer, Hesiod, Hipponax, Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, Lucan, the Greek novel, Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, and Michel Foucault.
www.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…>
March 2019
*Bernard Frischer (Indiana University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Mar. 13
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Rome Reborn"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…>
April 2019
*New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
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