Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2019
Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Soldiers and civilians: the military community on the northern frontiers of Rome"
May 2019
Florian Knauss (University of Augsburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 1, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Lecture Hall, Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Palaces and Luxury Goods. The Achaemenid Persian Impact in the Caucasus"
James Loeb Lecture
July 2019
CANE Summer Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., July 8 – Sat., July 13
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
The organizers of the 2019 CANE Summer Institute invite you to join us for a weeklong examination of peoples and cultures that comprised the Classical Greek and Roman worlds. We will not only look at the various components of the ancient world, but we will also consider what it meant for those components to be unum. The institute’s events and discussions will also consider modern and contemporary reflections of nationhood.
Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English, the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy a thoughtful and enriching experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, reading groups, and special events while also offering many opportunities for conversation and collegial interaction among participants.
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View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
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Subscribe to calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar
New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>.
Please send event information in the format modeled above.
Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2019
Edward Watts (UC San Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject in Justinian's Hagia Sophia"
James Loeb Lecture
Edward Watts (University of California San Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 23, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Frost Library (Center for Humanistic Inquiry -2nd floor), 61 Quadrangle Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"The Radicalism of Roman Decline and Renewal: The History of a Dangerous Concept"
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 23, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Recent Discoveries at Sardis: From the Bronze Age to the End of Antiquity"
Work by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958. This biennial lecture series presents the latest research from the site to the Harvard and greater Boston communities.
Please join us in Menschel Hall beginning at 5:30pm to view drone footage of the Sardis site.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Sardis Biennial Lecture
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…>
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 24, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin Hall, Room 101 Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
"Translating Homer’s Odyssey Again: Why and How?"
Composed over 2700 years ago, Homer’s Odyssey is the second oldest extant text of Western literature and one of the foundational literary works of Western civilization. There exist 30 English translations of this ancient Greek text produced since 1616 by prominent men of letters, but it was only in 2017 that there appeared the first translation done by a woman – Emily Wilson – which was immediately and widely lauded by scholars and poets from all parts of the English-speaking world as a landmark achievement in the history of Homeric poetry.
In her Heinz Bluhm Lecture, Prof. Wilson will share with us her approach to the creation of her new verse (iambic pentameter) translation of this much-translated poem, discussing process and methodology as well as the many formal, metrical, stylistic and interpretative choices made along the way. She will also offer comparison of her translation with preceding ones and conclude with some discussion of the media reception of her translation.
Emily Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include The Death of Socrates (2007), and a new translation of selected tragedies by Seneca (2010). She is the Classics editor of the Norton Anthology of Western Literature (2013), and the revised Norton Anthology of World Literature, forthcoming later this year. She has also published The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca (2014) and four translations of plays by Euripides in The Modern Library’s The Greek Plays (2016). Her verse translation of Homer’s Odyssey was published in November 2017.
The Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__events.bc.edu_group_blu…>
events.bc.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__events.bc.edu_event_tra…>
Noah Kaye (Michigan State University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 25, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Bequest of Mausolus: Pergamon and the Inhabitants of Asia"
GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"
*Erin Averett (Creighton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 25, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Beatty Hall 119 (Beatty Multipurpose Room), 550 Huntington Ave., Boston MA, 02115
"The Athienou-Malloura Sanctuary and New Ways of Investigating Votive Religion in Ancient Cyprus”
Professor Averett’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and Wentworth Institute of Technology Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
"Ovid and Augustan Culture: A Conference in Honor of Patricia J. Johnson"
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) was instituted in 1995 to promote the study of Latin literature and Roman culture, to increase the visibility of these studies in the New England scholarly community and to provide a place for area Latinists and Romanists to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas.
The BARSC is sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the Humanities at Boston University and is held annually in April. The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register via Eventbrite<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rsc2019.eventbrite.com…>. The registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 22, 2019.
The 2019 Conference will be held on Friday, April 26, 2019, with registration opening at 3:00 p.m. and the program starting at 3:30 p.m. in Barrister’s Hall in the BU School of Law (765 Commonwealth Ave). Dinner will follow. For directions to the School of Law and a campus map click here. There is a parking lot open to the public near the School of Law at Granby Street, 665 Commonwealth Ave, click here for rate and location information (refer to Granby Street Lot, Lot N).
Below is the program for the 2019 Conference.
Friday, April 26, 2019
John F. Miller, University of Virginia
“The Lover’s Calendar”
Ioannis Ziogas, Durham University
“Lex amatoria: Teaching Law and Love in the Age of Augustus”
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College
“Still, She Persisted: Materiality and Memory in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”
For more information please call the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2426) or contact Meghan Kelly at mekel(a)bu.edu<mailto:mekel@bu.edu>.
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…>
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_eve…>
UMass Classics Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 – 6:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room (Tenth Floor), Amherst, MA
"Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Ancient Historiography in Honor of Professor Elizabeth Keitel"
3:00 to 6:30 p.m. - followed by banquet
Speakers:
1) Jane Chaplin (Middlebury), When Historians Make History
2) Timothy Joseph (Holy Cross), Ubique lamenta: The place of lament in Latin epic and historiography
3) Christina Kraus (Yale), Multiplying disasters: the many-fronted, multiplex bellum in Livy 5
4) John Marincola (FSU), Asinius Pollio and the Roman Revolution.
Register here: www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_classics_…>
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_classics_…>
Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Soldiers and civilians: the military community on the northern frontiers of Rome"
May 2019
Florian Knauss (University of Augsburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 1, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Lecture Hall, Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Palaces and Luxury Goods. The Achaemenid Persian Impact in the Caucasus"
James Loeb Lecture
July 2019
CANE Summer Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., July 8 – Sat., July 13
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
The organizers of the 2019 CANE Summer Institute invite you to join us for a weeklong examination of peoples and cultures that comprised the Classical Greek and Roman worlds. We will not only look at the various components of the ancient world, but we will also consider what it meant for those components to be unum. The institute’s events and discussions will also consider modern and contemporary reflections of nationhood.
Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English, the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy a thoughtful and enriching experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, reading groups, and special events while also offering many opportunities for conversation and collegial interaction among participants.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__caneweb.org_new_-3Fpage…>
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__caneweb.org_new_wp-2Dco…>
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<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>.
Please send event information in the format modeled above.
Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2019
The Bacchae, directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12 – Sun., Apr. 14
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mainstage Theater, 415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453
By Euripides
Directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky
Translated by Joel Christensen
A collaboration with the Department of Classical Studies, this new translation from ancient Greek tells the story of Dionysus, who travels to Thebes to clear his mother’s name. His arrival upends the ordered city-state by introducing to Theban women the frenzied worship of a new god. With exciting new songs and vibrant choreography, this production takes a contemporary look at transgression, gender, religious ecstasy, political authority and the psychology of mass violence.
For Performance Schedule, ticket prices, and more information please visit link below.
Shows:
Friday, April 12th @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 13th @ 3 PM
Saturday, April 13th @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 14th @ 1 PM
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brandeis.edu_theat…>
"Electra" by Sophocles<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12 – Sun., Apr. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Adams Pool Theatre, 26 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club presents
"ELECTRA" by Sophocles
Directed by Isaiah Michalski & produced by Lily Grob and Ben Rosenthal
starring Balim Barutçu, Molly Peterson, Ece Hakim, Freddie MacBruce, Ben Milliken, Ruva Chigwedere, and Marvin Merritt
featuring live music by Marie Carroll
Reserve your FREE tickets at the link below.
>From the team that brought Hamlet to the Loeb Ex comes a hard-hitting adaptation of Sophocles’ controversial tragedy, ELECTRA. This moving production gives intimate and intense focus to family relations, gender, and justice. As a precursor to the European tour in Istanbul, London, and Berlin this summer, ELECTRA will be performed in Adams Pool Theatre on April 12th-14th and outdoors as a part of the Arts First Festival on May 4th.
go.hrdctheater.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__go.hrdctheater.com_Elec…>
"Natural Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Medieval Period"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 13, 12 – 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, Mass. 02453
Department of Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference:
"Natural Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Medieval Period"
Keynote Speaker: Professor Debbie Felton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Additional details TBA
Free and open to the public. Free Parking. Please send all questions to the conference committee: Derrek Joyce (djjoyce(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:djjoyce@brandeis.edu>), Matthew Previto (mjp6853(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:mjp6853@brandeis.edu>), and Katherine Riggs (kriggs93(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:kriggs93@brandeis.edu>).
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brandeis.edu_class…>
Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III (Bryn Mawr)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 15, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Building (Paino Lecture Hall- Rm.#107),, 11 Barrett Hill Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"Imagining the Underworld: Life after Death in Ancient Greek Religion"
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Tuna Şare Ağtürk (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 16, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA 02138
"Urban Archaeology and Classical Heritage in Turkey: Uncovering the lost Roman capital city of Nicomedia"
Edward Watts (UC San Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject in Justinian's Hagia Sophia"
James Loeb Lecture
Edward Watts (University of California San Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 23, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Frost Library (Center for Humanistic Inquiry -2nd floor), 61 Quadrangle Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"The Radicalism of Roman Decline and Renewal: The History of a Dangerous Concept"
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 23, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Recent Discoveries at Sardis: From the Bronze Age to the End of Antiquity"
Work by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958. This biennial lecture series presents the latest research from the site to the Harvard and greater Boston communities.
Please join us in Menschel Hall beginning at 5:30pm to view drone footage of the Sardis site.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Sardis Biennial Lecture
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 24, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin Hall, Room 101 Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
"Translating Homer’s Odyssey Again: Why and How?"
Composed over 2700 years ago, Homer’s Odyssey is the second oldest extant text of Western literature and one of the foundational literary works of Western civilization. There exist 30 English translations of this ancient Greek text produced since 1616 by prominent men of letters, but it was only in 2017 that there appeared the first translation done by a woman – Emily Wilson – which was immediately and widely lauded by scholars and poets from all parts of the English-speaking world as a landmark achievement in the history of Homeric poetry.
In her Heinz Bluhm Lecture, Prof. Wilson will share with us her approach to the creation of her new verse (iambic pentameter) translation of this much-translated poem, discussing process and methodology as well as the many formal, metrical, stylistic and interpretative choices made along the way. She will also offer comparison of her translation with preceding ones and conclude with some discussion of the media reception of her translation.
Emily Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include The Death of Socrates (2007), and a new translation of selected tragedies by Seneca (2010). She is the Classics editor of the Norton Anthology of Western Literature (2013), and the revised Norton Anthology of World Literature, forthcoming later this year. She has also published The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca (2014) and four translations of plays by Euripides in The Modern Library’s The Greek Plays (2016). Her verse translation of Homer’s Odyssey was published in November 2017.
The Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__events.bc.edu_group_blu…>
events.bc.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__events.bc.edu_event_tra…>
Noah Kaye (Michigan State University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 25, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Bequest of Mausolus: Pergamon and the Inhabitants of Asia"
GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
"Ovid and Augustan Culture: A Conference in Honor of Patricia J. Johnson"
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) was instituted in 1995 to promote the study of Latin literature and Roman culture, to increase the visibility of these studies in the New England scholarly community and to provide a place for area Latinists and Romanists to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas.
The BARSC is sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the Humanities at Boston University and is held annually in April. The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register via Eventbrite<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rsc2019.eventbrite.com…>. The registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 22, 2019.
The 2019 Conference will be held on Friday, April 26, 2019, with registration opening at 3:00 p.m. and the program starting at 3:30 p.m. in Barrister’s Hall in the BU School of Law (765 Commonwealth Ave). Dinner will follow. For directions to the School of Law and a campus map click here. There is a parking lot open to the public near the School of Law at Granby Street, 665 Commonwealth Ave, click here for rate and location information (refer to Granby Street Lot, Lot N).
Below is the program for the 2019 Conference.
Friday, April 26, 2019
John F. Miller, University of Virginia
“The Lover’s Calendar”
Ioannis Ziogas, Durham University
“Lex amatoria: Teaching Law and Love in the Age of Augustus”
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College
“Still, She Persisted: Materiality and Memory in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”
For more information please call the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2426) or contact Meghan Kelly at mekel(a)bu.edu<mailto:mekel@bu.edu>.
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…>
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_eve…>
UMass Classics Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 – 6:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room (Tenth Floor), Amherst, MA
"Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Ancient Historiography in Honor of Professor Elizabeth Keitel"
3:00 to 6:30 p.m. - followed by banquet
Speakers:
1) Jane Chaplin (Middlebury), When Historians Make History
2) Timothy Joseph (Holy Cross), Ubique lamenta: The place of lament in Latin epic and historiography
3) Christina Kraus (Yale), Multiplying disasters: the many-fronted, multiplex bellum in Livy 5
4) John Marincola (FSU), Asinius Pollio and the Roman Revolution.
Register here: www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_classics_…>
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_classics_…>
Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Soldiers and civilians: the military community on the northern frontiers of Rome"
May 2019
Florian Knauss (University of Augsburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 1
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Palaces and Luxury Goods. The Achaemenid Persian Impact in the Caucasus"
James Loeb Lecture
July 2019
CANE Summer Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., July 8 – Sat., July 13
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
The organizers of the 2019 CANE Summer Institute invite you to join us for a weeklong examination of peoples and cultures that comprised the Classical Greek and Roman worlds. We will not only look at the various components of the ancient world, but we will also consider what it meant for those components to be unum. The institute’s events and discussions will also consider modern and contemporary reflections of nationhood.
Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English, the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy a thoughtful and enriching experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, reading groups, and special events while also offering many opportunities for conversation and collegial interaction among participants.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__caneweb.org_new_-3Fpage…>
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__caneweb.org_new_wp-2Dco…>
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<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>.
Please send event information in the format modeled above.
Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2019
Katherine Taronas (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 8, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Divine and the Animal: Transformations in Art and Cult in Late Antiquity"
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
*The Bacchae, directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11 – Sun., Apr. 14
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453
A collaboration with the Classics Department, this new translation from ancient Greek tells the story of Dionysus, who travels to Thebes to clear his mother’s name. His arrival upends the ordered city-state by introducing to Theban women the frenzied worship of a new god. With exciting new songs and vibrant choreography, this production takes a contemporary look at transgression, gender, religious ecstasy, political authority and the psychology of mass violence.
For Performance Schedule, ticket prices, and more information please visit:
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Roberta Stewart (Dartmouth)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
Topic TBA
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
“Race and Environment from Hippocrates to the Smithsonian Institute”
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New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Faculty Club, Room 205, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
40th anniversary celebration, featuring Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) on
"Caesar Historicus" with Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania) as commentator.
Registration and reception 5:30-6:30
Dinner 6:30–7:30
Discussion 7:30-9
Further info: allen.m.ward(a)att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>
James Taylor (Harvard)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
"Aristotle on Geological Phenomena, Migration, and the Limits of Memory"
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
*Alexander (Sasha) Nikolaev (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Hesiodea: 1. ἅρπαξ ‘plundering’ (Op. 356); 2. ἐπᾱλής ‘warm’ (Op. 493)"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
"Natural Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Medieval Period"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 13, 12 – 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, Mass. 02453
Department of Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference:
"Natural Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Medieval Period"
Keynote Speaker: Professor Debbie Felton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Additional details TBA
Free and open to the public. Free Parking. Please send all questions to the conference committee: Derrek Joyce (djjoyce(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:djjoyce@brandeis.edu>), Matthew Previto (mjp6853(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:mjp6853@brandeis.edu>), and Katherine Riggs (kriggs93(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:kriggs93@brandeis.edu>).
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Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III (Bryn Mawr)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 15, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Building (Paino Lecture Hall- Rm.#107),, 11 Barrett Hill Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"Imagining the Underworld: Life after Death in Ancient Greek Religion"
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Edward Watts (UC San Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject in Justinian's Hagia Sophia"
James Loeb Lecture
Edward Watts (University of California San Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 23, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Frost Library (Center for Humanistic Inquiry -2nd floor), 61 Quadrangle Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"The Radicalism of Roman Decline and Renewal: The History of a Dangerous Concept"
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Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 23, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Recent Discoveries at Sardis: From the Bronze Age to the End of Antiquity"
Work by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958. This biennial lecture series presents the latest research from the site to the Harvard and greater Boston communities.
Please join us in Menschel Hall beginning at 5:30pm to view drone footage of the Sardis site.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Sardis Biennial Lecture
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 24, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin Hall, Room 101 Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
"Translating Homer’s Odyssey Again: Why and How?"
Composed over 2700 years ago, Homer’s Odyssey is the second oldest extant text of Western literature and one of the foundational literary works of Western civilization. There exist 30 English translations of this ancient Greek text produced since 1616 by prominent men of letters, but it was only in 2017 that there appeared the first translation done by a woman – Emily Wilson – which was immediately and widely lauded by scholars and poets from all parts of the English-speaking world as a landmark achievement in the history of Homeric poetry.
In her Heinz Bluhm Lecture, Prof. Wilson will share with us her approach to the creation of her new verse (iambic pentameter) translation of this much-translated poem, discussing process and methodology as well as the many formal, metrical, stylistic and interpretative choices made along the way. She will also offer comparison of her translation with preceding ones and conclude with some discussion of the media reception of her translation.
Emily Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include The Death of Socrates (2007), and a new translation of selected tragedies by Seneca (2010). She is the Classics editor of the Norton Anthology of Western Literature (2013), and the revised Norton Anthology of World Literature, forthcoming later this year. She has also published The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca (2014) and four translations of plays by Euripides in The Modern Library’s The Greek Plays (2016). Her verse translation of Homer’s Odyssey was published in November 2017.
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Noah Kaye (Michigan State University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 25, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
"Ovid and Augustan Culture: A Conference in Honor of Patricia J. Johnson"
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) was instituted in 1995 to promote the study of Latin literature and Roman culture, to increase the visibility of these studies in the New England scholarly community and to provide a place for area Latinists and Romanists to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas.
The BARSC is sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the Humanities at Boston University and is held annually in April. The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register via Eventbrite<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rsc2019.eventbrite.com…>. The registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 22, 2019.
The 2019 Conference will be held on Friday, April 26, 2019, with registration opening at 3:00 p.m. and the program starting at 3:30 p.m. in Barrister’s Hall in the BU School of Law (765 Commonwealth Ave). Dinner will follow. For directions to the School of Law and a campus map click here. There is a parking lot open to the public near the School of Law at Granby Street, 665 Commonwealth Ave, click here for rate and location information (refer to Granby Street Lot, Lot N).
Below is the program for the 2019 Conference.
Friday, April 26, 2019
John F. Miller, University of Virginia
“The Lover’s Calendar”
Ioannis Ziogas, Durham University
“Lex amatoria: Teaching Law and Love in the Age of Augustus”
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College
“Still, She Persisted: Materiality and Memory in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”
For more information please call the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2426) or contact Meghan Kelly at mekel(a)bu.edu<mailto:mekel@bu.edu>.
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UMass Classics Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 – 6:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room (Tenth Floor), Amherst, MA
"Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Ancient Historiography in Honor of Professor Elizabeth Keitel"
3:00 to 6:30 p.m. - followed by banquet
Speakers:
1) Jane Chaplin (Middlebury), When Historians Make History
2) Timothy Joseph (Holy Cross), Ubique lamenta: The place of lament in Latin epic and historiography
3) Christina Kraus (Yale), Multiplying disasters: the many-fronted, multiplex bellum in Livy 5
4) John Marincola (FSU), Asinius Pollio and the Roman Revolution.
Register here: www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_classics_…>
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Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Soldiers and civilians: the military community on the northern frontiers of Rome"
May 2019
Florian Knauss (University of Augsburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 1
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Palaces and Luxury Goods. The Achaemenid Persian Impact in the Caucasus"
James Loeb Lecture
July 2019
CANE Summer Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., July 8 – Sat., July 13
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
The organizers of the 2019 CANE Summer Institute invite you to join us for a weeklong examination of peoples and cultures that comprised the Classical Greek and Roman worlds. We will not only look at the various components of the ancient world, but we will also consider what it meant for those components to be unum. The institute’s events and discussions will also consider modern and contemporary reflections of nationhood.
Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English, the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy a thoughtful and enriching experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, reading groups, and special events while also offering many opportunities for conversation and collegial interaction among participants.
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