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Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 27, 2019

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Boston Area Classics Calendar October 2019 Robert Bartlett (Boston College) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 1, 5:15 – 6:30 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building E51, Room 255, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 "Rhetoric and Democracy: Aristotle on the Art of Persuasive Speech" MIT's Ancient and Medieval Studies Colloquium [image: Robert Bartlett (Boston College)] Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Oct. 3, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Persians in Greek and in Elamite: Achaemenid History and the Persepolis Fortification Archive" Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series [image: Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)] Brian Daniels (Penn Cultural Heritage Center) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 9, 5 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "Cultural Recovery in a Time of Violence: Protecting Heritage Sites in Syria" Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Department of Classical Studies Vinzenz Brinkmann (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 11, 12 – 2 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Nadav Asraf (Harvard University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 11, 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 'The Word Within a Word': The Syntactical Properties of Word Parts in Ancient Greek GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics” Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Application required (deadline September 20th). See website for more details. Send questions to digitalmanuscriptediting(a)gmail.com. Application form: https://tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_digitalman…> . Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Digital Scholarship Support Group. dssg.fas.harvard.edu… <https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing-medieval-manuscripts/> [image: Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop] Shelley Haley (Hamilton College) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482 "Race-ing” the Romans: Uncovering the Racial Constructs of Ancient Rome Mark Janse (Ghent University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138 "From Katpatuka to Ionanistan: The Rise, Demise and Reawakening of Cappadocian Greek" Followed by the documentary "Last Words" (seriousFilm, 2014) Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Cappadocia (Central Turkey) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Cappadocian speakers were forced to emigrate to Greece, where they were resettled in various locations, especially in Central and Northern Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly shifted to Standard Modern Greek and/or regional varieties thereof and their language was thought to be extinct since the 1970s (*Ethnologue*, 15th edition, 2005). In June 2005, Mark Janse (Ghent University) and Dimitris Papazachariou (University of Patras) discovered Cappadocians in Central and Northern Greece who could still speak their native language. Amongst them are middle-aged, third-generation speakers who take a very positive attitude towards the language as opposed to their parents and and grandparents. The latter are much less (if at all) inclined to speak Cappadocian and normally switch to Greek and/or Turkish in their conversations. In his lecture, Professor Janse will relate the linguistic history of Cappadocia and the fascinating story of his search und ultimately discovery of the lost Cappadocian language. The lecture will be followed by the documentary film ‘Last Words’. Mark Janse (is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse(a)ugent.be) docs.google.com… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_docume…> Martha Graham Dance Company <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Dance Theater, 915 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215 The Martha Graham Dance Company’s Artistic Director, Janet Eilber, plus 2 to 4 dancers, will present a lecture/demonstration of Martha Graham’s dance interpretation of three heroines from Greek tragedy: Medea, Clytemnestra, and Jocasta. Tickets are free. To reserve tickets please visit: www.eventbrite.com… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_m…> www.bu.edu… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_eve…> [image: Martha Graham Dance Company] Mark Janse (Ghent University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Linguistic Convergence in Asia Minor: The Internal Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Cappadocian Greek" Mark Janse is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse(a)ugent.be) docs.google.com… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_docume…> Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 12 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium with Sinclair Bell: "Race in the Roman Empire: Black Africans as Subjects and Objects in Imperial Visual Culture" Organized by the Hutchins Center <https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-bell?delta…> africa.harvard.edu… <https://africa.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-bell-race-roman-empire…> Mark Janse (University of Ghent) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "More Maculate Musings: New Wordplays in Aristophanes' *Lysistrata*" The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> Simona Martorana (Durham University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "'Writing like a man, *becoming-woman*’: gender-queerness and literary creation in the *Epistula Sapphus*" GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics" <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-…> Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 28, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom (Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138 "*Mancipia Indica*: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia" Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Alex Purves (UCLA) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 30, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA James Loeb Lecture New England Ancient Historians Colloquium <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Campus Center, 10th Floor, Amherst Room, Amherst, MA 01002 Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross) "The Political Power of the Middle Republican Army" Commentator: Will Broadhead (Associate Professor of History, MIT) 5:30 PM: reception—complimentary wine, beer, and appetizers 6:30 PM: dinner (cash bar available) 7:30–9:30 PM: speaker and commentator Registration required by Wednesday, October 23: https://www.neahc.us/registration <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_registrat…> . New England Ancient Historians Colloquium <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_&d=DwMFAw…> www.neahc.us <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_&d=DwMFAw…> November 2019 Flavian (Re)Configurations: Civic Ideals and Urban Realities <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Nov. 8, 3 – 6 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Integrative Learning Center S331, UMass Amherst, 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst MA 01003 Speakers: Salvador Bartera (Mississippi State University) Virginia Closs (UMass Amherst) Steven Ellis (University of Cincinnati) Elizabeth Macauly-Lewis (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Eric Poehler (UMass Amherst) Sponsored by UMass Amherst Department of Classics and College of Humanities and Fine Arts. More information: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa(a)classics.umass.edu, 413-545-0512) www.umass.edu… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_classics_…> [image: Flavian (Re)Configurations: Civic Ideals and Urban Realities] The 12th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Nov. 9 "Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment" Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) and Mr. Marquis "I AM" McCray www.bu.edu… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_rs_2019_08_2…> Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Nov. 14, 5 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Clapp Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "The Digital Restoration Initiative: Reading the Invisible Library" Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Book Studies Program Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Nov. 21, 5:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Venantius Fortunatus" April 2020 Vesta Curtis (British Museum) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Apr. 22 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture July 2020 Classical Association of New England Summer Institute <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., July 13 – Sat., July 18 BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Providence, RI 02912 On the theme "The Empire and the Individual" graduate credit available For more information and registration details, go to www.caneweb.org <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.caneweb.org_&d=DwMF…> Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at summerinst(a)caneweb.org. caneweb.org… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__caneweb.org_new_-3Fpag…> 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 View calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. 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Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 20, 2019

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Boston Area Classics Calendar September 2019 Miriam Goldstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Sep. 23, 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 0213 "Toledot Yeshu ('The Life of Jesus') among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands" This talk will explore the astonishing popularity of Toledot Yeshu—a parody of the life of Jesus, first attested in Late Antiquity in Aramaic—among the Arabic-speaking Jews of the medieval Islamic world. Presenting Toledot Yeshu as a product of medieval Judeo-Arabic literature and as a Jewish narrative shared and exchanged between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe, it will illuminate sustained Jewish interest in the work for more than a millennium and a half in the Near East, as well as the significance of this enduring appeal for understanding Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Islamic milieu. history.fas.harvard.edu…<https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/toledot-yeshu-life-jesus-among-jews-m…> Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "A Marriage Made in Hell: The Encounters of Medea and Jason from Euripides to Heiner Müller" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> [Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)] Helena González-Vaquerizo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Warren House, Room 201, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Kazantzakis’ Odyssey: A (Post)Modern(ist) Sequel" Should we consider Nikos Kazantzakis’ magnum opus, The Odyssey (1938), a dead end in his career or its very starting point? Whereas today a growing number of critics acknowledge modernist and even postmodernist elements in the author’s novelistic work and thought, it still needs to be proven not only that such elements do exist in The Odyssey, but that the poem is the source of Kazantzakis’ later (post)modernism. The aim of my presentation is to provide evidence for this and to propose an interpretation of The Odyssey as an epic in the process of becoming a novel, in fact, a (post)modernist novel. Such an interpretation will illustrate major aspects not only of The Odyssey itself but also of the overall development of Kazantzakis' literary work. 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…> Meredith E. Safran (Trinity College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Sep. 26, 5 – 6:15 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Hall rm.#107 (Paino Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002 "From Spoils to Saviors: Re-valuing the First Roman Wives as Civic Actors in Livy's 'From the Foundation of the City'" Many of Rome’s founding civic myths conjoin the community’s political transformation with sexualized violence against women.This talk will focus on the episode traditionally known as “the rape of the Sabine women,” in which the first Romans staved off the extinction of their new community and established Rome’s version of marriage, but did so by obtaining their wives through a mass bride abduction. Unlike most of the women who fall victim to violence in Rome’s founding myths, the Sabine women not only survive their assault; by the end of their story, as told by the Roman historian Livy, they’ve won universal respect and recognition for saving both new and old communities, which they risk their own lives to defend. We’ll explore how such a triumph could result from a story that begins with assault and consider why these women’s remarkable rise in status is not how people tend to remember this story today. Sponsored by the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund and the Department of Classics at Amherst College Free and open to the public. www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…> Myke Cole<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Sep. 26, 5 – 6:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 303 Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453 "Twitterstoria: Memes, pop-culture, social media, and how pop-historians can work with academia to help ancient history find a mass audience" www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brandeis.edu_class…> October 2019 Robert Bartlett (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 1, 5:15 – 6:30 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building E51, Room 255, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 "Rhetoric and Democracy: Aristotle on the Art of Persuasive Speech" MIT's Ancient and Medieval Studies Colloquium [Robert Bartlett (Boston College)] Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Oct. 3, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Persians in Greek and in Elamite: Achaemenid History and the Persepolis Fortification Archive" Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Brian Daniels (Penn Cultural Heritage Center)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 9, 5 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "Cultural Recovery in a Time of Violence: Protecting Heritage Sites in Syria" Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Department of Classical Studies Vinzenz Brinkmann (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 11, 12 – 2 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Nadav Asraf (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 11, 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 'The Word Within a Word': The Syntactical Properties of Word Parts in Ancient Greek GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics” Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Application required (deadline September 20th). See website for more details. Send questions to digitalmanuscriptediting(a)gmail.com<mailto:digitalmanuscriptediting@gmail.com>. Application form: https://tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_digitalman…>. Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Digital Scholarship Support Group. dssg.fas.harvard.edu…<https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing-medieval-manuscripts/> [Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop] Shelley Haley (Hamilton College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482 "Race-ing” the Romans: Uncovering the Racial Constructs of Ancient Rome Mark Janse (Ghent University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138 "From Katpatuka to Ionanistan: The Rise, Demise and Reawakening of Cappadocian Greek" Followed by the documentary "Last Words" (seriousFilm, 2014) Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Cappadocia (Central Turkey) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Cappadocian speakers were forced to emigrate to Greece, where they were resettled in various locations, especially in Central and Northern Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly shifted to Standard Modern Greek and/or regional varieties thereof and their language was thought to be extinct since the 1970s (Ethnologue, 15th edition, 2005). In June 2005, Mark Janse (Ghent University) and Dimitris Papazachariou (University of Patras) discovered Cappadocians in Central and Northern Greece who could still speak their native language. Amongst them are middle-aged, third-generation speakers who take a very positive attitude towards the language as opposed to their parents and and grandparents. The latter are much less (if at all) inclined to speak Cappadocian and normally switch to Greek and/or Turkish in their conversations. In his lecture, Professor Janse will relate the linguistic history of Cappadocia and the fascinating story of his search und ultimately discovery of the lost Cappadocian language. The lecture will be followed by the documentary film ‘Last Words’. Mark Janse (is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse(a)ugent.be<mailto:mark.janse@ugent.be>) docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_docume…> Mark Janse (Ghent University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Linguistic Convergence in Asia Minor: The Internal Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Cappadocian Greek" Mark Janse is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse(a)ugent.be<mailto:mark.janse@ugent.be>) docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_docume…> Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 12 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium with Sinclair Bell: "Race in the Roman Empire: Black Africans as Subjects and Objects in Imperial Visual Culture" Organized by the Hutchins Center<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-bell?delta…> africa.harvard.edu…<https://africa.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-bell-race-roman-empire…> Mark Janse (University of Ghent)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "More Maculate Musings: New Wordplays in Aristophanes' Lysistrata" The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> Simona Martorana (Durham University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "'Writing like a man, becoming-woman’: gender-queerness and literary creation in the Epistula Sapphus" GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-…> Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 28, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom (Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia" Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop earlymod.fas.harvard.edu<https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/> Alex Purves (UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 30, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA James Loeb Lecture New England Ancient Historians Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Campus Center, 10th Floor, Amherst Room, Amherst, MA 01002 Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross) "The Political Power of the Middle Republican Army" Commentator: Will Broadhead (Associate Professor of History, MIT) 5:30 PM: reception—complimentary wine, beer, and appetizers 6:30 PM: dinner (cash bar available) 7:30–9:30 PM: speaker and commentator Registration required by Wednesday, October 23: https://www.neahc.us/registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_registrat…>. New England Ancient Historians Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_&d=DwMFAw…> www.neahc.us<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_&d=DwMFAw…> November 2019 Flavian (Re)Configurations: Civic Ideals and Urban Realities<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Nov. 8, 3 – 6 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Integrative Learning Center S331, UMass Amherst, 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst MA 01003 Speakers: Salvador Bartera (Mississippi State University) Virginia Closs (UMass Amherst) Steven Ellis (University of Cincinnati) Elizabeth Macauly-Lewis (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Eric Poehler (UMass Amherst) Sponsored by UMass Amherst Department of Classics and College of Humanities and Fine Arts. More information: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa(a)classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512) www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_classics_…> [Flavian (Re)Configurations: Civic Ideals and Urban Realities] The 12th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Nov. 9 "Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment" Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) and Mr. Marquis "I AM" McCray www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_rs_2019_08_2…> Brent Seales (University of Kentucky)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Nov. 14, 5 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Clapp Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "The Digital Restoration Initiative: Reading the Invisible Library" Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Book Studies Program Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Nov. 21, 5:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Venantius Fortunatus" April 2020 Vesta Curtis (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Apr. 22 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture July 2020 Classical Association of New England Summer Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., July 13 – Sat., July 18 BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Providence, RI 02912 On the theme "The Empire and the Individual" graduate credit available For more information and registration details, go to www.caneweb.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.caneweb.org_&d=DwMF…> Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at summerinst(a)caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>. caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__caneweb.org_new_-3Fpag…> 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>. 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Digital manuscript editing workshop - deadline 09/20

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Harvard University Digital Scholarship Support Group: Call for Applications Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript *Workshop Date*: October 19th-20th, 2019 *Application Form*: tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting *Application Deadline*: September 20th, 2019 *Contact*: digitalmanuscriptediting(a)gmail.com *Location*: Lamont Library, Harvard University The workshop, co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, covers the fundamentals of digital editing while tackling the codicological challenges posed by medieval manuscripts. Practical sessions inform collective editorial decision-making: participants will undertake the work of transcription and commentary, and encode (according to TEI P5 protocols) the text and images of a medieval manuscript. The workshop will result in a collaborative digital edition. The manuscript selected for this workshop is Houghton Lat. 159, a late medieval Book of Hours written in Latin; we will focus on a selection of suffrages. No language proficiencies are required for participation. This graduate-run workshop is *free of charge*, and lunch will be provided for participants. A limited number of small need-based travel bursaries are available for participants traveling Cambridge. The workshop will be limited to twelve places and preference will be given to graduate students with demonstrated need for training in manuscript study and text encoding. You will be notified whether we have been able to secure you a place by *September 23rd*. For more information on the project and on previous iterations of the workshop, see https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing-medieval-manuscripts/ and https://digitalrollsandfragments.com/workshops/.

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Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 13th

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Boston Area Classics Calendar September 2019 Reception for "Art at the Greek Institute" <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sun., Sep. 15, 4 – 7 p.m. THE GREEK INSTITUTE, 1038 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Exhibit September 15th through October 30th. Reception September 15th 4 to 7 p.m. Composite photographs of past and present at the most iconic sites of Athens. Free admission, books and prints for sale. Richard W. Moore, photographer. [image: Reception for "Art at the Greek Institute"] The Parthenon of Makronisos: Re-educating the Greeks during the Cold War <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Sep. 16, 6 – 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Screening of the film “Like Stone Lions at the Gateway into Night” (directed by Olivier Zuchuat; France, Switzerland and Greece, 2012, 87 min., in Modern Greek, with English subtitles), introduced by Adrian Stähli (Harvard University). Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> [image: The Parthenon of Makronisos: Re-educating the Greeks during the Cold War] Urban Space, Roman Couture, and A Living Past: Views of Pompeii and Pantheon – Marc Babej and William Wylie <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Sep. 19, 4:30 – 6 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, 287 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT 06459 Artist William Wylie’s subject is Pompeii. The once-flourishing city on the Bay of Naples was destroyed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, and it has long been renowned for its vivid evocation of ordinary life and sudden catastrophe. Wylie’s images are meticulously composed, finely observed black-and-white studies, primarily of architecture. Even though Pompeii is normally thronged with tourists, his pictures of the buildings are unpopulated and still, allowing us to attend to the details of the structures that remain. The photographs are documentary, in that they represent real scenes in real time, and they are also unmistakably the products of an artist's sophisticated eye and sensibility. Rather than a Rome in ruins, artist Marc Erwin Babej envisions a Rome that never fell. His "Pantheon" may be categorized less as photography and more as "photo-based art." Created with a camera and a computer, his pictures commingle the genres of portraiture and fashion and dramatic tableau. They are infused with Roman myth and history, to which Babej brings a scholar's knowledge and a devotee's enthusiasm. Each of the solitary figures bears a name that is well-known from Roman antiquity; each is set in a digital reconstruction of an identifiable building that stands, or once stood, in or near the city itself. The resulting images are elegant, engaging visual fictions that allude to the rich diversity of the Roman world. On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 4:30pm in Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, there will be an Artist Talk with Marc Babej and William Wylie. A reception will follow the presentation and conversation in the South Gallery of the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. www.wesleyan.edu… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.wesleyan.edu_cfa_e…> Evina Sistakou (University of Thessaloniki) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Helena González-Vaquerizo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Warren House, Room 201, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Kazantzakis’ *Odyssey*: A (Post)Modern(ist) Sequel" Should we consider Nikos Kazantzakis’ *magnum opus*, *The Odyssey* (1938), a dead end in his career or its very starting point? Whereas today a growing number of critics acknowledge modernist and even postmodernist elements in the author’s novelistic work and thought, it still needs to be proven not only that such elements do exist in *The Odyssey*, but that the poem is the source of Kazantzakis’ later (post)modernism. The aim of my presentation is to provide evidence for this and to propose an interpretation of *The Odyssey *as an epic in the process of becoming a novel, in fact, a (post)modernist novel. Such an interpretation will illustrate major aspects not only of *The Odyssey* itself but also of the overall development of Kazantzakis' literary work. 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…> Meredith E. Safran (Trinity College) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Sep. 26, 5 – 6:15 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Hall rm.#107 (Paino Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002 "From Spoils to Saviors: Re-valuing the First Roman Wives as Civic Actors in Livy's 'From the Foundation of the City'" Many of Rome’s founding civic myths conjoin the community’s political transformation with sexualized violence against women.This talk will focus on the episode traditionally known as “the rape of the Sabine women,” in which the first Romans staved off the extinction of their new community and established Rome’s version of marriage, but did so by obtaining their wives through a mass bride abduction. Unlike most of the women who fall victim to violence in Rome’s founding myths, the Sabine women not only survive their assault; by the end of their story, as told by the Roman historian Livy, they’ve won universal respect and recognition for saving both new and old communities, which they risk their own lives to defend. We’ll explore how such a triumph could result from a story that begins with assault and consider why these women’s remarkable rise in status is not how people tend to remember this story today. Sponsored by the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund and the Department of Classics at Amherst College Free and open to the public. www.amherst.edu… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…> October 2019 Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Oct. 3, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Ancient Studies Visitors Series Brian Daniels (Penn Cultural Heritage Center) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 9, 5 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "Cultural Recovery in a Time of Violence: Protecting Heritage Sites in Syria" Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Department of Classical Studies Vinzenz Brinkmann (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 11, 12 – 2 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Application required (deadline September 20th). See website for more details. Send questions to digitalmanuscriptediting(a)gmail.com. Application form: https://tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_digitalman…> . Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Digital Scholarship Support Group. dssg.fas.harvard.edu… <https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing-medieval-manuscripts/> [image: Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop] Shelley Haley (Hamilton College) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482 "Race-ing” the Romans: Uncovering the Racial Constructs of Ancient Rome Mark Janse (Ghent University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138 "From Katpatuka to Ionanistan: The Rise, Demise and Reawakening of Cappadocian Greek" Followed by the documentary "Last Words" (seriousFilm, 2014) Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Cappadocia (Central Turkey) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Cappadocian speakers were forced to emigrate to Greece, where they were resettled in various locations, especially in Central and Northern Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly shifted to Standard Modern Greek and/or regional varieties thereof and their language was thought to be extinct since the 1970s (*Ethnologue*, 15th edition, 2005). In June 2005, Mark Janse (Ghent University) and Dimitris Papazachariou (University of Patras) discovered Cappadocians in Central and Northern Greece who could still speak their native language. Amongst them are middle-aged, third-generation speakers who take a very positive attitude towards the language as opposed to their parents and and grandparents. The latter are much less (if at all) inclined to speak Cappadocian and normally switch to Greek and/or Turkish in their conversations. In his lecture, Professor Janse will relate the linguistic history of Cappadocia and the fascinating story of his search und ultimately discovery of the lost Cappadocian language. The lecture will be followed by the documentary film ‘Last Words’. Mark Janse (is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse(a)ugent.be) docs.google.com… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_docume…> Mark Janse (Ghent University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Linguistic Convergence in Asia Minor: The Internal Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Cappadocian Greek" Mark Janse is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse(a)ugent.be) docs.google.com… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_docume…> Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 12 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium with Sinclair Bell: "Race in the Roman Empire: Black Africans as Subjects and Objects in Imperial Visual Culture" Organized by the Hutchins Center <https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-bell?delta…> africa.harvard.edu… <https://africa.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-bell-race-roman-empire…> Mark Janse (University of Ghent) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "More Maculate Musings: New Wordplays in Aristophanes' *Lysistrata*" The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> Simona Martorana (Durham University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 23, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "'Writing like a man, *becoming-woman*’: gender-queerness and literary creation in the *Epistula Sapphus*" GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics" <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-…> Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 28, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom (Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138 "*Mancipia Indica*: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia" Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Alex Purves (UCLA) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 30, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA James Loeb Lecture New England Ancient Historians Colloquium <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Campus Center, 10th Floor, Amherst Room, Amherst, MA 01002 Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross) "The Political Power of the Middle Republican Army" Commentator: Will Broadhead (Associate Professor of History, MIT) 5:30: drinks and appetizers 6:30: dinner 7:30–9:30: speaker and commentator 7:30–9:30: speaker and commentator Registration required (details to follow) New England Ancient Historians Colloquium November 2019 The 12th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Nov. 9 "Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment" Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) and Mr. Marquis "I AM" McCray www.bu.edu… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_rs_2019_08_2…> Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Nov. 14, 5 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Clapp Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "The Digital Restoration Initiative: Reading the Invisible Library" Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Book Studies Program Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Nov. 21, 5:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Venantius Fortunatus" April 2020 Vesta Curtis (British Museum) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Apr. 22 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture 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. 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Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 6th

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Boston Area Classics Calendar September 2019 Krešimir Vuković (Catholic University of Croatia) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Sep. 9, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The River and the City: Myths of the Tiber in Roman Space and Literature” Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Sep. 10, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Were Barbarians Barbaric?" Scholars have normally taken this concept as a prime marker of the perceived ethnic divide between Greeks and aliens. This paper sets the “barbarian” in a very different frame and questions the image of natural inferiority and subhuman character. This event is free and open to the public, a light reception will follow, and there will be photography. You can find more information on the Classics Department website. events.brown.edu… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_class…> [image: Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)] Reception for "Art at the Greek Institute" <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sun., Sep. 15, 4 – 7 p.m. THE GREEK INSTITUTE, 1038 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Exhibit September 15th through October 30th. Reception September 15th 4 to 7 p.m. Composite photographs of past and present at the most iconic sites of Athens. Free admission, books and prints for sale. Richard W. Moore, photographer. [image: Reception for "Art at the Greek Institute"] The Parthenon of Makronisos: Re-educating the Greeks during the Cold War <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Sep. 16, 6 – 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Screening of the film “Like Stone Lions at the Gateway into Night” (directed by Olivier Zuchuat; France, Switzerland and Greece, 2012, 87 min., in Modern Greek, with English subtitles), introduced by Adrian Stähli (Harvard University). Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Evina Sistakou (University of Thessaloniki) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Helena González-Vaquerizo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Warren House, Room 201, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Kazantzakis’ *Odyssey*: A (Post)Modern(ist) Sequel" Should we consider Nikos Kazantzakis’ *magnum opus*, *The Odyssey* (1938), a dead end in his career or its very starting point? Whereas today a growing number of critics acknowledge modernist and even postmodernist elements in the author’s novelistic work and thought, it still needs to be proven not only that such elements do exist in *The Odyssey*, but that the poem is the source of Kazantzakis’ later (post)modernism. The aim of my presentation is to provide evidence for this and to propose an interpretation of *The Odyssey *as an epic in the process of becoming a novel, in fact, a (post)modernist novel. Such an interpretation will illustrate major aspects not only of *The Odyssey* itself but also of the overall development of Kazantzakis' literary work. 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…> October 2019 Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Oct. 3, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Ancient Studies Visitors Series Vinzenz Brinkmann (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 11, 12 – 2 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Application required (deadline September 20th). See website for more details. Send questions to digitalmanuscriptediting(a)gmail.com. Application form: https://tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_digitalman…> . Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Digital Scholarship Support Group. dssg.fas.harvard.edu… <https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing-medieval-manuscripts/> [image: Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop] Shelley Haley (Hamilton College) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482 "Race-ing” the Romans: Uncovering the Racial Constructs of Ancient Rome Mark Janse (Ghent University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mark Janse (Ghent University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 22, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 28, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom (Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138 "*Mancipia Indica*: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia" Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Alex Purves (UCLA) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Oct. 30, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA James Loeb Lecture New England Ancient Historians Colloquium <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Campus Center, 10th Floor, Amherst Room, Amherst, MA 01002 Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross) "The Political Power of the Middle Republican Army" 5:30: drinks and appetizers 6:30: dinner 7:30–9:30: speaker and commentator Registration required (details to follow) New England Ancient History Colloquium November 2019 The 12th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Nov. 9 "Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment" Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) and Mr. Marquis "I AM" McCray www.bu.edu… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_rs_2019_08_2…> Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Nov. 21 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Venantius Fortunatus" April 2020 Vesta Curtis (British Museum) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Apr. 22 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture 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. 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