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Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 24, 2021

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Boston Area Classics Calendar September 2021 Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 29, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom "The Body and the Letter" The letter is always a reminder of an absence that engenders and sustains the correspondence. This talk explores how Roman letter writers (Cicero, Seneca, Ovid) construct their epistolary addressee’s absence and their own presence on the page. The letter may be a reflection of the writer’s soul, a replacement for the writer’s physical body, or even a “real” trace (e.g. blood, tears) of the absent body. By reading these epistolary strategies through the lens of metonymy and synecdoche, we can differentiate between situations of amicitia or fraternal amor (usually presented through metonymy) and erotic amor (usually presented through synecdoche). Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> [Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)] October 2021 Vassiliki Panoussi (College of William and Mary)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 1, 4 – 5 p.m. UMASS AMHERST, Herter Hall, Room 301, Amherst, MA 01002 "Celebrating Isis: Ritual and Ethnicity in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses." Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Classics Department www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_classics…> Conference: Virgilian Space and Places (Day 1)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 15, 3:30 – 6:30 p.m. UMASS AMHERST, 144 Hicks Way (Friday at the Old Chapel) and 150 Hicks Way (Saturday at South College E470), Amherst, MA 01002 OR via Zoom The Departments of Classics at Amherst College and UMass Amherst, supported by the Lamont Fund, are hosting a conference on “Virgilian Space and Places” Friday, October 15 (3:30-6:30 p.m.) and all day Saturday, October 16 (9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.). The speakers are Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU/Siena), Brian Breed (UMass), Cynthia Damon (Penn), Elena Giusti (Warwick), Alison Keith (Toronto), Micah Myers (Kenyon), Aaron Seider (Holy Cross), Sarah Spence (Georgia), Richard Thomas (Harvard), Graham Zanker (Canterbury/Adelaide), and Tom Zanker (Amherst). All sessions will allow for both in-person and virtual attendance. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required both for in-person attendance (on a space-available basis and as campus Covid-19 protocols allow) and to receive a link to participate remotely via Zoom. Early registration is encouraged (by October 1 if ordering lunch on Saturday). www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_classics…> Brian Breed (bbreed(a)umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@umass.edu>) and Tom Zanker (azanker(a)amherst.edu<mailto:azanker@amherst.edu>) Conference: Virgilian Space and Places (Day 2)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Oct. 16, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. UMASS AMHERST, 144 Hicks Way (Friday at the Old Chapel) and 150 Hicks Way (Saturday at South College E470), Amherst, MA 01002 OR via Zoom The Departments of Classics at Amherst College and UMass Amherst, supported by the Lamont Fund, are hosting a conference on “Virgilian Space and Places” Friday, October 15 (3:30-6:30 p.m.) and all day Saturday, October 16 (9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.). The speakers are Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU/Siena), Brian Breed (UMass), Cynthia Damon (Penn), Elena Giusti (Warwick), Alison Keith (Toronto), Micah Myers (Kenyon), Aaron Seider (Holy Cross), Sarah Spence (Georgia), Richard Thomas (Harvard), Graham Zanker (Canterbury/Adelaide), and Tom Zanker (Amherst). All sessions will allow for both in-person and virtual attendance. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required both for in-person attendance (on a space-available basis and as campus Covid-19 protocols allow) and to receive a link to participate remotely via Zoom. Early registration is encouraged (by October 1 if ordering lunch on Saturday). www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_classics…> Brian Breed (bbreed(a)umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@umass.edu>) and Tom Zanker (azanker(a)amherst.edu<mailto:azanker@amherst.edu>) Kendra Eshelman (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 "Unlettered in Paradise: Non-Readers in Early Christian Reading Culture Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 19, 5 p.m. Zoom. See registration link. "Fascist Receptions of Antiquity in Metal Music" Since its genesis a half-century ago, heavy metal music and the counterculture that formed around it has generally defined itself through transgressive sounds, words, and images as expressions of rebellion against modern and contemporary systems of order, conformity, and control. Often complementary to metal’s core antagonisms to modernity are romanticizing appeals to a premodern past, including ancient Greece and Rome. A small but influential minority of European metal artists push transgression to extremes by flirting with or fully embracing fascist imagery and ideology, and in the process replicating and perpetuating fascist and white supremacist manipulations of a classical antiquity they dream of resurrecting through apocalyptic war and genocide. Fascistic metal artists, many of whom are connected to extremist and terrorist groups and individuals, charismatically offer to thousands of tolerant and susceptible consumers harmful distortions of the classical past. In this talk I not only critique these artists' appropriations of classical history and culture in light of the far-right’s general reception thereof, but I also highlight positive solutions from within the global metal scene to challenge these hateful usurpations of the ancient world. Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and Receptions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditions> harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> [Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University)] November 2021 Caitlin Gillespie (Brandeis University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Nov. 8, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 "The Mind, Once Manly, Now Effeminate: Gender and the Failure of Language in Sallust" Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> December 2021 Kelly Dugan (Trinity College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Dec. 1, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> February 2022 Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> March 2022 Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails. View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>. Submit events using our event submission form<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission>. Contact calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu> with questions or additions/corrections.

2 years, 7 months

Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 17, 2021

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Boston Area Classics Calendar September 2021 "Art Talk Live: Persepolis in Color"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Sep. 21, 12:30 – 1 p.m. Zoom People tend to think of ancient sculpture as colorless, as it appears today. But the carved surfaces were often vibrantly painted. Scientific analysis can help us envision the Persian capital city Persepolis in its original splendor. Led by: Katherine Eremin (Patricia Cornwell Senior Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies) and Susanne Ebbinghaus (George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and Head, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art) This talk is part of a series inspired by ReFrame, a museum-wide initiative to reimagine the function, role, and future of the university art museum. These talks examine difficult histories, foreground untold stories, and experiment with new approaches to the collections of the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting the concerns of our world today. This talk will take place online via Zoom. Free admission, but registration is required. To register, please complete this online form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>. Please read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__support.zoom.us_hc_en-…>. For general questions about Art Talks, email am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu>. harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardartmuseums.org_…> contact: am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu> Entangled Histories: The Bamiyan Buddhas—Past, Present, and Future<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 22, 7 – 8:15 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS (Zoom) Western scholarship has focused on the monumental sculptures in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley as Buddhas created in the late sixth and early seventh centuries. This lecture tells an alternative story based on Islamic sources from the tenth to the twentieth century, which saw these sculptures not as Buddhas but as legendary heroes representing the mythic conversion of the Bamiyan Valley to Islam. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Taliban destroyed the sculptures—as Buddhas. After the fall of the Taliban, the sculptures’ entangled histories and the viewpoints of multiple stakeholders posed challenges for the global debate on how best to memorialize the destroyed images. Now that the Taliban has again taken power, the question is: what is Bamiyan’s future? Speakers: Deborah Klimburg-Salter, University Professor of Art History, emerita, University of Vienna, Austria, and Associate, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Masanori Nagaoka, Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO Office in Cambodia This talk will take place online via Zoom. Free admission, but registration is required. To register, please complete this online form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>. Please read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__support.zoom.us_hc_en-…>. For general questions, email am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu>. The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu> at least 48 hours in advance. M. Victor Leventritt Lecture harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardartmuseums.org_…> am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu> Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Sep. 24, 9:30 – 11 a.m. and 2:30 – 4 p.m. Zoom This colloquium brings together scholars working on early Judaism, early Christianity, and Classics to discuss authorship and attribution beyond the typical boundaries of our fields. Monthly events through December will feature panel discussions of prominent work in this area, alongside new research presentations. Come join us to hear interdisciplinary dialogue on authorial fictions and attributions in the ancient Mediterranean, featuring top scholars in ancient history, as well as rising stars among early career researchers! branecollective.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__branecollective.org_20…> BRANECollective(a)gmail.com<mailto:BRANECollective@gmail.com> [Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean] Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 29, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom "The Body and the Letter" The letter is always a reminder of an absence that engenders and sustains the correspondence. This talk explores how Roman letter writers (Cicero, Seneca, Ovid) construct their epistolary addressee’s absence and their own presence on the page. The letter may be a reflection of the writer’s soul, a replacement for the writer’s physical body, or even a “real” trace (e.g. blood, tears) of the absent body. By reading these epistolary strategies through the lens of metonymy and synecdoche, we can differentiate between situations of amicitia or fraternal amor (usually presented through metonymy) and erotic amor (usually presented through synecdoche). Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> [Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)] October 2021 Vassiliki Panoussi (College of William and Mary)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 1, 4 – 5 p.m. UMASS AMHERST, Herter Hall, Room 301, Amherst, MA 01002 "Celebrating Isis: Ritual and Ethnicity in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses." Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Classics Department www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_classics…> Conference: Virgilian Space and Places<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Day 1: Fri., Oct. 15, 3:30 – 6:30 p.m. Day 2: Sat., Oct. 16, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. UMASS AMHERST, 144 Hicks Way (Friday at the Old Chapel) and 150 Hicks Way (Saturday at South College E470), Amherst, MA 01002 OR via Zoom The Departments of Classics at Amherst College and UMass Amherst, supported by the Lamont Fund, are hosting a conference on “Virgilian Space and Places” Friday, October 15 (3:30-6:30 p.m.) and all day Saturday, October 16 (9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.). The speakers are Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU/Siena), Brian Breed (UMass), Cynthia Damon (Penn), Elena Giusti (Warwick), Alison Keith (Toronto), Micah Myers (Kenyon), Aaron Seider (Holy Cross), Sarah Spence (Georgia), Richard Thomas (Harvard), Graham Zanker (Canterbury/Adelaide), and Tom Zanker (Amherst). All sessions will allow for both in-person and virtual attendance. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required both for in-person attendance (on a space-available basis and as campus Covid-19 protocols allow) and to receive a link to participate remotely via Zoom. Early registration is encouraged (by October 1 if ordering lunch on Saturday). www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_classics…> Brian Breed (bbreed(a)umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@umass.edu>) and Tom Zanker (azanker(a)amherst.edu<mailto:azanker@amherst.edu>) Kendra Eshelman (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 19, 5 p.m. Zoom. See registration link. "Fascist Receptions of Antiquity in Metal Music" Since its genesis a half-century ago, heavy metal music and the counterculture that formed around it has generally defined itself through transgressive sounds, words, and images as expressions of rebellion against modern and contemporary systems of order, conformity, and control. Often complementary to metal’s core antagonisms to modernity are romanticizing appeals to a premodern past, including ancient Greece and Rome. A small but influential minority of European metal artists push transgression to extremes by flirting with or fully embracing fascist imagery and ideology, and in the process replicating and perpetuating fascist and white supremacist manipulations of a classical antiquity they dream of resurrecting through apocalyptic war and genocide. Fascistic metal artists, many of whom are connected to extremist and terrorist groups and individuals, charismatically offer to thousands of tolerant and susceptible consumers harmful distortions of the classical past. In this talk I not only critique these artists' appropriations of classical history and culture in light of the far-right’s general reception thereof, but I also highlight positive solutions from within the global metal scene to challenge these hateful usurpations of the ancient world. Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and Receptions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditions> harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> [Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University)] November 2021 Caitlin Gillespie (Brandeis University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Nov. 8, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> December 2021 Kelly Dugan (Trinity College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Dec. 1, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> February 2022 Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> March 2022 Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails. View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>. Submit events using our event submission form<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission>. Contact calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu> with questions or additions/corrections.

2 years, 7 months

Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 10, 2021

by Classics Calendar

Boston Area Classics Calendar September 2021 Entangled Histories: The Bamiyan Buddhas—Past, Present, and Future<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 22, 7 – 8:15 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS (Zoom) Western scholarship has focused on the monumental sculptures in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley as Buddhas created in the late sixth and early seventh centuries. This lecture tells an alternative story based on Islamic sources from the tenth to the twentieth century, which saw these sculptures not as Buddhas but as legendary heroes representing the mythic conversion of the Bamiyan Valley to Islam. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Taliban destroyed the sculptures—as Buddhas. After the fall of the Taliban, the sculptures’ entangled histories and the viewpoints of multiple stakeholders posed challenges for the global debate on how best to memorialize the destroyed images. Now that the Taliban has again taken power, the question is: what is Bamiyan’s future? Speakers: Deborah Klimburg-Salter, University Professor of Art History, emerita, University of Vienna, Austria, and Associate, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Masanori Nagaoka, Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO Office in Cambodia This talk will take place online via Zoom. Free admission, but registration is required. To register, please complete this online form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>. Please read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__support.zoom.us_hc_en-…>. For general questions, email am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu>. The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu> at least 48 hours in advance. M. Victor Leventritt Lecture harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardartmuseums.org_…> am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu> Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Sep. 29, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom "The Body and the Letter" The letter is always a reminder of an absence that engenders and sustains the correspondence. This talk explores how Roman letter writers (Cicero, Seneca, Ovid) construct their epistolary addressee’s absence and their own presence on the page. The letter may be a reflection of the writer’s soul, a replacement for the writer’s physical body, or even a “real” trace (e.g. blood, tears) of the absent body. By reading these epistolary strategies through the lens of metonymy and synecdoche, we can differentiate between situations of amicitia or fraternal amor (usually presented through metonymy) and erotic amor (usually presented through synecdoche). Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> [Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)] October 2021 Vassiliki Panoussi (College of William and Mary)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Oct. 1, 4 – 5 p.m. UMASS AMHERST, Herter Hall, Room 301, Amherst, MA 01002 "Celebrating Isis: Ritual and Ethnicity in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses." Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Classics Department www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_classics…> Kendra Eshelman (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Oct. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Oct. 19, 5 p.m. Zoom. See registration link. "Fascist Receptions of Antiquity in Metal Music" Since its genesis a half-century ago, heavy metal music and the counterculture that formed around it has generally defined itself through transgressive sounds, words, and images as expressions of rebellion against modern and contemporary systems of order, conformity, and control. Often complementary to metal’s core antagonisms to modernity are romanticizing appeals to a premodern past, including ancient Greece and Rome. A small but influential minority of European metal artists push transgression to extremes by flirting with or fully embracing fascist imagery and ideology, and in the process replicating and perpetuating fascist and white supremacist manipulations of a classical antiquity they dream of resurrecting through apocalyptic war and genocide. Fascistic metal artists, many of whom are connected to extremist and terrorist groups and individuals, charismatically offer to thousands of tolerant and susceptible consumers harmful distortions of the classical past. In this talk I not only critique these artists' appropriations of classical history and culture in light of the far-right’s general reception thereof, but I also highlight positive solutions from within the global metal scene to challenge these hateful usurpations of the ancient world. Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and Receptions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditions> harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> [Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University)] November 2021 Caitlin Gillespie (Brandeis University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Nov. 8, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> December 2021 Kelly Dugan (Trinity College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Dec. 1, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> February 2022 Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> March 2022 Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails. 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