Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2022
If A Picture Never Lies: An Opera Adaptation of Vergil's Bucolics by Harry Sage '22<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 25, 6:30 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Adams Pool Theater, Westmorly Hall, 26 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Join us for the world premiere of If A Picture Never Lies, a chamber opera by Harry Sage ’22! A new adaptation of Vergil’s Bucolics, our show reinterprets 2000-year-old poetry about the ancient Roman countryside to ask timeless questions about possession and loss, memory and song, and the possibility of paradise.
IAPNL is a joint senior thesis in Music and the Classics and is presented with the support of the Harvard Classical Club and Classics Department. The opera is 30 minutes long and sung in English.
Performances are at Adams Pool Theater at 6:30 PM on Friday, 2/25 and 8:00 PM on Saturday, 2/26. The event is free and open to the public with HUID or proof of vaccination. Reservations are first-come, first-serve; visit bit.ly/pictureneverlies<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_pictureneverlies…> to save your seat!
docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>
contact: Michael Baick (mbaick(a)college.harvard.edu<mailto:mbaick@college.harvard.edu>)
If A Picture Never Lies: An Opera Adaptation of Vergil's Bucolics by Harry Sage '22<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Feb. 26, 8 – 8:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Adams Pool Theater, Westmorly Hall, 26 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Join us for the world premiere of If A Picture Never Lies, a chamber opera by Harry Sage ’22! A new adaptation of Vergil’s Bucolics, our show reinterprets 2000-year-old poetry about the ancient Roman countryside to ask timeless questions about possession and loss, memory and song, and the possibility of paradise.
IAPNL is a joint senior thesis in Music and the Classics and is presented with the support of the Harvard Classical Club and Classics Department. The opera is 30 minutes long and sung in English.
Performances are at Adams Pool Theater at 6:30 PM on Friday, 2/25 and 8:00 PM on Saturday, 2/26. The event is free and open to the public with HUID or proof of vaccination. Reservations are first-come, first-serve; visit bit.ly/pictureneverlies<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_pictureneverlies…> to save your seat!
docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>
contact: Michael Baick (mbaick(a)college.harvard.edu<mailto:mbaick@college.harvard.edu>)
Louis Zweig (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Feb. 28, 12 – 1 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (On Zoom)
"X marks the spot: The Ecbasis captivi and Jerome's Vita Malchi"
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
March 2022
Mathias Hanses (Penn State University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 3, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Zoom. Registration required.)
"Cicero with Local Applications: W. E. B. DuBois' Views of the Ancient Mediterranean at the turn of the Twentieth Century"
Registration required<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_p…>.
Co-sponsors: Classics Department, the Core Curriculum, African American Studies and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving Forward<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_de…>
Reed Morgan (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Mar. 7, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
"The Laic Archaic" featuring Daniel Lavery<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Mar. 9, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Zoom
Daniel Lavery is the author of “Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” “The Merry Spinster,” and “Texts From Jane Eyre.” He is the co-founder of “The Toast” and the proprietor of the Chatner newsletter; formerly the Dear Prudence advice columnist at Slate. He will be reading from some of his published writings, particularly on Sappho and Catullus, and then discussing with Prof. Johanna Hanink how his work has been informed by his “amateur enthusiasm for Classics.”
Registration is required for this event.
brown.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_meeting_…>
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 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…>
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Mar. 21, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Towards a new edition of Sappho: ordering the fragments of Book 1"
Book 1 of the ancient edition of Sappho consisted of all her poems in the sapphic metre. We have quite a lot of evidence for this book (at least, compared to our evidence for all her other books), and this paper looks at one important aspect of it in particular: the order of the poems which it contained. It considers the question under two related headings. First, how much do we actually know about the ordering? For instance, how sure can we be that the famous ‘Ode to Aphrodite’ poem came first in the edition? (Surer than is currently realised, it turns out.) Apart from that first poem, was alphabetical order the rule, or were there further exceptions – and if so, on what basis, and to what effect? Second, how should modern editors approach the issue of how to order the fragments? A modern vulgate order has become established over the past century, and all other things being equal, it is better not to disturb such an ordering without good reason – but are all other things equal, and might there now be a good reason? Or to put it another way, what could a better ordering of the fragments achieve? And if we do reorder, what do we do with the fragments which cannot be firmly placed in any particular location within the book? By considering these points, both theoretical and practical, we can (it is hoped) become more attuned to the editorial shaping of the most-read book of the most-read female writer in antiquity, and thus, perhaps, become better readers of the Sappho known to so many generations across so many centuries throughout the ancient world.
Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 22, 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Lecture: TBA
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
April 2022
Aurelio Conference in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 1, 2 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA
Join us at Boston University on Friday, April 1 at 2PM for a celebration of Prof. Jeffrey Henderson, who will be retiring at the end of the semester from his position as the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature. We will celebrate Prof. Henderson's career and influence with papers by four distinguished scholars of Greek literature, followed by a reception and dinner in Jeff's honor. All invited. Pre-registration is encouraged for the conference with walk-ins welcome; registration is required for the dinner. Please visit bu.edu/classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_&d…> beginning in late February for more information and a registration link.
Katherine Schwab, Fairfield University<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Schwab, an art historian and archaeologist, will speak about her most recent discoveries in drawing the broken Parthenon metopes.
Christian Thomsen (University of Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 12, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 (and on Zoom)
TBA
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD
Book launch for The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe.
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Ammerman, a classical archaeologist, will speak about votive imagery and the cult of the nymphs at Metaponto.
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2022
Emily Greenwood (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Feb. 14, 1 – 2 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Cogut Institute for the Humanities (Zoom)
"Verso Poetics: The Left-Hand of Tradition in Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk"
Dionne Brand’s 2018 collection The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos has a double-voiced structure with two narrators — a poet narrator and a clerk who edits the poet’s oeuvre. The versos in question are the poet’s left-hand pages, or discarded drafts, which have notionally been withheld from publication. These versos resist the obligatory dialogue with the colonial tradition which Brand has elsewhere described as a “condition of coloniality.” Conversely, the recto pages — the front side, or right-hand pages — address this tradition explicitly. This lecture will analyze Dionne Brand’s verso poetics as a theory of counter-imperial and postcolonial translation and explore potential points of contact with Horace’s poetics of adaptation in the “Ars Poetica.”
brown.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
Louis Zweig (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Feb. 28, 12 – 1 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (On Zoom)
"X marks the spot: The Ecbasis captivi and Jerome's Vita Malchi"
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
March 2022
Mathias Hanses (Penn State University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 3, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Zoom. Registration required.)
"Cicero with Local Applications: W. E. B. DuBois' Views of the Ancient Mediterranean at the turn of the Twentieth Century"
Registration required<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_p…>.
Co-sponsors: Classics Department, the Core Curriculum, African American Studies and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving Forward<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_de…>
Reed Morgan (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Mar. 7, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 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…>
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Mar. 21, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Towards a new edition of Sappho: ordering the fragments of Book 1"
Book 1 of the ancient edition of Sappho consisted of all her poems in the sapphic metre. We have quite a lot of evidence for this book (at least, compared to our evidence for all her other books), and this paper looks at one important aspect of it in particular: the order of the poems which it contained. It considers the question under two related headings. First, how much do we actually know about the ordering? For instance, how sure can we be that the famous ‘Ode to Aphrodite’ poem came first in the edition? (Surer than is currently realised, it turns out.) Apart from that first poem, was alphabetical order the rule, or were there further exceptions – and if so, on what basis, and to what effect? Second, how should modern editors approach the issue of how to order the fragments? A modern vulgate order has become established over the past century, and all other things being equal, it is better not to disturb such an ordering without good reason – but are all other things equal, and might there now be a good reason? Or to put it another way, what could a better ordering of the fragments achieve? And if we do reorder, what do we do with the fragments which cannot be firmly placed in any particular location within the book? By considering these points, both theoretical and practical, we can (it is hoped) become more attuned to the editorial shaping of the most-read book of the most-read female writer in antiquity, and thus, perhaps, become better readers of the Sappho known to so many generations across so many centuries throughout the ancient world.
Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 22, 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Lecture: TBA
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
April 2022
Katherine Schwab, Fairfield University<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Schwab, an art historian and archaeologist, will speak about her most recent discoveries in drawing the broken Parthenon metopes.
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD
Book launch for The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe.
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Ammerman, a classical archaeologist, will speak about votive imagery and the cult of the nymphs at Metaponto.
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