[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar 9/18/09

Apologies for the delay in sending this week's calendar, as we had trouble with our email list. Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010: #1 (9/18/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE ADDED A GOOGLE CALENDAR LISTING FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to an address dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of as word-processor file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK. Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued the following week. Please circulate as widely as possible. More details about some of the events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Mon., Sept. 21, 5:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge (113), 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies William E. Metcalf (Yale University Art Gallery) "How to Look at Ancient Coins” Reception to follow, with light refreshments. For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu ). Free and open to the public. For directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Pearlman Hall map: http://my.brandeis.edu/map/print-page?id=67 *Thurs., Sept. 24, 7 p.m. SOMERVILLE MUSEUM, 1 Westwood Road, Somerville, MA Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) Lecture on Roman Mosaics http://www.mosaicsnewengland.com/ Fri., September 25, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA Department of the Classics, Loeb Lecture Paul Zanker (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) “Living with Myths in Pompeii and Beyond” *Fri., Sept. 25, 5:30 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA Eugene Borza (Pennsylvania State University) “The Lure of Greece: Utopia Exposed” Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Art of the Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Free to the public; tickets will be available beginning one hour prior to the lecture at the Huntington Avenue Entrance. *Tues., Sept. 29, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 133 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture James D. Faubion (Rice University) "Foucault in Athens" *Wed., Sept. 30, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for Government and International Studies - South S010, 1730 Cambridge, MA Opening of Term Event hosted by the Standing Committee on Archaeology, Harvard University Susan Alcock (Brown University) and Stephen Houston (Brown University), Moderated by Michael McCormick (Harvard University) "A Conversation on Staking out Space for Archaeology in the North American Academy" A reception will follow. Thurs., Oct. 1, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome Andrea Cucchiarelli (Sapienza University of Rome) “Virgil and the Invention of the ‘Augustan Age’ (Divine Models and Political Language in the Eclogues and Georgics)” *Thurs., Oct. 1, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College) "Rediscovering Boscoreale: Roman Country Villas and Their Treasures” Reception to follow; free and open to the public. Thurs., Oct. 8, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA M. Victor Leventritt Seminar Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College) and Victoria I (artist/ designer) "The Art and Peril of Reconstructing Roman Space" Fri., Oct. 16, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA Department of the Classics, Loeb Lecture Marguerite Rigoglioso “The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece” Tues., Oct. 20, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke to Read Her Poetry at Harvard *Thurs., Oct 29, 4:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall, Rm. 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA Richard Martin (Stanford University) "Lost Boys and Lethal Toys: Attaining Manhood in Greek and Irish Saga" *Thurs., Oct 29, 5:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge (113), 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Stephen Scully (Boston University) "Hesiod’s Olympus" Reception to follow, with light refreshments. For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu ). Free and open to the public. For directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Pearlman Hall map: http://my.brandeis.edu/map/print-page?id=67 *Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University) “Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)” Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology *Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4th and 5th HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/conferenceprogram12-09.pdf APPENDIX: Wheelchair access: to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the elevator to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic Museum at Harvard. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics