Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #25 (4/17/09) **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. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Fri., Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Pantelis Nigdelis (Institute for Advanced Study) “The Institution of Ephebeia in Roman Macedonia. A Particular Kind of Ephebeia?” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics *Sat., Apr. 18, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Student Union, 2nd floor Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA Graduate Conference “Outlaws and Brigands and Pirates, Oh My! Conventions of Criminality in the Ancient World” Keynote Speaker: John Bodel (Brown University) For more information, contact Miska Vincze (mjvincze(a)bu.edu) or the Department of Classical Studies at BU (617-353-2427) Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting scholar, Brown University) “Socrates’ Unconventional Eros” Tues., Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Jane Fejfer (University of Copenhagen) “Marble Mania: Sculptural Materiality and Roman Cyprus” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Wed., Apr. 22, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Chapin Lounge, Amherst, MA Alan Boegehold (Brown University) “What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Most’?” Free and open to the public For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classics Wed. Apr. 22, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA David Schloen (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) “The Soul in the Stone: The New ‘Kuttamuwa Stele’ from Iron Age Zincirli (Sam’al), Turkey” Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, 2nd floor Free and open to the public For more information, contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu ) Sponsored by the Semitic Museum and Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Thurs., April 23, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Downey House, Room 200, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Petra Schierl (University of Basel; Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study) “Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Recontextualizing Virgil’s Bucolic Deus” Free and open to the public For further information, contact dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner “Novel Ideas” Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), “Petronius and the Greek Novel” Niall Slater (Emory University), “Various Asses” Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), “Imagined Communities in Ancient Fictions” For further information, contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427 Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities Foundation Mon., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Deborah Beck (Swarthmore College) “Begging, Pleading, and Supplicating: Speech Representations in Phoenix’s Speech to Achilles (Iliad 9.434-605)” *Tues., Apr. 28, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Nick Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Sardis under the Achaemenid Satraps” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Wed., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Core Group Classical Archaeology Talk Series Emanuel Mayer (University of Chicago) “Of Garden Gnomes and Silvercups: Kitsch and the Aesthetics of Standardization in Roman Art” *Wed., Apr. 29, 8:00 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather, Room 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA Henry Bender (College of the Holy Cross and The Hill School) “The Parthenon and the Pantheon as Cultural Symbols” Free and open to the public For further information please contact classics(a)amherst.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund Thurs., Apr. 30, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Andrew Burnett (The British Museum) “What Were Roman Emperors Really Called? Coins as Models of Dissemination” Reception to follow; free and open to the public *Thurs., Apr. 30, 8:00 p.m. BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall, Braun Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Euthimio Souloyannis (The Academy of Athens) “The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa” Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater Boston area. For more information, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit the website at http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) Fri., May 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. THE BOSTON PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND INSTITUTE, 15 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA “The Tragic Perspective in Literature, Politics and Treatment: A Symposium in Honor of Bennett Simon” Presenters: Jonathan Lear (Chicago) and Stanley Cavell (Harvard) in discussion with Bennett Simon (Harvard) Moderators: Humphrey Morris (Harvard) and Jack Foehl (Harvard) Please RSVP to the BPSI Administrative office (office(a)bostonpsychoanalytic.org or 617-266-0953) 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.