Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 8, 2011
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Mon., Apr. 11
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 1: Working in the wake of genius
Tues., Apr. 12
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 2: Flirting with hedonism (it's only natural)
Wed., Apr. 13
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Emerson Hall, Room 305
Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
"Why True? Thoughts and Objects in Aristotle’s Semantics'"
Presented by the Harvard University Department of Philosophy
Thurs., Apr. 14
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 294 High Street, 200 Downey House Middletown, CT 06459
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King's College, London)
"The Editor's Dilemma: Revisiting the Garland Edition of Guillaume de
Machaut's True Story"
Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program. For more information please contact Debbie
Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu).
Thurs., Apr. 14
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 3: The turning point: from Critolaus to Cicero
*Fri., Apr. 15
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave. Rm 409, Boston, MA
02215
Annalisa Marzano (University of Reading)
"Villas and elite ideology"
Refreshments will be served; contact Melissa Joseph, mjoseph(a)bu.edu
Fri., Apr. 15
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 4: Imperial Aristotelianism
Fri. and Sat., Apr. 15-16 (starts 1 p.m. on Apr. 15; 9 a.m. on Apr. 16)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
New Directions in Archaeology 2011
A Workshop Organized by Harvard University's Standing Committee on Archaeology
Please visit our website for the complete workshop program and sign-up:
www.tinyurl.com/newdirections2011
(For directions,
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingpub/misc/directions.html)
*Fri. and Sat., Apr. 15-16 (starts 3:15 p.m. on Apr. 15; 10 a.m. Apr. 16)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA, 02138
POLITEIA: Greek Citizenship in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Friday, Apr. 15, 2011
3.15 The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Opening
3.30 Andreas Victor Walser, Humanties Center at Harvard
Introduction
4.00 Joseph B. Scholten, University of Maryland
"Some Thoughts on Citizenship in the Aitolian *Koinon*"
Coffee Break
5.30 Sviatoslav Dmitriev, Ball State University
"'Graded Citizenship' in Rhodes and Alexandria"
Saturday, Apr. 16, 2011
10.00 Sara Saba, University of Munich, Germany
"Isopoliteia: the Privilege of Not Being a Citizen"
11.00 Andreas Victor Walser, Humanities Center at Harvard
"Sympoliteia: Being a Citizen – with Others"
Lunch Break
2.00 Christof Schuler, German Archaeological Institute, Munich, Germany
"Greek and Roman Citizenship in Late Hellenistic Asia Minor"
3.00 Nathanael Andrade, University of West Virginia
"The Creation of Citizen Performance: Epigraphic Discourse at Palmyra"
Coffee Break
4.15 Ursula Kunnert, University of Zurich, Switzerland
"Civic Subdivisions in the Poleis of the Eastern Roman Provinces: How to Become a
Member"
5.15 Closing Discussion
Mon., Apr. 18
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 117, Amherst, MA 01002
Charles Martindale (University of Bristol)
"Milton’s Classicism: Writing Epic"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, and the Lurcy Fund.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Mon., Apr. 18
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002
Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol)
"Phidias and the Artists: Nineteenth-Century Responses to the Elgin Marbles"
Prettejohn, Professor of History of Art, will present new research related to her
forthcoming book, The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from
Winckelmann to Picasso. Reception to follow at the Mead Art Museum. Sponsored by the
Departments of Classics, Art and the History of Art, the Mead Art Museum, and the Lurcy
Fund.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Mon., Apr. 18
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Aglae Pizzone (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow, Durham University Newton Fellow, UK)
"Imagine there's a tragelaph": figuring out the rise of fictionality in
Byzantium
Mon., Apr. 18
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction in Renaissance
Europe"
*Mon., Apr. 18
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University)
Lorenzo Valla’s Radical Philology: Valla’s Prefaces to the Annotations to the New
Testament in Context
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Thurs., Apr. 21
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Barbara Graziosi (Durham University)
"Divine inspiration and narrative technique in the Iliad"
Wed., Apr. 27
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Behind the Scenes: Touring the Classical Collections"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the collections of Greek,
Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon,
Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the MFA, the final portion of this year's
Lecture will include a guided tour of the MFA's Classical Collections. All those who
wish to attend should contact David.Proctor(a)Tufts.edu to ensure entry.
Fri., Apr. 29
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Schedule:
4:00 Registration
4:15 Presentations:
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia"
Ann Vasaly, Boston University
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
7:00 Reception with Cash Bar
7:30 Dinner
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu; Information: Tel. 617-353-2426
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m. and
Sat., Apr. 30, 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 30, 8:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the German archaeologist
and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978). Her work on Hellenistic and Roman
sculpture and on the Roman Theater remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin
collection will bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of different
backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It will focus on the interrelation
of coins and sculpture with an emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and
portraits of the Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian and Mediterranean
Division.
Speakers include Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University), Carmen Arnold-Biucchi (Harvard
Art Museums), Martin Beckman (University of Western Ontario), Larissa Bonfante (Emerita,
New York University), Barbara Borg (University of Exeter), Karsten Dahmen (Staatliche
Museen zu Berlin), Peter F. Mittag (University of Cologne), Matthias Recke
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen), and William E. Metcalf (Yale University).
Mon., May 2
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
Thurs., May 5
6:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered how we understand our
dreams and their significance. In this cross-disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J.
Allan Hobson), Jungian therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian of
ideas (David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the "meaning" of dreams
and what they can tell us about ourselves in light of these advances.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston
College. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact
Daniel Harris-McCoy (harrises(a)bc.edu).
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