Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2021
Allison Thomason (Southern Illinois
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Feb. 18, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
"Sensing the Past: Sensory Experiences in Ancient Mesopotamia (a 4-D
Presentation)"
Co-sponsored by the AIA-Boston Society & Wellesley College Department of Classical
Studies
We are all sensing people, and the basic physical structure of our sensing organs has not
changed for many thousands of years. But how did ancient humans perceive and experience
sensory stimuli in their environment differently than we do today? As this year’s AIA
Renner Lecturer, Prof. Thomason sets out to explore this topic for the ancient
Mesopotamians in particular. The history of the senses and explorations of sensory
experiences in the ancient world have been increasingly the focus of scholarly research.
Archaeologists, art historians and textual scholars have tried to recreate past sensory
environments and experiences by using evidence from images, artifacts and ancient texts of
all kinds. In this lecture, Dr. Thomason, a specialist in ancient Mesopotamian material
culture, explores how ancient Mesopotamian perceptions of sensory experiences can be
compared to our own modern ones, with sometimes surprising results.
wellesley.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__…
[Allison Thomason (Southern Illinois University)]
Simone Beta (Università di
Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Mon., Feb. 22, 4 – 6 p.m.
Boston University, via Zoom
“Lysistrata’s voices: ten ways to translate an Aristophanic comedy”
Register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_…
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston
University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Feb. 23, 4 – 5 p.m.
Brandeis University, Via Zoom
"Athenian Immigration and Race"
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__w…
classics@brandeis.edu<mailto:classics@brandeis.edu>
Sarah Eisen (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Feb. 25, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
Zoom/Virtual
"Developing a Synesthetic Approach to Classical Archaeology"
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
Contact: nherter@g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>;
davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
March 2021
James Uden (Boston
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Mar. 1, 12 – 1 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Zoom)
Prof. Uden will discuss his recent book Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and
the
Gothic<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.oup.c…IPcZhhYsN_fSpc4glCQ&e=>,
1740-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2020).
This event is free and open to the public:
register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bostonu.zo…eApq1CXGuIGk0ppiZKU&e=>.
sites.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sites.…
contact: Joseph Rezek (jrezek@bu.edu<mailto:jrezek@bu.edu>)
Patrick Geary (Institute for Advanced
Study)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Mon., Mar. 1, 5:15 p.m.
(MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) Zoom
"The Challenges and Dangers of Genetic History"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zo…
required.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zo…
[Patrick Geary (Institute for Advanced Study)]
Ella Kirsh and Oliver Coulson (both of Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 3, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
on Zoom
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Adrienne Mayor (Stanford
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 4, 5 – 6 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST (Zoom)
"Gods and Robots: Imagining Artificial Life in Antiquity"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.g…
is free but required to receive the Zoom link. This event is sponsored by the UMass
Amherst Department of Classics.
docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__do…
Debbie Felton
Richard F. Thomas (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 10, 4 – 6 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
“Viktor Pöschl’s Virgil and Fascist Aesthetics”
co-hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Seminar Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/viktor-p%C…
required. Pre-circulated paper available after completing registration.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical
Traditions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditio…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harva…
Allison Emmerson (Tulane
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 11, 4 – 5 p.m.
Brandeis University, Via Zoom
"Another Man's Treasure? The Life and Afterlife of Pompeii's Waste"
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__w…
classics@brandeis.edu<mailto:classics@brandeis.edu>
Roger Travis Jr. (University of
Connecticut)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
Thu., Mar. 11, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
"The Rise of Red Skull as Homeric oimē: Towards a Comparative Ludics of Fantasy
Flight's Living Card Game(tm)."
Registration
required<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_…Mj2uoCmXSaHfYnTCSqU&e=>.
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
forms.gle…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gl…
contact: nherter@g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>,
davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
Classical Association of New England Virtual Annual
Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Sat., Mar. 13
Zoom
The 2021 CANE Annual Meeting will be held using Zoom Webinar, March 13 and March 20,
2021.
Proposals
The proposal form is now
live<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.co…P1IASw8uM4flyqZmH-Q&e=>.
They are being accepted through December 15, 2020.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__canewe…
Matthew Christ (Indiana
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Mar. 15, 4 – 6 p.m.
Boston University, via Zoom
Discussion of Chapter 6 (~ Anabasis) of Matthew Christ's new book on Xenophon and the
Athenian Democracy: The Education of an Elite Citizenry
Register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_…
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston
University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
Hannelore Segers (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 17, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
TBA
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Classical Association of New England Virtual Annual
Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Sat., Mar. 20
Zoom
The 2021 CANE Annual Meeting will be held using Zoom Webinar, March 13 and March 20,
2021.
Proposals
The proposal form is now
live<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.co…P1IASw8uM4flyqZmH-Q&e=>.
They are being accepted through December 15, 2020.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__canewe…
Denis Feeney (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Mar. 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Zoom, hosted by Brown University
Classics Annual Putnam Lecture - “In and Out of Virgil’s Labyrinths”
events.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__e…
[Denis Feeney (Princeton University)]
Lecture: Lisa Raphals (UC
Riverside)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Wed., Mar. 24
Zoom
Lecture, Wednesday, March 24, TBA
Workshop, Thursday, March 25, 3–5:45 p.m. Part of the Ancient Studies graduate-student
seminar: ANCSTD 201. “Oracles and Divination in the Ancient Mediterranean”
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors
Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
Workshop: Lisa Raphals (UC
Riverside)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Mar. 25, 3 – 5:45 p.m.
Zoom
Lecture, Wednesday, March 24, TBA
Workshop, Thursday, March 25, 3–5:45 p.m. Part of the Ancient Studies graduate-student
seminar: ANCSTD 201. “Oracles and Divination in the Ancient Mediterranean”
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors
Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
Joshua Billings (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Zoom<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.com…
"Debating sophia"
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
Contact: davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
April 2021
John Duffy (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 14, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
TBA
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
41st Medieval and Renaissance
Forum<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Fri., Apr. 16 – Sat., Apr. 17
Virtual Event (organized by Keene State College)
"Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
Please submit abstracts and full contact information on this Google
form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_CHdq…Ka79LHmjTu7ieigV1wo&e=>.
Abstract deadline: January 15, 2021; presenters and early registration: March 15, 2021
forms.gle…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gl…
John Mulhall (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 28, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
TBA
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
July 2021
Classical Association of New England Summer
Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Tue., July 13 – Thu., July 15 and Tue., July 20 – Thu., July 22
Zoom
On the theme “Power and the Individual in the Ancient Mediterranean World”
The 2021 CANE Summer Institute will be held virtually over Zoom, covering 6 days over 2
weeks, July 13-15 and July 20-22.
graduate credit available
For more information and registration details, go to
www.caneweb.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.…
Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at
summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__canewe…
Amanda Loud (summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>)
[Classical Association of New England Summer Institute]
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