Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #16 (1/13/06) 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., Jan. 20, 4:00 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, 401 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT Roman Topics Seminar John Bodel (Brown University) "From Columbarium to Catacombs: Communities of the Dead in Pagan and Christian Rome" *Thurs., Feb. 9, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) "The Virtues of Violence: The Spectacles of the Roman Amphitheatre" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html) *Wed. Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Dr. Kathryn Bard and Dr. Rodolpho Fattovich (Boston University and University of Naples) "Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in Wadi Gawasis" Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue For more information, contact Dena Davis at davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu (617-495-4631) Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Philip Hardie (University of Oxford) "Virgil's Lucretian Visions" Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks) "Suicide in Byzantium" Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA "Life and Death in Roman Dura-Europus" Simon James, (University of Leicester) Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu) Sponsored by the Department of Classics *Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture Christof Boehringe (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the University of Göttingen, Germany) "Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of Sicily" *Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of London) Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion For more information contact Cynthia Damon, <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>du>, 413-542-8126 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.