Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #31 (4/22/05) 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 *Thurs., Fri., Apr. 21, 22, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Apr. 23, 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Agassiz Theater, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA The Harvard Classical Club presents: "The Mostellaria of Plautus" in original translation Directed by Christopher Kukstis, '05 Produced by Alexandra Helrpin, '07 Ticket Price: $5.00 Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion" Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston University's Humanities Foundation For registration and other information see http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof. Patricia Larash (plarash(a)bu.edu) See Appendix for details Fri., Apr, 22, 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Campus Center 101, Amherst, MA Sharon Herbert (University of Michigan) "In Search of the 'Last' of the Phoenicians: Evidence for Interaction Between Greeks and Phoenicians in Hellenistic Galilee" This lecture is sponsored by the family of the late Prof. David Grose and the Department of Classics. For further information, contact Prof. Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu) Mon., April 25, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago) "Seneca's Medea, or the Stoic as Monster" Tues., Apr. 26, 4:30 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT Archaeological Institute of America - New Haven Society Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan) "The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Contexts and Meanings" For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu) Tues., Apr. 26, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series: "Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate" Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley) Lecture 1: "Before Excavation: Legends and their Reception" Wed., Apr. 27, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Johannes Koder (University of Vienna) "The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist and their Potential Role as Mass Propaganda" Wed., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History of the Book Seminar Seth Lehrer (Stanford University) "Aesop in the Middle Ages: Authority and Authorship in the History of Children's Literature" Thurs., Apr. 28, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series: "Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate" Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley) Lecture 2: "The Lydian City" Thurs., April 28, 7:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy Thomas Johansen (Edinburgh University) "In Defense of Aristotelian Common Sense" Response: Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College) Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series: "Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate" Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley) Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome" (NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY) Tues., May 3, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar Silke Knippschild (Technical University Dresden) "Spoils and Iconoclasm in Ancient West Asia and Greece: The Role of Art in Creating and Destroying Identities" Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series: "Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate" Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley) Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond" Thurs., May 19, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Barbara Borg (University of Exeter) "Monuments for Eternity or Brilliant Performance? Changes in the Representational Behaviour of the Roman Elite in the Third Century AD" LECTURE CANCELLED: Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris) "From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word in Greek culture" Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad) "The Looting of the Iraq Museum" See Appendix for details APPENDIX Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion" Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston University's Humanities Foundation Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University) "Religion and Power in the Early Empire" James Rives (York University) "Reason and Revelation in Apuleius" Joseph Pucci (Brown University) "Catullus Among the Christians" A reception and dinner will conclude the conference For registration and other information see http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof. Patricia Larash (plarash(a)bu.edu) Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad) "The Looting of the Iraq Museum" The Director of the Iraq Museum, Dr. Donny George, will present an illustrated lecture on the current status of material looted from the Iraq Museum, half of which is still missing today. Dr. George will discuss the ongoing efforts to restore the objects damaged during the war and its aftermath, and to recover the objects still missing. Dr. George will also talk about the new publication, *The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia*, which presents the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and the story of the development of civilization. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. 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.