(PLEASE NOTE: THIS WILL BE THE FINAL CALENDAR FOR THIS YEAR) Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #33 (5/19/06) 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., Oct. 6 - Sat., Oct. 7 YALE UNIVERSITY, venue to be determined, New Haven, CT "The Romans in Asia," a conference celebrating the revival of numismatics at Yale and the acquisition of the collection of Peter R. and Leonore Franke. The conference will feature papers by Michel Amandry (Paris), François de Callataÿ (Brussels), Peter R. Franke (Munich), Ann Johnston (Cambridge), Christopher Jones (Harvard), Dietrich Klose (Munich), Katherine Welch (NYU-IFA), Greg Woolf (St. Andrews) and William E. Metcalf (Yale). The conference is free and open to the public. Details will be available on the Yale website over the summer, or contact <william.metcalf(a)yale.edu> 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.