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**Tue, Sep 23: Armand D’Angour (Jesus College, Oxford University)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA, 02138
"What Do We Mean by Ancient Greek Music?"
Mahindra Humanities Center: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
*Mon, Sep 29: Zoa Alonso Fernández (Harvard University)
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Ludi, Ludic, Ludicrous: Choreographing Rome from Spartacus to Caligula"
This presentation focuses on the notion of “dance” as one of the various
meanings embedded in the Latin terms ludo / ludus. Taking into account
ludic and ludicrous aspects of three choreographic works of the last fifty
years, the speaker will examine how Ancient Rome has been presented and
represented by the moving qualities of the dance medium.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics
*Wed, Oct 15: Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139
Talk title TBA
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/)
*Fri, Oct 24: Alessandro Barchiesi (University of Siena at Arezzo, Stanford
University)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Apuleius the Provincial"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Thu, Oct 30: New England Ancient History Colloquium
5 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA, 02766
Dinner and Discussion of Gary Reger's paper on the religious and historical
significance of Mt. Latmos in Asia Minor from the Bronze Age to the
Byzantine Empire. Contact allen.m.ward(a)att.net for more information.
*Thu, Nov 6: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
"Chewing: Goethe’s Proserpina"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
*Fri, Nov 7: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Roundtable Discussion with Professor Frauke Berndt
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
*Mon, Nov 17: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
The author will read and sign copies of her new book "The Amazons: Lives
and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World."
*Mon, Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Obesity, corpulence and emaciation in Roman Art."
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
*Thu, Mar 12: CON-IH 15: Transitions: States and Empires in the Longue Durée
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on
International History (Con-IH) has become an annual event, organized by
graduate students in International History at Harvard University. Please
visit the conference website,
http://con-ih.com, for more information, and
please email any enquiries to the organizing committee at
ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu.
*Mon, Mar 23: Mildenberg Lecture 2015: Stefan Ritter (Institute of
Classical Archaeology, LMU Munich)
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Title TBA.
*Mon, Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture