Tue, Oct 7: Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115), Amherst, MA 01002
"War, What is it Good For? in Homer's Iliad and Four Receptions"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics at Amherst College
Wed, Oct 8: James N. Stone (Boston University)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Playing Scrabble with Sappho: A Translation Workshop for Anyone
Interested in the Interplay of Poetry, Translation, and Play"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics
Thu, Oct 9: Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
"War, What is it Good For in Homer's Iliad and Four Receptions?"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department. For more information,
please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/.
Wed, Oct 15: Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139
"The Medieval Origins of the Cupola of Florence Cathedral"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/
Wed, Oct 15: Ryan Balot (University of Toronto)
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall, Main
Street, Durham, NH 03824
"The Psychology of Greed: Ancient and Modern Reflections"
Sponsored by the John C. Rouman Lecture Series, the Responsible
Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project, and the Department of
Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies. A short reception will
follow.
Fri & Sat, Oct 17-19: Conference: "Myth Criticism in the Ancient World"
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Main Street, Durham, NH and Portsmouth,
NH, United States
John C. Rouman Symposium for Research in the Classics
Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth (Oct. 17 and 19), University of New
Hampshire, Piscataqua Room in Holloway Commons (Oct. 18)
Free and open to the public; RSVP requested. Supported by the John C.
Rouman Classical Lecture Series. Link with full program of 14 speakers
here:
http://cola.unh.edu/event/symposium-myth.
Fri, Oct 17: Michael Dietler (University of Chicago)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 313, Boston, MA 02215
"Colonial Encounters in Ancient Mediterranean France: Consumption,
Entanglement, and Violence”
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the BU
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Sat, Oct 18: "Sappho: New Voices"
10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
BARD COLLEGE, Olin Hall 204, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
A symposium on ancient Greek poetry and society in light of this
year’s discovery of new poems by Sappho, presented by the Bard College
Classical Studies Program and sponsored by James H. Ottaway Jr.
http://eh.bard.edu/events/event.php?eid=126656
10 a.m. Introduction: Lauren Curtis (Bard College) and Robert Cioffi
(Bard College)
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session 1: Gender and Performance
Timothy Power (Rutgers University): "Performance Scenarios for the New
Poems of Sappho"
Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Recentering
Epic Nostos: Gender and Genre in the Brothers Poem"
12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch break
1:30-3 p.m. SESSION 2: Sappho and Society
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University): "A High-class Trader, Courtesan, and
Poetess, a Tyrant, and Archaic Greek-Eastern Interaction"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University): "Hera and Now"
3-3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30-5 p.m. SESSION 3: Religious Poetics
Timothy Barnes (Princeton University): "Sappho's daimon: a Reading of
the Fourth Stanza"
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University): “What’s in a Prayer? Sappho’s
Way with Words"
5-5:30 p.m. Round table discussion
6 p.m. Evening performance in Olin Auditorium.
“Bracko”: a reading of Sappho by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick
Flynn, and Sam Anderson
*Wed, Oct 22: Jonathan Conant (Brown University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Late antique Roman territoriality
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Workshop: "Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett,
cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu; Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Thu, Oct 23: Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University)
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
Title: TBA
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
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
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Registration and cocktails.
6:00 - 9:00/9:30 p.m. Dinner and Discussion of the Gary Reger's
(Trinity College) paper, "First there Is a Mountain," 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.
Tue, Nov 4: David Ferry (Wellesley College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02139
Title: TBA
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/
Wed, Nov 5: Hendrik Dey (Hunter College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, G03, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fortress Rome: How the Aurelian Wall Changed Everything"
In 271 AD, Rome was the largest and most famous city in the world, the
center of an empire so vast and so powerful that no foreign invader
had threatened it since Hannibal 500 years earlier. Beginning in 271,
however, Emperor Aurelius began to surround the previously unfortified
city-center with the largest masonry structure the world had ever
seen, a city wall 12 miles in circumference imposed on the midst of
Rome’s sprawling urban fabric. Neighborhoods were cut in two; roads
and bridges blocked; houses, tombs and public buildings either
demolished or absorbed by the wall. Professor Dey explores a tiny
sampling of the ways in which the look and the life of the city
changed forever, with emphasis on infrastructure.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies, Fine Arts, and
History, and the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Free and Open to the Public, Reception to follow with light
refreshments. For more information contact Heidi McAllister:
hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu or Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow:
aoko(a)brandeis.edu.
Directions to Brandeis:
http://www.brandeis.edu/ces/directions.html
Thu, Nov 6: Alexandre Monteiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 211, Boston, MA 02215
"Ship of gold in a sea of diamonds: the untold story of the "Bom
Jesus," a Portuguese East Indiaman lost off Namibia in 1533."
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the BU Archaeology Department
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
Sat, Nov 8: Colloquium: "Classical Monsters and Their Medieval Afterlife"
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room,
Amherst, MA 01003
A colloquium on monsters, their meanings, and their influence in
classical and medieval art, archaeology, and literature. Presented by
the UMass Amherst Department of Classics. List of speakers and topics
available at
http://www.umass.edu/classics/monstersconference.html.
Fri & Sat, Nov 14-15: International Society For Late Antique Literary
Studies, Annual Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union Terrace Lounge (775
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, 2nd Floor), Boston, MA 02215
Check-in, Friday 8:30 a.m.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/2014-islals-conference/
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, Nov 24: Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt, Munich)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Roman 'limes' and World Heritage Site designation
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Workshop: "Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett,
cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu; Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Mon, Dec 8: Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras)
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
"Comic Money: The Case of Hetairai and Fishmongers"
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
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 & Fri, Mar 12-13: 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
Title TBA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
*Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
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
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