Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #13 (12/2/05) 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 Mon., Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA "The Barberini Faun and Hellenistic Royal Fantasy" Jean Sorabella (Adelphi University) Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu) Sponsored by the Department of Classics Mon., Dec. 12, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome Mark Schiefsky (Harvard University) "Machines and Morals: Technology and its Uses in Ancient Medicine" *Wed., Dec. 14, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Christopher Loveluck (University of Nottingham) "Rethinking Social Interaction around the North Sea and Western Baltic: From the Early Carolingians to the Late Viking Age, A.D. 600-1100" A reception follows at the Faculty Club Sponsored by the Committees on Archaeology and Medieval Studies 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 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.