Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(11/13/09)
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Mon., Nov. 16, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Ermanno Malaspina (University of Turin)
"The Cultural Dimensions of Cicero's Academici Libri"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Mon., Nov. 16, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
GAO Fengfeng (Peking University, China)
"Christianizing Virgil: Proba's Cento and Its Challenge to the Reader"
Professor GAO Fengfeng is a Professor of the Department of English at
Peking University, and a visiting scholar in the Harvard-Yenching
Institute. Professor Richard Thomas from the Harvard University
Department of Classics will be a discussant at the talk.
http://www.harvard-yenching.org/
*Mon., Nov. 16, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room
S354, Cambridge, MA
Doris Sommer (Harvard University)
"From the Top: Government Sponsored Creativity"
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/5313
**Mon., Nov. 16th, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Thomas Davis, Director of The Cyprus American Archaeological Research
Institute
"Earthquakes and Crises of Faith: Social Transformation in Late
Antique Cyprus"
Co-sponsored by the Semitic Museum, the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations, the Harvard Art Museum, and the Cyprus
American Archaeological Research Institute
This lecture is free and open to the public with a reception to be
held prior to the lecture at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum
Galleries, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information please call (617) 495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu
.
Tues., Nov. 17, 7:45 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, 3rd floor of the
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard University)
"The Saga of Peter and Paul: Emblems of Catholic Identity in
Christian Literature and Art"
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater
Boston area. For more information, please, contact Annewies van den
Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA or
visit the website:
http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
*Thurs., Nov. 19, 4:15 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Perseus Project and Department of Classics, Eaton
Hall, Room 204, Medford, MA
Professor Christopher Blackwell (Furman University)
"Research: Students, Scholarship, and Primary Sources"
Thanks to advances in both technology and our understanding of the
nature of information, we do not need to treat the adjective in
"undergraduate research" as a diminutive. Through digital facsimiles,
all scholars of ancient language and culture suddenly have immediate
access to the true primary sources for our knowledge. This puts us in
a position to address not only ancient cultures, but the traditions
that have preserved them, without mediation. The amount of work to be
done is vast, and there are important and serious tasks for all
students, from undergraduates to weary full professors. This talk will
focus on one project--the editing and translation of a single
manuscript of the Homeric Iliad--as an example of how students at
three undergraduate colleges have collaborated on significant research
of lasting importance.
For more information, please contact the Department of Classics at classics(a)tufts.edu
or 617-627-3213.
Co-sponsored by the Archaeology Program.
Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19 – 21
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
Conference on "Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning"
Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas
Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman,
Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne
Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden,
Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html
Wed., Dec. 2, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
Evie Holmberg (Hellenic College)
"How Far Can A Restoration Go? Art and Deception in Reconstructing the
Beauty of the Past."
Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact
Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427.
Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University)
"Mythopoiesis in a Fallen World: Catullus 64 and the Impossibility of
Narrative Reliability"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Dec. 3, 7:00 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE School of Theology and Ministry, Rm 100
Prof. Emerita Linda Seidel (University of Chicago)
"The Bones of Lazarus: Sacred Journeys in Romanesque Architecture"
Gretchen Reeves Kelley Lecture
Contact: Susan Kaup Kelley suskaup(a)mac.com; Melinda Donovan donovamn(a)bc.edu
Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics
Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative
Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels
Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael
Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich
Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/conference-program.pdf
Sat., Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 202 Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies
(Part of the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and
Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative, December 4-5)
Conference Keynote Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford
University)
"Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative"
The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and
the Department of the Classics.
Sun., Dec. 6, 10:00 a.m.
TEMPLE EMANUEL, Gann Chapel, 385 Ward St., Newton, MA
Dr. Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston
University
"The Grinch that Stole Hanukkah: Modernizing the Temple in the Second
Century BCE"
Dr. Bernard Schwartz Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Rabbi Marshall
Lifson Library, and presented in collaboration with Adult Learning at
Temple Emanuel.
www.templeemanuel.com
Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street,
Providence, RI
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin
Carol Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of
the season, conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the
readings will be provided.)
Thurs., Dec. 10, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jochen Sander, Städel Museum and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of
the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna"
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture
A recent cleaning and technical analysis has transformed our
understanding of this late painting by the early Netherlandish artist
Rogier van der Weyden. The speaker will discuss the ways in which new
information affects our view of the artist's later development and his
place in art history. Free admission.
For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at
617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison(a)harvard.edu.
The Busch-Reisinger Museum Lectures, sponsored by the European Friends
of the Museum, present important speakers on topics of central and
northern European art.
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 v"ia 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.
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