Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 2018
*Tour of Higgins Armory
Installation<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
Sun., Sep. 16, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609
All Classicists and those with an interest in Classics are invited to attend a special
event sponsored by the American Classical League.
What: docent-led tours of the new Higgins Armory installation, catered lunch, free time to
view Roman mosaics, etc.
Cost: gratis, including parking
N.B. Lunch will be served at 12:15.
Register on line at
www.aclclassics.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__…
www.aclclassics.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__…
Texts, Authors, and Readers: a conference in honor of Richard
Tarrant<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Fri., Sep. 21 – Sat., Sep. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
Friday, September 21
1:00–1:45 Welcome and opening remarks
1:45–3:15 Paper session 1
3:15–3:45 Break
3:45–6:00 Paper session 2
6–7:30 Reception, Harvard Faculty Club, East Dining Room
Saturday, September 22
9:00–10:30 Paper session 3
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Paper session 4
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–4:15 Paper session 5
4:15–4:30 Break
4:30–6:00 Paper session 6
*Jason Pedicone (Paideia
Institute)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Tue., Sep. 25, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Mather Hall, Rittenberg Lounge, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT
06106
"How to Build a Humanities Start-Up: Social Entrepreneurship and the Future of the
Liberal Arts"
**Kirk Ormand (Oberlin
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Sep. 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho”
The Department of Classics cordially invites you to join us for “Women In and Out of Time:
Atalanta and Sappho,” a lecture presented by Kirk Ormand from Oberlin College. Prof.
Ormand will be speaking on Thursday, September 27, 2018 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm in Rhode
Island Hall, Room 108.
Kirk Ormand is the Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College. He is the
author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999), The Hesiodic
Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (2014),and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient
Greece and Rome (2018); editor of A Companion to Sophocles (2012) and co-editor (with Ruby
Blondell) of Ancient Sex: New Essays (2015). He has published articles on Homer, Hesiod,
Hipponax, Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, Lucan, the Greek novel, Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven,
and Michel Foucault.
www.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
October 2018
Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Contexts and
Meanings<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Oct. 2, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge, MA
02138
Robert Koehl, of Hunter College, and Kimberley Patton, of Harvard, will explore why animal
shapes were such popular forms for ancient vessels.
In this lecture, leading scholars will offer perspectives on the social and symbolic
importance of the vessels featured in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from
the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, on view September 7, 2018
through January 6, 2019.
Following their presentations, Koehl and Patton will be joined in conversation by Susanne
Ebbinghaus, the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of
Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Ebbinghaus curated the
Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via
the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at
the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Following the lecture, guests are invited to view the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition on
Level 3 until 8 p.m.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
*Martin Revermann (University of
Toronto)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Oct. 4, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Translation Prefaces”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center
for the Humanities
Documentary Screening: The Lost City of Cecil B.
DeMille<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Oct. 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Filmmaker Peter Brosnan, lead archaeologist Colleen Hamilton, and executive producer
Francesca Silva will be in attendance for the screening of The Lost City of Cecil B.
DeMille. There will be a panel/Q&A after the screening.
*New England Ancient History
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Oct. 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Smith House, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Registration information:
lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu<mailto:lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu>
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Nadav Asraf (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 30, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'When I leave the beautiful and severe Hellenism': On Cavafy's
Translations into Hebrew"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and
Culture<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-l…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
November 2018
Symposium—Between Art and Asset: Silver Vessels from Antiquity to
Today<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Sat., Nov. 3, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This symposium will bring together art historians, a conservator, a numismatist, and a
silversmith to explore the enduring appeal of silver.
Alain Schnapp (Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics…
Wed., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
R. R. R. Smith (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Nov. 29 – Fri., Nov. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
March 2019
Bernard Frischer (Indiana
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 13
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Rome Reborn"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
Catherine Grandjean (Université de Tours,
France)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Mar. 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The coinage of the Achaian koinon, between federal authority and civic autonomy.”
Ancient galleries open until 8 p.m.
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
April 2019
New England Ancient History
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Apr. 11
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
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