The Boston Area Classics Calendar for September 11, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 103 Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Sep. 11, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
"Ancient Judaism: An Ethnicity or a Religion?"
Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World”
*Arthur Bahr (MIT)
MIT, Building E51-275, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map:
whereis.mit.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wher…)
Tue., Sep. 15, 2015, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
“Compulsory Figures"
Event Series: MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Nancy Gish (University of Southern Maine)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Sep. 15, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
“A Modern Aeneid": Eliot, Virgil, and Abandoned Women
Cosponsored by the Modernism
Seminar<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modernism>
Seminar Chair: John Hamilton
jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu>
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
*Dr. Frederick Baker (Cambridge University)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology, Rm. 625, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
02215
Fri., Sep. 18, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Pitoti. Digital Humanities at the Barbarian Rock-face: Proto-cinema and tribal
modernism in the classical art of the ancient Alps"
The Boston University Myth and Religion Study Group presents Dr. Frederick Baker of
Cambridge University, presenting on his Pitoti project, Paleolithic rock carvings that he
and his colleagues have studied with cameras under different lighting conditions. At
different times of the day, they discovered that the carved figures are not static at all.
Instead they seem to "move" and tell astonishing narratives. Dr. Baker is a
senior researcher at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge.
This event is sponsored by the BU Classics Department and the BU Center for the
Humanities. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.
For further information, contact Meghan Kelly at 617-353-2427 or
classics@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
Event Series: Myth and Religion Study Group Lecture
More info:
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Sep. 21, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Τhe Dissonance of Ludic Poetics in Greek
Wedding Song Tradition: A Workshop on the 'Interdiscursivity' between the
Epithalamia and the Laments in Greek Antiquity"
Free and open to the public.
Seminar Chair: Vassiliki Rapti
(rapti@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rapti@fas.harvard.edu>)
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Sep. 23, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
"Revisiting Approaches to Ethnicity"
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
*Erasing the Past: Da’esh and the Crisis of Antiquities Destruction
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, Davis Museum 106 Central Street, Wellesley MA 02481
Thu., Sep. 24, 2015, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Speakers include: Clemens Reichel (University of Toronto); Salam Al-Kuntar (University of
Pennsylvania); Jeremy Hutton (University of Wisconsin); Stephennie Mulder (University of
Texas); and Hugh Eakin (New York Review of Books)
Sponsored by the Departments of Religion and History, Wellesley College
Contact info: esilver@wellesley.edu<mailto:esilver@wellesley.edu>;
grogers@wellesley.edu<mailto:grogers@wellesley.edu>
Symposium and Annual Meeting
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, School of Arts and Sciences, Ruane Center for the Humanities,
Providence, RI 02918
Sat., Sep. 26, 2015, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Arthur Urbano (Providence College): "Wisdom Made Visible: Iconography and the
Fashioning of Philosophical Culture in Late Antiquity"
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University & Princeton University): "Catacomb
Religion: Uncovering Ordinary Christianity in the Centuries Before and After
Constantine"
John R. Levison (Southern Methodist University): "The Historical Roots of Early
Christian Pneumatology"
Lee M. Jefferson and Thomas McCollough (Centre College): "The Christian Veneration
Complex at Khirbet Qana"
Event Series: International Catacomb Society
More info:
www.catacombsociety.org…<http://www.catacombsociety.org/2015/09/01/progr…
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center--Fourth Floor (Suite A), 1 College St,
Worcester, MA 01610
Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
"Caesar: the historian and his self-portrait"
Renate Schlesier (Freie Universität Berlin)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
Topic: Aphrodite in Sappho's Poetry
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Noel Lenski (Yale University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Middletown, CT
Thu., Oct. 1, 2015
The speaker will present his paper, "The Settlement of the Visigoths in Gaul in 418
C.E. and Its Relation to Earlier Barbarian Settlements in the Roman Empire," with
commentary from Richard Lim (Smith College).
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
*Gabriel Zoran (University of Haifa, Israel)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, third floor, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
Tue., Oct. 13, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
"Text, Medium, and Imitation in Aristotle and Plato
A book presentation of Bodies of Speech: Text and Textuality in Aristotle"
Free admission. Open to the public. Light Refreshments.
Gil Renberg (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 0505 Menschel Hall (Lower Level), 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
"Trimalchio ad nauseam: Roman Art as a Tyranny of Bad Taste?"
Ruth Bielfeldt, Harvard’s Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, takes
the lavish dinner party of the Roman freedman Trimalchio—described in Petronius’s
Satyricon—as the starting point for a critical look at wall paintings and other domestic
art of early Imperial Rome. Are excess and mishmash always bad, or does Trimalchio’s
desire to turn the world into an overstuffed dish offer a key to a different understanding
of Roman tastes and aesthetics?
Free admission. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was
established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M.
Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present
outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston
communities.
Event Series: M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
More info:
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Nov. 17, 2015
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Villa)
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 5 p.m.
Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Annual Art Lecture
"Why Fakes Matter: Authenticity in Ancient Art"
This presentation takes up the controversial issue of fakes in ancient art and asks what
they can tell us about how we understand and define authenticity today.
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Plutarch, Lucian and the Sixth Century BC"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome
Hans Beck (McGill University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 7, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Topic: Greek koinon
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
Johannes Nollé (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen
Archäologischen Instituts)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Title: TBA
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
Ann Kuttner (University of Pennsylvania)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 8, 2016, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Subject: ethnicity and material culture
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
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