Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 18, 2011
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Mon., Apr. 18
2p.m. - 3:30p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 117, Amherst, MA 01002
Charles Martindale (University of Bristol)
"Milton’s Classicism: Writing Epic"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, and the Lurcy Fund.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Mon., Apr. 18
4p.m. - 5:30p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002
Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol)
"Phidias and the Artists: Nineteenth-Century Responses to the Elgin Marbles"
Prettejohn, Professor of History of Art, will present new research related to her
forthcoming book, The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from
Winckelmann to Picasso. Reception to follow at the Mead Art Museum.
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics, Art and the History of Art, the Mead Art Museum,
and the Lurcy Fund.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Mon., Apr. 18
4:15p.m. - 5:45p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Aglae Pizzone (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow, Durham University Newton Fellow, UK)
"Imagine there's a tragelaph": figuring out the rise of fictionality in
Byzantium
Mon., Apr. 18
5:30p.m. - 7p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction in Renaissance
Europe"
Mon., Apr. 18
6p.m. - 7:30p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University)
Lorenzo Valla’s Radical Philology: Valla’s Prefaces to the Annotations to the New
Testament in Context
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Thurs., Apr. 21
5:30p.m. - 7p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Barbara Graziosi (Durham University)
"Divine inspiration and narrative technique in the Iliad"
Wed., Apr. 27
6p.m. - 8p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Behind the Scenes: Touring the Classical Collections"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the collections of Greek,
Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon,
Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the MFA, the final portion of this year's
Lecture will include a guided tour of the MFA's Classical Collections. All those who
wish to attend should contact David.Proctor(a)Tufts.edu to ensure entry.
*Thurs., Apr. 28
7p.m. - 8:30p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Harvard University)
"Giza in 3D - New Approaches to Accessing Archaeological Data from the Giza
Plateau"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum, The Department of Anthropology
and The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
For more information please email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu or visit
http://www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
Fri., Apr. 29
4p.m. - 7p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Schedule:
4:00 Registration
4:15 Presentations:
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia"
Ann Vasaly, Boston University
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
7:00 Reception with Cash Bar
7:30 Dinner
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu; Information: Tel. 617-353-2426
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m. and
Sat., Apr. 30, 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the German archaeologist
and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978). Her work on Hellenistic and Roman
sculpture and on the Roman Theater remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin
collection will bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of different
backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It will focus on the interrelation
of coins and sculpture with an emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and
portraits of the Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian and Mediterranean
Division.
Speakers include Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University), Carmen Arnold-Biucchi (Harvard
Art Museums), Martin Beckman (University of Western Ontario), Larissa Bonfante (Emerita,
New York University), Barbara Borg (University of Exeter), Karsten Dahmen (Staatliche
Museen zu Berlin), Peter F. Mittag (University of Cologne), Matthias Recke
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen), and William E. Metcalf (Yale University).
Mon., May 2
4:15p.m. - 5:45p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
Thurs., May 5
6:15p.m. - 8:15p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered how we understand our
dreams and their significance. In this cross-disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J.
Allan Hobson), Jungian therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian of
ideas (David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the "meaning" of dreams
and what they can tell us about ourselves in light of these advances.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston
College. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact
Daniel Harris-McCoy (harrises(a)bc.edu).
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