Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(4/1/10)
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Fri., Apr. 2, 12-2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
"What Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy? Plato’s Invention
of an Ancient Dispute (Republic 10.607b-c)"
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Lunch will be provided.
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Room 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature."
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Wed., April 7, 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe
Yard, Cambridge, MA
Robin Fleming (Boston College, Radcliffe Institute Fellow)
"Early Medieval History and the Lost Word of Things"
http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2010rfleming.aspx
Thurs., April 8, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Helene P. Foley (Barnard College)
"Classical Muses: How Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Women Re-
imagined Greek Tragedy for the U.S. Stage"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Sat. Apr. 10, 9:30 a.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Fifth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Department of the Classics
"Pros and Cons: Professionalism and Expertise in the Ancient World"
Keynote Speaker: Dirk Obbink (Oxford University/University of Michigan)
For more information please visit
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65290&pageid=icb.page3182…
or email harvardclassicsconference(a)gmail.com
Sat. April 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Coh. I Pannoniorum, Coh II Nabetea Sagittarii (members of Leg. III
Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group)
"Roman Auxiliary Soldiers" Presentation on Auxiliaries: non-citizen
soldiers serving Rome in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor,
and training
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website:
www.higgins.org
Auxiliary / Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon., Apr. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Weaving Christ’s body: clothing, femininity and sexuality in the
Marian imagery of Byzantium"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
*Tues., Apr. 13, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 133 Barker, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Maria Koundoura (Emerson College)
"On Transnational Literacy or, Notes from a Modern Poetics"
The Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar on Modern Greek Literature
and Culture
This event is open to the public.
For further information,please visit this webpage:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html
Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 515, Cambridge, MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Female threads of salvation: the Mother of God, the veil of the
Incarnation and the Sevastokratorissa Eirene in twelfth-century
Constantinople"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
*Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
David Wengrow (University College London)
"What Can We Learn From Monsters?" Cognitive Anthropology and the
Bronze Age
"Reading the Past: The History and Historiography of the Ancient Near
East"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum and The Harvard GSAS
Workshop
Reception to be held afterwards in the Semitic Museum galleries, 2nd
floor, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu
.
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Fri. and Sat., Apr. 16-17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
"Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens" (a two-day symposium)
Organized by Anna Knaap, Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, in conjunction
with the temporary installation "Rubens and the Baroque Festival," on
view March 19-August 28 at the museum.
See the event's website for a detailed schedule and list of
presenters.
http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=27895
For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or
veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu
.
Fri., Apr.16, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Valeria Cinaglia (University of Exeter)
"Understanding, Perception, Emotion. Aristotle and Menander"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Mon. Apr. 19, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Braun Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School,
Cambridge, MA
Carlin Barton (UMass Amherst)
"The Emotional Economy of Ancient Roman Sacrifice and its Disturbance
in the Period of the Roman Civil Wars."
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
"Jupiter Amans"
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
Wed. Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University)
"Humans and Animals, or the Instability of Species and Gender in
Ancient Greece"
*Thurs., Apr. 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON, Campus Center Room 3545,
Dorchester, MA
Claudio Bizzarri (Director of the Archaeological Park of Orvieto)
"The Fanum Voltumnae and Etruscan Archaeology in Orvieto"
Thurs., Apr. 22, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Michael Fontaine (Cornell University)
"The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in
Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus, and Terence)"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
Sat., Apr. 24, 8:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Jewett Auditorium, 106 Central St Wellesley, MA
An Evening with Anne Carson and Dancers
Bracko and Cassandra Float Can: Reading and Performance
Panel to follow
*Tues., Apr. 27, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard
Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Thomas E. Levy (Department of Anthropology, University of California)
King Solomon's Mines: New Data and Debates from South Jordan
Reception to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries, 2nd
floor, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
For more information please call (617) 495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu
.
This lecture is presented by the Semitic Museum and the Center for
Jewish Studies, and sponsored by the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund.
Wed. Apr. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"The Politics of Beauty in Ancient Greek Art"
Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Thurs., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room), CGIS Knafel Building,
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Haun Saussy (Yale University)
"Créolité for Everybody"
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Seminar on Cultural
Politics
This event open to the public.
For further information, please visit this webpage:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html
Fri., April 30, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, George Sherman Union, 775
Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
"Shrinking the Muse: Psychoanalysis and Literature"
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"Psychoanalytic Interpretation: Greek Myths and Roman Poems"
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University)
"Hippolytus Takes a Girlfriend: A Psychoanalytic Crux"
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
"Loving writing: Ovid's Amores"
Reception and dinner to follow. To register for dinner or for more
information, please visit
www.bu.edu/classics/news/roman_studies.html
or contact Ms. Stacy Fox or Professor Patricia Johnson, e-mail: romstud(a)bu.edu
.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation at Boston University
Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group
"Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary
soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and
life in Alexandria
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website:
www.higgins.org
Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon.-Sat., Jul. 12-17
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Summer Institute
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lecturers, Guest Speakers and Course Instructors will include:
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
"Songs About me: Why the Humanities Matter More Than Ever" AND "Games,
Gods and Generals: Video Games and the Ancient World"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"The Making of Sappho, Old and New"
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Quintus Sulpicius Maximus: A Roman Schoolboy Learning Greek in A.D.
94" AND "A Year in the Roman Empire: The Problem of Hindsight"
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
The Origins of Political Values in Ancient Greece: Justice, Equality,
Liberty, and Democracy
Phyllis Katz (Dartmouth College)
In a Different Voice: The Poetry of Sappho and Emily Dickinson
Eleanor Leach (Indiana University)
Storytelling in Roman Letters
Peter Machinist (Harvard University)
Between the Ancient Near East and the Classical World: The Case of the
Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Greek Athletics in Its Social Context
Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College)
Translating for Today: Some Case Studies
More information and registration can be found at:
http://www.caneweb.org/csi/CSI2010Brochure.pdf
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 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.
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