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PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner “Novel Ideas” Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), “Petronius and the Greek Novel” Niall Slater (Emory University), “Various Asses” Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), “Imagined Communities in Ancient Fictions” For further information, contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427 Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities Foundation Mon., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Deborah Beck (Swarthmore College) “Begging, Pleading, and Supplicating: Speech Representations in Phoenix’s Speech to Achilles (Iliad 9.434-605)” Tues., Apr. 28, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Nick Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Sardis under the Achaemenid Satraps” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Wed., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Core Group Classical Archaeology Talk Series Emanuel Mayer (University of Chicago) “Of Garden Gnomes and Silvercups: Kitsch and the Aesthetics of Standardization in Roman Art” Wed., Apr. 29, 8:00 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather, Room 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA Henry Bender (College of the Holy Cross and The Hill School) “The Parthenon and the Pantheon as Cultural Symbols” Free and open to the public For further information please contact classics(a)amherst.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund Thurs., Apr. 30, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Andrew Burnett (The British Museum) “What Were Roman Emperors Really Called? Coins as Models of Dissemination” Reception to follow; free and open to the public Thurs., Apr. 30, 8:00 p.m. BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall, Braun Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Euthimio Souloyannis (The Academy of Athens) “The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa” Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater Boston area. For more information, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit the website at http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) Fri., May 8, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. THE BOSTON PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND INSTITUTE, 15 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA “The Tragic Perspective in Literature, Politics and Treatment: A Symposium in Honor of Bennett Simon” Presenters: Jonathan Lear (Chicago) and Stanley Cavell (Harvard) in discussion with Bennett Simon (Harvard) Moderators: Humphrey Morris (Harvard) and Jack Foehl (Harvard) Please RSVP to the BPSI Administrative office (office(a)bostonpsychoanalytic.org or 617-266-0953) *Sat., May 9, 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Humanities Center Symposium “Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in the Greek World” Free and open to the public For further information or to RSVP, contact Julia Wilker (wilker(a)fas.harvard.edu ) See Appendix for details *Wed., May 13, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sperry Hall, Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Mark Lehner (Ancient Egypt Research Associates) “Old Kingdom Urban History at Giza: Excavation in the Khentkawes Temple Town” Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue Free and open to the public For more information, contact Dena Davis at 617 495 4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu Sponsored by the Semitic Museum APPENDIX: *Sat., May 9, 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Humanities Center Symposium “Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in the Greek World” Free and open to the public For further information or to RSVP, contact Julia Wilker (wilker(a)fas.harvard.edu ) SCHEDULE: 9:00: Welcome 9:10: Kurt Raaflaub (Brown), “Greek Concepts and Theories of Peace in a Mediterranean Perspective” 9:55: David Elmer (Harvard), “The Truce in Iliad 3/4” 10:40: Coffee break 11:00: Natasha Bershadsky (University of Chicago), “The Battle over Cynuria and Argive-Spartan Relations” 11:45: Sarah Bolmarcich (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), “The Art of Negotiation in the Peloponnesian War Period” 12:30: Lunch break 2:00: Peter Hunt (University of Colorado, Boulder/Harvard), “Legalism and Peace in Classical Greece” 2:45: Julia Wilker (Freie Universität Berlin/Humanities Center Fellow), “War and Peace at the Beginning of the Fourth Century” 3.30: Coffee break 3:50: Polly Low (University of Manchester), “Greek Reply to the Satraps’ Revolt” 4:35: Maria Brosius (Newcastle University), “Persian Diplomacy between ‘Pax Persica’ and ‘O-Tolerance’” 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.