Boston Area Classics Calendar
Disclaimer: This calendar is current as of 1pm EDT (GMT-4) on March 9th, 2020. For
questions about any further cancellations, please contact the event host.
March 2020
CANCELED - Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (Ohio
State)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Mon., Mar. 9, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Linda R. Rabieh
(
MIT)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Mon., Mar. 9, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building E51, Room 275, 70 Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA 02142
"Humane Warfare: An Ancient Perspective on Ethics in War"
presented by MIT's Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium
What are the ethics that should guide our soldiers in war? Although this is an old
question, it must be revisited in light of the peculiar situations in which our soldiers
are called to act in the 21st century. Do the same principles apply when we engage in
war through automated drones or cyber warfare? How is it possible to maintain ethical
principles when confronted with the brutality of those who refuse to distinguish between
combatants and civilians? For guidance, this talk returns to ancient political thought,
which grappled with questions both of war and of character, and in particular to Plato’s
Republic, where Socrates outlines an education for warriors and the nature of a healthy
soul that suggests different grounds for ethical actions, grounds that may provide a
superior model for our complex times.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
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David Ganz (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Mar. 10, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Cambridge, MA 02138
"E. K. Rand, Ludwig Traube, Latin Palaeography and the Medieval Academy of
America"
David Ganz is a Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies at Harvard University.
James Loeb Lecture
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CANCELED - Gianfranco Agosti (Università di Roma “La
Sapienza”)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Wed., Mar. 11, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Brown Lecture Series
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Paul Christesen (Dartmouth
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Mar. 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Samberg Conference Center, Salon M, Building E52,
50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
02142<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.co…
"Luxury at Sparta"
commentary by Graham Oliver (Brown University)
New England Ancient Historians
Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neah…
www.neahc.us<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ne…
CANCELED - CANE Annual
Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Fri., Mar. 13 – Sat., Mar. 14
Laura Massetti (University of
Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/i…
Christopher Francese (Dickinson
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Mar. 17, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Digital Annotation of Classical Texts and Effective Digitization: The Dickinson
College Commentaries Project"
11th Annual Grimshaw-Gudewicz Lecture
Presented by the Department of Classics
Sponsored by the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Foundation
Classical studies sits on a gold mine of print reference works (lexica, commentaries,
grammars, concordances), many of them in the public domain, that are the envy of other
fields. The internet itself is, among other things, one gigantic reference work. People go
to it in their billions every day to find information about the present and the past.
Unfortunately, the information found there about the past is often partial, garbled, and
not created by qualified scholars. The digitization of existing high-quality reference
resources in classics and turning them into easily consulted digital resources is a
massive opportunity which is neglected for various reasons by the contemporary academic
world. But going from book to effective digital resource is no simple matter of
transcription. This talk discusses techniques of and further opportunities for effective
digitization as a way to make direct experience of classical texts more available to
people around the world, in the context of the peer-reviewed commentary series Dickinson
College Commentaries.
Christopher Francese is the project director of Dickinson College Commentaries, a series
of online multimedia editions of classical texts, and is the author of three books:
Ancient Rome: An Anthology of Sources (Hackett, 2014), Ancient Rome in So Many Words
(Hippocrene, 2007), and Parthenius of Nicaea and Roman Poetry (Peter Lang, 2001). He also
produces the Latin Poetry Podcast, and directs a series of professional development
workshops for Latin teachers, the Dickinson Latin Workshops. With student and faculty
collaborators he created the Latin and Greek Core Vocabularies, the thousand most common
words in Latin and the 500 most common words in ancient Greek, collated and edited on the
basis of large samples. He is currently preparing the first modern edition of Historiae
Indicae by Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1588).
As always, this event is free and open to the public with a reception immediately
following the talk. We hope to see you there!
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John Schafer (Wake Forest
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 20, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"Catullus Through His Books"
presented by the Myth and Religion Study Group
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Boston University Center for the
Humanities
Myth and Religion Study Group Lecture
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CANCELED - Ellen Oliensis (University of California,
Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Tue., Mar. 24
GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to
Classics"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-compa…
Emily Wilson (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Wed., Mar. 25, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Stokes Hall South 195, 160 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167
"Translating Homer's Odyssey Again: Why and How?"
The 2020 Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture
Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies, a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and
the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey, published in 2017. To be published this
spring is The Norton Critical Edition of Homer's Odyssey edited and translated by
Prof. Wilson. She is currently working on a new translation of Homer's Iliad.
For further information: Prof. Franco Mormando
(mormando@bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>; 617-552-6346)
Directions and Parking:
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The Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture
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Madeline
Miller<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Mar. 25, 7 – 8 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
02115<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.co…
"Madeline Miller: Making Art from the Past"
Author Madeline Miller shares how she retells ancient stories for modern times, drawing
inspiration from texts, sources, and artifacts to create her hit novels.
Circe, Miller’s second novel and an instant bestseller, is currently being adapted for a
series with HBO Max. Miller’s novels have been translated into more than 25 languages and
her essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,
The Telegraph, Lapham's Quarterly, and
NPR.org.
TICKET REQUIRED
To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975 ($6 processing fee applies); to order in
person, visit any MFA ticket desk.
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Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 27
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
presented by the Indo-European Workshop and the Harvard Linguistics Circle
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/l…
CANCELED - Harvard Graduate Student
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Sat., Mar. 28
Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
April 2020
Niels Kuehlert (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Apr. 3
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/i…
Leni Ribeiro Leite (Federal University of Espírito
Santo)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Apr. 9, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to
Classics"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-compa…
Dieter Gunkel (University of
Richmond)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Fri., Apr. 10
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/u…
Leni Ribeiro Leite (Federal University of Espírito Santo,
Brazil)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Apr. 14, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"New worlds through Classical lenses: Classical epideictic tropes in Maffei's
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
Zach Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Apr. 17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/i…
CANCELED - Vesta Curtis (British
Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Apr. 22
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Georges-Jean Pinault (École pratique des hautes
études)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Apr. 23
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/i…
Boston Area Roman Studies
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 24, 3 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, BU School of Law, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, MA 02215
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
2020 Conference Program:
Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham) "Varro's strategies of quotation in De
Lingua Latina"
Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) "Cicero on Fiction"
Katharina Volk (Columbia University) "Necromancers in the Senate"
Attending the conference is free.
There will be a dinner following the conference at 7:30PM.
The dinner registration deadline is Friday, April 17, 2020.
Tickets are $30 for Boston University faculty and guests, $20 for non-Boston University
affiliated graduate students, and is free for Boston University graduate and undergraduate
students.
Registration will open the second week of March.
For more information please contact Arthur Peterson at 617-353-2426,
romstud@bu.edu<mailto:romstud@bu.edu>, or
apeter@bu.edu<mailto:apeter@bu.edu>.
Sponsored by the Boston University Department of Classical Studies and the Boston
University Center for the Humanities
Boston Area Roman Studies
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