Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2017
Richard Thomas (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Oct. 30, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dylan the Classic
GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and
Beyond"
November 2017
Kirk Freudenburg (Yale
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Nov. 1, 5:30 - 7:30 a.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"High on a Golden Bed: Color Narrative in Virgil's Aeneid"
www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
Lisa Maurizio (Bates
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Nov. 2, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Building, Room 207, 11 Barrett Hill Rd, Amherst, MA
01002
The Pythia's Oracles and the Nymph's Dice: Types of Divination at Delphi
This talk explores literary, visual, and archaeological evidence to distinguish the
divinatory ritual of the Pythia, Apollo's priestess at Delphi, from divinatory
activities in the cave of the Corycian nymphs near Apollo's temple. A brief
demonstration of how ancient divinatory dice worked- with opportunities to use them- will
follow the talk.
Kelsey Eldridge (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 2, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Imitations of Empire: Porphyry Sarcophagi from Constantine to the Medici"
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
The Tenth Muse: Resonances of Sappho in Greek and Latin Poetry (a
colloquium)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Nov. 3, 3 - 6:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center, Tenth Floor (Amherst Room), 1 Campus Center Way,
Amherst, MA, 01003
Speakers: Leanna Boychenko (Loyola U. Chicago), Lauren Curtis (Bard College), Laurel
Fulkerson (FSU), Melissa Mueller (UMass Amherst), Teresa Ramsby (UMass Amherst)
See the link below for registration.
www.umass.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u…
Daniel Selden (UC Santa
Cruz)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Fri., Nov. 3, 4 - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, School of Theology Building, Room 625,
Room 625, Boston, MA 02215
"Guardians of Chaos: The Coptic Alexander Romance"
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Department of Classical
Studies, and the Department of World Languages and Literature.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University
www.bu.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
*Michele Ronnick (Wayne State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 9, 12:15 - 2:15 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
"African American Intellectuals and the Study of Greek after the Civil War"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Moore Lecture Fund
Gareth Williams (Columbia
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Nov. 13, 4 - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 625, Boston, MA 02215
Topic: TBA
Emily Katz Anhalt (Sarah Lawrence
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Nov. 13, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Department of Classics, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
"Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths"
Marden Nichols (Georgetown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Nov. 13, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Painterly Deception in Roman Comedy"
www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
*Zacharoula Petraki (University of
Crete)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Nov. 14, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
"Hideous Bodies, Deified Heroes in Sophocles and Plato"
www.wesleyan.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww…
José Luis García-Ramón (University of
Cologne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 14, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Erin Thompson (John Jay College of Criminal
Justice)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Nov. 16, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Clickbait: Thoughts on the Ethics of Digitizing Cultural Heritage"
Thompson's talk will analyze potential downsides to digital reconstructions of
threatened cultural heritage, focusing on the lack of control offered to local residents
over the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of digitized sites, and the way this
"digital colonialism" sometimes mirrors that of past image-making by Western
visitors to these sites.
web.wellesley.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__w…
Eric Cline (The George Washington
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 16, 5 - 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed"
In this illustrated lecture, based on Professor Eric H. Cline's book of the same
title (1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed), Professor Cline explores why the Bronze
Age came to an end and whether the collapse of those ancient civilizations might hold some
warnings for our current society.
Directions to Event:
www.brandeis.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww…
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments will follow
from 6:00-6:30 p.m.
More info: Professor Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
(aoko@brandeis.edu<mailto:aoko@brandeis.edu>).
Katharina Volk (Columbia
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Nov. 28, 4:30 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Astronomy
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
Scott Kennedy (Ohio State University/Dumbarton
Oaks)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Wed., Nov. 29, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, HARVARD YARD, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Joshua Katz (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 30, 4:30 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and
Beyond"
December 2017
Joe Wolf (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Dec. 1, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Celtic toponymy: Computational approaches and the ancient place-names of Europe and
Anatolia"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Bruce Gordon (Yale
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Dec. 6, 5 - 7 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520
"Blessed Jerome": The Fate of the Vulgate in the Reformation
Matilde Serangeli (University of
Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Dec. 8, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Linguistic remarks on South-West Anatolian inscriptions"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Alexander Forte (Colgate
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Dec. 13, 2 - 3:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Analogy and techne.
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
January 2018
Deconstructing the Open Greek and Latin Project: The First Thousand Years of
Greek<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Wed., Jan. 3, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY. Medford Campus, Eaton Hall Room 206, Medford, MA 02155
An AIA-SCS Pre-Meeting Workshop, presented in coordination with the SCS.
Interested in open access, the digital humanities, or conducting digital scholarship in
your research and/or teaching? Aren't sure what these topics have to do with
classics or archaeology, or even how to get started? Then, please consider joining us
next January 3 at the AIA-SCS pre-meeting workshop "Deconstructing the Open Greek and
Latin Project"!
In this workshop, partners from the Perseus Digital Library, the Harvard Library and
Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the
University of Leipzig, Mount Allison University, and the University of Virginia Library
will come together to demonstrate research tools, explain how to involve students in
digital scholarship, provide open data for hands-on exploration from the Open Greek and
Latin Project, as well as create a growing and supportive open access community.
Tools and technologies we'll work with include GitHub, Oxygen, TEI-XML and EpiDoc
Registration is offered on a "first-come first-served" basis and the workshop is
offered free-of-charge with a registration deadline of Friday, November, 3, 2017.
sites.tufts.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sit…
February 2018
Dean Hammer (Franklin & Marshall
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Feb. 15, 4 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: TBA
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
March 2018
Alan M. Stahl (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 21, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBD
Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture.
Mildenberg Lecture
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