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Fri., Sept. 23
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave. (School of Theology Building) Lindsay/Arrowsmith
Library, Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago, Divinity School)
"The Gold Ring as Witness to Fidelity, with reference to Terence's 'The
Mother-in-Law'"
For more information, please contact Melissa at mjoseph(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427.
Refreshments will be served.
Wed., Sept. 28
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Paolo Asso (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
"Africa in Roman Epic"
This lecture is part of the Fall semester colloquium series of the W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute for African and African American Research. It is free and open to the public.
http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/
Mon., Oct. 3
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
William Johnson (Duke University)
"Publishing without Publishers: Books, Publication, and Community in Rome and
Today," Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminars on Ancient Greece and Rome and
on the History of the Book
*Tues., Oct. 4
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
BOSTON ATHENÆUM, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
Christopher Krebs (Harvard University)
"A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s 'Germania' from the Roman Empire through
the Third Reich"
*Mon., Oct. 17
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street Middletown, CT 06459
James Uden (Boston University)
"The Images and Ideology of Childhood Education in Statius' Achilleid"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Mon., Oct. 17
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON, Campus Center, Room 3545, 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393
New England Ancient History Colloquium / Christopher van den Berg (Amherst College)
Schedule of Events:
5:30-6:30 Gathering and Cash Bar
6:30-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:30 Brief introduction and highlights of pre-circulated paper by Christopher van den
Berg (Amherst College) entitled "The Decline of Rhetoric or the Rhetoric of Decline
in the 1st Century C.E.," followed by commentary by Elizabeth Keitel (UMass Amherst)
and general discussion.
Please see attached document for more information.
*Wed., Oct. 19
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel G12, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Richard Thomas (Harvard University)
"Virgil, the nineteenth century and the aesthetics of empathy"
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Reception to follow. Open to the public. Free parking. Contact: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (hmallis(a)brandeis.edu) for additional
information.
Thurs., Oct. 20
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Margaret Imber (Bates College)
"Daughters, Whores and Anxious Fathers: the Function of Women in Roman
Declamation"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Oct. 20
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston,
MA 02215
Gregory Aldrete (University of Wisconsin at Green Bay)
"Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the
Department of Archaeology at Boston University
Mon., Oct. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University)
"A Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Stoicism, Natural Law and the Decline of Classical Prudence in
Enlightenment Politics"
*Thurs., Oct. 27
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMass Boston, Wheatley Building First Floor, Room 54, 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA
02125-3393
Raymond Cormier (Longwood University)
"The Methods of Medieval Translators"
A Comparison of Virgil's Latin Aeneid and its High Medieval Adaptation, with
illustrations of manuscript glosses relevant to the Old French Roman d’Enéas
Sponsored by The Department of Classics UMass Boston
Questions: Kenneth.Rothwell(a)umb.edu
*Thurs., Oct. 27
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Concert in tribute to Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis
The Department of Classical Studies at BU in cooperation with the BU Hellenic Association,
the BU Center for the Humanities, the Greek Institute, the NEH Distinguished Teaching
Professorship, and Arion: a Journal of Humanities and the Classics, presents "Manos
and Mikis," featuring The Greek Music Ensemble. Tickets can be purchased by
contacting the Dept. of Classical Studies at 617-353-2427, The Tsai Center (
bu.edu/tsai),
or The Greek Institute at 617-547-4770. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $5 for
students (with student ID). BU Faculty and Staff Members $15. Tickets will be also
available at the door. For more information, contact the Department of Classical Studies
Melissa Joseph josephmv(a)bu.edu 617-353-2427.
URL:
http://www.greekmusicensemble.com/
Sat., Nov. 5
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 02115
SYMPOSIUM: Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, A Symposium will be held on Saturday, November 5th from
10:30 to 4:30 in Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in conjunction with the
exhibition (Torf Gallery, October 26, 2011 – February 20, 2011), the first devoted to the
ancient goddess. An international team of experts, drawn largely from the contributors to
the catalogue of the same title (available in the MFA bookshop and online), will present
papers on different aspects of this complicated goddess: her cults and ancestors, the
philosophy of beauty, and Eros. The symposium is funded by the Estelle Shohet Brettman
Lecture Series supported by the International Catacomb Society. It is free and open to the
public.
*Tues., Dec. 6
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Brown University, Religious Studies Seminar Room (Rm 101), Shirley Miller House, 59 George
Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Christopher Krebs (Harvard University)
"A Different Caesar: Neglected Aspects of his Writing"
Fri., Apr. 20
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
"Coin Hoards and hoarding in Britain: buried with the intention of recovery or votive
deposits?"
http://www.archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/5776
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Harvard University
Department of the Classics
Thurs., Apr. 26
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
title: TBA
Mildenberg Lecture
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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