Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2022
If A Picture Never Lies: An Opera Adaptation of Vergil's Bucolics by Harry Sage
'22<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d158067763>
Sat., Feb. 26, 8 – 8:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Adams Pool Theater, Westmorly Hall, 26 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA
02138
Join us for the world premiere of If A Picture Never Lies, a chamber opera by Harry Sage
’22! A new adaptation of Vergil’s Bucolics, our show reinterprets 2000-year-old poetry
about the ancient Roman countryside to ask timeless questions about possession and loss,
memory and song, and the possibility of paradise.
IAPNL is a joint senior thesis in Music and the Classics and is presented with the support
of the Harvard Classical Club and Classics Department. The opera is 30 minutes long and
sung in English.
Performances are at Adams Pool Theater at 6:30 PM on Friday, 2/25 and 8:00 PM on Saturday,
2/26. The event is free and open to the public with HUID or proof of vaccination.
Reservations are first-come, first-serve; visit
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contact: Michael Baick
(mbaick@college.harvard.edu<mailto:mbaick@college.harvard.edu>)
Angela Cinalli (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher MSCA-IF-GF, Dipartimento di Scienze
dell’Antichità, Università "La Sapienza" di Roma - Center for Hellenic Studies,
Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Feb. 28, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02143
"Restaging and reperforming the Classics: the case of Euripides’ Bacchae"
Louis Zweig (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Feb. 28, 12 – 1 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (On Zoom)
"X marks the spot: The Ecbasis captivi and Jerome's Vita Malchi"
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
March 2022
Shivaike Shah, 'Uprooting
Medea'<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Mar. 1, 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (Zoom)
Shivaike Shah (Khameleon Productions)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
required.
The Uprooting Medea project provides a provocative lens on Euripides’s canonic ‘Western’
play Medea by exploring and questioning contemporary themes of race, belonging, identity,
home and otherness. The production reimagines Euripides’s Greek tragedy with an all-global
majority cast and crew, and features original compositions, movement and spoken word.
This presentation will introduce the Medea project and discuss the development and
adaptation of the work since its original conception in Oxford. We will explore the
creative practice of elevating global-majority artists through multimedia forms including
theatre, film, music and poetry. The presentation will give an insight into the upcoming
short film project (to be released later in 2022), featuring excerpts and exclusive
behind-the-scenes footage to bring to life this new vision for Medea.
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
Mathias Hanses (Penn State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 3, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Zoom. Registration required.)
"Cicero with Local Applications: W. E. B. DuBois' Views of the Ancient
Mediterranean at the turn of the Twentieth Century"
Registration
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Co-sponsors: Classics Department, the Core Curriculum, African American Studies and the
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving
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CANCELLED - Reed Morgan (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Mar. 7, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
"The Laic Archaic" featuring Daniel
Lavery<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Mar. 9, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Zoom
Daniel Lavery is the author of “Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” “The Merry
Spinster,” and “Texts From Jane Eyre.” He is the co-founder of “The Toast” and the
proprietor of the Chatner newsletter; formerly the Dear Prudence advice columnist at
Slate. He will be reading from some of his published writings, particularly on Sappho and
Catullus, and then discussing with Prof. Johanna Hanink how his work has been informed by
his “amateur enthusiasm for Classics.”
Registration is required for this event.
brown.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brow…
Patrick Finglass (University of
Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Mar. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Topic TBA
Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient
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Patrick Finglass (University of
Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Mar. 21, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Towards a new edition of Sappho: ordering the fragments of Book 1"
Book 1 of the ancient edition of Sappho consisted of all her poems in the sapphic metre.
We have quite a lot of evidence for this book (at least, compared to our evidence for all
her other books), and this paper looks at one important aspect of it in particular: the
order of the poems which it contained. It considers the question under two related
headings. First, how much do we actually know about the ordering? For instance, how sure
can we be that the famous ‘Ode to Aphrodite’ poem came first in the edition? (Surer than
is currently realised, it turns out.) Apart from that first poem, was alphabetical order
the rule, or were there further exceptions – and if so, on what basis, and to what effect?
Second, how should modern editors approach the issue of how to order the fragments? A
modern vulgate order has become established over the past century, and all other things
being equal, it is better not to disturb such an ordering without good reason – but are
all other things equal, and might there now be a good reason? Or to put it another way,
what could a better ordering of the fragments achieve? And if we do reorder, what do we do
with the fragments which cannot be firmly placed in any particular location within the
book? By considering these points, both theoretical and practical, we can (it is hoped)
become more attuned to the editorial shaping of the most-read book of the most-read female
writer in antiquity, and thus, perhaps, become better readers of the Sappho known to so
many generations across so many centuries throughout the ancient world.
Andrew Bauer (Stanford
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Mar. 22, 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Lecture: TBA
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors
Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
April 2022
Aurelio Conference in Honor of Jeffrey
Henderson<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Fri., Apr. 1, 2 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA
Join us at Boston University on Friday, April 1 at 2PM for a celebration of Prof. Jeffrey
Henderson, who will be retiring at the end of the semester from his position as the
William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature. We will celebrate
Prof. Henderson's career and influence with papers by four distinguished scholars of
Greek literature, followed by a reception and dinner in Jeff's honor. All invited.
Pre-registration is encouraged for the conference with walk-ins welcome; registration is
required for the dinner. Please visit
bu.edu/classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www…
beginning in late February for more information and a registration link.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 5, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker
Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (1 of 3)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
Katherine Schwab, Fairfield
University<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Schwab, an art historian and archaeologist, will speak about her most recent discoveries
in drawing the broken Parthenon metopes.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 6, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker
Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (2 of 3)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 7, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, TBA,
Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (3 of 3)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
Christian Thomsen (University of
Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 12, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 (and on Zoom)
TBA
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD
Book launch for The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Ammerman, a classical archaeologist, will speak about votive imagery and the cult of the
nymphs at Metaponto.
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