Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2021
41st Medieval and Renaissance
Forum<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Fri., Apr. 16 – Sat., Apr. 17
Virtual Event (organized by Keene State College)
"Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
Please submit abstracts and full contact information on this Google
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Abstract deadline: January 15, 2021; presenters and early registration: March 15, 2021
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Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 22, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE & TRINITY COLLEGE via Zoom
"Classics and White Supremacism in the United States: a Brief History"
Rebecca Futo Kennedy, who studies notions of race and ethnicity in the ancient world, will
speak on the reception of classical antiquity within the US white supremacist movement.
This online lecture is sponsored by the Department of Classics at Amherst College and the
Department of Classical Studies at Trinity College, with support from the Lamont Fund.
trincoll.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__t…
Brenda Baker (Arizona State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 22, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE via Zoom
"Sacrificed? Subsidiary Burials from Royal Funerary Monuments at Abydos, Egypt"
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in advance for this meeting:
The Archaeological Institute of America's Boston Society is pleased to bring you this
event, through collaboration with the Department of Classical Studies at Wellesley
College.
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contact: Bryan Burns, bburns@wellesley.edu<mailto:bburns@wellesley.edu>
[Brenda Baker (Arizona State University)]
26th Annual Boston Area Roman Studies
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 23, 1 – 4:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Zoom
The 26th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
To be held over Zoom
"Systems of Knowledge in Republican Rome"
Presentations
Diana Spencer, University of Birmingham
" Varro's strategies of quotation in De Lingua Latina"
Hannah Čulík-Biard, Boston University
"Cicero on Fiction"
Katharina Volk, Columbia University
"Necromancers in the Senate"
The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge, but you must
pre-register to attend. Register here:
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Arthur Peterson
Kathy Eden (Columbia
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 26, 5:15 p.m.
Zoom, hosted by MIT
"The Shifting Status of Conjecture from Law to Literature"
Abstract: Traditionally ascribed to Hermagoras (2nd C BCE) for use in the law courts and
later developed by, among others, Cicero and Quintilian as the infrastructure of
argumentation, the so-called status system, with its three foundational
questions—conjectural (“did it happen?” [sitne]), definitional (“what happened?” [quid
sit]), and qualitative (“what kind of action was it?” [quale sit])—leaves a deep and
pervasive impact on the analysis of human agency from antiquity to the early modern
period. Focusing on the first of the three status, the conjectural, and more precisely on
its two main topics, will and power (voluntas and potestas), this talk will chart their
itinerary both in theory and practice from legal through theological to literary
discourse, with special attention to Augustine and Petrarch.
Additional
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in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the meeting.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
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[Kathy Eden (Columbia University)]
Curtis Dozier (Vassar
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Apr. 27, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard University (Zoom)
"Classical Athens and Contemporary White Ethnonationalism"
Many classical scholars are familiar with the widespread admiration for ancient Sparta
among white ethnonationalists, anti-government groups, and advocates for civilian gun
ownership. Fewer are aware that democratic Athens is also a significant source of
inspiration for white supremacists, as I have found in my research for my website Pharos
documenting these groups’ admiration for Greco-Roman antiquity. Unlike appropriations of
Sparta, the examples of white ethnonationalist interpretations of Athens that I will
present highlight the similarities between white supremacist, popular, and even some
disciplinary approaches to Greco-Roman antiquity.
Curtis Dozier teaches in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College. He
is the director of Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics
(
pharosclassics.vassar.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt…)NqTOkLpYHmCs18GMV4&e=>),
a website that documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups.
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
required.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical
Traditions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditio…
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
John Mulhall (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 28, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom
"Islam and the Prophet in the Scientific Translations of the Twelfth Century:
Accuracy and Accommodation"
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required.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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July 2021
Classical Association of New England Summer
Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Tue., July 13 – Thu., July 15 and
Tue., July 20 – Thu., July 22
Zoom
On the theme “Power and the Individual in the Ancient Mediterranean World”
The 2021 CANE Summer Institute will be held virtually over Zoom, covering 6 days over 2
weeks, July 13-15 and July 20-22.
graduate credit available
For more information and registration details, go to
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Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at
summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>
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Amanda Loud (summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>)
[Classical Association of New England Summer Institute]
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