Boston Area Classics Calendar 2007/2008: #5 (10/12/07) This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to an address dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of as word-processor file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK. Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued the following week. Please circulate as widely as possible. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008 HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor Galleries, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity See Appendix for details on Gallery Talks and Symposium Fri., Oct. 12, 6:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Nancy de Grummond (Florida State University) "Etruscan Lightning, Livers and Lore: Myth and Ritual in Ancient Etruria" Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Free to the public; MFA admission not required *Mon., Oct. 15, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, 217 Park Studio, Cabaret Building, New Haven, CT Staniewski Center for Theatre Practices in Gardzienice Actor's training work session and lecture Sponsored by Yale School of Drama, Yale Department of Classics, Yale Theatre Studies Department, and World Performance Project at Yale For more information contact pamela.prather(a)yale.edu See Appendix for details Tues., Oct. 16, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Stratos Constantinidis (The Ohio State University) "The Golden Age of Greek Cinema" Wed., Oct. 17, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sperry Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Dr. Mark Lehner (Ancient Egypt Research Associates) "A Tale of Two Towns: 4,500-Year Old Urban Footprints at Giza, Egypt" Reception preceding at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue Sponsored by the Semitic Museum of Harvard University Free and open to the public For more information contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu) Thurs., Oct. 18, 4:30 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA Leslie Kurke (University of California at Berkeley) "Herodotus and Aesop, or the Sociopolitics of Greek Prose" Sponsored by the Wellesley College Newhouse Center for the Humanities For more information contact Debra Carbarnes (dcarbarn(a)wellesley.edu) Thurs., Oct. 18, 8:00 p.m. BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, 5 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard Divinity School) and John Herrmann (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) "Celsus' Competing Heroes: Jonah, Daniel, and their Rivals" Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the Boston Theological Institute, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater Boston area For more information contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit the website at http:// www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm Thurs., Oct. 18, 8:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Mencoff Hall, 2nd Floor, 68 Waterman Street, Providence, RI Inaugural R. Ross Holloway Lecture, sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Stephen L. Dyson (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) "Archaeology and Ideology in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Rome" Reception to follow at 70 Waterman Street Free and open to the public For more information, email Joukowsky_Institute(a)Brown.edu, call (401) 863-3188, or visit www.brown.edu/joukowskyinstitute Tues., Oct. 23, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Strafford Room, MUB, Durham, NH Michael Wood (Documentary Filmmaker) "The Golden Fleece: Legend, History, and Geography" Reception beforehand hosted by New Hampshire Public Television (in Wildcat Den, MUB) Sponsored by the University of New Hampshire Classics Program and the John C. Rouman Lecture Series For more information contact R. Scott Smith (603-862-2388 or rss3(a)cisunix.unh.edu) or go to http://www.helleniccomserve.com/wood.html Wed., Oct. 24, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Strafford Room, MUB, Durham, NH Michael Wood (Documentary Filmmaker) "The Tale of Troy: Legend and History" Sponsored by the University of New Hampshire Classics Program and the John C. Rouman Lecture Series For more information contact R. Scott Smith (603-862-2388 or rss3(a)cisunix.unh.edu) or go to http://www.helleniccomserve.com/wood.html Thurs., Oct. 25, 12:40 - 2:00 p.m. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Strafford Room, MUB, Durham, NH Michael Wood (Documentary Filmmaker) "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: New Light on the Greek Invasion of Asia" Sponsored by the University of New Hampshire Classics Program and the John C. Rouman Lecture Series For more information contact R. Scott Smith (603-862-2388 or rss3(a)cisunix.unh.edu) or go to http://www.helleniccomserve.com/wood.html Thurs., Oct. 25, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Granite State Room, MUB, Durham, NH Michael Wood (Documentary Filmmaker) "The Point of Classics: The Enduring Image of Greece" Sponsored by the University of New Hampshire Classics Program and the John C. Rouman Lecture Series For more information contact R. Scott Smith (603-862-2388 or rss3(a)cisunix.unh.edu) or go to http://www.helleniccomserve.com/wood.html Thurs., Oct. 25, 5:30 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, The Graduate Club, 155 Elm Street, New Haven, CT New England Ancient Historians Colloquium fall meeting Dinner and drinks followed by discussion of a paper by Francesca Schironi (Harvard University), "En arkhei en ho logos: Analogy Between Mathematics and Grammar;" Response by Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania) All are welcome; for registration information contact Celia Schultz (celia.schultz(a)yale.edu or 203-432-0991) Mon., Oct. 29, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge) "The Ugly Peasant and the Naked Virgins: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Imitation" *Thurs., Nov. 1, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Octagon Building, Babbott Room, Amherst, MA Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago) "Persius on the Cannibal Poets" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Wed., Nov. 7, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Emmanuele Curti (Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia, Matera, University of Basilicata) "Digging the History of Pompeii: New Perspectives on the 'Buried' City" *Wed., Nov. 7, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Room 010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA "Medieval Archaeology in the 21st Century" lecture series Mark Thomas (University College, London) "No Sex Please, We're English: Genes, Anglo-Saxon Apartheid, and the Early Medieval Settlement of Britain" Chris Loveluck (Nottingham/Harvard), Michael McCormick (Harvard University), Nick Patterson (Broad Institute) and David Reich (Harvard Medical School) will comment on this pioneering venture into genomic archaeology Wed., Nov., 7, 5:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2 Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Christopher Parslow (Wesleyan University) "Love and Life in the Properties of Julia Felix in Pompeii" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/ overview/directions.html) Sat., Nov. 10 - Sun., Nov. 11 AMHERST COLLEGE and THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Amherst, MA "See How I Rip Myself!" Rome and its Civil Wars Keynote Address: T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter) "The Two-Headed State: How Romans Explained Civil War" For registration, speakers, and program see http://www.umass.edu/ civilwars/ Thurs., Nov. 29, 5:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Classical Studies Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Adam Kolman Marshak (Brandeis University) "The Pathways and Palaces of Herod the Great: Excavating Hellenistic History in Ancient Judaea" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/ overview/directions.html) *Tues., Dec. 4, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Classical Traditions Timothy Rood (University of Oxford) "A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque" MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Fall 2007 Gallery Report Due to ongoing construction at the museum, some Classical installations have been temporarily de-installed. We expect that as the fall term begins, the following galleries will be OPEN on a regular basis: East Greek Art (1A11); Etruscan Art (1A01); Archaic Greek Art (1A06 and 1A04b); Classical Greek Art (2A02); Roman Art (2A06); and Art of the Eastern Roman Empire, including the Antioch Marine mosaic (2A07). We hope to have the gallery of South Italian/ Hellenistic Art (2A12), which abuts the construction site, re-opened as soon as possible. We thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have questions about particular pieces, you can reach the Classical offices at (617) 369-3259. APPENDIX: *Mon., Oct. 15, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, 217 Park Studio, Cabaret Building, New Haven, CT Staniewski Center for Theatre Practices in Gardzienice Actor's training work session and lecture Sponsored by Yale School of Drama, Yale Department of Classics, Yale Theatre Studies Department, and World Performance Project at Yale For more information contact pamela.prather(a)yale.edu Gardzienices' actors training will concentrate mainly on: - training of mutuality with the references to Ancient Greek iconography - technique of gesticulation referring to Ancient Greek cheironomia - music work (Ancient Greek relics) This session is geared for actors and performers and is limited to 25 participants. There will also be seating available on the periphery for observers. Contact Pamela Prather if you are interested in participating at pamela.prather(a)yale.edu Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008 HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor Galleries, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity Gallery Talks: Thurs., Oct. 18, 2:00 p.m. Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, and colored Renaissance prints with Susan Dackerman, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints. Sat., Oct. 20, 11:30 a.m. Sat., Dec. 15, 11:30 a.m. Emily Gangemi, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern and PhD candidate, Department of the Classics Sun., Nov.18, 2:00 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20, 2:00 p.m. Andreya Mihaloew, PhD candidate, Department of the Classics Thurs., Nov. 8, 12:15 p.m. Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and medieval sculpture with Stephan Wolohojian, curator of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts Thurs., Dec.13, 2:00 p.m. Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and polychrome Asian sculpture, with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of Japanese art Thurs., Jan. 10, 2:00 p.m. Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and photography, with Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography. Symposium: Fri., Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall Superficial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture 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.