Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 29, 2011
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Fri., Apr. 29
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Schedule:
4:00 Registration
4:15 Presentations:
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia"
Ann Vasaly, Boston University
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
7:00 Reception with Cash Bar
7:30 Dinner
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu; Information: Tel. 617-353-2426
Fri., Apr. 29, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 30, 8:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the German archaeologist
and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978). Her work on Hellenistic and Roman
sculpture and on the Roman Theater remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin
collection will bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of different
backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It will focus on the interrelation
of coins and sculpture with an emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and
portraits of the Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian and Mediterranean
Division.
Program below and here:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=33695
Friday
6-7 p.m. Keynote Address
--"Emperor among the Crowd: Form and Format in Roman Imperial Portraiture"
Barbara E. Borg, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics and Ancient
History, University of Exeter, and Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute
7-8 p.m. Reception
Saturday
8:30-9 a.m. Coffee
9-9:10 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
--"Sculpture and Coins"
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins, Division of Asian and
Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer on the Classics, Harvard University
9:10-10:30 a.m. Session 1
Chair: Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, Harvard
University
--"Remembering Margarete Bieber in New York"
Larissa Bonfante, Professor of Classics, Emerita, New York University
--"Behind the Scenes: Margarete Bieber's Impact on 20th-Century
Scholarship"
Matthias Recke, Curator of the Ancient Art Collection, Institute for Classical
Archaeology, Justus Liebig University Giessen
10:30-11 a.m. Break
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Session 2
Chair: Ruth Bielfeldt, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
University
--"King in a Small World: Depictions of Alexander on His Shields and Armor"
Karsten Dahmen, Curator of Ancient Coins, Coin Cabinet, Berlin State Museums
--"Honos and Virtus? Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius"
Peter F. Mittag, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cologne
12:30-2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30-3:30 p.m. Session 3, Part 1
Chair: Adrian Staehli, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Harvard University
--"Man into God: The Dead Emperor Lives"
William E. Metcalf, Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals, Yale University Art
Gallery, and Adjunct Professor of Classics, Yale University
-- "Faustina the Elder and Younger on Coins and in Statues"
Martin Beckmann, Assistant Professor of Classics, McMaster University
3:30-4 p.m. Tea
4-5:30 p.m. Session 3, Part 2
-- "The Women of the Severan Dynasty: Coining Female Power?"
Annetta Alexandridis, Assistant Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Cornell
University
--Closing Remarks
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi and Adrian Staehli
--Discussion
Free admission. Open to the public. Complimentary parking for this event is available at
the Broadway Garage, on Felton Street between Cambridge Street and Broadway. For more
information, please contact Nika Trufanova at veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu or
617-495-4544.
Presented in conjunction with the temporary installation The Scholar as Collector:
Margarete Bieber (1879-1978), organized by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of
Ancient Coins, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer
on the Classics, Harvard University.
To honor the memory of renowned numismatist and scholar Leo Mildenberg (1912-2001) and his
years of friendship with Harvard University, a fund was established by his friends and
colleagues and endowed in 2005 by his wife, Ilse Mildenberg-Seehausen.
Mon., May 2
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
*Thurs., May 5
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall, 206, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sebastian Sommer (Chief Archaeologist, Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege)
"Romans and civilians on the German frontier: the case of the 2nd and 3rd centuries
AD"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Thurs., May 5
6:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered how we understand our
dreams and their significance. In this cross-disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J.
Allan Hobson), Jungian therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian of
ideas (David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the "meaning" of dreams
and what they can tell us about ourselves in light of these advances.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston
College. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact
Daniel Harris-McCoy (harrises(a)bc.edu).
Fri. and Sat., May 6 and 7
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fay House, Sheerr Room, Radcliffe Yard (10 Garden St.), Cambridge, MA
02138
Themes from Striker: Ancient Logic, Epistemology, and Ethics
A conference in honor of Gisela Striker on the occasion of her retirement from the Walter
C. Klein Chair in Philosophy and Classics
Friday, May 6
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Jennifer Whiting, University of Toronto
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Rusty Jones, Harvard University
3:30 - 5:15 p.m. James Allen, University of Pittsburgh
5:30 p.m. Reception
Saturday, May 7
9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University
11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Mitzi Lee, U. of Colorado, Boulder
12:45 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. John Schafer, Northwestern University
4:15 - 5:45 p.m. Dorothea Frede, UC Berkeley
6:00 p.m. Reception
The conference will take place at Harvard University. Events will be in the Sheerr Room in
Fay House, Radcliffe Yard (10 Garden St.)
Sponsored By: The Provostial Funds Committee, the Department of Philosophy, & the
Department of Classics.
For more information and to register, contact emcwill(a)fas.harvard.edu.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/strikerconference.html
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