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Mon, Apr 28: Fikret Yegül (UCSB)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Cambridge, MA 02138
"A Victor's Message: The Talking Column of the Temple of Artemis at
Sardis"
Loeb Lecture
Tue, Apr 29: International Dance Day
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South, Belfer Room S020, 1730 Cambridge St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Real
Colegio Complutense present a dance studies panel:
"Dance/Transit/Displacement: Perspectives on Cross-temporal
Reenactments, Cosmopolitan Modernisms and Diasporic Bodies"
Featuring presentations by:
Michelle Clayton (Brown University)
"Modernism's Moving Bodies: Travel, Dance, Latin America"
Zoa Alonso (RCC Harvard)
"Peplum Choreographies: Translating Ancient Rome in Ballet and
Contemporary Dance"
Lester Tomé (Smith College, DRCLAS Harvard)
"All the World's a Stage: Cuban Dancers, Labor Migration and Global
Ballet (1990s to today)"
Moderated: Grette Vidal (Harvard University)
http://drclas.harvard.edu/events/drclas-dance
Fri, May 2: Richard Seaford (University of Exeter)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art, Room 110, 64 College St., Providence, RI 02912
"Money and Athenian Tragedy"
http://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147cc4-45172aa0-0145-19ad6ffd-0000…
**Mon, May 5: Harvard-Yale Conference in Book History
10:15 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Room 317, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, New Haven, CT 06520
Chairs: Ann Blair, Alex Csiszar, Robert Darnton, Leah Price
Sponsored by the Yale Program in the History of the Book and the
Seminar in the History of the Book at the Mahindra Humanities Center
(Harvard)
Program:
http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/node/516
*Mon, May 5: Angelos Matthaiou (Greek Epigraphic Society & American
School of Classical Studies)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
"New Attic Inscriptions"
http://events.brown.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=8F4641A06613…
*Tue, May 6: Aristophanes' Birds
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
The Mellon-Sawyer seminar "Animal Magnetism" presents a modern
translation of Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy Birds. In a
performed reading, two scenes will be acted out to illustrate and
explore the crossing of boundaries between species. The performance
will be accompanied by a short lecture on what it meant to the ancient
Greeks to perform the animal on the comic stage.
A short reception will follow.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Early_Cultures/animals/events.html
*Thu, May 8: Sara Chiarini (University of Exeter)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
"The Corpus of 'Nonsense' Inscriptions of Ancient Greek Vase
Painting"
http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics/…