Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #7 (10/20/06) 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 Fri., Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Colloquium sponsored by the Department of the Classics T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge) "Understanding the Oedipus Rex" This lecture will last 2 hours, followed at 4:00 p.m. by refreshments and discussion *Sat., Oct. 21, 2:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Forms of Address: A Conference Sponsored by The English Institute Shane Butler (UCLA) "Prolusiones on the Backward Glance" A journey though Poliziano, Vergil, and Ovid to find a definitive -- and surprising -- answer to the question, "Why does Orpheus look back?" For more information on this panel and for conference registration, see www.english-institute.org Sun., Oct. 22, 2:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Robots and Ancient Shipwrecks in the Deep Aegean Sea" Tickets: $10 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $13 (non-MFA members); MFA admission not required Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box office at 617-369-3306 Mon., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College) "Self and Poetry in the Work of Prudentius" Mon. Oct. 23; Wed., Oct. 25; and Fri., Oct. 27, 4:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA Three seminars on Aristotle's conception of Psuche (De Anima II.1-4), Telos (Physics, II.7-9), and Orexis (De Anima, III.7-8) Alfred and Maria Miller (Catholic University of America) For more information contact David Roochnik, roochnik(a)bu.edu **Mon., Oct. 23, 6:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED) TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge) "The Coins of Marc Antony" For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu Wed., Oct. 25, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building 010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA Sponsored by the Committees on Archaeology and Medieval Studies and made possible by a Mellon Foundation Award and Michael McCormick, Department of History Opening lecture in a new series, "Medieval Archaeology in the 21st Century" Martin Carver (University of York) "Sutton Hoo in the Light of the New Excavations: a Political Weathervane of the Seventh Century" A reception will follow at the Faculty Club Thurs., Oct. 26, 4:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Harvard University) "East and Further East: Syriac Christianity at the End of the Ancient World" 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 go to http:// www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Thurs., Oct. 26, 8:00 p.m. BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, 5 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA John Herrmann (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard Divinity School) "St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls, Rome: New Studies of the Old Basilica" Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the Boston Theological Institute, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater Boston area (http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/ patristica_bostoniensia.htm) Tues., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Colloquium sponsored by the Department of the Classics Francesco Stella (University of Siena) "Digital Philology and the Corpus Rhythmorum" Thurs., Nov. 2, 4:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Providence, RI Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter) "Rome before Literature: History and Fiction" Fri., Nov. 3, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter) "Rome before Literature: History and Fiction" Mon., Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI Scott McGill (Rice University) "Imitation or Plagiarism? The Case of Virgil in Macrobius' Saturnalia" Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA Susan Alcock (Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University) Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Massachusetts 17th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture "A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia" Reception following in the Atrium For more information contact Scott Bradbury at sbradbur(a)email.smith.edu *Wed., Nov. 8, 7:00 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 201 Eaton Hall, Medford, MA Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series Josephine Crawley Quinn (Worcester College, University of Oxford) "Negotiating Power in the Hellenistic West: Numidian Architecture in Context" For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu Wed., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Hall, Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA "Cities" Lecture Series David Mitten (Harvard University) "Thessaloniki: Second City of the Aegean" Thurs., Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University) "Virgil and History" 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 go to http:// www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland) "Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman Alexandria" Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office on the day of the event. Thurs., Nov. 30, 3:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Golding 103, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Classical Studies Colloquium Series Lecture sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Yumna Khan (Brandeis University) "The Mythical Mystery Tour of Dionysius of Alexandria" Light refreshments will be served 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 go to http:// www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College) "Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of Freedmen in the Roman World" Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross) Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion For more information contact Kathleen Coleman at kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024 Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University at 617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University at 617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University at 617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Aristotle on Political Animals" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University at 617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu APPENDIX: 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.