Boston Area Classics Calendar
November 2018
Alain Schnapp (Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics…
Wed., Nov. 14, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson 101, Cambridge, MA 02138
"A Universal History of Ruins"
James Loeb Lecture
TunaŞare Ağtürk (Radcliffe Institute and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University,
Turkey)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Nov. 15, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tozzer Anthropology Building 203, 21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge,
MA 02138
"The Tetrarchic Reliefs from Nikomedia: Uncovering the colorful life of
Diocletian's lost capital"
Pierre Destrée (University of Louvain & Princeton, Seeger Center for Hellenic
Studies)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Nov. 15, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Aristotle on the Value of Comedy”
events.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__e…
Jay Jasanoff (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Nov. 16, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/calenda…
Indo-European Workshop | Department of
Linguistics<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/events…
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu
Department of Linguistics Boylston Hall, 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)
495-4054 Fax: (617) 496-4447 lingdept(a)fas.harvard.edu
Party Animals: An Ancient
Feast<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Fri., Nov. 16, 7 – 9 p.m.
HARVARD ED PORTAL, 224 Western Avenue, Allston MA
Celebrate the fall harvest season by feasting with your neighbors! Join the Harvard Ed
Portal in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums and the Ceramics Program, Office for
the Arts at Harvard, for a special evening inspired by the Animal-Shaped Vessels from the
Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings exhibition, on view at the Harvard
Art Museums through January 6, 2019.
Start the night off with a visit to the Ceramics Program to see Raise a Glass, an
exhibition featuring contemporary responses to the ancient objects in Animal-Shaped
Vessels. Then head next door to the Ed Portal to experience feasting traditions from the
ancient world through food, drink, music, and performance inspired by the cultures—and
creatures—represented in the museums’ exhibition.
The program will take place at the Harvard Ed Portal, located at 224 Western Avenue, in
Allston, Massachusetts.
Tickets are required for this event and cost $10 per person. Your ticket is inclusive of
all food, drink, and entertainment, and each attendee will also receive a complimentary
admission pass to the Harvard Art Museums. This event is open only to participants aged 21
and older.
Tickets are available by phone, online, or in person beginning at noon on Friday, October
19, through the Harvard Box Office. For more information, please visit the Harvard Box
Office website.
Crucial support for the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition came in the form of a major grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor. In addition,
the Harvard Art Museums are deeply grateful to the anonymous donor of a gift in memory of
Melvin R. Seiden and to Malcolm H. Wiener (Harvard A.B. ’57, J.D. ’63) and Michael and
Helen Lehmann for enabling us to mount this exhibition and to pursue the related research.
This work was also made possible in part by the David M. Robinson Fund and the Andrew W.
Mellon Publication Funds, including the Henry P. McIlhenny Fund.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
Christopher Star (Middlebury
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 27, 4 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
"The Final Age Has Come: Nero, Seneca and the End of the World"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
Nina Papathanasopoulou (Connecticut
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Nov. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Serpent Heart: Animality, Jealousy, and Transgression in Martha Graham's Medea (Cave
of the Heart)”
Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston
University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
Joy Connolly
(
CUNY)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Thu., Nov. 29, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
“Migrancy as Theme and Ethic in Late Republican Roman Literature.”
This talk works with what may strike some as an unusual pairing — the Greek historian and
essayist Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Latin poet Vergil — to lay out a new paradigm
for understanding Roman literature as an engagement with the challenge of migration to
intellectual life, in the context of Rome’s aggressive expansion of empire. Drawing on the
thinking of Hannah Arendt and Édouard Glissant, themselves both migrant thinkers, I
explore the ethic of tragic awareness and obligation latent in Dionysius and Vergil. My
argument will, I hope, advance the conversation about the role and value of canonical
literature in its own historical moment and today.
The event is co-sponsored by the Classical Studies Department, History Department and
College of Letters.
www.wesleyan.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww…
R. R. R. Smith (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Nov. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
December 2018
Mirte Liebregts (Radboud University Nijmegen, The
Netherlands)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
Tue., Dec. 4, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Behind the Red and the Green: the planning and execution of the early Loeb Classical
Library"
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Harvard Department of the Classics, and
the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Karen Foster (Yale
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Dec. 6, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
"The Murder of Mesopotamia: War, Looting, and Cultural Heritage"
Sponsored by Classical Studies, Art History, and International Studies
For more information:
lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu<mailto:lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu>
Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon
Editor-in-Chief)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-c…
Thu., Dec. 6, 4 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
02138
Donna Zuckerberg will talk about her new book, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and
Misogyny in the Digital
Age<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975552>52>.
Reception to follow in Ticknor Lounge.
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
www.hup.harvard.edu…<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674…
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Dec. 7, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
Nino Luraghi (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Dec. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Peloponnesian Peace"
February 2019
Maria Youni (Democritus University of Thrace / Institute for Advanced
Study)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Mon., Feb. 11, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Donation to the Goddess: Worship, Law, and Economy at the Sanctuaries of Roman
Macedonia”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center
for the Humanities
March 2019
Bernard Frischer (Indiana
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 13
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Rome Reborn"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
Catherine Grandjean (Université de Tours,
France)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Mar. 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The coinage of the Achaian koinon, between federal authority and civic autonomy.”
Ancient galleries open until 8 p.m.
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
April 2019
New England Ancient History
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Apr. 11
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Faculty Club, Room 205, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
UMass Classics
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 – 6:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room (Tenth Floor), Amherst, MA
"Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Ancient Historiography in Honor of
Professor Elizabeth Keitel"
3:00 to 6:30 p.m. - followed by banquet (details TBA).
Speakers:
1) Jane Chaplin (Middlebury), When Historians Make History
2) Timothy Joseph (Holy Cross), Ubique lamenta: The place of lament in Latin epic and
historiography
3) Christina Kraus (Yale), Multiplying disasters: the many-fronted, multiplex bellum in
Livy 5
4) John Marincola (FSU), Asinius Pollio and the Roman Revolution.
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u…
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