Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2019
11th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Sat., Mar. 23
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union (GSU), Room 310, Boston, MA USA
"The Mythological Other: Marginalized Figures in the Mythic Narratives and Religious
Life of Ancient Greece and Rome"
Keynote speaker: Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University)
Registration is required. Please register online by Wednesday, 3/20/19.
This year, the conference will examine the question of marginalization in mythic
narratives and religious life in the Greek city-states, the kingdoms of the Hellenistic
Period and the Roman Republic and Empire. We will explore explore how the ancient Greeks
and Romans – citizens and non-citizens, male and female, free and slave alike – sought to
define who belonged, and who did not, in both their mythic narratives and religious
practice.
Our keynote speaker, Rebecca Futo Kennedy, will give a talk entitled “Suppliants at the
Dionysia: Embracing Refugees in an Anti-Immigrant Athens.”
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
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
Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Mar. 27, 3 – 5 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"Gender and Sexuality: Lenses on the House of Atreus"
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…
James Rives (UNC Chapel
Hill)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Thu., Mar. 28, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Sacrifice and 'Religion': Modeling Religious Change in the Roman
Empire"
GSAS Workshop "Dynamics of Religion and Religious Space in the Ancient
Mediterranean"
April 2019
Edith Hall (King’s College
London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Fri., Apr. 5, 4 – 7 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Huddleston Ballroom, 73 Main St, Durham, NH 03824
"Classics, Class and Race: Transatlantic and Transhistorical Perspectives"
Followed by
Classical Reception and the Future of Classics"
"a panel discussion with
Sarah Derbew, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics, Yale University
Patrice Rankine, Professor of Classics and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Richmond
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Apr. 5, 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Epistemicide: the Roman case"
GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"
Katherine Taronas (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 8, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
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
40th anniversary celebration, featuring Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) on
"Caesar Historicus" with Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania) as
commentator.
Registration and reception 5:30-6:30
Dinner 6:30–7:30
Discussion 7:30-9
Further info: allen.m.ward@att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>
Roberta Stewart
(
Dartmouth)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Apr. 11, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
Topic TBA
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 11, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
“Race and Environment from Hippocrates to the Smithsonian Institute”
www.wesleyan.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__w…
James Taylor
(
Harvard)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Apr. 12, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
Topic TBA
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
"Natural Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Medieval
Period"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
Sat., Apr. 13, 12 – 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham,
Mass. 02453
Department of Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference:
"Natural Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Medieval
Period"
Keynote Speaker: Professor Debbie Felton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Additional details TBA
Free and open to the public. Free Parking. Please send all questions to the conference
committee: Derrek Joyce (djjoyce@brandeis.edu<mailto:djjoyce@brandeis.edu>),
Matthew Previto (mjp6853@brandeis.edu<mailto:mjp6853@brandeis.edu>), and Katherine
Riggs (kriggs93@brandeis.edu<mailto:kriggs93@brandeis.edu>).
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__w…
Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III (Bryn
Mawr)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Mon., Apr. 15, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Building (Paino Lecture Hall- Rm.#107),, 11 Barrett Hill
Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"Imagining the Underworld: Life after Death in Ancient Greek Religion"
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
Edward Watts (UC San
Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Mon., Apr. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject in Justinian's
Hagia Sophia"
James Loeb Lecture
Edward Watts (University of California San
Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Apr. 23, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Frost Library (Center for Humanistic Inquiry -2nd floor), 61
Quadrangle Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"The Radicalism of Roman Decline and Renewal: The History of a Dangerous
Concept"
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
Nicholas Cahill (University of
Wisconsin)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Tue., Apr. 23, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Recent Discoveries at Sardis: From the Bronze Age to the End of Antiquity"
Work by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of
Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University
since 1958. This biennial lecture series presents the latest research from the site to the
Harvard and greater Boston communities.
Please join us in Menschel Hall beginning at 5:30pm to view drone footage of the Sardis
site.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via
the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at
the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Sardis Biennial Lecture
Noah Kaye (Michigan State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 25, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"
The Boston Area Roman Studies
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
"Ovid and Augustan Culture: A Conference in Honor of Patricia J. Johnson"
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) was instituted in 1995 to promote the
study of Latin literature and Roman culture, to increase the visibility of these studies
in the New England scholarly community and to provide a place for area Latinists and
Romanists to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas.
The BARSC is sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the
Humanities at Boston University and is held annually in April. The conference is open to
anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference is a dinner, and those
wishing to attend must pre-register via
Eventbrite<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rsc2019.…7RibOl7ne-ZKKuWVbtg&e=>.
The registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 22, 2019.
The 2019 Conference will be held on Friday, April 26, 2019, with registration opening at
3:00 p.m. and the program starting at 3:30 p.m. in Barrister’s Hall in the BU School of
Law (765 Commonwealth Ave). Dinner will follow. For directions to the School of Law and a
campus map click here. There is a parking lot open to the public near the School of Law at
Granby Street, 665 Commonwealth Ave, click here for rate and location information (refer
to Granby Street Lot, Lot N).
Below is the program for the 2019 Conference.
Friday, April 26, 2019
John F. Miller, University of Virginia
“The Lover’s Calendar”
Ioannis Ziogas, Durham University
“Lex amatoria: Teaching Law and Love in the Age of Augustus”
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College
“Still, She Persisted: Materiality and Memory in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”
For more information please call the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2426) or
contact Meghan Kelly at mekel@bu.edu<mailto:mekel@bu.edu>.
Boston Area Roman Studies
Conference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
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
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.
Register here:
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u…
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u…
Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt für
Denkmalpflege)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cal…
Mon., Apr. 29, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Soldiers and civilians: the military community on the northern frontiers of
Rome"
May 2019
Florian Knauss (University of
Augsburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Wed., May 1
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Palaces and Luxury Goods. The Achaemenid Persian Impact in the Caucasus"
James Loeb Lecture
July 2019
CANE Summer
Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Mon., July 8 – Sat., July 13
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
The organizers of the 2019 CANE Summer Institute invite you to join us for a weeklong
examination of peoples and cultures that comprised the Classical Greek and Roman worlds.
We will not only look at the various components of the ancient world, but we will also
consider what it meant for those components to be unum. The institute’s events and
discussions will also consider modern and contemporary reflections of nationhood.
Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English,
the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted
lifelong learner, you will enjoy a thoughtful and enriching experience that includes a
wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, reading groups, and special events
while also offering many opportunities for conversation and collegial interaction among
participants.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__caneweb…
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__caneweb…
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