Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #19 (1/14/05) 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 Tues., Jan. 18, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Building, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA Sponsored by Harvard University (Semitic Museum, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, and Center for Middle Eastern Studies), American Schools of Oriental Research, and Massachusetts College of Art Joanne Farchakh (Lebanese journalist) "Mesopotamia Endangered -- Witnessing the Loss of History" Reception preceding lecture at 6:00 p.m., Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue For more information, call Dena Davis 617 495 4631, or e-mail <davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu> *Thurs., Feb. 3, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics J. K. Davies (University of Liverpool) "False and Recreated Documents: The Cancer in Ancient Historiography" Wed., Feb. 9, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street, Shiffman 201, Waltham, MA The First Annual Jennifer Eastman Lecture in Classical Studies Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) "The Three Songs of Demodokos in *Odyssey* viii: A Reassessment" For further information: Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or JBarry(a)brandeis.edu) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) *Thurs., Feb. 10, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Catherine Connors (University of Washington, Seattle) "Princes, Pirates, and Politics: John Barclay's Argenis (1621) and its Sources in Virgil, Ovid and Heliodorus" Tues., Feb. 15, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, title TBA For more information: Michael Satlow (401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu) Tues., March 15, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) "De-orientalizing Prometheus: The Culture Hero in Mesopotamia and Greece" For more information: Michael Satlow (401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu) *Fri., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Patricia Easterling (University of Cambridge) "The Death of Oedipus and What Happened Next" Thurs., Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center, 855 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Carlos Norena (Yale University) "From Model to Master: Local Constructions of the Emperor in the West" Commentator: Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) Wine and cheese at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, paper at 7:30 For further information: Allen M. Ward, ward(a)uconnvm.uconn.edu Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium Burkhard Meissner (Brown University) "Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents, Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation" For more information: Michael Satlow (401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu) 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.