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*Tues., Feb. 12
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
MIT, Hayden Library Building, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
02139
Stephanie A. Frampton (MIT)
"Ille ego qui fuerim quem leges: Memory and the Politics of Inscription in
Some Augustan Poetry"
MIT Ancient and Medieval Studies Seminar. "Listen, posterity, so that you
may know: this is who I was, whom you read...," Ovid Tristia 4.10. Prof.
Frampton will discuss the deepening concern of authors about the survival
of their poetic texts as a reaction to rapidly changing practices of public
commemoration—and forgetting—in the city of Rome in the early Principate.
Wed., Feb. 13
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, 12 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University)
"Lucretian models of satire: Trouble at sea and the Nature of Things"
Thurs., Feb. 14
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George Street,
Providence, RI 02906
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Center for Ancient World
Studies)
"How to protect your grave – Funerary Inscriptions in Greco-Roman Asia
Minor"
Free and Open to the Public. For more information visit
http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown
Wed., Feb. 20
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Kates Room, 201 Warren House, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackie Elliott (University of Colorado at Boulder)
"Re-centering Rome: cosmology, divine intervention, and the operation of
the natural world in Ennius' poetic history"
Wed., Feb. 20
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 41 Wyllys Room 112, Middletown, CT
Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law School)
"What Can Ancient Greece Teach Us About Contemporary Institutional Design?"
Cosponsored by the Allbritton Center for Public Life and the Department of
Classical Studies
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (
dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics
*Wed., Feb. 20
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Bryan Burns (Wellesley College)
"New Excavations in Central Greece: Reconstructing the History of Ancient
Eleon"
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the current exhibit of Greek
and Roman art at the Davis Museum, "Festina lente: Conserving Antiquity."
Thurs., Feb. 28
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, 50 College Street, South Hadley,
MA 01075
John Clarke (University of Texas, Austin)
"Archaeology and the Digital Humanities: Going Hi-Tech with the Ancient
Roman Villa at Oplontis (50 BC-AD 79)"
Sponsored by the Amy M. Sacker Fund, Department of Art and Art History
*Thurs., Mar. 7
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Mount Holyoke College, Gamble Auditorium, 50 College Street, South Hadley,
MA 01075
Lynne Lancaster (Ohio University)
"Out of Africa: How Roman Olive Oil Production Created Architectural
Innovation"
Abstract:
http://aiawesternmass.org/uploads/2/8/9/2/2892512/lancaster_abstract.doc
AIA Lecture Hosted by the Mount Holyoke College Classics Department
Thurs., Mar. 7
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum lecture
hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138
Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University)
"Kings, Emperors, Gods: What Coins Tell Us about Sardis"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Coins from the reign of Croesus to that of the Byzantine emperor Michael
VIII Paleologos have been found in the modern excavations of Sardis, in
Turkey. We will explore what images the changing dynasties at Sardis put on
their coins, and why we find coins in the ruins of many different buildings,
such as the ancient temple of Diana, the synagogue, the Imperial Temple,
the theater, and the houses of Sardis.
For more information, visit our website:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/kings-emperors-gods-what-coins-te…
*Thurs., Mar. 14
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Vassilis Aravantinos (Greek Ministry of Culture) and Margherita Bonanno
Aravantinos (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
"The Herakles Sanctuary at Thebes: Discovery of a Hero’s Cult in the City
of His Birth"
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the current exhibit of Greek
and Roman art at the Davis Museum, "Festina lente: Conserving Antiquity."
Thurs., Mar. 14
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture
hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Nicholas D. Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Sardis Biennial Lecture: "New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey"
In the last two years, archaeological research by the Harvard-Cornell
expedition at Sardis, in western Turkey, has produced a wealth of
surprising discoveries. This lecture will present these new findings,
including excavation in the area believed to be the palace of Croesus and
of his predecessors, the wealthiest kings of the 7th and 6th centuries BC.
New analyses of the world’s first coins, minted at Sardis, force us to
reconsider the origin of coinage, and excavations in the Hellenistic and
Roman temple of Artemis—the fourth-largest Ionic temple in the world—reveal
previously unsuspected phases in the history of this fascinating building.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar
Thurs., Apr. 11
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room 522, 675 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Morag Kersel (DePaul University)
"The Lure of the Relic: Collecting the Holy Land"
This lecture examines the collecting of archaeological artifacts from the
Holy Land, the effect of this activity on the archaeological landscape, and
the biographies of objects within the antiquities trade.
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Department of Archaeology at Boston University.
Apr. 15, 16, 18, 19
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lecture Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
Apr. 15th: "Doing (different) things with music"
Apr. 16th: "Whose music? Local, ethnic, and class distinctions"
Apr. 18th: "The gender of music"
Apr. 19th: "Human musicality and the origins of species"
Mon., Apr. 22
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Kresge Room, 12 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
"Did the Ancient Mysteries Influence Early Christianity?"
*Wed., Apr. 24
YALE UNIVERSITY, TBA, New Haven, CT 06511
New England Ancient History Colloquium, Spring 2013 Meeting
Roberta Stewart (Dartmouth College) will make available for discussion her
paper "Priesthoods, Emperors, and Coins." William Metcalf (Yale University)
will do the commentary. For further information contact Allen Ward <
allen.m.ward(a)att.net>gt;.
Fri., Apr. 26
4 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall (first floor, School of Law), 765
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference
Theme: "Imagining Roman Power"
Speakers: Emma Dench (Harvard University), Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (Boston
University), Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University)
Titles TBA
Dinner to follow the conference. INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: Contact Stacy
Fox, Dept of Classical Studies, Boston University, sfox(a)bu.edu /
617-353-2427.
**Fri., Apr. 26
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture