Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010: #1 (9/25/09)
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* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
*Tues., Sept. 29, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Wolfgang Bernard (University of Rostock, Germany)
“Was Plato a Fundamentalist?”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Tues., Sept. 29, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 133 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
James D. Faubion (Rice University)
“Foucault in Athens”
**Wed., Sept. 30, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for Government and International Studies -
South S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Opening of Term Event hosted by the Standing Committee on Archaeology,
Harvard University
Susan Alcock (Brown University) and Stephen Houston (Brown
University), Moderated by Michael McCormick (Harvard University)
“A Conversation on Staking out Space for Archaeology in the North
American Academy”
A reception will follow.
Thurs., Oct. 1, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Andrea Cucchiarelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
“Virgil and the Invention of the ‘Augustan Age’ (Divine Models and
Political Language in the Eclogues and Georgics)”
Thurs., Oct. 1, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College)
“Rediscovering Boscoreale: Roman Country Villas and Their Treasures”
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
Thurs., Oct. 8, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Seminar
Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College) and Victoria I (artist/
designer)
“The Art and Peril of Reconstructing Roman Space”
*Thurs., Oct. 8, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University)
“Pursuing Nemesis: Cratinus and Mythological Comedy”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Tues., Oct. 13, 8:00 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Johnson Theater, Durham, NH
Lori Dobbins (University of New Hampshire)
An original musical composition entitled “The Rage of Achilles”
Admission is free and open to the public.
*Wed., Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Murkland Hall 115, Richards Auditorium,
Durham, NH
The John C. Rouman Lecture Series presents:
Barry Strauss (Cornell) “The Trojan War: Myth or History”
A Light Reception to Follow
Admission is free and open to the public.
*Thurs., Oct. 15, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Salomon 001, Main Green (entrance from Waterman
Street),
Providence, RI
John Davies (Liverpool University)
“A Remote Central Place: Delphi as a Window onto the Classical World”
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the
Department of Classics
Fri., Oct. 16, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Department of the Classics, Loeb Lecture
Marguerite Rigoglioso
“The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece”
*Sun., Oct. 18th - Sun. May 16th
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Gund Gallery, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston,
MA
“The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC”
Exhibition features largest Middle Kingdom burial assemblage ever
discovered, on view in its entirety for the first time. Includes famous
'Bersha Coffin,' 'Bersha Procession' and mummified head from tomb.
$20 adults/$18 seniors & students
www.mfa.org
Tues., Oct. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke to Read Her Poetry at Harvard
*Fri., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
V. Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin)
“Imagined Biographies and Unwritten Readings: Authors and Texts in
Premodern Indian Literatures”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Oct. 29, 4:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall, Rm. 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut
Hill, MA
Richard Martin (Stanford University)
“Lost Boys and Lethal Toys: Attaining Manhood in Greek and Irish Saga”
Thurs., Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge (113), 415 South Street, Waltham,
MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Stephen Scully (Boston University)
“Hesiod’s Olympus”
Reception to follow, with light refreshments.
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu
).
Free and open to the public.
For directions:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Pearlman Hall map:
http://my.brandeis.edu/map/print-page?id=67
*Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 pm
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
James Zetzel (Columbia University)
“Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
David Konstan (Brown University)
“Between Epigram and Elegy: Horace as an Amatory Poet”
Sponsored by the Classics Department
For more information please contact Luca Grillo lgrillo(a)amherst.edu or
see
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures
Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America
Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M
University)
“Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean
Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)”
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology
*Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19th – 21st
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
Conference on “Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning.”
Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas
Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman,
Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne
Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden,
Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html
.
*Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University)
Title TBA
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
**Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4th and 5th
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics
Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative
Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels
Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael
Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich
Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/conferenceprogram12-09.pdf
*Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street,
Providence, RI
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin
Carol
Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of the
season,
conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the readings
will be
provided.)
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.
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