Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2019
Jim O’Hara (University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Wed., Feb. 20, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Herter Hall 301, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
"Fake News on Aeneas’ Shield? Possible Responses to Lying, Exaggeration, and Encomium
in Aeneid 8"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to the public. For
more information contact Lisa Marie Smith
(lisa@classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512).
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
James O’Hara (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Thu., Feb. 21, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
“News or Entertainment? Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker
in Roman Didactic and Satire”
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
More info:
www.wesleyan.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www…
John Mulhall (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Feb. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Mother Greece: the Beginnings of the Medieval Translation
Movement of Greek and Arabic texts into Latin"
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Julia Judge
(
Harvard)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Feb. 22, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
"Monuments, Memory, and Identity"
Julia will be presenting her work on "Monuments, Memory, and Identity: A Comparative
Look at Sanctuaries in Late Antiquity and Monument Negotiations in Contemporary
Politics."
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
Nicole Julia Giannella (Cornell
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Feb. 25, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"Who Ululates at the Temple of Bacchus? Inequality Before the Law in the Roman
Empire"
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…
RCC PostDoc Seminar: Group dynamics in the
Classics<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Feb. 27, 5 – 6 p.m.
Real Colegio Complutense, RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA
This activity will focus on one aspect of Antiquity, Greek sanctuaries. Attendants will
work in groups with different materials and will learn how scholars in this field lead
with the available sources – archaeology, literature, epigraphy, and numismatics. At the
same time, the members of the group will play specific roles. This method will generate an
environment of cooperation, discussion and active learning.
Teaching methods have evolved throughout last decades. In order to learn the different
possibilities that Innovative Teaching offers, this seminar will explore how each field
can provide ideas that can be applied in other areas. In this way, both participants and
assistants will improve their knowledge concerning to how to teach and how to create a
better environment in the class, in which students play a more dynamic role. These
activities will be held mainly by predoc and postdoc fellows of RCC.
Speaker: Diego Chapinal Heras -RCC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the Classics at
Harvard University
Sponsor: RCC; PostDocs@RCC.
rcc.harvard.edu…<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/rcc-postdoc-seminar-group…
March 2019
Justin Miller (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 1, 5 – 6:30 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/event/j…
Sarah Derbew (Harvard Society of
Fellows)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Mar. 7, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Race in Herodotus' Histories"
GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"
Bernard Frischer (Indiana
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 13, 4 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
"3D Reconstructions as Tools for Scientific Discovery: The Example of Rome
Reborn"
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…
*Dominic Machado (College of the Holy
Cross)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Mar. 13, 5 – 7 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 303 Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA
"From #metoo to the Sicilian Slave Revolts: What modern protests can teach us about
resistance in the Roman world"
Joshua Allbright (University of Southern
California)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 14, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
Topic TBA
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
Classical Quotation: A
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Mar. 15, 4 – 7 p.m.
MIT, Building 2, Room 102, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02138
An afternoon of presentations and discussion on the topic of quotation and the classical
tradition (including excerpting, translation, paraphrasis, commonplacing, etc.) both in
and of ancient Greek and Latin texts.
Featuring Joel Christensen (Brandeis), Hannah Čulik-Baird (BU), Stephanie Frampton (MIT),
and Leah Whittington (Harvard), with responses from Ann Blair (Harvard) and Hannah Marcus
(Havard)
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Mar. 19, 4:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, McElroy Commons room 237, 325 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
"Justifying genocide? Caesar's conquest of Gaul in the context of Roman
imperialism."
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
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
TBA
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)on
"Caesar Historicus" with Cynthia Damon (UPenn) as commentator.
Reg.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”
More info:
www.wesleyan.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www…
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>).
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
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
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…
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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