The Boston Area Classics Calendar for November 13, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
*Christopher Star (Middlebury College)
AMHERST COLLEGE, Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Think Tank, 61 Quadrangle
Drive, Amherst, MA 01002
Mon., Nov. 16, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
“Apocalypse When? The End of the World in Ancient Thought”
Sponsored by the Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful World, the Eastman Fund, and
the Department of Classics at Amherst College
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
Meredith Safran (Trinity College)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center; Fourth Floor (Suite A); 1 College St,
Worcester, MA 01610
Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
"Romulus and the 'difficult task' : a folk motif in Livy's
'Sabine women' episode (AUC I.9-13)"
Carol Dougherty (Wellesley College)
MIT, Building E51-275
2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
whereis.mit.edu<http://whereis.mit.edu/>
Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
“‘What ought to have remained hidden’: Clytemnestra’s Uncanny Housekeeping"
Event Series: MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Villa)
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m.
Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Annual Art Lecture
"Why Fakes Matter: Authenticity in Ancient Art"
This presentation takes up the controversial issue of fakes in ancient art and asks what
they can tell us about how we understand and define authenticity today.
Leanna Boychenko (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Herter Hall 301, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA
01003
Wed., Dec. 2, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
"Daughters of the Sun: Apollonius Rhodius' Medea and the Egyptian Eye of Re.”
Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Brian Breed
(bbreed@classics.umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@classics.umass.edu>).
**James Uden (Boston University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Dec. 7, 2015, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"Satire and Superstition in Second-Century Rome"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Plutarch, Lucian and the Sixth Century BC"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome
Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Mar. 1, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sat., Mar. 5, 2016
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)
See link for more info. and Call for Papers.
Event Series: Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
More info:
classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/biennal-gradua…
Hans Beck (McGill University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 7, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Topic: Greek koinon
Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World”
Johannes Nollé (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen
Archäologischen Instituts)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Title: TBA
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
Ann Kuttner (University of Pennsylvania)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 8, 2016, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Subject: ethnicity and material culture
Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World”
John Miller (University of Virginia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Apr. 19, 2016
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
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