The Boston Area Classics Calendar for November 18, 2016
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
43rd New England Medieval Conference
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Haldeman Hall, Room 041, Hanover NH 03755
Sat., Nov. 19, 2016, 9 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
"Lives and Afterlives in the Middle Ages"
The program will explore the theme “Lives and Afterlives in the Middle Ages.”
Keynote by Paul Freedman (Yale University)
Program and registration:
newenglandmedieval.org…<https://newenglandmedieval.org/upcoming/>g/>.
More info: nemc.2016@dartmouth.edu<mailto:nemc.2016@dartmouth.edu>.
**Rafael Pascual (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 335, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Nov. 21, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Old English Dithematic Names and the Reliability of Sieversian Metrics”
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
More info:
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/in…
Duncan MacRae (University of California, Berkeley)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Nov. 21, 2016, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"The Freedman’s Story: a witchcraft narrative from early Imperial Italy"
More info:
www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.…
*Michael McCormick (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge,
MA 02138
Thu., Dec. 1, 2016, 5:15 – 6:30 p.m.
“The Fall of the Roman Empire: How should we study it in the 21st century?”
Part of the 2016 – 2016 Lecture Series “What’s New in the Fall of the
Roman Empire”
Sponsors: Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard,
Department of the Classics
69th Annual Latin Carol Celebration
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House in America, 75 North Main St., Providence,
RI 02903
Mon., Dec. 5, 2016, 8 – 10 p.m.
Featuring seasonal readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in
Latin (English translations provided)
More info:
www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.…
Dariusz Piwowarczyk (Jagiellonian University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Dec. 7, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
Title TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
Evan MacCarthy (West Virginia University)
MIT Building 14E, Room 304
whereis.mit.edu<http://whereis.mit.edu/>
Wed., Dec. 7, 2016, 5:15 – 7:15 p.m.
"Cosmogony and Music: The Banquet Song of Iopas in Virgil's Aeneid"
Event Series: MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Mon., Feb. 13, 2017, 5 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Hellenistic Sardis Project
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Feb. 23 – Fri., Feb. 24, 2017
TBA
Carlos Noreña (University of California, Berkeley)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Mon., Feb. 27, 2017, 6 p.m.
"Romanization in the Middle of Nowhere: The Case of Segobriga"
This paper addresses the problem of historical change in a small town in the provincial
backwater of a large, premodern empire. It examines the evidence for urban form, cultural
identity, political organization, and social hierarchy in Segobriga, an insignificant
Roman municipality in central Spain (in the province of Hispania Tarraconensis), during
the period c. 200 BCE to 200 CE. Emphasis is placed not on local particularism in
Segobriga, but rather on the town’s adherence to empire-wide patterns in urbanization and
urbanism; its assimilation to Roman cultural norms; and its incorporation into a
supraregional sociopolitical order. Drawing upon insights from historical sociology and
cultural anthropology, and focusing on questions of motivation, agency (both individual
and collective), and causation, the paper argues that changes in the politics, society,
and culture of Segobriga all went together in a recursive manner, and that they were
ultimately triggered by what I call a “general convergence” of social power in the
Mediterranean world near the end of the first millennium BCE. The transformation of
Segobriga, the paper concludes, should be seen as a case study in the process of
“Romanization”—not, however, defined as an index of acculturation, but rather as an
umbrella term for the making of a distinctively Roman configuration of power. The goals of
the paper, then, are both substantive and conceptual, and are meant to contribute to a
wider discussion of the intersection between (asymmetric) power and (translocal) culture
in the premodern world.
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop: New
Approaches to Ancient Evidence
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (Univ. of Southern California)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 20, 2017, 5 p.m.
TBA
Paolo Visoná (University of Kentucky)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 6 – 8 p.m.
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Title: TBA on Carthaginian Coins
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
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