Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2019
The Bacchae, directed by Dmitry
Troyanovsky<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Apr. 12 – Sun., Apr. 14
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mainstage Theater, 415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453
By Euripides
Directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky
Translated by Joel Christensen
A collaboration with the Department of Classical Studies, this new translation from
ancient Greek tells the story of Dionysus, who travels to Thebes to clear his mother’s
name. His arrival upends the ordered city-state by introducing to Theban women the
frenzied worship of a new god. With exciting new songs and vibrant choreography, this
production takes a contemporary look at transgression, gender, religious ecstasy,
political authority and the psychology of mass violence.
For Performance Schedule, ticket prices, and more information please visit link below.
Shows:
Friday, April 12th @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 13th @ 3 PM
Saturday, April 13th @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 14th @ 1 PM
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"Electra" by
Sophocles<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Fri., Apr. 12 – Sun., Apr. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Adams Pool Theatre, 26 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club presents
"ELECTRA" by Sophocles
Directed by Isaiah Michalski & produced by Lily Grob and Ben Rosenthal
starring Balim Barutçu, Molly Peterson, Ece Hakim, Freddie MacBruce, Ben Milliken, Ruva
Chigwedere, and Marvin Merritt
featuring live music by Marie Carroll
Reserve your FREE tickets at the link below.
From the team that brought Hamlet to the Loeb Ex comes
a hard-hitting adaptation of Sophocles’ controversial tragedy, ELECTRA. This moving
production gives intimate and intense focus to family relations, gender, and justice. As a
precursor to the European tour in Istanbul, London, and Berlin this summer, ELECTRA will
be performed in Adams Pool Theatre on April 12th-14th and outdoors as a part of the Arts
First Festival on May 4th.
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"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>).
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__w…
Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III (Bryn
Mawr)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Mon., Apr. 15, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Building (Paino Lecture Hall- Rm.#107),, 11 Barrett Hill
Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"Imagining the Underworld: Life after Death in Ancient Greek Religion"
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
Tuna Şare Ağtürk (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University,
Turkey)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Apr. 16, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Urban Archaeology and Classical Heritage in Turkey: Uncovering the lost Roman
capital city of Nicomedia"
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, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject in Justinian's
Hagia Sophia"
James Loeb Lecture
Edward Watts (University of California San
Diego)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Apr. 23, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Frost Library (Center for Humanistic Inquiry -2nd floor), 61
Quadrangle Dr., Amherst, MA 01002
"The Radicalism of Roman Decline and Renewal: The History of a Dangerous
Concept"
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
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
Emily Wilson (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Wed., Apr. 24, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin Hall, Room 101 Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
"Translating Homer’s Odyssey Again: Why and How?"
Composed over 2700 years ago, Homer’s Odyssey is the second oldest extant text of Western
literature and one of the foundational literary works of Western civilization. There exist
30 English translations of this ancient Greek text produced since 1616 by prominent men of
letters, but it was only in 2017 that there appeared the first translation done by a woman
– Emily Wilson – which was immediately and widely lauded by scholars and poets from all
parts of the English-speaking world as a landmark achievement in the history of Homeric
poetry.
In her Heinz Bluhm Lecture, Prof. Wilson will share with us her approach to the creation
of her new verse (iambic pentameter) translation of this much-translated poem, discussing
process and methodology as well as the many formal, metrical, stylistic and interpretative
choices made along the way. She will also offer comparison of her translation with
preceding ones and conclude with some discussion of the media reception of her
translation.
Emily Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Chair of the
Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her books include The Death of Socrates (2007), and a new translation of selected
tragedies by Seneca (2010). She is the Classics editor of the Norton Anthology of Western
Literature (2013), and the revised Norton Anthology of World Literature, forthcoming later
this year. She has also published The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca (2014) and four
translations of plays by Euripides in The Modern Library’s The Greek Plays (2016). Her
verse translation of Homer’s Odyssey was published in November 2017.
The Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture
Series<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__events.bc.edu…
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Noah Kaye (Michigan State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 25, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Bequest of Mausolus: Pergamon and the Inhabitants of Asia"
GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"
The Boston Area Roman Studies
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
"Ovid and Augustan Culture: A Conference in Honor of Patricia J. Johnson"
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) was instituted in 1995 to promote the
study of Latin literature and Roman culture, to increase the visibility of these studies
in the New England scholarly community and to provide a place for area Latinists and
Romanists to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas.
The BARSC is sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the
Humanities at Boston University and is held annually in April. The conference is open to
anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference is a dinner, and those
wishing to attend must pre-register via
Eventbrite<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rsc2019.…7RibOl7ne-ZKKuWVbtg&e=>.
The registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 22, 2019.
The 2019 Conference will be held on Friday, April 26, 2019, with registration opening at
3:00 p.m. and the program starting at 3:30 p.m. in Barrister’s Hall in the BU School of
Law (765 Commonwealth Ave). Dinner will follow. For directions to the School of Law and a
campus map click here. There is a parking lot open to the public near the School of Law at
Granby Street, 665 Commonwealth Ave, click here for rate and location information (refer
to Granby Street Lot, Lot N).
Below is the program for the 2019 Conference.
Friday, April 26, 2019
John F. Miller, University of Virginia
“The Lover’s Calendar”
Ioannis Ziogas, Durham University
“Lex amatoria: Teaching Law and Love in the Age of Augustus”
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College
“Still, She Persisted: Materiality and Memory in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”
For more information please call the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2426) or
contact Meghan Kelly at mekel@bu.edu<mailto:mekel@bu.edu>.
Boston Area Roman Studies
Conference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
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
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.
Register here:
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u…
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u…
Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt für
Denkmalpflege)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cal…
Mon., Apr. 29, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Soldiers and civilians: the military community on the northern frontiers of
Rome"
May 2019
Florian Knauss (University of
Augsburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Wed., May 1
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Palaces and Luxury Goods. The Achaemenid Persian Impact in the Caucasus"
James Loeb Lecture
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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