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PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Mon., Apr. 9
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall room 108, Providence, RI 02912
Christopher Stray (Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London)
"Our Two Friends: The Making and Remaking of Liddell and Scott's *Greek-English
Lexicon*"
Free and Open to the Public. For more information visit
http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown.
*Tues., Apr. 10
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Craig Kallendorf (Texas A&M)
"The Protean Virgil: Book History and the Reception of the Classics in the
Renaissance"
Sponsored by the Classical Traditions Seminar and the Department of the Classics
Wed., Apr. 11
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
Michele Trizio (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Dumbarton Oaks)
"Aristotle's Ethics in the West and the Byzantine Commentary Tradition"
Thurs., Apr. 12
4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Andreas Thomas Zanker (Harvard University)
"Why Did the Romans Talk About Decline? Why Do We?"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski
(dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu<mailto:dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu>) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Fri.-Sun., Apr. 13-15
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Location: TBD, Providence, RI 02912
W. Scheidel (Standford University) and John Bodel (Brown University)
Conference: "Being Nobody? Understanding Slavery Thirty Years After Slavery and
Social Death"
Free and Open to the Public. For more information visit
http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown.
Sat., Apr. 14
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sixth Biannual Harvard Graduate Student Conference
"The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Aesthetics and Classics"
Keynote speaker: James I. Porter (UC Irvine)
Closing remarks: Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University)
For conference schedule and registration information:
http://tinyurl.com/HarvardAestheticsConference
Sat., Apr. 14
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
LEGION III CYRENAICA PRESENTATION, Higgins Armory Museum, 100 Barber Ave, Worcester MA
01606
Andy Volpe (Legion III Cyrenaica)
"Legion III Cyrenaica Roman Legion"
Legion III, a New England based Roman living history group, will give a presentation about
the life of a Roman Soldier in the 1st century AD / CE and a brief history of the Legion
during its tenure in Alexandria, Egypt. Also discussed will be combat, training, arms and
armor.
For more information, contact Legion member Andy Volpe at
PalusButeo@hotmail.com<mailto:PalusButeo@hotmail.com>; or, Higgins Armory Museum at
www.higgins.org<http://www.higgins.org>rg>.
Tues., Apr. 17
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Barnum Hall 104, Medford, MA 02155
Josephine Crawley Quinn (University of Oxford)
2012 Classics and Archaeology Speaker Series: "Phoenicianisms"
Lecture 1: Imagining Phoenicians
http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures/
Wed., Apr. 18
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahondra Humanities Center, Kresge Room, Cambridge, MA 02138
Eric M. Moormann (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
"Christians and Jews in Pompeii. Literary Evocations of Religion in Ancient
Pompeii"
Wed., Apr. 18
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Barnum Hall 104, Medford, MA 02155
Josephine Crawley Quinn (University of Oxford)
2012 Classics and Archaeology Speaker Series: "Phoenicianisms"
Lecture 2: Constructing a Punic World
http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures/
Thurs., Apr. 19
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Peter Fibiger Bang (University of Copenhagen)
"Elephant of India"
Free and Open to the Public. For more information visit
http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown.
Thurs., Apr. 19
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Barnum Hall 104, Medford, MA 02155
Josephine Crawley Quinn (University of Oxford)
2012 Classics and Archaeology Speaker Series: "Phoenicianisms"
Lecture 3: Roman Phoenicianisms
http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures/
Fri. & Sat., Apr. 20-21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Workshop: "Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity: The
Silk Trade"
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, archaeologists and textile
specialists to discuss questions and approaches concerning the silk trade between the
Mediterranean world and Asia.
Peter Fibiger Bang (University of Copenhagen), Mary Harlow (The Danish National Research
Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research Copenhagen / University of Birmingham), Berit
Hildebrandt (Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard / University of Hannover), Irene Good
(University of Oxford), J. Mark Kenoyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Xinru Liu (The
College of New Jersey), Richard Meadow (Harvard University), Marie-Louise Nosch (The
Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research Copenhagen), Beate
Wagner-Hasel (University of Hannover), Thelma K. Thomas (New York University), Lillian
Lan-ying Tseng (New York University), Angela Sheng (McMaster University), Feng Zhao (China
National Silk Museum Hangzhou).
The workshop is sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation in collaboration with the Mahindra
Humanities Center at Harvard. It is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Please register in advance with the organizer Berit Hildebrandt
(bhildebrandt@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:bhildebrandt@fas.harvard.edu>). For more
information, please visit
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/exchange-along-silk-roads…
Fri., Apr. 20
4 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, George Sherman Union, 5th fl., 745 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference
Joy Connolly (New York University): "The Poetics of Non-Sovereign Freedom in
Horace's Satires"
James Uden (Boston University): "The Satirist and the Scholar in Second-Century
Rome"
Joel Relihan (Wheaton College): "Apuleius and Lucian: A Menippean Moment in the
Second Century"
Dinner to follow the conference. INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: Contact Stacy Fox, Dept.
of Classical Studies, Boston University, sfox@bu.edu<mailto:sfox@bu.edu> /
617-353-2427.
Fri., Apr. 20
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 110, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
"Coin Hoards and hoarding in Britain: buried with the intention of recovery or votive
deposits?"
http://www.archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/5776
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America (William E. Metcalf Lecture in
Numismatics) and the Harvard University Department of the Classics
*Wed., Apr. 25
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Benjamin Isaacs (Tel Aviv University)
"Romans and Nomads"
*Wed., Apr. 25
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Manfred Bietak (University of Vienna, Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo)
"The gold of valour and the Palace of the Hyksos Khayan at Avaris: Recent results of
the excavations at Tell el-Dab'a"
For the schedule of papers and abstracts, and to register, please see:
http://www.tinyurl.com/giza2012
*Thurs., Apr. 26
8:45 a.m. - 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Room S-010, 1730 Cambridge
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Egyptology symposium
"Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Perspectives on the
Pyramid Age"
A one-day International Egyptology symposium to consider questions of kingship,
religion, art, economics, and old and new archaeological excavations at the
Giza Pyramids and beyond (3rd millennium BCE).
For the schedule of papers and abstracts, and to register (a free, five-second process)
please go to
http://www.tinyurl.com/giza2012.
(Please note: there will also be a special lecture on Tell ed-Daba by Prof. Manfred Bietak
on Wednesday, April 25 at 5:00 p.m.)
Thurs., Apr. 26
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum lecture hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
"New Views on Roman Gold Coins Found in Britain"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
For more information, visit our website:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=42093
Mon., Apr. 30
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Location: TBA, Providence, RI 02912
Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania)
"Divination in Augustine and Iamblichus"
Free and Open to the Public. For more information visit
http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown.
Tues., May 8
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Beatrice Caseau (Universite Paris-Sorbonne; Paris IV)
"Shaping the Body for God"
Free and Open to the Public. For more information visit
http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown.
Sat., July 14
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
LEGION III CYRENAICA PRESENTATION, Higgins Armory Museum, 100 Barber Ave, Worcester MA
01606
Andy Volpe (Legion III Cyrenaica)
"Legion III Cyrenaica Roman Legion"
Legion III, a New England based Roman living history group, will give a presentation about
the life of a Roman Soldier in the 1st Century AD / CE and a brief history of the Legion
during its tenure in Alexandria, Egypt. Also discussed will be combat, training, arms and
armor.
For more information, contact Legion member Andy Volpe at
PalusButeo@hotmail.com<mailto:PalusButeo@hotmail.com>; or, Higgins Armory Museum at
www.higgins.org<http://www.higgins.org>rg>.
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.