Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2018
Roberta Stewart (Dartmouth
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Mar. 12, 4 - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"Seeing Caesar's Symbols: Religious Iconography on Caesar's Civil War
Coins"
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center
for the Humanities
Boston University Classics Graduate
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Sat., Mar. 17
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave, Room 414. Boston, MA 02215
The Boston University Department of Classical Studies is excited to announce that
registration is now OPEN for the 10th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate
Conference: "Identity Under Empire: Defining the Self Under the Cultural Hegemony of
the Athenian, Macedonian, and Roman Empires" to be held on Saturday, March 17th,
2018.
Be sure to register by Friday, March 9th.
This year's conference examines the question of regional, national, religious,
artistic, and ethnic identity under the Graeco-Roman empires of antiquity. With papers
from students of Classical Studies across the country, this year's conference
approaches a number of different perspectives on different issues of "identity"
in the ancient world. Three panels take approaches to different categories of ancient
identities: from identity in Greek and Roman cults, to identity politics of Judaism and
Christianity in the ancient world, to slavery, provincial identity, and material culture
in Greece and Rome.
This year's keynote speaker, BU alumnus and Hofstra professor Steven Smith, will cap
off our conference with his paper entitled ""A Question of Breeding: Aelian,
Aristotle, and Alexander the Great in India (De natura animalium 8.1)".
www.bu.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
Alexander Riehle (HARVARD
UNIVERSITY)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Mar. 19, 12 - 1 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"At the Interface Between the Oral and the Written: Byzantine Rhetoric in
Context(s)"
Please RSVP by Thursday, 14 March to Joe Shack
(josephshack@g.harvard.edu<mailto:josephshack@g.harvard.edu>).
Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar:
Collations<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/events/mah…
Alan M. Stahl (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 21, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts"
Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval
contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds.
Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture.
Mildenberg Lecture
www.harvardartmuseums.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 23, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"On the history of Germanic *ga-"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Alex Walthall (University of Texas at
Austin)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Mar. 27, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Standing Committee on Archaeology: Harvard
University<https://archaeology.harvard.edu/>
New England Ancient History
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Mar. 29, 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Willits-Hallowell Center, 26 Park St, South Hadley, MA
01075
Joseph McAlhany of the Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, is offering his paper, "One Head
Is Better than Three: Varro's So-Called Trikaranos." for discussion. Britta Ager
of the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, will provide the commentary' Registration and
libations 5:30 -6:30, dinner 6;30-7:30, comment and discussion, 7:30-9:30. More
information:<allen.m.ward@att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>>.
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Marcus Folch (Columbia
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 30, 4 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens"
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
April 2018
Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 2, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Nathan Sivin
(
UPenn)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Apr. 4, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others"
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
Joseph Nagy (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Apr. 6, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Some lonely Indo-European fathers, sons, and brothers in myth"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Stephen Kidd (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 16, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Paidia: The Concept of Play in Ancient Greece"
brown.academia.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__…
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar:
Ludics<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Brent Vine
(
UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Tue., Apr. 17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Latin edepol 'by Pollux!': Background of a Latin adverbium
iurativum"
James Loeb Lecture
Victoria Wohl (University of
Toronto)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Apr. 19, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
Topic: The politics of the Presocratics
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
John Zaleski (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Charles Bartlett (Duke
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 26, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Professionalization, politics, and the ius fetiale at Rome: tradition and
technicalities"
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 26, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Choreographing Amorous Bodies"
www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
Sophocles'
Antigone<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Sun., Apr. 29, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston, MA 02134
The Harvard Classics Club presents a new, original translation of Sophocles'
Antigone. There will be a reception at the Allston Ed Portal after the performance. No
cost for admission; all are welcome!
[Sophocles' Antigone]
May 2018
Leah Whittington (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., May 7, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and
Beyond"
Paul Cartledge (University of
Cambridge)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Mon., May 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Discussion of Cartledge's book,
Democracy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.ou…JRGiOkRJFH8dO8mtCA0&e=>.
Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University).
View the entire calendar
online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
Subscribe to weekly emails:
http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list
Subscribe to calendar:
http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar
New event submissions/current event revisions welcome:
calclass@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>.
Please send event information in the format modeled above.