The Boston Area Classics Calendar for February 5, 2016
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
Florin Leonte (Villa I Tatti)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 8, 2016, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
"Dramatization and Narrative: Dialogues in Late Byzantium"
Verity Platt (Cornell University)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Feb. 8, 2016, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"Of Sponges and Stones: Matter and Ornament in Roman Painting"
More info:
www.brown.edu…<http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.a…
*Sarah P. Morris (UCLA)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Feb. 11, 2016, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Standing Committee on Archaeology Lecture
"Urbanization and Conquest in Macedonia: The First Two Years of the Ancient Methone
Archaeological Project"
Event Series: Standing Committee on Archaeology: Harvard University
More info:
archaeology.harvard.edu…<http://archaeology.harvard.edu/event/sca-lectur…
Foteini Spingou (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 22, 2016, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
"Memory, Aesthetics and Poetic Anthologies in late 13th-c. Constantinople"
Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, 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
Tim Joseph (Holy Cross)
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Integrative Learning Center, Room N101 650 N.
Pleasant St., 01003
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
"Measured Victory or Cataclysmic Doomsday? Caesar and Lucan on the Battle of
Pharsalia"
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Elizabeth Keitel
(eek@classics.umass.edu<mailto:eek@classics.umass.edu>.)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
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
Melissa Schoenberger (Holy Cross)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center -- Suite B (4th Floor) 1 College St,
Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Mar. 2, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
"Fate, State, Cease, Peace: Dryden’s English Aeneid”
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; 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”
*Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
MIT Building 14E, Room 304
whereis.mit.edu…<http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=14>
Thu., Mar. 17, 2016, 5:15 – 7:15 p.m.
“Early English Meter as a Way of Thinking”
From Chaucer’s pentameter to the alliterative meter of
Beowulf and Piers Plowman, prosody in medieval England was a cultural practice and a
technical skill. Following Simon Jarvis in understanding “poetry as cognition,” this talk
explores the particular kind of thinking done by and through early English meter.
Attention to the historicity of meter is one way out of the 21st-century paradox whereby
poetry seems both all-important and obsolescent.
Event Series: MIT Ancient &
Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Annual Meeting
SMITH COLLEGE, Northampton, MA 01063
Fri., Mar. 18 – Sat., Mar. 19, 2016
More information about the program, registration information, and accommodations on the
website.
More info:
caneweb.org…<http://caneweb.org/annualmeeting>
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
*Symposium: Translating and Interpreting Ovid in the Late Middle Ages
TBA
Mon., Apr. 4, 2016
9.30-10 Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard): Introduction
10-11 Frank T. Coulson (The Ohio State University): Ovid in the Middle Ages
11-12 Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich and Beatrice Wyss (Universität Bern): Giovanni del
Virgilio’s Expositio
Break
2-3 Ana Pairet (Rutgers University) Christine de Pizan, a reader of the Ovide moralisé
3-4 Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Medieval Catalan Translations.
4-5 p.m. Gemma Pellissa Prades (Harvard University): The 15th-Century Catalan Translation
of Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Francesc Alegre (1494).
New England Ancient History Colloquium (Tufts)
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Alumnae Lounge in Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA
02155
Thu., Apr. 7, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Discussion of distributed paper, "The Stoicism of Cato the Younger; Reality or
Hype?" by Fred Drogula (Providence College) after commentary by Kurt Raaflaub (Brown
University). For information, paper, and registration,
contact Allen Ward allen.m.ward@att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
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
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 745 Commonwealth Ave., B19, Boston MA
02215
Fri., Apr. 22, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Honoring Ann Vasaly
Talks by:
Fred Ahl (Cornell University)
John Bodel (Brown University)
John Dugan (University at Buffalo (SUNY))
Mary Jaeger (University of Oregon)
Roundtable with Ann Vasaly
For more information, contact: Prof. Zsuzsa Varhelyi,
varhelyi@bu.edu<mailto:varhelyi@bu.edu>
Anthony Woodman (University of Virginia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., May 2, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Vinous Voices: Horace, Epode 9"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
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