Dear all, My apologies, but two postings on the previous version were listed with incorrect dates. The two events listed immediately below will take place on April 19th (not May 19th). *Thurs., Apr. 19 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Bernadette J. Brooten (Brandeis University) "A Precarious Life: Human Property and the Synod of Elvira" Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater Boston area. For more information, please, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit the website at http://www.bostontheological.org/patristica_bostoniensia.html *Thurs., Apr. 19 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson 305, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Agnes Callard (University of Chicago) "Remoralizing Weakness of Will" Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy Reception in Emerson Hall, Room 107 immediately following talk. CORRECTED CALENDAR for April 16, 2012 We have a Google Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/3ztr34n One can subscribe to it using his or her own Google Calendar account by clicking the link at the bottom of the calendar on the above page. One can subscribe to receive calendar emails at the following link: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as a plain text email in the format shown below. New items and corrections received after 5 p.m. on Wednesday may not appear in the calendar until the Friday of the following week. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Tues., Apr. 17 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 José Luis García Ramón (University of Cologne) "Indo-European Continuity in Greek and Italic Onomastics" A James Loeb lecture, sponsored by the Department of the Classics 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 Saved at Pompeii? Examples of literary evocations of Pompeii in AD 79" Poster: http://tinyurl.com/MoormannPompeii 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 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Bernadette J. Brooten (Brandeis University) "A Precarious Life: Human Property and the Synod of Elvira" Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater Boston area. For more information, please, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit the website at http://www.bostontheological.org/patristica_bostoniensia.html *Thurs., Apr. 19 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 José Luis García Ramón (University of Cologne) A Block Seminar on the Greek Dialects "Thessalian in Light of New Inscriptions" Presented by the Department of the Classics and the Department of Linguistics *Thurs., Apr. 19 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson 305, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Agnes Callard (University of Chicago) "Remoralizing Weakness of Will" Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy Reception in Emerson Hall, Room 107 immediately following talk. 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., Apr. 20 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. HARVARD UNVERSITY, Boylston 303, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 José Luis García Ramón (University of Cologne) A Block Seminar on the Greek Dialects "The New Tablets in Linear B from Thebes and Mycenaean Religion" Presented by the Department of the Classics and the Department of Linguistics 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(a)fas.harvard.edu). For more information, please visit http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/exchange-along-silk-roads… *Fri., Apr. 20 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Translating the Bible in the Middle Ages: A One-Day Symposium at Harvard University Organizers: Nicholas Watson and Luis Girón-Negrón Sponsored by the Provostial Fund for the Humanities, the Medieval Studies Committee, and the Medieval English Colloquium Please see blogspot for program information: http://vernacularbibles.blogspot.com/ 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(a)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: RI Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912 Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania) "Divination in Augustine and Iamblichus" Free and Open to the Public. For more information visit http://brown.edu/academics/classics/events-highlights/upcoming-events/upcom… May 5 through June 24 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH 03755 "Investigations into the Ancient Mediterranean" This exhibition explores how the close observation of works of art can reveal connections to wider cultural, religious, political, and social themes. It is part of an innovative collection-sharing initiative created to highlight the importance of teaching with original works of art as part of the college curriculum. Funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this program enabled Yale University Art Gallery to lend forty-seven ancient Mediterranean objects to the Hood for a two-year period. Over the course of this past year and a half, Dartmouth faculty and students from a range of disciplines including art history, classical archaeology, and history have used both the Yale loans and works from the Hood collection to explore current discourses on such topics as gender systems, representation and identity, and center and periphery in the Roman Empire. By working closely with faculty and students to document these projects, the Hood wishes to highlight this major part of its daily activities as a teaching museum and make visible its work with undergraduate students, most of which happens “behind the scenes” in Bernstein Study-Storage Center. For more information, visit http://www.dartmouth.edu/~yaleart/ **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://brown.edu/academics/classics/events-highlights/upcoming-events/upcom… *Wed., May 16 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hood Museum of Art, Kim gallery, Hanover, NH 03755 Panel Discussion "Investigations into the Ancient Mediterranean: Spotlight on Teaching with Objects" Dartmouth professors teaching courses on ancient Greek and Roman culture will discuss their work with objects on loan from Yale University Art Gallery over the past year. Roberta Stewart, Paul Christesen, Kathleen Corrigan, Jeremy Rutter, and Roger Ulrich will talk about introducing students to the issues that stem from the close investigation of objects. The session will include a preview of a documentary film about the project. A reception will follow. 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(a)hotmail.com; or, Higgins Armory Museum at www.higgins.org. 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu http://classics.fas.harvard.edu