Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2022
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
A discussion of The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern
Europe<https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780884024842> (Harvard
University Press, 2022), featuring editors Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Princeton University)
and Jake Ransohoff (History, Harvard University) in conversation with Leah Whittington
(English, Harvard University), Dimiter Angelov (History, Harvard University), and Maryam
Patton (History, Harvard University). Co-sponsored by the John Duffy Society, the Standing
Committee on Medieval Studies, Ancient Studies, and Early Modern World at Harvard, with
additional support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Community Renewal Fund.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
[Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)]
Rosa Andújar (King's College
London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Apr. 20, 12 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Zoom, Registration required)
Dr. Rosa Andújar is a classicist with broad interests in Greek antiquity and its complex
modern afterlife. She edited the first ever critical edition of Luis Alfaro's ‘Greek’
plays: The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, Mojada (2020). The
book, which draws on her expertise both on Greek tragedy and its rich reception history,
was awarded the 2020 London Hellenic Prize. She is also the editor of Paths of Song: The
Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (2018) and of Greeks and Romans on the Latin American
Stage(2020). She is currently completing a monograph on the Greek tragic chorus.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
contact: delmer@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delmer@fas.harvard.edu>
Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 20, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Queer Philology"
Abstract: This lecture examines the relationship between philology, the historic core of
Classics itself, and queerness. One aspect of this relationship is, surely, what we might
call the philology of queerness: that is to say, the development of delicate methods and
of finely tuned critical ears in order to "detect" queer meaning in texts,
albeit often between the lines, beneath the surface, or in the margins. But a more
ambitious investigation reveals philology and queerness themselves to be kindred spirits,
both predicated on a final refusal of meaning to reveal itself in any simple,
straightforward, unambiguous way. If criticism is, etymologically, a “choice” between this
or that reading, then the broader philological practices leading to that (often deferred)
choice instead foreground indeterminacy itself. Taking a few examples from the
Miscellanies of Renaissance humanist and philologist Angelo Poliziano and a few more from
A. E. Housman a century ago, I shall explore how this foregrounding works and why it might
matter.
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
nherter@g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>;
davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
Jacqueline Carlon (UMass
Boston)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Apr. 20, 7 – 8 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON (Online on Zoom)
"What the Research Suggests: Teaching Reading Skills to Classical Language
Students"
This talk is the first meeting of the new UMass Boston SLA and Classics Seminar. The
seminar seeks to provide a forum for building community among classical language
instructors at all levels, foster connections between the field of Classics and the field
of SLA research, and advance innovative approaches to classical language instruction.
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Text Editing
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Apr. 21, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Zoom (Registration required)
A two-day workshop led by Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle
(Classics), intended to introduce methods and challenges of editing texts beyond the
basics of collation. Day 1 (Thursday) will feature broader discussion of stemmatics and
open traditions from both traditional and New Philological perspectives. Day 2 (Friday)
will focus on practical case studies involving specific issues like punctuation,
interpolation, and the challenges posed by large traditions. Please register in advance
(for each day separately) to receive the readings.
Workshop will take place on Zoom. Both days will consider topics relevant to both ancient
and medieval texts. Examples discussed on Day 2 will be drawn from Greek and Latin;
knowledge of one or both languages is useful but not required for either day. All members
of the community—students, faculty, and beyond—are welcome to attend.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
Rebecca Miller Ammerman (Colgate
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
On Sacred Ground: Interpreting Votive Images at Metaponto in Southern Italy
The chora or territory lying beyond the walls of the urban center of Metaponto has been
the focus of pioneering archaeological fieldwork for more than half a century. Metaponto’s
chora may thus rightly boast to be the most thoroughly investigated of any city-state in
the ancient Greek world. This path-breaking research on the dynamic landscape of the
countryside forms the backdrop to Dr. Ammerman’s study of the statuettes and relief
plaques made of baked clay that generations of worshippers dedicated as votive offerings
at the rural sanctuary of Pantanello. Dr. Ammerman will illustrate the different angles
from which she has analyzed this large assemblage of figured terracottas in order to shed
light on the nature of the cult practiced at Pantanello and the concerns that worshippers
hoped would be addressed by the patron deity of the sanctuary to whom they made their
votive gift. Dr. Ammerman's Lecture is made possible by the Amherst College
Department of Classics and the Lamont Lecture Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program
will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a
negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is
required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
James Porter (University of California,
Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Thu., Apr. 21, 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (On Zoom. Registration required.)
"How Ideal Is the Ancient Self"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and
Receptions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditio…
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
contact: jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu>
Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern
Egypt<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Thu., Apr. 21, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & CULTURE, HARVARD MUSEUM OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (Zoom)
The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt (Virtual Lecture)
Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even
the familiar illustrations from children’s books and magazines showing kilted workers on
the Nile toiling away on their kings’ great monuments. But what is the relationship
between these images—along with the deep history they evoke and the processes of discovery
that made them visible—and the history of modern Egypt? In this talk, Wendy Doyon will
discuss the relationship between state, archaeology, and labor in Mehmed (or Muhammad)
Ali’s Egypt—an autonomous khedival, or viceregal, state within the late Ottoman Empire—and
explain how the power of the Egyptian state in the nineteenth century was built, in large
part, on the creation of modern antiquities land and the organization of Egyptian workers
as state assets controlled by Mehmed Ali Pasha and his dynasty-building successors.
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science &
Culture
hmsc.harvard.edu…<https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/power-antiquity-making-…
hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu<mailto:hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu>
[Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt]
Text Editing
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Apr. 22, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Zoom (Registration required)
A two-day workshop led by Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle
(Classics), intended to introduce methods and challenges of editing texts beyond the
basics of collation. Day 1 (Thursday) will feature broader discussion of stemmatics and
open traditions from both traditional and New Philological perspectives. Day 2 (Friday)
will focus on practical case studies involving specific issues like punctuation,
interpolation, and the challenges posed by large traditions. Please register in advance
(for each day separately) to receive the readings.
Workshop will take place on Zoom. Both days will consider topics relevant to both ancient
and medieval texts. Examples discussed on Day 2 will be drawn from Greek and Latin;
knowledge of one or both languages is useful but not required for either day. All members
of the community—students, faculty, and beyond—are welcome to attend.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
Justin Miller (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Apr. 22, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
"Phoenician Miscellanies: The etymology of Dido, the Phoenician shift(s), and an
alphabetic transmission"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
tamishaltan@g.harvard.edu<mailto:tamishaltan@g.harvard.edu>
Amy Richlin (University of California, Los
Angeles)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Apr. 22, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 83 Waterman St, Room 130, Providence, RI
"Subalternity in the Roman Metropole"
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
Registration required.
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[Amy Richlin (University of California, Los Angeles)]
Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 27, 5:15 p.m.
MIT (on Zoom. Registration required)
"Cicero and the Early Latin Poets
Cicero's writings contain hundreds of quotations of Latin verse from Latin poets of
the 2nd century BCE, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius. In this lecture,
Hannah Čulík-Baird explains the significance of Latin poetry to the late Republican
orator, contextualizing Cicero's poetic quotations within contemporary intellectual
practices at Rome.
Hannah Čulík-Baird is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at
Boston University. Her book, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, is forthcoming with
Cambridge University Press (April 2022).
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zo…
[Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)]
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