Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2020
Radio Opera: Aeneas Setting Out from Carthage (Propempticon) by Harry
Sage<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventi…
Sat., Oct. 24, 4 – 6 p.m.
Radio:
www.wgxc.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.wgx…
WGXC Afternoon Show: New Radio Operas from Harvard University's Composing Theatre
Proseminar
WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears
This program features seven new radio operas composed by Harvard University students
enrolled in Composing Theatre, a proseminar designed to explore narrative sound art led by
artist Yvette Janine Jackson. The radio operas you will hear bear little resemblance to
the early twentieth-century radio operas by composers like Gian Carlo Menotti. These works
range in style and approach; some will take you on a journey; some will ask you to
reflect. If it is safe to do so, listen to these radio operas in the dark and surrender to
the theatre of your mind.
Seven featured works, including:
"Aeneas Setting Out from Carthage (Propempticon)" by Harry Sage (Harvard College
Class of 2022)
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Sarah Iles Johnston (The Ohio State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%2…
Tue., Oct. 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Zoom:
events.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__e…
"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: Classics and the Unseen Realm at the Fin de
Siècle"
The Classics Department will host this year’s Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial
Lecture via Zoom.
The fin de siècle saw the development of the literary ghost story into the distinctive
genre that we still enjoy today, under the masterly pens of authors such as Joseph
Sheridan LeFanu, Arthur Machen and M.R. James. A recurrent preoccupation in the works of
these authors is the persistence of the ancient world and its effect on those who engage
with it. Did ‘the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome’ cloak dangers to
the spiritual, mental and bodily health of those who consumed them? Six ghost stories will
provide lens through which different answers to this question can be considered.
events.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__e…
contact: classics_department@brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu>
[Sarah Iles Johnston (The Ohio State University)]
November 2020
Kelsey Eldridge and Julia Judge (both of Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%2…
Wed., Nov. 4, 5 – 6 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
Panel: “Did the Ptolemies carve in porphyry?" and "Reframing the sanctuary of
Zeus at Olympia in Late Antiquity"
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for Zoom link
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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Samantha Richter (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%2…
Thu., Nov. 5, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required below.
Framing the Transformative Nature of the Greater Panathenaia within a Modern Urban Theory
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.g…
required.
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__do…
Thomas F. X. Nobel (University of Notre
Dame)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26event…
Mon., Nov. 9, 5 – 6 p.m.
Zoom:
mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zo…
"Virtual Materiality"
Among the dozens of “turns” traveled by scholars in recent decades, the material turn has
been prominent. In simplest terms, this turn seeks to bring the artifacts of material
culture, say the discoveries of archaeologists and art historians into the realms of
discourse typically dominated by those who focus on texts, on documents, on written
evidence. What I try to do in this talk is to excavate material from written texts in
instances where the physical objects no longer survive. To some extent my approach
suggests alternative ways to think about what we read but I also think that tending
carefully to descriptions of what no longer exists can actually expand the totality of the
material record. I draw on a wide array of sources including poetry, histories, and
biographies, among others.
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MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium
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[Thomas F. X. Nobel (University of Notre Dame)]
Seth Schein (University of California,
Davis)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26even…
Fri., Nov. 13, 4 – 6 p.m.
Zoom
"Green and Yellow: Commentary on the Iliad 1.188-253"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.…
required.
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston
University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
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Ann Marie Yasin (University of Southern
California)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%2…
Wed., Nov. 18, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
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for Zoom link.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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Danielle Allen (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%2…
Thu., Nov. 19, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required at link below.
Title TBA
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond
J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
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to receive the Zoom link.
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
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Contact: Nate Herter (nherter@g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>)
Laura Grestenberger (University of
Vienna)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eve…
Fri., Nov. 20, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Zoom
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
February 2021
Sarah Eisen (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%2…
Thu., Feb. 25, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
Zoom/Virtual
"Developing a Synesthetic Approach to Classical Archaeology"
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
Contact: nherter@g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>;
davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
March 2021
Classical Association of New England Virtual Annual
Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eve…
Sat., Mar. 13
Zoom
The 2021 CANE Annual Meeting will be held using Zoom Webinar, March 13 and March 20,
2021.
Proposals
The proposal form is now
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They are being accepted through December 15, 2020.
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Classical Association of New England Virtual Annual
Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eve…
Sat., Mar. 20
Zoom
The 2021 CANE Annual Meeting will be held using Zoom Webinar, March 13 and March 20,
2021.
Proposals
The proposal form is now
live<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.co…41VG9lW9CwEzoQWz3AI&e=>.
They are being accepted through December 15, 2020.
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Joshua Billings (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%2…
Thu., Mar. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Zoom<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.com…
Contact: davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
July 2021
Classical Association of New England Summer
Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26e…
Mon., July 12 – Sat., July 17
Brown University, Providence, RI (dates will be confirmed in Jan. 2021)
On the theme “Power and the Individual in the Ancient Mediterranean World”
graduate credit available
For more information and registration details, go to
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Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at
summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>
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Amanda Loud (summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>)
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