Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010: #1 (10/16/09)
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Sun., Oct. 18 - Sun. May 16
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Gund Gallery, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston,
MA
“The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC”
Exhibition features largest Middle Kingdom burial assemblage ever
discovered, on view in its entirety for the first time. Includes famous
'Bersha Coffin,' 'Bersha Procession' and mummified head from tomb.
$20 adults/$18 seniors & students
www.mfa.org
Tues., Oct. 20, 12:30–2:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Women's Studies Research Center, 515 South
Street, Waltham, MA
Marguerite Rigoglioso, “The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece”
Free and open to the public.
Tues., Oct. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke to Read Her Poetry at Harvard
Fri., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
V. Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin)
“Imagined Biographies and Unwritten Readings: Authors and Texts in
Premodern Indian Literatures”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Oct. 29, 4:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall, Rm. 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut
Hill, MA
Richard Martin (Stanford University)
“Lost Boys and Lethal Toys: Attaining Manhood in Greek and Irish Saga”
Thurs., Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge (113), 415 South Street, Waltham,
MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Stephen Scully (Boston University)
“Hesiod’s Olympus”
Reception to follow, with light refreshments.
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu
).
Free and open to the public.
For directions:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Pearlman Hall map:
http://my.brandeis.edu/map/print-page?id=67
Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
James Zetzel (Columbia University)
“Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT
Sarah Ruden, Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School
“Coping with the Author as Other: A Pacifist Translates the Aeneid's
War Scenes”
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
David Konstan (Brown University)
“Between Epigram and Elegy: Horace as an Amatory Poet”
Sponsored by the Classics Department
For more information please contact Luca Grillo lgrillo(a)amherst.edu or
see
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures
Mon., Nov. 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
Christopher Star (Middlebury College)
“'To accept a favor gladly is to have repaid it': Exchange and Status
in Seneca's 'De Beneficiis' and Petronius' 'Satyricon.'“
Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact
Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427.
*Wed., Nov. 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
Diskin Clay (Duke University)
“The Art of Hell: from Dante to Rodin - a look forward from antiquity”
Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact
Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427.
*Wed., Nov. 11, 8:00 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT
Dan Bahat (University of Toronto)
“The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discovery and Meaning”
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department, Jewish and Israel
Studies Certificate Program, and the Archaeology Program
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
or see
https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America
Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M
University)
“Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean
Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)”
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology
Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19 – 21
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
Conference on “Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning.”
Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas
Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman,
Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne
Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden,
Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html
.
Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University)
Title TBA
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics
Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative
Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels
Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael
Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich
Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/conference-program.pdf
*Sat, Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 202 Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies
(Part of the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and
Early Modern Greek Fictional Writing, December 4-5)
Conference Keynote Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford
University)
“Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative”
The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and
the Department of the Classics.
Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street,
Providence, RI
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin
Carol
Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of the
season,
conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the readings
will be
provided.)
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.
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