The Boston Area Classics Calendar for April 1, 2016
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
Michael Cosmopoulos (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 103, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 1, 2016, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
"Homeric archaeology and state formation in early Greece: New evidence from the
Mycenaean palace at Iklaina"
Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World”
Symposium: Translating and Interpreting Ovid in the Late Middle Ages
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 305, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Apr. 4, 2016, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
9.30-10 Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard): Introduction
10-11 Frank T. Coulson (The Ohio State University): The Latin School Tradition on the
Metamorphoses 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).
More info:
translatingovid.weebly.com<http://translatingovid.weebly.com/>
Ann Killebrew (Pennsylvania State University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, 33 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Apr. 4, 2016, 4 – 6 p.m.
"The End of the Bronze Age in the Levant and its Aftermath: Crisis, Transformation
and the Emergence of the Biblical World"
More info:
archaeology.psu.edu…<http://archaeology.psu.edu/people/aek11>
Bonna Daix Wescoat (Emory University)
UMASS AMHERST, Integrated Learning Center, Room 331, 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
Mon., Apr. 4, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"From the Vantage of the Victory: New Research on the Winged Victory of Samothrace”
The twelfth annual David Grose Memorial Lecture. Wescoat is the Director of Excavations
for the Sanctuary of the Great Gods in Samothrace. Free and open to the public. Sponsored
by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. For more information contact Brian Breed
(bbreed@classics.umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@classics.umass.edu>).
More info:
www.umass.edu…<https://www.umass.edu/classics/events>
*Dance Studies Panel
SMITH COLLEGE, Neilson Library Browsing Room, 7 Neilson Drive, Northampton, MA 01063
Wed., Apr. 6, 2016, 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
Women's Corporealities and Choreographies of Authority: From Antiquity's Learned
Ladies to Entrepreneurial Modern Ballerinas
"Dancing Bodies, Learned Ladies, and Elastic Moralities in Ancient Rome," Zoa
Alonso Fernández (Harvard University)
“International Transmigration of Ballet: American Matriarchs Awaken Sleeping Beauty,"
Laura Katz (Temple University)
Open to the public. Sponsors: The Lecture Committee, Departments of Dance, Department of
Classical Languages and Literatures, Program in the Study of Women and Gender, Five
College Dance Department
More info:
www.fivecolleges.edu…<https://www.fivecolleges.edu/system/files/Katz%20A…
*Stefan Höfler (Universität Wien)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Apr. 7, 2016, 5 – 6 p.m.
“The Mighty Ox” and other Tales from the Land of Indo-European Word Formation
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”
*Kathleen Lynch (University of Cincinnati)
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall)
Mon., Apr. 11, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
La Follette Lecture
“A 5th Century BC Supper Club: evidence of semi-public dining from the Athenian Agora”
Stephen Heyworth (University of Oxford)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 13, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Segmentation and Interpretation: Horace, Odes 2
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Lorenzo Buonanno (U. Mass Boston)
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Thu., Apr. 14, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Artistic Wonders of Parma from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance”
A lecture in honor of the 20-year partnership between Boston College & the University
of Parma.
(A delegation from the University of Parma will be in attendance.)
For maps & parking:
www.bc.edu…<http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/romlang/about/contact/maps.htm…
For further information: Prof. Franco Mormando
(Mormando@bc.edu<mailto:Mormando@bc.edu>), 617-552-6346
Co-sponsored by the Nicholas J. Sottile Fund for Italian Studies, RLL Dept.
**Jodi Magness (UNC Chapel Hill)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, 33 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Apr. 18, 2016, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Samson in Stone: New Discoveries in the Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's
Galilee"
More info:
religion.unc.edu…<http://religion.unc.edu/_people/full-time-faculty/magn…
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
Joseph Carter (University of Texas at Austin)
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Earth Sciences, Room 107 (Paino Lecture Hall)
Thu., Apr. 21, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
“The Discovery of the Sanctuary and Mystery Cult at Pantanello (Metaponto, Southern
Italy)
More info:
www.amherst.edu…<https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classi…
*Daniele Maras (Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia)
WELLESLEY COLLEGE: Founders Hall Room 120
Thu., Apr. 21, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
"Greek Myths, Etruscan Women. Goddesses and Heroines in light of Etruscan Society and
Religion"
The Archaeological Institute of America's Kress lecture is co-sponsored by the
Wellesley Department of Classical Studies, which invites all interested parties to the
lecture and reception to follow. For parking information, please see
web.wellesley.edu…<http://web.wellesley.edu/map/>
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference: Representations: the world of the word in Late
Republican Rome
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 745 Commonwealth Ave., B19, Boston MA
02215
Fri., Apr. 22, 2016, 3:15 – 7 p.m.
The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the
conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register. The dinner charge
is $30.00 ($20 for graduate students with school ID) and the registration deadline (for
dinner only) is April 14, 2016. Register here:
www.bu.edu…<http://www.bu.edu/classics/roman-studies-conference-registra…
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
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Boston University Center for the
Humanities
For more information, contact Zsuzsa Varhelyi at
varhelyi@bu.edu<mailto:varhelyi@bu.edu> or Melissa Parno at
josephmv@bu.edu<mailto:josephmv@bu.edu> or 617-353-2427.
More info:
www.bu.edu…<http://www.bu.edu/classics/rsc/>
AJ 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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