The Boston Area Classics Calendar for October 23, 2015 PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University) BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College Street, Providence, RI 02912 Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m. "Epigraphies of Appropriation: Classical Greek Sculptors in the Roman World" More info: www.brown.edu…<http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.a… **Gil Renberg (Harvard University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m. "Patterns and Problems in the Viso/Iussu-type Inscriptions of the Roman World" Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity Isabel Köster (Holy Cross) COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, Room 320, 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610 Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m. "How to destroy your enemies in ancient Rome: Cicero and the language of curse tablets" Sofia Nikolaidou (Author) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2 Arrow Street, Room 408, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m. “Then there were tanks, Now there are banks” A Conversation on the Novel "The Scapegoat" between author Sofia Nikolaidou and translator Karen Emmerich, moderated by Vassiliki Rapti Onassis Foundation University Seminar Series Event Series: Onassis Foundation University Seminar Series Madeleine Goh (Harvard University) WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459 Fri., Oct. 30, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m. “Chariot Warfare in Homer” Sponsored by Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu<mailto:dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu>) More info: www.wesleyan.edu…<http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics> Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Ohio State University) BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912 Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m. "A Little Studied Dialogue: Platonic Eros and Callimachean Epigram" More info: www.brown.edu…<http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.a… Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University) HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 0505 Menschel Hall (Lower Level), 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m. "Trimalchio ad nauseam: Roman Art as a Tyranny of Bad Taste?" Ruth Bielfeldt, Harvard’s Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, takes the lavish dinner party of the Roman freedman Trimalchio—described in Petronius’s Satyricon—as the starting point for a critical look at wall paintings and other domestic art of early Imperial Rome. Are excess and mishmash always bad, or does Trimalchio’s desire to turn the world into an overstuffed dish offer a key to a different understanding of Roman tastes and aesthetics? Free admission. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities. Event Series: M. Victor Leventritt Lecture More info: www.harvardartmuseums.org…<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calend… Laurie Rush (Army Archaeologist at Fort Drum, NY) BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 725 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, Room CAS 221 Thu., Nov. 5, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m. "Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas" Co-Sponsors: Boston University Archaeology Department and the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America More info: omeka.wellesley.edu…<http://omeka.wellesley.edu/bostonaia> A colloquium on “Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination” UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 10th Floor, Campus Center, Amherst, MA 01002 Sat., Nov. 7, 2015, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Speakers are Brigitte Libby (Harvard University), “Out of the Ashes: Rome’s Beginnings at Troy”; Tom Zanker (Amherst College), “Horace and the Rhetoric of Decline”; Virginia Closs (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “The Unmaking of Rome: Clades Publica and Censorship in Senecan Thought”; Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania), “The Sacks of Rome”; Andrew Johnston (Yale University), “Ruin, Reconstruction and History”; Jessica Clark (Florida State University), “The Spoils of War: Victory as Urban Disaster”; Elizabeth Keitel (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Caesar and the Urbs Capta at Massilia”; and Honora Chapman (California State University, Fresno), “Josephus’ Memory of Jerusalem: A Study in Urban Disaster.” Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the College of Humanities of Fine Arts More info: www.umass.edu…<https://www.umass.edu/classics/disaster> John Friend (University of Tennessee) BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912 Mon., Nov. 9, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m. "Lycurgus, Ephebes, and The Gods" More info: www.brown.edu…<http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.a… Albert Harrill (Ohio State University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Andover Hall, Sperry Room 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m. "Paul in Rome?" Event Series: Brown Lecture Series Julia Hejduk (Baylor University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Nov. 17, 2015 Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity ​Meredith Safran (Trinity College) COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center; Fourth Floor (Suite A); 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610 Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. "Romulus and the ​'​difficult task​'​ : a folk motif in Livy's ​'​Sabine women'​ episode (AUC I.9-13)"​ *Carol Dougherty (Wellesley College) MIT, Building E51-275 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 whereis.mit.edu<http://whereis.mit.edu/> Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m. “‘What ought to have remained hidden’: Clytemnestra’s Uncanny Housekeeping" Event Series: MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Villa) WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 5 p.m. Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Annual Art Lecture "Why Fakes Matter: Authenticity in Ancient Art" This presentation takes up the controversial issue of fakes in ancient art and asks what they can tell us about how we understand and define authenticity today. James Uden (Boston University) "Satire and Superstition in Second-Century Rome" Tue., Dec. 1, 2015, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome Leanna Boychenko (University of Massachusetts Amherst) UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Herter Hall 301, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003 Wed., Dec. 2, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m. "Daughters of the Sun: Apollonius Rhodius' Medea and the Egyptian Eye of Re.” Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Brian Breed (bbreed@classics.umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@classics.umass.edu>). Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m. "Plutarch, Lucian and the Sixth Century BC" Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Mar. 1, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m. Topic: TBA Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Sat., Mar. 5, 2016 Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford) See link for more info. and Call for Papers. Event Series: Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/biennal-gradua… Hans Beck (McGill University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Mar. 7, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m. Topic: Greek koinon Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World” Johannes Nollé (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts) HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m. Title: TBA Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture 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” Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Subscribe to/download calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>. 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