Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #25 (2/25/05)
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Mon., Feb. 28, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Medieval Studies
Daniel Caner (University of Connecticut and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Wealth, Holiness, and Material Blessings in Early Byzantium"
Mon., Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT
Archaeological Institute of America -- New Haven Society
John H. Oakley (The College of William and Mary)
"Imaging Death in Classical Athens: Athenian White Lekythoi"
For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu)
*Tues., Mar. 1, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Women's Studies in Religion Program
Nicola Denzey (Harvard University)
"Mourning Women and Lost Daughters in Rome's Catacombs of the Via Latina"
Community Tea co-hosted by the Office of Student Affairs preceding
lecture at 4:30 p.m.
*Wed. Mar. 2, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Phelps Hall, 344 College Street, New Haven, CT
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Kirk Freudenburg (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Leering for the Plot: On Making Sex Meaningful in Apuleius' *Metamorphoses*"
Reception immediately following lecture in PH 401, 344 College Street
Mon., Mar. 14, 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT
Hartford Society, AIA Lecture
Camilla McKay (Yale University)
"Pottery, Trade, and History in Late Medieval Greece"
Tues., March 15, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
"De-orientalizing Prometheus: The Culture Hero in Mesopotamia and Greece"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu)
*Tues., Mar. 15, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum
Dr. Sharon Zuckerman (Hebrew University)
"The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Canaanite Kingdom: Recent
Excavations at Tel Hazor, Israel"
Reception preceding lecture at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue,
at 6:15 p.m.
Contact Dena Davis for more information (617-495-4631 or
davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Fri., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Patricia Easterling (University of Cambridge)
"The Death of Oedipus and What Happened Next"
Fri., Mar. 18, 5:30 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington
Avenue, Boston, MA
Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology
Sponsored by The Archaeological Institute of America, Boston Society
Anthony Tuck (Tufts University)
"Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles in Etruria and Beyond"
Free and open to the public; MFA admission not required
Wed., Mar. 23, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA
A Five College Classics Departments Lecture
R. Ross Holloway (Brown University)
"The Tomb of the Diver at Paestum"
Reception following
For further information contact Sara Upton, swupton(a)amherst.edu
*Thurs., Apr. 7, 5:30 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington
Avenue, Boston, MA
Co-sponsored by The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The
Archaeological Institute of America, Boston Society
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"The Dramatic Rescue of the Mosaics of Zeugma: Greek Life along the Euphrates"
Free and open to the public; MFA admission not required
Thurs., Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center,
855 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Carlos Norena (Yale University)
"From Model to Master: Local Constructions of the Emperor in the West"
Commentator: Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
Wine and cheese at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, paper at 7:30
For further information: Allen M. Ward, ward(a)uconnvm.uconn.edu
Fri., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Brooks Emmons Levy (Princeton University)
"Holy Shekels: the Currency of Jerusalem's Temple Tax"
Free admission: a reception will follow
Mon., Apr. 18, 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT
Hartford Society, AIA Lecture
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
"Water Colors of the Villa of the Mysteries by Maria Barosso:
Archaeology, Art, and Politics of Italy of the 1920s"
Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Burkhard Meissner (Brown University)
"Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents,
Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu)
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
See Appendix for details
Tues., Apr. 26, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT
Archaeological Institute of America - New Haven Society
Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan)
"The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Contexts and Meanings"
For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu)
Tues., Apr. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 1: "Before Excavation: Legends and their Reception"
Wed., Apr. 27 [time TBA]
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA [specific location TBA]
English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History of the Book Seminar
Seth Lehrer (Stanford University)
"Aesop in the Middle Ages: Authority and Authorship in the History of
Children's Literature"
Thurs., Apr. 28, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 2: "The Lydian City"
Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome"
(NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY)
Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond"
LECTURE CANCELLED:
**Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History
Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris)
"From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word
in Greek culture"
APPENDIX
Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue,
5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University)
"Religion and Power in the Early Empire"
James Rives (York University)
"Reason and Revelation in Apuleius"
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
"Catullus Among the Christians"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof.
Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #24 (2/18/05)
This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming
events and subscription requests should be sent to an address
dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu.
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below instead of as word-processor file attachments.
NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL
APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK.
Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued
the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Wed. Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Library Building, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Peabody and Semitic Museums
Edward L. Ochsenschlager (Brooklyn College)
"The Ancient Marsh Arabs: Finding the Past in the Present"
Reception immediately following lecture at the Peabody Museum, 11
Divinity Avenue
*Wed., Feb. 23, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Peter Frankopan (University of Oxford)
"Disfunction within the Imperial Family in Byzantium: The Case of the Komnenoi"
*Mon., Feb. 28, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Medieval Studies
Daniel Caner (University of Connecticut and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Wealth, Holiness, and Material Blessings in Early Byzantium"
Mon., Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT
Archaeological Institute of America -- New Haven Society
John H. Oakley (The College of William and Mary)
"Imaging Death in Classical Athens: Athenian White Lekythoi"
For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu)
Mon., Mar. 14, 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT
Hartford Society, AIA Lecture
Camilla McKay (Yale University)
"Pottery, Trade, and History in Late Medieval Greece"
Tues., March 15, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
"De-orientalizing Prometheus: The Culture Hero in Mesopotamia and Greece"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu)
Fri., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Patricia Easterling (University of Cambridge)
"The Death of Oedipus and What Happened Next"
*Fri., Mar. 18, 5:30 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington
Avenue, Boston, MA
Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology
Sponsored by The Archaeological Institute of America, Boston Society
Anthony Tuck (Tufts University)
"Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles in Etruria and Beyond"
Free and open to the public; MFA admission not required
Wed., Mar. 23, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA
A Five College Classics Departments Lecture
R. Ross Holloway (Brown University)
"The Tomb of the Diver at Paestum"
Reception following
For further information contact Sara Upton, swupton(a)amherst.edu
Thurs., Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center,
855 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Carlos Norena (Yale University)
"From Model to Master: Local Constructions of the Emperor in the West"
Commentator: Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
Wine and cheese at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, paper at 7:30
For further information: Allen M. Ward, ward(a)uconnvm.uconn.edu
Fri., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Brooks Emmons Levy (Princeton University)
"Holy Shekels: the Currency of Jerusalem's Temple Tax"
Free admission: a reception will follow
Mon., Apr. 18, 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT
Hartford Society, AIA Lecture
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
"Water Colors of the Villa of the Mysteries by Maria Barosso:
Archaeology, Art, and Politics of Italy of the 1920s"
Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Burkhard Meissner (Brown University)
"Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents,
Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu)
*Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
For registration and other information see
<http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/> or contact the Department
of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof. Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
See Appendix for details
Tues., Apr. 26, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT
Archaeological Institute of America - New Haven Society
Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan)
"The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Contexts and Meanings"
For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu)
Tues., Apr. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 1: "Before Excavation: Legends and their Reception"
*Wed., Apr. 27 [time TBA]
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA [specific location TBA]
English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History of the Book Seminar
Seth Lehrer (Stanford University)
"Aesop in the Middle Ages: Authority and Authorship in the History of
Children's Literature"
Thurs., Apr. 28, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 2: "The Lydian City"
Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome"
(NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY)
Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate"
Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond"
Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History
Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris)
"From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word
in Greek culture"
APPENDIX
*Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University)
"Religion and Power in the Early Empire"
James Rives (York University)
"Reason and Revelation in Apuleius"
Joseph Pucci (Brown University)
"Catullus Among the Christians"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference
For registration and other information see
<http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/> or contact the Department
of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof. Patricia Larash
(plarash(a)bu.edu)
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.
