Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #11 (11/17/06)
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Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture
Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland)
"Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman
Alexandria"
Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are
required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office
on the day of the event.
Tues., Nov. 21, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Harvard Semitic Museum, History of Art and
Architecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ancient Egypt Research
Associates
Barry Kemp (University of Cambridge)
"Life and Religion at Tell el-Amarna"
Reception preceding at 6:00 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu or
617-495-4631)
Free and open to the public
Tues., Nov. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Nikos Poulopoulos (Harvard University)
"Barbarians Ante Portas: Cavafy as a Social Psychologist"
Thurs., Nov. 30, 3:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Golding 103, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series Lecture sponsored by the
Department of Classical Studies
Yumna Khan (Brandeis University)
"The Mythical Mystery Tour of Dionysius of Alexandria"
Light refreshments will be served
For more information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Free and open to the public; for directions go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College)
"Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of
Freedmen in the Roman World"
Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross)
Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion
For more information contact Kathleen Coleman
(kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024)
*Tues., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall 105, Cambridge, MA
The Twentieth Nicholas E. Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern
Greek Studies
Theodore Antoniou (Boston University)
"Music in Greece and the World Today"
Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Aristotle on Political Animals"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
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.
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #10 (11/10/06)
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., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Hall,
Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Cities" Lecture Series
David Mitten (Harvard University)
"Thessaloniki: Second City of the Aegean"
Thurs., Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University)
"Virgil and History"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183
or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or
jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Free and open to the public. For directions go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture
Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland)
"Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman
Alexandria"
Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are
required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office
on the day of the event.
Tues., Nov. 21, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Harvard Semitic Museum, History of Art and
Architecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ancient Egypt Research
Associates
Barry Kemp (University of Cambridge)
"Life and Religion at Tell el-Amarna"
Reception preceding at 6:00 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu or
617-495-4631)
Free and open to the public
*Tues., Nov. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Nikos Poulopoulos (Harvard University)
"Barbarians Ante Portas: Cavafy as a Social Psychologist"
Thurs., Nov. 30, 3:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Golding 103, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series Lecture sponsored by the
Department of Classical Studies
Yumna Khan (Brandeis University)
"The Mythical Mystery Tour of Dionysius of Alexandria"
Light refreshments will be served
For more information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Free and open to the public; for directions go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College)
"Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of
Freedmen in the Roman World"
Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross)
Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion
For more information contact Kathleen Coleman
(kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024)
Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Aristotle on Political Animals"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
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.
(PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE NO NEW CALENDAR ENTRIES THIS WEEK.)
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #9 (11/3/06)
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.
Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown
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
Fri., Nov. 3, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
"Rome before Literature: History and Fiction"
Mon., Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI
Scott McGill (Rice University)
"Imitation or Plagiarism? The Case of Virgil in Macrobius' Saturnalia"
Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA
Susan Alcock (Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts
17th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture
"A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia"
Reception following in the Atrium
For more information contact Scott Bradbury (sbradbur(a)email.smith.edu)
Wed., Nov. 8, 7:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 201 Eaton Hall, Medford, MA
Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series
Josephine Crawley Quinn (Worcester College, University of Oxford)
"Negotiating Power in the Hellenistic West: Numidian Architecture in
Context"
For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Hall,
Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Cities" Lecture Series
David Mitten (Harvard University)
"Thessaloniki: Second City of the Aegean"
Thurs., Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University)
"Virgil and History"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183
or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or
jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Free and open to the public. For directions go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA
Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture
Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland)
"Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman
Alexandria"
Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are
required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office
on the day of the event.
*Tues., Nov. 21, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Harvard Semitic Museum, History of Art and
Architecture, and Ancient Egypt Research Associates
Barry Kemp (University of Cambridge)
"Life and Religion at Tell el-Amarna"
Reception preceding at 6:00 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information contact Dena Davis (davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu or
617-495-4631)
Free and open to the public
Thurs., Nov. 30, 3:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Golding 103, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Series Lecture sponsored by the
Department of Classical Studies
Yumna Khan (Brandeis University)
"The Mythical Mystery Tour of Dionysius of Alexandria"
Light refreshments will be served
For more information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
Free and open to the public; for directions go to http://
www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College)
"Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of
Freedmen in the Roman World"
Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross)
Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion
For more information contact Kathleen Coleman
(kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024)
Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA
Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the
family and friends of the late
Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Invention of Modernity:
Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action"
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
"Aristotle on Political Animals"
For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts
University (617-627-3213 or
classics(a)tufts.edu)
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.
