Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #22 (2/24/06)
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Mon., Feb. 27, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue,
Room 409, Boston, MA
Myth and Religion Study Group
Benjamin Foster (Yale University) and Alice Slotsky (Brown University)
"The Babylonian Epic of Creation"
Light refreshments served
For more information contact Sal <salvy(a)bu.edu>, 617-353-2427
Wed., Mar. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
Yelena Baraz (Trinity College)
"From the Academy to the Forum: Cicero's Philosophical Politics"
Reception to follow
Free and open to the public
For more information contact Sara Upton <swupton(a)amherst.edu>
Thurs., Mar. 2, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Alex Sens (Georgetown University)
"tipte genos toumon zeteis: The Batrachomyomachia, Hellenistic Epic
Parody, and Early Epic"
Wed., Mar. 8, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Putnam
Lab, Room 59D, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard University)
"Prestige Drinking: Vessels with Animal Foreparts from Achaemenid
Persia to Greece"
Thurs., March 9, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Putnam
Lab, Room 59D, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Steven Leblanc (Peabody Museum)
"From Ancient Mouths: Tracking a Prehistoric Migration with Teeth and
Spit. Or Testing the Uto-Aztecan Farmer Migration Model with Dental
Traits and DNA"
Thurs., Mar. 9, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Burkhard Meissner (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg/Brown University)
"Between Values and Reality: The Experience of War in the Hellenistic
Period"
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 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
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)
"Juno's Aeneid Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent"
Thurs., Mar. 16, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Walsh Function Room, Chestnut Hill, MA
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute)
"Introspection, Plotinian and Augustinian"
Commentary by John Kenney (St. Michael's, VT)
For more information contact Gary Gurtler <gurtlerg(a)bc.edu>
Fri., Mar. 17 - Sun., Mar. 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies
"Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient
Civilizations"
For more information contact Maria Sokolova <Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.edu>,
401-863-1994
See Appendix for details
Thurs., Mar. 23, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 415 South Street, Olin-Sang 104, Waltham, MA
The Classical Studies Colloquium Series
Angela Murock Hussein (Brandeis University)
"Ducks, Horsemen, and Rampant Goats: Early Greek Pottery Workshops in
Etruria"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
For more information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow <aoko(a)brandeis.edu>,
781-736-2183, or Janet Barry <jbarry(a)brandeis.edu>, 781-736-2180
For directions see http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Free and open to the public
Tues., Mar. 28, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Ralph J. Hexter (Hampshire College)
"Stories of War and Return" - The Nostoi Project
For more information contact Robert Meagher <remHA(a)hampshire.edu>
Sponsored by Hampshire College, The Nostoi Project
*Tues., Apr. 4, 4:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA
Brian Rose (University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Pennsylvania)
"Excavations at Troy: 1988-2005"
Tues., Apr. 4, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Alan Griffiths (University College, London)
"The Odyssey and Oddities of Catullus 4"
Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 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
Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Suicide in Byzantium"
Thurs., Apr. 6
Brown-Yale Meeting at Yale
(Details to be announced. For more information contact Ruthann Whitten
at Ruthann_Whitten(a)brown.edu)
Adele Scafuro (Brown University)
"Athenian Decrees for Trial in Literary and Epigraphic Documents"
Comments by Victor Bers (Yale University)
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Simon James (University of Leicester)
"Desert Fortress: Life and Violent Death in Roman Dura-Europos, Syria"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Mon., Apr. 10, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Jeffrey Wills (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine)
"Why is Vergil an Alexandrian? The Maximization of Minimalism"
*Tues., Apr. 11, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, Conference Room 5-6, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
The Richard Lobban Family Endowed Lecture
David Mattingly (University of Leicester, UK)
"Town and Country in Roman Libya"
Sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America
Tues., Apr. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Erwin Cook (Trinity University)
"Nestor's Big Adventure: Making Sense of Iliad, Book 8"
Tues., Apr. 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Goddard Chapel, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman
World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 1: "From Imperium to Imperialism: Writing the Roman Empire"
For more information contact R. Bruce Hitchner
<bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu>, 617-627-3213
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by
the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Wed., Apr. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman
World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 2: "Ruling Regions, Exploiting Resources"
For more information contact R. Bruce Hitchner
<bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu>, 617-627-3213
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by
the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Christof Boehringer (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the
University of Gottingen, Germany)
"Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of
Sicily"
Thurs., Apr. 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman
World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 3: "Power, Sex, and Empire"
For more information contact R. Bruce Hitchner
<bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu>, 617-627-3213
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by
the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Fri., Apr. 21, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
The Twelfth Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
Denis Feeney (Princeton University), "Founding and Re-founding the City
of Rome"
Ann Vasaly (Boston University), "Characterization and Complexity:
Caesar, Sallust, and Livy"
Tony Woodman (University of Virginia), "Mutiny and Madness: Annals
1.16-51"
A reception and dinner conclude conference
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or contact Prof. Pat Larash or
Mr. Ben Thompson <romstud(at)bu.edu>, 617-353-2426
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Mon., Apr. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Hermann Parzinger (German Archaeological Institute)
"Monumental Kurgans in the Siberian Steppe: The Scythian Elite Burial
from Arzhan in Tuva"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard Art Museums, and
the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Mon., Apr. 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman
World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 4: "Identity and Discrepancy"
For more information contact R. Bruce Hitchner
<bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu>, 617-627-3213
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by
the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College
Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA
Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of
London)
Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and
Discussion
For more information contact Cynthia Damon <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>,
413-542-8126
Wed., Apr. 26, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy,
54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
"Why Physics? Stoic Views on the Contributions of Natural Science to
Human Happiness"
Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA
16th Annual Lehmann Lecture
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Thurs., May 18, 7:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
David Reeve (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Plato's Goat-Stags: Philosophers and Cities in the Republic"
Commentary by Mark McPherran (U Maine, Farmington)
For more information contact Margaret Graver
<margaret.r.graver(a)dartmouth.edu>
APPENDIX:
Fri., Mar. 17-Sun., Mar. 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies
"Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient
Civilizations"
Friday, March 17, 4-7:30
Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): "Masters of the
Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early
Mesopotamian Writings"
Christopher Minkowski (Oxford University): "Populating the Terrain:
Indian Anthropologies and Their Spatial Dimension"
Kim Plofker (Amsterdam): "Humans, Ancestors, Gods, and Their Worlds:
The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India"
Saturday, March 18, 9-1
Gerald Moers (University of Goettingen): "The World and the Geography
of Otherness in Ancient Egyptian Culture"
Michael Loewe (Cambridge University): "Early Imperial China and Its
Knowledge of the Outside World"
John Henderson (Louisiana State University): "Nonary Cosmography in
Ancient China"
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu (Brown University): "Perceptions of Real Space and
Imagined Landscape in Early Western Han"
Saturday, March 18, 2:30-6:30
Susan G. Cole (State University of New York, Buffalo): "Women, Beasts,
and Barbarians: Mapping the Outsider"
James Romm (Bard College): "When Worlds Collide: The Europe-Asia
Antithesis in Classical and Early Medieval Thought"
Trevor Murphy (University of California, Berkeley): "Horror in Pliny's
Natural History"
Richard Talbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "The Roman
World View: Beyond Recovery?"
Sunday, March 19, 9:30-12:30
Daniela Dueck (Bar Ilan University): "Strabo and the Geographical
Narrative"
Emilie Savage-Smith (Oxford University): "The Book of Curiosities: An
Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the World"
E. B. Berry (University of California, Berkeley): "Isolation Does Not
Preclude Cosmoplitanism: Paradoxes in Classical (and later) Japanese
History"
Sunday, March 19, 2-6:30
Barbara Mundy (Fordham University): "New World Renaissance: Imperial
and Local Geography in Mesoamerica before the Conquest"
Catherine Julien (Western Michigan University): "Geography,
Ethnography, and the World of the Sixteenth-Century Andes"
Denis Cosgrove (University of California, Los Angeles): Comments
Organizers: Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard Talbert
Sponsors and Funding: Faith and Fred Sandstrom, the Programs in Ancient
Studies, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies,
the John Carter Brown Library, the Institute for Archaeology and the
Ancient World, the Departments of Classics, Egyptology and Ancient West
Asian Studies, and History, the Royce Family Fund for Teaching
Excellence, the Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts,
the Charles P. Sisson II Memorial Lectureship, the Bruce M. Bigelow
Class of 1955 Lecture Series.
Further information, contact Maria Sokolova (401-863-1994;
Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.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 2005/2006: #21 (2/17/06)
This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming
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the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible.
PLEASE NOTE:
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** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Mon., Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA
Five College Lecture in Classical Archaeology
"New Discoveries at Aphrodisias"
Christopher Ratte (New York University)
Reception following
For more information contact Geoffrey Sumi <gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu>
Sponsored by the Five College Classics Departments
*Wed., Feb. 22, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Putnam
Lab, Room 59D, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Wu Xiaohong (Beijing University)
"New Radiocarbon Dating in China"
Wed., Feb. 22, 4:00 p.m.
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, 34 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Fellowship Program
Mary-Louise Gill (Brown University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study)
"Plato on Models and Trees"
Thurs., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
"Some Aspects of Rhetoric and Character in Euripides"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
**Thurs., Feb. 23, 5:00 p.m. (NOTE: LECTURE WAS POSTPONED FROM THURS.,
FEB. 16)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Opera
Ellen Rosand (Yale University)
"In Defense of Seneca"
For further details see www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr
Thurs., Feb. 23, 5:30 pm,
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence,
RI
Natalia Lozovsky (California)
"Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and
Contemporary Concerns"
Mon., Feb. 27, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue,
Room 409, Boston, MA
Myth and Religion Study Group
Benjamin Foster (Yale University) and Alice Slotsky (Brown University)
"The Babylonian Epic of Creation"
Light refreshments served
For more information contact Sal <salvy(a)bu.edu>, 617-353-2427
Wed., Mar. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
Yelena Baraz (Trinity College)
"From the Academy to the Forum: Cicero's Philosophical Politics"
Reception to follow
Free and open to the public
For more information contact Sara Upton <swupton(a)amherst.edu>
Thurs., Mar. 2, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Alex Sens (Georgetown University)
"tipte genos toumon zeteis: The Batrachomyomachia, Hellenistic Epic
Parody, and Early Epic"
*Wed., Mar. 8, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Putnam
Lab, Room 59D, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard University)
"Prestige Drinking: Vessels with Animal Foreparts from Achaemenid
Persia to Greece"
*Thurs., March 9, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Putnam
Lab, Room 59D, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Steven Leblanc (Peabody Museum)
"From Ancient Mouths: Tracking a Prehistoric Migration with Teeth and
Spit. Or Testing the Uto-Aztecan Farmer Migration Model with Dental
Traits and DNA"
Thurs., Mar. 9, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Burkhard Meissner (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg/Brown University)
"Between Values and Reality: The Experience of War in the Hellenistic
Period"
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 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
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)
"Juno's Aeneid Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent"
Thurs., Mar. 16, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Walsh Function Room, Chestnut Hill, MA
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute)
"Introspection, Plotinian and Augustinian"
Commentary by John Kenney (St. Michael's, VT)
For more information contact Gary Gurtler <gurtlerg(a)bc.edu>
Fri., Mar. 17 - Sun., Mar. 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies
"Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient
Civilizations"
For more information contact Maria Sokolova <Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.edu>,
401-863-1994
See Appendix for details
*Thurs., Mar. 23, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 415 South Street, Olin-Sang 104, Waltham, MA
The Classical Studies Colloquium Series
Angela Murock Hussein (Brandeis University)
"Ducks, Horsemen, and Rampant Goats: Early Greek Pottery Workshops in
Etruria"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
For more information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow <aoko(a)brandeis.edu>,
781-736-2183, or Janet Barry <jbarry(a)brandeis.edu>, 781-736-2180
For directions see http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html
Free and open to the public
Tues., Mar. 28, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Ralph J. Hexter (Hampshire College)
"Stories of War and Return" - The Nostoi Project
For more information contact Robert Meagher <remHA(a)hampshire.edu>
Sponsored by Hampshire College, The Nostoi Project
Tues., Apr. 4, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Alan Griffiths (University College, London)
"The Odyssey and Oddities of Catullus 4"
Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 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
Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Suicide in Byzantium"
Thurs., Apr. 6
Brown-Yale Meeting at Yale
(Details to be announced. For more information contact Ruthann Whitten
at Ruthann_Whitten(a)brown.edu)
Adele Scafuro (Brown University)
"Athenian Decrees for Trial in Literary and Epigraphic Documents"
Comments by Victor Bers (Yale University)
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Simon James (University of Leicester)
"Desert Fortress: Life and Violent Death in Roman Dura-Europos, Syria"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Mon., Apr. 10, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Jeffrey Wills (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine)
"Why is Vergil an Alexandrian? The Maximization of Minimalism"
Tues., Apr. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Erwin Cook (Trinity University)
"Nestor's Big Adventure: Making Sense of Iliad, Book 8"
Tues., Apr. 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Goddard Chapel, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman
World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 1: "From Imperium to Imperialism: Writing the Roman Empire"
For more information contact R. Bruce Hitchner
<bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu>, 617-627-3213
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by
the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Wed., Apr. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman
World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 2: "Ruling Regions, Exploiting Resources"
For more information contact R. Bruce Hitchner
<bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu>, 617-627-3213
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by
the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Christof Boehringer (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the
University of Gottingen, Germany)
"Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of
Sicily"
Thurs., Apr. 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman
World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 3: "Power, Sex, and Empire"
For more information contact R. Bruce Hitchner
<bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu>, 617-627-3213
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by
the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Fri., Apr. 21, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
The Twelfth Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
Denis Feeney (Princeton University), "Founding and Re-founding the City
of Rome"
Ann Vasaly (Boston University), "Characterization and Complexity:
Caesar, Sallust, and Livy"
Tony Woodman (University of Virginia), "Mutiny and Madness: Annals
1.16-51"
A reception and dinner conclude conference
For registration and other information see
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or contact Prof. Pat Larash or
Mr. Ben Thompson <romstud(at)bu.edu>, 617-353-2426
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Mon., Apr. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Hermann Parzinger (German Archaeological Institute)
"Monumental Kurgans in the Siberian Steppe: The Scythian Elite Burial
from Arzhan in Tuva"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard Art Museums, and
the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Mon., Apr. 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman
World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 4: "Identity and Discrepancy"
For more information contact R. Bruce Hitchner
<bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu>, 617-627-3213
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by
the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College
Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA
Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of
London)
Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and
Discussion
For more information contact Cynthia Damon <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>,
413-542-8126
Wed., Apr. 26, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy,
54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
"Why Physics? Stoic Views on the Contributions of Natural Science to
Human Happiness"
Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA
16th Annual Lehmann Lecture
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Thurs., May 18, 7:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
David Reeve (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Plato's Goat-Stags: Philosophers and Cities in the Republic"
Commentary by Mark McPherran (U Maine, Farmington)
For more information contact Margaret Graver
<margaret.r.graver(a)dartmouth.edu>
APPENDIX:
Fri., Mar. 17-Sun., Mar. 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies
"Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient
Civilizations"
Friday, March 17, 4-7:30
Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): "Masters of the
Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early
Mesopotamian Writings"
Christopher Minkowski (Oxford University): "Populating the Terrain:
Indian Anthropologies and Their Spatial Dimension"
Kim Plofker (Amsterdam): "Humans, Ancestors, Gods, and Their Worlds:
The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India"
Saturday, March 18, 9-1
Gerald Moers (University of Goettingen): "The World and the Geography
of Otherness in Ancient Egyptian Culture"
Michael Loewe (Cambridge University): "Early Imperial China and Its
Knowledge of the Outside World"
John Henderson (Louisiana State University): "Nonary Cosmography in
Ancient China"
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu (Brown University): "Perceptions of Real Space and
Imagined Landscape in Early Western Han"
Saturday, March 18, 2:30-6:30
Susan G. Cole (State University of New York, Buffalo): "Women, Beasts,
and Barbarians: Mapping the Outsider"
James Romm (Bard College): "When Worlds Collide: The Europe-Asia
Antithesis in Classical and Early Medieval Thought"
Trevor Murphy (University of California, Berkeley): "Horror in Pliny's
Natural History"
Richard Talbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "The Roman
World View: Beyond Recovery?"
Sunday, March 19, 9:30-12:30
Daniela Dueck (Bar Ilan University): "Strabo and the Geographical
Narrative"
Emilie Savage-Smith (Oxford University): "The Book of Curiosities: An
Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the World"
E. B. Berry (University of California, Berkeley): "Isolation Does Not
Preclude Cosmoplitanism: Paradoxes in Classical (and later) Japanese
History"
Sunday, March 19, 2-6:30
Barbara Mundy (Fordham University): "New World Renaissance: Imperial
and Local Geography in Mesoamerica before the Conquest"
Catherine Julien (Western Michigan University): "Geography,
Ethnography, and the World of the Sixteenth-Century Andes"
Denis Cosgrove (University of California, Los Angeles): Comments
Organizers: Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard Talbert
Sponsors and Funding: Faith and Fred Sandstrom, the Programs in Ancient
Studies, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies,
the John Carter Brown Library, the Institute for Archaeology and the
Ancient World, the Departments of Classics, Egyptology and Ancient West
Asian Studies, and History, the Royce Family Fund for Teaching
Excellence, the Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts,
the Charles P. Sisson II Memorial Lectureship, the Bruce M. Bigelow
Class of 1955 Lecture Series.
Further information, contact Maria Sokolova (401-863-1994;
Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.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.
Please note that the following lecture, which was originally to be held
on Thursday, Feb. 16th, has been postponed for one week until Thursday,
Feb. 23rd:
Thurs., Feb. 23, 5:00 p.m. (NOTE: LECTURE WAS POSTPONED FROM THURS.,
FEB. 16)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Opera
Ellen Rosand (Yale University)
"In Defense of Seneca"
For further details see www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr
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*Fri., Feb. 10, 4:00 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, 401 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT
Roman Topics Seminar
Christopher Krebs (Harvard University)
"Fighting for Moral Health: Two Metaphors in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae"
Mon., Feb. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Dee Clayman (Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate School)
"Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram"
Wed., Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Kathryn Bard and Dr. Rodolpho Fattovich (Boston University and
University of Naples)
"Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in
Wadi Gawasis"
Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information, contact Dena Davis at davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
(617-495-4631)
Thurs., Feb. 16, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Ellen Rosand (Yale University)
"In Defense of Seneca"
For further details see www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr
Mon., Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA
Five College Lecture in Classical Archaeology
"New Discoveries at Aphrodisias"
Christopher Ratte (New York University)
Reception following; for more information contact Geoffrey Sumi
(gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu)
Sponsored by the Five College Classics Departments
*Wed., Feb. 22, 4:00 p.m.
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, 34 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Fellowship Program
Mary-Louise Gill (Brown University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study)
"Plato on Models and Trees"
Thurs., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
"Some Aspects of Rhetoric and Character in Euripides"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Feb. 23, 5:30 pm,
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence,
RI
Natalia Lozovsky (California)
"Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and
Contemporary Concerns"
*Mon., Feb. 27, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue,
Room 409, Boston, MA
Myth and Religion Study Group
Benjamin Foster (Yale University) and Alice Slotsky (Brown University)
"The Babylonian Epic of Creation"
Light refreshments will be served
For more information, contact Sal at salvy(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427
Wed., Mar. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
Yelena Baraz (Trinity College)
"From the Academy to the Forum: Cicero's Philosophical Politics"
Reception to follow
Free and open to the public
For further information, contact Sara Upton <swupton(a)amherst.edu>
*Thurs., Mar. 2, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Alex Sens (Georgetown University)
"tipte genos toumon zeteis: The Batrachomyomachia, Hellenistic Epic
Parody, and Early Epic"
Thurs., Mar. 9, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Burkhard Meissner (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg/Brown University)
"Between Values and Reality: The Experience of War in the Hellenistic
Period"
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)
"Juno's Aeneid Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent"
Thurs., Mar. 16, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Walsh Function Room, Chestnut Hill, MA
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute)
"Introspection, Plotinian and Augustinian"
Commentary by John Kenney (St. Michael's, VT)
For more information, contact Gary Gurtler, gurtlerg(a)bc.edu
Fri., Mar. 17 - Sun., Mar. 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies
"Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient
Civilizations"
Further information, contact Maria Sokolova (401-863-1994;
Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.edu)
See Appendix for details
Tues., Mar. 28, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Ralph J. Hexter (Hampshire College)
"Stories of War and Return" - The Nostoi Project
For further information please contact Robert Meagher
<remHA(a)hampshire.edu>
Sponsored by Hampshire College, The Nostoi Project
Tues., Apr. 4, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Alan Griffiths (University College, London)
"The Odyssey and Oddities of Catullus 4"
Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 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
Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Suicide in Byzantium"
Thurs., Apr. 6,
Brown-Yale Meeting at Yale
(Details to be announced. For more information, please contact Ruthann
Whitten at Ruthann_Whitten(a)brown.edu)
Adele Scafuro (Brown University)
"Athenian Decrees for Trial in Literary and Epigraphic Documents"
Comments by Victor Bers (Yale University)
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Simon James (University of Leicester)
"Desert Fortress: Life and Violent Death in Roman Dura-Europos, Syria"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Mon., Apr. 10, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Jeffrey Wills (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine)
"Why is Vergil an Alexandrian? The Maximization of Minimalism"
Tues., Apr. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Erwin Cook (Trinity University)
"Nestor's Big Adventure: Making Sense of Iliad, Book 8"
*Tues., Apr. 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Goddard Chapel, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity
in the Roman World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 1: "From Imperium to Imperialism: Writing the Roman Empire"
For information, contact R. Bruce Hitchner, Chair,
Department of Classics at 617-627-3213 or by email,
bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and
generously underwritten by the family and friends
of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
*Wed., Apr. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity
in the Roman World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 2: "Ruling Regions, Exploiting Resources"
For information, contact R. Bruce Hitchner, Chair,
Department of Classics at 617-627-3213 or by email,
bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and
generously underwritten by the family and friends
of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Christof Boehringer (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the
University of Gottingen, Germany)
"Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of
Sicily"
*Thurs., Apr. 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity
in the Roman World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 3: "Power, Sex, and Empire"
For information, contact R. Bruce Hitchner, Chair,
Department of Classics at 617-627-3213 or by email,
bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and
generously underwritten by the family and friends
of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Fri., Apr. 21, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
The Twelfth Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
Denis Feeney (Princeton University), "Founding and Re-founding the City
of Rome"
Ann Vasaly (Boston University), "Characterization and Complexity:
Caesar, Sallust, and Livy"
Tony Woodman (University of Virginia), "Mutiny and Madness: Annals
1.16-51"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference. For registration
and other information see http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact Prof. Pat Larash or Mr. Ben Thompson at the Department of
Classical Studies (617-353-2426 or romstud(at)bu.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Mon., Apr. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Hermann Parzinger (German Archaeological Institute)
"Monumental Kurgans in the Siberian Steppe: The Scythian Elite Burial
from Arzhan in Tuva"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard Art Museums, and
the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
*Mon., Apr. 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity
in the Roman World"
David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Lecture 4: "Identity and Discrepancy"
For information, contact R. Bruce Hitchner, Chair,
Department of Classics at 617-627-3213 or by email,
bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and
generously underwritten by the family and friends
of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth
Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College
Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA
Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of
London)
Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and
Discussion
For more information, contact Cynthia Damon, <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>,
413-542-8126
Wed., Apr. 26, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy,
54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
"Why Physics? Stoic Views on the Contributions of Natural Science to
Human Happiness"
Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA
16th Annual Lehmann Lecture
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Thurs., May 18, 7:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
David Reeve (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Plato's Goat-Stags: Philosophers and Cities in the Republic"
Commentary by Mark McPherran (U Maine, Farmington)
For more information, contact Margaret Graver,
margaret.r.graver(a)dartmouth.edu
APPENDIX:
Fri., Mar. 17-Sun., Mar. 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies
"Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient
Civilizations"
Friday, March 17, 4-7:30
Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): "Masters of the
Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early
Mesopotamian Writings"
Christopher Minkowski (Oxford University): "Populating the Terrain:
Indian Anthropologies and Their Spatial Dimension"
Kim Plofker (Amsterdam): "Humans, Ancestors, Gods, and Their Worlds:
The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India"
Saturday, March 18, 9-1
Gerald Moers (University of Goettingen): "The World and the Geography
of Otherness in Ancient Egyptian Culture"
Michael Loewe (Cambridge University): "Early Imperial China and Its
Knowledge of the Outside World"
John Henderson (Louisiana State University): "Nonary Cosmography in
Ancient China"
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu (Brown University): "Perceptions of Real Space and
Imagined Landscape in Early Western Han"
Saturday, March 18, 2:30-6:30
Susan G. Cole (State University of New York, Buffalo): "Women, Beasts,
and Barbarians: Mapping the Outsider"
James Romm (Bard College): "When Worlds Collide: The Europe-Asia
Antithesis in Classical and Early Medieval Thought"
Trevor Murphy (University of California, Berkeley): "Horror in Pliny's
Natural History"
Richard Talbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "The Roman
World View: Beyond Recovery?"
Sunday, March 19, 9:30-12:30
Daniela Dueck (Bar Ilan University): "Strabo and the Geographical
Narrative"
Emilie Savage-Smith (Oxford University): "The Book of Curiosities: An
Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the World"
E. B. Berry (University of California, Berkeley): "Isolation Does Not
Preclude Cosmoplitanism: Paradoxes in Classical (and later) Japanese
History"
Sunday, March 19, 2-6:30
Barbara Mundy (Fordham University): "New World Renaissance: Imperial
and Local Geography in Mesoamerica before the Conquest"
Catherine Julien (Western Michigan University): "Geography,
Ethnography, and the World of the Sixteenth-Century Andes"
Denis Cosgrove (University of California, Los Angeles): Comments
Organizers: Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard Talbert
Sponsors and Funding: Faith and Fred Sandstrom, the Programs in Ancient
Studies, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies,
the John Carter Brown Library, the Institute for Archaeology and the
Ancient World, the Departments of Classics, Egyptology and Ancient West
Asian Studies, and History, the Royce Family Fund for Teaching
Excellence, the Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts,
the Charles P. Sisson II Memorial Lectureship, the Bruce M. Bigelow
Class of 1955 Lecture Series.
Further information, contact Maria Sokolova (401-863-1994;
Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.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 2005/2006: #19 (2/3/06)
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
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the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible.
PLEASE NOTE:
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** = alteration or addition to a former entry
*Fri., Feb. 3, 4:00 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, 401 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT
Roman Topics Seminar
Yelena Baraz (Trinity College)
"From the Academy to the Forum: Cicero's Philosophical Politics"
*Mon., Feb. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Eustratios Papaioannou (Brown University)
"Byzantine Perceptions of the Late Antique Past"
Thurs., Feb. 9, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"The Virtues of Violence: The Spectacles of the Roman Amphitheatre"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
For further information: 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:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
Thurs., Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room
525, Boston, MA
Professor Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
"Aristotelian Substance, Functional Unity, and Embedded Matter"
Commentary by Mary Louise Gill (Brown/Radcliffe)
For more information, contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu)
*Mon., Feb. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Dee Clayman (Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate School)
"Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram"
Wed. Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Kathryn Bard and Dr. Rodolpho Fattovich (Boston University and
University of Naples)
"Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in
Wadi Gawasis"
Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information, contact Dena Davis at davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
(617-495-4631)
*Thurs., Feb. 16, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Ellen Rosand (Yale University)
"In Defense of Seneca"
For further details see www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr
Mon., Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA
Five College Lecture in Classical Archaeology
"New Discoveries at Aphrodisias"
Christopher Ratte (New York University)
Reception following; for more information contact Geoffrey Sumi
(gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu)
Sponsored by the Five College Classics Departments
Thurs., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
"Some Aspects of Rhetoric and Character in Euripides"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Thurs., Feb. 23, 5:30 pm,
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence,
RI
Natalia Lozovsky (California)
"Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and
Contemporary Concerns"
Wed., Mar. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
Yelena Baraz (Trinity College)
"From the Academy to the Forum: Cicero's Philosophical Politics"
Reception to follow
Free and open to the public
For further information, contact Sara Upton <swupton(a)amherst.edu>
*Thurs., March 9, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Burkhard Meissner (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg/Brown University)
"Between Values and Reality: The Experience of War in the Hellenistic
Period"
Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Philip Hardie (University of Oxford)
"Virgil's Lucretian Visions"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Mon., March 13, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)
"Juno's Aeneid Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent"
Thurs., Mar. 16, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Walsh Function Room, Chestnut Hill, MA
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute)
"Introspection, Plotinian and Augustinian"
Commentary by John Kenney (St. Michael's, VT)
For more information, contact Gary Gurtler, gurtlerg(a)bc.edu
*Fri., Mar. 17 - Sun., Mar. 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies
"Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient
Civilizations"
Further information, contact Maria Sokolova (401-863-1994;
Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.edu)
See Appendix for details
Tues., Mar. 28, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Ralph J. Hexter (Hampshire College)
"Stories of War and Return" - The Nostoi Project
For further information please contact Robert Meagher
<remHA(a)hampshire.edu>
Sponsored by Hampshire College, The Nostoi Project
*Tues., April 4, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Alan Griffiths (University College, London)
"The Odyssey and Oddities of Catullus 4"
Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 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
Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks)
"Suicide in Byzantium"
*Thurs., April 6,
Brown-Yale Meeting at Yale
(Details to be announced. For more information, please contact Ruthann
Whitten at Ruthann_Whitten(a)brown.edu)
Adele Scafuro (Brown University)
"Athenian Decrees for Trial in Literary and Epigraphic Documents"
Comments by Victor Bers (Yale University)
Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
Simon James (University of Leicester)
"Desert Fortress: Life and Violent Death in Roman Dura-Europos, Syria"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
*Mon., April 10, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Jeffrey Wills (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine)
"Why is Vergil an Alexandrian? The Maximization of Minimalism"
*Tues., April 18, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics,
48 College Street, Providence, RI
Erwin Cook (Trinity University)
"Nestor's Big Adventure: Making Sense of Iliad, Book 8"
Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture
Christof Boehringer (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the
University of Gottingen, Germany)
"Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of
Sicily"
Fri., Apr. 21, 3:45 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775
Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
The Twelfth Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
Denis Feeney (Princeton University), "Founding and Re-founding the City
of Rome"
Ann Vasaly (Boston University), "Characterization and Complexity:
Caesar, Sallust, and Livy"
Tony Woodman (University of Virginia), "Mutiny and Madness: Annals
1.16-51"
A reception and dinner will conclude the conference. For registration
and other information see http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or
contact Prof. Pat Larash or Mr. Ben Thompson at the Department of
Classical Studies (617-353-2426 or romstud(at)bu.edu)
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston
University's Humanities Foundation
Mon., Apr. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Hermann Parzinger (German Archaeological Institute)
"Monumental Kurgans in the Siberian Steppe: The Scythian Elite Burial
from Arzhan in Tuva"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard Art Museums, and
the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College
Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA
Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of
London)
Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and
Discussion
For more information, contact Cynthia Damon, <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>,
413-542-8126
*Wed., April 26, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy,
54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
"Why Physics? Stoic Views on the Contributions of Natural Science to
Human Happiness"
Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA
16th Annual Lehmann Lecture
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Thurs., May 18, 7:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
David Reeve (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Plato's Goat-Stags: Philosophers and Cities in the *Republic*"
Commentary by Mark McPherran (U Maine, Farmington)
For more information, contact Margaret Graver,
margaret.r.graver(a)dartmouth.edu
APPENDIX:
*Fri., Mar. 17 - Sun., Mar. 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies
"Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient
Civilizations"
Friday, March 17, 4-7:30
Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): "Masters of the
Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early
Mesopotamian Writings"
Christopher Minkowski (Oxford University): "Populating the Terrain:
Indian Anthropologies and Their Spatial Dimension"
Kim Plofker (Amsterdam): "Humans, Ancestors, Gods, and Their Worlds:
The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India"
Saturday, March 18, 9-1
Gerald Moers (University of Goettingen): "The World and the Geography
of Otherness in Ancient Egyptian Culture"
Michael Loewe (Cambridge University): "Early Imperial China and Its
Knowledge of the Outside World"
John Henderson (Louisiana State University): "Nonary Cosmography in
Ancient China"
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu (Brown University): "Perceptions of Real Space and
Imagined Landscape in Early Western Han"
Saturday, March 18, 2:30-6:30
Susan G. Cole (State University of New York, Buffalo): "Women, Beasts,
and Barbarians: Mapping the Outsider"
James Romm (Bard College): "When Worlds Collide: The Europe-Asia
Antithesis in Classical and Early Medieval Thought"
Trevor Murphy (University of California, Berkeley): "Horror in Pliny’s
Natural History"
Richard Talbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "The Roman
World View: Beyond Recovery?"
Sunday, March 19, 9:30-12:30
Daniela Dueck (Bar Ilan University): "Strabo and the Geographical
Narrative"
Emilie Savage-Smith (Oxford University): "The Book of Curiosities: An
Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the World"
E. B. Berry (University of California, Berkeley): "Isolation Does Not
Preclude Cosmoplitanism: Paradoxes in Classical (and later) Japanese
History"
Sunday, March 19, 2-6:30
Barbara Mundy (Fordham University): "New World Renaissance: Imperial
and Local Geography in Mesoamerica before the Conquest"
Catherine Julien (Western Michigan University): "Geography,
Ethnography, and the World of the Sixteenth-Century Andes"
Denis Cosgrove (University of California, Los Angeles): Comments
Organizers: Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard Talbert
Sponsors and Funding: Faith and Fred Sandstrom, the Programs in Ancient
Studies, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies,
the John Carter Brown Library, the Institute for Archaeology and the
Ancient World, the Departments of Classics, Egyptology and Ancient West
Asian Studies, and History, the Royce Family Fund for Teaching
Excellence, the Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts,
the Charles P. Sisson II Memorial Lectureship, the Bruce M. Bigelow
Class of 1955 Lecture Series.
Further information, contact Maria Sokolova (401-863-1994;
Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.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.
