Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #11 (11/26/08)
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Mon., Dec. 1, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Ellen F. Morris (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World)
"The Practical and Political Employment of Prisoners of War in Mid-
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Mon., Dec. 1, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Aldo Corcella (Università degli studi della Basilicata)
"Lost in Translation: Heliodorus Back to Syria"
Tues., Dec. 2, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Dept. of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Stephen Trzaskoma (University of New Hampshire)
"Interpretation and Intertexts in Chariton: The Case of Tragedy"
*Wed., Dec. 3, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Classical Traditions
Michèle Lowrie (New York University)
"Foundation and Closure"
Thurs., Dec. 4, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
James P. Allen (Brown University)
"The Advent of Ancient Egyptian Literature"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Thurs., Dec. 4, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Clemente Marconi (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
"Temple B at Selinus and the Polychromy of Ancient Greek Architecture"
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
Thurs., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Gerard House, Room 119, 54 College Street,
Providence, RI
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Dimitri El Murr (Universite Paris, Sorbonne)
"Politics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman"
Commentator: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Mon., Dec. 8, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Cambridge, MA
Josef Wegner (University of Pennsylvania)
"Excavations at South Abydos: Archaeological Perspectives on Egyptian
Society during the Late Middle Kingdom"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Mon., Dec. 8, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 1: "Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Dec. 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main
Street, Providence, RI
Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-first annual program
of readings and songs in the
spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. Admission is free;
street parking is available; the event
lasts a little more than an hour; all are welcome. For more
information see
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/events/latincarolservice.html
Tues., Dec. 9, 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 2: "How Casaubon Read Jewish Texts"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Dec. 10, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 3: "Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish
Setting"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec. 11, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 4: "The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from Jews"
Reception to follow lecture
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Dec. 12 - Sun., Dec. 14
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 3rd
floor,
172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI
Ancient Studies Conference
"Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World"
For details see http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies/events/
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Wed., Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard Art Museum)
"Persepolis: Royal City of Ancient Persia"
Cities: Their Art & Architecture lecture series: Individual lectures
$18 (Members $12) or series of six
lectures $90 (Members $60). Space is limited, and registration is
strongly encouraged. Please call
617-495-4544 for more information or visit: http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/events/lectures.html
.
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 2008/2009: #10 (11/21/08)
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Fri., Nov. 21, 4:15 - 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for European Studies, Lower Level
Conference Room,
27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)
"Gibbon and the Invention of Gibbon: Chapters 15 and 16 of the Decline
and Fall Revisited"
For further information please contact David Armitage (armitage(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Harvard Colloquia in Intellectual and Cultural History
Fri., Nov. 21, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS 313, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Marcello Barbanera (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza")
"The Metamorphosis of Ruins for Cultural Identity"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, the Samuel H.
Kress Foundation, and
the Art History Department at Boston University
Mon., Nov. 24, 6:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Jan N. Bremmer (University of Groningen)
"Tours of Hell in Greece, Rome, and Early Christianity"
Mon., Nov. 24, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Knafel Building,
Room K450, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Cultural Politics
Seminar chairs: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu)
and Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Paola Marrati (The Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center, and
Department of Philosophy)
"Believing in the World: Cavell and Deleuze on Cinema and Modernity"
For more information see http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/research_activities
Mon., Nov. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Haim Gitler (Israel Museum) and Oren Tal (Tel Aviv University)
"Early Economy and the Indigenous Coinages of Palestine"
A pre-lecture reception begins at 5:30 p.m. Space is limited. Please
RSVP by November 15
to SHN Secretary Jamie Knapp: jamie-knapp(a)comcast.net
Sponsored by the Society Historia Numorum and The Semitic Museum
Mon., Dec. 1, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Ellen F. Morris (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World)
"The Practical and Political Employment of Prisoners of War in Mid-
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Mon., Dec. 1, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Aldo Corcella (Università degli studi della Basilicata)
"Lost in Translation: Heliodorus Back to Syria"
*Tues., Dec. 2, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Dept. of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Stephen Trzaskoma (University of New Hampshire)
"Interpretation and Intertexts in Chariton: The Case of Tragedy"
Thurs., Dec. 4, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
James P. Allen (Brown University)
"The Advent of Ancient Egyptian Literature"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Thurs., Dec. 4, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Clemente Marconi (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
"Temple B at Selinus and the Polychromy of Ancient Greek Architecture"
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
Thurs., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Gerard House, Room 119, 54 College Street,
Providence, RI
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Dimitri El Murr (Universite Paris, Sorbonne)
"Politics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman"
Commentator: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Mon., Dec. 8, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Cambridge, MA
Josef Wegner (University of Pennsylvania)
"Excavations at South Abydos: Archaeological Perspectives on Egyptian
Society during the Late Middle Kingdom"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Mon., Dec. 8, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 1: "Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Dec. 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main
Street, Providence, RI
Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-first annual program
of readings and songs in the
spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. Admission is free;
street parking is available; the event
lasts a little more than an hour; all are welcome. For more
information see
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/events/latincarolservice.html
Tues., Dec. 9, 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 2: "How Casaubon Read Jewish Texts"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Dec. 10, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 3: "Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish
Setting"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec. 11, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 4: "The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from Jews"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Reception to follow lecture
Fri., Dec. 12 - Sun., Dec. 14
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 3rd
floor,
172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI
Ancient Studies Conference
"Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
For details see http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies/events/
Wed., Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard Art Museum)
"Persepolis: Royal City of Ancient Persia"
Cities: Their Art & Architecture lecture series: Individual lectures
$18 (Members $12) or series of six
lectures $90 (Members $60). Space is limited, and registration is
strongly encouraged. Please call
617-495-4544 for more information or visit: http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/events/lectures.html
.
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 2008/2009: #9 (11/14/08)
**PLEASE NOTE**
WE HAVE ADDED A GOOGLE CALENDAR LISTING FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS
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NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL
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the following week.
Please circulate as widely as possible.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Mon., Nov. 17, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 103, Cambridge, MA
Joachim Quack (University of Heidelberg)
"The Book of the Temple: The Actual State of Reconstructing a Manual
for the Ideal Egyptian Temple"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Tues., Nov. 18, 7:00 pm.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Professor Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University)
"Northern Israel in the Iron Age (ca 1200-586 BCE): A View from Tel
Rehov"
Sponsored by Harvard's Semitic Museum and the Marcella Tilles Memorial
Fund
Reception preceeding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity
Avenue
Free and open to the public. Fairchild Hall is handicapped accessible.
For more information contact Dena Davis (davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu or
617-495-4631)
*Wed., Nov. 19, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Michael Paschalis (University of Crete)
"Intertextuality in 'Kapetan Michalis': Homer's 'Iliad' and
Shakespeare's 'Othello'"
Wed., Nov. 19 - Fri. Nov. 21
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, 213 Bay
State Road, Boston, MA
"What the Gods Demand: Blood Sacrifice in Mediterranean Antiquity"
An interdisciplinary conference at Boston University
For full details and registration information see: http://www.bu.edu/classics/news/sacrifice_conference.html
Thurs., Nov. 20, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
David Wray (University of Chicago)
"Hera in the Iliad"
Fri., Nov. 21, 4:15 - 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for European Studies, Lower Level
Conference Room,
27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)
"Gibbon and the Invention of Gibbon: Chapters 15 and 16 of the Decline
and Fall Revisited"
For further information please contact David Armitage (armitage(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Harvard Colloquia in Intellectual and Cultural History
Fri., Nov. 21, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS 313, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Marcello Barbanera (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza")
"The Metamorphosis of Ruins for Cultural Identity"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, the Samuel H.
Kress Foundation, and
the Art History Department at Boston University
**Mon., Nov. 24, 6:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Jan N. Bremmer (University of Groningen)
"Tours of Hell in Greece, Rome, and Early Christianity"
*Mon., Nov. 24, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Knafel Building,
Room K450, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Cultural Politics
Paola Marrati (The Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center, and
Department of Philosophy)
"Believing in the World: Cavell and Deleuze on Cinema and Modernity"
For more information see http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/research_activities
Seminar chairs: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu)
and Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Mon., Nov. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Haim Gitler (Israel Museum) and Oren Tal (Tel Aviv University)
"Early Economy and the Indigenous Coinages of Palestine"
A pre-lecture reception begins at 5:30 p.m. Space is limited. Please
RSVP by November 15
to SHN Secretary Jamie Knapp: jamie-knapp(a)comcast.net
Sponsored by the Society Historia Numorum and The Semitic Museum
*Mon., Dec. 1, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Ellen F. Morris (Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University)
"The Practical and Political Employment of Prisoners of War in Mid-
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
*Mon., Dec. 1, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Aldo Corcella (Università degli studi della Basilicata)
"Lost in Translation: Heliodorus Back to Syria"
*Thurs., Dec. 4, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
James P. Allen (Brown University)
"The Advent of Ancient Egyptian Literature"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Thurs., Dec. 4, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Clemente Marconi (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
"Temple B at Selinus and the Polychromy of Ancient Greek Architecture"
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
Thurs., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Gerard House, Room 119, 54 College Street,
Providence, RI
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Dimitri El Murr (Universite Paris, Sorbonne)
"Politics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman"
Commentator: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Mon., Dec. 8, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Cambridge, MA
Josef Wegner (University of Pennsylvania)
"Excavations at South Abydos: Archaeological Perspectives on Egyptian
Society during the Late Middle Kingdom"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Mon., Dec. 8, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 1: "Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Dec. 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main
Street, Providence, RI
Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-first annual program
of readings and songs in the
spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. Admission is free;
street parking is available; the event
lasts a little more than an hour; all are welcome. For more
information see
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/events/latincarolservice.html
Tues., Dec. 9, 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 2: "How Casaubon Read Jewish Texts"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Dec. 10, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 3: "Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish
Setting"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec. 11, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 4: "The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from Jews"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Reception to follow lecture
Fri., Dec. 12 - Sun., Dec. 14
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 3rd
floor,
172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI
Ancient Studies Conference
"Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
For details see http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies/events/
Wed., Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard Art Museum)
"Persepolis: Royal City of Ancient Persia"
Cities: Their Art & Architecture lecture series: Individual lectures
$18 (Members $12) or series of six
lectures $90 (Members $60). Space is limited, and registration is
strongly encouraged. Please call
617-495-4544 for more information or visit: http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/events/lectures.html
.
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 2008/2009: #8 (11/7/08)
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Fri., Nov. 7, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Julia Wilker (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Visiting Scholar at Harvard)
"Debating the Past: Late Classical Views of Interstate Relations in
the Fifth Century"
Fri., Nov. 7, 4:00 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Room 115,
Amherst, MA
"Remembering Robert Fagles"
The Classics and English departments will honor this distinguished
alumnus with reminiscences from
his years at Amherst and after, with readings from his translations of
Greek and Latin literature, and
with comments by Paul Alpers, R. Ross Holloway, James Maraniss, and
David Ferry
Reception to follow
Sun., Nov. 9, 8:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Carpenter Center, Room B-04, 24 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Orestes Laskos' "Daphnis and Chloe" (1931)
Musical accompaniment by Jessi Rosinski
Mon., Nov. 10, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
John Petropoulos (Democritean University of Thrace)
"The End of the Odyssey and the End of the Laertiad Dynasty"
Thurs., Nov. 13, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Downey House, Room 113, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT
Classical Studies Fall 2008 Lecture Series
Celia Schultz (Yale University)
"The Romans and Ritual Murder"
Free and open to the public
Thurs., Nov. 13, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
John Bodel (Brown University)
"Death Loves Company: Collective Burial in Pagan and Early Christian
Rome"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
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)
Thurs., Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Ineke Sluiter (University of Leiden)
"Sophocles the Sophist"
*Mon., Nov. 17, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 103, Cambridge, MA
Joachim Quack (University of Heidelberg)
"The Book of the Temple: The Actual State of Reconstructing a Manual
for the Ideal Egyptian Temple"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Tues., Nov. 18, 7:00 pm.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Professor Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University)
"Northern Israel in the Iron Age (ca 1200-586 BCE): A View from Tel
Rehov"
Sponsored by Harvard's Semitic Museum and the Marcella Tilles Memorial
Fund
Reception preceeding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity
Avenue
Free and open to the public. Fairchild Hall is handicapped accessible.
For more information contact Dena Davis (davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu or
617-495-4631)
Wed., Nov. 19 - Fri. Nov. 21
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, 213 Bay
State Road, Boston, MA
"What the Gods Demand: Blood Sacrifice in Mediterranean Antiquity"
An interdisciplinary conference at Boston University
For full details and registration information see: http://www.bu.edu/classics/news/sacrifice_conference.html
Thurs., Nov. 20, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
David Wray (University of Chicago)
"Hera in the Iliad"
Fri., Nov. 21, 4:15 - 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for European Studies, Lower Level
Conference Room,
27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)
"Gibbon and the Invention of Gibbon: Chapters 15 and 16 of the Decline
and Fall Revisited"
For further information please contact David Armitage (armitage(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Harvard Colloquia in Intellectual and Cultural History
Fri., Nov. 21, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS 313, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Marcello Barbanera (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza")
"The Metamorphosis of Ruins for Cultural Identity"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, the Samuel H.
Kress Foundation, and
the Art History Department at Boston University
Mon., Nov. 24, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Jan N. Bremmer (University of Groningen)
"Tours of Hell in Greece, Rome, and Early Christianity"
Mon., Nov. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Haim Gitler (Israel Museum) and Oren Tal (Tel Aviv University)
"Early Economy and the Indigenous Coinages of Palestine"
A pre-lecture reception begins at 5:30 p.m. Space is limited. Please
RSVP by November 15
to SHN Secretary Jamie Knapp: jamie-knapp(a)comcast.net
Sponsored by the Society Historia Numorum and The Semitic Museum
Thurs., Dec. 4, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Clemente Marconi (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
"Temple B at Selinus and the Polychromy of Ancient Greek Architecture"
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
Thurs., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Gerard House, Room 119, 54 College Street,
Providence, RI
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Dimitri El Murr (Universite Paris, Sorbonne)
"Politics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman"
Commentator: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Mon., Dec. 8, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 1: "Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Dec. 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main
Street, Providence, RI
Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-first annual program
of readings and songs in the
spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. Admission is free;
street parking is available; the event
lasts a little more than an hour; all are welcome. For more
information see
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/events/latincarolservice.html
**Tues., Dec. 9, 5:45 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 2: "How Casaubon Read Jewish Texts"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Dec. 10, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 3: "Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish
Setting"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec. 11, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 4: "The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from Jews"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Reception to follow lecture
Fri., Dec. 12 - Sun., Dec. 14
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 3rd
floor,
172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI
Ancient Studies Conference
"Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
For details see http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies/events/
*Wed., Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard Art Museum)
"Persepolis: Royal City of Ancient Persia"
Cities: Their Art & Architecture lecture series: Individual lectures
$18 (Members $12) or series of six
lectures $90 (Members $60). Space is limited, and registration is
strongly encouraged. Please call
617-495-4544 for more information or visit: http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/events/lectures.html
.
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.