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Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010 (10/30/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu . Please send information as a plain text email in the format shown below instead of as file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM 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. More details about some of the events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry **Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Center, Room 110, 64 College St., Providence, RI James Zetzel (Columbia University) "Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Tues., Nov. 3, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA 01002 Guy Deutscher, (Classics and Psychology, University of Leiden) "Does your mother-tongue affect the way you think? What can be salvaged from linguistic relativity?" Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Psychology For more information please contact Luca Grillo (lgrillo(a)amherst.edu) and see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures For directions see https://www.amherst.edu/map/Amherst_College_Map.pdf *Tues., Nov. 3, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Hent de Vries, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives "Global Religion and the Post-Secular Challenge: American and European Perspectives" For further information about this Seminar, please contact the chairs Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu). Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Harvard University Research Seminar on Cultural Politics Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Sarah Ruden, Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School "Coping with the Author as Other: A Pacifist Translates the Aeneid's War Scenes" Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu ) or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall, Room 117, Amherst, MA David Konstan (Brown University) "Between Epigram and Elegy: Horace as an Amatory Poet" Sponsored by the Classics Department For more information please contact Luca Grillo (lgrillo(a)amherst.edu) or see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures Mon., Nov. 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Christopher Star (Middlebury College) "‘To accept a favor gladly is to have repaid it': Exchange and Status in Seneca's ‘De Beneficiis' and Petronius' ‘Satyricon.'" Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Wed., Nov. 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Diskin Clay (Duke University) "The Art of Hell: from Dante to Rodin - a look forward from antiquity" Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Wed., Nov. 11, 8:00 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Dan Bahat (University of Toronto) "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discovery and Meaning" Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department, Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program, and the Archaeology Program For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University) "Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)" Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology *Mon., Nov. 16, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Ermanno Malaspina (University of Turin) "The Cultural Dimensions of Cicero's Academici Libri" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19 – 21 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Conference on "Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning" Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman, Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden, Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html *Wed., Dec. 2, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Evie Holmberg (Hellenic College) "How Far Can A Restoration Go? Art and Deception in Reconstructing the Beauty of the Past." Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University) Title TBA Sponsored by the Department of Classics Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/conference-program.pdf Sat., Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 202 Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies (Part of the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative, December 4-5) Conference Keynote Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford University) "Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative" The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and the Department of the Classics. *Sun., Dec. 6, 10:00 a.m. Temple Emanuel, Gann Chapel, 385 Ward St., Newton, MA Dr. Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University "The Grinch that Stole Hanukkah: Modernizing the Temple in the Second Century BCE" Dr. Bernard Schwartz Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Rabbi Marshall Lifson Library, and presented in collaboration with Adult Learning at Temple Emanuel December 6th is also the library's annual Jewish Book Fair. www.templeemanuel.com Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin Carol Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the readings will be provided.) 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. " CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 10/23/09

by CalClass

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010 (10/23/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu . Please send information as a plain text email in the format shown below instead of as file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM 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. More details about some of the events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Thurs., Oct. 29, 4:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall, Rm. 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA Richard Martin (Stanford University) "Lost Boys and Lethal Toys: Attaining Manhood in Greek and Irish Saga" Thurs., Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge (113), 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Stephen Scully (Boston University) "Hesiod's Olympus" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu ) Free and open to the public For directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Pearlman Hall map: http://my.brandeis.edu/map/print-page?id=67 Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI James Zetzel (Columbia University) "Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance" Sponsored by the Department of Classics *Tues., Nov. 3, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA 01002 Guy Deutscher, (Classics and Psychology, University of Leiden) "Does your mother-tongue affect the way you think? What can be salvaged from linguistic relativity?" Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Psychology For more information please contact Luca Grillo (lgrillo(a)amherst.edu) and see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures For directions see https://www.amherst.edu/map/Amherst_College_Map.pdf Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Sarah Ruden, Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School "Coping with the Author as Other: A Pacifist Translates the Aeneid's War Scenes" Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu ) or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ *Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall, Room 117, Amherst, MA David Konstan (Brown University) "Between Epigram and Elegy: Horace as a'n Amatory Poet" Sponsored by the Classics Department For more information please contact Luca Grillo (lgrillo(a)amherst.edu) or see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures Mon., Nov. 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Christopher Star (Middlebury College) "'To accept a favor gladly is to have repaid it': Exchange and Status in Seneca's 'De Beneficiis' and Petronius' 'Satyricon.'" Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Wed., Nov. 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Diskin Clay (Duke University) "The Art of Hell: from Dante to Rodin - a look forward from antiquity" Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Wed., Nov. 11, 8:00 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Dan Bahat (University of Toronto) "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discovery and Meaning" Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department, Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program, and the Archaeology Program For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University) "Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)" Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19 – 21 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Conference on "Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning" Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman, Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden, Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html *Wed., Dec. 2, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Evie Holmberg (Hellenic College) "How Far Can A Restoration Go? Art and Deception in Reconstructing the Beauty of the Past." Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University) Title TBA Sponsored by the Department of Classics Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/conference-program.pdf Sat, Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 202 Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies (Part of the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative, December 4-5) Conference Keynote Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford University) "Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative" The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and the Department of the Classics. Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin Carol Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the readings will be provided.) 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 10/16/09

by CalClass

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010: #1 (10/16/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu . Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of 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. More details about some of the events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Sun., Oct. 18 - Sun. May 16 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Gund Gallery, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA “The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC” Exhibition features largest Middle Kingdom burial assemblage ever discovered, on view in its entirety for the first time. Includes famous 'Bersha Coffin,' 'Bersha Procession' and mummified head from tomb. $20 adults/$18 seniors & students www.mfa.org Tues., Oct. 20, 12:30–2:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Women's Studies Research Center, 515 South Street, Waltham, MA Marguerite Rigoglioso, “The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece” Free and open to the public. Tues., Oct. 20, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke to Read Her Poetry at Harvard Fri., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI V. Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin) “Imagined Biographies and Unwritten Readings: Authors and Texts in Premodern Indian Literatures” Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs., Oct. 29, 4:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall, Rm. 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA Richard Martin (Stanford University) “Lost Boys and Lethal Toys: Attaining Manhood in Greek and Irish Saga” Thurs., Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge (113), 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Stephen Scully (Boston University) “Hesiod’s Olympus” Reception to follow, with light refreshments. For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu ). Free and open to the public. For directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Pearlman Hall map: http://my.brandeis.edu/map/print-page?id=67 Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI James Zetzel (Columbia University) “Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance” Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Sarah Ruden, Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School “Coping with the Author as Other: A Pacifist Translates the Aeneid's War Scenes” Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu ) or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA David Konstan (Brown University) “Between Epigram and Elegy: Horace as an Amatory Poet” Sponsored by the Classics Department For more information please contact Luca Grillo lgrillo(a)amherst.edu or see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures Mon., Nov. 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Christopher Star (Middlebury College) “'To accept a favor gladly is to have repaid it': Exchange and Status in Seneca's 'De Beneficiis' and Petronius' 'Satyricon.'“ Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427. *Wed., Nov. 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Diskin Clay (Duke University) “The Art of Hell: from Dante to Rodin - a look forward from antiquity” Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427. *Wed., Nov. 11, 8:00 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Dan Bahat (University of Toronto) “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discovery and Meaning” Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department, Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program, and the Archaeology Program For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University) “Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)” Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19 – 21 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Conference on “Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning.” Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman, Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden, Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html . Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University) Title TBA Sponsored by the Department of Classics Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/conference-program.pdf *Sat, Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 202 Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies (Part of the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Writing, December 4-5) Conference Keynote Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford University) “Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative” The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and the Department of the Classics. Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin Carol Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the readings will be provided.) 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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2nd BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & 23rd NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER LECTURE AT HARVARD: December 4-5, 2009

by VASSILIKI RAPTI

Dear All: After the highly successful 1st Biennial International Conference on Modern Greek Studies in December 2007, which was dedicated to the work of C. P. Cavafy, the Program of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard-George Seferis Chair announces the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Writing, December 4-5, 2009. Please take note that the 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies will be also held in the frame of this Conference on December 4rth, at 6:30 P.M. in 202 Harvard Hall. The Keynote Speaker, Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys, Oxford University, will be talking on the topic of Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative. The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and the Department of the Classics. Full details of both these events are offered in the Program of the Conference below, as well as on our website (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html): 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Writing & The 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies December 4-5, 2009, Harvard Hall 202 PROGRAM Friday, December 4 11:00-12:45 Opening Remarks Panagiotis Roilos, Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature, Director, Program of Modern Greek Studies, Harvard University Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture Chair, The Medieval Studies Committee, Harvard University Fictional Narratives across Genres Thomas Hägg "Fiction and Factography in the Life of St. Antony" Paul Magdalino "Apocryphal Narrative: Patterns of Fiction in Byzantine Prophetic and Patriographic Literature" Paolo Cesaretti "The Exegete as a Story-teller: The Dawn of Humankind according to Eustathios of Thessalonike" Lunch Break 14:30-16:15 Narrative Strategies and Discursive Forms Michael Jeffreys "Three Forms of Byzantine and Modern Greek Oral Narrative and Their Written Reflections: Unrhymed, Rhymed, and Tragoudia" Anthony Kaldellis "Philosophy and the Rise of Literary Fiction in Byzantium" Niels Gaul "Dialogic Constructions of Fictitious Worlds and Literary Realities: Late Byzantine Dialogues and Mimesis" 18:30 The Twenty-Third Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies Elizabeth Jeffreys "Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative" Saturday, December 5 11:00-12:45 Flights of Imagination: Discursive and Visual Representations Carolina Cupane "Other Worlds, Other Voices: Form and Function of the Marvelous in Late Byzantine Fiction" Ioli Kalavrezou "The Marvelous Flight of Alexander in Byzantium" Massimo Peri "The Four-color Tradition in Early Demotic Greek Poetry" Lunch Break 14:30-16:15 Conceptualizing Genres Ulrich Moennig "Literary Genres and Mixture of Generic Features" Roderick Beaton "Hopeful Monsters or Living Fossils? The Komnenian Novels and Their Medieval and Modern Reception" Panagiotis Roilos "Toward a Historical Anthropology of Byzantine Fictional Writing" Thank you very much for your attention. Sincerely, Vasiliki Rapti Vassiliki Rapti, PhD Preceptor in Modern Greek Modern Greek Studies Program Harvard University Department of the Classics e-mail: rapti(a)fas.harvard.edu 204 Boylston Hall Office tel.: (617)384-7794 Cambridge MA 02138 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 10/9/09

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010: #1 (10/9/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu . Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of 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. More details about some of the events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry **Tues., Oct. 13, 8:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Johnson Theater, Durham, NH Lori Dobbins (University of New Hampshire) An original musical composition entitled “The Rage of Achilles” Admission is free and open to the public. Free tickets may be obtained by calling the UNH Department of Music at 603-862-2404 or emailing alexis.zaricki(a)unh.edu . Tickets will not be available at the door; after 7:45pm, patrons without tickets will be seated. To ensure a seat, tickets are recommended. Wed., Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Murkland Hall 115, Richards Auditorium, Durham, NH The John C. Rouman Lecture Series presents: Barry Strauss (Cornell) “The Trojan War: Myth or History” A Light Reception to Follow Admission is free and open to the public. Thurs., Oct. 15, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Salomon 001, Main Green (entrance from Waterman Street), Providence, RI John Davies (Liverpool University) “A Remote Central Place: Delphi as a Window onto the Classical World” Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics Fri., Oct. 16, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA Department of the Classics, Loeb Lecture Marguerite Rigoglioso “The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece” Sun., Oct. 18 - Sun. May 16 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Gund Gallery, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA “The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC” Exhibition features largest Middle Kingdom burial assemblage ever discovered, on view in its entirety for the first time. Includes famous 'Bersha Coffin,' 'Bersha Procession' and mummified head from tomb. $20 adults/$18 seniors & students www.mfa.org Tues., Oct. 20, 12:30–2:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Women's Studies Research Center, 515 South Street, Waltham, MA Marguerite Rigoglioso, “The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece” Free and open to the public. Tues., Oct. 20, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke to Read Her Poetry at Harvard Fri., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI V. Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin) “Imagined Biographies and Unwritten Readings: Authors and Texts in Premodern Indian Literatures” Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs., Oct. 29, 4:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall, Rm. 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA Richard Martin (Stanford University) “Lost Boys and Lethal Toys: Attaining Manhood in Greek and Irish Saga” Thurs., Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge (113), 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Stephen Scully (Boston University) “Hesiod’s Olympus” Reception to follow, with light refreshments. For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu ). Free and open to the public. For directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Pearlman Hall map: http://my.brandeis.edu/map/print-page?id=67 Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI James Zetzel (Columbia University) “Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance” Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Sarah Ruden, Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School “Coping with the Author as Other: A Pacifist Translates the Aeneid's War Scenes” Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu ) or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA David Konstan (Brown University) “Between Epigram and Elegy: Horace as an Amatory Poet” Sponsored by the Classics Department For more information please contact Luca Grillo lgrillo(a)amherst.edu or see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures *Mon., Nov. 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Christopher Star (Middlebury College) “'To accept a favor gladly is to have repaid it': Exchange and Status in Seneca's 'De Beneficiis' and Petronius' 'Satyricon.'“ Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427. Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University) “Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)” Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19 – 21 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Conference on “Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning.” Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman, Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden, Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html . Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University) Title TBA Sponsored by the Department of Classics Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/conference-program.pdf Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin Carol Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the readings will be provided.) 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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Boston Area Classics Calendar 10/2/2009

by CalClass

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010: #1 (10/2/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE ADDED A GOOGLE CALENDAR LISTING FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… 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. More details about some of the events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Core Group Classical Archaeology Andreya Mihaloew (Harvard University) “The Lamp and Female Beauty in the Archaic and Classical Periods” **Thurs., Oct. 8, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA M. Victor Leventritt Seminar Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College) and Victoria I (artist/ designer) “The Art and Peril of Reconstructing Roman Space” Space is limited; attendees will be accommodated on a first come, first served basis. Thurs., Oct. 8, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University) “Pursuing Nemesis: Cratinus and Mythological Comedy” Sponsored by the Department of Classics Tues., Oct. 13, 8:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Johnson Theater, Durham, NH Lori Dobbins (University of New Hampshire) An original musical composition entitled “The Rage of Achilles” Admission is free and open to the public. Wed., Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Murkland Hall 115, Richards Auditorium, Durham, NH The John C. Rouman Lecture Series presents: Barry Strauss (Cornell) “The Trojan War: Myth or History” A Light Reception to Follow Admission is free and open to the public. Thurs., Oct. 15, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Salomon 001, Main Green (entrance from Waterman Street), Providence, RI John Davies (Liverpool University) “A Remote Central Place: Delphi as a Window onto the Classical World” Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics Fri., Oct. 16, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA Department of the Classics, Loeb Lecture Marguerite Rigoglioso “The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece” Sun., Oct. 18 - Sun. May 16 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Gund Gallery, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA “The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC” Exhibition features largest Middle Kingdom burial assemblage ever discovered, on view in its entirety for the first time. Includes famous 'Bersha Coffin,' 'Bersha Procession' and mummified head from tomb. $20 adults/$18 seniors & students www.mfa.org *Tues., Oct. 20, 12:30–2:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Women's Studies Research Center, 515 South Street, Waltham, MA Marguerite Rigoglioso, “The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece” Free and open to the public. Tues., Oct. 20, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke to Read Her Poetry at Harvard Fri., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI V. Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin) “Imagined Biographies and Unwritten Readings: Authors and Texts in Premodern Indian Literatures” Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs., Oct. 29, 4:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall, Rm. 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA Richard Martin (Stanford University) “Lost Boys and Lethal Toys: Attaining Manhood in Greek and Irish Saga” Thurs., Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge (113), 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Stephen Scully (Boston University) “Hesiod’s Olympus” Reception to follow, with light refreshments. For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu ). Free and open to the public. For directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Pearlman Hall map: http://my.brandeis.edu/map/print-page?id=67 Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI James Zetzel (Columbia University) “Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance” Sponsored by the Department of Classics *Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Sarah Ruden, Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School “Coping with the Author as Other: A Pacifist Translates the Aeneid's War Scenes” Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu ) or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA David Konstan (Brown University) “Between Epigram and Elegy: Horace as an Amatory Poet” Sponsored by the Classics Department For more information please contact Luca Grillo lgrillo(a)amherst.edu or see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University) “Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)” Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19 – 21 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Conference on “Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning.” Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman, Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden, Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html . Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University) Title TBA Sponsored by the Department of Classics Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/conferenceprogram12-09.pdf Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin Carol Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the readings will be provided.) 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics

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