Please note the updated website information for this week's Conference
on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative. Also, please
note the corrected day of the 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial
Lecture--Friday December 4th, not Saturday. Thank you.
Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 202 Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
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, John
Duffy, Niels Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Albert Henrichs,
Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli
Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis
Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski.
For more information, please see the Events section of the Modern
Greek Studies website:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html
For a direct link to the program, see the following link:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/pdf/PROGRAM-BYZANTINE-final-nov27.pdf
Fri., 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.
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(11/30/09--Monday)
**PLEASE NOTE**
WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU
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NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM ON WEDNESDAY WILL
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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
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)
"Mythopoiesis in a Fallen World: Catullus 64 and the Impossibility of
Narrative Reliability"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Thurs., Dec. 3, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for Government and International Studies,
Knafel Building, Room K108, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University, Dept. of Comp. Lit.)
"The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Harmony of the World"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Thurs., Dec. 3, 7:00 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE School of Theology and Ministry, Rm 100
Prof. Emerita Linda Seidel (University of Chicago)
"The Bones of Lazarus: Sacred Journeys in Romanesque Architecture"
Gretchen Reeves Kelley Lecture
Contact: Susan Kaup Kelley suskaup(a)mac.com; Melinda Donovan donovamn(a)bc.edu
*Thurs, Dec. 3, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island
Hall, Room 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI
Derek Counts (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Anthony Tuck
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
The Third R. Ross Holloway Lecture: "Lost in Translation? The Local
Context of the Master
of Animals in Cyprus and Etruria"
Counts and Tuck are Co-Editors of KOINE: Mediterranean Studies in
Honor of R. Ross Holloway (Joukowsky Institute Publication 1). A
presentation and reception will follow the lecture. For more
information please email joukowsky_institute(a)brown.edu or see http://www.brown.edu/joukowskyinstitute
.
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.
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.)
Tues., Dec. 8, 2-4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Prof. David Ganz (King's College, London)
"Harvard's Earliest Latin Manuscripts"
Professor Ganz is an expert on medieval paleography and Carolingian
manuscripts, and will hold a one-day Houghton Library Workshop on
"Harvard's Earliest Latin Manuscripts" at the Houghton Library.
Students and colleagues interested in attending should notify Jeffrey
Hamburger at <jhamburg(a)fas.harvard.edu>; first come, first served, but
with preference given to members of the Harvard community (enrollment
limited to 15).
Tues., Dec. 8, 6 p.m.
Brian Breed (UMass Amherst)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Horace and the grammarians: Literary history in Satires 1"
Breed is an Associate Professor of Classics at UMass Amherst.
Thurs., Dec. 10, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jochen Sander, Städel Museum and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
"Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of
the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna"
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture
A recent cleaning and technical analysis has transformed our
understanding of this late painting by the early Netherlandish artist
Rogier van der Weyden. The speaker will discuss the ways in which new
information affects our view of the artist's later development and his
place in art history. Free admission. For more information, please
contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison(a)harvard.edu
.
The Busch-Reisinger Museum Lectures, sponsored by the European Friends
of the Museum, present important speakers on topics of central and
northern European art.
*Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel, Architect in Chief, Historic Monuments in France
"Splendors and Highlights of Stained Glass at Chartres: Restoration,
Newest Techniques and Latest Discoveries"
Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, under the
patronage of The French Consul General Christophe Guilhou, with
participation of Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of Art & Architecture,
Harvard University; Servane de Layre-Matheus, President, Chartres
Sanctuaire du Monde (http://www.chartres-csm.org/); and Monika Riely,
President, American Friends of Chartres (http://friendsofchartres.org/).
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
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(11/20/09)
**PLEASE NOTE**
WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU
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NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM "ON WEDNESDAY WILL
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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
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)
"Mythopoiesis in a Fallen World: Catullus 64 and the Impossibility of
Narrative Reliability"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Dec. 3, 7:00 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE School of Theology and Ministry, Rm 100
Prof. Emerita Linda Seidel (University of Chicago)
"The Bones of Lazarus: Sacred Journeys in Romanesque Architecture"
Gretchen Reeves Kelley Lecture
Contact: Susan Kaup Kelley suskaup(a)mac.com; Melinda Donovan donovamn(a)bc.edu
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.
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.)
*Tues., Dec. 8, 2-4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Prof. David Ganz (King's College, London)
"Harvard's Earliest Latin Manuscripts"
Professor Ganz is an expert on medieval paleography and Carolingian
manuscripts, and will hold a one-day Houghton Library Workshop on
"Harvard's Earliest Latin Manuscripts" at the Houghton Library.
Students and colleagues interested in attending should notify Jeffrey
Hamburger at <jhamburg(a)fas.harvard.edu>; first come, first served, but
with preference given to members of the Harvard community (enrollment
limited to 15).
*Tues., Dec. 8, 6 p.m.
Brian Breed (UMass Amherst)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Horace and the grammarians: Literary history in Satires 1"
Breed is an Associate Professor of Classics at UMass Amherst.
Thurs., Dec. 10, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jochen Sander, Städel Museum and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
"Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of
the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna"
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture
A recent cleaning and technical analysis has transformed our
understanding of this late painting by the early Netherlandish artist
Rogier van der Weyden. The speaker will discuss the ways in which new
information affects our view of the artist's later development and his
place in art history. Free admission. For more information, please
contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison(a)harvard.edu
.
The Busch-Reisinger Museum Lectures, sponsored by the European Friends
of the Museum, present important speakers on topics of central and
northern European art.
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
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(11/13/09)
**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:
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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. 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
*Mon., Nov. 16, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
GAO Fengfeng (Peking University, China)
"Christianizing Virgil: Proba's Cento and Its Challenge to the Reader"
Professor GAO Fengfeng is a Professor of the Department of English at
Peking University, and a visiting scholar in the Harvard-Yenching
Institute. Professor Richard Thomas from the Harvard University
Department of Classics will be a discussant at the talk.
http://www.harvard-yenching.org/
*Mon., Nov. 16, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room
S354, Cambridge, MA
Doris Sommer (Harvard University)
"From the Top: Government Sponsored Creativity"
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/5313
**Mon., Nov. 16th, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Thomas Davis, Director of The Cyprus American Archaeological Research
Institute
"Earthquakes and Crises of Faith: Social Transformation in Late
Antique Cyprus"
Co-sponsored by the Semitic Museum, the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations, the Harvard Art Museum, and the Cyprus
American Archaeological Research Institute
This lecture is free and open to the public with a reception to be
held prior to the lecture at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum
Galleries, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information please call (617) 495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu
.
Tues., Nov. 17, 7:45 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, 3rd floor of the
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard University)
"The Saga of Peter and Paul: Emblems of Catholic Identity in
Christian Literature and Art"
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater
Boston area. For more information, please, contact Annewies van den
Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA or
visit the website: http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
*Thurs., Nov. 19, 4:15 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Perseus Project and Department of Classics, Eaton
Hall, Room 204, Medford, MA
Professor Christopher Blackwell (Furman University)
"Research: Students, Scholarship, and Primary Sources"
Thanks to advances in both technology and our understanding of the
nature of information, we do not need to treat the adjective in
"undergraduate research" as a diminutive. Through digital facsimiles,
all scholars of ancient language and culture suddenly have immediate
access to the true primary sources for our knowledge. This puts us in
a position to address not only ancient cultures, but the traditions
that have preserved them, without mediation. The amount of work to be
done is vast, and there are important and serious tasks for all
students, from undergraduates to weary full professors. This talk will
focus on one project--the editing and translation of a single
manuscript of the Homeric Iliad--as an example of how students at
three undergraduate colleges have collaborated on significant research
of lasting importance.
For more information, please contact the Department of Classics at classics(a)tufts.edu
or 617-627-3213.
Co-sponsored by the Archaeology Program.
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)
"Mythopoiesis in a Fallen World: Catullus 64 and the Impossibility of
Narrative Reliability"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Dec. 3, 7:00 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE School of Theology and Ministry, Rm 100
Prof. Emerita Linda Seidel (University of Chicago)
"The Bones of Lazarus: Sacred Journeys in Romanesque Architecture"
Gretchen Reeves Kelley Lecture
Contact: Susan Kaup Kelley suskaup(a)mac.com; Melinda Donovan donovamn(a)bc.edu
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.
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.)
Thurs., Dec. 10, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jochen Sander, Städel Museum and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of
the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna"
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture
A recent cleaning and technical analysis has transformed our
understanding of this late painting by the early Netherlandish artist
Rogier van der Weyden. The speaker will discuss the ways in which new
information affects our view of the artist's later development and his
place in art history. Free admission.
For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at
617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison(a)harvard.edu.
The Busch-Reisinger Museum Lectures, sponsored by the European Friends
of the Museum, present important speakers on topics of central and
northern European art.
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 v"ia 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
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(11/6/09)
**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:
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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. 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/
*Thurs., Nov. 12, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 315, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan)
"He is still Israel"?: Abner of Burgos on Conversion and Identity in
Medieval Castile
JEWISH STUDIES COLLOQUIUM sponsored by The Tauber Institute for the
Study of European Jewry and The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic
Studies
This colloquium provides a critical forum for graduate students and
faculty to present and discuss works-in-progress, thereby fostering an
interdisciplinary intellectual community in all areas of modern Jewish
studies. In each session participants will discuss a paper presented
by faculty or graduate students from Brandeis and other institutions.
The presenter will begin with a brief overview (5-10 minutes) of the
work, and the rest of the session will be open to questions and answers.
Papers, not to exceed 30 pages, will be available two weeks in advance
on-line at http://www.brandeis.edu/tauberinstitute (or at the Tauber
Institute, Lown 306).
For more information and to submit a proposal, contact:
Eugene Sheppard: sheppard(a)brandeis.edu ; (781) 736-2965
Sylvia Fuks Fried: fuksfried(a)brandeis.edu ; (781) 736-2127
Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
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.)"
The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America
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
*Mon., Nov. 16th, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Thomas Davis, Director of The Cyprus American Archaeological Research
Institute
"Earthquakes and Crises of Faith: Social Transformation in Late
Antique "Cyprus"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum, Harvard University
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University Department of Ancient Art, and Harvard Art Museum Cyprus
American Archaeological Research Institute
Reception to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries, 2nd
floor, 6 Divinity Avenue
For more information please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu
.
*Tue., Nov. 17, 7:45 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, 3rd floor of the
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard University)
"The Saga of Peter and Paul: Emblems of Catholic Identity in
Christian Literature and Art"
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater
Boston area. For more information, please, contact Annewies van den
Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA or
visit the website: http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
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)
"Mythopoiesis in a Fallen World: Catullus 64 and the Impossibility of
Narrative Reliability"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Thurs., Dec. 3, 7:00 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE School of Theology and Ministry, Rm 100
Prof. Emerita Linda Seidel (University of Chicago)
"The Bones of Lazarus: Sacred Journeys in Romanesque Architecture"
Gretchen Reeves Kelley Lecture
Contact: Susan Kaup Kelley suskaup(a)mac.com; Melinda Donovan donovamn(a)bc.edu
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.
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.)
*Thurs., Dec. 10, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jochen Sander, Städel Museum and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of
the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture
A recent cleaning and technical analysis has transformed our
understanding of this late painting by the early Netherlandish artist
Rogier van der Weyden. The speaker will discuss the ways in which new
information affects our view of the artist's later development and his
place in art history. Free admission.
For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at
617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison(a)harvard.edu.
The Busch-Reisinger Museum Lectures, sponsored by the European Friends
of the Museum, present important speakers on topics of central and
northern European art.
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
