Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(12/11/09)
**PLEASE NOTE**
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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., 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
(12/4/09)
**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
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, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1:30-3:30 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).
Note for participants: Contrary to rumor, there remains both a
morning and an afternoon session. The morning session runs from 10-12,
the afternoon session from 1:30-3:30 p.m. (changed from 2:00-4:00
p.m.). Please come at your appointed hour. Travel light, as no bags or
computers will be allowed in the Seminar Room. If you plan on using a
locker, bring a quarter and arrive early so that we can start on
time. Note taking in pencil only!
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.
*Wed., Dec. 9, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (THE SEMITIC MUSEUM), Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity
Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Stuart Swiny (University at Albany, Director, Institute of Cypriot
Studies)
"Life, Death, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Cyprus: A Study of
Insularity"
Presented by the Harvard University Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilization and the Cyprus American Archaeological
Research Institute; Sponsored by the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund
Reception to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries, 3rd
floor, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
For more information please call (617) 495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu
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.
*Thurs., December 10, 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Giovanni B. Bazzana (Harvard Divinity School)
"CUCURBITA SUPER CAPUT IONAE. Translation and Theology in the Old
Latin Tradition."
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 at ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu or visit the website at http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
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