Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #19 (2/27/09)
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Tues., Mar. 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 101, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
"Livy's Periochae"
Wed., Mar. 4, 12:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Putnam Lab, Room 59D, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA
Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
"The God in the Vineyards: Continuities and Shifts in Cult and Culture
of Suburban Pompeii"
Wed., Mar. 4, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Rita Lucarelli (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia
University, and the University of Verona)
"Divinized Demons and Demonized Gods in Late Pharaonic and Greco-Roman
Egypt"
Respondent: David Frankfurter (University of New Hampshire)
For further information, contact Melissa Joesph (josephmv(a)bu.edu or
617-353-2427)
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies, the Humanities
Foundation, The Program in
Scripture and the Arts, and The Charles R. Brown Fund
*Thurs., Mar. 5, 12 noon
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Humanities Center's Postdoctoral Fellows Lunchtime Talks
Julia Wilker (Freie Universität Berlin)
"Hegemony in Late Classical Greece: Legitimacy, Expectations,
Concepts, and Legacy"
Lunch will be served; RSVP to Sarah Razor at the Humanities Center (srazor(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Thurs., Mar. 5, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang, Room 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Lecture
Marcus Folch (University of Richmond)
"Body and Soul Enchained: Inventing the Prison in Democratic Athens"
Reception with light refreshments to follow
Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or
Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu).
Thurs. Mar. 5, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Jason Ur (Harvard University)
"Fresh Evidence on the Origins of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia"
Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 2nd floor, 6
Divinity Avenue
Free and open to the public
For more information contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum
Mon., Mar. 9, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library, Cambridge, MA
Mary A. Rouse (UCLA)
"A Princely Gift: The French Translation of Vegetius, 1284-1300"
Reception follows in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library
Sponsored by the Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in
collaboration with the
Houghton Library
Tues., Mar. 10, 4:30 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jonathan Edmondson (York University, Canada)
"A Tale of Two Colonies in Roman Spain: Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and
Metellinum (Medellín)"
Wed., Mar. 11, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks)
"A Dossier for Canonization in 14th Century Byzantium: The Miracles of
Gregory Palamas"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Mar. 12, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA
Houghton Library Workshop*
Richard Rouse (UCLA)
"Florilegia & Glosses: Books for Reference rather than Reading"
*N.B. This workshop requires advance registration. Places are strictly
limited to 12, and priority
will be given to members of the Harvard community. If interest
warrants, we will schedule
a second session on Tuesday, March 10, but only once the Thursday
session is fully subscribed.
Please indicate your interest by e-mailing Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger (jhamburg(a)fas.harvard.edu
).
Thurs., Mar. 12, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA
Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. (University of California, Berkeley)
Nicholas D. Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Archaeology at Sardis in Turkey: New Discoveries and Puzzles"
Reception following; free and open to the public
Free parking in Broadway Garage on Felton Street between Cambridge
Street and Broadway
Sponsored by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis and the Harvard
Art Museums
Fri., Mar. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 675
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Early History of Chocolate"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Archaeology Department
Mon., Mar. 16, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"'Towards a Higher Vision' and 'Into the Depths of Words': The
Aesthetics of Layering in Byzantine Art and Literature"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Mar. 19, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Middle Gallery, 21 Brown
Street, Providence, RI
Medieval Studies Lecture
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"From Persia to the Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Mar. 20 - Sat., Mar. 21
YALE UNIVERSITY, Withney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven,
CT
Conference: "Learning Me Your Language: Teaching Latin and Greek as
Second Languages from
Antiquity to the Present Day"
Keynote address: Francoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
See Appendix for details
*Mon., Mar. 30, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA
Andrew Riggsby (University of Texas at Austin)
"Hiding in Plain Site: How Caesar Doesn't Write Politics"
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Tues., Mar. 31, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Comparative Literature Lecture
Charles Butterworth (University of Maryland)
"What Might We Learn from al-Farabi about Plato and Aristotle with
Respect to Lawgiving?"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 - 5:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Symposium
"In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in
Euripides' Hecuba"
A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
See Appendix for details
Mon., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Claudia Rapp (UCLA)
"Christians on Earth, Citizens in Heaven: The City as Metaphor in
Early Byzantine Political Thought"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Mon., Apr. 13, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Jane Lightfoot (New College, University of Oxford)
"'Running Water is Beautiful Water': Rivers in the Geographical
Writing of Dionysius the Periegete"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)
"Women in Roman Private Legal Documents"
*Tues., Apr. 14, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, 115 Fayerweather, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA
John Younger (University of Kansas)
"Mycenae Invents Itself"
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia)
"Taking Sides: Issues of Allegiance in the Reception of Lucan's Civil
War"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Gerhard Thur (Universities of Graz and Vienna, Austria)
"Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens"
Wed., Apr. 15, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Gerhard Thuer (Graz University)
"How to Lease an Orphan's Estate in Classical Athens: New Data from
the Archimedes Palimpsest"
Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School and the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Apr. 16, 8:00 p.m.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Bernhard Music Center, Brooks Rogers Recital Hall,
54 Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown, MA
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
"Life and Art in Roman Villas on the Bay of Naples"
Sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
Fri., Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Pantelis Nigdelis (Institute for Advanced Study)
"The Institution of Ephebeia in Roman Macedonia. A Particular Kind of
Ephebeia?"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting
scholar, Brown University)
"Socrates' Unconventional Eros"
*Wed., Apr. 22, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Chapin Lounge, Amherst, MA
Alan Boegehold (Brown University)
"What Do We Mean When We Say 'Most'?"
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner
"Novel Ideas"
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), "Petronius and the Greek Novel"
Niall Slater (Emory University), "Various Asses"
Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), "Imagined Communities in Ancient
Fictions"
For further information contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or
Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation
APPENDIX:
Fri., Mar. 20 - Sat., Mar. 21
YALE UNIVERSITY, Withney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven,
CT
Conference: "Learning Me Your Language: Teaching Latin and Greek as
Second Languages from Antiquity to the Present Day"
Keynote address: Francoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
A conference program is available at http://www.yale.edu/classics/news.html
For free registration, please email your name and institutional
affiliation (if any) to william.brockliss(a)yale.edu
Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics, the Deputy Provost for
the Arts, the Woodward Fund, the Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf
Fund, the Graduate School, the Beinecke Library, the Hellenic Studies
Program, the Renaissance Studies Program, and the Departments of
English, French, Italian, and History
Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Symposium
"In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in
Euripides' Hecuba"
Buffet refreshments available throughout
Free and open to the public
For directions see http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html);
for ticket information see
http://www.brandeis.edu/btc/tickets.html
For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu
) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Event I: 2:00 p.m.
"'What's Hecuba to him...?' The Dangerous Grief of Euripides' Hecuba"
Helene Foley, (Barnard Classics and Ancient Studies)
Event II: 3:10 p.m.
"Euripides' Hecuba: The Limits of Sympathy, Past and Present"
Eirene Visvardi (Brandeis Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ancient Greek
Theater)
Event III: 4:10 p.m.
A Demonstration of Dramatic Method in Ancient Greek Theater
Participants: Eric H. Hill (Brandeis Theater Arts), with actors from
the April 2009 Brandeis production of Euripides' Hecuba
Event IV: 5:10 p.m.
Round Table Discussion with the Audience
Participants: Professors Helene Foley (Barnard Classics), Eric H. Hill
(Brandeis Theater Arts), Eirene
Visvardi (Brandeis Classical Studies), and Leonard C. Muellner
(Brandeis Classical Studies)
N.B.: At 8:00 p.m.: A Brandeis Department of Theater Arts Production
of Euripides' Hecuba at
The Mainstage Theater, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Directed and adapted for the stage by Eric H. Hill, Sherman Chair of
the Brandeis Department of
Theater Arts; Translated from the Ancient Greek by Professors Leonard
Muellner and Eirene Visvardi,
with the Fall Term 2008 students of GRK 115b
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: #18 (2/20/09)
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Fri., Feb. 20, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Miranda Marvin (Wellesley College)
"Remaking the Antique: Ancient Sculpture and Early Modern Imagination"
For further information, contact Melissa Joesph (josephmv(a)bu.edu or
617-353-2427)
Fri., Feb. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 110 (Fong Auditorium),
Cambridge, MA
The Twenty-Second Nicholas E. Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern
Greek Studies
Roderick Beaton (King's College London)
"A Greek Poet and Diplomat in the Middle East: George Seferis (Nobel
Prize for Literature, 1963)"
Sponsored by the Program of Modern Greek Studies-George Seferis Chair
Mon., Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacMillan Hall, Room 117, 167 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
Charles Alexander Robinson Jr. Memorial Lecture
Raymond Westbrook (Johns Hopkins University)
"The Early History of Law: A Theoretical Essay"
Mon., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"The Archaeology of Economic Institutions"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Tues., Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"Roman Technology: The Possibilities and Limits for Preindustrial
Growth"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Wed., Feb. 25, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA
David Romano (University of Pennsylvania)
"Search for Zeus: The Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project"
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Willis Wood Fund
Wed., Feb. 25, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 675
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
The 2009 Context and Human Society Lecture Series
"Toward a Twenty-first Century Archaeology: Cultural Heritage and
Field Research in Albania"
Richard Hodges (University of Pennsylvania)
Lecture 1: "At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Butrint and the
Corrupting Sea"
Sponsored by the Center for Archaeological Studies and Department of
Archaeology
Funded by The Humanities Foundation
Wed., Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"Before the Pin Factory: Division of Labour and Mass Production"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Thurs., Feb. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Isabella Sandwell (Bristol University)
"The Emperor Julian on Religious Identity and Religious Difference"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Feb. 26, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 675
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
The 2009 Context and Human Society Lecture Series
"Toward a Twenty-first Century Archaeology: Cultural Heritage and
Field Research in Albania"
Richard Hodges (University of Pennsylvania)
Lecture 2: "Archaeology and Social Responsibility in Southern Albania"
A reception will follow at The Castle, 225 Bay State Road
Sponsored by the Center for Archaeological Studies and Department of
Archaeology
Funded by The Humanities Foundation
Thurs., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"Mining, Metal Supply, and the Supply of Money"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Tues., Mar. 3, 12:00 pm
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 101, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
"Livy's Periochae"
*Wed., Mar. 4, 12 noon
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 59D, Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA
Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
"The God in the Vineyards: Continuities and Shifts in Cult and Culture
of Suburban Pompeii"
Wed., Mar. 4, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Rita Lucarelli (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia
University, and the University of Verona)
"Divinized Demons and Demonized Gods in Late Pharaonic and Greco-Roman
Egypt"
Respondent: David Frankfurter (University of New Hampshire)
For further information, contact Melissa Joesph (josephmv(a)bu.edu or
617-353-2427)
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies, the Humanities
Foundation, The Program in
Scripture and the Arts, and The Charles R. Brown Fund
Thurs., Mar. 5, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Lecture
Marcus Folch (University of Richmond)
"Body and Soul Enchained: Inventing the Prison in Democratic Athens"
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 (aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or
Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu).
Thurs. Mar. 5, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Jason Ur (Harvard University)
"Fresh Evidence on the Origins of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia"
Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 2nd floor, 6
Divinity Avenue
Free and open to the public
For more information contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum
Mon., Mar. 9, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library, Cambridge, MA
Mary A. Rouse (UCLA)
"A Princely Gift: The French Translation of Vegetius, 1284-1300"
Reception follows in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library
Sponsored by the Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in
collaboration with the
Houghton Library
**Tues., Mar. 10, 4:30 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jonathan Edmondson (York University, Canada)
"A Tale of Two Colonies in Roman Spain: Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and
Metellinum (Medellín)"
Wed., Mar. 11, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks)
"A Dossier for Canonization in 14th Century Byzantium: The Miracles of
Gregory Palamas"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Mar. 12, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA
Houghton Library Workshop*
Richard Rouse (UCLA)
"Florilegia & Glosses: Books for Reference rather than Reading"
*N.B. This workshop requires advance registration. Places are strictly
limited to 12, and priority
will be given to members of the Harvard community. If interest
warrants, we will schedule
a second session on Tuesday, March 10, but only once the Thursday
session is fully subscribed.
Please indicate your interest by e-mailing Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger (jhamburg(a)fas.harvard.edu
).
Thurs., Mar. 12, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA
Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. (University of California, Berkeley)
Nicholas D. Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Archaeology at Sardis in Turkey: New Discoveries and Puzzles"
Reception following; free and open to the public
Free parking in Broadway Garage on Felton Street between Cambridge
Street and Broadway
Sponsored by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis and the Harvard
Art Museums
Fri., Mar. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 675
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Early History of Chocolate"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Archaeology Department
Mon., Mar. 16, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"'Towards a Higher Vision' and 'Into the Depths of Words': The
Aesthetics of Layering in Byzantine Art and Literature"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Mar. 19, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Middle Gallery, 21 Brown
Street, Providence, RI
Medieval Studies Lecture
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"From Persia to the Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Mar. 20 - Sat., Mar. 21
YALE UNIVERSITY, Withney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven,
CT
Conference: "Learning Me Your Language: Teaching Latin and Greek as
Second Languages from
Antiquity to the Present Day"
Keynote address: Francoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
See Appendix for details
Tues., Mar. 31, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Comparative Literature Lecture
Charles Butterworth (University of Maryland)
"What Might We Learn from al-Farabi about Plato and Aristotle with
Respect to Lawgiving?"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Symposium
"In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in
Euripides' Hecuba"
A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
See Appendix for details
Mon., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Claudia Rapp (UCLA)
"Christians on Earth, Citizens in Heaven: The City as Metaphor in
Early Byzantine Political Thought"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Mon., Apr. 13, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Jane Lightfoot (New College, University of Oxford)
"'Running Water is Beautiful Water': Rivers in the Geographical
Writing of Dionysius the Periegete"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)
"Women in Roman Private Legal Documents"
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia)
"Taking Sides: Issues of Allegiance in the Reception of Lucan's Civil
War"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Gerhard Thur (Universities of Graz and Vienna, Austria)
"Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens"
Wed., Apr. 15, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Gerhard Thuer (Graz University)
"How to Lease an Orphan's Estate in Classical Athens: New Data from
the Archimedes Palimpsest"
Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School and the Department of the Classics
*Thurs., Apr. 16, 8:00 p.m.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Brooks Rogers Recital Hall, Williamstown, MA
Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan)
"Life and Art in Roman Villas on the Bay of Naples"
Sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
Fri., Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Pantelis Nigdelis (Institute for Advanced Study)
"The Institution of Ephebeia in Roman Macedonia. A Particular Kind of
Ephebeia?"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting
scholar, Brown University)
"Socrates' Unconventional Eros"
Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner
"Novel Ideas"
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), "Petronius and the Greek Novel"
Niall Slater (Emory University), "Various Asses"
Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), "Imagined Communities in Ancient
Fictions"
For further information contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or
Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation
APPENDIX:
Fri., Mar. 20 - Sat., Mar. 21
YALE UNIVERSITY, Withney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven,
CT
Conference: "Learning Me Your Language: Teaching Latin and Greek as
Second Languages from Antiquity to the Present Day"
Keynote address: Francoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
A conference program is available at http://www.yale.edu/classics/news.html
For free registration, please email your name and institutional
affiliation (if any) to william.brockliss(a)yale.edu
Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics, the Deputy Provost for
the Arts, the Woodward Fund, the Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf
Fund, the Graduate School, the Beinecke Library, the Hellenic Studies
Program, the Renaissance Studies Program, and the Departments of
English, French, Italian, and History
Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Symposium
"In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in
Euripides' Hecuba"
Buffet refreshments available throughout
Free and open to the public
For directions see http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html);
for ticket information see
http://www.brandeis.edu/btc/tickets.html
For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu
) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Event I: 2:00 p.m.
"'What's Hecuba to him...?' The Dangerous Grief of Euripides' Hecuba"
Helene Foley, (Barnard Classics and Ancient Studies)
Event II: 3:10 p.m.
"Euripides' Hecuba: The Limits of Sympathy, Past and Present"
Eirene Visvardi (Brandeis Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ancient Greek
Theater)
Event III: 4:10 p.m.
A Demonstration of Dramatic Method in Ancient Greek Theater
Participants: Eric H. Hill (Brandeis Theater Arts), with actors from
the April 2009 Brandeis production of Euripides' Hecuba
Event IV: 5:10 p.m.
Round Table Discussion with the Audience
Participants: Professors Helene Foley (Barnard Classics), Eric H. Hill
(Brandeis Theater Arts), Eirene
Visvardi (Brandeis Classical Studies), and Leonard C. Muellner
(Brandeis Classical Studies)
N.B.: At 8:00 p.m.: A Brandeis Department of Theater Arts Production
of Euripides' Hecuba at
The Mainstage Theater, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Directed and adapted for the stage by Eric H. Hill, Sherman Chair of
the Brandeis Department of
Theater Arts; Translated from the Ancient Greek by Professors Leonard
Muellner and Eirene Visvardi,
with the Fall Term 2008 students of GRK 115b
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.
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Fri., Feb. 13, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 110
(Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Kimberley Patton (Harvard University)
"'The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils': Iphigenia, Sedna, and the
Submarine Mare as Myths of the Cleansing Ocean"
This talk is the keynote address of the Legends of Landscapes,
Narratives of Nature Symposium
For more information and a complete symposium schedule, please see: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/folk-nature.htm
Thurs., Feb. 19, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 110 (Fong Auditorium),
Cambridge, MA
Orly Goldwasser (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
"The Archaeology of the Ancient Egyptian Mind"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Thurs., Feb. 19, 8:00 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 3rd
Floor, Rabinowitz Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Shaye J. D. Cohen (Harvard University)
"Sabbath Law and Mishnah Shabbat in Origen's De Principiis"
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the Boston Theological
Institute, an association of nine
theological schools in the Greater Boston area.
For more information, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138,
or visit: http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
*Fri., Feb. 20, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Miranda Marvin (Wellesley College)
"Remaking the Antique: Ancient Sculpture and Early Modern Imagination"
For further information, contact Melissa Joesph (josephmv(a)bu.edu or
617-353-2427)
*Fri., Feb. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 110 (Fong Auditorium),
Cambridge, MA
The Twenty-Second Nicholas E. Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern
Greek Studies
Roderick Beaton (King's College London)
"A Greek Poet and Diplomat in the Middle East: George Seferis (Nobel
Prize for Literature, 1963)"
Sponsored by the Program of Modern Greek Studies-George Seferis Chair
Mon., Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacMillan Hall, Room 117, 167 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
Charles Alexander Robinson Jr. Memorial Lecture
Raymond Westbrook (Johns Hopkins University)
"The Early History of Law: A Theoretical Essay"
Mon., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"The Archaeology of Economic Institutions"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Tues., Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"Roman Technology: The Possibilities and Limits for Preindustrial
Growth"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Wed., Feb. 25, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA
David Romano (University of Pennsylvania)
"Search for Zeus: The Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project"
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Willis Wood Fund
*Wed., Feb. 25, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 675
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
The 2009 Context and Human Society Lecture Series
"Toward a Twenty-first Century Archaeology: Cultural Heritage and
Field Research in Albania"
Richard Hodges (University of Pennsylvania)
Lecture 1: "At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Butrint and the
Corrupting Sea"
Sponsored by the Center for Archaeological Studies and Department of
Archaeology
Funded by The Humanities Foundation
Wed., Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"Before the Pin Factory: Division of Labour and Mass Production"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Thurs., Feb. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Isabella Sandwell (Bristol University)
"The Emperor Julian on Religious Identity and Religious Difference"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Thurs., Feb. 26, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 675
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
The 2009 Context and Human Society Lecture Series
"Toward a Twenty-first Century Archaeology: Cultural Heritage and
Field Research in Albania"
Richard Hodges (University of Pennsylvania)
Lecture 2: "Archaeology and Social Responsibility in Southern Albania"
A reception will follow at The Castle, 225 Bay State Road
Sponsored by the Center for Archaeological Studies and Department of
Archaeology
Funded by The Humanities Foundation
Thurs., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
"Mining, Metal Supply, and the Supply of Money"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
*Tues., Mar. 3, 12:00 pm
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 101, Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
"Livy's Periochae"
*Wed., Mar. 4, 12 noon
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 59D, Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA
Archaeology Wing Lunch Talk Series
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
"The God in the Vineyards: Continuities and Shifts in Cult and Culture
of Suburban Pompeii"
*Wed., Mar. 4, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Rita Lucarelli (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia
University, and the University of Verona)
"Divinized Demons and Demonized Gods in Late Pharaonic and Greco-Roman
Egypt"
Respondent: David Frankfurter (University of New Hampshire)
For further information, contact Melissa Joesph (josephmv(a)bu.edu or
617-353-2427)
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies, the Humanities
Foundation, The Program in
Scripture and the Arts, and The Charles R. Brown Fund
Thurs., Mar. 5, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Lecture
Marcus Folch (University of Richmond)
"Body and Soul Enchained: Inventing the Prison in Democratic Athens"
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 (aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or
Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu).
*Thurs. Mar. 5, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Jason Ur (Harvard University)
"Fresh Evidence on the Origins of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia"
Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 2nd floor, 6
Divinity Avenue
Free and open to the public
For more information contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu
)
Sponsored by the Semitic Museum
Mon., Mar. 9, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library, Cambridge, MA
Mary A. Rouse (UCLA)
"A Princely Gift: The French Translation of Vegetius, 1284-1300"
Reception follows in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library
Sponsored by the Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in
collaboration with the
Houghton Library
Tues., Mar. 10, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jonathan Edmondson (York University, Canada)
"A Tale of Two Colonies in Roman Spain: Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and
Metellinum (Medellín)"
Wed., Mar. 11, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks)
"A Dossier for Canonization in 14th Century Byzantium: The Miracles of
Gregory Palamas"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Mar. 12, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA
Houghton Library Workshop*
Richard Rouse (UCLA)
"Florilegia & Glosses: Books for Reference rather than Reading"
*N.B. This workshop requires advance registration. Places are strictly
limited to 12, and priority
will be given to members of the Harvard community. If interest
warrants, we will schedule
a second session on Tuesday, March 10, but only once the Thursday
session is fully subscribed.
Please indicate your interest by e-mailing Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger (jhamburg(a)fas.harvard.edu
).
Thurs., Mar. 12, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA
Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. (University of California, Berkeley)
Nicholas D. Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Archaeology at Sardis in Turkey: New Discoveries and Puzzles"
Reception following; free and open to the public
Free parking in Broadway Garage on Felton Street between Cambridge
Street and Broadway
Sponsored by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis and the Harvard
Art Museums
Fri., Mar. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 675
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Early History of Chocolate"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Archaeology Department
Mon., Mar. 16, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"'Towards a Higher Vision' and 'Into the Depths of Words': The
Aesthetics of Layering in Byzantine Art and Literature"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Mar. 19, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Middle Gallery, 21 Brown
Street, Providence, RI
Medieval Studies Lecture
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"From Persia to the Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Mar. 20 - Sat., Mar. 21
YALE UNIVERSITY, Withney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven,
CT
Conference: "Learning Me Your Language: Teaching Latin and Greek as
Second Languages from
Antiquity to the Present Day"
Keynote address: Francoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
See Appendix for details
Tues., Mar. 31, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Comparative Literature Lecture
Charles Butterworth (University of Maryland)
"What Might We Learn from al-Farabi about Plato and Aristotle with
Respect to Lawgiving?"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Symposium
"In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in
Euripides' Hecuba"
A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
See Appendix for details
Mon., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Claudia Rapp (UCLA)
"Christians on Earth, Citizens in Heaven: The City as Metaphor in
Early Byzantine Political Thought"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
*Mon., Apr. 13, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Jane Lightfoot (New College, University of Oxford)
"'Running Water is Beautiful Water': Rivers in the Geographical
Writing of Dionysius the Periegete"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)
"Women in Roman Private Legal Documents"
*Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia)
"Taking Sides: Issues of Allegiance in the Reception of Lucan's Civil
War"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Gerhard Thur (Universities of Graz and Vienna, Austria)
"Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens"
*Wed., Apr. 15, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Gerhard Thuer (Graz University)
"How to Lease an Orphan's Estate in Classical Athens: New Data from
the Archimedes Palimpsest"
Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School and the Department of the Classics
*Fri., Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture
Pantelis Nigdelis (Institute for Advanced Study)
"The Institution of Ephebeia in Roman Macedonia. A Particular Kind of
Ephebeia?"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting
scholar, Brown University)
"Socrates' Unconventional Eros"
Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner
"Novel Ideas"
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), "Petronius and the Greek Novel"
Niall Slater (Emory University), "Various Asses"
Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), "Imagined Communities in Ancient
Fictions"
For further information contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or
Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation
APPENDIX:
Fri., Mar. 20 - Sat., Mar. 21
YALE UNIVERSITY, Withney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven,
CT
Conference: "Learning Me Your Language: Teaching Latin and Greek as
Second Languages from Antiquity to the Present Day"
Keynote address: Francoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
A conference program is available at http://www.yale.edu/classics/news.html
For free registration, please email your name and institutional
affiliation (if any) to william.brockliss(a)yale.edu
Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics, the Deputy Provost for
the Arts, the Woodward Fund, the Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf
Fund, the Graduate School, the Beinecke Library, the Hellenic Studies
Program, the Renaissance Studies Program, and the Departments of
English, French, Italian, and History
Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Symposium
"In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in
Euripides' Hecuba"
Buffet refreshments available throughout
Free and open to the public
For directions see http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html);
for ticket information see
http://www.brandeis.edu/btc/tickets.html
For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu
) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Event I: 2:00 p.m.
"'What's Hecuba to him...?' The Dangerous Grief of Euripides' Hecuba"
Helene Foley, (Barnard Classics and Ancient Studies)
Event II: 3:10 p.m.
"Euripides' Hecuba: The Limits of Sympathy, Past and Present"
Eirene Visvardi (Brandeis Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ancient Greek
Theater)
Event III: 4:10 p.m.
A Demonstration of Dramatic Method in Ancient Greek Theater
Participants: Eric H. Hill (Brandeis Theater Arts), with actors from
the April 2009 Brandeis production of Euripides' Hecuba
Event IV: 5:10 p.m.
Round Table Discussion with the Audience
Participants: Professors Helene Foley (Barnard Classics), Eric H. Hill
(Brandeis Theater Arts), Eirene
Visvardi (Brandeis Classical Studies), and Leonard C. Muellner
(Brandeis Classical Studies)
N.B.: At 8:00 p.m.: A Brandeis Department of Theater Arts Production
of Euripides' Hecuba at
The Mainstage Theater, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Directed and adapted for the stage by Eric H. Hill, Sherman Chair of
the Brandeis Department of
Theater Arts; Translated from the Ancient Greek by Professors Leonard
Muellner and Eirene Visvardi,
with the Fall Term 2008 students of GRK 115b
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: #16 (2/6/09)
**PLEASE NOTE**
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*Fri., Feb. 13, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 110
(Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Kimberley Patton (Harvard University)
"'The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils': Iphigenia, Sedna, and the
Submarine Mare as Myths of the Cleansing Ocean"
This talk is the keynote address of the Legends of Landscapes,
Narratives of Nature Symposium. For more information and a complete
symposium schedule, please see: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/folk-nature.htm
*Thurs., Feb. 19, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 110 (Fong Auditorium),
Cambridge, MA
Orly Goldwasser (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
"The Archaeology of the Ancient Egyptian Mind"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
*Thurs., Feb. 19, 8:00 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, Andover-Harvard
Theological Library,
3rd Floor, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Shaye J. D. Cohen (Harvard University)
"Sabbath Law and Mishnah Shabbat in Origen's De Principiis"
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the Boston Theological
Institute, an association of nine
theological schools in the Greater Boston area.
For more information, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit: http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
Mon., Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacMillan Hall, Room 117, 167 Thayer Street,
Providence, RI
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
Raymond Westbrook (Johns Hopkins University)
"The Early History of Law: A Theoretical Essay"
Mon., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archeaology, University of Oxford)
"The Archaeology of Economic Institutions"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Tues., Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archeaology, University of Oxford)
"Roman Technology: The Possibilities and Limits for Preindustrial
Growth"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
*Wed., Feb. 25, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA
David Romano (University of Pennsylvania)
"Search for Zeus: The Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project"
Free and open to the public
For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Willis Wood Fund,
Amherst College
Wed., Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archeaology, University of Oxford)
"Before the Pin Factory: Division of Labour and Mass Production"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
Thurs., Feb. 26, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA
Isabella Sandwell (Bristol University)
"The Emperor Julian on Religious Identity and Religious Difference"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Balmuth Lecture Series
Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archeaology, University of Oxford)
"Mining, Metal Supply, and the Supply of Money"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth
*Thurs., Mar. 5, 5:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Colloquium Lecture
Marcus Folch (University of Richmond)
"Body and Soul Enchained: Inventing the Prison in Democratic Athens"
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 (aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or
Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu).
Mon., Mar. 9, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library, Cambridge, MA
Mary A. Rouse (UCLA)
"A Princely Gift: The French Translation of Vegetius, 1284-1300"
Reception follows in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library
Sponsored by the Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in
collaboration with the
Houghton Library
Tues., Mar. 10, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jonathan Edmondson (York University, Canada)
"A Tale of Two Colonies in Roman Spain: Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and
Metellinum (Medellín)"
Wed., Mar. 11, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks)
"A Dossier for Canonization in 14th Century Byzantium: The Miracles of
Gregory Palamas"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Mar. 12, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA
Houghton Library Workshop*
Richard Rouse (UCLA)
"Florilegia & Glosses: Books for Reference rather than Reading"
*N.B. This workshop requires advance registration. Places are strictly
limited to 12, and priority
will be given to members of the Harvard community. If interest
warrants, we will schedule
a second session on Tuesday, March 10, but only once the Thursday
session is fully subscribed.
Please indicate your interest by e-mailing Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger at: jhamburg(a)fas.harvard.edu
.
*Thurs., Mar. 12, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA
Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. (University of California, Berkeley)
Nicholas D. Cahill (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Archaeology at Sardis in Turkey: New Discoveries and Puzzles"
Reception following; free and open to the public
Free parking in Broadway Garage on Felton Street between Cambridge
Street and Broadway
Sponsored by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis and the Harvard
Art Museums
*Fri., Mar. 13, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS 224, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Early History of Chocolate"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Archaeology Department
Mon., Mar. 16, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"'Towards a Higher Vision' and 'Into the Depths of Words': The
Aesthetics of Layering in Byzantine Art and Literature"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Mar. 19, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Middle Gallery, 21 Brown
Street, Providence, RI
Medieval Studies Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"From Persia to the Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond"
*Fri., Mar. 20 - Sat., Mar. 21
YALE UNIVERSITY, Withney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven,
CT
Conference: "Learning Me Your Language: Teaching Latin and Greek as
Second Languages from
Antiquity to the Present Day"
Keynote address: Francoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
See Appendix for details
Tues., Mar. 31, 4:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Comparative Literature Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of
Classics
Charles Butterworth (University of Maryland)
"What Might We Learn from al-Farabi about Plato and Aristotle with
Respect to Lawgiving?"
Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Symposium
"In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in
Euripides' Hecuba"
A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
See Appendix for details
Mon., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Claudia Rapp (UCLA)
"Christians on Earth, Citizens in Heaven: The City as Metaphor in
Early Byzantine Political Thought"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Tues., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)
"Women in Roman Private Legal Documents"
Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Gerhard Thur (Universities of Graz and Vienna, Austria)
"Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens"
Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street,
Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting
scholar at Brown)
"Socrates' Unconventional Eros"
Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner
"Novel Ideas"
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), "Petronius and the Greek Novel"
Niall Slater (Emory University), "Various Asses"
Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), "Imagined Communities in Ancient
Fictions"
For further information contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or
Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the BU Humanities
Foundation
APPENDIX:
*Fri., Mar. 20 - Sat., Mar. 21
YALE UNIVERSITY, Withney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven,
CT
Conference: "Learning Me Your Language: Teaching Latin and Greek as
Second Languages from Antiquity to the Present Day"
Keynote address: Francoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
A conference program is available at http://www.yale.edu/classics/news.html
For free registration, please email your name and institutional
affiliation (if any) to william.brockliss(a)yale.edu
Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics, the Deputy Provost for
the Arts, the Woodward Fund, the Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf
Fund, the Graduate School, the Beinecke Library, the Hellenic Studies
Program, the Renaissance Studies Program, and the Departments of
English, French, Italian, and History
Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Classical Studies Symposium
"In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in
Euripides' Hecuba"
Buffet refreshments available throughout
Free and open to the public
For directions see http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html);
for ticket information see
http://www.brandeis.edu/btc/tickets.html
For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu
) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu)
A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies
Event I: 2:00 p.m.
"'What's Hecuba to him...?' The Dangerous Grief of Euripides' Hecuba"
Helene Foley, (Barnard College Classics and Ancient Studies)
Event II: 3:10 p.m.
"Euripides' Hecuba: The Limits of Sympathy, Past and Present"
Eirene Visvardi (Brandeis Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ancient Greek
Theater)
Event III: 4:10 p.m.
A Demonstration of Dramatic Method in Ancient Greek Theater
Participants: Eric H. Hill (Brandeis Theater Arts), with actors from
the April 2009 Brandeis production of Euripides' Hecuba
Event IV: 5:10 p.m.
Round Table Discussion with the Audience
Participants: Professors Helene Foley (Barnard Classics), Eric H. Hill
(Brandeis Theater Arts), Eirene
Visvardi (Brandeis Classical Studies), and Leonard C. Muellner
(Brandeis Classical Studies)
N.B.: At 8:00 p.m.: A Brandeis Department of Theater Arts Production
of Euripides' Hecuba at
The Mainstage Theater, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Directed and adapted for the stage by Eric H. Hill, Sherman Chair of
the Brandeis Department of
Theater Arts; Translated from the Ancient Greek by Professors Leonard
Muellner and Eirene Visvardi,
with the Fall Term 2008 students of GRK 115b
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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.