Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(3/19/10)
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Tues., Mar. 30, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room),
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
David Armitage (Harvard University)
"Civil War: An Essentially Contested Concept?"
For further information about this Seminar, please contact the chairs
Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
(yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu).
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the
Harvard University Research Seminar on Cultural Politics
Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel (Architect, 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/).
Wed., Mar. 31, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, MEC Amphitheater 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
End of Life Project: Dramatic Reading of Scenes from PHILOCTETES and
WOMEN OF TRACHIS
Featuring Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe-Winning Actor Jeffrey Wright
End of Life is an innovative project that presents readings of ancient
Greek plays as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the
challenges faced by medical professionals and caregivers who work in
the fields of palliative care, hospice, geriatrics, and nursing. This
unique, participatory event is intended to promote healthy discussion
within diverse medical communities, fostering compassion, cooperation,
and understanding with regard to the management of chronic suffering.
Admission is free. Seating is limited.
RSVP to the Division of Medical Ethics: DME(a)hms.harvard.edu or call
617-432-2570.
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information, contact Geoffrey Sumi at gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Fri., Apr. 2, 12-2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
"What Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy? Plato’s Invention
of an Ancient Dispute (Republic 10.607b-c)"
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Lunch will be provided.
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Room 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature."
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Wed., April 7, 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe
Yard, Cambridge, MA
Robin Fleming (Boston College, Radcliffe Institute Fellow)
"Early Medieval History and the Lost Word of Things"
http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2010rfleming.aspx
Thurs., April 8, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Helene P. Foley (Barnard College)
"Classical Muses: How Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Women Re-
imagined Greek Tragedy for the U.S. Stage"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Sat. Apr. 10, 9:30 a.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Fifth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Department of the Classics
"Pros and Cons: Professionalism and Expertise in the Ancient World"
Keynote Speaker: Dirk Obbink (Oxford University/University of Michigan)
For more information please visit
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65290&pageid=icb.page318254
or email harvardclassicsconference(a)gmail.com
Sat. April 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Coh. I Pannoniorum, Coh II Nabetea Sagittarii (members of Leg. III
Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group)
"Roman Auxiliary Soldiers" Presentation on Auxiliaries: non-citizen
soldiers serving Rome in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor,
and training
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Auxiliary / Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon., Apr. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Weaving Christ’s body: clothing, femininity and sexuality in the
Marian imagery of Byzantium"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 515, Cambridge, MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Female threads of salvation: the Mother of God, the veil of the
Incarnation and the Sevastokratorissa Eirene in twelfth-century
Constantinople"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Fri. and Sat., Apr. 16-17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
"Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens" (a two-day symposium)
Organized by Anna Knaap, Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, in conjunction
with the temporary installation "Rubens and the Baroque Festival," on
view March 19-August 28 at the museum.
See the event's website for a detailed schedule and list of
presenters. http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=27895
For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu
.
Fri., Apr.16, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Valeria Cinaglia (University of Exeter)
"Understanding, Perception, Emotion. Aristotle and Menander"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
**Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
"Jupiter Amans"
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
Wed. Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University)
"Humans and Animals, or the Instability of Species and Gender in
Ancient Greece"
Thurs., Apr. 22, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Michael Fontaine (Cornell University)
"The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in
Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus, and Terence)"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
Sat., Apr. 24, 8:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Jewett Auditorium, 106 Central St Wellesley, MA
An Evening with Anne Carson and Dancers
Bracko and Cassandra Float Can: Reading and Performance
Panel to follow
Wed. Apr. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"The Politics of Beauty in Ancient Greek Art"
Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Fri., April 30, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, George Sherman Union, 775
Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
"Shrinking the Muse: Psychoanalysis and Literature"
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"Psychoanalytic Interpretation: Greek Myths and Roman Poems"
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University)
"Hippolytus Takes a Girlfriend: A Psychoanalytic Crux"
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
"Loving writing: Ovid's Amores"
Reception and dinner to follow. To register for dinner or for more
information, please visit www.bu.edu/classics/news/roman_studies.html
or contact Ms. Stacy Fox or Professor Patricia Johnson, e-mail: romstud(a)bu.edu
.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation at Boston University
Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group
"Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary
soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and
life in Alexandria
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon.-Sat., Jul. 12-17
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Summer Institute
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lecturers, Guest Speakers and Course Instructors will include:
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
"Songs About me: Why the Humanities Matter More Than Ever" AND "Games,
Gods and Generals: Video Games and the Ancient World"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"The Making of Sappho, Old and New"
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Quintus Sulpicius Maximus: A Roman Schoolboy Learning Greek in A.D.
94" AND "A Year in the Roman Empire: The Problem of Hindsight"
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
The Origins of Political Values in Ancient Greece: Justice, Equality,
Liberty, and Democracy
Phyllis Katz (Dartmouth College)
In a Different Voice: The Poetry of Sappho and Emily Dickinson
Eleanor Leach (Indiana University)
Storytelling in Roman Letters
Peter Machinist (Harvard University)
Between the Ancient Near East and the Classical World: The Case of the
Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Greek Athletics in Its Social Context
Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College)
Translating for Today: Some Case Studies
More information and registration can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org/csi/CSI2010Brochure.pdf
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
Dear all,
I would like to draw your attention to the following event:
David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History,
Harvard University
"Civil War: An Essentially Contested Concept?"
March 30, 6:00 pm
Weatherhead Center for Internationa Affairs, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737
Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
For further information please visit:
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/research_activitieshttp://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/
Sincerely,
Vassiliki Rapti
Vassiliki Rapti, PhD
Preceptor in Modern Greek
Modern Greek Studies Program
Harvard University
Department of the Classics e-mail: rapti(a)fas.harvard.edu
204 Boylston Hall Office tel.: (617)384-7794
Cambridge MA 02138 Office fax: (617) 384-6701
Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(3/19/10)
**PLEASE NOTE**
WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU
CAN ACCESS IT AT 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
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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
Fri., Mar. 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Harems and Harridans? Gender and Narrative in Herodotus"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Fri.-Sat., Mar. 19-20
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Annual Meeting
Moses Brown School, Providence, RI
Speakers include:
Eleanor Winsor Leach (Indiana University)
Reading Half the Dialogue: Cicero's Correspondence with C. Trebatius
Testa
Jeri Blair DeBrohun (Brown University)
Mothers and Sons: Seneca's Oedipus and Euripides' Bacchae
Raymond Starr, Wellesley College
"cui dono lepidum novum libellum? Corneli, tibi": Cornelius Nepos and
Catullus 1
More information (including registration) can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org
Sat., Mar. 20, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall, School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA
2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, "Ancient Chimeras: Composite
Creatures, Cultures, and Genres"
Guy M. Hedreen, Professor of Art (Williams College), will deliver the
keynote address entitled, "Bild, Mythos, and Ritual: Choral Dance in
Theseus’ Cretan Adventure on the François Vase."
This event is open to the public. For more information, please visit
our website http://www.bu.edu/classics/gsconference/index.html or e-
mail sophiek(a)bu.edu.
Monday, Mar. 22, 5:15-6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Susan Alcock (Brown University, Director of the Joukowsky Institute
for Archaeology)
"What to Do with the Wonder of the World: The Puzzle of Petra (Jordan)"
Professor Alcock will discuss the puzzle and paradox of Petra. A
'star' site of global heritage, as witnessed by its Hollywood
popularity and its 'modern seven wonders' status, it remains in many
ways poorly understood, not least in terms of its long-term historical
evolution. Fieldwork has been undertaken in the city for many years by
Brown University, but a new phase of that work is now beginning,
leading us to ask advice on the question: "What to do with a Wonder of
the World?"
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies at Brandeis University
For further Information, please contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (781-736-2180
or hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu). Free and open to the public (for
directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
Tues., Mar. 23, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Marco Formisano (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Visiting Scholar,
Columbia University)
"On the Margins: Studying Non-Central Authors in Latin Literature"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Tues., Mar. 23, 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin 112, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
The Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures, English, History,
and Theater, and the Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Boston
College invite you to a public lecture:
"Medieval Roles for Modern Times”
Professor Helen Solterer (Duke University)
This talk explores the surprising function of medieval scripts and
dramatis personae for the generations in France who endured two World
Wars, and internecine conflict under Vichy. To get at this peculiar
power of medieval theatrical role-play, we'll examine the test case of
one well-known youth group in Paris, the Théophiliens, under the
direction of a Sorbonne intellectual, Gustave Cohen. It offers a
detective inquiry into the conditions and consequences of performing
the Middle Ages in the Third Republic, and it will be illustrated by a
variety of images.
Reception to follow. For more information contact Prof. Matilda
Bruckner: bruckner(a)bc.edu
Wed. Mar. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Brien Garnand (Whitman College)
"Why Little Girls are Good to Kill--Child Sacrifice in Greek Myth and
Phoenician Practice"
Thurs., Mar. 25, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Emily Allen Hornblower (Rutgers University)
"Metaphors of Pain in Ancient Greek Tragedy"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
http:/www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thursday, March 25, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Bartlett 65, Amherst, MA
John Oakley (College of William and Mary)
"Children in Wartime: Ancient Athens and Modern Europe"
The 6th Annual David F. Grose Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by Charles Grose and the Classics Department, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
Thurs., Mar. 25, 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Mitchell Miller (Vassar College, Findlay Visiting Professor at Boston
University)
"Limit and the Unlimited and the Immancence of Plato's Forms"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu
Thurs., Mar. 25, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College St.,
Providence, RI
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Orchestrated Violence: Music in the Roman Amphitheatre"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Tues., Mar. 30, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room),
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
David Armitage (Harvard University)
"Civil War: An Essentially Contested Concept?"
For further information about this Seminar, please contact the chairs
Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
(yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu).
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the
Harvard University Research Seminar on Cultural Politics
Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel (Architect, 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/).
Wed., Mar. 31, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, MEC Amphitheater 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
End of Life Project: Dramatic Reading of Scenes from PHILOCTETES and
WOMEN OF TRACHIS
Featuring Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe-Winning Actor Jeffrey Wright
End of Life is an innovative project that presents readings of ancient
Greek plays as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the
challenges faced by medical professionals and caregivers who work in
the fields of palliative care, hospice, geriatrics, and nursing. This
unique, participatory event is intended to promote healthy discussion
within diverse medical communities, fostering compassion, cooperation,
and understanding with regard to the management of chronic suffering.
Admission is free. Seating is limited.
RSVP to the Division of Medical Ethics: DME(a)hms.harvard.edu or call
617-432-2570.
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information, contact Geoffrey Sumi at gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
**Fri., Apr. 2, 12-2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
"What Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy? Plato’s
Invention of an Ancient Dispute (Republic 10.607b-c)”
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Lunch will be provided.
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Room 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
*Wed., April 7, 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe
Yard, Cambridge, MA
Robin Fleming (Boston College, Radcliffe Institute Fellow)
"Early Medieval History and
the Lost Word of Things”
http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2010rfleming.aspx
*Thurs., April 8, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Helene P. Foley (Barnard College)
"Classical Muses: How Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Women Re-
imagined Greek Tragedy for the U.S. Stage"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Sat. Apr. 10, 9:30 a.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Fifth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Department of the Classics
"Pros and Cons: Professionalism and Expertise in the Ancient World"
Keynote Speaker: Dirk Obbink (Oxford University/University of Michigan)
For more information please visit http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65290&pageid=icb.page318254
or email harvardclassicsconference(a)gmail.com
Sat. April 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Coh. I Pannoniorum, Coh II Nabetea Sagittarii (members of Leg. III
Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group)
"Roman Auxiliary Soldiers" Presentation on Auxiliaries: non-citizen
soldiers serving Rome in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor,
and training
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Auxiliary / Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon., Apr. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Weaving Christ’s body: clothing, femininity and sexuality in the
Marian imagery of Byzantium"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 515, Cambridge, MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Female threads of salvation: the Mother of God, the veil of the
Incarnation and the Sevastokratorissa Eirene in twelfth-century
Constantinople"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Fri. and Sat., Apr. 16-17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
"Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens" (a two-day symposium)
Organized by Anna Knaap, Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, in conjunction
with the temporary installation "Rubens and the Baroque Festival," on
view March 19-August 28 at the museum.
See the event's website for a detailed schedule and list of
presenters. http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=27895
For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu
.
Fri., Apr.16, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Valeria Cinaglia (University of Exeter)
"Understanding, Perception, Emotion. Aristotle and Menander”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
Title: TBA
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
Wed. Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University)
"Humans and Animals, or the Instability of Species and Gender in
Ancient Greece"
Thurs., Apr. 22, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Michael Fontaine (Cornell University)
"The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in
Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus, and Terence)"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
Sat., Apr. 24, 8:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Jewett Auditorium, 106 Central St Wellesley, MA
An Evening with Anne Carson and Dancers
Bracko and Cassandra Float Can: Reading and Performance
Panel to follow
Wed. Apr. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"The Politics of Beauty in Ancient Greek Art"
Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Fri., April 30, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, George Sherman Union, 775
Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
"Shrinking the Muse: Psychoanalysis and Literature"
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"Psychoanalytic Interpretation: Greek Myths and Roman Poems"
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University)
"Hippolytus Takes a Girlfriend: A Psychoanalytic Crux"
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
"Loving writing: Ovid's Amores"
Reception and dinner to follow. To register for dinner or for more
information, please visit www.bu.edu/classics/news/roman_studies.html
or contact Ms. Stacy Fox or Professor Patricia Johnson, e-mail: romstud(a)bu.edu
.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation at Boston University
Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group
"Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary
soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and
life in Alexandria
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon.-Sat., Jul. 12-17
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Summer Institute
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lecturers, Guest Speakers and Course Instructors will include:
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
"Songs About me: Why the Humanities Matter More Than Ever" AND "Games,
Gods and Generals: Video Games and the Ancient World"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"The Making of Sappho, Old and New"
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Quintus Sulpicius Maximus: A Roman Schoolboy Learning Greek in A.D.
94" AND "A Year in the Roman Empire: The Problem of Hindsight"
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
The Origins of Political Values in Ancient Greece: Justice, Equality,
Liberty, and Democracy
Phyllis Katz (Dartmouth College)
In a Different Voice: The Poetry of Sappho and Emily Dickinson
Eleanor Leach (Indiana University)
Storytelling in Roman Letters
Peter Machinist (Harvard University)
Between the Ancient Near East and the Classical World: The Case of the
Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Greek Athletics in Its Social Context
Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College)
Translating for Today: Some Case Studies
More information and registration can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org/csi/CSI2010Brochure.pdf
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
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fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
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Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(3/12/10)
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events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Sat. March 13, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group
"Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary
soldiers in the 1st Century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and
life in Alexandria
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Wed., Mar. 17, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Basil Dufallo (University of Michigan)
"The Challenge of Rustic Art: Ecphrasis, Greek Culture, and Social
Order in Vergil's Eclogue 3"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Jacob Howland (University of Tulsa)
"Plato and the Talmud"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu.
Fri., Mar. 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Harems and Harridans? Gender and Narrative in Herodotus"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Fri.-Sat., Mar. 19-20
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Annual Meeting
Moses Brown School, Providence, RI
Speakers include:
Eleanor Winsor Leach (Indiana University)
Reading Half the Dialogue: Cicero's Correspondence with C. Trebatius
Testa
Jeri Blair DeBrohun (Brown University)
Mothers and Sons: Seneca's Oedipus and Euripides' Bacchae
Raymond Starr, Wellesley College
"cui dono lepidum novum libellum? Corneli, tibi": Cornelius Nepos and
Catullus 1
More information (including registration) can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org
Sat., Mar. 20, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall, School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA
2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, "Ancient Chimeras: Composite
Creatures, Cultures, and Genres"
Guy M. Hedreen, Professor of Art (Williams College), will deliver the
keynote address entitled, "Bild, Mythos, and Ritual: Choral Dance in
Theseus’ Cretan Adventure on the François Vase."
This event is open to the public. For more information, please visit
our website http://www.bu.edu/classics/gsconference/index.html or e-
mail sophiek(a)bu.edu.
Monday, Mar. 22, 5:15-6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Susan Alcock (Brown University, Director of the Joukowsky Institute
for Archaeology)
"What to Do with the Wonder of the World: The Puzzle of Petra (Jordan)"
Professor Alcock will discuss the puzzle and paradox of Petra. A
'star' site of global heritage, as witnessed by its Hollywood
popularity and its 'modern seven wonders' status, it remains in many
ways poorly understood, not least in terms of its long-term historical
evolution. Fieldwork has been undertaken in the city for many years by
Brown University, but a new phase of that work is now beginning,
leading us to ask advice on the question: "What to do with a Wonder of
the World?"
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies at Brandeis University
For further Information, please contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (781-736-2180
or hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu). Free and open to the public (for
directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
*Tues., Mar. 23, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Marco Formisano (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Visiting Scholar,
Columbia University)
"On the Margins: Studying Non-Central Authors in Latin Literature"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Wed. Mar. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Brien Garnand (Whitman College)
"Why Little Girls are Good to Kill--Child Sacrifice in Greek Myth and
Phoenician Practice"
Thurs., Mar. 25, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Emily Allen Hornblower (Rutgers University)
"Metaphors of Pain in Ancient Greek Tragedy"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
http:/www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thursday, March 25, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Bartlett 65, Amherst, MA
John Oakley (College of William and Mary)
"Children in Wartime: Ancient Athens and Modern Europe"
The 6th Annual David F. Grose Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by Charles Grose and the Classics Department, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
Thurs., Mar. 25, 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Mitchell Miller (Vassar College, Findlay Visiting Professor at Boston
University)
"Limit and the Unlimited and the Immancence of Plato's Forms"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu
Thurs., Mar. 25, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College St.,
Providence, RI
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Orchestrated Violence: Music in the Roman Amphitheatre"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Tues., Mar. 30, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room),
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
David Armitage (Harvard University)
"Civil War: An Essentially Contested Concept?"
For further information about this Seminar, please contact the chairs
Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
(yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu).
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the
Harvard University Research Seminar on Cultural Politics
Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel (Architect, 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/).
Wed., Mar. 31, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, MEC Amphitheater 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
End of Life Project: Dramatic Reading of Scenes from PHILOCTETES and
WOMEN OF TRACHIS
Featuring Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe-Winning Actor Jeffrey Wright
End of Life is an innovative project that presents readings of ancient
Greek plays as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the
challenges faced by medical professionals and caregivers who work in
the fields of palliative care, hospice, geriatrics, and nursing. This
unique, participatory event is intended to promote healthy discussion
within diverse medical communities, fostering compassion, cooperation,
and understanding with regard to the management of chronic suffering.
Admission is free. Seating is limited.
RSVP to the Division of Medical Ethics: DME(a)hms.harvard.edu or call
617-432-2570.
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information, contact Geoffrey Sumi gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
**Fri., Apr. 2, 4:15 p.m., 12-2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
“What Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy? Plato’s Invention
of an Ancient Dispute (Republic 10.607b-c)”
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Lunch will be provided.
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Room 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Sat. Apr. 10, 9:30 a.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Fifth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Department of the Classics
"Pros and Cons: Professionalism and Expertise in the Ancient World"
Keynote Speaker: Dirk Obbink (Oxford University/University of Michigan)
For more information please visit http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65290&pageid=icb.page318254
or email harvardclassicsconference(a)gmail.com
Sat. April 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Coh. I Pannoniorum, Coh II Nabetea Sagittarii (members of Leg. III
Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group)
"Roman Auxiliary Soldiers" Presentation on Auxiliaries: non-citizen
soldiers serving Rome in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor,
and training
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Auxiliary / Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon., Apr. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Weaving Christ’s body: clothing, femininity and sexuality in the
Marian imagery of Byzantium"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 515, Cambridge, MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Female threads of salvation: the Mother of God, the veil of the
Incarnation and the Sevastokratorissa Eirene in twelfth-century
Constantinople"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
*Fri. and Sat., Apr. 16 and 17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
"Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens" (a two-day symposium)
Organized by Anna Knaap, Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, in conjunction
with the temporary installation "Rubens and the Baroque Festival," on
view March 19–August 28 at the museum.
See the event's website for a detailed schedule and list of
presenters. http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=27895
For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu
.
*Fri., Apr.16, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Valeria Cinaglia (University of Exeter)
“Understanding, Perception, Emotion. Aristotle and Menander”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
Title: TBA
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
Wed. Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University)
"Humans and Animals, or the Instability of Species and Gender in
Ancient Greece"
Thurs., Apr. 22, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Michael Fontaine (Cornell University)
"The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in
Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus, and Terence)"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
Sat., Apr. 24, 8:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Jewett Auditorium, 106 Central St Wellesley, MA
An Evening with Anne Carson and Dancers
Bracko and Cassandra Float Can: Reading and Performance
Panel to follow
Wed. Apr. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"The Politics of Beauty in Ancient Greek Art"
Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Fri., April 30, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, George Sherman Union, 775
Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
"Shrinking the Muse: Psychoanalysis and Literature"
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"Psychoanalytic Interpretation: Greek Myths and Roman Poems"
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University)
"Hippolytus Takes a Girlfriend: A Psychoanalytic Crux"
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
"Loving writing: Ovid's Amores"
Reception and dinner to follow. To register for dinner or for more
information, please visit www.bu.edu/classics/news/roman_studies.html
or contact Ms. Stacy Fox or Professor Patricia Johnson, e-mail: romstud(a)bu.edu
.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation at Boston University
Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group
"Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary
soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and
life in Alexandria
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon.-Sat., Jul. 12-17
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Summer Institute
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lecturers, Guest Speakers and Course Instructors will include:
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
"Songs About me: Why the Humanities Matter More Than Ever" AND "Games,
Gods and Generals: Video Games and the Ancient World"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"The Making of Sappho, Old and New"
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Quintus Sulpicius Maximus: A Roman Schoolboy Learning Greek in A.D.
94" AND "A Year in the Roman Empire: The Problem of Hindsight"
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
The Origins of Political Values in Ancient Greece: Justice, Equality,
Liberty, and Democracy
Phyllis Katz (Dartmouth College)
In a Different Voice: The Poetry of Sappho and Emily Dickinson
Eleanor Leach (Indiana University)
Storytelling in Roman Letters
Peter Machinist (Harvard University)
Between the Ancient Near East and the Classical World: The Case of the
Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Greek Athletics in Its Social Context
Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College)
Translating for Today: Some Case Studies
More information and registration can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org/csi/CSI2010Brochure.pdf
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
(3/5/10)
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events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries.
PLEASE NOTE:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Tues, Mar. 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Tau Zeta Epsilon House, Wellesley, MA
Amy Cohen (Randolph College)
"Ancient Theatrical Masks in Performance"
For further Information email bburns(a)wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/CampusMaps/
Tues., Mar. 9, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 133 Barker, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Pietro Bortone (University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for
Advanced Studies, Berlin, Germany)
"(Dis)continuities in Ethnic Identification and Linguistic Behavior:
Greek Speakers in Northeast Turkey"
Seminar chairs: Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu) and
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu).
This event is open to the public.
Tues. Mar. 9, 7:00 p.m.,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
The Semitic Museum presents a lecture by:
Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)
Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in "The Land of Palistin": Recent
Discoveries at Tell Tayinat on the Plain of Antioch
A reception is to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries
on the 2nd floor at 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge. For more information
please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu.
*Wed., Mar. 10, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA
Patrick Degryse (Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium)
Katherine Eremin (Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University)
Andrew Shortland (Cranfield University, U.K.)
"Writing History from Material Objects: New Light on Bronze Age Glass
in Egypt and Mesopotamia"
This lecture is presented by the Harvard GSAS Workshop "Reading the
Past: The History and Historiography of the Ancient Near East."
This lecture is free and open to the public.
A reception will be held afterwards.
*Sat. March 13, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group
"Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary
soldiers in the 1st Century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and
life in Alexandria
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Wed., Mar. 17, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Basil Dufallo (University of Michigan)
"The Challenge of Rustic Art: Ecphrasis, Greek Culture, and Social
Order in Vergil's Eclogue 3"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Jacob Howland (University of Tulsa)
"Plato and the Talmud"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu.
Fri., Mar. 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Harems and Harridans? Gender and Narrative in Herodotus"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Fri.-Sat., Mar. 19-20
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Annual Meeting
Moses Brown School, Providence, RI
Speakers include:
Eleanor Winsor Leach (Indiana University)
Reading Half the Dialogue: Cicero's Correspondence with C. Trebatius
Testa
Jeri Blair DeBrohun (Brown University)
Mothers and Sons: Seneca's Oedipus and Euripides' Bacchae
Raymond Starr, Wellesley College
"cui dono lepidum novum libellum? Corneli, tibi": Cornelius Nepos and
Catullus 1
More information (including registration) can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org
Sat., Mar. 20, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall, School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA
2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, "Ancient Chimeras: Composite
Creatures, Cultures, and Genres"
Guy M. Hedreen, Professor of Art (Williams College), will deliver the
keynote address entitled, "Bild, Mythos, and Ritual: Choral Dance in
Theseus’ Cretan Adventure on the François Vase."
This event is open to the public. For more information, please visit
our website http://www.bu.edu/classics/gsconference/index.html or e-
mail sophiek(a)bu.edu.
Monday, Mar. 22, 5:15-6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
Susan Alcock (Brown University, Director of the Joukowsky Institute
for Archaeology)
"What to Do with the Wonder of the World: The Puzzle of Petra (Jordan)"
Professor Alcock will discuss the puzzle and paradox of Petra. A
'star' site of global heritage, as witnessed by its Hollywood
popularity and its 'modern seven wonders' status, it remains in many
ways poorly understood, not least in terms of its long-term historical
evolution. Fieldwork has been undertaken in the city for many years by
Brown University, but a new phase of that work is now beginning,
leading us to ask advice on the question: "What to do with a Wonder of
the World?"
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies at Brandeis University
For further Information, please contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (781-736-2180
or hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu). Free and open to the public (for
directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
Wed. Mar. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Brien Garnand (Whitman College)
"Why Little Girls are Good to Kill--Child Sacrifice in Greek Myth and
Phoenician Practice"
*Thurs., Mar. 25, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Emily Allen Hornblower (Rutgers University)
"Metaphors of Pain in Ancient Greek Tragedy"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
http:/www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thursday, March 25, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Bartlett 65, Amherst, MA
John Oakley (College of William and Mary)
"Children in Wartime: Ancient Athens and Modern Europe"
The 6th Annual David F. Grose Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by Charles Grose and the Classics Department, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
*Thurs., Mar. 25, 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Mitchell Miller (Vassar College, Findlay Visiting Professor at Boston
University)
"Limit and the Unlimited and the Immancence of Plato's Forms"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu
Thurs., Mar. 25, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College St.,
Providence, RI
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Orchestrated Violence: Music in the Roman Amphitheatre"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Tues., Mar. 30, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room),
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
David Armitage (Harvard University)
"Civil War: An Essentially Contested Concept?"
For further information about this Seminar, please contact the chairs
Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
(yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu).
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the
Harvard University Research Seminar on Cultural Politics
Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel (Architect, 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/).
*Wed., Mar. 31, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, MEC Amphitheater 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
End of Life Project: Dramatic Reading of Scenes from PHILOCTETES and
WOMEN OF TRACHIS
Featuring Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe-Winning Actor Jeffrey Wright
End of Life is an innovative project that presents readings of ancient
Greek plays as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the
challenges faced by medical professionals and caregivers who work in
the fields of palliative care, hospice, geriatrics, and nursing. This
unique, participatory event is intended to promote healthy discussion
within diverse medical communities, fostering compassion, cooperation,
and understanding with regard to the management of chronic suffering.
Admission is free. Seating is limited.
RSVP to the Division of Medical Ethics: DME(a)hms.harvard.edu or call
617-432-2570.
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information, contact Geoffrey Sumi gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Fri., Apr. 2, Time TBA
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: TBD
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Room 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Sat. Apr. 10, 9:30 a.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Fifth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Department of the Classics
"Pros and Cons: Professionalism and Expertise in the Ancient World"
Keynote Speaker: Dirk Obbink (Oxford University/University of Michigan)
For more information please visit http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65290&pageid=icb.page318254
or email harvardclassicsconference(a)gmail.com
*Sat. April 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Coh. I Pannoniorum, Coh II Nabetea Sagittarii (members of Leg. III
Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group)
"Roman Auxiliary Soldiers" Presentation on Auxiliaries: non-citizen
soldiers serving Rome in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor,
and training
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Auxiliary / Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon., Apr. 12, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Weaving Christ’s body: clothing, femininity and sexuality in the
Marian imagery of Byzantium"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Wed., Apr. 14, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 515, Cambridge, MA
Maria Evangelatou (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow)
"Female threads of salvation: the Mother of God, the veil of the
Incarnation and the Sevastokratorissa Eirene in twelfth-century
Constantinople"
Presented by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
Title: TBA
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
Wed. Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University)
"Humans and Animals, or the Instability of Species and Gender in
Ancient Greece"
Thurs., Apr. 22, 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Michael Fontaine (Cornell University)
"The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in
Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus, and Terence)"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
Sat., Apr. 24, 8:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Jewett Auditorium, 106 Central St Wellesley, MA
An Evening with Anne Carson and Dancers
Bracko and Cassandra Float Can: Reading and Performance
Panel to follow
Wed. Apr. 28, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
Core Group Classical Archaeology
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"The Politics of Beauty in Ancient Greek Art"
Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Fri., April 30, 3:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, George Sherman Union, 775
Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
"Shrinking the Muse: Psychoanalysis and Literature"
Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University)
"Psychoanalytic Interpretation: Greek Myths and Roman Poems"
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University)
"Hippolytus Takes a Girlfriend: A Psychoanalytic Crux"
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
"Loving writing: Ovid's Amores"
Reception and dinner to follow. To register for dinner or for more
information, please visit www.bu.edu/classics/news/roman_studies.html
or contact Ms. Stacy Fox or Professor Patricia Johnson, e-mail: romstud(a)bu.edu
.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities
Foundation at Boston University
*Sat. May 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
HIGGINS ARMORY MUSEUM, 100 Barber Ave. Worcester, MA
Legion III Cyrenaica, Roman Legion Living History Group
"Legion III Cyrenaica" Presentation on Legion III and Legionary
soldiers in the first century AD/CE, their arms, armor, training and
life in Alexandria
Program is free with museum admission. Museum website: www.higgins.org
Legion III information: Andy Volpe at PalusButeo(a)hotmail.com
Mon.-Sat., Jul. 12-17
Classical Association of New England (CANE) Summer Institute
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lecturers, Guest Speakers and Course Instructors will include:
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
"Songs About me: Why the Humanities Matter More Than Ever" AND "Games,
Gods and Generals: Video Games and the Ancient World"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"The Making of Sappho, Old and New"
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Quintus Sulpicius Maximus: A Roman Schoolboy Learning Greek in A.D.
94" AND "A Year in the Roman Empire: The Problem of Hindsight"
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
The Origins of Political Values in Ancient Greece: Justice, Equality,
Liberty, and Democracy
Phyllis Katz (Dartmouth College)
In a Different Voice: The Poetry of Sappho and Emily Dickinson
Eleanor Leach (Indiana University)
Storytelling in Roman Letters
Peter Machinist (Harvard University)
Between the Ancient Near East and the Classical World: The Case of the
Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes
Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Greek Athletics in Its Social Context
Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College)
Translating for Today: Some Case Studies
More information and registration can be found at: http://www.caneweb.org/csi/CSI2010Brochure.pdf
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
