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*Fri., Oct. 28
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI 02912
Andrew Riggsby (University of Texas, Austin)
"Over the Hill and Through the Woods: Roman Multimedia Landscapes" with a response by Kurt Raaflaub, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History
Open to the public. For more information visit http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown
Thurs., Nov. 3
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street Middletown, CT 06459
Marcus Folch (Columbia University)
"How to Kill a Prisoner: the Poetics of Bondage in Ancient Greece"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Fri., Nov. 4
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave. (School of Theology Building) Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Egbert Bakker (Yale University)
"Circe: Feasting in the Land of the Dawn"
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact Melissa at mjoseph(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427.
Sat., Nov. 5
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 02115
SYMPOSIUM: Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, A Symposium will be held on Saturday, November 5th from 10:30 to 4:30 in Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in conjunction with the exhibition (Torf Gallery, October 26, 2011 – February 20, 2011), the first devoted to the ancient goddess. An international team of experts, drawn largely from the contributors to the catalogue of the same title (available in the MFA bookshop and online), will present papers on different aspects of this complicated goddess: her cults and ancestors, the philosophy of beauty, and Eros. The symposium is funded by the Estelle Shohet Brettman Lecture Series supported by the International Catacomb Society. It is free and open to the public. Free tickets will be available at the Huntington and Fenway entrances on the day of the event, on a first come, first served basis.
poster: http://tinyurl.com/AphroditeSymposiumMFA
*Mon., Nov. 7
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno, Room 201, 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI 02912
Christer Bruun (University of Toronto)
"King Anitochus of Sicily and the Political Aims of the First Sicilian Slave Rebellion"
Open to the public. For more information visit http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown
Tues., Nov. 15
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE Art Museum, South Hadley, MA 01075
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"Making Up A Woman In Ancient Greece"
Co-sponsored by the Art History Program Amy M. Sacker Fund
In conjunction with the exhibition Reconstructing Antiquity
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum
Thurs., Nov. 17
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street Middletown, CT 06459
James Uden (Boston University)
"The Images and Ideology of Childhood Education in Statius' Achilleid"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
*Thurs., Dec. 1
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Herter Hall, Auditorium 231, Amherst, MA 01003
Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University)
"From Ben Hur to Nascar: Fans, Fame and the Roman Circus"
Sponsored by UMass Classics, UMass Art History, and the Archaeological Institute of America in Western Massachusetts
*Mon., Dec. 5
8 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
BROWN UNVERSITY (at an off-campus location), First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main St., Providence, RI
Carols by Brown Classics Department Faculty and special guest President Ruth Simmons
Carols for all, with musical prelude and accompaniment by University Organist Mark Steinbach, plus the Chattertocks’ rendition of the XII days of Christmas and a special appearance by the Greek folk singing group, Apoichos. All this in Latin, Greek, and a bit of Sanskrit (with translations provided, for any whose ancient languages are a little rusty). A lovely Brown tradition. Admission free. Everyone is welcome.
Tues., Dec. 6
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Brown University, Religious Studies Seminar Room (Rm 101), Shirley Miller House, 59 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Christopher Krebs (Harvard University)
"A Different Caesar: Neglected Aspects of his Writing"
Mon., Feb. 13
12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
"Isaac Casaubon and the Study of Ancient History"
Classical Traditions Seminar
Mon., Feb. 27
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 133, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Richard Rutherford (Christ Church, Oxford)
"Decorum and Sexuality in Greek Tragedy"
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
*Wed., Mar. 7
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"The Unsolved Mystery of the Agora Bone Well"
Abstract: http://www.umass.edu/aia/Abstracts.htm#Rotroff
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Massachusetts Society.
*Tues., Mar. 27
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall,) Amherst, MA 01002
Katherine Schwab (Fairfield University)
"Investigating the Surface: Hairstyles of the Athenian Caryatids"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Amherst College
Fri., Apr. 20
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
"Coin Hoards and hoarding in Britain: buried with the intention of recovery or votive deposits?"
http://www.archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/5776
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Harvard University Department of the Classics
Thurs., Apr. 26
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
title: TBA
Mildenberg Lecture
APPENDIX:
Wheelchair access:
to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off
Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor)
to the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to
the basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the
elevator to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on
the first floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the
sign-posted entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first
floor) to the Sperry Room
There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic Museum at Harvard.
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
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Tue.-Thu., Oct. 25-27
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Law, 12th Floor Lounge, 765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215
Exhibit: Discovering Perge
Tue.-Thu., Oct. 25-27
8 a.m.-8 p.m.
EXHIBIT: "Discovering PERGE: Celebrating 65 Years of Excavations on Turkey's Mediterranean Coast"
Free and open to the public.
Tues., Oct. 25
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 114, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stefan Alexandru (Heidelberg University)
"Galenus redivivus: Some Further Remarks on Codex Thessalonicensis Vlatadon 14"
Lunch talk. Please RSVP to classics(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4027 if you plan to attend.
Tues., Oct. 25
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University)
"A Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Stoicism, Natural Law and the Decline of Classical Prudence in Enlightenment Politics"
Classical Traditions Seminar
Tues., Oct. 25
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ian Morris (Stanford University)
"Archaeology and the Shape of Human History"
Harvard University, Standing Committee on Archaeology, Fall Term Event
Reception with food and drinks to follow at the Ticknor Lounge (next to the Fong Auditorium). http://map.harvard.edu/
Wed., Oct. 26
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Law, 12th Floor Lounge, 765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215
İnci Delemen (İstanbul University)
Co-sponsored by the American Friends of Turkey, the Turkish-American Cultural Society of New England, the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Department of Archaeology at Boston University
With continuous Istanbul University exploration of the Perge since 1946, the excavation project now celebrates its 65th anniversary, making it the longest-running all-Turkish excavation in the country. Coinciding with a traveling poster exhibition that marks this special occasion will be a lecture from Dr. İnci Delemen of İstanbul University, a long-time member of the excavation team. Both the exhibition and the lecture will highlight the remarkable archaeology of Perge, underscoring the importance of this site for understanding Classical antiquity.
Free and open to the public.
*Wed., Oct. 26
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University)
"Aesthetic Toleration: Lucretius and the Survival of Unacceptable Ideas"
Respondents: Ann Blair and Robert Darnton
Wed., Oct. 26
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall, Durham, NH 03824
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"The Talk of the Town: Essays and Op-Ed Columns by the Younger Pliny"
The John C. Rouman Lecture
Thurs., Oct. 27
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMass Boston, Wheatley Building First Floor, Room 54, 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393
Raymond Cormier (Longwood University)
"The Methods of Medieval Translators"
A Comparison of Virgil's Latin Aeneid and its High Medieval Adaptation, with illustrations of manuscript glosses relevant to the Old French Roman d’Enéas
Sponsored by The Department of Classics UMass Boston
Questions: Kenneth.Rothwell(a)umb.edu
Thurs., Oct. 27
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE Art Museum, South Hadley, MA 01075
Eric Varner (Emory University)
"Sex, Lies, and Politics: Portraits of Rome's 'Bad Empresses"
In conjunction with the exhibition Reconstructing Antiquity
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum
Thurs., Oct. 27
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Concert in tribute to Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis
The Department of Classical Studies at BU in cooperation with the BU Hellenic Association, the BU Center for the Humanities, the Greek Institute, the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, and Arion: a Journal of Humanities and the Classics, presents "Manos and Mikis," featuring The Greek Music Ensemble. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Dept. of Classical Studies at 617-353-2427, The Tsai Center (bu.edu/tsai), or The Greek Institute at 617-547-4770. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $5 for
students (with student ID). BU Faculty and Staff Members $15. Tickets will be also available at the door. For more information, contact the Department of Classical Studies Melissa Joseph josephmv(a)bu.edu 617-353-2427.
URL: http://www.greekmusicensemble.com/
Thurs., Nov. 3
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street Middletown, CT 06459
Marcus Folch (Columbia University)
"How to Kill a Prisoner: the Poetics of Bondage in Ancient Greece"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Fri., Nov. 4
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave. (School of Theology Building) Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Egbert Bakker (Yale University)
"Circe: Feasting in the Land of the Dawn"
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact Melissa at mjoseph(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427.
Sat., Nov. 5
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 02115
SYMPOSIUM: Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, A Symposium will be held on Saturday, November 5th from 10:30 to 4:30 in Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in conjunction with the exhibition (Torf Gallery, October 26, 2011 – February 20, 2011), the first devoted to the ancient goddess. An international team of experts, drawn largely from the contributors to the catalogue of the same title (available in the MFA bookshop and online), will present papers on different aspects of this complicated goddess: her cults and ancestors, the philosophy of beauty, and Eros. The symposium is funded by the Estelle Shohet Brettman Lecture Series supported by the International Catacomb Society. It is free and open to the public. Free tickets will be available at the Huntington and Fenway entrances on the day of the event, on a first come, first served basis.
poster: http://tinyurl.com/AphroditeSymposiumMFA
Tues., Nov. 15
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE Art Museum, South Hadley, MA 01075
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"Making Up A Woman In Ancient Greece"
Co-sponsored by the Art History Program Amy M. Sacker Fund
In conjunction with the exhibition Reconstructing Antiquity
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum
Thurs., Nov. 17
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street Middletown, CT 06459
James Uden (Boston University)
"The Images and Ideology of Childhood Education in Statius' Achilleid"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
*Thurs., Dec. 1
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Herter Hall, auditorium 231, Amherst, MA 01003
Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University)
"From Ben Hur to Nascar: Fans, Fame and the Roman Circus"
Sponsored by UMass Classics, UMass Art History, and the Archaeological Institute of
America in Western Massachusetts
Tues., Dec. 6
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Brown University, Religious Studies Seminar Room (Rm 101), Shirley Miller House, 59 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Christopher Krebs (Harvard University)
"A Different Caesar: Neglected Aspects of his Writing"
Mon., Feb. 13
12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
"Isaac Casaubon and the Study of Ancient History"
Classical Traditions Seminar
Mon., Feb. 27
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 133, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Richard Rutherford (Christ Church, Oxford)
"Decorum and Sexuality in Greek Tragedy"
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
*Wed., Mar. 7
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"The Unsolved Mystery of the Agora Bone Well"
Abstract: http://www.umass.edu/aia/Abstracts.htm#Rotroff
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Massachusetts Society.
*Tues., Mar. 27
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall,) Amherst, MA 01002
Katherine Schwab (Fairfield University)
"Investigating the Surface: Hairstyles of the Athenian Caryatids"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Amherst College
Fri., Apr. 20
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
"Coin Hoards and hoarding in Britain: buried with the intention of recovery or votive deposits?"
http://www.archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/5776
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Harvard University Department of the Classics
Thurs., Apr. 26
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
title: TBA
Mildenberg Lecture
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
We have a Google Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/3ztr34n
One can subscribe to it using his or her own Google Calendar account
by clicking the link at the bottom of the calendar on the above page.
One can subscribe to receive calendar emails at the following link:
http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list
This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming
events and subscription requests should be sent to
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as a plain text
email in the format shown below. New items and corrections received
after 5 p.m. on Wednesday may not appear in the calendar until the
Friday of the following week.
PLEASE NOTE:
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Mon., Oct. 17
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON, Campus Center, Room 3545, 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393
New England Ancient History Colloquium / Christopher van den Berg (Amherst College)
Schedule of Events:
5:30-6:30 Gathering and Cash Bar
6:30-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:30 Brief introduction and highlights of pre-circulated paper by Christopher van den
Berg (Amherst College) entitled "Deliberative Oratory in the Annals and the Dialogus," followed by commentary by Elizabeth Keitel (UMass Amherst) and general discussion.
Please see the registration form for more information: http://tinyurl.com/NEAHC10172011
Tues., Oct. 18
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel G12, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Richard Thomas (Harvard University)
"Virgil, the nineteenth century and the aesthetics of empathy"
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Reception to follow. Open to the public. Free parking. Contact: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (hmallis(a)brandeis.edu) for additional information.
Thurs., Oct. 20
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Margaret Imber (Bates College)
"Daughters, Whores and Anxious Fathers: the Function of Women in Roman Declamation"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Oct. 20
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Gregory Aldrete (University of Wisconsin at Green Bay)
"Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Archaeology at Boston University
*Thurs., Oct. 20
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Clemens Reichel (University of Toronto)
"Talk of the City: Early Urban Developments at Hamoukar in Northeastern Syria (4,500–2,000 BC)"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum and the Harvard Near East Society
For more information please email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu or visit
http://www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
*Thurs., Oct. 20
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jessica Dello Russo (Northeastern University)
"A Harvard Student's Journey through the Jewish Catacombs of Rome"
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater Boston area. For more information, please, contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or visit the website at http://www.bostontheological.org/patristica_bostoniensia.html
Tue.-Thu., Oct. 25-27
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Law, 12th Floor Lounge, 765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215
Exhibit: Discovering Perge
8 a.m.-8 p.m.
EXHIBIT: "Discovering PERGE: Celebrating 65 Years of Excavations on Turkey's Mediterranean Coast"
Free and open to the public.
*Tues., Oct. 25
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 114, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stefan Alexandru (Heidelberg University)
"Galenus redivivus: Some Further Remarks on Codex Thessalonicensis Vlatadon 14"
Lunch talk. Please RSVP to classics(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4027 if you plan to attend.
Tues., Oct. 25
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University)
"A Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Stoicism, Natural Law and the Decline of Classical Prudence in Enlightenment Politics"
Classical Traditions Seminar
*Tues., Oct. 25
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ian Morris (Stanford University)
"Archaeology and the Shape of Human History"
Harvard University, Standing Committee on Archaeology, Fall Term Event
Reception with food and drinks to follow at the Ticknor Lounge (next to the Fong Auditorium). http://map.harvard.edu/
Wed., Oct. 26
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Law, 12th Floor Lounge, 765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215
İnci Delemen (İstanbul University)
Co-sponsored by the American Friends of Turkey, the Turkish-American Cultural Society of New England, the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Department of Archaeology at Boston University
With continuous Istanbul University exploration of the Perge since 1946, the excavation project now celebrates its 65th anniversary, making it the longest-running all-Turkish excavation in the country. Coinciding with a traveling poster exhibition that marks this special occasion will be a lecture from Dr. İnci Delemen of İstanbul University, a long-time member of the excavation team. Both the exhibition and the lecture will highlight the remarkable archaeology of Perge, underscoring the importance of this site for understanding Classical antiquity.
Free and open to the public.
Wed., Oct. 26
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall, Durham, NH 03824
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"The Talk of the Town: Essays and Op-Ed Columns by the Younger Pliny"
The John C. Rouman Lecture
Thurs., Oct. 27
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMass Boston, Wheatley Building First Floor, Room 54, 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393
Raymond Cormier (Longwood University)
"The Methods of Medieval Translators"
A Comparison of Virgil's Latin Aeneid and its High Medieval Adaptation, with illustrations of manuscript glosses relevant to the Old French Roman d’Enéas
Sponsored by The Department of Classics UMass Boston
Questions: Kenneth.Rothwell(a)umb.edu
*Thurs., Oct. 27
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE Art Museum, South Hadley, MA 01075
Eric Varner (Emory University)
"Sex, Lies, and Politics: Portraits of Rome's 'Bad Empresses"
In conjunction with the exhibition Reconstructing Antiquity
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum
Thurs., Oct. 27
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Concert in tribute to Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis
The Department of Classical Studies at BU in cooperation with the BU Hellenic Association, the BU Center for the Humanities, the Greek Institute, the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, and Arion: a Journal of Humanities and the Classics, presents "Manos and Mikis," featuring The Greek Music Ensemble. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Dept. of Classical Studies at 617-353-2427, The Tsai Center (bu.edu/tsai), or The Greek Institute at 617-547-4770. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $5 for
students (with student ID). BU Faculty and Staff Members $15. Tickets will be also available at the door. For more information, contact the Department of Classical Studies Melissa Joseph josephmv(a)bu.edu 617-353-2427.
URL: http://www.greekmusicensemble.com/
Thurs., Nov. 3
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street Middletown, CT 06459
Marcus Folch (Columbia University)
"How to Kill a Prisoner: the Poetics of Bondage in Ancient Greece"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
*Fri., Nov. 4
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave. (School of Theology Building) Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Egbert Bakker (Yale University)
"Circe: Feasting in the Land of the Dawn"
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact Melissa at mjoseph(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427.
Sat., Nov. 5
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 02115
SYMPOSIUM: Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, A Symposium will be held on Saturday, November 5th from 10:30 to 4:30 in Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in conjunction with the exhibition (Torf Gallery, October 26, 2011 – February 20, 2011), the first devoted to the ancient goddess. An international team of experts, drawn largely from the contributors to the catalogue of the same title (available in the MFA bookshop and online), will present papers on different aspects of this complicated goddess: her cults and ancestors, the philosophy of beauty, and Eros. The symposium is funded by the Estelle Shohet Brettman Lecture Series supported by the International Catacomb Society. It is free and open to the public. Free tickets will be available at the Huntington and Fenway entrances on the day of the event, on a first come, first served basis.
poster: http://tinyurl.com/AphroditeSymposiumMFA
*Tues., Nov. 15
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE Art Museum, South Hadley, MA 01075
Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College)
"Making Up A Woman In Ancient Greece"
Co-sponsored by the Art History Program Amy M. Sacker Fund
In conjunction with the exhibition Reconstructing Antiquity
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum
Thurs., Nov. 17
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street Middletown, CT 06459
James Uden (Boston University)
"The Images and Ideology of Childhood Education in Statius' Achilleid"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Tues., Dec. 6
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Brown University, Religious Studies Seminar Room (Rm 101), Shirley Miller House, 59 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Christopher Krebs (Harvard University)
"A Different Caesar: Neglected Aspects of his Writing"
Mon., Feb. 13
12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
"Isaac Casaubon and the Study of Ancient History"
Classical Traditions Seminar
*Mon., Feb. 27
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 133, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Richard Rutherford (Christ Church, Oxford)
"Decorum and Sexuality in Greek Tragedy"
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
Fri., Apr. 20
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
"Coin Hoards and hoarding in Britain: buried with the intention of recovery or votive deposits?"
http://www.archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/5776
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Harvard University Department of the Classics
Thurs., Apr. 26
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
title: TBA
Mildenberg Lecture
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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Wed., Oct. 12
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ananya Jahanara Kabir (University of Leeds)
"Village Communities and Sacred Groves: Tacitus's Germania in British India"
Center for History and Economics Seminar
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/index.html
*Thurs., Oct. 13
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Yan Shaoxiang (Capital Normal University, Beijing)
"Greek and Roman Historical Scholarship in China"
Professor Shaoxiang is a Visiting Scholar in the Harvard University
Department of the Classics.
poster: http://tinyurl.com/YanShaoxiang
Fri-Sun., Oct. 14-16
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 650 Beacon St, Suite 510, Boston, MA 02215
Association of Literature Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) 17th
Annual Conference
This year's keynote speaker is Irish novelist Colum McCann (CUNY
Hunter), who will read after Saturday night's dinner. The conference
includes panels on The King James Bible, Horace, teaching the Odyssey,
and Berryman's Dream Songs, to name just a few. The panel on Berryman
will respond to Jim Vrabel's Homage to Henry, an hour-long performance
of the poet's The Dream Songs.
Registration and more information about the conference can be found at
www.alscw.org.
Fri., Oct. 14
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave. (School of Theology Building)
Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Ian Storey (Trent University)
"Angling in Archippus"
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact Melissa at mjoseph(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427.
**Mon., Oct. 17
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON, Campus Center, Room 3545, 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA
02125-3393
New England Ancient History Colloquium / Christopher van den Berg
(Amherst College)
Schedule of Events:
5:30-6:30 Gathering and Cash Bar
6:30-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:30 Brief introduction and highlights of pre-circulated paper by
Christopher van den
Berg (Amherst College) entitled "Deliberative Oratory in the Annals
and the Dialogus," followed by commentary by Elizabeth Keitel (UMass
Amherst) and general discussion.
Please see the registration form for more information:
http://tinyurl.com/NEAHC10172011
Tues., Oct. 18
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel G12, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Richard Thomas (Harvard University)
"Virgil, the nineteenth century and the aesthetics of empathy"
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Reception to follow. Open to the public. Free parking. Contact: Ann O.
Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister
(hmallis(a)brandeis.edu) for additional information.
Thurs., Oct. 20
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT 06459
Margaret Imber (Bates College)
"Daughters, Whores and Anxious Fathers: the Function of Women in Roman
Declamation"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski
(dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Oct. 20
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences Room 224, 675
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Gregory Aldrete (University of Wisconsin at Green Bay)
"Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Department of Archaeology at Boston University
*Tue.-Thu., Oct. 25-27
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Law, 12th Floor Lounge, 765 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston MA 02215
Exhibit: Discovering Perge
8 a.m.-8 p.m.
EXHIBIT: "Discovering PERGE: Celebrating 65 Years of Excavations on
Turkey's Mediterranean Coast"
Free and open to the public.
Tues., Oct. 25
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 114, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University)
"A Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Stoicism, Natural Law and the Decline of
Classical Prudence in Enlightenment Politics"
Classical Traditions Seminar
*Wed., Oct. 26
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Law, 12th Floor Lounge, 765 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston MA 02215
İnci Delemen (İstanbul University)
Co-sponsored by the American Friends of Turkey, the Turkish-American
Cultural Society of New England, the Boston Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America, and the Department of Archaeology
at Boston University
With continuous Istanbul University exploration of the Perge since
1946, the excavation project now celebrates its 65th anniversary,
making it the longest-running all-Turkish excavation in the country.
Coinciding with a traveling poster exhibition that marks this special
occasion will be a lecture from Dr. İnci Delemen of İstanbul
University, a long-time member of the excavation team. Both the
exhibition and the lecture will highlight the remarkable archaeology
of Perge, underscoring the importance of this site for understanding
Classical antiquity.
Free and open to the public.
Wed., Oct. 26
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall,
Durham, NH 03824
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"The Talk of the Town: Essays and Op-Ed Columns by the Younger Pliny"
The John C. Rouman Lecture
Thurs., Oct. 27
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMass Boston, Wheatley Building First Floor, Room 54, 100 Morrissey
Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393
Raymond Cormier (Longwood University)
"The Methods of Medieval Translators"
A Comparison of Virgil's Latin Aeneid and its High Medieval
Adaptation, with illustrations of manuscript glosses relevant to the
Old French Roman d’Enéas
Sponsored by The Department of Classics UMass Boston
Questions: Kenneth.Rothwell(a)umb.edu
Thurs., Oct. 27
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, MA 02215
Concert in tribute to Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis
The Department of Classical Studies at BU in cooperation with the BU
Hellenic Association, the BU Center for the Humanities, the Greek
Institute, the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, and Arion: a
Journal of Humanities and the Classics, presents "Manos and Mikis,"
featuring The Greek Music Ensemble. Tickets can be purchased by
contacting the Dept. of Classical Studies at 617-353-2427, The Tsai
Center (bu.edu/tsai), or The Greek Institute at 617-547-4770. Tickets
are $20 for general admission and $5 for
students (with student ID). BU Faculty and Staff Members $15. Tickets
will be also available at the door. For more information, contact the
Department of Classical Studies Melissa Joseph josephmv(a)bu.edu
617-353-2427.
URL: http://www.greekmusicensemble.com/
Thurs., Nov. 3
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
Marcus Folch (Columbia University)
"How to Kill a Prisoner: the Poetics of Bondage in Ancient Greece"
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., Nov. 5
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 02115
SYMPOSIUM: Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, A Symposium will be held on Saturday,
November 5th from 10:30 to 4:30 in Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston in conjunction with the exhibition (Torf Gallery, October
26, 2011 – February 20, 2011), the first devoted to the ancient
goddess. An international team of experts, drawn largely from the
contributors to the catalogue of the same title (available in the MFA
bookshop and online), will present papers on different aspects of this
complicated goddess: her cults and ancestors, the philosophy of
beauty, and Eros. The symposium is funded by the Estelle Shohet
Brettman Lecture Series supported by the International Catacomb
Society. It is free and open to the public. Free tickets will be
available at the Huntington and Fenway entrances on the day of the
event, on a first come, first served basis.
poster: http://tinyurl.com/AphroditeSymposiumMFA
Thurs., Nov. 17
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
James Uden (Boston University)
"The Images and Ideology of Childhood Education in Statius' Achilleid"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski
(dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Tues., Dec. 6
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Brown University, Religious Studies Seminar Room (Rm 101), Shirley
Miller House, 59 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Christopher Krebs (Harvard University)
"A Different Caesar: Neglected Aspects of his Writing"
Mon., Feb. 13
12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
"Isaac Casaubon and the Study of Ancient History"
Classical Traditions Seminar
Fri., Apr. 20
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
"Coin Hoards and hoarding in Britain: buried with the intention of
recovery or votive deposits?"
http://www.archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/5776
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the
Harvard University Department of the Classics
Thurs., Apr. 26
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roger Bland (British Museum)
title: TBA
Mildenberg Lecture
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.