Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 29, 2011
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Fri., Apr. 29
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Schedule:
4:00 Registration
4:15 Presentations:
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia"
Ann Vasaly, Boston University
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
7:00 Reception with Cash Bar
7:30 Dinner
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu; Information: Tel. 617-353-2426
Fri., Apr. 29, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 30, 8:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the German archaeologist and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978). Her work on Hellenistic and Roman sculpture and on the Roman Theater remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin collection will bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of different backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It will focus on the interrelation of coins and sculpture with an emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and portraits of the Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian and Mediterranean Division.
Program below and here: http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=33695
Friday
6-7 p.m. Keynote Address
--"Emperor among the Crowd: Form and Format in Roman Imperial Portraiture"
Barbara E. Borg, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter, and Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute
7-8 p.m. Reception
Saturday
8:30-9 a.m. Coffee
9-9:10 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
--"Sculpture and Coins"
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer on the Classics, Harvard University
9:10-10:30 a.m. Session 1
Chair: Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, Harvard University
--"Remembering Margarete Bieber in New York"
Larissa Bonfante, Professor of Classics, Emerita, New York University
--"Behind the Scenes: Margarete Bieber's Impact on 20th-Century Scholarship"
Matthias Recke, Curator of the Ancient Art Collection, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Justus Liebig University Giessen
10:30-11 a.m. Break
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Session 2
Chair: Ruth Bielfeldt, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
--"King in a Small World: Depictions of Alexander on His Shields and Armor"
Karsten Dahmen, Curator of Ancient Coins, Coin Cabinet, Berlin State Museums
--"Honos and Virtus? Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius"
Peter F. Mittag, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cologne
12:30-2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30-3:30 p.m. Session 3, Part 1
Chair: Adrian Staehli, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Harvard University
--"Man into God: The Dead Emperor Lives"
William E. Metcalf, Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals, Yale University Art Gallery, and Adjunct Professor of Classics, Yale University
-- "Faustina the Elder and Younger on Coins and in Statues"
Martin Beckmann, Assistant Professor of Classics, McMaster University
3:30-4 p.m. Tea
4-5:30 p.m. Session 3, Part 2
-- "The Women of the Severan Dynasty: Coining Female Power?"
Annetta Alexandridis, Assistant Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Cornell University
--Closing Remarks
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi and Adrian Staehli
--Discussion
Free admission. Open to the public. Complimentary parking for this event is available at the Broadway Garage, on Felton Street between Cambridge Street and Broadway. For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu or 617-495-4544.
Presented in conjunction with the temporary installation The Scholar as Collector: Margarete Bieber (1879-1978), organized by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer on the Classics, Harvard University.
To honor the memory of renowned numismatist and scholar Leo Mildenberg (1912-2001) and his years of friendship with Harvard University, a fund was established by his friends and colleagues and endowed in 2005 by his wife, Ilse Mildenberg-Seehausen.
Mon., May 2
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
*Thurs., May 5
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall, 206, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sebastian Sommer (Chief Archaeologist, Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege)
"Romans and civilians on the German frontier: the case of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Thurs., May 5
6:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered how we understand our dreams and their significance. In this cross-disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J. Allan Hobson), Jungian therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian of ideas (David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the "meaning" of dreams and what they can tell us about ourselves in light of these advances.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston College. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Daniel Harris-McCoy (harrises(a)bc.edu).
Fri. and Sat., May 6 and 7
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fay House, Sheerr Room, Radcliffe Yard (10 Garden St.), Cambridge, MA 02138
Themes from Striker: Ancient Logic, Epistemology, and Ethics
A conference in honor of Gisela Striker on the occasion of her retirement from the Walter C. Klein Chair in Philosophy and Classics
Friday, May 6
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Jennifer Whiting, University of Toronto
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Rusty Jones, Harvard University
3:30 - 5:15 p.m. James Allen, University of Pittsburgh
5:30 p.m. Reception
Saturday, May 7
9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University
11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Mitzi Lee, U. of Colorado, Boulder
12:45 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. John Schafer, Northwestern University
4:15 - 5:45 p.m. Dorothea Frede, UC Berkeley
6:00 p.m. Reception
The conference will take place at Harvard University. Events will be in the Sheerr Room in Fay House, Radcliffe Yard (10 Garden St.)
Sponsored By: The Provostial Funds Committee, the Department of Philosophy, & the Department of Classics.
For more information and to register, contact emcwill(a)fas.harvard.edu.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/strikerconference.html
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
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www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
> The Department of Classical Studies at Boston University and The BU Hellenic Association present:
>
> "From Ancient to Modern Greek: Myths and Realities about Language"
>
> by Professor Panayiota Gounari (UMASS, Boston)
>
> A brief history of Greek from ancient times; the movement of Atticism and the Koine; the debate between Demotic and Katharevousa. Myths about continuity, purity and uniqueness of the Greek language.
>
> Join us for an interesting lecture and discussion that will take us through the history of Greek language.
>
> Thursday, April 28, 2011
> 5 p.m.--6:30 p.m.
> College of Arts and Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue
> Room 325
>
> Refreshments will be provided by the Greek 4 Kids school.
>
> For further information, contact Kelly Polychroniou
> 617-353-2427, kpol(a)bu.edu
Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 22, 2011
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*Fri., Apr. 22
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylson 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Timothy Barnes (Society of Fellows, Harvard University)
"Aspects of the Aorist in Greek"
All are welcome and refreshments will be provided.
Wed., Apr. 27
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Behind the Scenes: Touring the Classical Collections"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the collections of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon, Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the MFA, the final portion of this year's Lecture will include a guided tour of the MFA's Classical Collections. All those who wish to attend should contact David.Proctor(a)Tufts.edu to ensure entry.
Thurs., Apr. 28
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Harvard University)
"Giza in 3D - New Approaches to Accessing Archaeological Data from the Giza Plateau"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum, The Department of Anthropology
and The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
For more information please email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu or visit http://www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
Fri., Apr. 29
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Schedule:
4:00 Registration
4:15 Presentations:
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia"
Ann Vasaly, Boston University
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
7:00 Reception with Cash Bar
7:30 Dinner
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu; Information: Tel. 617-353-2426
**Fri., Apr. 29, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 30, 8:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the German archaeologist and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978). Her work on Hellenistic and Roman sculpture and on the Roman Theater remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin collection will bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of different backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It will focus on the interrelation of coins and sculpture with an emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and portraits of the Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian and Mediterranean Division.
Program below and here: http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=33695
Friday
6-7 p.m. Keynote Address
--"Emperor among the Crowd: Form and Format in Roman Imperial Portraiture"
Barbara E. Borg, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter, and Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute
7-8 p.m. Reception
Saturday
8:30-9 a.m. Coffee
9-9:10 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
--"Sculpture and Coins"
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer on the Classics, Harvard University
9:10-10:30 a.m. Session 1
Chair: Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, Harvard University
--"Remembering Margarete Bieber in New York"
Larissa Bonfante, Professor of Classics, Emerita, New York University
--"Behind the Scenes: Margarete Bieber's Impact on 20th-Century Scholarship"
Matthias Recke, Curator of the Ancient Art Collection, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Justus Liebig University Giessen
10:30-11 a.m. Break
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Session 2
Chair: Ruth Bielfeldt, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
--"King in a Small World: Depictions of Alexander on His Shields and Armor"
Karsten Dahmen, Curator of Ancient Coins, Coin Cabinet, Berlin State Museums
--"Honos and Virtus? Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius"
Peter F. Mittag, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cologne
12:30-2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30-3:30 p.m. Session 3, Part 1
Chair: Adrian Staehli, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Harvard University
--"Man into God: The Dead Emperor Lives"
William E. Metcalf, Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals, Yale University Art Gallery, and Adjunct Professor of Classics, Yale University
-- "Faustina the Elder and Younger on Coins and in Statues"
Martin Beckmann, Assistant Professor of Classics, McMaster University
3:30-4 p.m. Tea
4-5:30 p.m. Session 3, Part 2
-- "The Women of the Severan Dynasty: Coining Female Power?"
Annetta Alexandridis, Assistant Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Cornell University
--Closing Remarks
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi and Adrian Staehli
--Discussion
Free admission. Open to the public. Complimentary parking for this event is available at the Broadway Garage, on Felton Street between Cambridge Street and Broadway. For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at veronika_trufanova(a)harvard.edu or 617-495-4544.
Presented in conjunction with the temporary installation The Scholar as Collector: Margarete Bieber (1879-1978), organized by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer on the Classics, Harvard University.
To honor the memory of renowned numismatist and scholar Leo Mildenberg (1912-2001) and his years of friendship with Harvard University, a fund was established by his friends and colleagues and endowed in 2005 by his wife, Ilse Mildenberg-Seehausen.
Mon., May 2
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
Thurs., May 5
6:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered how we understand our dreams and their significance. In this cross-disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J. Allan Hobson), Jungian therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian of ideas (David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the "meaning" of dreams and what they can tell us about ourselves in light of these advances.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston College. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Daniel Harris-McCoy (harrises(a)bc.edu).
Thurs. and Fri., May 6 and 7
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fay House, Sheerr Room, Radcliffe Yard (10 Garden St.), Cambridge, MA 02138
Themes from Striker: Ancient Logic, Epistemology, and Ethics
A conference in honor of Gisela Striker on the occasion of her retirement from the Walter C. Klein Chair in Philosophy and Classics
Friday, May 6
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Jennifer Whiting, University of Toronto
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Rusty Jones, Harvard University
3:30 - 5:15 p.m. James Allen, University of Pittsburgh
5:30 p.m. Reception
Saturday May 7
9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University
11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Mitzi Lee, U. of Colorado, Boulder
12:45 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. John Schafer, Northwestern University
4:15 - 5:45 p.m. Dorothea Frede, UC Berkeley
6:00 p.m. Reception
The conference will take place at Harvard University. Events will be in the Sheerr Room in Fay House, Radcliffe Yard (10 Garden St.)
Sponsored By: The Provostial Funds Committee, the Department of Philosophy, & the Department of Classics.
For more information and to register, contact emcwill(a)fas.harvard.edu.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/strikerconference.html
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 18, 2011
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Mon., Apr. 18
2p.m. - 3:30p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 117, Amherst, MA 01002
Charles Martindale (University of Bristol)
"Milton’s Classicism: Writing Epic"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, and the Lurcy Fund. https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Mon., Apr. 18
4p.m. - 5:30p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002
Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol)
"Phidias and the Artists: Nineteenth-Century Responses to the Elgin Marbles"
Prettejohn, Professor of History of Art, will present new research related to her forthcoming book, The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso. Reception to follow at the Mead Art Museum.
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics, Art and the History of Art, the Mead Art Museum, and the Lurcy Fund.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Mon., Apr. 18
4:15p.m. - 5:45p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Aglae Pizzone (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow, Durham University Newton Fellow, UK)
"Imagine there's a tragelaph": figuring out the rise of fictionality in Byzantium
Mon., Apr. 18
5:30p.m. - 7p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe"
Mon., Apr. 18
6p.m. - 7:30p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University)
Lorenzo Valla’s Radical Philology: Valla’s Prefaces to the Annotations to the New Testament in Context
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Thurs., Apr. 21
5:30p.m. - 7p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Barbara Graziosi (Durham University)
"Divine inspiration and narrative technique in the Iliad"
Wed., Apr. 27
6p.m. - 8p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Behind the Scenes: Touring the Classical Collections"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the collections of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon, Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the MFA, the final portion of this year's Lecture will include a guided tour of the MFA's Classical Collections. All those who wish to attend should contact David.Proctor(a)Tufts.edu to ensure entry.
*Thurs., Apr. 28
7p.m. - 8:30p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peter Der Manuelian (Harvard University)
"Giza in 3D - New Approaches to Accessing Archaeological Data from the Giza Plateau"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum, The Department of Anthropology
and The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
For more information please email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu or visit http://www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
Fri., Apr. 29
4p.m. - 7p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Schedule:
4:00 Registration
4:15 Presentations:
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia"
Ann Vasaly, Boston University
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
7:00 Reception with Cash Bar
7:30 Dinner
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu; Information: Tel. 617-353-2426
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m. and
Sat., Apr. 30, 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the German archaeologist and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978). Her work on Hellenistic and Roman sculpture and on the Roman Theater remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin collection will bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of different backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It will focus on the interrelation of coins and sculpture with an emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and portraits of the Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian and Mediterranean Division.
Speakers include Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University), Carmen Arnold-Biucchi (Harvard Art Museums), Martin Beckman (University of Western Ontario), Larissa Bonfante (Emerita, New York University), Barbara Borg (University of Exeter), Karsten Dahmen (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Peter F. Mittag (University of Cologne), Matthias Recke (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen), and William E. Metcalf (Yale University).
Mon., May 2
4:15p.m. - 5:45p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
Thurs., May 5
6:15p.m. - 8:15p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered how we understand our dreams and their significance. In this cross-disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J. Allan Hobson), Jungian therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian of ideas (David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the "meaning" of dreams and what they can tell us about ourselves in light of these advances.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston College. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Daniel Harris-McCoy (harrises(a)bc.edu).
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics
Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 8, 2011
We have a Google Calendar: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/calendar.html
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:
* = new entry
** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Mon., Apr. 11
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 1: Working in the wake of genius
Tues., Apr. 12
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 2: Flirting with hedonism (it's only natural)
Wed., Apr. 13
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Emerson Hall, Room 305
Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
"Why True? Thoughts and Objects in Aristotle’s Semantics'"
Presented by the Harvard University Department of Philosophy
Thurs., Apr. 14
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 294 High Street, 200 Downey House Middletown, CT 06459
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King's College, London)
"The Editor's Dilemma: Revisiting the Garland Edition of Guillaume de Machaut's True Story"
Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program. For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu).
Thurs., Apr. 14
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 3: The turning point: from Critolaus to Cicero
*Fri., Apr. 15
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave. Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Annalisa Marzano (University of Reading)
"Villas and elite ideology"
Refreshments will be served; contact Melissa Joseph, mjoseph(a)bu.edu
Fri., Apr. 15
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 4: Imperial Aristotelianism
Fri. and Sat., Apr. 15-16 (starts 1 p.m. on Apr. 15; 9 a.m. on Apr. 16)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
New Directions in Archaeology 2011
A Workshop Organized by Harvard University's Standing Committee on Archaeology
Please visit our website for the complete workshop program and sign-up: www.tinyurl.com/newdirections2011
(For directions, http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingpub/misc/directions.html)
*Fri. and Sat., Apr. 15-16 (starts 3:15 p.m. on Apr. 15; 10 a.m. Apr. 16)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA, 02138
POLITEIA: Greek Citizenship in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Friday, Apr. 15, 2011
3.15 The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Opening
3.30 Andreas Victor Walser, Humanties Center at Harvard
Introduction
4.00 Joseph B. Scholten, University of Maryland
"Some Thoughts on Citizenship in the Aitolian *Koinon*"
Coffee Break
5.30 Sviatoslav Dmitriev, Ball State University
"'Graded Citizenship' in Rhodes and Alexandria"
Saturday, Apr. 16, 2011
10.00 Sara Saba, University of Munich, Germany
"Isopoliteia: the Privilege of Not Being a Citizen"
11.00 Andreas Victor Walser, Humanities Center at Harvard
"Sympoliteia: Being a Citizen – with Others"
Lunch Break
2.00 Christof Schuler, German Archaeological Institute, Munich, Germany
"Greek and Roman Citizenship in Late Hellenistic Asia Minor"
3.00 Nathanael Andrade, University of West Virginia
"The Creation of Citizen Performance: Epigraphic Discourse at Palmyra"
Coffee Break
4.15 Ursula Kunnert, University of Zurich, Switzerland
"Civic Subdivisions in the Poleis of the Eastern Roman Provinces: How to Become a Member"
5.15 Closing Discussion
Mon., Apr. 18
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 117, Amherst, MA 01002
Charles Martindale (University of Bristol)
"Milton’s Classicism: Writing Epic"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, and the Lurcy Fund. https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Mon., Apr. 18
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002
Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol)
"Phidias and the Artists: Nineteenth-Century Responses to the Elgin Marbles"
Prettejohn, Professor of History of Art, will present new research related to her forthcoming book, The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso. Reception to follow at the Mead Art Museum. Sponsored by the Departments of Classics, Art and the History of Art, the Mead Art Museum, and the Lurcy Fund.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Mon., Apr. 18
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Aglae Pizzone (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow, Durham University Newton Fellow, UK)
"Imagine there's a tragelaph": figuring out the rise of fictionality in Byzantium
Mon., Apr. 18
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe"
*Mon., Apr. 18
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University)
Lorenzo Valla’s Radical Philology: Valla’s Prefaces to the Annotations to the New Testament in Context
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Thurs., Apr. 21
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Barbara Graziosi (Durham University)
"Divine inspiration and narrative technique in the Iliad"
Wed., Apr. 27
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Behind the Scenes: Touring the Classical Collections"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the collections of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon, Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the MFA, the final portion of this year's Lecture will include a guided tour of the MFA's Classical Collections. All those who wish to attend should contact David.Proctor(a)Tufts.edu to ensure entry.
Fri., Apr. 29
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Schedule:
4:00 Registration
4:15 Presentations:
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia"
Ann Vasaly, Boston University
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
7:00 Reception with Cash Bar
7:30 Dinner
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu; Information: Tel. 617-353-2426
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m. and
Sat., Apr. 30, 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 30, 8:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the German archaeologist and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978). Her work on Hellenistic and Roman sculpture and on the Roman Theater remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin collection will bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of different backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It will focus on the interrelation of coins and sculpture with an emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and portraits of the Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian and Mediterranean Division.
Speakers include Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University), Carmen Arnold-Biucchi (Harvard Art Museums), Martin Beckman (University of Western Ontario), Larissa Bonfante (Emerita, New York University), Barbara Borg (University of Exeter), Karsten Dahmen (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Peter F. Mittag (University of Cologne), Matthias Recke (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen), and William E. Metcalf (Yale University).
Mon., May 2
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
Thurs., May 5
6:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered how we understand our dreams and their significance. In this cross-disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J. Allan Hobson), Jungian therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian of ideas (David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the "meaning" of dreams and what they can tell us about ourselves in light of these advances.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston College. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Daniel Harris-McCoy (harrises(a)bc.edu).
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April 1, 2011
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Fri. and Sat., 1-3 Apr. (starts 4pm on 1 Apr. in LC 211; 9am on Apr.
2; and 9am on 3 April)
YALE UNIVERSITY, Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC) 211 & 213, 63 High
Street, New Haven, CT 06511
A conference organized by the Department of Classics at Yale
University in association with the International Network on Ancient
and Modern Imperialisms and Yale's Ancient Societies Research Network.
For the conference poster and complete program, please visit the
Department of Classics website (www.yale.edu/classics) and click on
our announcement. All inquiries may be sent to the following email
address: thepastcolonialconference(a)gmail.com.
Sat., Apr. 2
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Annual Harvard Certamen
Certamen is a contest in which students compete to answer questions on
classical history, mythology, and culture, as well as Latin grammar
and literature. More information can be found at the following link:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/2011_Harvard__Certamen.pdf
*Mon., Apr. 4
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room
S250, Cambridge, MA 02138
Henry Louis Gates (Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor;
Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African
American Research, Harvard University)
"Image of the Black in Western Art"
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Research Seminar on Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Mon., Apr. 4
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Devlin 101, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467
Tessa Rajak (Somerville College, Oxford University)
"Pagans" and their Gods in the Synagogue of Dura-Europos
Sponsored by the Institute for Liberal Arts, McMullen Museum of Art
and the Department of Classics
The McMullen Museum of Art will be open after the lecture.
Mon., Apr. 4
5:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Steffen Terp Laursen (Aarhus University, Institute of Anthropology,
Archaeology and Linguistics)
"Commercial Contacts between Babylonia and Tilmun (Bahrain) at the End
of the Third Millennium: Archaeology and Texts"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum, The Peabody 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.
Mon., Apr. 4
8:15 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Intercultural Center, Cabot Auditorium, 170
Packard Ave., Medford, MA 0215
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Exploring Eros at the MFA"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the
collections of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon, Senior Curator of Greek
and Roman Art at the MFA, today's lecture will look at Eros, the Greek
god of Love and Beauty, and his representations in the MFA
Collections. This event is open to the public.
*Tues., Apr. 5
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA 01075
Larissa Bonfante (New York University)
"The Etruscan Underworld"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass. Society
Tues., Apr. 5
8:15 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Intercultural Center, Cabot Auditorium, 170
Packard Ave., Medford, MA 0215
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"A Rose is a Rose: A New Mosaic and a Whiff of Perfume"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the
collections of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon, Senior Curator of Greek
and Roman Art at the MFA, today's lecture focus on mosaics. This event
is open to the public.
Thurs., Apr. 7
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 300 High Street, The Common Room Middletown, CT 06459
Louisa Burnham (Middlebury College)
"Apostles to the Apostles: Na Prous Boneta and the Magdalene"
Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program. For more information please
contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu).
Thurs., Apr. 7
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Earth Sciences Building 107 (Paino), Amherst MA 01002
Sarah H. Nooter '01 (University of Chicago)
"Oedipus, Song, and the Gods"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund. For
directions see https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html or e-mail
swupton(a)amherst.edu
Thurs., Apr. 7
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Faculty Dining Commons, Valentine Hall,
Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002
New England Ancient History Colloquium (NEAHC) Spring Meeting
John Matthews (Yale University) will pre-circulate and introduce his
paper on "What Actually Happens: Tyche, Fortuna and the Logic of
History," and Jonas Grethlein (University of Heidelberg and Brown
University) will be the respondent. (Paper:
http://tinyurl.com/4qcm5g7)
5:30-6:30 p.m. gathering and drinks
6:30-7:30 p.m. dinner at the Lewis-Sebring Faculty Dining Commons
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-2-1.html
7:30-9:30 p.m. presentation and discussion
(Dinner $18 for faculty; $5 for students, thanks to the generous
support of the Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College)
For more information contact lgrillo(a)amherst.edu
For directions please see
https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/visiting/directions
Thurs., Apr. 7
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room
K401, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jing Tsu (Yale University)
"Literary Governance and Global Chinese Literature"
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University:
Research Seminar on Cultural Politics. This is open to the public.
Thurs., Apr. 7
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Monika Truemper (University of Chapel Hill)
"Collective Pleasures and Indulgences: A Reassessment of Greek Public Baths"
Presented by the Core Group Classical Archaeology
Thurs., Apr. 7
8:15 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Intercultural Center, Cabot Auditorium, 170
Packard Ave., Medford, MA 0215
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Understanding Early Byzantine Art from the MFA Collections"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the
collections of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon, Senior Curator of Greek
and Roman Art at the MFA, today's lecture examine the art of the early
Byzantine era in the MFA Collections. This event is open to the
public.
Mon., Apr. 11
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 1: Working in the wake of genius
Tues., Apr. 12
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 2: Flirting with hedonism (it's only natural)
Wed., Apr. 13
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Emerson Hall, Room 305
Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)
"Why True? Thoughts and Objects in Aristotle’s Semantics'"
Presented by the Harvard University Department of Philosophy
Thurs., Apr. 14
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 294 High Street, 200 Downey House Middletown, CT 06459
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King's College, London)
"The Editor's Dilemma: Revisiting the Garland Edition of Guillaume de
Machaut's True Story"
Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program. For more information please
contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu).
Thurs., Apr. 14
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 3: The turning point: from Critolaus to Cicero
Fri., Apr. 15
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Jackson Lecture Series: Ethics after Aristotle
Lecture 4: Imperial Aristotelianism
Fri. and Sat., Apr. 15-16 (starts 1 p.m. on Apr. 15; 9 a.m. on Apr. 16)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard,
Cambridge, MA 02138
New Directions in Archaeology 2011
A Workshop Organized by Harvard University's Standing Committee on Archaeology
Please visit our website for the complete workshop program and
sign-up: www.tinyurl.com/newdirections2011
(For directions, http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingpub/misc/directions.html)
*Mon., Apr. 18
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 117, Amherst, MA 01002
Charles Martindale (University of Bristol)
"Milton’s Classicism: Writing Epic"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, and the Lurcy
Fund. https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
*Mon., Apr. 18
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002
Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol)
"Phidias and the Artists: Nineteenth-Century Responses to the Elgin Marbles"
Prettejohn, Professor of History of Art, will present new research
related to her forthcoming book, The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture:
Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso. Reception
to follow at the Mead Art Museum.
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics, Art and the History of Art,
the Mead Art Museum, and the Lurcy Fund.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
*Mon., Apr. 18
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Aglae Pizzone (Dumbarton Oaks Fellow, Durham University Newton Fellow, UK)
"Imagine there's a tragelaph": figuring out the rise of fictionality
in Byzantium
Mon., Apr. 18
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
Thurs., Apr. 21
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Barbara Graziosi (Durham University)
"Divine inspiration and narrative technique in the Iliad"
Wed., Apr. 27
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Behind the Scenes: Touring the Classical Collections"
Join us for the 6th annual Balmuth Lecture, which will focus on the
collections of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston. Featuring Christine Kondoleon, Senior Curator of Greek
and Roman Art at the MFA, the final portion of this year's Lecture
will include a guided tour of the MFA's Classical Collections. All
those who wish to attend should contact David.Proctor(a)Tufts.edu to
ensure entry.
Fri., Apr. 29
4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th
floor, Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Schedule:
4:00 Registration
4:15 Presentations:
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscation in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia"
Ann Vasaly, Boston University
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
7:00 Reception with Cash Bar
7:30 Dinner
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu; Information: Tel. 617-353-2426
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m. and
Sat., Apr. 30, 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the
German archaeologist and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978).
Her work on Hellenistic and Roman sculpture and on the Roman Theater
remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin collection will
bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of
different backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It
will focus on the interrelation of coins and sculpture with an
emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and portraits of the
Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian
and Mediterranean Division.
Speakers include Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University), Carmen
Arnold-Biucchi (Harvard Art Museums), Martin Beckman (University of
Western Ontario), Larissa Bonfante (Emerita, New York University),
Barbara Borg (University of Exeter), Karsten Dahmen (Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin), Peter F. Mittag (University of Cologne), Matthias Recke
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen), and William E. Metcalf (Yale
University).
Mon., May 2
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of
Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
Thurs., May 5
6:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered
how we understand our dreams and their significance. In this
cross-disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J. Allan Hobson),
Jungian therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian
of ideas (David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the
"meaning" of dreams and what they can tell us about ourselves in light
of these advances. Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and
the Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston College. The event is free and
open to the public. For more information, please contact Daniel
Harris-McCoy (harrises(a)bc.edu)
CalClass
phone: (617) 495-4027
fax: (617) 496-6720
calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu
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