**Wed, Oct 22: Jonathan Conant (Brown University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
"Keeping it Together: Projecting Empire in the Postclassical World"
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop:
"Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu;
Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
**Thu, Oct 23: Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University)
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
"The War for Italia in Vergil’s Aeneid"
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Fri, Oct 24: Alessandro Barchiesi (University of Siena at Arezzo, Stanford
University)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Apuleius the Provincial"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
**Tue, Oct 28: Charles de Lamberterie (Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne,
École Practique des Hautes Études)
4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 214, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Prehistory of Some Homeric Collocations"
James Loeb Lecture
Reception to follow in the Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street.
*Wed, Oct 29: Froma Zeitlin (Princeton University)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence,
RI 02912
"The Erotic Lures of Mimesis: Text and Image in the Ancient Cultural
Imaginary and Beyond"
http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics/…
Thu, Oct 30: New England Ancient History Colloquium
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA, 02766
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Registration and cocktails.
6:00 - 9:00/9:30 p.m. Dinner and Discussion of the Gary Reger's (Trinity
College) paper, "First there Is a Mountain," on the religious and
historical significance of Mt. Latmos in Asia Minor from the Bronze Age to
the Byzantine Empire.
Contact allen.m.ward(a)att.net for more information.
Tue, Nov 4: David Ferry (Wellesley College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MIT Building E51, Room 275,
Cambridge, MA 02139
"David Ferry in Conversation: On the Classics & Translation"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
David is a poet and translator of Classical literatures, winner of the
prestigious Lilly Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Foundation, and
Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College. David will be reading from new and
old translations of Latin authors, as well as from his own work.
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/
Wed, Nov 5: Alexandre Monteiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 211, Boston, MA 02215
"Ship of gold in a sea of diamonds: the untold story of the 'Bom Jesus,' a
Portuguese East Indiaman lost off Namibia in 1533"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the BU Archaeology Department
Wed, Nov 5: Hendrik Dey (Hunter College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, G03, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fortress Rome: How the Aurelian Wall Changed Everything"
In 271 AD, Rome was the largest and most famous city in the world, the
center of an empire so vast and so powerful that no foreign invader had
threatened it since Hannibal 500 years earlier. Beginning in 271, however,
Emperor Aurelius began to surround the previously unfortified city-center
with the largest masonry structure the world had ever seen, a city wall 12
miles in circumference imposed on the midst of Rome’s sprawling urban
fabric. Neighborhoods were cut in two; roads and bridges blocked; houses,
tombs and public buildings either demolished or absorbed by the wall.
Professor Dey explores a tiny sampling of the ways in which the look and
the life of the city changed forever, with emphasis on infrastructure.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies, Fine Arts, and
History, and the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Free and Open to the Public, Reception to follow with light refreshments.
For more information contact Heidi McAllister: hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu or
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow: aoko(a)brandeis.edu.
Directions to Brandeis: http://www.brandeis.edu/ces/directions.html
Thu, Nov 6: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
"Chewing: Goethe’s Proserpina"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Fri, Nov 7: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Roundtable Discussion with Professor Frauke Berndt
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Sat, Nov 8: Colloquium: "Classical Monsters and Their Medieval Afterlife"
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room, Amherst,
MA 01003
A colloquium on monsters, their meanings, and their influence in classical
and medieval art, archaeology, and literature. Presented by the UMass
Amherst Department of Classics. List of speakers and topics available at
http://www.umass.edu/classics/monstersconference.html.
Wed, Nov 12: John Schafer (Northwestern University)
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, Room 519, Worcester, MA
01610
"The Pagination of Virgil's Poems"
Wed, Nov 12: Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, Amherst, MA 01003
"Chronological Disorder in Livy"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to
the public.
Fri & Sat, Nov 14-15: International Society For Late Antique Literary
Studies, Annual Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union Terrace Lounge (775 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, 2nd Floor), Boston, MA 02215
Check-in, Friday 8:30 a.m.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/2014-islals-conference/
Mon, Nov 17: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
The author will read and sign copies of her new book "The Amazons: Lives
and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World."
Mon, Nov 24: Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt, Munich)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Roman 'limes' and World Heritage Site designation
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop:
"Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu;
Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Mon, Dec 8: Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras)
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
"Comic Money: The Case of Hetairai and Fishmongers"
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Mon, Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Obesity, Corpulence, and Emaciation in Roman Art"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
Thu & Fri, Mar 12-13: CON-IH 15--Transitions: States and Empires in the
Longue Durée
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on
International History (Con-IH) has become an annual event, organized by
graduate students in International History at Harvard University. Please
visit the conference website, http://con-ih.com, for more information, and
please email any enquiries to the organizing committee at
ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Mon, Mar 23: Mildenberg Lecture 2015: Stefan Ritter (Institute of Classical
Archaeology, LMU Munich)
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Title TBA.
*Fri, Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
Mon, Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
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Wed, Oct 15: Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139
"The Medieval Origins of the Cupola of Florence Cathedral"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/
Wed, Oct 15: Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
*BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence,
RI 02912
"A Cognitive Approach to Greek Meter: Hermann's Bridge in the Homeric
Hexameter and the Interpretation of Iliad 24.1-63"
http://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147cc4-48cabdcc-0148-cc18b274-0000…
Wed, Oct 15: Ryan Balot (University of Toronto)
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall, Main
Street, Durham, NH 03824
"The Psychology of Greed: Ancient and Modern Reflections"
Sponsored by the John C. Rouman Lecture Series, the Responsible Governance
and Sustainable Citizenship Project, and the Department of Classics,
Humanities and Italian Studies. A short reception will follow.
Thu, Oct 16: Jessica Dello Russo (Pontifical Institute of Christian
Archaeology, Rome)
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, Andover-Harvard Theological
Library (3rd floor), 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Recent Scholarship on the the Jewish Catacombs of Rome"
Fri & Sat, Oct 17-19: Conference: "Myth Criticism in the Ancient World"
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Main Street, Durham, NH and Portsmouth, NH,
United States
John C. Rouman Symposium for Research in the Classics
Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth (Oct. 17 and 19), University of New Hampshire,
Piscataqua Room in Holloway Commons (Oct. 18)
Free and open to the public; RSVP requested. Supported by the John C.
Rouman Classical Lecture Series. Link with full program of 14 speakers
here: http://cola.unh.edu/event/symposium-myth.
Fri, Oct 17: Michael Dietler (University of Chicago)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 313, Boston, MA 02215
"Colonial Encounters in Ancient Mediterranean France: Consumption,
Entanglement, and Violence”
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the BU
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Sat, Oct 18: "Sappho: New Voices"
10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
BARD COLLEGE, Olin Hall 204, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
A symposium on ancient Greek poetry and society in light of this year’s
discovery of new poems by Sappho, presented by the Bard College Classical
Studies Program and sponsored by James H. Ottaway Jr.
http://eh.bard.edu/events/event.php?eid=126656
10 a.m. Introduction: Lauren Curtis (Bard College) and Robert Cioffi (Bard
College)
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session 1: Gender and Performance
Timothy Power (Rutgers University): "Performance Scenarios for the New
Poems of Sappho"
Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Recentering Epic
Nostos: Gender and Genre in the Brothers Poem"
12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch break
1:30-3 p.m. SESSION 2: Sappho and Society
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University): "A High-class Trader, Courtesan, and
Poetess, a Tyrant, and Archaic Greek-Eastern Interaction"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University): "Hera and Now"
3-3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30-5 p.m. SESSION 3: Religious Poetics
Timothy Barnes (Princeton University): "Sappho's daimon: a Reading of the
Fourth Stanza"
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University): “What’s in a Prayer? Sappho’s Way
with Words"
5-5:30 p.m. Round table discussion
6 p.m. Evening performance in Olin Auditorium.
“Bracko”: a reading of Sappho by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick Flynn,
and Sam Anderson
Wed, Oct 22: **Jonathan Conant (Brown University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
Topic: Late antique Roman territoriality
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop:
"Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu;
Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
**Thu, Oct 23: Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University)
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
“The War for Italian in Vergil’s Aeneid”
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Fri, Oct 24: Alessandro Barchiesi (University of Siena at Arezzo, Stanford
University)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Apuleius the Provincial"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tue, Oct 28: Charles de Lamberterie (Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne,
École Practique des Hautes Études)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Loeb Lecture
Thu, Oct 30: New England Ancient History Colloquium
5 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA, 02766
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Registration and cocktails.
6:00 - 9:00/9:30 p.m. Dinner and Discussion of the Gary Reger's (Trinity
College) paper, "First there Is a Mountain," on the religious and
historical significance of Mt. Latmos in Asia Minor from the Bronze Age to
the Byzantine Empire.
Contact allen.m.ward(a)att.net for more information.
Tue, Nov 4: David Ferry (Wellesley College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MIT Building E51, Room 275,
Cambridge, MA 02139
"David Ferry in Conversation: On the Classics & Translation"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
David is a poet and translator of Classical literatures, winner of the
prestigious Lilly Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Foundation, and
Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College. David will be reading from new and
old translations of Latin authors, as well as from his own work.
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/
**Wed, Nov 5: Alexandre Monteiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 211, Boston, MA 02215
"Ship of gold in a sea of diamonds: the untold story of the 'Bom Jesus,' a
Portuguese East Indiaman lost off Namibia in 1533"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the BU Archaeology Department
Wed, Nov 5: Hendrik Dey (Hunter College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, G03, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fortress Rome: How the Aurelian Wall Changed Everything"
In 271 AD, Rome was the largest and most famous city in the world, the
center of an empire so vast and so powerful that no foreign invader had
threatened it since Hannibal 500 years earlier. Beginning in 271, however,
Emperor Aurelius began to surround the previously unfortified city-center
with the largest masonry structure the world had ever seen, a city wall 12
miles in circumference imposed on the midst of Rome’s sprawling urban
fabric. Neighborhoods were cut in two; roads and bridges blocked; houses,
tombs and public buildings either demolished or absorbed by the wall.
Professor Dey explores a tiny sampling of the ways in which the look and
the life of the city changed forever, with emphasis on infrastructure.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies, Fine Arts, and
History, and the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Free and Open to the Public, Reception to follow with light refreshments.
For more information contact Heidi McAllister: hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu or
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow: aoko(a)brandeis.edu.
Directions to Brandeis: http://www.brandeis.edu/ces/directions.html
Thu, Nov 6: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
"Chewing: Goethe’s Proserpina"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Fri, Nov 7: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Roundtable Discussion with Professor Frauke Berndt
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Sat, Nov 8: Colloquium: "Classical Monsters and Their Medieval Afterlife"
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room, Amherst,
MA 01003
A colloquium on monsters, their meanings, and their influence in classical
and medieval art, archaeology, and literature. Presented by the UMass
Amherst Department of Classics. List of speakers and topics available at
http://www.umass.edu/classics/monstersconference.html.
Wed, Nov 12: John Schafer (Northwestern University)
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, Room 519, Worcester, MA
01610
"The Pagination of Virgil's Poems"
Wed, Nov 12: Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, Amherst, MA 01003
"Chronological Disorder in LIvy"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to
the public.
Fri & Sat, Nov 14-15: International Society For Late Antique Literary
Studies, Annual Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union Terrace Lounge (775 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, 2nd Floor), Boston, MA 02215
Check-in, Friday 8:30 a.m.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/2014-islals-conference/
Mon, Nov 17: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
The author will read and sign copies of her new book "The Amazons: Lives
and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World."
Mon, Nov 24: Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt, Munich)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Roman 'limes' and World Heritage Site designation
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop:
"Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu;
Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Mon, Dec 8: Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras)
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
"Comic Money: The Case of Hetairai and Fishmongers"
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Mon, Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Obesity, Corpulence, and Emaciation in Roman Art"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
Thu & Fri, Mar 12-13. CON-IH 15—Transitions: States and Empires in
the Longue Durée
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference
on International History (Con-IH) has become an annual event,
organized by graduate students in International History at Harvard
University. Please visit the conference website, http://con-ih.com,
for more information, and please email any enquiries to the organizing
committee at ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Mon, Mar 23: Mildenberg Lecture 2015: Stefan Ritter (Institute of
Classical Archaeology, LMU Munich)
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
Mon, Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
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editing may not be included.
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editing may not be included. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or
addition to a former entry
Wed, Oct 8: James N. Stone (Boston University)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Playing Scrabble with Sappho: A Translation Workshop for Anyone Interested
in the Interplay of Poetry, Translation, and Play"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics
The event is free and open to the public. Light snacks and refreshments
will be provided.
Thu, Oct 9: Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
"War, What is it Good For in Homer's Iliad and Four Receptions?"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department. For more information, please
contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/.
Wed, Oct 15: Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139
"The Medieval Origins of the Cupola of Florence Cathedral"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/
*Wed, Oct 15: Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence,
RI 02912
"A Cognitive Approach to Greek Meter: Hermann's Bridge in the Homeric
Hexameter and the Interpretation of Iliad 24.1-63"
http://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147cc4-48cabdcc-0148-cc18b274-0000…
Wed, Oct 15: Ryan Balot (University of Toronto)
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall, Main
Street, Durham, NH 03824
"The Psychology of Greed: Ancient and Modern Reflections"
Sponsored by the John C. Rouman Lecture Series, the Responsible Governance
and Sustainable Citizenship Project, and the Department of Classics,
Humanities and Italian Studies. A short reception will follow.
*Thu, Oct 16: Jessica Dello Russo (Pontifical Institute of Christian
Archaeology, Rome)
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, Andover-Harvard Theological
Library (3rd floor), 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Recent Scholarship on the the Jewish Catacombs of Rome"
Fri & Sat, Oct 17-19: Conference: "Myth Criticism in the Ancient World"
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Main Street, Durham, NH and Portsmouth, NH,
United States
John C. Rouman Symposium for Research in the Classics
Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth (Oct. 17 and 19), University of New Hampshire,
Piscataqua Room in Holloway Commons (Oct. 18)
Free and open to the public; RSVP requested. Supported by the John C.
Rouman Classical Lecture Series. Link with full program of 14 speakers
here: http://cola.unh.edu/event/symposium-myth.
Fri, Oct 17: Michael Dietler (University of Chicago)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 313, Boston, MA 02215
"Colonial Encounters in Ancient Mediterranean France: Consumption,
Entanglement, and Violence”
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the BU
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Sat, Oct 18: "Sappho: New Voices"
10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
BARD COLLEGE, Olin Hall 204, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
A symposium on ancient Greek poetry and society in light of this year’s
discovery of new poems by Sappho, presented by the Bard College Classical
Studies Program and sponsored by James H. Ottaway Jr.
http://eh.bard.edu/events/event.php?eid=126656
10 a.m. Introduction: Lauren Curtis (Bard College) and Robert Cioffi (Bard
College)
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session 1: Gender and Performance
Timothy Power (Rutgers University): "Performance Scenarios for the New
Poems of Sappho"
Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Recentering Epic
Nostos: Gender and Genre in the Brothers Poem"
12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch break
1:30-3 p.m. SESSION 2: Sappho and Society
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University): "A High-class Trader, Courtesan, and
Poetess, a Tyrant, and Archaic Greek-Eastern Interaction"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University): "Hera and Now"
3-3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30-5 p.m. SESSION 3: Religious Poetics
Timothy Barnes (Princeton University): "Sappho's daimon: a Reading of the
Fourth Stanza"
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University): “What’s in a Prayer? Sappho’s Way
with Words"
5-5:30 p.m. Round table discussion
6 p.m. Evening performance in Olin Auditorium.
“Bracko”: a reading of Sappho by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick Flynn,
and Sam Anderson
Wed, Oct 22: Jonathan Conant (Brown University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Late antique Roman territoriality
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop:
"Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu;
Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Thu, Oct 23: Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University)
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
Title: TBA
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Fri, Oct 24: Alessandro Barchiesi (University of Siena at Arezzo, Stanford
University)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Apuleius the Provincial"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Tue, Oct 28: Charles de Lamberterie (École Practique des Hautes Études,
Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne)
Time TBA
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Loeb Lecture
Thu, Oct 30: New England Ancient History Colloquium
5 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA, 02766
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Registration and cocktails.
6:00 - 9:00/9:30 p.m. Dinner and Discussion of the Gary Reger's (Trinity
College) paper, "First there Is a Mountain," on the religious and
historical significance of Mt. Latmos in Asia Minor from the Bronze Age to
the Byzantine Empire.
Contact allen.m.ward(a)att.net for more information.
**Tue, Nov 4: David Ferry (Wellesley College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MIT Building E51, Room 275,
Cambridge, MA 02139
"David Ferry in Conversation: On the Classics & Translation"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
David is a poet and translator of Classical literatures, winner of the
prestigious Lilly Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Foundation, and
Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College. David will be reading from new and
old translations of Latin authors, as well as from his own work.
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/
Wed, Nov 5: Hendrik Dey (Hunter College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, G03, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fortress Rome: How the Aurelian Wall Changed Everything"
In 271 AD, Rome was the largest and most famous city in the world, the
center of an empire so vast and so powerful that no foreign invader had
threatened it since Hannibal 500 years earlier. Beginning in 271, however,
Emperor Aurelius began to surround the previously unfortified city-center
with the largest masonry structure the world had ever seen, a city wall 12
miles in circumference imposed on the midst of Rome’s sprawling urban
fabric. Neighborhoods were cut in two; roads and bridges blocked; houses,
tombs and public buildings either demolished or absorbed by the wall.
Professor Dey explores a tiny sampling of the ways in which the look and
the life of the city changed forever, with emphasis on infrastructure.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies, Fine Arts, and
History, and the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Free and Open to the Public, Reception to follow with light refreshments.
For more information contact Heidi McAllister: hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu or
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow: aoko(a)brandeis.edu.
Directions to Brandeis: http://www.brandeis.edu/ces/directions.html
Thu, Nov 6: Alexandre Monteiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 211, Boston, MA 02215
"Ship of gold in a sea of diamonds: the untold story of the ‘Bom Jesus,’ a
Portuguese East Indiaman lost off Namibia in 1533"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the BU Archaeology Department
Thu, Nov 6: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
"Chewing: Goethe’s Proserpina"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Fri, Nov 7: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Roundtable Discussion with Professor Frauke Berndt
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Sat, Nov 8: Colloquium: "Classical Monsters and Their Medieval Afterlife"
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room, Amherst,
MA 01003
A colloquium on monsters, their meanings, and their influence in classical
and medieval art, archaeology, and literature. Presented by the UMass
Amherst Department of Classics. List of speakers and topics available at
http://www.umass.edu/classics/monstersconference.html.
*Wed, Nov 12: John Schafer (Northwestern University)
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, Room 519, Worcester, MA
01610
"The Pagination of Virgil's Poems"
*Wed, Nov 12: Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, Amherst, MA 01003
"Chronological Disorder in LIvy"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to
the public.
Fri & Sat, Nov 14-15: International Society For Late Antique Literary
Studies, Annual Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union Terrace Lounge (775 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, 2nd Floor), Boston, MA 02215
Check-in, Friday 8:30 a.m.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/2014-islals-conference/
Mon, Nov 17: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
The author will read and sign copies of her new book "The Amazons: Lives
and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World."
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Mon, Nov 24: Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt, Munich)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Roman 'limes' and World Heritage Site designation
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Workshop: "Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett,
cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu; Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Mon, Dec 8: Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras)
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
"Comic Money: The Case of Hetairai and Fishmongers"
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Mon, Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Obesity, Corpulence, and Emaciation in Roman Art"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
Thu & Fri, Mar 12-13. CON-IH 15—Transitions: States and Empires in
the Longue Durée
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference
on International History (Con-IH) has become an annual event,
organized by graduate students in International History at Harvard
University. Please visit the conference website, http://con-ih.com,
for more information, and please email any enquiries to the organizing
committee at ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Mon, Mar 23: Mildenberg Lecture 2015: Stefan Ritter (Institute of
Classical Archaeology, LMU Munich)
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
Mon, Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
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