The Boston Area Classics Calendar for January 30, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Fri Jan 30: Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly, Volos)
5-6:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
“Homer and Archaeology"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America's Kress lectureship and the Wellesley Department of Classical Studies.
Fri Jan 30 and Sat Jan 31: Seth Pevnick and Richard E. Perry (Tampa Museum of Art)
5 p.m. (Fri); 10-12 p.m. (Sat)
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hood Museum of Art Auditorium, 4 East Wheelock Street, Hanover, NH 03755
Exhibition Celebration and Symposium for Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life
http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/2015poseidon/
Wed Feb 25: Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
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 Mar 2: Mary Yossi (University of Athens)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Laughter in Greek Lyric Poetry"
With kind support of the University Seminars Program of the Onassis Foundation (USA)
Wed Mar 11: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
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 Mar 12: Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago)
5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, Inn & Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA 01852
2nd Annual Zamanakos Lecture in Hellenic Studies: “Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern”
Contact: paul_keen(a)uml.edu
Thu Mar 12 to Fri Mar 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,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.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Title TBA.
Tue Mar 24: Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Loeb Lecture
Tue Mar 24: Sean Kelly (Harvard University)
7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Techne, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cognitive Theory and the Arts
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts
Wed Mar 25: Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
6 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Sardis Biennial Lecture: New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey”
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
Fri Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
4 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…
Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting
5 to 10 p.m.
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918
Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College)
"Reading Religious Transgression in Thucydides’ Delion Debate (Thuc. 4. 89-101)"
The New England Ancient Historians Colloquium: a meeting of professors
and graduate students of ancient history for dinner and discussion of paper by Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College).
http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1
Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
4 to 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, TBD, Boston MA 02215
"Public Life of Roman Women"
Amy Richlin (UCLA): "Slave-women and Freedwomen: Political Culture
from Below in the 200s BCE"
Patricia Johnson (BU): "The Female Kin of Sempronius Tuditanus: A
Prosopography of Women’s Political Engagement"
Barbara Gold (Hamilton College): "Perpetua and the Women of the Novel
and the Apocryphal Acts: How Public and Private Interact"
Papers will be followed by dinner (optional)
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-2014-boston-area-roman-studies-c…
Mon Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 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
Tue Apr 14; Wed, Apr 15; Thu Apr 16; Fri, Apr 17: Barbara Borg
(University of Exeter)
5 to 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lecture Series
Four lectures: Titles TBA
Fri Apr 17: Elizabeth M. Greene (University of Western Ontario)
4:30-6:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Soldiers' Families in the Military Communities of the Western Roman Empire"
This presentation addresses the evidence for the presence and social role of women and families in Roman military communities in the western Roman provinces.
Wed Apr 29: Prof. Dr. Frank Ruehli, Director, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (University of Zurich)
4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Location TBA
"Of mummies and skeletons: when the dead teach the living"
http://www.iem.uzh.ch/people/frankruehli.html
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Mon Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham, UK)
5 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…
*Wed Jan 28: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham, UK)
5 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G-03
415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Roman Noses: Smell and Smelling in Ancient Rome"*
Co-sponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Department of Classical Studies, M.A. Program in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, and Department of History
Reception to follow the talk from 6-6:30 p.m. Open to the public. Free parking.
**Fri Jan 30: Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly, Volos)
5-6:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
“Homer and Archaeology"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America's Kress lectureship and the Wellesley Department of Classical Studies.
Fri Jan 30 and Sat Jan 31: Seth Pevnick and Richard E. Perry (Tampa Museum of Art)
5 p.m. (Fri); 10-12 p.m. (Sat)
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hood Museum of Art Auditorium, 4 East Wheelock Street, Hanover, NH 03755
Exhibition Celebration and Symposium for Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life
http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/2015poseidon/
Wed Feb 25: Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
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
Wed Mar 11: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
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 Mar 12: Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago)
5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, Inn & Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA 01852
2nd Annual Zamanakos Lecture in Hellenic Studies:
“Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern”
Contact: paul_keen(a)uml.edu
Thu Mar 12 to Fri Mar 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,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.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Title TBA.
Tue Mar 24: Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Loeb Lecture
Tue Mar 24: Sean Kelly (Harvard University)
7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Techne, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cognitive Theory and the Arts
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts
*Wed Mar 25: Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
6 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Sardis Biennial Lecture: New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey”
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
Fri Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
4 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…
**Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting
5 to 10 p.m.
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918
Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College)
"Reading Religious Transgression in Thucydides’ Delion Debate (Thuc. 4. 89-101)"
The New England Ancient Historians Colloquium: a meeting of professors
and graduate students of ancient history for dinner and discussion of paper by Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College).
http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1
Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
4 to 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, TBD, Boston MA 02215
"Public Life of Roman Women"
Amy Richlin (UCLA): "Slave-women and Freedwomen: Political Culture
from Below in the 200s BCE"
Patricia Johnson (BU): "The Female Kin of Sempronius Tuditanus: A
Prosopography of Women’s Political Engagement"
Barbara Gold (Hamilton College): "Perpetua and the Women of the Novel
and the Apocryphal Acts: How Public and Private Interact"
Papers will be followed by dinner (optional)
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-2014-boston-area-roman-studies-c…
Mon Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 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
Tue Apr 14; Wed, Apr 15; Thu Apr 16; Fri, Apr 17: Barbara Borg
(University of Exeter)
5 to 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lecture Series
Four lectures: Titles TBA
Fri Apr 17: Elizabeth M. Greene (University of Western Ontario)
4:30-6:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Soldiers' Families in the Military Communities of the Western Roman Empire"
This presentation addresses the evidence for the presence and social role of women and families in Roman military communities in the western Roman provinces.
*Wed Apr 29: Prof. Dr. Frank Ruehli, Director, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (University of Zurich)
4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Location TBA
"Of mummies and skeletons: when the dead teach the living"
http://www.iem.uzh.ch/people/frankruehli.html
Subscribe to weekly emails:
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Event submission: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. PLEASE send event
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significant editing may not be included.
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PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry
*Fri Jan 16: Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
5 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hood Museum of Art Auditorium, 4 East Wheelock Street, Hanover, NH 03755
"The Antikythera Shipwreck: Excavating the World's Richest Ancient Shipwreck"
Dr. Foley will discuss the latest discoveries and use of new technology at one of the Mediterranean's most important shipwreck sites, which dates to around 70 BCE.
Mon Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
5 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…
*Fri Jan 30: Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly, Volos)
5-6:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
“Homer and Archaeology"
*Fri Jan 30 and Sat Jan 31: Seth Pevnick and Richard E. Perry (Tampa Museum of Art)
5 p.m. (Fri); 10-12 p.m. (Sat)
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hood Museum of Art Auditorium, 4 East Wheelock Street, Hanover, NH 03755
Exhibition Celebration and Symposium for Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life
http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/2015poseidon/
Wed Feb 25: Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
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
Wed Mar 11: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
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 Mar 12 to Fri Mar 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.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Title TBA.
Tue Mar 24: Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Loeb Lecture
Tue Mar 24: Sean Kelly (Harvard University)
7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Techne, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cognitive Theory and the Arts
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts
Fri Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
4 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…
Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting
5 to 10 p.m.
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918
Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College)
"Reading Religious Transgression in Thucydides’ Delion Debate (Thuc. 4. 89-101)"
The New England Ancient Historians Colloquium: a meeting of professors
and graduate students of ancient history.
http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1
Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
4 to 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, TBD, Boston MA 02215
"Public Life of Roman Women"
Amy Richlin (UCLA): "Slave-women and Freedwomen: Political Culture
from Below in the 200s BCE"
Patricia Johnson (BU): "The Female Kin of Sempronius Tuditanus: A
Prosopography of Women’s Political Engagement"
Barbara Gold (Hamilton College): "Perpetua and the Women of the Novel
and the Apocryphal Acts: How Public and Private Interact"
Papers will be followed by dinner (optional)
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-2014-boston-area-roman-studies-c…
Mon Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 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
Tue Apr 14; Wed, Apr 15; Thu Apr 16; Fri, Apr 17: Barbara Borg
(University of Exeter)
5 to 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lecture Series
Four lectures: Titles TBA
*Fri Apr 17: Elizabeth M. Greene (University of Western Ontario)
4:30-6:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Soldiers' Families in the Military Communities of the Western Roman Empire"
This presentation addresses the evidence for the presence and social role of women and families in Roman military communities in the western Roman provinces.
Subscribe to weekly emails:
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Event submission: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. PLEASE send event
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