The Boston Area Classics Calendar for March 31, 2017
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
David Ferry (Wellesley College, Emeritus)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m.
Speaker will be reading from his forthcoming translation of Virgil's Aeneid (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World, and the Boston University Department of Classical Studies.
This event is free and open to the public.
Event Series: Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University
More info: www.bu.edu…<http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/religion-and-myth/>
*Emily Hauser (Yale University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston G-07, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
"Homer Undone: Homeric Scholarship and the Invention of Female Epic"
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
UMASS AMHERST, Integrated Learning Center S131, Amherst MA 01003
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
“Defeat in the Arena”; the Thirteenth Annual David Grose Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst.
Free and open to the public. Contact: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa(a)classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512)
Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr College)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 6:15 – 7:45 p.m.
"Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in Byzantium"
Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross and the Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
More info: maryjahariscenter.org<https://maryjahariscenter.org/>
Elizabeth Irwin (Columbia University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Apr. 4, 2017, 6 – 8 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Smith Hall, Room 201, 1 College Street Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
“Ethnography and history in the Roman world”
Directions: www.holycross.edu…<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transportation/directions-majo…>
Contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe(a)holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) with any questions.
More info: www.holycross.edu…<http://www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/classics/news-events>
Gasper Begus (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"A Diachronic Model for Explaining Unnatural Sound Changes”
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
Tim Cornell (University of Manchester)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Providence, RI 02912
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"Cicero on Roman History and Historians"
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Plato’s Timaeus: myth, creation, science
BROWN UNIVERSITY & PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
Fri., Apr. 7 – Sun., Apr. 9, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30–9.45 Conference Introduction and welcome: Mary-Louise Gill, Justin Broackes, Colin Guthrie King
9.45–11.15 (i) Introduction and the myth of Atlantis (17a–26e): Christopher ROWE (Durham University)
11.30–1 (ii) The status and limits of natural philosophy (26e–30c): Christine THOMAS (Dartmouth College)
2–3.30 (iii) The World-Body (30c–34a): Dimitri EL MURR (Paris I)
[Providence College, Ruane Center for the Humanities]
4.30–6 Recollection in the Timaeus: David SEDLEY (University of Cambridge)
Saturday, April 8, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30–11 (iv) The World-Soul (34a–38b): Barbara SATTLER (St. Andrew’s)
11.15–12.45 (v) Time and its instruments (38b–41d): Colin Guthrie KING (Providence College)
2–3.30 (vi) The making of souls (41d–44d): Hendrik LORENZ (Princeton University)
3.45–5.15 (vii) Human body and auxiliary causes (44d–47e): Keith McPARTLAND (Williams College)
5.30–7 (viii) Necessity and the receptacle (47e–53a): Sarah BROADIE (St. Andrew’s)
Sunday, April 9, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30–11 An Unnoticed Analogy Between the Timaeus and the Laws: Marwan RASHED (Paris IV)
11.15–12.45 Necessity in Democritus and the Timaeus: Pierre-Marie MOREL (Paris I)
**Jan-Mathieu Carbon (Center for Hellenic Studies / Université de Liège)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Apr. 10, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"Sacrifice ellenikōi nomōi: Meat, Measure, and Meaning""
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/events/upcoming-events>
Eric Frederickson (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 103, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 12, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Dating (Classical Hebrew) Texts Linguistically: A Bayesian Approach.”
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
Thomas Zanker (Amherst College)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Apr. 13, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
"The Golden Age in Augustan Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Tue., Apr. 18, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
“Late Antiquity and the Invention of Textuality”
More info: www.wesleyan.edu…<http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/>
*International Conference: The Sacred Image between Revealing and Concealing. New directions in the interpretation of the sacred in ancient and medieval art
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Naumburg Room at the Fogg Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Apr. 20 – Fri., Apr. 21, 2017
THURSDAY
12:30 Introductory remarks by the conference organizers: Adrian Stähli (Harvard University), Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Harvard University), and Gerald Wildgruber (University of Basel)
1:10 p.m. Ioannis Mylonopoulos (Columbia University)
When the Gods Became Objects: The Materiality of the Divine Image in Ancient Greece
1:50 p.m. Gerald Wildgruber (University of Basel)
The “mechane” of the Ancients: Two Accounts of Tragedy as Interaction with the Gods
2:30 p.m. Verity Platt (Cornell University)
Framing the Sacred: Boundary and Ritual in Hellenistic Votive Reliefs
3:10 p.m. Coffee break
3:35 p.m. Sophie Schweinfurth (University of Zürich)
Christian Ruler and Divine Emperor? Some Methodological Remarks on the Problem of Analyzing Imperial Representation under Constantine the Great
4:15 p.m. Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University)
‘My mind hesitates about what it should be quiet about’: Vision and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
5:00 p.m. Surprise event.
6:00 p.m. Keynote lecture (Harvard Hall, Room 102): François Lissarrague (EHESS Paris)
Ways of Visualizing the Divine
Harvard Hall, Room 102
François Lissarrague (EHESS Paris)
Ways of Visualizing the Divine in Ancient Greek Imagery
8:00 p.m. Dinner for invited speakers (place to be determined)
FRIDAY
10:10 a.m. Milette Gaifman (Yale University)
Jugs, Gods, and the Creation of the Sacred in Classical Greece
10:50 a.m. James Simpson (Harvard University)
Idolatrous Images and the Psyche in Reformation England
11:30 a.m. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University)
“Floating in the Sea” The Origin and Nature of Sacred Images in Early Modern Spain
12:10 Lunch for invited speakers (venue to be determined)
1:30 p.m. Barbara Schellewald (University of Basel)
Gold(-Mosaics), Lapislazuli and All That Glitters: Staging Holiness
2:10 p.m. Pierre-Alain Mariaux (University of Neuchâtel)
“Significata magis significante placent.” Crafting the Sacred Through Ornament
2:50 p.m. Coffee break
3:15 p.m. Henriette Hofmann (University of Basel)
Order and its Deconstruction. On the Formation of Space by Frame-image Dynamics
3:55 p.m. John Hamilton (Harvard University)
Incarnationis Mysterium: Contemplation, Devotion and Disfiguration in Fra Angelico’s “Annunciation”
4:35 p.m. Closing remarks
6:00 p.m. Panel discussion and evening reception at Swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge. Swissnex is in short walking distance from the Fogg (ca. 5-10 min.); directions will be given in the course of the conference.
The conference – but neither the keynote lecture on Thursday nor the panel discussion and evening reception at Swissnex on Friday – will take place in the Naumburg Room at the Fogg Museum. As the Naumburg Room offers only a limited capacity of seats, all conference attendees – with the exception of invited speakers – will have to register for attending the conference; the online registration portal will be available at the beginning of April (check back here for updates). Registration will also be required for the Swissnex event on Friday, but not for the keynote lecture on Thursday.
Vyara Kalfina (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
UMASS AMHERST, Integrated Learning Center S240, Amherst MA 01003
Thu., Apr. 20, 2017, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
“Bulgaria’s Cultural Heritage: Thrace, Greece, Rome.”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to the public.
Contact: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa(a)classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512)
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/gsas-workshop-postclassicisms%C2%A0li…>
23rd Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3:15 – 5:15 p.m.
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World, and the Boston University Department of Classical Studies.
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) was instituted in 1995 to promote the study of Latin literature and Roman culture, to increase the visibility of these studies in the New England scholarly community and to provide a place for area Latinists and Romanists to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas.
The BARSC is sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the Humanities at Boston University and is held annually in April. The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register. The dinner charge is $30.00 ($20 for graduate students with school ID) and the registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 13, 2017.
More info: www.bu.edu…<http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/the-boston-area-roman-studi…>
Curtis Perry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
"King Lear: Seneca and the Anti-Social"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies>
*Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez (Visiting Scholar in the Department of the Classics)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Apr. 25, 2017, 4 – 5 p.m.
"Ancient allegories and etymologies of the Greek gods: the case of Dionysus"
More info: rcc.harvard.edu…<http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/ancient-allegories-and-etymologies-greek-gods-…>
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 26, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Walking with Socrates: Space, Place and Athenian Philosophy"
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Adam Gitner (Indiana University, Bloomington)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Wed., May 3, 2017, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
*Mourning Becomes Electra
UNITY CHURCH, 6 William St, Somervile, MA 02144
Fri., May 12, 2017, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
The show runs 5/12, 5/13, 5/17, 5/18, 5/19, and 5/20. Shows are at 7:30 except 5/20 where the show is at 3pm.
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $12 for students.
About the show:
Murder. Adultery. Revenge. Mourning Becomes Electra retells one of the most famous Greek tragedies, Aeschylus's the Oresteia, set in Civil-War-era New England. The play focuses on the Mannons and the tumultuous history that casts a dark shadow over General Ezra Mannon, his wife Christine, and his children Lavinia and Orin. When Lavinia uncovers her mother's murderous intents toward Ezra, she takes drastic action to protect her father and begins her own descent into evil, despair, and mourning.
More info: www.theatreatfirst.org…<http://www.theatreatfirst.org/shows/mourning_becomes_electra/mourning_becom…>
Conference: MATERIA: New Approaches to Material Text in the Roman World (2017)
Thursday, June 1: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., June 1, 2017, 3 – 5 p.m.
MATERIA is an annual, one-day symposium of work-in-progress on books, writing, and material text studies from the world of ancient Rome, broadly conceived. We leave significant time for each speaker to present his/her findings, and ample time for questions, feedback, and discussion from the audience and fellow panelists. Audience members are encouraged to come for the length of the day. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for all attendees. Please find more details at our webpage: http://www.materiaconference.net/. You may register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/materia-new-approaches-to-material-text-in-the….
Thursday, June 1, 2017, 3:00–5:00 (DAY 1 OF 2)
[Houghton Library, Harvard University]
3:00-5:00 | Practical session (optional) - Meet the organizers and speakers and see classical items from Harvard's collections (attendance limited). Reception to follow. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Program in the History of the Book.
Sponsored by HARVARD UNIVERSITY & MIT
More info: www.materiaconference.net<http://www.materiaconference.net/>
Conference: MATERIA: New Approaches to Material Text in the Roman World (2017)
Friday, June 2: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT), Killian Hall (14W-111), Hayden Library, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
Fri., June 2, 2017, 9 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
MATERIA is an annual, one-day symposium of work-in-progress on books, writing, and material text studies from the world of ancient Rome, broadly conceived. We leave significant time for each speaker to present his/her findings, and ample time for questions, feedback, and discussion from the audience and fellow panelists. Audience members are encouraged to come for the length of the day. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for all attendees. Please find more details at our webpage: http://www.materiaconference.net/. You may register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/materia-new-approaches-to-material-text-in-the….
Friday, June 2, 2017, 9:00–6:30 (DAY 2 OF 2)
[Hayden Library, MIT]
9:00-9:15 | Coffee
9:15-9:30 | Welcome - Stephanie Frampton (MIT)
9:30-10:45 | Session 1 - Joseph Howley (Columbia), TBD
10:45-11:00 | Coffee
11:00-12:15 | Session 2 - Kyle Conrau-Lewis (Yale), TBD
12:15-1:00 | Lunch
1:00-2:15 | Session 3 - Irene Peirano (Yale), TBD
2:15-3:30 | Session 4 - Jane Raisch (Berkeley), TBD
3:30-3:45 | Coffee
3:45-5:00 | Session 5 - Andrew Riggsby (UT Austin), TBD
5:00-6:30 | Keynote Response - Kathy Coleman (Harvard)
Sponsored by HARVARD UNIVERSITY & MIT
More info: www.materiaconference.net<http://www.materiaconference.net/>
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The Boston Area Classics Calendar for March 24, 2017
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
CONFERENCE hosted by Theater and Dance at Amherst College
AMHERST COLLEGE, Holden Theater in Webster Hall, 200 College St, Amherst, MA 01002
Ongoing through Sat., Mar. 25, 2017
��Re-imagining the Greeks: Contemporary and Cross-cultural Approaches to Greek Tragedy��
Each day will be devoted to a different region of the world, and its cultural relationship with the ancient Greeks. The first day will be about Japanese adaptations, the second about Black interpretations (African and American), and the third about American adaptations. The conference will combine scholarly discussions, workshops, non-western performative approaches. And live performances. Participation in the workshops is open to students and professionals with experience in performing.
More info: www.amherst.edu��<https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/theater_dance/performances…>
*Shane Bobrycki (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 27, 2017, 12 p.m.
"Plus quam civile bellum in Isidore of Seville"
Please RSVP by March 23 to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu>).
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval Studies
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu��<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/medieval-studies>
*Lisa Fagin Davis (The Medieval Academy)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 27, 2017, 5 p.m.
"Broken Books: Digital Methods for Reconstructing Dismembered Manuscripts"
Cosponsored by the History of the Book seminar
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval Studies
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu��<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/medieval-studies>
*Ra'anan Boustan (UCLA) and Karen Brit
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Mar. 28, 2017, 4:15 �C 6 p.m.
"Greek Kings and Judaean Priests in the Late Antique Synagogue: The Newly Discovered 'Elephant Mosaic' at Huqoq (Israel)"
Event Series: Harvard Medieval History Graduate Workshop
More info: medieval.fas.harvard.edu��<http://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/events/medieval-history-g…>
Paolo Vison�� (University of Kentucky)
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.)
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 6 �C 7 p.m.
"From Byrsa to the Tiber: Carthaginian Coins and History"
New evidence from hoards, overstrikings, and excavation finds across the western Mediterranean in the last 50 years has significantly increased our knowledge of Carthaginian coins and their circulation patterns in the core regions of the Punic world, from North Africa to Spain. As mediums of payment, stores of value, and social artifacts, Carthaginian coins were used in diverse contexts and by different ethnicities.
In this lecture, Paolo Vison��, associate professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, will discuss how these coins provide essential information on the history and the economy of Carthage, underscoring its connectivity with other Punic centers and its relations with its Mediterranean neighbors and rivals, particularly Cyrene, Syracuse, and Rome.
Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will remain open until 8pm.
Free admission. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
To honor the memory of renowned numismatist and scholar Leo Mildenberg (1912�C2001) 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.
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
More info: www.harvardartmuseums.org<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/>
Karen Foster (Yale University)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Mar. 30, 2017, 5 �C 7 p.m.
"Monkeys in Aegean Image and Imagination"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and History
*David Ferry (Wellesley College, Emeritus)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 4 �C 6 p.m.
Speaker will be reading from his forthcoming translation of Virgil's Aeneid (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World, and the Boston University Department of Classical Studies.
This event is free and open to the public.
Event Series: Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University
More info: www.bu.edu��<http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/religion-and-myth/>
*Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
UMASS AMHERST, Integrated Learning Center S131, Amherst MA 01003
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 5 �C 6:30 p.m.
��Defeat in the Arena��; the Thirteenth Annual David Grose Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst.
Free and open to the public. Contact: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa(a)classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512)
*Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr College)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 6:15 �C 7:45 p.m.
"Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in Byzantium"
Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross and the Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
More info: maryjahariscenter.org<https://maryjahariscenter.org/>
**Elizabeth Irwin (Columbia University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Apr. 4, 2017, 6 �C 8 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Smith Hall, Room 201, 1 College Street Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 4:30 �C 6:30 p.m.
��Ethnography and history in the Roman world��
Directions: www.holycross.edu��<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transportation/directions-majo…>
Contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe(a)holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) with any questions.
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
More info: www.holycross.edu��<http://www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/classics/news-events>
**Gasper Begus (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 5 �C 7 p.m.
"A Diachronic Model for Explaining Unnatural Sound Changes��
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics��
Tim Cornell (University of Manchester)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Providence, RI 02912
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 5:30 �C 7:30 p.m.
"Cicero on Roman History and Historians"
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Plato��s Timaeus: myth, creation, science
BROWN UNIVERSITY & PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
Fri., Apr. 7 �C Sun., Apr. 9, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30�C9.45 Conference Introduction and welcome: Mary-Louise Gill, Justin Broackes, Colin Guthrie King
9.45�C11.15 (i) Introduction and the myth of Atlantis (17a�C26e): Christopher ROWE (Durham University)
11.30�C1 (ii) The status and limits of natural philosophy (26e�C30c): Christine THOMAS (Dartmouth College)
2�C3.30 (iii) The World-Body (30c�C34a): Dimitri EL MURR (Paris I)
[Providence College, Ruane Center for the Humanities]
4.30�C6 Recollection in the Timaeus: David SEDLEY (University of Cambridge)
Saturday, April 8, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30�C11 (iv) The World-Soul (34a�C38b): Barbara SATTLER (St. Andrew��s)
11.15�C12.45 (v) Time and its instruments (38b�C41d): Colin Guthrie KING (Providence College)
2�C3.30 (vi) The making of souls (41d�C44d): Hendrik LORENZ (Princeton University)
3.45�C5.15 (vii) Human body and auxiliary causes (44d�C47e): Keith McPARTLAND (Williams College)
5.30�C7 (viii) Necessity and the receptacle (47e�C53a): Sarah BROADIE (St. Andrew��s)
Sunday, April 9, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30�C11 An Unnoticed Analogy Between the Timaeus and the Laws: Marwan RASHED (Paris IV)
11.15�C12.45 Necessity in Democritus and the Timaeus: Pierre-Marie MOREL (Paris I)
*Jan-Mathieu Carbon (Center for Hellenistic Studies / Universit�� de Li��ge)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Apr. 10, 2017, 5:30 �C 7:30 p.m.
"Sacrifice ellenik��i nom��i: Meat, Measure, and Meaning""
More info: www.brown.edu��<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/events/upcoming-events>
Eric Frederickson (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 103, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 12, 2017, 4 �C 6 p.m.
"Dating (Classical Hebrew) Texts Linguistically: A Bayesian Approach.��
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics��
Thomas Zanker (Amherst College)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Apr. 13, 2017, 4:30 �C 6:30 p.m.
"The Golden Age in Augustan Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Tue., Apr. 18, 2017, 4:30 �C 6:30 p.m.
��Late Antiquity and the Invention of Textuality��
More info: www.wesleyan.edu��<http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/>
*Vyara Kalfina (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
UMASS AMHERST, Integrated Learning Center S240, Amherst MA 01003
Thu., Apr. 20, 2017, 5 �C 6:30 p.m.
��Bulgaria��s Cultural Heritage: Thrace, Greece, Rome.��
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to the public.
Contact: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa(a)classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512)
Brooke Holmes (Princeton)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3 �C 4:30 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop��"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu��<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/gsas-workshop-postclassicisms%C2%A0li…>
*23rd Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3:15 �C 5:15 p.m.
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World, and the Boston University Department of Classical Studies.
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) was instituted in 1995 to promote the study of Latin literature and Roman culture, to increase the visibility of these studies in the New England scholarly community and to provide a place for area Latinists and Romanists to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas.
The BARSC is sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the Humanities at Boston University and is held annually in April. The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register. The dinner charge is $30.00 ($20 for graduate students with school ID) and the registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 13, 2017.
More info: www.bu.edu��<http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/the-boston-area-roman-studi…>
*Curtis Perry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
"King Lear: Seneca and the Anti-Social"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu��<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies>
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 26, 2017, 5 �C 7 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Adam Gitner (Indiana University, Bloomington)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Wed., May 3, 2017, 4:30 �C 6 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop��"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
*Conference: MATERIA: New Approaches to Material Text in the Roman World (2017)
Thursday, June 1: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., June 1, 2017, 3 �C 5 p.m.
MATERIA is an annual, one-day symposium of work-in-progress on books, writing, and material text studies from the world of ancient Rome, broadly conceived. We leave significant time for each speaker to present his/her findings, and ample time for questions, feedback, and discussion from the audience and fellow panelists. Audience members are encouraged to come for the length of the day. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for all attendees. Please find more details at our webpage: http://www.materiaconference.net/. You may register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/materia-new-approaches-to-material-text-in-the….
Thursday, June 1, 2017, 3:00�C5:00 (DAY 1 OF 2)
[Houghton Library, Harvard University]
3:00-5:00 | Practical session (optional) - Meet the organizers and speakers and see classical items from Harvard's collections (attendance limited). Reception to follow. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Program in the History of the Book.
Sponsored by HARVARD UNIVERSITY & MIT
More info: www.materiaconference.net<http://www.materiaconference.net/>
*Conference: MATERIA: New Approaches to Material Text in the Roman World (2017)
Friday, June 2: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT), Killian Hall (14W-111), Hayden Library, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
Fri., June 2, 2017, 9 a.m. �C 6:30 p.m.
MATERIA is an annual, one-day symposium of work-in-progress on books, writing, and material text studies from the world of ancient Rome, broadly conceived. We leave significant time for each speaker to present his/her findings, and ample time for questions, feedback, and discussion from the audience and fellow panelists. Audience members are encouraged to come for the length of the day. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for all attendees. Please find more details at our webpage: http://www.materiaconference.net/. You may register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/materia-new-approaches-to-material-text-in-the….
Friday, June 2, 2017, 9:00�C6:30 (DAY 2 OF 2)
[Hayden Library, MIT]
9:00-9:15 | Coffee
9:15-9:30 | Welcome - Stephanie Frampton (MIT)
9:30-10:45 | Session 1 - Joseph Howley (Columbia), TBD
10:45-11:00 | Coffee
11:00-12:15 | Session 2 - Kyle Conrau-Lewis (Yale), TBD
12:15-1:00 | Lunch
1:00-2:15 | Session 3 - Irene Peirano (Yale), TBD
2:15-3:30 | Session 4 - Jane Raisch (Berkeley), TBD
3:30-3:45 | Coffee
3:45-5:00 | Session 5 - Andrew Riggsby (UT Austin), TBD
5:00-6:30 | Keynote Response - Kathy Coleman (Harvard)
Sponsored by HARVARD UNIVERSITY & MIT
More info: www.materiaconference.net<http://www.materiaconference.net/>
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China/Rome Forum on Economic Histories
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. 02912
Mon., Mar. 13, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Join this comparative forum on Chinese and Greco-Roman economic histories.
Richard Von Glahn (UCLA) will present his new book, The Economic History of China From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (2016). Walter Scheidel (Classics, Stanford) and Joe McDermott (Chinese History, Cambridge) will respond. All welcome.
Michele Ronnick (Wayne State University, Detroit)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 415 South Street, Mandel Center for the Humanities 303, Waltham, MA 02453
Tue., Mar. 14, 2017, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
“Black Women and Men in Classics in the Bay State and Beyond” (in connection with the exhibition, “15 Black Classicists" just mounted in the Mandel Center for the Humanities)
The talk features many interesting black American figures from Phillis Wheatley to Helen Chesnutt, the third black to graduate from Smith; Charlotte Hawkins Brown whom Alice Freeman Palmer saw in Cambridge with a baby carriage in one hand and book of Vergil in another; George M. Lightfoot, the third black graduate of Williams College; Richard Greener, the first black member of the Society of Classical Studies and the first black graduate of Harvard University, who was later dean of Howard's Law school; and Boston Latin School's Wade McCree, who graduated from Harvard's Law School and was the second black solicitor general of the United States.
Event co-sponsored by Departments of Classical Studies, African and African American Studies, English, the Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Mandel Center for the Humanities
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments will follow.
James Rives (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI 02912
Tue., Mar. 14, 2017, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"Animal Sacrifice and Euergetism in the Hellenistic and Roman Polis"
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics…>
Joel Christensen (Brandeis University)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Smith Hall, Room 201 1 College Street Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Mar. 15, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Lecture on Homer; title TBA
Directions: www.holycross.edu…<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transportation/directions-majo…>
Contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe(a)holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) with any questions.
"Foreign Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155
Sat., Mar. 18, 2017
9th Annual Graduate Student Conference of Classical Studies
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classical Studies
More information as well as the registration link can be found at: www.bu.edu…<http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/graduate-student-conference/>
Stefan Hagel (Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Susanne Gaensicke (J. Paul Getty Museum)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 20, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Hellenistic Music in Africa, 10 BCE: Reconstructing the Instruments from Queen Amanishakheto's Pyramid"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (USC Dornsife)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 20, 2017, 5 p.m.
TBA
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (USC Dornsife)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Tue., Mar. 21, 2017, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"Reassessing the Ptolemaic settlement policies: Another look at the "poleis"
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics…>
Andrew Ollett
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 22, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Complementizers in Middle Indic"
James H. Tatum (Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 415 South Street, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 303, Waltham, MA 02453
Wed., Mar. 22, 2017, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
"Tragicomedy Ancient and Early Modern: Plautus' Amphitryon and Shakespeare's Othello in Performance"
A bench reading by the Ad Istud Players at Brandeis of scenes from Shakespeare and Plautus, followed by contentious discussion.
Event co-sponsored by Departments of Classical Studies, English, and Theater Arts.
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments following in the same room.
New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street (use entrance on Broadway), Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 22, 2017, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Research from the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in western Turkey, sponsored by Harvard and Cornell Universities, continues to produce exciting and unexpected surprises. In this lecture, Director Nicholas Cahill, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present recent results from the expedition. Cahill will discuss ongoing excavation at a sanctuary of the Roman imperial cult and its transformation in late antiquity; work in the area believed to be the palace of Croesus and new evidence for the earliest occupation of the city; one of the largest Roman triumphal arches known; and conservation and restoration projects.
Free admission. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, in Cambridge. For more information, please contact Robin Woodman at 617-495-3940 or robin_woodman(a)harvard.edu<mailto:robin_woodman@harvard.edu>.
The Sardis Biennial Lecture is sponsored by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis to present new excavation finds and current research. Work at Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and Cornell University since 1958.
Event Series: Sardis Biennial Lecture
More info: archaeology.harvard.edu…<http://archaeology.harvard.edu/event/new-digs-and-discoveries-sardis-turkey>
CONFERENCE hosted by Theater and Dance at Amherst College
AMHERST COLLEGE, Holden Theater in Webster Hall, 200 College St, Amherst, MA 01002
Thu., Mar. 23 – Sat., Mar. 25, 2017
“Re-imagining the Greeks: Contemporary and Cross-cultural Approaches to Greek Tragedy”
Each day will be devoted to a different region of the world, and its cultural relationship with the ancient Greeks. The first day will be about Japanese adaptations, the second about Black interpretations (African and American), and the third about American adaptations. The conference will combine scholarly discussions, workshops, non-western performative approaches. And live performances. Participation in the workshops is open to students and professionals with experience in performing.
More info: www.amherst.edu…<https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/theater_dance/performances…>
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (USC Dornsife)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Mar. 23, 2017, 12:15 – 2:15 p.m.
"Identifying People in Hellenistic and Early Roman Egypt: A Comparative Perspective?"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and History
Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA
Thu., Mar. 23, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale"
The Archaeological Institute of America’s 2017 Norton Lecturer will speak as part of Harvard's East Asian Archaeology Seminar series.
Charles Bartlett (Harvard University)
COLLGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center Suite A (4th floor), 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
Thu., Mar. 23, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
“Sovereign Debt in the Hellenistic World" with commentary by Joseph Manning (Yale University)
Directions: www.holycross.edu…<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transportation/directions-majo…>
Please contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe(a)holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) if interested in attending the meeting and dinner.
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
Gasper Begus (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"A Diachronic Model for Explaining Unnatural Sound Changes”
Paolo Visonà (University of Kentucky)
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 6 p.m.
"From Byrsa to the Tiber: Carthaginian Coins and History"
New evidence from hoards, overstrikings, and excavation finds across the western Mediterranean in the last 50 years has significantly increased our knowledge of Carthaginian coins and their circulation patterns in the core regions of the Punic world, from North Africa to Spain. As mediums of payment, stores of value, and social artifacts, Carthaginian coins were used in diverse contexts and by different ethnicities.
In this lecture, Paolo Visonà, associate professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, will discuss how these coins provide essential information on the history and the economy of Carthage, underscoring its connectivity with other Punic centers and its relations with its Mediterranean neighbors and rivals, particularly Cyrene, Syracuse, and Rome.
Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will remain open until 8pm.
Free admission. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
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.
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
More info: www.harvardartmuseums.org<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/>
Karen Foster (Yale University)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Mar. 30, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Monkeys in Aegean Image and Imagination"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and History
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
COLLEGE .OF THE HOLY CROSS, Smith Hall, Room 201 1 College Street Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
“Ethnography and history in the Roman world”
Directions: www.holycross.edu…<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transportation/directions-majo…>
Contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe(a)holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) with any questions.
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
*Tim Cornell (University of Manchester)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Providence, RI 02912
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
"Cicero on Roman History and Historians"
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Elizabeth Irwin (Columbia University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 6 – 8 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
*Plato’s Timaeus: myth, creation, science
BROWN UNIVERSITY & PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
Fri., Apr. 7 – Sun., Apr. 9, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30–9.45 Conference Introduction and welcome: Mary-Louise Gill, Justin Broackes, Colin Guthrie King
9.45–11.15 (i) Introduction and the myth of Atlantis (17a–26e): Christopher ROWE (Durham University)
11.30–1 (ii) The status and limits of natural philosophy (26e–30c): Christine THOMAS (Dartmouth College)
2–3.30 (iii) The World-Body (30c–34a): Dimitri EL MURR (Paris I)
[Providence College, Ruane Center for the Humanities]
4.30–6 Recollection in the Timaeus: David SEDLEY (University of Cambridge)
Saturday, April 8, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30–11 (iv) The World-Soul (34a–38b): Barbara SATTLER (St. Andrew’s)
11.15–12.45 (v) Time and its instruments (38b–41d): Colin Guthrie KING (Providence College)
2–3.30 (vi) The making of souls (41d–44d): Hendrik LORENZ (Princeton University)
3.45–5.15 (vii) Human body and auxiliary causes (44d–47e): Keith McPARTLAND (Williams College)
5.30–7 (viii) Necessity and the receptacle (47e–53a): Sarah BROADIE (St. Andrew’s)
Sunday, April 9, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30–11 An Unnoticed Analogy Between the Timaeus and the Laws: Marwan RASHED (Paris IV)
11.15–12.45 Necessity in Democritus and the Timaeus: Pierre-Marie MOREL (Paris I)
Eric Frederickson (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 103, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 12, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Dating (Classical Hebrew) Texts Linguistically: A Bayesian Approach.”
Thomas Zanker (Amherst College)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Apr. 13, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
"The Golden Age in Augustan Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
*Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Tue., Apr. 18, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
“Late Antiquity and the Invention of Textuality”
More info: www.wesleyan.edu…<http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/>
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/gsas-workshop-postclassicisms%C2%A0li…>
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 26, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Adam Gitner (Indiana University, Bloomington)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Wed., May 3, 2017, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
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The Futures of Classical Antiquity
SMITH COLLEGE, Seelye Hall 106, Northampton, MA 01063
Sat., Mar. 4, 2017, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
A one-day symposium on possible futures for Classical Studies in twenty-first century America. Five speakers address the challenges facing the Classics and the Humanities in general, and offer their views on approaches and areas of inquiry that may best serve an increasingly diverse and globalized citizenry.
Joy Connolly, Provost at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Connected Classics: Research and Teaching in the Public Interest
Gregory Crane, Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities, Tufts Univ./Leipzig Univ.
Redefining and Supporting Classics for a Diverse America in a Global Age
Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics, Yale University
Voyaging into Old-New Worlds: Imagining the Future through the Past via Classical Receptions
Denise McCoskey, Professor of Classics, Miami University
“But then you read”: Why Ancient Identity Matters (and how to keep it that way)
Dimitri Nakassis, Professor of Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Doing Archaeology in a Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities
More info: www.smith.edu…<https://www.smith.edu/classics/docs/TheFuturesOfClassicalAntquityPosterR2.p…>
Roger Wilson (University of British Columbia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 6, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
“Caddeddi on the Tellaro: A Late Roman Villa in Sicily and its Mosaics”
The Roman villa in contrada Caddeddi on the R. Tellaro, near Noto in southeast Sicily, was discovered by chance in 1971. Although brief notes have been published about the villa and its mosaics, and the site is mentioned in passing in general surveys of late Roman villas, it and its fine mosaics have until very recently lacked a detailed publication. They date to the second half of the fourth century AD, and so belong to a generation later than the famous floors of Villa Casale near Piazza Armerina. This talk considers the iconography of the three main mosaics at Caddeddi: a mythological scene, the ransoming of the body of Hector; a floor depicting a bust of Bacchus at the center with satyrs and maenads in the panels around; and an action-packed hunting scene with many episodes paralleled in general terms on the Piazza Armerina floors. The paper also sets the Caddeddi mosaics in context by comparing details from all three with mosaic comparanda in north Africa, and comes to the conclusion that, although not all details can be paralleled there, the mosaics at Caddeddi, like those at Piazza Armerina, were all laid by itinerant African craftsmen, almost certainly based at Carthage.
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Roger Wilson (University of British Columbia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Mar. 7, 2017, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
“Dining with the Dead: New Light on Early Byzantine Sicily at Punta Secca (RG)”
Punta Secca (in Ragusa province) on the south coast of Sicily is a late Roman and early Byzantine village, partly excavated in the 1960s and 1970s and identified as the Kaukana of the ancient sources, where Belisarius set sail for the conquest of Africa in AD 533. This talk will describe a more recent excavation, focused on one building (a house), which examined in detail its building phases and the commercial contacts that its inhabitants enjoyed with other parts of Sicily—and indeed the wider Mediterranean world. Finds include the earliest securely dated example in Europe of a thimble, and what may arguably be the earliest depiction of a backgammon board. The biggest surprise was the discovery of a substantial tomb placed in what was probably the yard of the house in the second quarter of the seventh century AD, and of evidence for associated feasting in honor of the deceased. Who was inside the tomb, and why did that person deserve this level of respect? What evidence was there for feasts, and what was eaten? Was it a pagan or a Christian burial? And what was the tomb doing here, in a domestic setting, rather than in the village cemetery, or indeed, if the deceased was Christian, in or near the church? These and other intriguing questions will be addressed in this talk, and the discovery set in the context of what else is known about such practices in late Roman and early Byzantine funerary culture.
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
*René Bloch (visiting at Harvard from the University of Bern, Switzerland)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 415 South Street, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 303, Waltham, MA 02453
Wed., Mar. 8, 2017, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
“Show and Tell: Myth, Tourism, and Jewish Hellenism”
In Greco-Roman antiquity Jews had their own displays where visitors could see and admire objects from mythical times. Very much like pagan culture, Jewish Hellenism, too, developed a tourism of sorts at sights of miracle and wonder.
Event co-sponsored by Departments of Classical Studies, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, the program in Religious Studies, and the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis.
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments in the same room.
Nicholas G. Blackwell (NC State)
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 62 Talbot Ave, Somerville, MA 02144, Pearson Hall 104
Thu., Mar. 9, 2017, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
"Construction Methods and Political Statements at Mycenae: New Analysis of the Lion Gate Relief and Treasury of Atreus."
China/Rome Forum on Economic Histories
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. 02912
Mon., Mar. 13, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Join this comparative forum on Chinese and Greco-Roman economic histories.
Richard Von Glahn (UCLA) will present his new book, The Economic History of China From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (2016). Walter Scheidel (Classics, Stanford) and Joe McDermott (Chinese History, Cambridge) will respond. All welcome.
*Michele Ronnick (Wayne State University, Detroit)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 415 South Street, Mandel Center for the Humanities 303, Waltham, MA 02453
Tue., Mar. 14, 2017, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
“Black Women and Men in Classics in the Bay State and Beyond” (in connection with the exhibition, “15 Black Classicists" just mounted in the Mandel Center for the Humanities)
The talk features many interesting black American figures from Phillis Wheatley to Helen Chesnutt, the third black to graduate from Smith; Charlotte Hawkins Brown whom Alice Freeman Palmer saw in Cambridge with a baby carriage in one hand and book of Vergil in another; George M. Lightfoot, the third black graduate of Williams College; Richard Greener, the first black member of the Society of Classical Studies and the first black graduate of Harvard University, who was later dean of Howard's Law school; and Boston Latin School's Wade McCree, who graduated from Harvard's Law School and was the second black solicitor general of the United States.
Event co-sponsored by Departments of Classical Studies, African and African American Studies, English, the Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Mandel Center for the Humanities
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments will follow.
James Rives (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI 02912
Tue., Mar. 14, 2017, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"Animal Sacrifice and Euergetism in the Hellenistic and Roman Polis"
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics…>
Joel Christensen (Brandeis University)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Smith Hall, Room 201 1 College Street Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Mar. 15, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Lecture on Homer; title TBA
Directions: www.holycross.edu…<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transportation/directions-majo…>
Contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe(a)holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) with any questions.
"Foreign Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155
Sat., Mar. 18, 2017
9th Annual Graduate Student Conference of Classical Studies
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classical Studies
More information as well as the registration link can be found at: www.bu.edu…<http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/graduate-student-conference/>
Stefan Hagel (Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Susanne Gaensicke (J. Paul Getty Museum)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 20, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Hellenistic Music in Africa, 10 BCE: Reconstructing the Instruments from Queen Amanishakheto's Pyramid"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 20, 2017, 5 p.m.
TBA
*Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of South Carolina)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Tue., Mar. 21, 2017, 5:30 – 7 a.m.
"Reassessing the Ptolemaic settlement policies: Another look at the "poleis"
More info: www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics…>
Andrew Ollett
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 22, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Complementizers in Middle Indic"
*James H. Tatum (Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 415 South Street, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 303, Waltham, MA 02453
Wed., Mar. 22, 2017, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
"Tragicomedy Ancient and Early Modern: Plautus' Amphitryon and Shakespeare's Othello in Performance"
A bench reading by the Ad Istud Players at Brandeis of scenes from Shakespeare and Plautus, followed by contentious discussion.
Event co-sponsored by Departments of Classical Studies, English, and Theater Arts.
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments following in the same room.
New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street (use entrance on Broadway), Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 22, 2017, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Research from the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in western Turkey, sponsored by Harvard and Cornell Universities, continues to produce exciting and unexpected surprises. In this lecture, Director Nicholas Cahill, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present recent results from the expedition. Cahill will discuss ongoing excavation at a sanctuary of the Roman imperial cult and its transformation in late antiquity; work in the area believed to be the palace of Croesus and new evidence for the earliest occupation of the city; one of the largest Roman triumphal arches known; and conservation and restoration projects.
Free admission. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, in Cambridge. For more information, please contact Robin Woodman at 617-495-3940 or robin_woodman(a)harvard.edu<mailto:robin_woodman@harvard.edu>.
The Sardis Biennial Lecture is sponsored by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis to present new excavation finds and current research. Work at Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and Cornell University since 1958.
Event Series: Sardis Biennial Lecture
More info: archaeology.harvard.edu…<http://archaeology.harvard.edu/event/new-digs-and-discoveries-sardis-turkey>
CONFERENCE hosted by Theater and Dance at Amherst College
AMHERST COLLEGE, Holden Theater in Webster Hall, 200 College St, Amherst, MA 01002
Thu., Mar. 23 – Sat., Mar. 25, 2017
“Re-imagining the Greeks: Contemporary and Cross-cultural Approaches to Greek Tragedy”
Each day will be devoted to a different region of the world, and its cultural relationship with the ancient Greeks. The first day will be about Japanese adaptations, the second about Black interpretations (African and American), and the third about American adaptations. The conference will combine scholarly discussions, workshops, non-western performative approaches. And live performances. Participation in the workshops is open to students and professionals with experience in performing.
More info: www.amherst.edu…<https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/theater_dance/performances…>
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Mar. 23, 2017, 12:15 – 2:15 p.m.
"Identifying People in Hellenistic and Early Roman Egypt: A Comparative Perspective?"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and History
Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA
Thu., Mar. 23, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale"
The Archaeological Institute of America’s 2017 Norton Lecturer will speak as part of Harvard's East Asian Archaeology Seminar series.
Charles Bartlett (Harvard University)
COLLGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center Suite A (4th floor), 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
Thu., Mar. 23, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
“Sovereign Debt in the Hellenistic World" with commentary by Joseph Manning (Yale University)
Directions: www.holycross.edu…<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transportation/directions-majo…>
Please contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe(a)holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) if interested in attending the meeting and dinner.
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
Gasper Begus (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"A Diachronic Model for Explaining Unnatural Sound Changes”
Paolo Visonà (University of Kentucky)
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 6 p.m.
"From Byrsa to the Tiber: Carthaginian Coins and History"
New evidence from hoards, overstrikings, and excavation finds across the western Mediterranean in the last 50 years has significantly increased our knowledge of Carthaginian coins and their circulation patterns in the core regions of the Punic world, from North Africa to Spain. As mediums of payment, stores of value, and social artifacts, Carthaginian coins were used in diverse contexts and by different ethnicities.
In this lecture, Paolo Visonà, associate professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, will discuss how these coins provide essential information on the history and the economy of Carthage, underscoring its connectivity with other Punic centers and its relations with its Mediterranean neighbors and rivals, particularly Cyrene, Syracuse, and Rome.
Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will remain open until 8pm.
Free admission. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
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.
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
More info: www.harvardartmuseums.org<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/>
Karen Foster (Yale University)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Mar. 30, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Monkeys in Aegean Image and Imagination"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and History
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
COLLEGE .OF THE HOLY CROSS, Smith Hall, Room 201 1 College Street Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
“Ethnography and history in the Roman world”
Directions: www.holycross.edu…<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transportation/directions-majo…>
Contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe(a)holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) with any questions.
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
Elizabeth Irwin (Columbia University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 6 – 8 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Eric Frederickson (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 103, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 12, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Dating (Classical Hebrew) Texts Linguistically: A Bayesian Approach.”
Thomas Zanker (Amherst College)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Apr. 13, 2017, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
"The Golden Age in Augustan Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Brooke Holmes (Princeton)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/gsas-workshop-postclassicisms%C2%A0li…>
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 26, 2017, 5 – 7 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Adam Gitner (Indiana University, Bloomington)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Wed., May 3, 2017, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
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