Boston Area Classics Calendar
December 2019
Chloe Balla (University of Crete)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Dec. 2, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 102, Dana-Palmer House, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
Duane Roller (Ohio State University)
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Tue., Dec. 3, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Understanding the World: The Geography of Strabo of Amaseia"
Duane W. Roller is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the Ohio State
University. He served on and directed archaeological field projects in
Greece, Turkey, Italy, Israel and Jordan, and was a four-time Fulbright
scholar. He is the author of numerous books and articles on classical
studies, most recently Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the
Augustan Age. His latest book, Empire of the Black Sea, will be published
by Oxford University Press in spring 2020.
As always, this event is free and open to the public and a light reception
will follow.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Classics with support from the
Bruce Elliot Donovan Memorial Endowment.
events.brown.edu…
<https://events.brown.edu/classics/view/event/date/20191203/event_id/156271>
[image:
Duane Roller (Ohio State University)]
Sarah Derbew (Harvard Society of Fellows) and Jennifer Stager (Johns
Hopkins University)
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Tue., Dec. 3, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Seeing Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art"
Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at
5:30 p.m.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…
<https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/seeing-color-in-ancient-mediterr…>
Aileen Das (University of Michigan)
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Wed., Dec. 4, 2 – 3 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"*Plato Arabus* in WWII: Imperial Universalism And Greco-Arabic Studies"
In 1937, the Oxford professor of medieval philosophy R. Klibansky announced
that the forthcoming series *Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi*, the publication
of which he was directing, aimed to recuperate the missing link of a
movement that “continuously stimulated scientific thought, aesthetic
feeling, and religious consciousness” in the history of “our civilization”.
Composed of three subseries (*Plato Arabus, Plato Latinus, *and* Plato
Byzantinus*), this project on Platonism bases Western European culture (the
probable referent of Klibanksy’s “our civilization”) on classical
antiquity, to which European scholars had laid claim as the foundation of
their civilizations since at least the early modern period, and the
pre-modern Middle East. While Klibansky’s subordination of the Middle East
to the construction of European identity captures the colonial realities of
the early twentieth century, this talk will focus on the constitutive
exclusions that compelled the forerunners of Greco-Arabic Studies to
contribute to the *Corpus Platonicum*ʼs universalization of Plato. I draw
specific attention to the composition and publication of the first volume
of the* Plato Arabus* series, the editio princeps of the ninth-century
Arabic version of Galen’s *Synopsis of Plato’s Timaeus*, to foreground the
dichotomies – classicism and orientalism, Semitic and Indo-European, and
colonizer and colonized – that are implicated in the production of not only
this book but also the academic discipline of Greco-Arabic Studies.
GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"
Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of "The History of
Sexuality"
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Thu., Dec. 5, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27
Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA 02138
In February 2018, the fourth and final volume of Michel Foucault’s *History
of Sexuality project*—*Confessions of the Flesh*—was published for the
first time in French by Éditions Gallimard. This is an extraordinary
publishing event since the book was not supposed to have been printed at
all.
This one-day conference will assess the reception and impact of this
missing volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality. It will highlight the
text of *Confessions of the Flesh*, its place in Foucault’s oeuvre, the
context in which he wrote, and the contemporary relevance of this new work.
It is far enough away from the Foucault-overload of past decades that it is
now possible to freshly examine the enduring value of this influential
thinker—a re-examination inspired by the belated publication of his final
book.
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/harvardcolloquium/home>
wgs.fas.harvard.edu…
<https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/event/confessions-flesh-michel-foucault%E2%80%9…>
Adam Trettel (Harvard University)
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Mon., Dec. 9, 5:15 p.m.
MIT, Building E51-275 ,70 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142
"Flowers in Venantius Fortunatus: The Continuity of Nature in Late
Antiquity"
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
calendar.mit.edu…
<http://calendar.mit.edu/event/AMS_FlowersinVenantiusFortunatus#.XdhnOTJKhns>
[image:
Adam Trettel (Harvard University)]
Latin Carol Celebration
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Mon., Dec. 9, 8 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main Street,
Providence, RI 02903
The Brown University Department of Classics presents the 72nd Annual Latin
Carol Celebration.
Seasonal readings by the Classics Department faculty (with special guest,
Brown President Christina Paxson), carols for all, with musical prelude and
accompaniment by University Organist Mark Steinbach. Plus, the
Chattertocks' rendition of “The XII Days of Christmas” and a special
arrangement by the Brown Madrigal Singers. Conducted entirely in Latin
(with a bit of ancient Greek and Sanskrit). Translations provided for those
whose ancient languages are a little (or a lot) rusty.
The Latin Carol Celebration is free and open to the public. It lasts a
little over an hour and street parking is available.
www.brown.edu…
<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/events/latin-carol-celebration>
[image:
Latin Carol Celebration]
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)
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Thu., Dec. 12, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall,
Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"The Making of the Southern Sea"
Paul J. Kosmin is a Professor in the Department of the Classics at Harvard
University. His research is focused on two broad historical themes. First,
the relationship between empires and systems of knowledge and practice,
and, second, the interaction between the Greek world and its Near Eastern
neighbors. He has begun a third big research project, provisionally titled
e Ancient Shore. is will be a cultural history of the coastline in Greek
antiquity, explored as a site of social processes, as a dynamic of
claim-making and territorialization, and as an inducement to thinking,
wonder, and religious experience.
events.brown.edu…
<https://events.brown.edu/classics/view/event/date/20191212/event_id/157005>
[image:
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)]
March 2020
CANE Annual Meeting
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 13 – Sat., Mar. 14
TRINITY COLLEGE, TBA, Hartford, CT 06106
Classical Association of New England
Call for Papers: https://caneweb.org/new/?p=4214
Deadline: December 15th, 2019
caneweb.org… <https://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=3751>
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
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Tue., Mar. 24
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-…>
Harvard Graduate Student Conference
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Mar. 28
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Class before Capitalism?: Social Structure and the Ancient World"
Keynote speaker: Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
Call for Papers
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-biennial-graduate-student…>:
abstracts due January 1, 2020
Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
classics.fas.harvard.edu…
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-biennial-graduate-student…>
April 2020
Vesta Curtis (British Museum)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
July 2020
Classical Association of New England Summer Institute
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Mon., July 13 – Sat., July 18
BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Providence, RI 02912
On the theme "The Empire and the Individual"
graduate credit available
For more information and registration details, go to www.caneweb.org
Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at
summerinst(a)caneweb.org.
caneweb.org… <https://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=165>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
November 2019
Nykki Nowbahar (Rutgers University)
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Mon., Nov. 18, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave, School of Theology Building Rm.
409, Boston, MA 02215
"'*Quae Fugit a Sexu*': Understanding Gender though Female Transvestism in
Roman Literature"
Please come see Nykki Nowbahar, a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, give
a lecture on "Quae Fugit a Sexu': Understanding Gender though Female
Transvestism in Roman Literature."
Light refreshments will be served.
This event is part of the lecture series "The Study Group on Myth and
Religion in the Ancient World" presented by the Boston University
Department of Classical Studies and the Boston University Center for the
Humanities, and the "Emerging Scholars" lecture series presented by the
Office of the Provost.
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University
<https://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/religion-and-myth/>
www.bu.edu… <http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/religion-and-myth/> [image:
Nykki Nowbahar (Rutgers University)]
Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon)
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Thu., Nov. 21, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Downey House Lounge, 294 High St., Middletown, CT 06459
"*Not All Dead White Men:* Classics and Misogyny in the the Digital Age"
Recently, a surprising group has taken up the mantle of explaining why the
study of the ancient Greeks and Romans is important: the alt-right.
Alt-right thinkers present themselves as protectors of the Classics who are
saving the cultural heritage of the West from social-justice-warrior
professors who secretly want to destroy it.
Donna Zuckerberg, Silicon-Valley based Classics scholar and Editor-In-Chief
of Eidolon, will explore what antiquity means to far-right online
communities and what others can do to respond. Reception to follow lecture.
eaglet.wesleyan.edu…
<https://eaglet.wesleyan.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=…>
[image:
Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon)]
Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University and the Hutchins Center for
African and African American Research, Harvard)
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Thu., Nov. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, South College W245, 150 Hicks Way,
Amherst, MA 01003
"Race and Representation in the Roman Empire: Images of Africans between
Myth, Stereotype, and Reality"
Sponsored by UMass Amherst Departments of Classics, History, and Art
History. More information: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa(a)classics.umass.edu,
413-545-0512).
www.umass.edu…
<https://www.umass.edu/classics/event/race-and-representation-roman-empire-i…>
[image:
Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University and the Hutchins Center for
African and African American Research, Harvard)]
Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany)
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Thu., Nov. 21, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Venantius Fortunatus"
Julia Sturm (Harvard University)
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Fri., Nov. 22, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Loss of a category: The fate of the Greek nasal infix presents"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop>
"Incubating the Mirror: An International Education Week Event, Featuring
Music, Poetry and Students' Performance"
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Fri., Nov. 22, 6 – 8 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CFA 171, 855 Commonwealth Ave,. Boston, MA
Acclaimed New England Conservatory guitarist Jerome Mouffe and mezzosoprano
Lea Luka Sikau will perform a diverse repertoire of classical music and
students from all BU Modern Greek classes, like a Greek chorus, will recite
their creative writing pieces on the topic of mirror at the intervals of
music.
The event, coordinated by Dr. Vassiliki Rapti, is hosted by the Program of
Modern Greek Studies and the Department of Classical Studies, Boston
University, under the auspices of the Circle of Hellenic Academics in
Boston. It is co-sponsored with the support of the following:
Boston University Philhellenes Association
Citizen TALES Commons
Hellenic Student Association of Boston University
Limited seats available. Reservations will be accepted on a fist come,
first served basis.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/G1KhTi2tGUz1vs178
[image: "Incubating the Mirror: An International Education Week Event,
Featuring Music, Poetry and Students' Performance"]
December 2019
Duane Roller (Ohio State University)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Dec. 3, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Understanding the World: The Geography of Strabo of Amaseia"
Duane W. Roller is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the Ohio State
University. He served on and directed archaeological field projects in
Greece, Turkey, Italy, Israel and Jordan, and was a four-time Fulbright
scholar. He is the author of numerous books and articles on classical
studies, most recently Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the
Augustan Age. His latest book, Empire of the Black Sea, will be published
by Oxford University Press in spring 2020.
As always, this event is free and open to the public and a light reception
will follow.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Classics with support from the
Bruce Elliot Donovan Memorial Endowment.
events.brown.edu…
<https://events.brown.edu/classics/view/event/date/20191203/event_id/156271>
[image:
Duane Roller (Ohio State University)]
Sarah Derbew (Harvard Society of Fellows) and Jennifer Stager (Johns
Hopkins University)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Dec. 3, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Seeing Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art"
Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at
5:30 p.m.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…
<https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/seeing-color-in-ancient-mediterr…>
Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of "The History of
Sexuality"
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Dec. 5, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27
Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA 02138
In February 2018, the fourth and final volume of Michel Foucault’s *History
of Sexuality project*—*Confessions of the Flesh*—was published for the
first time in French by Éditions Gallimard. This is an extraordinary
publishing event since the book was not supposed to have been printed at
all.
This one-day conference will assess the reception and impact of this
missing volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality. It will highlight the
text of *Confessions of the Flesh*, its place in Foucault’s oeuvre, the
context in which he wrote, and the contemporary relevance of this new work.
It is far enough away from the Foucault-overload of past decades that it is
now possible to freshly examine the enduring value of this influential
thinker—a re-examination inspired by the belated publication of his final
book.
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/harvardcolloquium/home>
wgs.fas.harvard.edu…
<https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/event/confessions-flesh-michel-foucault%E2%80%9…>
March 2020
CANE Annual Meeting
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 13 – Sat., Mar. 14
TRINITY COLLEGE, TBA, Hartford, CT 06106
Classical Association of New England
Call for Papers: https://caneweb.org/new/?p=4214
Deadline: December 15th, 2019
caneweb.org… <https://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=3751>
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 24
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-…>
Harvard Graduate Student Conference
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Mar. 28
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Class before Capitalism?: Social Structure and the Ancient World"
Keynote speaker: Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
Call for Papers
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-biennial-graduate-student…>:
abstracts due January 1, 2020
Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
classics.fas.harvard.edu…
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-biennial-graduate-student…>
April 2020
Vesta Curtis (British Museum)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
July 2020
Classical Association of New England Summer Institute
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., July 13 – Sat., July 18
BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Providence, RI 02912
On the theme "The Empire and the Individual"
graduate credit available
For more information and registration details, go to www.caneweb.org
Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at
summerinst(a)caneweb.org.
caneweb.org… <https://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=165>
October 2020
Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 13, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Workshop on *Iliad* commentary
Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 14, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…>
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