Harvard University Digital Scholarship Support Group: Call for Applications
Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript
*Workshop Date*: October 19th-20th, 2019
*Application Form*: tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting
*Application Deadline*: September 20th, 2019
*Contact*: digitalmanuscriptediting(a)gmail.com
*Location*: Lamont Library, Harvard University
The workshop, co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies,
covers the fundamentals of digital editing while tackling the codicological
challenges posed by medieval manuscripts. Practical sessions inform
collective editorial decision-making: participants will undertake the work
of transcription and commentary, and encode (according to TEI P5 protocols)
the text and images of a medieval manuscript. The workshop will result in a
collaborative digital edition. The manuscript selected for this workshop is
Houghton Lat. 159, a late medieval Book of Hours written in Latin; we will
focus on a selection of suffrages. No language proficiencies are required
for participation.
This graduate-run workshop is *free of charge*, and lunch will be provided
for participants. A limited number of small need-based travel bursaries are
available for participants traveling Cambridge. The workshop will be
limited to twelve places and preference will be given to graduate students
with demonstrated need for training in manuscript study and text encoding.
You will be notified whether we have been able to secure you a place
by *September
23rd*.
For more information on the project and on previous iterations of the
workshop, see
https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing-medieval-manuscripts/
and https://digitalrollsandfragments.com/workshops/.
Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 2019
Reception for "Art at the Greek Institute"
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Sun., Sep. 15, 4 – 7 p.m.
THE GREEK INSTITUTE, 1038 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Exhibit September 15th through October 30th. Reception September 15th 4 to
7 p.m.
Composite photographs of past and present at the most iconic sites of
Athens. Free admission, books and prints for sale. Richard W. Moore,
photographer.
[image: Reception for "Art at the Greek Institute"]
The Parthenon of Makronisos: Re-educating the Greeks during the Cold War
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Sep. 16, 6 – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Screening of the film “Like Stone Lions at the Gateway into Night”
(directed by Olivier Zuchuat; France, Switzerland and Greece, 2012, 87
min., in Modern Greek, with English subtitles), introduced by Adrian Stähli
(Harvard University).
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>
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The Parthenon of Makronisos: Re-educating the Greeks during the Cold War]
Urban Space, Roman Couture, and A Living Past: Views of Pompeii and
Pantheon – Marc Babej and William Wylie
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Thu., Sep. 19, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, 287 Washington
Terrace, Middletown, CT 06459
Artist William Wylie’s subject is Pompeii. The once-flourishing city on the
Bay of Naples was destroyed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE,
and it has long been renowned for its vivid evocation of ordinary life and
sudden catastrophe. Wylie’s images are meticulously composed, finely
observed black-and-white studies, primarily of architecture. Even though
Pompeii is normally thronged with tourists, his pictures of the buildings
are unpopulated and still, allowing us to attend to the details of the
structures that remain. The photographs are documentary, in that they
represent real scenes in real time, and they are also unmistakably the
products of an artist's sophisticated eye and sensibility.
Rather than a Rome in ruins, artist Marc Erwin Babej envisions a Rome that
never fell. His "Pantheon" may be categorized less as photography and more
as "photo-based art." Created with a camera and a computer, his pictures
commingle the genres of portraiture and fashion and dramatic tableau. They
are infused with Roman myth and history, to which Babej brings a scholar's
knowledge and a devotee's enthusiasm. Each of the solitary figures bears a
name that is well-known from Roman antiquity; each is set in a digital
reconstruction of an identifiable building that stands, or once stood, in
or near the city itself. The resulting images are elegant, engaging visual
fictions that allude to the rich diversity of the Roman world.
On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 4:30pm in Ring Family Performing Arts
Hall, there will be an Artist Talk with Marc Babej and William Wylie. A
reception will follow the presentation and conversation in the South
Gallery of the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.
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Evina Sistakou (University of Thessaloniki)
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Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, 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>
Helena González-Vaquerizo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
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Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Warren House, Room 201, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Kazantzakis’ *Odyssey*: A (Post)Modern(ist) Sequel"
Should we consider Nikos Kazantzakis’ *magnum opus*, *The Odyssey* (1938),
a dead end in his career or its very starting point? Whereas today a
growing number of critics acknowledge modernist and even postmodernist
elements in the author’s novelistic work and thought, it still needs to be
proven not only that such elements do exist in *The Odyssey*, but that the
poem is the source of Kazantzakis’ later (post)modernism. The aim of my
presentation is to provide evidence for this and to propose an
interpretation of *The Odyssey *as an epic in the process of becoming a
novel, in fact, a (post)modernist novel. Such an interpretation will
illustrate major aspects not only of *The Odyssey* itself but also of the
overall development of Kazantzakis' literary work.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and Culture
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-a…>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-a…>
Meredith E. Safran (Trinity College)
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Thu., Sep. 26, 5 – 6:15 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Hall rm.#107 (Paino Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA
01002
"From Spoils to Saviors: Re-valuing the First Roman Wives as Civic Actors
in Livy's 'From the Foundation of the City'"
Many of Rome’s founding civic myths conjoin the community’s political
transformation with sexualized violence against women.This talk will focus
on the episode traditionally known as “the rape of the Sabine women,” in
which the first Romans staved off the extinction of their new community and
established Rome’s version of marriage, but did so by obtaining their wives
through a mass bride abduction. Unlike most of the women who fall victim to
violence in Rome’s founding myths, the Sabine women not only survive their
assault; by the end of their story, as told by the Roman historian Livy,
they’ve won universal respect and recognition for saving both new and old
communities, which they risk their own lives to defend. We’ll explore how
such a triumph could result from a story that begins with assault and
consider why these women’s remarkable rise in status is not how people tend
to remember this story today.
Sponsored by the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund and the Department of
Classics at Amherst College
Free and open to the public.
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October 2019
Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 3, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Ancient Studies Visitors Series
Brian Daniels (Penn Cultural Heritage Center)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 9, 5 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Cultural Recovery in a Time of Violence: Protecting Heritage Sites in
Syria"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley
College Department of Classical Studies
Vinzenz Brinkmann (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Oct. 11, 12 – 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., 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>
Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Application required (deadline September 20th). See website for more
details.
Send questions to digitalmanuscriptediting(a)gmail.com. Application form:
https://tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting
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Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard
University Digital Scholarship Support Group.
dssg.fas.harvard.edu…
<https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing-medieval-manuscripts/>
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Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop]
Shelley Haley (Hamilton College)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
"Race-ing” the Romans: Uncovering the Racial Constructs of Ancient Rome
Mark Janse (Ghent University)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Oct. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
"From Katpatuka to Ionanistan: The Rise, Demise and Reawakening of
Cappadocian Greek"
Followed by the documentary "Last Words" (seriousFilm, 2014)
Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in
Cappadocia (Central Turkey) until the population exchange between Greece
and Turkey in the 1920s. Cappadocian speakers were forced to emigrate to
Greece, where they were resettled in various locations, especially in
Central and Northern Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly shifted to Standard
Modern Greek and/or regional varieties thereof and their language was
thought to be extinct since the 1970s (*Ethnologue*, 15th edition, 2005).
In June 2005, Mark Janse (Ghent University) and Dimitris Papazachariou
(University of Patras) discovered Cappadocians in Central and Northern
Greece who could still speak their native language. Amongst them are
middle-aged, third-generation speakers who take a very positive attitude
towards the language as opposed to their parents and and grandparents. The
latter are much less (if at all) inclined to speak Cappadocian and normally
switch to Greek and/or Turkish in their conversations. In his lecture,
Professor Janse will relate the linguistic history of Cappadocia and the
fascinating story of his search und ultimately discovery of the lost
Cappadocian language. The lecture will be followed by the documentary film
‘Last Words’.
Mark Janse (is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at
Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for
Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse(a)ugent.be)
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Mark Janse (Ghent University)
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Tue., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Linguistic Convergence in Asia Minor: The Internal Development of
Agglutinative Inflections in Cappadocian Greek"
Mark Janse is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at
Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for
Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse(a)ugent.be)
docs.google.com…
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Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University)
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Wed., Oct. 23, 12 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Colloquium with Sinclair Bell: "Race in the Roman Empire: Black Africans as
Subjects and Objects in Imperial Visual Culture"
Organized by the Hutchins Center
<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-bell?delta…>
africa.harvard.edu…
<https://africa.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-bell-race-roman-empire…>
Mark Janse (University of Ghent)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 23, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"More Maculate Musings: New Wordplays in Aristophanes' *Lysistrata*"
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by
the BU Center for the Humanities
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University
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Simona Martorana (Durham University)
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Wed., Oct. 23, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'Writing like a man, *becoming-woman*’: gender-queerness and literary
creation in the *Epistula Sapphus*"
GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-…>
Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Oct. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World"
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>
Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom
(Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA
02138
"*Mancipia Indica*: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
earlymod.fas.harvard.edu
Alex Purves (UCLA)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 30, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Campus Center, 10th Floor, Amherst
Room, Amherst, MA 01002
Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross)
"The Political Power of the Middle Republican Army"
Commentator: Will Broadhead (Associate Professor of History, MIT)
5:30: drinks and appetizers
6:30: dinner
7:30–9:30: speaker and commentator
7:30–9:30: speaker and commentator
Registration required (details to follow)
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
November 2019
The 12th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student
Conference
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Nov. 9
"Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment"
Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) and Mr. Marquis "I
AM" McCray
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Brent Seales (University of Kentucky)
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Thu., Nov. 14, 5 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Clapp Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street,
Wellesley, MA 02481
"The Digital Restoration Initiative: Reading the Invisible Library"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley
College Book Studies Program
Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany)
<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 21, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Venantius Fortunatus"
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
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