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Boston Area Classics Calendar (March 9, 2020)

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Boston Area Classics Calendar Disclaimer: This calendar is current as of 1pm EDT (GMT-4) on March 9th, 2020. For questions about any further cancellations, please contact the event host. March 2020 CANCELED - Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (Ohio State)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Mar. 9, 5 – 6:30 p.m. Linda R. Rabieh (MIT)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Mar. 9, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building E51, Room 275, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 "Humane Warfare: An Ancient Perspective on Ethics in War" presented by MIT's Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium What are the ethics that should guide our soldiers in war? Although this is an old question, it must be revisited in light of the peculiar situations in which our soldiers are called to act in the 21st century. Do the same principles apply when we engage in war through automated drones or cyber warfare? How is it possible to maintain ethical principles when confronted with the brutality of those who refuse to distinguish between combatants and civilians? For guidance, this talk returns to ancient political thought, which grappled with questions both of war and of character, and in particular to Plato’s Republic, where Socrates outlines an education for warriors and the nature of a healthy soul that suggests different grounds for ethical actions, grounds that may provide a superior model for our complex times. MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series calendar.mit.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__calendar.mit.edu_event…> [mage removed by sender. inda R. Rabieh (MIT)] David Ganz (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Mar. 10, 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Cambridge, MA 02138 "E. K. Rand, Ludwig Traube, Latin Palaeography and the Medieval Academy of America" David Ganz is a Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies at Harvard University. James Loeb Lecture [mage removed by sender. avid Ganz (Harvard University)] CANCELED - Gianfranco Agosti (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Mar. 11, 12 – 1:30 p.m. Brown Lecture Series [mage removed by sender. ANCELED - Gianfranco Agosti (Università di Roma “] Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Mar. 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Samberg Conference Center, Salon M, Building E52, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.com_-3Fq-3D…> "Luxury at Sparta" commentary by Graham Oliver (Brown University) New England Ancient Historians Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_&d=DwMFAw…> www.neahc.us<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_&d=DwMFAw…> CANCELED - CANE Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 13 – Sat., Mar. 14 Laura Massetti (University of Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop> linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/indo-european-laura-massetti-univ…> Christopher Francese (Dickinson College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Mar. 17, 5:30 – 7 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Digital Annotation of Classical Texts and Effective Digitization: The Dickinson College Commentaries Project" 11th Annual Grimshaw-Gudewicz Lecture Presented by the Department of Classics Sponsored by the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Foundation Classical studies sits on a gold mine of print reference works (lexica, commentaries, grammars, concordances), many of them in the public domain, that are the envy of other fields. The internet itself is, among other things, one gigantic reference work. People go to it in their billions every day to find information about the present and the past. Unfortunately, the information found there about the past is often partial, garbled, and not created by qualified scholars. The digitization of existing high-quality reference resources in classics and turning them into easily consulted digital resources is a massive opportunity which is neglected for various reasons by the contemporary academic world. But going from book to effective digital resource is no simple matter of transcription. This talk discusses techniques of and further opportunities for effective digitization as a way to make direct experience of classical texts more available to people around the world, in the context of the peer-reviewed commentary series Dickinson College Commentaries. Christopher Francese is the project director of Dickinson College Commentaries, a series of online multimedia editions of classical texts, and is the author of three books: Ancient Rome: An Anthology of Sources (Hackett, 2014), Ancient Rome in So Many Words (Hippocrene, 2007), and Parthenius of Nicaea and Roman Poetry (Peter Lang, 2001). He also produces the Latin Poetry Podcast, and directs a series of professional development workshops for Latin teachers, the Dickinson Latin Workshops. With student and faculty collaborators he created the Latin and Greek Core Vocabularies, the thousand most common words in Latin and the 500 most common words in ancient Greek, collated and edited on the basis of large samples. He is currently preparing the first modern edition of Historiae Indicae by Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1588). As always, this event is free and open to the public with a reception immediately following the talk. We hope to see you there! events.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_class…> [mage removed by sender. hristopher Francese (Dickinson College)] John Schafer (Wake Forest University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 20, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "Catullus Through His Books" presented by the Myth and Religion Study Group Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Boston University Center for the Humanities Myth and Religion Study Group Lecture www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_humanities_e…> CANCELED - Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Mar. 24 GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-…> Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Mar. 25, 5:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Stokes Hall South 195, 160 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 "Translating Homer's Odyssey Again: Why and How?" The 2020 Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies, a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey, published in 2017. To be published this spring is The Norton Critical Edition of Homer's Odyssey edited and translated by Prof. Wilson. She is currently working on a new translation of Homer's Iliad. For further information: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>; 617-552-6346) Directions and Parking: www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bc.edu_bc-2Dweb_abo…> The Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__events.bc.edu_group_blu…> events.bc.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.bc.edu_event_tr…> [mage removed by sender. mily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)] Madeline Miller<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Mar. 25, 7 – 8 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.com_-3Fq-3D…> "Madeline Miller: Making Art from the Past" Author Madeline Miller shares how she retells ancient stories for modern times, drawing inspiration from texts, sources, and artifacts to create her hit novels. Circe, Miller’s second novel and an instant bestseller, is currently being adapted for a series with HBO Max. Miller’s novels have been translated into more than 25 languages and her essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Telegraph, Lapham's Quarterly, and NPR.org. TICKET REQUIRED To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975 ($6 processing fee applies); to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk. www.mfa.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_este…> Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 27 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA presented by the Indo-European Workshop and the Harvard Linguistics Circle GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop> linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/linguistics-circle-elly-van-gelde…> CANCELED - Harvard Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Mar. 28 Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference April 2020 Niels Kuehlert (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 3 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop> linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/indo-european-niels-kuehlert-harv…> Leni Ribeiro Leite (Federal University of Espírito Santo)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 9, 6 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-…> Dieter Gunkel (University of Richmond)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 10 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop> linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/universals-and-indo-european-diet…> Leni Ribeiro Leite (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 14, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 "New worlds through Classical lenses: Classical epideictic tropes in Maffei's Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> Zach Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 17 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop> linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/indo-european-zach-rothstein-dowd…> CANCELED - Vesta Curtis (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Apr. 22 llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Georges-Jean Pinault (École pratique des hautes études)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 23 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop> linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/indo-european-georges-jean-pinaul…> Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 24, 3 – 7 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, BU School of Law, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Boston Area Roman Studies Conference 2020 Conference Program: Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham) "Varro's strategies of quotation in De Lingua Latina" Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) "Cicero on Fiction" Katharina Volk (Columbia University) "Necromancers in the Senate" Attending the conference is free. There will be a dinner following the conference at 7:30PM. The dinner registration deadline is Friday, April 17, 2020. Tickets are $30 for Boston University faculty and guests, $20 for non-Boston University affiliated graduate students, and is free for Boston University graduate and undergraduate students. Registration will open the second week of March. For more information please contact Arthur Peterson at 617-353-2426, romstud(a)bu.edu<mailto:romstud@bu.edu>, or apeter(a)bu.edu<mailto:apeter@bu.edu>. Sponsored by the Boston University Department of Classical Studies and the Boston University Center for the Humanities Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_eve…> View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list View calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar Submit events using our new event submission form: https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission Contact calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu> with questions or additions/corrections.

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