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Boston Area Classics Calendar, December 17, 2021

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Boston Area Classics Calendar December 2021 MFA Ancient Greek and Roman Free Admission Day in Celebration of the new Classical Galleries<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Dec. 18 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 It’s a gift from the gods! Celebrate the opening of the MFA’s new galleries of ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine art with free general admission on Saturday, December 18. This celebratory day will include a series of talks by MFA staff in the galleries as well as art making activities. The new galleries of art of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine empire feature some of the oldest works in the MFA’s collection telling new stories and reflecting our time through the art of the past. With freshly imagined spaces that include natural light, innovative displays, interactive experiences, and immersive evocations of an ancient Greek temple and a Byzantine church, visitors of all ages can learn about the legacies of these ancient cultures and understand their relevance today. mfa.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mfa.org_event_special-…> February 2022 Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Feb. 8, 5:15 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Lecture: TBA Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series> Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Feb. 28, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD Book launch for the The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe. John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society> March 2022 Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> April 2022 Katherine Schwab, Fairfield University<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002 Schwab, an art historian and archaeologist, will speak about her most recent discoveries in drawing the broken Parthenon metopes. Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:30 p.m. Zoom (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002 Ammerman, a classical archaeologist, will speak about votive imagery and the cult of the nymphs at Metaponto. View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails. View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>. Submit events using our 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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Boston Area Classics Calendar, December 10, 2021

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Boston Area Classics Calendar December 2021 Shane Bobrycki (University of Vienna, Austria)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Dec. 13, 5:15 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (on Zoom, registration required) "Plague, War, Migration, Climate Change, Sex, and the Demographic Riddle of the Early Middle Ages Zoom registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zoom.us_meeting_re…> Abstract: The medieval historian Marc Bloch wrote that the “fundamental characteristic” of early medieval Europe (c. 500–1000 CE) was “the great and universal decline in population” that opened the period. Many economic and social historians have agreed. Between the fifth and the seventh centuries, cities and towns diminished by orders of magnitude; some vanished entirely. Settlement density declined almost everywhere. Only gradually did cities and populations recover, a process that gained speed only after 1000. Few question that this demographic pattern had profound economic, social, and political consequences for early medieval history. But historians are less sure why it happened in the first place. What caused populations to drop off in the post-Roman West? Why did they remain low for so long? Why did the demographic fate of the West differ from that of its “sibling cultures” around the Mediterranean, the Byzantine and Islamic worlds? In this talk, I reassess the usual suspects for early medieval European demographic history: epidemic disease, endemic warfare, migration, climate change, and the reproductive choices of early medieval families. I will argue that in each case we need to spend more time thinking about the mechanics of causation. MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zoom.us_meeting_re…> [Shane Bobrycki (University of Vienna, Austria)] MFA Ancient Greek and Roman Free Admission Day in Celebration of the new Classical Galleries<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Dec. 18 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 It’s a gift from the gods! Celebrate the opening of the MFA’s new galleries of ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine art with free general admission on Saturday, December 18. This celebratory day will include a series of talks by MFA staff in the galleries as well as art making activities. The new galleries of art of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine empire feature some of the oldest works in the MFA’s collection telling new stories and reflecting our time through the art of the past. With freshly imagined spaces that include natural light, innovative displays, interactive experiences, and immersive evocations of an ancient Greek temple and a Byzantine church, visitors of all ages can learn about the legacies of these ancient cultures and understand their relevance today. mfa.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mfa.org_event_special-…> February 2022 Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Feb. 8, 5:15 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Lecture: TBA Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series> Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Feb. 28, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD Book launch for the The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe. John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society> March 2022 Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> April 2022 Katherine Schwab, Fairfield University<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002 Schwab, an art historian and archaeologist, will speak about her most recent discoveries in drawing the broken Parthenon metopes. Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:30 p.m. Zoom (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002 Ammerman, a classical archaeologist, will speak about votive imagery and the cult of the nymphs at Metaponto. View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails. View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>. Submit events using our 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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Boston Area Classics Calendar, December 3, 2021

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Boston Area Classics Calendar December 2021 73rd Latin Carol Celebration<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Dec. 6, 8 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Sayles Hall, Providence, RI 02912 (or online) Visit the event website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> to register to attend in person or access the live stream. www.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> [73rd Latin Carol Celebration] Shane Bobrycki (University of Vienna, Austria)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Dec. 13, 5:15 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (on Zoom, registration required) "Plague, War, Migration, Climate Change, Sex, and the Demographic Riddle of the Early Middle Ages Zoom registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zoom.us_meeting_re…> Abstract: The medieval historian Marc Bloch wrote that the “fundamental characteristic” of early medieval Europe (c. 500–1000 CE) was “the great and universal decline in population” that opened the period. Many economic and social historians have agreed. Between the fifth and the seventh centuries, cities and towns diminished by orders of magnitude; some vanished entirely. Settlement density declined almost everywhere. Only gradually did cities and populations recover, a process that gained speed only after 1000. Few question that this demographic pattern had profound economic, social, and political consequences for early medieval history. But historians are less sure why it happened in the first place. What caused populations to drop off in the post-Roman West? Why did they remain low for so long? Why did the demographic fate of the West differ from that of its “sibling cultures” around the Mediterranean, the Byzantine and Islamic worlds? In this talk, I reassess the usual suspects for early medieval European demographic history: epidemic disease, endemic warfare, migration, climate change, and the reproductive choices of early medieval families. I will argue that in each case we need to spend more time thinking about the mechanics of causation. MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zoom.us_meeting_re…> [Shane Bobrycki (University of Vienna, Austria)] MFA Ancient Greek and Roman Free Admission Day in Celebration of the new Classical Galleries<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Dec. 18 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 It’s a gift from the gods! Celebrate the opening of the MFA’s new galleries of ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine art with free general admission on Saturday, December 18. This celebratory day will include a series of talks by MFA staff in the galleries as well as art making activities. The new galleries of art of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine empire feature some of the oldest works in the MFA’s collection telling new stories and reflecting our time through the art of the past. With freshly imagined spaces that include natural light, innovative displays, interactive experiences, and immersive evocations of an ancient Greek temple and a Byzantine church, visitors of all ages can learn about the legacies of these ancient cultures and understand their relevance today. mfa.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mfa.org_event_special-…> February 2022 Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Feb. 8, 5:15 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Lecture: TBA Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series> Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Feb. 28, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD Book launch for the The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe. John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society> March 2022 Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…> April 2022 Katherine Schwab, Fairfield University<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002 Schwab, an art historian and archaeologist, will speak about her most recent discoveries in drawing the broken Parthenon metopes. Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:30 p.m. Zoom (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002 Ammerman, a classical archaeologist, will speak about votive imagery and the cult of the nymphs at Metaponto. View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails. View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>. Submit events using our 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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