Boston Area Classics Calendar
May 2022
Post-Pandemic Update: What has the Science of the Human Past discovered lately?<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., May 12, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Zoom and CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (Lower Level), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Introduction:
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University;
Chair, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP); Director at Harvard, Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM).
Speakers:
“Reviving ancient brews: genetically reconstructing Tibetan beers and Roman wines”
Christina Warinner, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor, Radcliffe Institute; Group Leader, Dept. of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany.
“The Second Generation of Declassified Intelligence Satellites and Landscape Archaeology”
Jason Ur, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
“When did the Celts come to Britain? Ancient DNA answers”
Michael Isakov, A.B. Mathematics, Harvard College, A.M. Statistics, Harvard University (exp. ’22).
“What is Documentary Archaeology? Creating big data from medieval Europe’s material culture”
Daniel Lord Smail, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Harvard University, and Gabriel Pizzorno, Preceptor on Digital History, Harvard University.
“Anomalous Burials: The archaeology of death in early medieval France”
Solenn Troadec, Postdoctoral Fellow, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, Harvard University
“1000 years ago: climate change and globalization?”
Alexander More, Associate Professor of Public Health, LIU Brooklyn; Research Associate, SoHP, Harvard University.
“South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region”
David Reich, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.
With comments by: Margaret Andrews, Assistant Professor of Classics, Harvard University.
Q&A to follow, and public reception!
Remote Participation Link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/>
sohp.fas.harvard.edu…<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming?month=2022-05&type=month>
[Post-Pandemic Update: What has the Science of the Human Past discovered lately?]
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
May 2022
Samra E. Azarnouche (École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., May 6, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (on Zoom)
"Creation and Procreation: The Zoroastrian Doctrine of Ontogenesis and the Late Antique Sciences"
Abstract:
The Zoroastrian cosmological discourse is characterized by a systematic reference to the natural and life sciences. The Bundahišn, a Middle Persian encylopaedic compendium on the creation of the world, devotes an entire chapter (chapter 15) to human procreation, in which the different phases of ontogeny are described. Read alongside other Middle Persian texts on procreation and the physiology of generation (Bundahišn 1.57; Anthology of Zādspram 29.1-3, 30.17-23, 30.35; Dēnkard III.157.19; Dēnkard VIII.34), it brings to light the framework of a full-fledged Zoroastrian doctrine of embryology. This paper explores the status of procreation within the doctrine of creation by highlighting five major themes in classical ontogeny: pangenesis, embryonic development, gender determination, foetal animation, and the thesis known as the “wind theory.” The comparative approach allows us better to understand the influence of the Greek and Indian medical traditions, the adaptations brought about by Late Antique Iranian authors, and the innovations specific to Zoroastrian thought.
Sponsors: The Mahindra Humanities Center & The Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies at Harvard
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Persian and Persianate Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/persian-and-persianate-studies>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
Justine Landau
[Samra E. Azarnouche (École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris)]
Oisín Ó Muirthile (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., May 6, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Boylston Hall 335
A leopard "Cant" change its spots: On the dating and development of Irish Travellers' Gammon-Cant (Shelta) and its relationship to other Gaelic-based argots.
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop>
tamishaltan(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:tamishaltan@g.harvard.edu>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2022
Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 27, 5:15 p.m.
MIT (on Zoom. Registration required)
"Cicero and the Early Latin Poets
Cicero's writings contain hundreds of quotations of Latin verse from Latin poets of the 2nd century BCE, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius. In this lecture, Hannah Čulík-Baird explains the significance of Latin poetry to the late Republican orator, contextualizing Cicero's poetic quotations within contemporary intellectual practices at Rome.
Hannah Čulík-Baird is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University. Her book, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (April 2022).
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zoom.us_meeting_re…>
[Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)]
Members Night at the Museum (Hybrid Event)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 27, 6 – 8 p.m.
HARVARD MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE, offered both on Zoom and in-person (check in at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138)
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture members are invited to a fun, informative, rotating tour of our newest exhibitions. Curators, exhibitions staff, and educators will discuss the making of Mediterranean Marketplaces in the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Muchos Méxicos in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and From the Hands of the Makers in the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Come learn about the objects chosen for display and find out how HMSC designs and installs such exhibitions.
Registration is required for both in-person and Zoom options. Those attending in person will be required to follow all Covid-19 visitor protocols. Capacity is limited, so please reserve early.
Not a member of Harvard Museums of Science & Culture? Become a member today so you can join us on April 27th! Visit us at hmsc.harvard.edu…<https://hmsc.harvard.edu/membership>
hmsc.harvard.edu…<https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/member-night-museums>
hmscpr(a)hmsc.harvard.edu<mailto:hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu>
[Members Night at the Museum (Hybrid Event)]
Oisín Ó Muirthile (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Boylston Hall 335
A leopard "Cant" change its spots: On the dating and development of Irish Travellers' Gammon-Cant (Shelta) and its relationship to other Gaelic-based argots.
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop>
tamishaltan(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:tamishaltan@g.harvard.edu>
May 2022
Samra E. Azarnouche (École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., May 6, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (on Zoom)
"Creation and Procreation: The Zoroastrian Doctrine of Ontogenesis and the Late Antique Sciences"
Abstract:
The Zoroastrian cosmological discourse is characterized by a systematic reference to the natural and life sciences. The Bundahišn, a Middle Persian encylopaedic compendium on the creation of the world, devotes an entire chapter (chapter 15) to human procreation, in which the different phases of ontogeny are described. Read alongside other Middle Persian texts on procreation and the physiology of generation (Bundahišn 1.57; Anthology of Zādspram 29.1-3, 30.17-23, 30.35; Dēnkard III.157.19; Dēnkard VIII.34), it brings to light the framework of a full-fledged Zoroastrian doctrine of embryology. This paper explores the status of procreation within the doctrine of creation by highlighting five major themes in classical ontogeny: pangenesis, embryonic development, gender determination, foetal animation, and the thesis known as the “wind theory.” The comparative approach allows us better to understand the influence of the Greek and Indian medical traditions, the adaptations brought about by Late Antique Iranian authors, and the innovations specific to Zoroastrian thought.
Sponsors: The Mahindra Humanities Center & The Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies at Harvard
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Persian and Persianate Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/persian-and-persianate-studies>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
Justine Landau
[Samra E. Azarnouche (École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris)]
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2022
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
A discussion of The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe<https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780884024842> (Harvard University Press, 2022), featuring editors Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Princeton University) and Jake Ransohoff (History, Harvard University) in conversation with Leah Whittington (English, Harvard University), Dimiter Angelov (History, Harvard University), and Maryam Patton (History, Harvard University). Co-sponsored by the John Duffy Society, the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Ancient Studies, and Early Modern World at Harvard, with additional support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Community Renewal Fund.
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
[Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)]
Rosa Andújar (King's College London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 20, 12 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Zoom, Registration required)
Dr. Rosa Andújar is a classicist with broad interests in Greek antiquity and its complex modern afterlife. She edited the first ever critical edition of Luis Alfaro's ‘Greek’ plays: The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, Mojada (2020). The book, which draws on her expertise both on Greek tragedy and its rich reception history, was awarded the 2020 London Hellenic Prize. She is also the editor of Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (2018) and of Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage(2020). She is currently completing a monograph on the Greek tragic chorus.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
contact: delmer(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delmer@fas.harvard.edu>
Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 20, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Queer Philology"
Abstract: This lecture examines the relationship between philology, the historic core of Classics itself, and queerness. One aspect of this relationship is, surely, what we might call the philology of queerness: that is to say, the development of delicate methods and of finely tuned critical ears in order to "detect" queer meaning in texts, albeit often between the lines, beneath the surface, or in the margins. But a more ambitious investigation reveals philology and queerness themselves to be kindred spirits, both predicated on a final refusal of meaning to reveal itself in any simple, straightforward, unambiguous way. If criticism is, etymologically, a “choice” between this or that reading, then the broader philological practices leading to that (often deferred) choice instead foreground indeterminacy itself. Taking a few examples from the Miscellanies of Renaissance humanist and philologist Angelo Poliziano and a few more from A. E. Housman a century ago, I shall explore how this foregrounding works and why it might matter.
Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-classics-worksh…>
nherter(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>; davidenapoli(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
Jacqueline Carlon (UMass Boston)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 20, 7 – 8 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON (Online on Zoom)
"What the Research Suggests: Teaching Reading Skills to Classical Language Students"
This talk is the first meeting of the new UMass Boston SLA and Classics Seminar. The seminar seeks to provide a forum for building community among classical language instructors at all levels, foster connections between the field of Classics and the field of SLA research, and advance innovative approaches to classical language instruction. Seminar events are free and open to all. Sign up<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.office.com_r_0VL…> to receive emails about the seminar, including Zoom links.
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Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Zoom (Registration required)
A two-day workshop led by Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics), intended to introduce methods and challenges of editing texts beyond the basics of collation. Day 1 (Thursday) will feature broader discussion of stemmatics and open traditions from both traditional and New Philological perspectives. Day 2 (Friday) will focus on practical case studies involving specific issues like punctuation, interpolation, and the challenges posed by large traditions. Please register in advance (for each day separately) to receive the readings.
Workshop will take place on Zoom. Both days will consider topics relevant to both ancient and medieval texts. Examples discussed on Day 2 will be drawn from Greek and Latin; knowledge of one or both languages is useful but not required for either day. All members of the community—students, faculty, and beyond—are welcome to attend.
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
Rebecca Miller Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
On Sacred Ground: Interpreting Votive Images at Metaponto in Southern Italy
The chora or territory lying beyond the walls of the urban center of Metaponto has been the focus of pioneering archaeological fieldwork for more than half a century. Metaponto’s chora may thus rightly boast to be the most thoroughly investigated of any city-state in the ancient Greek world. This path-breaking research on the dynamic landscape of the countryside forms the backdrop to Dr. Ammerman’s study of the statuettes and relief plaques made of baked clay that generations of worshippers dedicated as votive offerings at the rural sanctuary of Pantanello. Dr. Ammerman will illustrate the different angles from which she has analyzed this large assemblage of figured terracottas in order to shed light on the nature of the cult practiced at Pantanello and the concerns that worshippers hoped would be addressed by the patron deity of the sanctuary to whom they made their votive gift. Dr. Ammerman's Lecture is made possible by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Lecture Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
James Porter (University of California, Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (On Zoom. Registration required.)
"How Ideal Is the Ancient Self"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and Receptions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditions>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
contact: jhamilt(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu>
Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & CULTURE, HARVARD MUSEUM OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (Zoom)
The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt (Virtual Lecture)
Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even the familiar illustrations from children’s books and magazines showing kilted workers on the Nile toiling away on their kings’ great monuments. But what is the relationship between these images—along with the deep history they evoke and the processes of discovery that made them visible—and the history of modern Egypt? In this talk, Wendy Doyon will discuss the relationship between state, archaeology, and labor in Mehmed (or Muhammad) Ali’s Egypt—an autonomous khedival, or viceregal, state within the late Ottoman Empire—and explain how the power of the Egyptian state in the nineteenth century was built, in large part, on the creation of modern antiquities land and the organization of Egyptian workers as state assets controlled by Mehmed Ali Pasha and his dynasty-building successors.
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
hmsc.harvard.edu…<https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/power-antiquity-making-modern-egypt>
hmscpr(a)hmsc.harvard.edu<mailto:hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu>
[Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt]
Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 22, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Zoom (Registration required)
A two-day workshop led by Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics), intended to introduce methods and challenges of editing texts beyond the basics of collation. Day 1 (Thursday) will feature broader discussion of stemmatics and open traditions from both traditional and New Philological perspectives. Day 2 (Friday) will focus on practical case studies involving specific issues like punctuation, interpolation, and the challenges posed by large traditions. Please register in advance (for each day separately) to receive the readings.
Workshop will take place on Zoom. Both days will consider topics relevant to both ancient and medieval texts. Examples discussed on Day 2 will be drawn from Greek and Latin; knowledge of one or both languages is useful but not required for either day. All members of the community—students, faculty, and beyond—are welcome to attend.
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
Justin Miller (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 22, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
"Phoenician Miscellanies: The etymology of Dido, the Phoenician shift(s), and an alphabetic transmission"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop>
tamishaltan(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:tamishaltan@g.harvard.edu>
Amy Richlin (University of California, Los Angeles)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 22, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 83 Waterman St, Room 130, Providence, RI
"Subalternity in the Roman Metropole"
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
Registration required.
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[Amy Richlin (University of California, Los Angeles)]
Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 27, 5:15 p.m.
MIT (on Zoom. Registration required)
"Cicero and the Early Latin Poets
Cicero's writings contain hundreds of quotations of Latin verse from Latin poets of the 2nd century BCE, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius. In this lecture, Hannah Čulík-Baird explains the significance of Latin poetry to the late Republican orator, contextualizing Cicero's poetic quotations within contemporary intellectual practices at Rome.
Hannah Čulík-Baird is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University. Her book, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (April 2022).
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zoom.us_meeting_re…>
[Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)]
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2022
Christian Thomsen (University of Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 12, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 (In person and on Zoom; registration required.)
"The Continuation of a Civic Obligation? The Athenian Trierarchy in the Late Third Century BCE"
Organized by Ancient Studies at Harvard
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
CANCELLED - Jorge Wong (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 15, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard University Boylston Hall 335
"The φερέοικος-Compound in Ancient Greek: A New Etymology"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop>
tamishaltan(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:tamishaltan@g.harvard.edu>
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
A discussion of The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe<https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780884024842> (Harvard University Press, 2022), featuring editors Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Princeton University) and Jake Ransohoff (History, Harvard University) in conversation with Leah Whittington (English, Harvard University), Dimiter Angelov (History, Harvard University), and Maryam Patton (History, Harvard University). Co-sponsored by the John Duffy Society, the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Ancient Studies, and Early Modern World at Harvard, with additional support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Community Renewal Fund.
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rosa Andújar (King's College London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 20, 12 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Zoom, Registration required)
Dr. Rosa Andújar is a classicist with broad interests in Greek antiquity and its complex modern afterlife. She edited the first ever critical edition of Luis Alfaro's ‘Greek’ plays: The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, Mojada (2020). The book, which draws on her expertise both on Greek tragedy and its rich reception history, was awarded the 2020 London Hellenic Prize. She is also the editor of Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (2018) and of Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage(2020). She is currently completing a monograph on the Greek tragic chorus.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
contact: delmer(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delmer@fas.harvard.edu>
Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 20, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Queer Philology"
Abstract: This lecture examines the relationship between philology, the historic core of Classics itself, and queerness. One aspect of this relationship is, surely, what we might call the philology of queerness: that is to say, the development of delicate methods and of finely tuned critical ears in order to "detect" queer meaning in texts, albeit often between the lines, beneath the surface, or in the margins. But a more ambitious investigation reveals philology and queerness themselves to be kindred spirits, both predicated on a final refusal of meaning to reveal itself in any simple, straightforward, unambiguous way. If criticism is, etymologically, a “choice” between this or that reading, then the broader philological practices leading to that (often deferred) choice instead foreground indeterminacy itself. Taking a few examples from the Miscellanies of Renaissance humanist and philologist Angelo Poliziano and a few more from A. E. Housman a century ago, I shall explore how this foregrounding works and why it might matter.
Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-classics-worksh…>
nherter(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>; davidenapoli(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
Jacqueline Carlon (UMass Boston)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 20, 7 – 8 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON (Online on Zoom)
"What the Research Suggests: Teaching Reading Skills to Classical Language Students"
This talk is the first meeting of the new UMass Boston SLA and Classics Seminar. The seminar seeks to provide a forum for building community among classical language instructors at all levels, foster connections between the field of Classics and the field of SLA research, and advance innovative approaches to classical language instruction. Seminar events are free and open to all. Sign up<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.office.com_r_0VL…> to receive emails about the seminar, including Zoom links.
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Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Zoom (Registration required)
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
Rebecca Miller Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
On Sacred Ground: Interpreting Votive Images at Metaponto in Southern Italy
The chora or territory lying beyond the walls of the urban center of Metaponto has been the focus of pioneering archaeological fieldwork for more than half a century. Metaponto’s chora may thus rightly boast to be the most thoroughly investigated of any city-state in the ancient Greek world. This path-breaking research on the dynamic landscape of the countryside forms the backdrop to Dr. Ammerman’s study of the statuettes and relief plaques made of baked clay that generations of worshippers dedicated as votive offerings at the rural sanctuary of Pantanello. Dr. Ammerman will illustrate the different angles from which she has analyzed this large assemblage of figured terracottas in order to shed light on the nature of the cult practiced at Pantanello and the concerns that worshippers hoped would be addressed by the patron deity of the sanctuary to whom they made their votive gift. Dr. Ammerman's Lecture is made possible by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Lecture Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & CULTURE, HARVARD MUSEUM OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (Zoom)
The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt (Virtual Lecture)
Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even the familiar illustrations from children’s books and magazines showing kilted workers on the Nile toiling away on their kings’ great monuments. But what is the relationship between these images—along with the deep history they evoke and the processes of discovery that made them visible—and the history of modern Egypt? In this talk, Wendy Doyon will discuss the relationship between state, archaeology, and labor in Mehmed (or Muhammad) Ali’s Egypt—an autonomous khedival, or viceregal, state within the late Ottoman Empire—and explain how the power of the Egyptian state in the nineteenth century was built, in large part, on the creation of modern antiquities land and the organization of Egyptian workers as state assets controlled by Mehmed Ali Pasha and his dynasty-building successors.
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
hmsc.harvard.edu…<https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/power-antiquity-making-modern-egypt>
hmscpr(a)hmsc.harvard.edu<mailto:hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu>
[Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt]
Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 22, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Zoom (Registration required)
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 27, 5:15 p.m.
MIT (on Zoom. Registration required)
"Cicero and the Early Latin Poets
Cicero's writings contain hundreds of quotations of Latin verse from Latin poets of the 2nd century BCE, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius. In this lecture, Hannah Čulík-Baird explains the significance of Latin poetry to the late Republican orator, contextualizing Cicero's poetic quotations within contemporary intellectual practices at Rome.
Hannah Čulík-Baird is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University. Her book, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (April 2022).
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zoom.us_meeting_re…>
[Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)]
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2022
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 5, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (1 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Epic Maroons"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value, broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-1>
Katherine Schwab (Fairfield University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Polychromy, New (and Old) Technologies, and the Parthenon Metopes
Dr. Katherine Schwab will speak on a selection of Parthenon metopes to analyze technologies, past and present, to better understand the original compositions and their polychromatic appearance. The original ninety-two carved marble panels displayed four major mythological battles prominently positioned above the columns on all four sides of the temple. Today we have a greatly altered impression due to their current state of damage and location. From graphite drawings to Virtual Reality, we are in a position to better understand these nearly life-sized compositions that formed the public face of Athena’s temple on the Athenian Acropolis.
The event is sponsored by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 6, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (2 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Zealots"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value, broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-2>
Lawrence Kim (Trinity University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 109, Providence, RI
"Why Do We Call Early Greek Poetry ‘Archaic'?"
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[Lawrence Kim (Trinity University)]
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 7, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, on Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (3 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Let Met Clear My Throat"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value, broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-3>
John W.I. Lee (University of California, Santa Barbara)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 7, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (on Zoom)
"African American Travelers Encounter Greece, ca. 1850–1900"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/modern-greek-studies>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/african-american-travelers…>
Ilana Freedman ifreedman(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:ifreedman@g.harvard.edu>
Christian Thomsen (University of Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 12, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 (and on Zoom)
"The Continuation of a Civic Obligation? The Athenian Trierarchy in the Late Third Century BCE"
Organized by Ancient Studies at Harvard
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD
Book launch for The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe.
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rosa Andújar (King's College London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 20, 12 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Zoom)
Dr. Rosa Andújar is a classicist with broad interests in Greek antiquity and its complex modern afterlife. She edited the first ever critical edition of Luis Alfaro's ‘Greek’ plays: The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, Mojada (2020). The book, which draws on her expertise both on Greek tragedy and its rich reception history, was awarded the 2020 London Hellenic Prize. She is also the editor of Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (2018) and of Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage(2020). She is currently completing a monograph on the Greek tragic chorus.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
contact: delmer(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delmer@fas.harvard.edu>
Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rebecca Miller Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
On Sacred Ground: Interpreting Votive Images at Metaponto in Southern Italy
The chora or territory lying beyond the walls of the urban center of Metaponto has been the focus of pioneering archaeological fieldwork for more than half a century. Metaponto’s chora may thus rightly boast to be the most thoroughly investigated of any city-state in the ancient Greek world. This path-breaking research on the dynamic landscape of the countryside forms the backdrop to Dr. Ammerman’s study of the statuettes and relief plaques made of baked clay that generations of worshippers dedicated as votive offerings at the rural sanctuary of Pantanello. Dr. Ammerman will illustrate the different angles from which she has analyzed this large assemblage of figured terracottas in order to shed light on the nature of the cult practiced at Pantanello and the concerns that worshippers hoped would be addressed by the patron deity of the sanctuary to whom they made their votive gift. Dr. Ammerman's Lecture is made possible by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Lecture Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & CULTURE, HARVARD MUSEUM OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (Zoom)
The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt (Virtual Lecture)
Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even the familiar illustrations from children’s books and magazines showing kilted workers on the Nile toiling away on their kings’ great monuments. But what is the relationship between these images—along with the deep history they evoke and the processes of discovery that made them visible—and the history of modern Egypt? In this talk, Wendy Doyon will discuss the relationship between state, archaeology, and labor in Mehmed (or Muhammad) Ali’s Egypt—an autonomous khedival, or viceregal, state within the late Ottoman Empire—and explain how the power of the Egyptian state in the nineteenth century was built, in large part, on the creation of modern antiquities land and the organization of Egyptian workers as state assets controlled by Mehmed Ali Pasha and his dynasty-building successors.
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
hmsc.harvard.edu…<https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/power-antiquity-making-modern-egypt>
hmscpr(a)hmsc.harvard.edu<mailto:hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu>
[Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt]
Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 22, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
Zoom
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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