Boston Area Classics Calendar

April 2018

Mon., Apr. 9, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215

"Seeing Double: The Contemporary and the Immemorial in Claudian and Colluthus"
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities

Carolyn J. Dewald (Bard College)

Thu., Apr. 12, 5:30 - 7 p.m.

TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Eaton Hall rm. 201, 5 The Green, Medford, MA 02155

"Herodotus Is Not From Here: History Looking In a Different Direction"

ase.tufts.edu.

Tony Stewart (Vanderbilt University)

Thu., Apr. 12, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912

"Mapping The Bengali Imaginaire: Fictional Encounters Of Hindu & Muslim Worlds"

www.brown.edu.

Joseph Nagy (Harvard University)

Fri., Apr. 13, 5 - 7 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Some lonely Indo-European fathers, sons, and brothers in myth"

GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"

Stephen Kidd (Brown University)

Mon., Apr. 16, 6:30 - 8 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Paidia: The Concept of Play in Ancient Greece
brown.academia.edu.

Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics

mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.

Brent Vine (UCLA)

Tue., Apr. 17, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 104, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Latin edepol 'by Pollux!': Background of a Latin adverbium iurativum"

James Loeb Lecture

Nathan Sivin (UPenn)

Wed., Apr. 18, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others"

GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice"

Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto)

Thu., Apr. 19, 5 - 7 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138

Topic: The politics of the Presocratics

GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"

Boston Area Roman Studies Conference

Fri., Apr. 20, 3:30 - 9:30 p.m.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155

"Religion and Relationships in the Poetry of Catullus"
Time: 3:30-6:45pm, dinner to follow at 7:30pm.

Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register. The dinner charge is $30.00 ($20 for graduate students with school ID) and the registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 12, 2018. To register for the conference, click here (www.bu.edu.)

Below is the program for the 2018 Conference.

Leah Kronenberg, Boston University
'In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato'

Christopher Polt, Boston College
'Broken Hymenaeus and Priapic Pontifex: Ritual Subversion and Restoration in Catullus 17'

William Fitzgerald, King's College, London
'Catullus: Our Roman or False Friend?'

Boston Area Roman Studies Conference

Sam Moorhead (British Museum)

Mon., Apr. 23, 5 - 7 p.m.

TRINITY COLLEGE, 300 Summit St., Hartford, CT 06106

"The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-96)"
Co-sponsored by AIA-Hartford Chapter and Department of Classics

Di Yan (Cambridge University)

Mon., Apr. 23, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Why Should We Compare? What to Compare and How?: A Greek-Chinese Case Study on Authorship in Ancient Poetry"

GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice"

John Zaleski (Harvard University)

Tue., Apr. 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138

TBA

Byzantine Studies Colloquium

Jochen Griesbach (University of Würzburg)

Tue., Apr. 24, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912

"Position Matters: Portrait Monuments As Evidence For Structural Change Of The Public Sphere During The Hellenistic Period"

www.brown.edu.

Jochen Griesbach (University of Würzburg)

Charles Bartlett (Duke University)

Thu., Apr. 26, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Professionalization, politics, and the ius fetiale at Rome: tradition and technicalities"

GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice"

*Sam Moorhead (British Museum)

Thu., Apr. 26, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall Room 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481

"The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-96)"
Co-sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America-Boston and the Wellesley Department of Classical Studies

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University)

Thu., Apr. 26, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912

"Choreographing Amorous Bodies"

www.brown.edu.

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University)

*Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)

Fri., Apr. 27, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Cambridge, MA 02143

"Arguments in a cold climate: Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs"

GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"

Sophocles' Antigone

Sun., Apr. 29, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston, MA 02134

Come see a spectacle of unprecedented proportions as ARTS FIRST storms Harvard Stadium with an original translation of Sophocles' ANTIGONE by the Harvard Classics Club! Featuring a new theatrical score performed by a small army of chorus members, a dynamic set that breathes with the action, and undergraduate, faculty, and professional actors, this performance launches ANTIGONE into the heart of contemporary discourse. This event is free and open to the public at 6:30 pm on April 29 in Harvard Stadium.

*Dee Clayman (City University of New York)

Mon., Apr. 30, 4 - 6 p.m.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215

"Astral Politics: Royal Catasterisms in Callimachus and Aratus."
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities

Emily Greenwood (Yale University)

Mon., Apr. 30, 5 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Aristotle's Slave and Reconstructive Philology"

Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome

May 2018

Leah Whittington (Harvard University)

Mon., May 7, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138

TBD

GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"

Leah Kronenberg (Boston University)

Tue., May 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

"In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato"

Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome

Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University)

Tue., May 8, 6 - 7 p.m.

HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts"
Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds.
Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture.

Mildenberg Lecture

www.harvardartmuseums.org.

Trachiniae Study Day - Greek Tragedy Workshop

Wed., May 9, 10:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.

BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 008, Providence, RI 02912

A full day of study and discussion focused on Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy, "Women of Trachis." Participants should have read the play in advance, and should bring a Greek text of the play with them. Lunch will be served!
If you have any questions, please contact the Brown University Department of Classics at classics_department@brown.edu or 401.863.1267.

www.brown.edu.

Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)

Mon., May 21

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138

Discussion of Cartledge's book, Democracy.
Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University).

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