[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, November 6, 2015

The Boston Area Classics Calendar for November 6, 2015 PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry A colloquium on “Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination” UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 10th Floor, Campus Center, Amherst, MA 01002 Sat., Nov. 7, 2015, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Speakers are Brigitte Libby (Harvard University), “Out of the Ashes: Rome’s Beginnings at Troy”; Tom Zanker (Amherst College), “Horace and the Rhetoric of Decline”; Virginia Closs (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “The Unmaking of Rome: Clades Publica and Censorship in Senecan Thought”; Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania), “The Sacks of Rome”; Andrew Johnston (Yale University), “Ruin, Reconstruction and History”; Jessica Clark (Florida State University), “The Spoils of War: Victory as Urban Disaster”; Elizabeth Keitel (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Caesar and the Urbs Capta at Massilia”; and Honora Chapman (California State University, Fresno), “Josephus’ Memory of Jerusalem: A Study in Urban Disaster.” Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the College of Humanities of Fine Arts More info: www.umass.edu…<https://www.umass.edu/classics/disaster> *Christoph Markschies (Humboldt University, Berlin) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Nov. 9, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m. "Demons and Diseases." This lecture is sponsored by Harvard Divinity School (HDS), Boston Patristics Group and the International Catacomb Society (ICS). José Luis García Ramón (Universität zu Köln) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Nov. 9, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m. "A Linguistic Continuum in Post-Mycenaean Central Greece: Dialects in Contact and Phylogeny" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, The Center for Hellenic Studies, and the Harvard GSAS Workshop in Indo-European Linguistics John Friend (University of Tennessee) BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912 Mon., Nov. 9, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m. "Lycurgus, Ephebes, and The Gods" More info: www.brown.edu…<http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.a… José Luis García Ramón (Universität zu Köln) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m. "Greek Onomastics, Phraseology and Indo-European Poetic Language: From the Files of a New Edition of Bechtel's Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, The Center for Hellenic Studies, and the Harvard GSAS Workshop in Indo-European Linguistics Portraits of Black Classicists, From Slaves to Scholars, Opening Reception BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Rubin-Frankel Gallery, 213 Bay State Road, Second Floor, Boston, MA 02215 Wed., Nov. 11, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classical Studies The event is free and open to the public. More info: www.bu.edu…<http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/portraits-of-black-cl… Portraits of Black Classicists, From Slaves to Scholars, Curator Lecture BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Sargent College Room 102, 635 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m. Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classical Studies The event is free and open to the public. More info: www.bu.edu…<http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/portraits-of-black-cl… Joanna Kenty (University of New Hampshire; Wesleyan Classics ’08) WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street Middletown, CT Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. “Lysistrata in Liberia: Reading Aristophanes with Leymah Gbowee’s ‘Mighty Be Our Powers’” Sponsored by Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu<mailto:dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu>) More info: www.wesleyan.edu…<http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/> Albert Harrill (Ohio State University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Andover Hall, Sperry Room 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m. "Paul in Rome?" Event Series: Brown Lecture Series Julia Hejduk (Baylor University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m. Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity ​Meredith Safran (Trinity College) COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center; Fourth Floor (Suite A); 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610 Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. "Romulus and the ​'​difficult task​'​ : a folk motif in Livy's ​'​Sabine women'​ episode (AUC I.9-13)"​ Carol Dougherty (Wellesley College) MIT, Building E51-275 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 whereis.mit.edu<http://whereis.mit.edu/> Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m. “‘What ought to have remained hidden’: Clytemnestra’s Uncanny Housekeeping" Event Series: MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Villa) WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 5 p.m. Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Annual Art Lecture "Why Fakes Matter: Authenticity in Ancient Art" This presentation takes up the controversial issue of fakes in ancient art and asks what they can tell us about how we understand and define authenticity today. James Uden (Boston University) "Satire and Superstition in Second-Century Rome" Tue., Dec. 1, 2015, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome Leanna Boychenko (University of Massachusetts Amherst) UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Herter Hall 301, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003 Wed., Dec. 2, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m. "Daughters of the Sun: Apollonius Rhodius' Medea and the Egyptian Eye of Re.” Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Brian Breed (bbreed@classics.umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@classics.umass.edu>). Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m. "Plutarch, Lucian and the Sixth Century BC" Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Mar. 1, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m. Topic: TBA Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Sat., Mar. 5, 2016 Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford) See link for more info. and Call for Papers. Event Series: Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/biennal-gradua… Hans Beck (McGill University) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Mar. 7, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m. Topic: Greek koinon Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World” Johannes Nollé (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts) HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m. Title: TBA Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture Ann Kuttner (University of Pennsylvania) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Fri., Apr. 8, 2016, 4 – 5:30 p.m. Subject: ethnicity and material culture Event Series: GSAS Workshop “Ethnicity in the Ancient World” John Miller (University of Virginia) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Apr. 19, 2016 Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Subscribe to/download calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>. 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