[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar 10/30/09

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010 (10/30/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE A GOOGLE CALENDAR FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu . Please send information as a plain text email in the format shown below instead of as file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM ON WEDNESDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK. Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued the following week. Please circulate as widely as possible. More details about some of the events below can be found in the Google Calendar entries. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry **Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Center, Room 110, 64 College St., Providence, RI James Zetzel (Columbia University) "Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Tues., Nov. 3, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA 01002 Guy Deutscher, (Classics and Psychology, University of Leiden) "Does your mother-tongue affect the way you think? What can be salvaged from linguistic relativity?" Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Psychology For more information please contact Luca Grillo (lgrillo(a)amherst.edu) and see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures For directions see https://www.amherst.edu/map/Amherst_College_Map.pdf *Tues., Nov. 3, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Hent de Vries, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives "Global Religion and the Post-Secular Challenge: American and European Perspectives" For further information about this Seminar, please contact the chairs Panagiotis Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (yatroman(a)fas.harvard.edu). Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Harvard University Research Seminar on Cultural Politics Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Sarah Ruden, Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School "Coping with the Author as Other: A Pacifist Translates the Aeneid's War Scenes" Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu ) or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall, Room 117, Amherst, MA David Konstan (Brown University) "Between Epigram and Elegy: Horace as an Amatory Poet" Sponsored by the Classics Department For more information please contact Luca Grillo (lgrillo(a)amherst.edu) or see https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures Mon., Nov. 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Christopher Star (Middlebury College) "‘To accept a favor gladly is to have repaid it': Exchange and Status in Seneca's ‘De Beneficiis' and Petronius' ‘Satyricon.'" Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Wed., Nov. 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Diskin Clay (Duke University) "The Art of Hell: from Dante to Rodin - a look forward from antiquity" Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Wed., Nov. 11, 8:00 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Dan Bahat (University of Toronto) "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discovery and Meaning" Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department, Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program, and the Archaeology Program For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu or see https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/ Fri., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS Room 224, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA The Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America Shelley Wachsmann (Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University) "Some went down to the Sea in Ships (Psalms 107:23): Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (300-1200 B.C.)" Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology *Mon., Nov. 16, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Ermanno Malaspina (University of Turin) "The Cultural Dimensions of Cicero's Academici Libri" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs. - Sat., Nov. 19 – 21 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Conference on "Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning" Speakers HomiBhabha (keynote), Srinivas Aravamudan (plenary), Nicholas Allen, Jonathan Crewe, Mariam Dossal, Matthew Fox, Rachel Friedman, Emily Greenwood, Richard Hingley, Holger Hoock, John Lee, Jeanne Morefield, Mary Nyquist, Folake Onayemi, Nancy Rabinowitz, Dan Selden, Daniel Tompkins, Ika Willis http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/news/2009imperialclassicsconference.html *Wed., Dec. 2, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA Evie Holmberg (Hellenic College) "How Far Can A Restoration Go? Art and Deception in Reconstructing the Beauty of the Past." Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427. Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University) Title TBA Sponsored by the Department of Classics Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/conference-program.pdf Sat., Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 202 Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies (Part of the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative, December 4-5) Conference Keynote Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford University) "Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative" The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and the Department of the Classics. *Sun., Dec. 6, 10:00 a.m. Temple Emanuel, Gann Chapel, 385 Ward St., Newton, MA Dr. Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University "The Grinch that Stole Hanukkah: Modernizing the Temple in the Second Century BCE" Dr. Bernard Schwartz Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Rabbi Marshall Lifson Library, and presented in collaboration with Adult Learning at Temple Emanuel December 6th is also the library's annual Jewish Book Fair. www.templeemanuel.com Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin Carol Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the readings will be provided.) APPENDIX: Wheelchair access: to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the elevator to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the Sperry Room There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic Museum at Harvard. " CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics