Boston Area Classics Calendar

March 2019

Wed., Mar. 13, 4 – 6 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

"3D Reconstructions as Tools for Scientific Discovery: The Example of Rome Reborn"

Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome

mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…

Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross)

Wed., Mar. 13, 5 – 7 p.m.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 303 Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA

"From #metoo to the Sicilian Slave Revolts: What modern protests can teach us about resistance in the Roman world"

José Luis García-Ramón (University of Cologne)

Thu., Mar. 14, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Indo-European, Poetic Language, and Greek Phraseology and Onomastics"

GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”

Joshua Allbright (University of Southern California)

Thu., Mar. 14, 5 – 6 p.m.

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

"Not Greek, but not Not Greek: A Reappraisal of Greek Homosexuality"

GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"

Classical Quotation: A Workshop

Fri., Mar. 15, 4 – 7 p.m.

MIT, Building 2, Room 102, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02138

An afternoon of presentations and discussion on the topic of quotation and the classical tradition (including excerpting, translation, paraphrasis, commonplacing, etc.) both in and of ancient Greek and Latin texts.
Featuring Joel Christensen (Brandeis), Hannah Čulik-Baird (BU), Stephanie Frampton (MIT), and Leah Whittington (Harvard), with responses from Ann Blair (Harvard) and Hannah Marcus (Havard)

Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)

Tue., Mar. 19, 4:30 p.m.

BOSTON COLLEGE, McElroy Commons room 237, 325 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

"Justifying genocide? Caesar's conquest of Gaul in the context of Roman imperialism."

Ellen Finkelpearl (Scripps College)

Wed., Mar. 20, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

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

“The Art of the Spider: Philo, Saraceno, & Their Webs”
More info: events.brown.edu…

Verity Platt (Cornell University)

Wed., Mar. 20, 6 – 8 p.m.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, Room 132, Boston, MA 02215

"Winckelmann’s Pharmacy: sculpture, description and the phantasia of restoration"

Boston University History of Art and Architecture Department Annual Lecture Series 2018-19

Wednesday March 20, at 6PM in CAS 132.

Catherine Grandjean (Université de Tours, France)

Tue., Mar. 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

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

"The coinage of the Achaian koinon, between federal authority and civic autonomy.”
Ancient galleries open until 8 p.m.

llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture

*Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)

Wed., Mar. 27, 3 – 5 p.m.

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

"Gender and Sexuality: Lenses on the House of Atreus"
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities

April 2019

Edith Hall (King’s College London)

Fri., Apr. 5, 4 – 7 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Huddleston Ballroom, 73 Main St, Durham, NH 03824

Classics, Class and Race: Transatlantic and Transhistorical Perspectives

Followed by:
Classical Reception and the Future of Classics
a panel discussion with
Sarah Derbew, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics, Yale University
Patrice Rankine, Professor of Classics and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Richmond

Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)

Fri., Apr. 5, 4 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138

TBA

GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"

Katherine Taronas (Harvard University)

Mon., Apr. 8, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

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

TBA

Byzantine Studies Colloquium

New England Ancient History Colloquium

Thu., Apr. 11

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Faculty Club, Room 205, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

40th anniversary celebration, featuring Kurt Raaflaub (Brown)on
"Caesar Historicus" with Cynthia Damon (UPenn) as commentator.
Reg.and reception 5:30-6:30, Dinner 6:30=7:30, Discussion 7:30-9.
Further info: allen.m.ward@att.net

Roberta Stewart (Dartmouth)

Thu., Apr. 11, 3 – 4:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138

Topic TBA

GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"

Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University)

Thu., Apr. 11, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459

“Race and Environment from Hippocrates to the Smithsonian Institute”
More info: www.wesleyan.edu/classics/events/

James Taylor (Harvard)

Fri., Apr. 12, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

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

Topic TBA

GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"

"Natural Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Medieval Period"

Sat., Apr. 13, 12 – 6 p.m.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, Mass. 02453

Department of Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference:
"Natural Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Medieval Period"
Keynote Speaker: Professor Debbie Felton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Additional details TBA
Free and open to the public. Free Parking. Please send all questions to the conference committee: Derrek Joyce (djjoyce@brandeis.edu), Matthew Previto (mjp6853@brandeis.edu), and Katherine Riggs (kriggs93@brandeis.edu).

Edward Watts (UC San Diego)

Mon., Apr. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138

"The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject in Justinian's Hagia Sophia"

James Loeb Lecture

Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin)

Tue., Apr. 23, 6 – 7 p.m.

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

"Recent Discoveries at Sardis: From the Bronze Age to the End of Antiquity"

Work by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958. This biennial lecture series presents the latest research from the site to the Harvard and greater Boston communities.

Please join us in Menschel Hall beginning at 5:30pm to view drone footage of the Sardis site.

The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.

Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.

Sardis Biennial Lecture

Noah Kaye (Michigan State University)

Thu., Apr. 25, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

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

TBA

GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires"

UMass Classics Colloquium

Fri., Apr. 26, 3 – 6:30 p.m.

UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room (Tenth Floor), Amherst, MA

"Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Ancient Historiography in Honor of Professor Elizabeth Keitel"
3:00 to 6:30 p.m. - followed by banquet
Speakers:
1) Jane Chaplin (Middlebury), When Historians Make History
2) Timothy Joseph (Holy Cross), Ubique lamenta: The place of lament in Latin epic and historiography
3) Christina Kraus (Yale), Multiplying disasters: the many-fronted, multiplex bellum in Livy 5
4) John Marincola (FSU), Asinius Pollio and the Roman Revolution.
Register here: www.umass.edu…

May 2019

Florian Knauss (University of Augsburg)

Wed., May 1

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138

"Palaces and Luxury Goods. The Achaemenid Persian Impact in the Caucasus"

James Loeb Lecture

July 2019

CANE Summer Institute

Mon., July 8 – Sat., July 13

BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI

The organizers of the 2019 CANE Summer Institute invite you to join us for a weeklong examination of peoples and cultures that comprised the Classical Greek and Roman worlds. We will not only look at the various components of the ancient world, but we will also consider what it meant for those components to be unum. The institute’s events and discussions will also consider modern and contemporary reflections of nationhood.

Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English, the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy a thoughtful and enriching experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, reading groups, and special events while also offering many opportunities for conversation and collegial interaction among participants.

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