22 Sep
2014
22 Sep
'14
6 p.m.
Tue, Sep 23: Armand D’Angour (Jesus College, Oxford University)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA, 02138
"What Do We Mean by Ancient Greek Music?"
Mahindra Humanities Center: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
*Tue, Sep 23: Andrew Johnston (Yale University)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Territories and Territoriality in Roman Spain and Gaul"
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop:
"Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu;
Anthony Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
A poster and brief abstract are available at the following link:
http://tinyurl.com/JohnstonHarvard.
*Fri & Sat, Sep 26-27: Colloquium: "What is a classic? Translation,
reception and the making of canons"
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, NH 03755
A colloquium bringing together scholars of "classic" literature from
different periods (Greco-Roman, Classical Japanese and Chinese) to explore
the relationships between canonization, philology and translation. Keynote
speaker: Sheldon Pollock (Columbia). Other speakers include Michael Clarke
(NUI Galway), Sean Gurd (Missouri), Joseph Farrell (Pennsylvania), Alex
Beecroft (USC). All welcome. Further information at
http://sites.dartmouth.edu/what-is-a-classic/program-schedule/
Mon, Sep 29: Zoa Alonso Fernández (Harvard University)
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Ludi, Ludic, Ludicrous: Choreographing Rome from Spartacus to Caligula"
This presentation focuses on the notion of “dance” as one of the various
meanings embedded in the Latin terms ludo / ludus. Taking into account
ludic and ludicrous aspects of three choreographic works of the last fifty
years, the speaker will examine how Ancient Rome has been presented and
represented by the moving qualities of the dance medium.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics
Wed, Oct 8: James N. Stone (Boston University)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Playing Scrabble with Sappho: A Translation Workshop for Anyone Interested
in the Interplay of Poetry, Translation, and Play"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics
Thu, Oct 9: Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
"War, What is it Good For in Homer's Iliad and Four Receptions?"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department. For more information, please
contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/.
Wed, Oct 15: Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139
"The Medieval Origins of the Cupola of Florence Cathedral"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/
Wed, Oct 15: Ryan Balot (University of Toronto)
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall, Main
Street, Durham, NH 03824
"The Psychology of Greed: Ancient and Modern Reflections"
Sponsored by the John C. Rouman Lecture Series, the Responsible Governance
and Sustainable Citizenship Project, and the Department of Classics,
Humanities and Italian Studies. A short reception will follow.
*Fri & Sat, Oct 17-19: Conference—"Myth Criticism in the Ancient World"
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Main Street, Durham, NH and Portsmouth, NH,
United States
John C. Rouman Symposium for Research in the Classics
Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth (Oct. 17 and 19), University of New Hampshire,
Piscataqua Room in Holloway Commons (Oct. 18)
Free and open to the public; RSVP requested. Supported by the John C.
Rouman Classical Lecture Series. Link with full program of 14 speakers
here: http://cola.unh.edu/event/symposium-myth.
Sat, Oct 18: "Sappho: New Voices"
10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
BARD COLLEGE, Olin Hall 204, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
A symposium on ancient Greek poetry and society in light of this year’s
discovery of new poems by Sappho, presented by the Bard College Classical
Studies Program and sponsored by James H. Ottaway Jr.
http://eh.bard.edu/events/event.php?eid=126656
10 a.m. Introduction: Lauren Curtis (Bard College) and Robert Cioffi (Bard
College)
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session 1: Gender and Performance
Timothy Power (Rutgers University): "Performance Scenarios for the New
Poems of Sappho"
Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Recentering Epic
Nostos: Gender and Genre in the Brothers Poem"
12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch break
1:30-3 p.m. SESSION 2: Sappho and Society
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University): "A High-class Trader, Courtesan, and
Poetess, a Tyrant, and Archaic Greek-Eastern Interaction"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University): "Hera and Now"
3-3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30-5 p.m. SESSION 3: Religious Poetics
Timothy Barnes (Princeton University): "Sappho's daimon: a Reading of the
Fourth Stanza"
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University): “What’s in a Prayer? Sappho’s Way
with Words"
5-5:30 p.m. Round table discussion
6 p.m. Evening performance in Olin Auditorium.
“Bracko”: a reading of Sappho by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick Flynn,
and Sam Anderson
*Thu, Oct 23: Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University)
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
Title: TBA
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Fri, Oct 24: Alessandro Barchiesi (University of Siena at Arezzo, Stanford
University)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Apuleius the Provincial"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thu, Oct 30: New England Ancient History Colloquium
5 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA, 02766
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.: Registration and cocktails.
6:00 - 9:00/9:30 p.m. Dinner and Discussion of Gary Reger's paper on the
religious and historical significance of Mt. Latmos in Asia Minor from the
Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire.
Contact allen.m.ward(a)att.net for more information.
Tue, Nov 4: David Ferry (Wellesley College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02139
Title: TBA
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/
*Wed, Nov 5: Hendrik Dey (Hunter College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, G03, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fortress Rome: How the Aurelian Wall Changed Everything"
In 271 AD, Rome was the largest and most famous city in the world, the
center of an empire so vast and so powerful that no foreign invader had
threatened it since Hannibal 500 years earlier. Beginning in 271, however,
Emperor Aurelius began to surround the previously unfortified city-center
with the largest masonry structure the world had ever seen, a city wall 12
miles in circumference imposed on the midst of Rome’s sprawling urban
fabric. Neighborhoods were cut in two; roads and bridges blocked; houses,
tombs and public buildings either demolished or absorbed by the wall.
Professor Dey explores a tiny sampling of the ways in which the look and
the life of the city changed forever, with emphasis on infrastructure.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies, Fine Arts, and
History, and the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Free and Open to the Public, Reception to follow with light refreshments.
For more information contact Heidi McAllister: hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu or
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow: aoko(a)brandeis.edu.
Directions to Brandeis: http://www.brandeis.edu/ces/directions.html
Thu, Nov 6: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
"Chewing: Goethe’s Proserpina"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Fri, Nov 7: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Roundtable Discussion with Professor Frauke Berndt
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
*Sat, Nov 8: Colloquium: "Classical Monsters and Their Medieval Afterlife"
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room, Amherst,
MA 01003
A colloquium on monsters, their meanings, and their influence in classical
and medieval art, archaeology, and literature. Presented by the UMass
Amherst Department of Classics. List of speakers and topics available at
http://www.umass.edu/classics/monstersconference.html.
*Fri & Sat, Nov 14-15: International Society For Late Antique Literary
Studies, Annual Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union Terrace Lounge (775 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, 2nd Floor), Boston, MA 02215
Check-in, Friday 8:30 a.m.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/2014-islals-conference/
Mon, Nov 17: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
The author will read and sign copies of her new book "The Amazons: Lives
and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World."
*Mon, Dec 8: Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras)
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave)
Boston, MA 02215
"Comic Money: The Case of Hetairai and Fishmongers"
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Mon, Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Obesity, corpulence and emaciation in Roman Art"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
**Thu & Fri, Mar 12-13: CON-IH 15: Transitions: States and Empires in the
Longue Durée
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on
International History (Con-IH) has become an annual event, organized by
graduate students in International History at Harvard University. Please
visit the conference website, http://con-ih.com, for more information, and
please email any enquiries to the organizing committee at
ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Mon, Mar 23: Mildenberg Lecture 2015: Stefan Ritter (Institute of Classical
Archaeology, LMU Munich)
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Title TBA.
Mon, Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
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