[calclass-list] The Boston Area Classics Calendar for November 17

Boston Area Classics Calendar November 2017 Rocco Palermo (University of Groningen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Mon., Nov. 20, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Connecting the Dots. Field Survey and the Archaeology of North Mesopotamia between East and West" GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections" Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Mon., Nov. 20, 6 - 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 113, Cambridge, MA 02138 Richard Thomas, the George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, on his new book Why Bob Dylan Matters Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar… [Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University)] Lau Chong-Fuk (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru… Mon., Nov. 27, 12 - 1:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge MA, 02138 Two Approaches to the Categories of Thought and Reality Chair/discussant: Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Brown University) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy Are there any fundamental forms of thought that are valid across different cultures and represent the basic structure of reality? This question has been addressed by philosophers from the ancient to modern time with their theories of categories. Among the most influential ones are Aristotle and Kant's theories. Both of them take a logico-linguistic analysis of the form of rational discourse as an important clue to the ontological problem of the structure of existence, endorsing a kind of isomorphism between language/thought and reality. However, it is questionable whether their theories are limited by or biased towards the structure of Indo-European languages? There is an alternative approach by another philosopher, Hegel, who rejects the possibility of deriving the structure of reality from basic logico-linguistic forms. By accepting the inevitable cultural-historical conditions of human thought, Hegel's theory of categories can be viewed as an open and dynamic system. The talk will review and compare the above two approaches with an attempt to draw interesting implications for some contemporary problems. harvard-yenching.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3… Supratik Baralay (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Mon., Nov. 27, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Hellenistic Kingdoms and Historical Difference" GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections" Katharina Volk (Columbia University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Tue., Nov. 28, 4:30 - 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Topic: Astronomy GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" Scott Kennedy (Ohio State University/Dumbarton Oaks)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru… Wed., Nov. 29, 6 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, HARVARD YARD, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Byzantine Studies Colloquium Joshua Katz (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Thu., Nov. 30, 4:30 - 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" December 2017 Joe Wolf (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Fri., Dec. 1, 5 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Celtic toponymy: Computational approaches and the ancient place-names of Europe and Anatolia" GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics" Bruce Gordon (Yale University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Wed., Dec. 6, 5 - 7 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520 "Blessed Jerome": The Fate of the Vulgate in the Reformation Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Thu., Dec. 7, 12 - 1 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Room 133 Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Cultural Politics of Phantasia: Late Antique and Byzantine Developments" Please RSVP by 4 December to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu<mailto:hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu>) Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval Studies medieval.fas.harvard.edu.<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upco… Matilde Serangeli (University of Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Fri., Dec. 8, 5 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Linguistic remarks on South-West Anatolian inscriptions" GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics" **CANCELED - Alexander Forte (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Wed., Dec. 13, 2 - 3:30 p.m. GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" January 2018 Deconstructing the Open Greek and Latin Project: The First Thousand Years of Greek<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru… Wed., Jan. 3, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY. Medford Campus, Eaton Hall Room 206, Medford, MA 02155 An AIA-SCS Pre-Meeting Workshop, presented in coordination with the SCS. Interested in open access, the digital humanities, or conducting digital scholarship in your research and/or teaching? Aren't sure what these topics have to do with classics or archaeology, or even how to get started? Then, please consider joining us next January 3 at the AIA-SCS pre-meeting workshop "Deconstructing the Open Greek and Latin Project"! In this workshop, partners from the Perseus Digital Library, the Harvard Library and Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the University of Leipzig, Mount Allison University, and the University of Virginia Library will come together to demonstrate research tools, explain how to involve students in digital scholarship, provide open data for hands-on exploration from the Open Greek and Latin Project, as well as create a growing and supportive open access community. Tools and technologies we'll work with include GitHub, Oxygen, TEI-XML and EpiDoc Registration is offered on a "first-come first-served" basis and the workshop is offered free-of-charge with a registration deadline of Friday, November, 3, 2017. sites.tufts.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sit… February 2018 Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale… Mon., Feb. 5, 2 - 3 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA https://www.classics.upenn.edu/people/emily-wilson<https://urldefense.pr… Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar… Dean Hammer (Franklin & Marshall College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Thu., Feb. 15, 4 - 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Topic: TBA GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome" Jan Bloemendal (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Thu., Feb. 22, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Multi-Lingualism in Early Modern Europe: Readings of the Praise of Folly" GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" March 2018 Martin Hallmansecker (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections" Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Wed., Mar. 21, 6 - 7 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Title: TBD Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture. Mildenberg Lecture View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Subscribe to 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>. Please send event information in the format modeled above.