The Boston Area Classics
Calendar for October 23, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College Street, Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"Epigraphies of Appropriation: Classical Greek Sculptors in the Roman World"
More info: www.brown.edu…
**Gil Renberg (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
"Patterns and Problems in the Viso/Iussu-type Inscriptions of the Roman World"
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity
Isabel Köster (Holy Cross)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, Room 320, 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m.
"How to destroy your enemies in ancient Rome: Cicero and the language of curse tablets"
Sofia Nikolaidou (Author)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2 Arrow Street, Room 408, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
“Then there were tanks, Now there are banks”
A Conversation on the Novel "The Scapegoat" between author Sofia Nikolaidou and translator Karen Emmerich, moderated by Vassiliki Rapti
Onassis Foundation University Seminar Series
Event Series: Onassis Foundation University Seminar Series
Madeleine Goh (Harvard University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Fri., Oct. 30, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
“Chariot Warfare in Homer”
Sponsored by Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu)
More info: www.wesleyan.edu…
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Ohio State University)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"A Little Studied Dialogue: Platonic Eros and Callimachean Epigram"
More info: www.brown.edu…
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 0505 Menschel Hall (Lower Level), 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
"Trimalchio ad nauseam: Roman Art as a Tyranny of Bad Taste?"
Ruth Bielfeldt, Harvard’s Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, takes the lavish dinner party of the Roman freedman Trimalchio—described in Petronius’s Satyricon—as the starting point for a critical look at wall paintings and other domestic
art of early Imperial Rome. Are excess and mishmash always bad, or does Trimalchio’s desire to turn the world into an overstuffed dish offer a key to a different understanding of Roman tastes and aesthetics?
Free admission. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding
scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
Event Series: M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
More info: www.harvardartmuseums.org…
Laurie Rush (Army Archaeologist at Fort Drum, NY)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 725 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, Room CAS 221
Thu., Nov. 5, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m.
"Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas"
Co-Sponsors: Boston University Archaeology Department and the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
More info: omeka.wellesley.edu…
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…
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…
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, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Nov. 17, 2015
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
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).
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…
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”
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