Public Symposium
INTERNATIONAL CATACOMB SOCIETY at PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, School of Arts and Sciences, Ruane Center for the Humanities, Providence, RI 02918
Sat., Sep. 26, 2015, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Arthur Urbano (Providence College): "Wisdom Made Visible: Iconography and the Fashioning of Philosophical Culture in Late Antiquity”
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University & Princeton University): "Catacomb Religion: Uncovering Ordinary Christianity in the Centuries Before and After Constantine”
John R. Levison (Southern Methodist University): "The Historical Roots of Early Christian Pneumatology"
Lee M. Jefferson and Thomas McCollough (Centre College): "The Christian Veneration Complex at Khirbet Qana”
More info: www.catacombsociety.org…
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center--Fourth Floor (Suite A), 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
"Caesar: the historian and his self-portrait"
Renate Schlesier (Freie Universität Berlin)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Sappho’s Family: Constructs Ancient and Modern"
Prof. Schlesier will take a close look at the newest poem by Sappho, the so-called "Brothers Poem," and will discuss its implications for Sappho’s family.
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Ann Koloski-Ostrow (Brandeis University)
METROPOLITAN WATERWORKS MUSEUM, Overlook Gallery, 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02467
Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
"The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems"
Classical archaeologist and author, Dr. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow will discuss her new book on the complex systems that ancient Romans engineered for managing public health and hygiene in their cities. Through the lens of the archaeological record, including
artifacts, ancient graffiti, and literture of the day, Dr. Koloski-Ostrow will examine new research that reveals the secret history of these little-known, but essential, parts of Roman life.
Open to the Public, on street parking, reception, book signing, and light refreshments in the main rooms of the museum.
More info: waterworksmuseum.org
**Noel Lenski (Yale University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Downey House, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
Thu., Oct. 1, 2015, 5:30 – 9 p.m.
The speaker will present his paper, "The Settlement of the Visigoths in Gaul in 418 C.E. and Its Relation to Earlier Barbarian Settlements in the Roman Empire," with commentary from Richard Lim (Smith College).
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: A Conference on Religion and Archaeology
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Andover Hall, Cambridge MA 02138
Fri., Oct. 2 – Sat., Oct. 3, 2015
Cyprus was an important hub of commerce and thought in the Roman and early Christian periods and beyond. This interdisciplinary conference convenes archaeologists and scholars of Cyprus with scholars of the New Testament, Early Christianity, and the religions
of antiquity. It brings together the study of history, literature, and material remains in order to understand the interplay between society, politics, economics, theology, philosophy, and practice in late antique Cyprus.
(Sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, The A. G. Leventis Foundation, Princeton University, and the Battelle Memorial Institute)
Information and registration: projects.iq.harvard.edu…
More info: projects.iq.harvard.edu…
Professor Peter Davis (University of Adelaide, Australia)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Theology, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Free Speech in Virgil and Ovid"
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
More info: www.bu.edu…
Gabriel Zoran (University of Haifa, Israel)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, third floor, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
Tue., Oct. 13, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
"Text, Medium, and Imitation in Aristotle and Plato
A book presentation of Bodies of Speech: Text and Textuality in Aristotle"
Free admission. Open to the public. Light Refreshments.
Tina Ross (Archaeological Illustrator)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
Sat., Oct. 17, 2015, 2 – 5 p.m.
Archaeological Illustration Workshop
Introduction to tools and techniques; hands on drawing exercises; understanding artifact types
Sponsored by Brandeis University Department of Classical Studies Archaeological Institute of America, Boston Society
No drawing experience necessary. All are welcome.
RSVP: bburns@wellesley.edu
*Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno, Room 106, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Oct. 19, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"Epigraphies of Appropriation: Classical Greek Sculptors in the Roman World"
More info: www.brown.edu…
Franziska Naether (University of Leipzig)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Oct. 20, 2015
"Casino Royale in ancient skyscrapers? On recent finds from Roman tower houses in Tuna el-Gebel (Egypt)."
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
Clifford Ando (University of Chicago)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Reading Room 303, third floor, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
"They have eyes, but do not see: Contexts of idolatry from Isaiah to Augustine"
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments
6:00 - 6:30 p.m. in same room.
For Directions see www.brandeis.edu…
Gil Renberg (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity
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…
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)"
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.
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)
Event Series: Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
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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