[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, November 4, 2014

Tue, Nov 4: David Ferry (Wellesley College) 5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MIT Building E51, Room 275, Cambridge, MA 02139 "David Ferry in Conversation: On the Classics & Translation" Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series David is a poet and translator of Classical literatures, winner of the prestigious Lilly Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Foundation, and Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College. David will be reading from new and old translations of Latin authors, as well as from his own work. Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/ Wed, Nov 5: Alexandre Monteiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 211, Boston, MA 02215 "Ship of gold in a sea of diamonds: the untold story of the 'Bom Jesus,' a Portuguese East Indiaman lost off Namibia in 1533" Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the BU Archaeology Department 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 *Wed, Nov 5: David Gurevich (Fulbright Post-Doctoral Scholar at Harvard, NELC) 5:15 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Room 201, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Identifying Josephus' Landmarks in Northern Jerusalem" Fifth meeting of the Harvard History and Archaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Societies Workshop. In his account of the First Jewish-Roman War, Josephus refers to a number of sites that were well-known in Jerusalem in the year 70 CE – the "Serpent's Pool" (War, 5.108), "Herod's monument" (War, 5.507) and the northern city wall (War 5.106). However, the exact location of these sites is unknown today, and their identification is a matter of some contention. Any attempt to locate the sites on the ground raises the following questions: How accurate was Josephus in his topographical description? In what way do we articulate the landmarks he mentions in relation to each other? And how reasonable is the present identification of extant archaeological remains? This talk will re-evaluate the methods and conclusions drawn by previous scholars based on cartographic material, old aerial and ground photographs, to propose a new spatial analysis that rejects, inter alia, the former identification of the "Serpent's Pool" proposed by Magen Broshi, and suggests an alternative for its location. A reception will follow the talk. *Wed, Nov 5: David Frankfurter (Boston University) 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Scribality and Syncretism: Christian Scribes as Mediators of Religious Traditions in Late Antique Egypt." 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 *Fri, Nov 7: Thomas Palaima (University of Texas at Austin) 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Mycenaean Kingship Ideology in Its Cultural Context: megaron, thronos, skēptron" GSAS Workshop on Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Reception to follow 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. Wed, Nov 12: John Schafer (Northwestern University) 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, Room 519, Worcester, MA 01610 "The Pagination of Virgil's Poems" Wed, Nov 12: Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College) 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, Amherst, MA 01003 "Chronological Disorder in LIvy" Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to the public. *Wed, Nov 12: Penelope Davies (University of Texas at Austin) 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912 "Damned by Feigned Praise: the Role of Architecture in Julius Caesar's Death" http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.academics.classics/… 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, Nov 24: Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt, Munich) 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Running and Expanding a Transnational Serial World Heritage Site" 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 Mon, Dec 8: Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras) 4 p.m. - 6 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… *Wed, Feb 25: Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan) 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Title TBA 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 *Wed, Mar 11: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford) 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Title TBA 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 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. *Thu, Mar 26: NEAHC Meeting 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918 Topic TBA A meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium, a meeting of professors and graduate students of ancient history. http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1 Fri, Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University) 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Title: TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre… 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 *Tue, Apr 14; Wed, Apr 15; Thu Apr 16; Fri, Apr 17: Barbara Borg (University of Exeter) 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Jackson Lecture Series Four lectures: Titles TBA Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Event submission: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. PLEASE send event information in the format modeled above. Calendar entries that require significant editing may not be included. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry