[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 13, 2013

Google Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/3ztr34n 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 below. Calendar entries that require significant editing may not be included. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Thurs., Sept. 19 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912 Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania) "Aischrology in Old Comedy and the Question of 'Ritual Obscenity'" Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. *Thurs., Sept. 19 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 Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard Divinity School) and John Herrmann (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) "More Lucky Wearers: The Magic of Portable Inscriptions" *Tues., Sept. 24 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley) "Translations from Greek into Arabic and Latin during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical Tradition" *Tues., Sept. 24 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. School of Theology Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Peter Rhodes (Durham University) "Directions in the Study of Athenian Democracy" A lecture in the Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World series at Boston University. Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classical Studies. This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on this lecture or on the Study Group, please visit our website: http://www.bu.edu/classics/about/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth-in-th… *Tues., Sept. 24 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, 161 Presidents' Drive, Amherst, MA 01003 Tessa Rajak (University of Reading) "Josephus: Everybody's Historian" Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Judaic and Near Eastern Studies *Wed., Sept. 25 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall, Room 310, Cambridge, MA 02138 Peter Meineck (New York University) Neuroscience and Greek Tragedy Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop. *Mon., Oct. 7 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS (Center for Government and International Studies) 1730 Cambridge Street, S-010 Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138 Harvard University Standing Committee on Archaeology: Fall lecture and reception Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Former President of the German Archaeological Institute) "Burial Rites and the Representation of Power: New Insights from Monumental Kurgans of the Scythians in the Eurasian Steppe" http://archaeology.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68827&pageid=icb… The lecture will be followed by a reception in CGIS South Concourse *Sat., Oct. 19 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Haldeman Center, Room 041, Hanover NH 03755 Conference: "Mirage/Time: Philology and Post/Humanism" A full day conference directed by Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature). Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dean of Faculty, Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature Program and the Department of Classics. conference program:http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/docs/mirageprogram.pdf *Fri., Oct. 25 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. UMASS AMHERST, Student Union Ballroom, Amherst, MA 01003 Lucilius Colloquium The Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with the support of the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Departments of Classics of Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Smith College, will host a one-day colloquium on the theme "Speaking of the Republic: Lucilius and his Contexts," Friday, October 25, 2013. Speakers are Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin), "Colloquial Registers and Generic Stylization in Lucilius"; Sander Goldberg (UCLA), "Lucilius and the poetarum seniorum turba"; Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College), "Notes on Meter and Language in Lucilius"; and Brian Breed (UMass Amherst), "Lucilius' Books." The full conference program can be viewed at http://umass.academia.edu/BrianWBreed/Events. A registration fee of $20 includes lunch and refreshments. Dinner is also available for an additional cost. To register or with any questions, please contact the organizers: Brian Breed (bbreed(a)classics.umass.edu) and Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu). *Mon., Oct. 28 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Stephen Scully (Boston University) Aeschylus' Oresteia in Light of Hesiod’s Theogony Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar *Thurs., Nov. 7 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Christopher Tuplin (University of Liverpool) The Arshama Archive Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop. *Thurs., Nov. 14 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University) Title TBA Loeb Lecture *Fri., Nov. 22 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, University of London) Title TBA Loeb Lecture