The Boston Area Classics Calendar for February 13, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry
Wed Feb 25: Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan)
6 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@fas.harvard.edu; Anthony Shannon, ashannon@fas.harvard.edu
Thu Feb 26: Clifford Ando (University of Chicago)
3:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303; 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"They have eyes, but do not see: "Context of idolatry from Isaiah to Augustine"
Co-sponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Department of Classical Studies, M.A. Program in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, Department of History, and Department of Fine Arts.
Reception to follow from 4:30-5:00 p.m. Open to the public. Free parking.
Thu Feb 26: Jessica Clark (Florida State University)
4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT
"Winning Isn't Everything: The Moral Power of Defeat at Rome"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu) or see http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Mon Mar 2: Mary Yossi (University of Athens)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Laughter in Greek Lyric Poetry"
With kind support of the University Seminars Program of the Onassis Foundation (USA)
*Mon Mar 9: Gregory Nagy, Harvard University)
5 p.m.
UNIVERISTY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Bartlett Hall 65, Amherst MA 01003
“Song 17 of Sappho revisited (in the light of new supplements).”
The 11th annual David Grose Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics at UMass Amherst.
For more information contact Brian Breed (bbreed@classics.umass.edu)
Wed Mar 11: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford)
6 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@fas.harvard.edu; Anthony Shannon, ashannon@fas.harvard.edu
Thu Mar 12: Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago)
5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, Inn & Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA 01852
2nd Annual Zamanakos Lecture in Hellenic Studies: “Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern”
Contact: paul_keen@uml.edu
Thu Mar 12 to Fri Mar 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,http://con-ih.com, for more information, and please email any enquiries to the organizing committee at ConIH@fas.harvard.edu.
Mon Mar 23: Mildenberg Lecture 2015: Stefan Ritter, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Buildings on Roman Coins: The Visualization of Urban Atmosphere in Roman Art"
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Free parking available in Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue Mar 24: Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Loeb Lecture
Tue Mar 24: Sean Kelly (Harvard University)
7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Techne, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cognitive Theory and the Arts
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts
Wed Mar 25: Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
6 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Sardis Biennial Lecture: New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey”
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
Fri Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
4 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-greece-and-rome
**Wed Apr 1 (rescheduled from Wed Feb 11): Mary-Louise Gill, Professor of Classics and Philosophy (Brown University)
5:15 p.m.
MIT, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/)
"True Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato's 'Phaedrus'"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting
5 to 10 p.m.
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918
Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College)
"Reading Religious Transgression in Thucydides’ Delion Debate (Thuc. 4. 89-101)"
The New England Ancient Historians Colloquium: a meeting of professors and graduate students of ancient history for dinner and discussion of paper by Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College).
http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1
Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
4 to 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, TBD, Boston MA 02215
"Public Life of Roman Women"
Amy Richlin (UCLA): "Slave-women and Freedwomen: Political Culture from Below in the 200s BCE"
Patricia Johnson (BU): "The Female Kin of Sempronius Tuditanus: A Prosopography of Women’s Political Engagement"
Barbara Gold (Hamilton College): "Perpetua and the Women of the Novel and the Apocryphal Acts: How Public and Private Interact"
Papers will be followed by dinner (optional) http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-2014-boston-area-roman-studies-conference/
**Mon Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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 to 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lecture Series
Four lectures: Titles TBA
Fri Apr 17: Elizabeth M. Greene (University of Western Ontario)
4:30-6:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Soldiers' Families in the Military Communities of the Western Roman Empire"
This presentation addresses the evidence for the presence and social role of women and families in Roman military communities in the western Roman provinces.
*Mon Apr 27: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
“The Warren Cup - Ancient or Modern? Problems of Method and Interpretation”
*Tue Apr 28: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)
4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
“The Paradigm of Textual Criticism: Its Use and Abuse in Classical Archaeology”
Wed Apr 29: Prof. Dr. Frank Ruehli, Director, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (University of Zurich)
4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Location TBA
"Of mummies and skeletons: when the dead teach the living"
http://www.iem.uzh.ch/people/frankruehli.html
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