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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
Mon., Oct. 21
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Hanna Roisman (Colby College)
"Setting and Sense in Sophocles' and Euripides' Electra"
Lecture in the Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World series.
Fri., Oct. 25
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center 917, 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."
A registration fee of $20 includes lunch and refreshments. Dinner is also available for an additional cost.
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
**Fri., Nov. 1
8:45 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Knafel Center, Gymnasium, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA 02138
Inaugural Conference of the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past
Speakers: Kyle Harper (Classics, University of Oklahoma); Johannes Krause (Institute of Scientific Archaeology, University Tübingen); Daniel E. Lieberman (Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Michael McCormick
(History, Harvard); Ian Morris (Classics and History, Stanford University); David Reich (Genetics, Harvard Medical School); Pardis Sabeti (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard, and Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard); Noreen Tuross (Human Evolutionary
Biology, Harvard).
Sponsors: The Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, the Departments of Classics and History, the Medieval Studies Committee, and the Standing Committee on Archaeology, with the support of the Goelet-Berkowitz Fund.
*Mon., Nov. 4
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, The Rotunda Room, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115
HYGEIA -- Health, Illness, Treatment from Homer to Galen: an archaeological lecture
The Museum of Cycladic Art, with the kind sponsorship of "Fondation Sante" invites you to an archaeological lecture by Prof. Nicholas Stampolidis and Yorgos Tassoulas, which will be kindly hosted by the Department
of Cell Biology of Harvard Medical School.
From the dawn of our existence, humanity has strived to improve all aspects of living conditions. Achieving and maintaining good health, seeking to understand the causes of diseases and, mainly, searching for solutions
to fight and treat illnesses have been a primary concern and interest throughout all periods of civilization.
The idea of Health (Hygeia) was personified as a wonderful goddess, usually accompanied by a snake, the symbol of therapy. The Museum of Cycladic Art, following its mission to promote Ancient Greek culture is organizing
a major exhibition on the universal subject of health and the evolution of ancient medical practices. The evolution will feature the transition from magico-religious healing practices to rational, scientific medicine.
The lecture will be accompanied by visual presentations, including images of ancient artefacts, ranging from statues to vases to surgical equipment loaned from 41 international museums, such as the Louvre, the British
Museum, the National Archeological Museum of Athens, the Musei Capitolini, among others. Entrance is free.
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.
Fri., Nov. 8
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat., Nov. 9, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Relics, Lives, and Beneficial Tales in Byzantium and Beyond: a conference in honor of John Duffy"
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections.
Thurs., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
Thurs., Nov. 14
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Thomas R. Martin (College of the Holy Cross)
Wed., Nov. 20
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Calliopi Dourou (Harvard University)
"Between Byzantium and Modern Greece: Recapturing the Legacy of Homer in Nikolaos Loukanes’ 1526 'Iliad'"
**Thurs., Nov. 21
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ewen Bowie (Oxford University)
"A land without priests? Religious authority in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe"
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
Fri., Nov. 22
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, University of London)
"Legal Cultures in Justinianic Constantinople"
Loeb Lecture
Thurs., Dec. 5
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture: New Takes on the Ancient and Byzantine Worlds
Gudrun Bühl (Curator and Museum Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection); Susan B. Matheson (Curator of Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery); and Joseph A. Greene (Assistant Director, Harvard
Semitic Museum). Respondent: Laura Nasrallah (Harvard Divinity School).
The Harvard Art Museums are not alone in renewing their permanent exhibition galleries. This evening brings together representatives of three university museums to talk about recent or planned reinstallations of galleries
dedicated to the ancient and Byzantine worlds. Their presentations will provide a glimpse of the factors that influence how museums reinvent themselves and will highlight different ways of making objects from
the past speak to the present. A faculty response and a panel discussion will follow.
Free admission. Reception to follow lecture; complimentary parking for lecture at the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street.
Mon., Dec. 9
8 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY (at an off-campus location), First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main St., Providence, RI 02903
Latin Carols and Readings
Seasonal Readings by Brown Classics Department Faculty, Carols for all, with musical prelude and accompaniment by University Organist Mark Steinbach, plus the Chattertocks' rendition of the XII days of Christmas and
a special arrangements by the Brown Madrigal Singers. All this in Latin, Greek, and a bit of Sanskrit (with translations provided, for any whose ancient languages are a little rusty). A lovely Brown tradition. Admission free. Everyone is welcome.
Wed., Dec. 11
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Charles Stang (Harvard University)
"Eros and Apostasy: C.P. Cavafy and the Emperor Julian"
Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture