[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #4 (9/29/06)

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #4 (9/29/06) This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to an address dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of as word-processor file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK. Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued the following week. Please circulate as widely as possible. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Mon., Oct. 2, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 48 College Street, Room 102, Providence, RI Deborah Boedeker (Brown University) "Sappho Old and New" Wed., Oct. 4, 7:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA "The Journey to Recover the Stolen Treasures of Baghdad" Matthew Bogdanos (Author and Manhattan District Attorney) Book-signing to follow (Thieves of Baghdad, chronicling the recovery of over 5000 antiquities) Tickets: $15 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $18 (non-MFA members); MFA admission not required Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box office at 617-369-3306 Thurs., Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Nancy Stephenson Nichols Lecture Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford) "Greeks Going East" *Thurs., Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Philosophy Department, 54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Pierre-Marie Morel (University of Paris I: Sorbonne) "Method and Evidence (enargeia): The Epicurean Prolepsis" Fri., Oct. 6 - Sat., Oct. 7 YALE UNIVERSITY, 102 Linsly-Chittenden Hall, High Street, New Haven, CT "The Romans in Asia," a conference celebrating the revival of numismatics at Yale and the acquisition of the collection of Peter R. and Leonore Franke. The conference will feature papers by Michel Amandry (Paris), Francois de Callatay (Brussels), Peter R. Franke (Munich), Ann Johnston (Cambridge), Christopher Jones (Harvard), Dietrich Klose (Munich), Katherine Welch (NYU-IFA), Greg Woolf (St. Andrews) and William E. Metcalf (Yale) Free and open to the public. For more information go to http:// www.yale.edu/classics/news.html Wed., Oct. 11, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Peter derManuelian (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) "Excavations at the Giza Pyramids: Old Digs, New Technologies" Reception preceding lecture at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge For more information contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu *Fri., Oct. 13 - Sat., Oct. 14 BROWN UNIVERSITY, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street, Providence, RI Colloquium in Honor of Charles Fornara's 70th Birthday, with papers by Deborah Boedeker (Brown University), Alan Boegehold (Brown University), Mortimer Chambers (University of California, Los Angeles), Michael A. Flower (Princeton University), Carol King (Trent University), John Marincola (Florida State University), Alden Mosshammer (University of California, San Diego), Martin Ostwald (Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania), David Phillips (University of California, Los Angeles), Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University), Loren J. Samons (Boston University), Adele Scafuro (Brown University). For more information go to www.brown.edu/ Departments/Classics Tues., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. NEWTON FREE LIBRARY, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre, MA Sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Dr. Richard Pearson (Independent Scholar) "The Tomb Burials of Japan and Korea, 250 to 600 A.D. - A Story of Gold Crowns, Swords, and Warrior Figures" Fri., Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge) "Understanding the Oedipus Rex" This lecture will last 2 hours, followed at 4:00 p.m. by refreshments and discussion Sun., Oct. 22, 2:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Robots and Ancient Shipwrecks in the Deep Aegean Sea" Tickets: $10 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $13 (non-MFA members); MFA admission not required Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box office at 617-369-3306 *Mon., Oct. 23, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA Classics/Archaeology Speaker Series Prof. T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge) "The Coins of Marc Antony" For more information contact classics(a)tufts.edu *Mon., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College) "Self and Poetry in the Work of Prudentius" Thurs., Oct. 26, 4:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Harvard University) "East and Further East: Syriac Christianity at the End of the Ancient World" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) Free and open to the public. For directions go to http:// www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html *Thurs., Nov. 2, 4:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Providence, RI Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter) "Rome before Literature: History and Fiction" *Mon., Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence, RI Scott McGill (Rice University) "Imitation or Plagiarism? The Case of Virgil in Macrobius' Saturnalia" Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA Susan Alcock (Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University) Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Massachusetts 17th Annual Phyllis Williams Lehmann Lecture "A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia" Reception following in the Atrium For more information contact Scott Bradbury at sbradbur(a)email.smith.edu *Wed., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Hall, Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA "Cities" Lecture Series David Mitten (Harvard University) "Thessaloniki: Second City of the Aegean" Thurs., Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Jennifer Eastman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University) "Virgil and History" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) Free and open to the public. For directions go to http:// www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland) "Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman Alexandria" Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office on the day of the event. *Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College) "Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of Freedmen in the Roman World" Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross) Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion For more information contact Kathleen Coleman at kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024 *Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University at 617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu *Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University at 617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu *Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University at 617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu *Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Aristotle on Political Animals" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University at 617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu APPENDIX: Wheelchair access: to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the elevator to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic Museum at Harvard.