[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 7, 2015

*Boston Area Classics Calendar* *Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)* HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 103 Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Fri., Sep. 11, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m. "Ancient Judaism: An Ethnicity or a Religion?" Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World" *Nancy Gish (University of Southern Maine)* HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Sep. 15, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m. "A Modern *Aeneid*": Eliot, Virgil, and Abandoned Women" Cosponsored by the Modernism Seminar <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modernism>. Seminar Chair: John Hamiltonjhamilt(a)fas.harvard.edu Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> *Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Sep. 21, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m. "Τhe Dissonance of Ludic Poetics in Greek Wedding Song Tradition: A Workshop on the 'Interdiscursivity' between the Epithalamia and the Laments in Greek Antiquity" Free and open to the public. Seminar Chair: Vassiliki Rapti (rapti(a)fas.harvard.edu) Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics> *Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wed., Sep. 23, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m. "Revisiting Approaches to Ethnicity" Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World" *Symposium and Annual Meeting* PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, School of Arts and Sciences, Ruane Center for the Humanities, Providence, RI 02918 Sat., Sep. 26, 2015, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Arthur Urbano (Providence College): "Wisdom Made Visible: Iconography and the Fashioning of Philosophical Culture in Late Antiquity" Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University & Princeton University): "Catacomb Religion: Uncovering Ordinary Christianity in the Centuries Before and After Constantine" John R. Levison (Southern Methodist University): "The Historical Roots of Early Christian Pneumatology" Lee M. Jefferson and Thomas McCollough (Centre College): "The Christian Veneration Complex at Khirbet Qana" Event Series: International Catacomb Society More info: www.catacombsociety.org… <http://www.catacombsociety.org/2015/09/01/program-for-ics-symposium-and-annual-meeting/> *Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) *COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center--Fourth Floor (Suite A), 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610 Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4:30 p.m. "Caesar: the historian and his self-portrait" *Renate Schlesier (Freie Universität Berlin) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m. Topic: Aphrodite in Sappho's Poetry Event Series: James Loeb Lecture *Noel Lenski (Yale University) *WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Middletown, CT Thu., Oct. 1, 2015 The speaker will present his paper, "The Settlement of the Visigoths in Gaul in 418 C.E. and Its Relation to Earlier Barbarian Settlements in the Roman Empire," with commentary from Richard Lim (Smith College). Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium *Gil Renberg (Harvard University) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Oct. 26, 2015 Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity *Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University) *HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 0505 Menschel Hall (Lower Level), 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m. "*Trimalchio ad nauseam*: Roman Art as a Tyranny of Bad Taste?" Ruth Bielfeldt, Harvard’s Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, takes the lavish dinner party of the Roman freedman Trimalchio—described in Petronius’s Satyricon—as the starting point for a critical look at wall paintings and other domestic art of early Imperial Rome. Are excess and mishmash always bad, or does Trimalchio’s desire to turn the world into an overstuffed dish offer a key to a different understanding of Roman tastes and aesthetics? Free admission. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities. Event Series: M. Victor Leventritt Lecture *Julia Hejduk (Baylor University) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Nov. 17, 2015 Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity *Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Villa) *WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 5 p.m. Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Annual Art Lecture "Why Fakes Matter: Authenticity in Ancient Art" This presentation takes up the controversial issue of fakes in ancient art and asks what they can tell us about how we understand and define authenticity today. *Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Feb. 29, 2016 Topic: TBA Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World" *Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m. "Plutarch, Lucian and the Sixth Century BC" Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome *Hans Beck (McGill University) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Mon., Mar. 7, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m. Topic: Greek koinon Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World" *Johannes Nollé (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m. Title: TBA Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture *Ann Kuttner (University of Pennsylvania) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Fri., Apr. 8, 2016, 4 – 5:30 p.m. Subject: ethnicity and material culture Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World" Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list New event submissions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. 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