[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, November 22, 2019

Boston Area Classics Calendar December 2019 Chloe Balla (University of Crete) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d140641457> Mon., Dec. 2, 6 – 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 102, Dana-Palmer House, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions> Duane Roller (Ohio State University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d140578507> Tue., Dec. 3, 5:30 – 7 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Understanding the World: The Geography of Strabo of Amaseia" Duane W. Roller is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the Ohio State University. He served on and directed archaeological field projects in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Israel and Jordan, and was a four-time Fulbright scholar. He is the author of numerous books and articles on classical studies, most recently Cleopatra's Daughter and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Age. His latest book, Empire of the Black Sea, will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2020. As always, this event is free and open to the public and a light reception will follow. This event is sponsored by the Department of Classics with support from the Bruce Elliot Donovan Memorial Endowment. events.brown.edu… <https://events.brown.edu/classics/view/event/date/20191203/event_id/156271> [image: Duane Roller (Ohio State University)] Sarah Derbew (Harvard Society of Fellows) and Jennifer Stager (Johns Hopkins University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d139989535> Tue., Dec. 3, 6 – 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Seeing Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art" Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. www.harvardartmuseums.org… <https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/seeing-color-in-ancient-mediterranean-art> Aileen Das (University of Michigan) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d140642060> Wed., Dec. 4, 2 – 3 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "*Plato Arabus* in WWII: Imperial Universalism And Greco-Arabic Studies" In 1937, the Oxford professor of medieval philosophy R. Klibansky announced that the forthcoming series *Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi*, the publication of which he was directing, aimed to recuperate the missing link of a movement that “continuously stimulated scientific thought, aesthetic feeling, and religious consciousness” in the history of “our civilization”. Composed of three subseries (*Plato Arabus, Plato Latinus, *and* Plato Byzantinus*), this project on Platonism bases Western European culture (the probable referent of Klibanksy’s “our civilization”) on classical antiquity, to which European scholars had laid claim as the foundation of their civilizations since at least the early modern period, and the pre-modern Middle East. While Klibansky’s subordination of the Middle East to the construction of European identity captures the colonial realities of the early twentieth century, this talk will focus on the constitutive exclusions that compelled the forerunners of Greco-Arabic Studies to contribute to the *Corpus Platonicum*ʼs universalization of Plato. I draw specific attention to the composition and publication of the first volume of the* Plato Arabus* series, the editio princeps of the ninth-century Arabic version of Galen’s *Synopsis of Plato’s Timaeus*, to foreground the dichotomies – classicism and orientalism, Semitic and Indo-European, and colonizer and colonized – that are implicated in the production of not only this book but also the academic discipline of Greco-Arabic Studies. GSAS Workshop "Pre-Modern State and Empires" Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of "The History of Sexuality" <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d140013663> Thu., Dec. 5, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA 02138 In February 2018, the fourth and final volume of Michel Foucault’s *History of Sexuality project*—*Confessions of the Flesh*—was published for the first time in French by Éditions Gallimard. This is an extraordinary publishing event since the book was not supposed to have been printed at all. This one-day conference will assess the reception and impact of this missing volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality. It will highlight the text of *Confessions of the Flesh*, its place in Foucault’s oeuvre, the context in which he wrote, and the contemporary relevance of this new work. It is far enough away from the Foucault-overload of past decades that it is now possible to freshly examine the enduring value of this influential thinker—a re-examination inspired by the belated publication of his final book. Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History <https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/harvardcolloquium/home> wgs.fas.harvard.edu… <https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/event/confessions-flesh-michel-foucault%E2%80%99s-final-volume-history-sexuality-conference> Adam Trettel (Harvard University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d140657824> Mon., Dec. 9, 5:15 p.m. MIT, Building E51-275 ,70 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142 "Flowers in Venantius Fortunatus: The Continuity of Nature in Late Antiquity" MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series calendar.mit.edu… <http://calendar.mit.edu/event/AMS_FlowersinVenantiusFortunatus#.XdhnOTJKhns> [image: Adam Trettel (Harvard University)] Latin Carol Celebration <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d140657769> Mon., Dec. 9, 8 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI 02903 The Brown University Department of Classics presents the 72nd Annual Latin Carol Celebration. Seasonal readings by the Classics Department faculty (with special guest, Brown President Christina Paxson), 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 arrangement by the Brown Madrigal Singers. Conducted entirely in Latin (with a bit of ancient Greek and Sanskrit). Translations provided for those whose ancient languages are a little (or a lot) rusty. The Latin Carol Celebration is free and open to the public. It lasts a little over an hour and street parking is available. www.brown.edu… <https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/events/latin-carol-celebration> [image: Latin Carol Celebration] Paul Kosmin (Harvard University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d140657806> Thu., Dec. 12, 4 – 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "The Making of the Southern Sea" Paul J. Kosmin is a Professor in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. His research is focused on two broad historical themes. First, the relationship between empires and systems of knowledge and practice, and, second, the interaction between the Greek world and its Near Eastern neighbors. He has begun a third big research project, provisionally titled e Ancient Shore. is will be a cultural history of the coastline in Greek antiquity, explored as a site of social processes, as a dynamic of claim-making and territorialization, and as an inducement to thinking, wonder, and religious experience. events.brown.edu… <https://events.brown.edu/classics/view/event/date/20191212/event_id/157005> [image: Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)] March 2020 CANE Annual Meeting <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d138966415> Fri., Mar. 13 – Sat., Mar. 14 TRINITY COLLEGE, TBA, Hartford, CT 06106 Classical Association of New England Call for Papers: https://caneweb.org/new/?p=4214 Deadline: December 15th, 2019 caneweb.org… <https://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=3751> Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d138776769> Tue., Mar. 24 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics" <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-comparative-approaches-classics-gsas-workshop-2019-20> Harvard Graduate Student Conference <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d140448360> Sat., Mar. 28 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Class before Capitalism?: Social Structure and the Ancient World" Keynote speaker: Johanna Hanink (Brown University) Call for Papers <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-biennial-graduate-student-conference>: abstracts due January 1, 2020 Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference classics.fas.harvard.edu… <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-biennial-graduate-student-conference> April 2020 Vesta Curtis (British Museum) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d134188129> Wed., Apr. 22 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture July 2020 Classical Association of New England Summer Institute <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d138373689> Mon., July 13 – Sat., July 18 BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Providence, RI 02912 On the theme "The Empire and the Individual" graduate credit available For more information and registration details, go to www.caneweb.org Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at summerinst(a)caneweb.org. caneweb.org… <https://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=165> View the entire calendar online <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list View calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. 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