[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar 9/10/2010

Boston Area Classics Calendar September 10, 2010 **PLEASE NOTE** We have a Google Calendar: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/calendar/calendar.html Users can subscribe to the calendar by clicking the link on the at the bottom of the calendar on the above page. This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu . Please send information as a plain text email in the format shown below instead of as file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 PM 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 NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Monday, September 13 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Stephan Heilen (Universität Osnabrück) "Astrological *concilia deorum* in Late Medieval and Early Modern Latin Poetry" *Thursday, September 16 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Kendra Eshleman (Boston College), "Becoming Heretical: Affection and Ideology in Recruitment to 'Heretical' Christianities" For more information, please contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu *Monday, September 20 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law School) "Law and Order in Classical Athens" Humanities Center Seminar on Ancient Greece and Rome *Thursday, September 23 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138 M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) "Laid Out for Posterity: A Roman Tombstone Carved with a Child's Portrait and His Poem" An elaborate funerary altar of Parian marble was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall in Rome in 1871. It commemorates Q. Sulpicius Maximus, who died in AD 94 at the age of 11. This lecture explores the technical and aesthetic challenges facing the masons' workshop in incorporating a statue, a 43-line Greek poem, a Latin epitaph, and two 10-line Greek epigrams on a surface just over five feet high and three and a half feet wide. *Monday, October 4 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin) Sermo, Style & Satire: Lucilius' Language A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics *Thursday, October 14 6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. Mystic Arts Center, 9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355 Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) "Durable, Colorful, Whimsical: Mosaics of the Roman Empire" *Friday, October 15 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA Paul Zanker (University of Munich) "The Arch of Constantine as a Senatorial Monument" *Tuesday, October 19 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, McMullen Museum of Art, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Devlin Hall, Room 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Daria Borghese (American University, Rome) Palazzo Colonna: The Construction of a Family Through the Building of its Residence Free and open to the public For more information, call 617.552.8587 A Priscilla Durkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the McMullen Museum in memory of Priscilla Durkin, NC '65 and Nancy Durkin Orazem, NC '70 http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/events-calendar/index.html *Monday, October 25 BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA 02215 Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University) "Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene" New England Ancient History Colloquium Commentary by Kenneth Sacks (Brown University) *Tuesday, November 16 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138 Martin West "Zeus in Aeschylus" Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones *Monday, March 7 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Jonas Grethlein TBA *April 11 - 15 Jackson Lectures Speakers and dates TBA CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics