[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #23 (4/3/09)

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #23 (4/3/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE ADDED A GOOGLE CALENDAR LISTING FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… 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., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome Claudia Rapp (UCLA) “Christians on Earth, Citizens in Heaven: The City as Metaphor in Early Byzantine Political Thought” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation *Mon., Apr. 6, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Classical Traditions Timothy Reiss (New York University) “Descartes, Latinity and War: Metaphors and Practices of an Epochal Transition” *Tues., Apr. 7, 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS-SOUTH), Room S-040, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Stamos Metzidakis (Washington University in St. Louis) Free and open to the public For directions, see http://www.map.harvard.edu/ **Mon., Apr. 13, 4:15 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 211, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Jane Lightfoot (New College, University of Oxford) “‘Running Water is Beautiful Water’: Rivers in the Geographical Writing of Dionysius the Periegete” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Tues., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary) “Women in Roman Private Legal Documents” Tues., Apr. 14, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather, Room 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA John Younger (University of Kansas) “Mycenae Invents Itself” Free and open to the public For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Massachusetts Society Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia) “Taking Sides: Issues of Allegiance in the Reception of Lucan’s Civil War” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Gerhard Thuer (Universities of Graz) “Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens” Wed., Apr. 15, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Gerhard Thuer (University of Graz) “How to Lease an Orphan’s Estate in Classical Athens: New Data from the Archimedes Palimpsest” Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School and the Department of the Classics Thurs., Apr. 16 - Sat, Apr. 18, 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Loeb Experimental Theater, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA Aristophanes’ Lysistrata The Harvard Classical Club presents its annual play, translated from the Greek by its members Please note there is also a matinee performance on Saturday, April 18, at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are free of charge and can be reserved by e-mailing lysistrata.loeb.ex(a)gmail.com Thurs., Apr. 16, 8:00 p.m. WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Bernhard Music Center, Brooks Rogers Recital Hall, 54 Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown, MA Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan) “Life and Art in Roman Villas on the Bay of Naples” Sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program Fri., Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Pantelis Nigdelis (Institute for Advanced Study) “The Institution of Ephebeia in Roman Macedonia. A Particular Kind of Ephebeia?” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting scholar, Brown University) “Socrates’ Unconventional Eros” Tues., Apr. 21, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Jane Fejfer (University of Copenhagen) “Marble Mania: Sculptural Materiality and Roman Cyprus” Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Wed., Apr. 22, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Chapin Lounge, Amherst, MA Alan Boegehold (Brown University) “What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Most’?” Free and open to the public For further information contact classics(a)amherst.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classics Wed. Apr. 22, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA David Schloen (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) “The Soul in the Stone: The New ‘Kuttamuwa Stele’ from Iron Age Zincirli (Sam’al), Turkey” Reception preceding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, 2nd floor Free and open to the public For more information, contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu ) Sponsored by the Semitic Museum and Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations *Thurs., April 23, 4:15 p.m. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Downey House, Room 200, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT Petra Schierl (University of Basel; Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study) “Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Recontextualizing Virgil’s Bucolic Deus” Free and open to the public For further information, contact dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner “Novel Ideas” Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), “Petronius and the Greek Novel” Niall Slater (Emory University), “Various Asses” Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), “Imagined Communities in Ancient Fictions” For further information, contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617-353-2427 Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities Foundation *Mon., Apr. 27, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Deborah Beck (Swarthmore College) “Begging, Pleading, and Supplicating: Speech Representations in Phoenix’s Speech to Achilles (Iliad 9.434-605)” *Wed., Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, Cambridge, MA Core Group Classical Archaeology Talk Series Emanuel Mayer (University of Chicago) “Of Garden Gnomes and Silvercups: Kitsch and the Aesthetics of Standardization in Roman Art” Thurs., Apr. 30, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, Room 318, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Andrew Burnett (The British Museum) “What Were Roman Emperors Really Called? Coins as Models of Dissemination” Reception to follow; free and open to the public 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.