Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #9 (11/14/08)

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Mon., Nov. 17, 4:15 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 103, Cambridge, MA

Joachim Quack (University of Heidelberg)

"The Book of the Temple: The Actual State of Reconstructing a Manual for the Ideal Egyptian Temple" 

Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology

Tues., Nov. 18, 7:00 pm.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fairchild Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Professor Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University)

"Northern Israel in the Iron Age (ca 1200-586 BCE): A View from Tel Rehov"

Sponsored by Harvard's Semitic Museum and the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund

Reception preceeding at 6:15 p.m. at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue

Free and open to the public. Fairchild Hall is handicapped accessible.

For more information contact Dena Davis (davis4@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4631)

*Wed., Nov. 19, 6:00 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 

12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture

Michael Paschalis (University of Crete)

"Intertextuality in 'Kapetan Michalis': Homer's 'Iliad' and Shakespeare's 'Othello'"

Wed., Nov. 19 - Fri. Nov. 21

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, 213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA

"What the Gods Demand: Blood Sacrifice in Mediterranean Antiquity"

An interdisciplinary conference at Boston University

Thurs., Nov. 20, 6:30 p.m.

BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacFarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI

David Wray (University of Chicago)

"Hera in the Iliad"

Fri., Nov. 21, 4:15 - 6:00 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Room,

27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA

J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)

"Gibbon and the Invention of Gibbon: Chapters 15 and 16 of the Decline and Fall Revisited"

For further information please contact David Armitage (armitage@fas.harvard.edu)

Sponsored by the Harvard Colloquia in Intellectual and Cultural History

Fri., Nov. 21, 6:00 p.m.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS 313, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA

Samuel H. Kress Lecture

Marcello Barbanera (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza")

"The Metamorphosis of Ruins for Cultural Identity"

Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and 

the Art History Department at Boston University

**Mon., Nov. 24, 6:00 p.m.  (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome

Jan N. Bremmer (University of Groningen)

"Tours of Hell in Greece, Rome, and Early Christianity"

*Mon., Nov. 24, 5:00 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Knafel Building, 

Room K450, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Seminar on Cultural Politics 

Paola Marrati (The Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center, and Department of Philosophy)

"Believing in the World: Cavell and Deleuze on Cinema and Modernity"

Seminar chairs: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (yatroman@fas.harvard.edu) and Panagiotis Roilos (roilos@fas.harvard.edu)

Mon., Nov. 24, 6:00 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Haim Gitler (Israel Museum) and Oren Tal (Tel Aviv University)

"Early Economy and the Indigenous Coinages of Palestine"

A pre-lecture reception begins at 5:30 p.m. Space is limited. Please RSVP by November 15 

to SHN Secretary Jamie Knapp: jamie-knapp@comcast.net

Sponsored by the Society Historia Numorum and The Semitic Museum

*Mon., Dec. 1, 4:15 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Ellen F. Morris (Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University)

"The Practical and Political Employment of Prisoners of War in Mid-Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt"

Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology

*Mon., Dec. 1, 6:00 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 

12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome

Aldo Corcella (Università degli studi della Basilicata)

"Lost in Translation: Heliodorus Back to Syria"

*Thurs., Dec. 4, 4:15 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

James P. Allen (Brown University)

"The Advent of Ancient Egyptian Literature"

Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology

Thurs., Dec. 4, 6:00 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

M. Victor Leventritt Lecture

Clemente Marconi (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

"Temple B at Selinus and the Polychromy of Ancient Greek Architecture"

Reception to follow; free and open to the public

Thurs., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.

BROWN UNIVERSITY, Gerard House, Room 119, 54 College Street, Providence, RI

Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

Dimitri El Murr (Universite Paris, Sorbonne)

"Politics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman"

Commentator: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)

Mon., Dec. 8, 4:15 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Cambridge, MA

Josef Wegner (University of Pennsylvania)

"Excavations at South Abydos: Archaeological Perspectives on Egyptian Society during the Late Middle Kingdom" 

Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology

Mon., Dec. 8, 5:15 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series

"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"

Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Lecture 1: "Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the Jews"

Sponsored by the Department of the Classics

Mon., Dec. 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m. 

BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI

Latin Carol Celebration

The Department of Classics will present its sixty-first annual program of readings and songs in the 

spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. Admission is free; street parking is available; the event 

lasts a little more than an hour; all are welcome. For more information see 

Tues., Dec. 9, 5:45 p.m. 

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series

"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"

Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Lecture 2: "How Casaubon Read Jewish Texts"

Sponsored by the Department of the Classics

Wed., Dec. 10, 5:15 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series

"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"

Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Lecture 3: "Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish Setting"

Sponsored by the Department of the Classics

Thurs., Dec. 11, 5:15 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series

"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"

Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Lecture 4: "The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from Jews"

Sponsored by the Department of the Classics

Reception to follow lecture

Fri., Dec. 12 - Sun., Dec. 14

BROWN UNIVERSITY, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 3^rd floor, 

172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI

Ancient Studies Conference

"Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World"

Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics

For details see http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies/events/

Wed., Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard Art Museum)

"Persepolis: Royal City of Ancient Persia"

Cities: Their Art & Architecture lecture series: Individual lectures $18 (Members $12) or series of six 

lectures $90 (Members $60). Space is limited, and registration is strongly encouraged. Please call 

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.