The Boston Area Classics Calendar for February 12, 2016

PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry

*Ross Gay (Radcliffe Institute)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Radcliffe Institute, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street Camrbridge, MA 02138 
Wed., Feb. 17, 2016, 4 – 6 p.m.
"Black Georgics"
During his fellowship, Gay is working on a kind of response, or update, to Virgil’s Georgics. He hopes to understand something about our relationship(s) to the land—especially as it relates to race—particularly, perhaps, in the Anthropocene.

*Maria Emilia Cairo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata-Conicet)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 110 (Thompson Room), Barker Center, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Wed., Feb. 17, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m. 
"Roman Identity and Religion in Cicero: A Reading of De divinatione" 
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome 
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… 

*Courtney Walsh and Rush Rehm (Stanford University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, CFA Middletown, CT 06457 
Mon., Feb. 22, 2016, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. 
“Clytemnestra: Tangled Justice”
Sponsored by Classical Studies Department 
More info: www.wesleyan.edu… 

Foteini Spingou (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Mon., Feb. 22, 2016, 5 – 6:30 p.m. 
"Memory, Aesthetics and Poetic Anthologies in late 13th-c. Constantinople"

Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, 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 
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… 

**Tim Joseph (Holy Cross)
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5:30 – 7 p.m. 
"Measured Victory or Cataclysmic Doomsday? Caesar and Lucan on the Battle of Pharsalia"
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Elizabeth Keitel (eek@classics.umass.edu.)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics 

**Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Tue., Mar. 1, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity 

Melissa Schoenberger (Holy Cross)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center -- Suite B (4th Floor) 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Mar. 2, 2016, 4:30 p.m. 
"Fate, State, Cease, Peace: Dryden’s English Aeneid” 

Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Sat., Mar. 5, 2016
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)
See link for more info. and Call for Papers. 
Event Series: Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference 
More info: classics.fas.harvard.edu…

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” 

Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
MIT Building 14E, Room 304 whereis.mit.edu… 
Thu., Mar. 17, 2016, 5:15 – 7:15 p.m.
“Early English Meter as a Way of Thinking”
>From Chaucer’s pentameter to the alliterative meter of Beowulf and Piers Plowman, prosody in medieval England was a cultural practice and a technical skill. Following Simon Jarvis in understanding “poetry as cognition,” this talk explores the particular kind of thinking done by and through early English meter. Attention to the historicity of meter is one way out of the 21st-century paradox whereby poetry seems both all-important and obsolescent. 
Event Series: MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series 

Classical Association of New England (CANE) Annual Meeting
SMITH COLLEGE, Northampton, MA 01063 
Fri., Mar. 18 – Sat., Mar. 19, 2016
More information about the program, registration information, and accommodations on the website. 
More info: caneweb.org… 

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. 
“Bringing Wine and Joy: Dionysos and Viticulture on Coins of Asia Minor” 
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture 
More info: www.harvardartmuseums.org… 

**Symposium: Translating and Interpreting Ovid in the Late Middle Ages
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Mon., Apr. 4, 9 a.m. – Tue., Apr. 5, 2016, 5 p.m. 
9.30-10 Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard): Introduction
10-11 Frank T. Coulson (The Ohio State University): Ovid in the Middle Ages
11-12 Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich and Beatrice Wyss (Universität Bern):  Giovanni del Virgilio’s Expositio
Break
2-3 Ana Pairet (Rutgers University) Christine de Pizan, a reader of the Ovide moralisé
3-4 Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Medieval Catalan Translations.
4-5 p.m. Gemma Pellissa Prades (Harvard University): The 15th-Century Catalan Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Francesc Alegre (1494). 
More info: translatingovid.weebly.com 

New England Ancient History Colloquium (Tufts)
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Alumnae Lounge in Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02155 
Thu., Apr. 7, 2016, 5:30 p.m. 
Discussion of distributed paper, "The Stoicism of Cato the Younger; Reality or Hype?" by Fred Drogula (Providence College) after commentary by Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University). For information, paper, and registration,
contact Allen Ward allen.m.ward@att.net 
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium 

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” 

John Miller (University of Virginia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Tue., Apr. 19, 2016 
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and Subjectivity 

Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 745 Commonwealth Ave., B19, Boston MA 02215 
Fri., Apr. 22, 2016, 3:30 p.m. 
Honoring Ann Vasaly
Talks by:
Fred Ahl (Cornell University)
John Bodel (Brown University)
John Dugan (University at Buffalo (SUNY))
Mary Jaeger (University of Oregon)
Roundtable with Ann Vasaly
For more information, contact: Prof. Zsuzsa Varhelyi, varhelyi@bu.edu 

**AJ Woodman (University of Virginia)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 
Mon., May 2, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m. 
"Vinous Voices: Horace, Epode 9" 
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome 
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…

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