[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, January 6, 2012

We have a Google Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/3ztr34n One can subscribe to it using his or her own Google Calendar account by clicking the link at the bottom of the calendar on the above page. One can subscribe to receive calendar emails at the following link: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list 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. New items and corrections received after 5 p.m. on Wednesday may not appear in the calendar until the Friday of the following week. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Fri., Dec. 9 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, Phelps Hall (PH), Room 401, 334 College Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena) "Missing Cosmogonies? The Case of Rome" This is a session of "Lost in Time, "a one year colloquium on modern categories and ancient "realities." For additional information visit our website: http://www.yale.edu/classics/ poster: http://tinyurl.com/mbettini Mon., Feb. 13 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) "Isaac Casaubon and the Study of Ancient History" Classical Traditions Seminar Mon., Feb. 27 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 133, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Richard Rutherford (Christ Church, Oxford) "Decorum and Sexuality in Greek Tragedy" Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar Wed., Mar. 7 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002 Susan Rotroff (Washington University) "The Unsolved Mystery of the Agora Bone Well" Abstract: http://www.umass.edu/aia/Abstracts.htm#Rotroff Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Massachusetts Society. Tues., Mar. 27 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall,) Amherst, MA 01002 Katherine Schwab (Fairfield University) "Investigating the Surface: Hairstyles of the Athenian Caryatids" Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Amherst College *Thurs., Mar. 29 COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610 New England Ancient History Colloquium (NEAHC) Spring Meeting Paul Kosmin (Harvard University) will offer a paper relating to the revolt of the Maccabees, with Joseph Manning (Yale University) will be the respondent. Further details TBA. Fri., Apr. 20 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, TBA, Boston, MA Boston University Roman Studies Conference Title: The Worlds of Roman Satire James Uden (Boston University): "The Satirist and the Scholar in Second-Century Rome" Joy Connolly (New York University): "The Poetics of Non-Sovereign Freedom in Horace's Satires" Joel Relihan (Wheaton College): "Apuleius and Lucian: A Menippean Moment in the Second Century" Dinner to follow the conference. INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: Contact Stacy Fox, Dept. of Classical Studies, Boston University, sfox(a)bu.edu / 617-353-2427 Fri., Apr. 20 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Roger Bland (British Museum) "Coin Hoards and hoarding in Britain: buried with the intention of recovery or votive deposits?" http://www.archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/5776 Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Harvard University Department of the Classics Thurs., Apr. 26 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Roger Bland (British Museum) title: TBA Mildenberg Lecture 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. CalClass phone: (617) 495-4027 fax: (617) 496-6720 calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics