[calclass-list] The Boston Area Classics Calendar for November 30

Boston Area Classics Calendar December 2018 MORPH (2005) Paul Moravec<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Sat., Dec. 1 – Sun., Dec. 2 ISABELLA STEWART GARDENER MUSEUM, 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115 Morph is a musical fantasy on aspects of the Apollo & Daphne myth as related in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Shot by Cupid’s arrow, Apollo pursues the panicking Daphne through field and forest. At the very moment the god overtakes the nymph, she calls out to her father, the river-god Peneus, to transform her into a laurel tree. In his anguish Apollo proclaims, “Daphne, who cannot be my wife must be the seal,/The sign of all I own, immortal leaf/Twined in my hair as hers, and by this sign/My constant love, my honor shall be shown/….” And in response to Apollo’s devotion, “The laurel shook her branches and seemed to bow/A timid blessing on her lover’s pleasure.” The title also refers to the nature of the music itself as motivic, harmonic, rhythmic, and phrase units continually metamorphose in the course of the work’s development. Finally, the title appropriately suggests the figure of Morpheus, god of dreams, in that an archetypal myth may be viewed as a civilization’s collective dream. afarcry.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__afarcr… R. R. R. (Bert) Smith (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Sun., Dec. 2, 2 – 3 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161), 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 “Aphrodisias: A Greek City in Roman Asia” Estelle Sohlet Brettman Memorial Lecture NOTE: Tickets are required www.mfa.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mf… Mirte Liebregts (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen… Tue., Dec. 4, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Behind the Red and the Green: the planning and execution of the early Loeb Classical Library" Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Harvard Department of the Classics, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc… mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar… Karen Foster (Yale University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Thu., Dec. 6, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 "The Murder of Mesopotamia: War, Looting, and Cultural Heritage" Sponsored by Classical Studies, Art History, and International Studies For more information: lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu<mailto:lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu> Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon Editor-in-Chief)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-c… Thu., Dec. 6, 4 – 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Donna Zuckerberg will talk about her new book, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975552>52>. Reception to follow in Ticknor Lounge. GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues" www.hup.harvard.edu…<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674… Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Fri., Dec. 7, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Genitival Gerundival" GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics” Julia Judge (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Wed., Dec. 12, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Imitating Experience at the Tiber Island Sanctuary of Asclepius" GSAS Workshop "Dynamics of Religion and Religious Space in the Ancient Mediterranean" Nino Luraghi (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Thu., Dec. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Peloponnesian Peace" February 2019 Maria Youni (Democritus University of Thrace / Institute for Advanced Study)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr… Mon., Feb. 11, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 “Donation to the Goddess: Worship, Law, and Economy at the Sanctuaries of Roman Macedonia” The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Nicole Julia Giannella (Cornell University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Mon., Feb. 25, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "Who Ululates at the Temple of Bacchus? Inequality Before the Law in the Roman Empire" Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e… March 2019 Bernard Frischer (Indiana University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Wed., Mar. 13 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Rome Reborn" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc… Catherine Grandjean (Université de Tours, France)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Tue., Mar. 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The coinage of the Achaian koinon, between federal authority and civic autonomy.” Ancient galleries open until 8 p.m. llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture April 2019 New England Ancient History Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Thu., Apr. 11 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Faculty Club, Room 205, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 UMass Classics Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Fri., Apr. 26, 3 – 6:30 p.m. UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room (Tenth Floor), Amherst, MA "Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Ancient Historiography in Honor of Professor Elizabeth Keitel" 3:00 to 6:30 p.m. - followed by banquet (details TBA). Speakers: 1) Jane Chaplin (Middlebury), When Historians Make History 2) Timothy Joseph (Holy Cross), Ubique lamenta: The place of lament in Latin epic and historiography 3) Christina Kraus (Yale), Multiplying disasters: the many-fronted, multiplex bellum in Livy 5 4) John Marincola (FSU), Asinius Pollio and the Roman Revolution. www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u… View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Subscribe to calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>. Please send event information in the format modeled above.