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May 5 through June 24
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH 03755
"Investigations into the Ancient Mediterranean"
May 5 through June 24, 2012
This exhibition explores how the close observation of works of art can reveal connections to wider cultural, religious, political, and social themes. It is part of an innovative collection-sharing initiative created to highlight the importance of teaching with original works of art as part of the college curriculum. Funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this program enabled Yale University Art Gallery to lend forty-seven ancient Mediterranean objects to the Hood for a two-year period. Over the course of this past year and a half, Dartmouth faculty and students from a range of disciplines including art history, classical archaeology, and history have used both the Yale loans and works from the Hood collection to explore current discourses on such topics as gender systems, representation and identity, and center and periphery in the Roman Empire. By working closely with faculty and students to document these projects, the Hood wishes to highlight this major part of its daily activities as a teaching museum and make visible its work with undergraduate students, most of which happens “behind the scenes” in Bernstein Study-Storage Center. For more information, visit
Sat., May 5
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Collaborations: A Celebration of the Career of Joseph Harris
9:30 OPENING REMARKS
9:45-11:15 SESSION ONE
STEPHEN MITCHELL, Harvard University: "Lost Cattle and the Lovelorn God Forty Years On"
BARBARA HILLERS, Harvard University: "Medieval Icelandic Writers and the 99%"
R. D. FULK, Indiana University: "Some Verses Not in Njáls saga”
11:30-1:00 SESSION TWO
JAN ZIOLKOWSKI, Harvard University: "We Philologists"
DANIEL DONOGHUE, Harvard University: "Was There a Word for ‘Word’?"
KARL REICHL, Universität Bonn: "Troubadour vidas and bozlak: Prosimetrum not Found in Prosimetrum"
1:00-2:15 BREAK FOR LUNCH
2:15-3:45 SESSION THREE: STEVE ROZENSKI, Harvard University and C.J. JONES, University of Pennsylvania: "Mixed Drinks for Jesus: Perspectives on a Previously Unknown Middle Low German Passion Meditation in Houghton Library MS Germ 69"
JAY JASANOFF, Harvard University: TBA
JEFFREY TURCO, Purdue University: TBA
4:00-5:30 SESSION FOUR
THOMAS HILL, Cornell University: "The Agentive Cross: The Dream of the Rood, lines 35-38"
LEONARD NEIDORF, Harvard University: "Heroic Legend in Anglo-Saxon England"
SUSAN DESKIS, Northern Illinois University: "Alliteration as an Aid to Proverbial Potency in Early England"
Tues., May 8
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Beatrice Caseau (Universite Paris-Sorbonne; Paris IV)
"Shaping the Body for God"
Wed., May 16
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hood Museum of Art, Kim gallery, Hanover, NH 03755
Panel Discussion
"Investigations into the Ancient Mediterranean: Spotlight on Teaching with Objects"
Dartmouth professors teaching courses on ancient Greek and Roman culture will discuss their work with objects on loan from Yale University Art Gallery over the past year. Roberta Stewart, Paul Christesen, Kathleen Corrigan, Jeremy Rutter, and Roger Ulrich will talk about introducing students to the issues that stem from the close investigation of objects. The session will include a preview of a documentary film about the project. A reception will follow.
Sat., July 14
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
LEGION III CYRENAICA PRESENTATION, Higgins Armory Museum, 100 Barber Ave, Worcester MA 01606
Andy Volpe (Legion III Cyrenaica)
"Legion III Cyrenaica Roman Legion"
Legion III, a New England based Roman living history group, will give a presentation about the life of a Roman Soldier in the 1st Century AD / CE and a brief history of the Legion during its tenure in Alexandria, Egypt. Also discussed will be combat, training, arms and armor.
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.