[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, September 3, 2021

Boston Area Classics Calendar September 2021 Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d155239388> Wed., Sep. 29, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom "The Body and the Letter" The letter is always a reminder of an absence that engenders and sustains the correspondence. This talk explores how Roman letter writers (Cicero, Seneca, Ovid) construct their epistolary addressee’s absence and their own presence on the page. The letter may be a reflection of the writer’s soul, a replacement for the writer’s physical body, or even a “real” trace (e.g. blood, tears) of the absent body. By reading these epistolary strategies through the lens of metonymy and synecdoche, we can differentiate between situations of *amicitia* or fraternal *amor* (usually presented through metonymy) and erotic amor (usually presented through synecdoche). Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome <https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> harvard.zoom.us… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJAtc-2DmgrjIuGtcg4CWlRVlLPBUiIfIF-5F00m&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mjXQDi--_aOLKsaH7sEUfd4UdNW5Z9T8AWpRCj3BWgQ&m=RG__7NJ-5pdy8011JT7OvjnmStBFykFg7pUywMMshTw&s=ZroWy2fCCVcYHkDgFo_zLxnYCATc1hQ-n6EflQUVf_0&e=> [image: Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)] October 2021 Kendra Eshelman (Boston College) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d155239453> Mon., Oct. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_news-2Devents_myth-2Dand-2Dreligion_&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mjXQDi--_aOLKsaH7sEUfd4UdNW5Z9T8AWpRCj3BWgQ&m=RG__7NJ-5pdy8011JT7OvjnmStBFykFg7pUywMMshTw&s=XTfV-5TuT2PI58nvLrO0Vxb4D0Yy2Dp-cGQ2nCefJiI&e=> Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d154275702> Tue., Oct. 19, 5 p.m. Zoom. See registration link. "Fascist Receptions of Antiquity in Metal Music" Since its genesis a half-century ago, heavy metal music and the counterculture that formed around it has generally defined itself through transgressive sounds, words, and images as expressions of rebellion against modern and contemporary systems of order, conformity, and control. Often complementary to metal’s core antagonisms to modernity are romanticizing appeals to a premodern past, including ancient Greece and Rome. A small but influential minority of European metal artists push transgression to extremes by flirting with or fully embracing fascist imagery and ideology, and in the process replicating and perpetuating fascist and white supremacist manipulations of a classical antiquity they dream of resurrecting through apocalyptic war and genocide. Fascistic metal artists, many of whom are connected to extremist and terrorist groups and individuals, charismatically offer to thousands of tolerant and susceptible consumers harmful distortions of the classical past. In this talk I not only critique these artists' appropriations of classical history and culture in light of the far-right’s general reception thereof, but I also highlight positive solutions from within the global metal scene to challenge these hateful usurpations of the ancient world. Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and Receptions <https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditions> harvard.zoom.us… <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJYtcOCoqzwrEtOvAUhbE-5F8mgfo2Ftq6BCTd&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mjXQDi--_aOLKsaH7sEUfd4UdNW5Z9T8AWpRCj3BWgQ&m=RG__7NJ-5pdy8011JT7OvjnmStBFykFg7pUywMMshTw&s=9WaokWyvd-CI3r2Wpfis7J8TFwGEEgdVH-NTHdvfzz0&e=> [image: Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University)] November 2021 Caitlin Gillespie (Brandeis University) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d155239455> Mon., Nov. 8, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_news-2Devents_myth-2Dand-2Dreligion_&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mjXQDi--_aOLKsaH7sEUfd4UdNW5Z9T8AWpRCj3BWgQ&m=RG__7NJ-5pdy8011JT7OvjnmStBFykFg7pUywMMshTw&s=XTfV-5TuT2PI58nvLrO0Vxb4D0Yy2Dp-cGQ2nCefJiI&e=> December 2021 Kelly Dugan (Trinity College) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d155016679> Wed., Dec. 1, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome <https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> February 2022 Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d155239379> Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m. Zoom TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome <https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece> March 2022 Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d155239459> Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_news-2Devents_myth-2Dand-2Dreligion_&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mjXQDi--_aOLKsaH7sEUfd4UdNW5Z9T8AWpRCj3BWgQ&m=RG__7NJ-5pdy8011JT7OvjnmStBFykFg7pUywMMshTw&s=XTfV-5TuT2PI58nvLrO0Vxb4D0Yy2Dp-cGQ2nCefJiI&e=> View the entire calendar online <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe <https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails. 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