[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, March 29, 2024

Boston Area Classics Calendar April 2024 Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Parrhesia<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar… Wed., Apr. 3, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 No one has done more to shape legal interpretation of the first amendment than Floyd Abrams. Yet when Abrams litigated Citizens United, some proponents of free speech thought that this just gave big money the biggest voice. By contrast in ancient democratic Athens, parrhesia, free and frank speech, was thought to give voice to citizens who lacked power. Join Floyd Abrams<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__law.yale.edu… and Matt Landauer<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__political-… and Yael Melamede<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.imdb.c… in a conversation about the value of public speech and the relationship between free speech, equality and power, then and now. We will be screening excerpts from Yael Melamede’s 2023 documentary Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely. Organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of the Classics. chs.harvard.edu…<https://chs.harvard.edu/event/free-speech-the-first-ame… The Archaeology of Identity in “Peripheries” of the Roman World<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru… Fri., Apr. 5, 2 – 5 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 635 Commonwealth Ave., Room 101, Boston, MA 02215 or via Zoom "The Archaeology of Identity in 'Peripheries' of the Roman World: An Emerging Scholar Symposium” This panel brings together emerging scholars and senior scholar discussants to discuss how archaeological methods can illuminate personal identity among “peripheral” communities of the Roman world. We position the concept of “periphery” in both the geographic sense (e.g., Roman Britain, Africa, and the Roman east) and the cultural sense, including communities systematically disadvantaged by Roman society (e.g., women, slaves, racialized populations). Keynote: Irene Soto Marín (Harvard University). Presenters: Amia Davis (Yale University), Megan Gatton (New York University), Beth Minney (Stanford University). Please register in advance for in-person or remote participation (Zoom link available upon registration). Sponsored by the Archaeology Program and the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University. Funded by Boston University Diversity & Inclusion and College of Arts & Sciences, with additional support from the Boston Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.… [The Archaeology of Identity in “Peripheries” of the Roman World] Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Mon., Apr. 8, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. REAL COLEGIO COMPLUTENSE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and via Zoom "The Making of the Southern Sea: Forging a Coastal Rim in the Hellenistic Period" Zoom link available on event page<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/making-southern-sea-forging-coastal-r…od>. Organized by: Unai Iriarte Asarta (RCCHU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University) Speaker: Paul Kosmin (Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History, Harvard University) rcc.harvard.edu…<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/making-southern-sea-forgi… Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar… Mon., Apr. 8, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries April 8: The historiographical stakes April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences Speaker: Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures These lectures are dedicated to the memory of Cornell Fleischer. Maria Mavroudi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied Philology at the University of her native city before earning a Ph.D. in Byzantine studies at Harvard. Her scholarly work begun by focusing on a tenth-century Byzantine book on dream interpretation that had been widely received in Latin and the European vernaculars and counted as the Christian dreambook of the Middle Ages. While generally viewed as a Byzantine invention partly based on the second-century manual of Artemidorus, she showed that it was a Christian adaptation of Arabic Islamic material and one among a larger group of texts originally written in Arabic or Persian and received into Greek between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries. During the next two decades, she worked on identifying the place of these translations within Byzantine literary culture and its reception in “East” and “West’ during the medieval and early modern period. This begs reconsidering the position of the ancient Greek classics within the Byzantine, Arabic, and Latin intellectual traditions, as well as the supposed marginality of Byzantium within a broader medieval intellectual universe. Her work was recognized with a MacArthur fellowship in 2002. Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies)<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event-series/gibb> contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu> Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar… Tue., Apr. 9, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries April 8: The historiographical stakes April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences Speaker: Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies)<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event-series/gibb> contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu> Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr… Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Rivaling Rome: Parthian and Sasanian Coins and Culture" Join the Harvard Art Museums for a lecture by Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis about the art of two ancient Iranian dynasties, and their continuing rivalry with ancient Rome. llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-… Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar… Thu., Apr. 11, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Knafel 262, Bowie-Vernon Rm, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries April 8: The historiographical stakes April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences Speaker: Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies)<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event-series/gibb> contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu> Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale… Thu., Apr. 11, 5:30 – 7 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 "Retranslating the Iliad" Prof. Wilson’s presentation will outline her priorities in and approach to her new translation of the Iliad. Among the topics to be covered, she will discuss how translating ancient literature is a far different undertaking from the translation of contemporary literature, as well as the specific challenges of translating ancient metrical verse. She will also contextualize her translation within contemporary scholarly and popular receptions of Homer and compare her translation to others. Finally, she will discuss how Homeric translation is different from translating other ancient poets. Free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations required. Presented by the Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series and Boston College's Department of Classical Studies. Contact: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando@bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>) [Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)] Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Fri., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Virgin’s Promise: Intimacy and Futurity in Euripides’ Helen”" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr… Harvard-Columbia Workshop in Ancient Philosophy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Sat., Apr. 13, 9 a.m. – 6:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robbins Library, Emerson Hall Room 211, 29 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Breakfast and lunch are provided for those who register before March 31. Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.co…kjyGR3rl2TMLn5KdR58&e=>. Speakers: Rachana Kamtekar, Mariana Beatriz Noé, Taylor Pincin, Katja Vogt Commentators: William Edwards, Elliot Hueske, Lucas Hustick, Luke Lea Sponsored by Harvard's Workshop in the History of Philosophy, the Columbia Philosophy Department, Columbia's Classical Studies Graduate Program, and the Abigail Adams Institute. [Harvard-Columbia Workshop in Ancient Philosophy] Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Tue., Apr. 16, 5 – 6:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBD Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Thu., Apr. 18 – Sun., Apr. 21 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Science and Engineering Complex, 150 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134 www.aah2024.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www… BU Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Sat., Apr. 27 BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 "From Life to Literature? Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman Literature" Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge) classicalstudies.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3… Contact: buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com> Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 203, Cambridge, MA 02138 contact: ariehle@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ariehle@fas.harvard.edu> May 2024 Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric 2024 Spring Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Fri., May 3, 12 – 2 p.m. Via Zoom (registration required) "Writing Histories of Greco-Roman Rhetoric: A Forward-Looking Reappraisal of Kennedy’s A New History of Classical Rhetoric" Join us for CAR’s Spring Colloquium, featuring six distinguished panelists in a critical reappraisal of Kennedy’s New History of Classical rhetoric. Is there a need for larger narratives on ancient rhetoric? Which audiences should such macroscopic work address? Which areas are over- or under-emphasized in the study of the history of ancient rhetoric? Where might such a study successfully intersect with other categories of analysis, such as social history, gender, reception, performance, literary aesthetics, and the visual arts? Featuring Rita Copeland, Jaś Elsner, Jon Hesk, Michele Kennerly, Alexander Riehle, and Henriette van der Blom. For registration and further details, visit tinyurl.com/CARspring2024<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt…fKXGgcP0cQTsOI-TA6A&e=>. tinyurl.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tinyurl… Contact: colloquium.ancientrhetoric@gmail.com<mailto:colloquium.ancientrhetoric@gmail.com> [Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric 2024 Spring Colloquium] View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-li… to weekly emails. View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar&g…ar>. Submit events using our event submission form<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission>on>. Contact calclass@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu> with questions or additions/corrections.