The Boston Area Classics Calendar for December 2, 2016

PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry

*Gilgamesh, Reimagined
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arts @ 29 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 
Fri., Dec. 2, 2016, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. 
ANE 103: Ancient Lives
Harvard University Program in General Education
Written, Performed, Composed, and Produced by the Student of ANE 103
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served. 
More info: sites.fas.harvard.edu… 

69th Annual Latin Carol Celebration
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House in America, 75 North Main St., Providence, RI 02903
Mon., Dec. 5, 2016, 8 – 10 p.m. 
Featuring seasonal readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin (English translations provided) 
More info: www.brown.edu… 

Evan MacCarthy (West Virginia University)
MIT Building 14E, Room 304 whereis.mit.edu
Wed., Dec. 7, 2016, 5:15 – 7:15 p.m.
"Cosmogony and Music: The Banquet Song of Iopas in Virgil's Aeneid" 
Event Series: MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series 

**Dariusz Piwowarczyk (Jagiellonian University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Wed., Dec. 7, 2016, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
“Towards the Computational Simulation of Sound Change in Indo-European” 
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics” 

*Jon Stewart (University of Copenhagen)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 
Tue., Dec. 13, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
"Hegel’s Interpretation of the Greek Religion as a Religion of Spirit" 
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities 
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… 

Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 
Mon., Feb. 13, 2017, 5 p.m.
TBA 
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome 
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu… 

Hellenistic Sardis Project
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Thu., Feb. 23 – Fri., Feb. 24, 2017 
TBA 

Carlos Noreña (University of California, Berkeley)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 
Mon., Feb. 27, 2017, 6 p.m.
"Romanization in the Middle of Nowhere: The Case of Segobriga"
This paper addresses the problem of historical change in a small town in the provincial backwater of a large, premodern empire. It examines the evidence for urban form, cultural identity, political organization, and social hierarchy in Segobriga, an insignificant Roman municipality in central Spain (in the province of Hispania Tarraconensis), during the period c. 200 BCE to 200 CE. Emphasis is placed not on local particularism in Segobriga, but rather on the town’s adherence to empire-wide patterns in urbanization and urbanism; its assimilation to Roman cultural norms; and its incorporation into a supraregional sociopolitical order. Drawing upon insights from historical sociology and cultural anthropology, and focusing on questions of motivation, agency (both individual and collective), and causation, the paper argues that changes in the politics, society, and culture of Segobriga all went together in a recursive manner, and that they were ultimately triggered by what I call a “general convergence” of social power in the Mediterranean world near the end of the first millennium BCE. The transformation of Segobriga, the paper concludes, should be seen as a case study in the process of “Romanization”—not, however, defined as an index of acculturation, but rather as an umbrella term for the making of a distinctively Roman configuration of power. The goals of the paper, then, are both substantive and conceptual, and are meant to contribute to a wider discussion of the intersection between (asymmetric) power and (translocal) culture in the premodern world. 
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop: New Approaches to Ancient Evidence 

Christelle Fischer-Bovet (Univ. of Southern California)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Mon., Mar. 20, 2017, 5 p.m.
TBA 

Paolo Visoná (University of Kentucky)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 6 – 8 p.m.
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Title: TBA on Carthaginian Coins 
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture 

*Lecture
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA 
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m. 
TBA 
Event Series: GSAS Workshop—"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" 

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