Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #1 (9/8/06)
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*Mon., Sept. 11, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
The Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies
"Civic and Epistemic Values in Science"
Registration not necessary; free food and refreshments
For more information contact atauber(a)bu.edu
See Appendix for details
*Thurs., Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m.
Boston University, School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room
525, Boston, MA
Raphael Woolf (Harvard University)
"Misology and Truth"
*Thurs., Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture
Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Nancy Stephenson Nichols Lecture
Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford)
"Greeks Going East"
Fri., Oct. 6 - Sat., Oct. 7
YALE UNIVERSITY, 102 Linsly-Chittenden Hall, High Street, New Haven, CT
"The Romans in Asia," a conference celebrating the revival of
numismatics at Yale and the acquisition of the collection of Peter R.
and Leonore Franke. The conference will feature papers by Michel
Amandry (Paris), François de Callataÿ (Brussels), Peter R. Franke
(Munich), Ann Johnston (Cambridge), Christopher Jones (Harvard),
Dietrich Klose (Munich), Katherine Welch (NYU-IFA), Greg Woolf (St.
Andrews) and William E. Metcalf (Yale).
Free and open to the public. For more information go to http://
www.yale.edu/classics/news.html
*Wed. Oct. 11, 7:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Peter derManuelian (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Excavations at the Giza Pyramids: Old Digs, New Technologies"
Reception preceding lecture at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity
Avenue, Cambridge
For more information contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or
<davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu>
*Fri., Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 203, Cambridge, MA
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge)
"Understanding the Oedipus Rex"
This lecture will last 2 hours, followed at 4:00 p.m. by refreshments
and discussion
APPENDIX:
*Mon., Sept. 11, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, The Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
The Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies"
"Civic and Epistemic Values in Science"
Registration not necessary; free food and refreshments
For more information contact atauber(a)bu.edu
Moderator: Robert S. Cohen (Boston University)
10 a.m. –12 p.m.:
Steven DeLue (Miami University), "The Problematic Implications of
Multicultural Toleration for the Values of Science"
Charles Weijer (The University of Western Ontario), "Trust in
Clinical Science"
2 – 5 p.m.:
Keith Parsons (University of Houston), "Can Science Tell Us the Truth
about Truth?"
Ron Giere (University of Minnesota), "Science and Secularism"
Noretta Koertge (Indiana University), "Why It Is Intelligent to Look
for Design in Nature"
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.