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Fri. & Sat., Mar. 15 & 16
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 02138
A symposium at Harvard Divinity School
"How Bodies Matter: The Intersection of Science, Religion, and the Humanities in the
Study of the Ancient Mediterranean World"
Organizers: Laura Nasrallah (Harvard Divinity School); Steven J. Friesen, (University of
Texas Austin); Assisting contact Person: Mara Block (Harvard University),
mara.block@gmail.com<mailto:mara.block@gmail.com>
Funded by the Battelle Memorial Institute
Website:
http://isites.harvard.edu/k93310
Fri. & Sat., Mar. 15 & 16
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60
George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Archaeologies of Greece: Big Questions, Next Directions. State of the Field 2013
A two-day conference that considers some of the big questions currently confronting
archaeological research in Greece, and aims to discuss potential ways forward.
Keynote Lecture on Friday, 3/15 at 5:30: Vassilis Aravantinos (Honorary Director of
Antiquities, Thebes) - “Archaeologies of Greece: Past, Present and Future. The Case of
Thebes."
Sessions on Saturday, 3/16 at 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. Full schedule at
http://proteus.brown.edu/stateofthefield2013. Sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology.
Sun., Mar. 17
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Alfond Auditorium, Boston, MA 02115
Elizabeth Bolman (Tyler School of Art, Temple University)
Estelle Shoet Brettman Memorial Lecture
"The Red Monastery Church and the Angelic Life in Christian Upper Egypt"
Dr. Bolman will speak about one of the most remarkable, recently conserved monuments of
late antique Christian Egypt, and show a film about the campaign to clean the frescoes of
this monastic church, which was on the endangered list of the World Monuments Fund.
Free tickets for the lecture are required and will be available at any MFA ticket desk on
the day of the event.
*Tues., Mar. 26
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Chapin Hall, Room #201, Amherst, MA 01002
Jonathan Master (Emory University)
"The Cost of Roman Imperialism on Provincial Soldiers"
Beginning with the complaints of Batavian revolutionary Julius Civilis about the insulting
returns provincial soldiers receive on behalf of their massive contribution to the Roman
Empire, this lecture asks whether Tacitus’ Histories may actually support the claims of
this antagonist. It will explore whether the meager rewards the Roman Empire offers its
subjects contribute to the chaos of AD 69, the year of the four emperors.
*Wed., Mar. 27
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Floris Bernard (University of Ghent, Dumbarton Oaks)
"Humor in Byzantine Letters: Textual Strategies and Sociological Dimensions"
Dumbarton Oaks Visiting Lecture
Wed., Apr. 3
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston,
MA 02215
Stephen Kidd (Brown University)
"How (not) to take mockery seriously: the case of Cinesias"
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the Humanities
For further information, contact Melissa Joseph (617-353-2427,
josephmv@bu.edu<mailto:josephmv@bu.edu>).
Wed., Apr. 3
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST, Isenberg School of Management 137, 121 Presidents
Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
Christine Kondoleon (Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Playing with Eros: Riddles and Rhymes"
The ninth annual David Grose Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Department
of Classics and Charles Grose.
Mon., Apr. 8
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith Buonnao 106, 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI 02906
Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University)
Forty-Seventh Annual Charles Alexander Robinson Lecture
"Apuleius the Provincial"
There is wide agreement that the rise of the modern novel has something to do with the
idea of the 'provincial' - a way of life, a style, a representation of space and
national identity, a mediation between centers and peripheries. The novel of Apuleius, The
Metamorphoses, is a rare example of a work from Classical antiquity that develops an
approach to a 'provincial' identity, and addresses the relationship between
centers and provinces (a concept different from 'margins' or
'peripheries'). In this respect, the Latin novel of Apuleius is one of the very
few texts that can be assessed as 'Imperial literature' in a sense that goes
beyond mere periodization or chronology.
Mon., Apr. 8
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton, UK)
Title TBA
Sponsored by the Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome and the Mahindra
Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop: "Discovery of the Classical World(s):
Perspectives from the Outside"
Mon., Apr. 8
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"Greek Music through the Ages"
A concert to benefit the BUPh Summer Study in Greece Scholarship Fund, presented by the
Department of Classical Studies at Boston University in cooperation with the BU
Philhellenes, the BU Center for the Humanities, the College of Arts & Sciences Core
Curriculum, and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship. Reception to follow at the
Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Ave, 4th Floor
Tickets for the concert alone or the concert and reception can be purchased at Eventbrite,
here:
http://buphgreekmusic-es2002.eventbrite.com/?rank=1#
The concert features Panos Liaropoulos and the wonderful musicians of the Greek Music
Ensemble performing a selection of Greek music that ranges from classical to contemporary,
including folk songs, movie themes, and some of the greatest music of the Greek
tradition.
For more information about the concert and about the student program in Greece, visit:
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/greek-concert/
https://www.facebook.com/events/152493554907448/?ref=ts&fref=ts
Ticket Information: General Admission, Concert with Reception, $60; General Admission,
Concert only, $35; Students with valid ID, $10. Student tickets may be purchased from the
BU Department of Classical Studies at 745 Commonwealth Ave. For information, contact the
BU Department of Classics, 617-353-2427.
*Tickets are non-refundable.
Thurs., Apr. 11
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room 522, 675 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston, MA 02215
Morag Kersel (DePaul University)
"The Lure of the Relic: Collecting the Holy Land"
This lecture examines the collecting of archaeological artifacts from the Holy Land, the
effect of this activity on the archaeological landscape, and the biographies of objects
within the antiquities trade.
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the
Department of Archaeology at Boston University.
Mon., Apr. 15
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Warren House, Kates Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford University)
Title: TBA
In conjunction with the Mahindra Humanities Center colloquium "The Discovery of the
Classical World(s)"
Mon., Apr. 15
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall, Room 101, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lecture Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
1. "Doing (different) things with music"
Tues., Apr. 16
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lecture Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
2. "Whose music? Local, ethnic, and class distinctions"
*Thurs., Apr. 18
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski, Amherst, MA 01002
Gregory Staley (University of Maryland)
"Making Oedipus Roman"
Aristotle and Freud have taught us to read Sophocles’ Oedipous Tyrannos as a story of
recognition and self discovery. Seneca, a Stoic philosopher who emphasized the imperative
to “know ourselves” and who wrote the only surviving version of Oedipus’ story by a Latin
author, would, we might have expected, have been drawn to Oedipus for these same reasons.
His version of Oedipus, however, replaces the hero’s courageous and almost psychoanalytic
search for self with a series of scenes which the Romans called monstra: the wise man
Tiresias consults the entrails of animals and finally calls up from Acheron the spirit of
Oedipus’ father, Laius, in order to reveal the truth about who Oedipus is and what he has
done. Seneca has long been condemned for turning this story into the literary equivalent
of the public spectacles Romans enjoyed in the arena and the circus. Lessing in his
Laokoon (1766) wrote that "a theatre is surely not an arena."
The Sophoclean process of self-discovery could be staged as a public and dramatic event;
in imperial Rome such an act could only be private and internal. To create theater, Seneca
had to transform the revelation of the truth from a verbal and dialogic form in Sophocles
into a series of monstra, vivid events which search for the truth in the signs of nature,
the signs of the body. For Seneca as a Stoic and as a prominent figure at Rome, truths are
hidden and need to be inferred. The search for truth is quite literally “scrutiny,” the
probing of the hidden and inward. I would suggest that for Seneca “scrutiny” is in its
primary sense an act of extispicium that only metaphorically becomes an act of
self-analysis. His Oedipus returns to the reality behind the metaphor.
Thurs., Apr. 18
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lecture Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
3. "The gender of music"
Fri., Apr. 19
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall, Room 101, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lecture Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
4. "Human musicality and the origins of species"
Mon., Apr. 22
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Kresge Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
"Did the Ancient Mysteries Influence Early Christianity?"
Wed., Apr. 24
YALE UNIVERSITY, TBA, New Haven, CT 06511
New England Ancient History Colloquium, Spring 2013 Meeting
Roberta Stewart (Dartmouth College) will make available for discussion her paper
"Priesthoods, Emperors, and Coins." William Metcalf (Yale University) will do
the commentary. For further information contact Allen Ward
<allen.m.ward@att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>>.
Fri., Apr. 26
4 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall (first floor, School of Law), 765 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference
Theme: "Imperium Romanum: Domination and its Challenges"
Emma Dench (Harvard University), "Imaging Roman Power"
Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (Boston University), "Representing Leaders--from Republic to
Empire"
Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University), "How do Civil Wars End? Some Roman
Answers"
Dinner to follow the conference. INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: Contact Stacy Fox, Dept
of Classical Studies, Boston University, sfox@bu.edu<mailto:sfox@bu.edu> /
617-353-2427.
Fri., Apr. 26
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
Mon., Apr. 29
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Andrew Laird (University of Warwick)
"The Renaissance in Mexico"
Harvard Early Modern Colloquium
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