PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE NO NEW ENTRIES THIS WEEK. Boston Area Classics Calendar 2007/2008: #11 (11/30/07)   This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to an address dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of as word-processor file attachments.   NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK.  Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued the following week.   Please circulate as widely as possible.   PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry       Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008 HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor Galleries, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity See Appendix for details on Gallery Talks and Symposium   Tues., Dec. 4, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Classical Traditions Timothy Rood (University of Oxford) "A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque"   Fri., Dec. 7 - Sat., Dec. 8 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA International Conference on C. P. Cavafy "In Fantasy and Logos": Desire, Intertext, and Fragmentation in C. P. Cavafy" Sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program (Department of the Classics)    and the Humanities Center See Appendix for details   Tues., Dec. 11, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA James Osborne (Graduate Student in the Deptartment of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) "Excavations at the Aramaean Capital of Kunulua in the Plain of Antioch" Reception preceeding at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue For more information contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu) Sponsored by the Semitic Museum, Harvard University   MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Fall 2007 Gallery Report Due to ongoing construction at the museum, some Classical installations have been temporarily de-installed. We expect that as the fall term begins, the following galleries will be OPEN on a regular basis: East Greek Art (1A11); Etruscan Art (1A01); Archaic Greek Art (1A06 and 1A04b); Classical Greek Art (2A02); Roman Art (2A06); and Art of the Eastern Roman Empire, including the Antioch Marine mosaic (2A07). We hope to have the gallery of South Italian/Hellenistic Art (2A12), which abuts the construction site, re-opened as soon as possible. We thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have questions about particular pieces, you can reach the Classical offices at (617) 369-3259.       APPENDIX:   Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008 HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor Galleries, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity   GALLERY TALKS:   Sun., Nov.18, 2:00 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20, 2:00 p.m. Andreya Mihaloew, PhD candidate, Department of the Classics   Thurs., Dec.13, 2:00 p.m. Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and polychrome Asian sculpture, with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of Japanese art   Sat., Dec. 15, 11:30 a.m. Emily Gangemi, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern and PhD candidate, Department of the Classics   Thurs., Jan. 10, 2:00 p.m. Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and photography, with Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography   SYMPOSIUM: December 7-8 "Superficial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture" M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall   Fri., Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m. Keynote lecture "Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity" Vinzenz Brinkmann Director of the Antiquities Collection, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt   7:00-8:00 p.m. Reception   Sat., Dec. 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.   9:00 a.m. Coffee   9:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard University Art Museums   "New Research on the Polychromy of Roman Statuary" Mark B. Abbe, Research Scholar, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art   "Was Traditional Chinese Sculpture Ever Unadorned?" Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University   11:00 a.m. Coffee break   11:15 a.m. "Questions about Painted Sculpture in South India" Padma Kaimal, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Colgate University   "Mesoamerican Technicolor: Recreating and Preserving a Vivid Past" Barbara W. Fash, Director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University   12:30 p.m. Lunch break   2:00 p.m. "Difficult: Some Remarks on the Rise of Monochrome Sculpture in the Renaissance" Frank Fehrenbach, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University   2:45-4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion Mark B. Abbe, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Barbara W. Fash, Frank Fehrenbach, Padma Kaimal, Eugene Wang       Fri., Dec. 7 - Sat., Dec. 8 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA International Conference on C. P. Cavafy "In Fantasy and Logos": Desire, Intertext, and Fragmentation in C. P. Cavafy" Sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program (Department of the Classics)    and the Humanities Center   Fri., Dec. 7   10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Albert Henrichs (Harvard University) Who Abandons Whom? Intertextual and Cultural Disconnects in "The God is Leaving Anthony"   Christopher Jones (Harvard University) The Lamia's Tale: Philostratos, Keats, Cavafy   Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of Wisconsin) Synaesthesia in the Poetry of Cavafy and Sappho   12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Diana Haas (University of Patras) Aspects of Desire in Kavafes' Poetry: Around the Versions of "In an Old Book" (1922-1929)   Paola Minucci (University of Rome) Memory's Desire in Kavafes   Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University) Metonymies: Economics of Desire in Konstantinos Kavafes   3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Ioli Kalavrezou (Harvard University) "Completing Life": The Effect of Techne in Kavafes   Diskin Clay (Duke University) Cavafy's Greece   Nikolaos Poulopoulos (Harvard University) Post-Ego: Memory, Posterity, and the Erotics of Versification in D. Paparregopoulos and K. Kavafes   6:00 p.m. The Twenty-First Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) Fragmented Bodies: Egyptian Myth and the Poetics of K.P. Kavafes     Sat., Dec. 8   10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) C. P. Cavafy and Douglas Livingstone: An African Legacy   Richard Thomas (Harvard University) Leaving Alexandria/Alexandria Leaving: Cavafy to Cohen   Mark Doty (University of North Texas) "Transformed Into Feeling": An American Poet Considers Cavafy's Influence Coffee/Lunch Break   1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Paola Marrati (The Johns Hopkins University) Transience   Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (The Johns Hopkins University) Rites of Indulgence: Ritual Poetics in K. P. Kavafes   Richard Dellamora (Trent University) Greek Desire and the Invention of Modern Sexualities   John Chioles (New York University) Stoicism, Skepticism, The Unhappy Consciousness in the Poetry of Cavafy   4:00 p.m. Closing Lecture Eve Sedgwick (CUNY) Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods       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.