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*Mon, Feb 3: Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA
02138
"Renaissance Humanists and the Study of Manuscripts"
Two Benedictines, Jean Mabillon and Bernard de Montfaucon, drew up the
first great manuals of diplomatics and paleography in the last decades of
the seventeenth century. Historians usually treat them as innovators and
connect their work with new trends in the study of the natural world that
flourished in the same period. This lecture reconstructs the forgotten
foundations on which the Maurists built--the work of humanists, antiquaries
and ecclesiastical scholars, who had collected and assessed manuscripts for
centuries, and whose ideas and practices helped to shape the new structures
that Mabillon and Montfaucon built.
There will be a reception at 5:00 p.m.
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
*Tue, Feb 4: Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Leiden University)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Triumph and Disaster: Debating the Draining of the Fucine Lake"
*Wed, Feb 5: Michael Silk (King's College London)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, STH 409, 745 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, MA
"Euripides, Pindar, and Others: What makes Poetry Poetic?"
Refreshments will be served.
*Thu, Feb 6: Jared Hudson (Trinity University, San Antonio)
5:15 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Kates Room, Warren House 201, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Spectaclum ipsa sedens: a Poetics of the Carpentum"
*Tue, Feb 11: Nandini Pandey (Loyola University, Maryland)
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Empire and Imagination in Ovid's Triumph Poems from Exile"
*Wed, Feb 26: J. Theodore Pena (University of California, Berkeley)
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
"Investigating the Life History of Objects at Pompeii"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department. For more information please
contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/.
*Thu, Feb 27: Stephanie Jamison (UCLA)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI 02912
"'I Make New a Song Born of Old': On the New Translation of the
Ṛgveda"
*Mon, Mar 3: Irene Peirano (Yale University)
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA, United States
"The Orator in the Storm: Rhetoric and Roman Epic"
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/orator-storm-rhetoric-and…
*Wed, Mar 5: Brook Holmes (Princeton University)
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
"Galen on the Chances of Life"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department. For more information please
contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/.
*Fri, Mar 7: Classics Association of New England (CANE) Annual Meeting
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE, TBD, Manchester, NH 03102
Saint Anselm College is hosting the Annual Meeting of The Classics
Association of New England. For more information, including Program,
Registration and Hotels, please visit
http://www.caneweb.org.
*Thu, Mar 13: Eurydice Georganteli (Marie Curie International Outgoing
Fellow, Harvard University)
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
02138
"Byzantine Money: The Politics and Aesthetics of a World Currency"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
When the Roman Empire’s capital moved from Rome to Constantinople in 330
CE, Europe’s political and economic center shifted. The coinage produced in
the new imperial capital, and in cities across what was to become the
Byzantine Empire, defined the society, politics, economic practices, and art
in medieval Europe and beyond. This lecture, drawn from Harvard’s
outstanding collections of coins and seals, explores Byzantine money as one
of the most enduring world currencies.
Reception to follow lecture. Free admission. Complimentary parking at
Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street.
To honor the memory of renowned numismatist and scholar Leo Mildenberg
(1912–2001) and his years of friendship with Harvard University, a fund was
established by his friends and colleagues and endowed in 2005 by his wife,
Ilse Mildenberg-Seehausen.
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/byzantine-money-politics-and-aest…
Thu, Apr 10: Thomas Palaima (University of Texas at Austin)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Power Politics in Mycenaean Palatial Territories"
Oscar Broneer Memorial Lecture
*Fri, Apr 25: Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) 2014: From
Infant to Citizen
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall, School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue,
1st Floor, Boston, MA 02215
Keith Bradley (Notre Dame): "Learning Virtue: Aeneas, Ascanius, and
Augustus"
Lauren Caldwell (Wesleyan): "Becoming Cloelia: The Education of Roman Girls"
James Uden (BU): "Childhood Education in Imperial Rome: Plutarch,
Quintilian, Juvenal"
http://www.bu.edu/classics/about/the-2014-boston-area-roman-studies-confere…