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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?"
**Tues., Apr. 23
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CANCELLED--Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)
**Wed., Apr. 24
4:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Phelps Hall, 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(a)att.net>et>.
http://calendar.yale.edu/cal/classics/month/20130422/All/CAL-2c9cb3cd-3c79c…
*Wed., Apr. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson 305, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jessica Moss (University of Oxford)
"Aristotle's Right Reason"
Reception in Emerson 107 directly following the talk.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Department of the Classics and
the Department of Philosophy
Thurs., Apr. 25
3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Goldfarb Library (Rapaporte Treasure Hall), 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Spring Symposium, Department of Classical Studies and Theater Arts
Theme: "Athenian Tragic Theater in Modern Performance: Euripides'
Orestes and Iphigenia in Tauris"
Casey Dué Hackney (University of Houston), "Savage Greeks in Foreign
Lands: Greeks and Barbarians in the Tragedies of Euripides” (Martin
Weiner Lecture);
Eric H. Hill (Brandeis University) and graduate actors, "A
Demonstration of Dramatic Method in Athenian Theater";
Leonard C. Muellner and Eric H. Hill (Brandeis University), Casey Dué
Hackney (University of Houston), and students in Advanced Greek 115B
and Athenian Tragic Theater in Modern Performance, "Round Table
Discussion with the Audience"
Reception to follow the symposium in the Treasure Hall. Opening night
performance (8:00 p.m.) of the two plays, Orestes and Iphigenia in
Tauris, on the Mainstage of Spingold Theater at Brandeis. For tickets
and information:
http://www.brandeis.edu/arts/btc/1213season/visionsofanancientdreamer.html.
Parking in "Tower Lot." Free and Open to the Public.
For other information please contact: Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
(aoko-(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister, 781-736-2180,
(hmcallis(a)brandeis.edu).
**Thurs., Apr. 25
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 213, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University)
"Authorial satire and literary katabasis: from Lucian to
twelfth-century Constantinople"
Thurs., Apr. 25
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania)
"Divination in the Ancient World: A Cognitive Approach"
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., 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(a)bu.edu /
617-353-2427.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/about/the-2013-boston-area-roman-studies-confere…
**Fri., Apr. 26
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College)
"Lithic Poetics: Posidippus and his stones"
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
Thurs., May 2
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 213, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stratis Papaioannou (Brown University)
"Signature and Voice: The Byzantine Author"
Tues., May 7
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"Grammar, genre and patronage in twelfth-century Constantinople: A
scientific paradigm and its implications"
*Wed., May 8
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS (Center for Government and International
Studies), Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Pnina Shor (Head and Curator, Dead Sea Scrolls Projects, Israel
Antiquities Authority) and Gregory Bearman (PhD, Israel Antiquities
Authority Consultant for Imaging Technologies of the Dead Sea Scrolls)
"Preserving and Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls: Multi-Spectral
Imaging one of Humanity's Greatest Treasures"
Sponsors: Harvard initiative for the Science of the Human Past and the
Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University
http://cgis.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/shp
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cjs/
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