Boston Area Classics Calendar September 2019 Miriam Goldstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Mon., Sep. 23, 4 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 0213 "Toledot Yeshu ('The Life of Jesus') among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands" This talk will explore the astonishing popularity of Toledot Yeshu—a parody of the life of Jesus, first attested in Late Antiquity in Aramaic—among the Arabic-speaking Jews of the medieval Islamic world. Presenting Toledot Yeshu as a product of medieval Judeo-Arabic literature and as a Jewish narrative shared and exchanged between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe, it will illuminate sustained Jewish interest in the work for more than a millennium and a half in the Near East, as well as the significance of this enduring appeal for understanding Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Islamic milieu. history.fas.harvard.edu…<https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/toledot-y… Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale… Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "A Marriage Made in Hell: The Encounters of Medea and Jason from Euripides to Heiner Müller" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-t… mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar… [Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)] Helena González-Vaquerizo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Warren House, Room 201, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Kazantzakis’ Odyssey: A (Post)Modern(ist) Sequel" Should we consider Nikos Kazantzakis’ magnum opus, The Odyssey (1938), a dead end in his career or its very starting point? Whereas today a growing number of critics acknowledge modernist and even postmodernist elements in the author’s novelistic work and thought, it still needs to be proven not only that such elements do exist in The Odyssey, but that the poem is the source of Kazantzakis’ later (post)modernism. The aim of my presentation is to provide evidence for this and to propose an interpretation of The Odyssey as an epic in the process of becoming a novel, in fact, a (post)modernist novel. Such an interpretation will illustrate major aspects not only of The Odyssey itself but also of the overall development of Kazantzakis' literary work. Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and Culture<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-l… mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar… Meredith E. Safran (Trinity College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Thu., Sep. 26, 5 – 6:15 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Hall rm.#107 (Paino Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA 01002 "From Spoils to Saviors: Re-valuing the First Roman Wives as Civic Actors in Livy's 'From the Foundation of the City'" Many of Rome’s founding civic myths conjoin the community’s political transformation with sexualized violence against women.This talk will focus on the episode traditionally known as “the rape of the Sabine women,” in which the first Romans staved off the extinction of their new community and established Rome’s version of marriage, but did so by obtaining their wives through a mass bride abduction. Unlike most of the women who fall victim to violence in Rome’s founding myths, the Sabine women not only survive their assault; by the end of their story, as told by the Roman historian Livy, they’ve won universal respect and recognition for saving both new and old communities, which they risk their own lives to defend. We’ll explore how such a triumph could result from a story that begins with assault and consider why these women’s remarkable rise in status is not how people tend to remember this story today. Sponsored by the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund and the Department of Classics at Amherst College Free and open to the public. www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww… Myke Cole<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum… Thu., Sep. 26, 5 – 6:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 303 Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453 "Twitterstoria: Memes, pop-culture, social media, and how pop-historians can work with academia to help ancient history find a mass audience" www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__w… October 2019 Robert Bartlett (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Tue., Oct. 1, 5:15 – 6:30 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building E51, Room 255, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 "Rhetoric and Democracy: Aristotle on the Art of Persuasive Speech" MIT's Ancient and Medieval Studies Colloquium [Robert Bartlett (Boston College)] Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr… Thu., Oct. 3, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Persians in Greek and in Elamite: Achaemenid History and the Persepolis Fortification Archive" Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Brian Daniels (Penn Cultural Heritage Center)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Wed., Oct. 9, 5 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "Cultural Recovery in a Time of Violence: Protecting Heritage Sites in Syria" Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Department of Classical Studies Vinzenz Brinkmann (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classic… Fri., Oct. 11, 12 – 2 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-t… mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar… Nadav Asraf (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Fri., Oct. 11, 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 'The Word Within a Word': The Syntactical Properties of Word Parts in Ancient Greek GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics” Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Application required (deadline September 20th). See website for more details. Send questions to digitalmanuscriptediting@gmail.com<mailto:digitalmanuscriptediting@gmail.com>. Application form: https://tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting<https://urldefense.proofpoi…8v7whywryRpAuEbuIU4&e=>. Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Digital Scholarship Support Group. dssg.fas.harvard.edu…<https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing… [Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop] Shelley Haley (Hamilton College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482 "Race-ing” the Romans: Uncovering the Racial Constructs of Ancient Rome Mark Janse (Ghent University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Mon., Oct. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138 "From Katpatuka to Ionanistan: The Rise, Demise and Reawakening of Cappadocian Greek" Followed by the documentary "Last Words" (seriousFilm, 2014) Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Cappadocia (Central Turkey) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Cappadocian speakers were forced to emigrate to Greece, where they were resettled in various locations, especially in Central and Northern Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly shifted to Standard Modern Greek and/or regional varieties thereof and their language was thought to be extinct since the 1970s (Ethnologue, 15th edition, 2005). In June 2005, Mark Janse (Ghent University) and Dimitris Papazachariou (University of Patras) discovered Cappadocians in Central and Northern Greece who could still speak their native language. Amongst them are middle-aged, third-generation speakers who take a very positive attitude towards the language as opposed to their parents and and grandparents. The latter are much less (if at all) inclined to speak Cappadocian and normally switch to Greek and/or Turkish in their conversations. In his lecture, Professor Janse will relate the linguistic history of Cappadocia and the fascinating story of his search und ultimately discovery of the lost Cappadocian language. The lecture will be followed by the documentary film ‘Last Words’. Mark Janse (is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse@ugent.be<mailto:mark.janse@ugent.be>) docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__do… Mark Janse (Ghent University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Tue., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Linguistic Convergence in Asia Minor: The Internal Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Cappadocian Greek" Mark Janse is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse@ugent.be<mailto:mark.janse@ugent.be>) docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__do… Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Wed., Oct. 23, 12 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium with Sinclair Bell: "Race in the Roman Empire: Black Africans as Subjects and Objects in Imperial Visual Culture" Organized by the Hutchins Center<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-… africa.harvard.edu…<https://africa.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair… Mark Janse (University of Ghent)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr… Wed., Oct. 23, 4 – 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "More Maculate Musings: New Wordplays in Aristophanes' Lysistrata" The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e… Simona Martorana (Durham University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Wed., Oct. 23, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "'Writing like a man, becoming-woman’: gender-queerness and literary creation in the Epistula Sapphus" GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-compa… Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru… Mon., Oct. 28, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-t… mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar… Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom (Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Tue., Oct. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia" Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop earlymod.fas.harvard.edu<https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/> Alex Purves (UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru… Wed., Oct. 30, 5 – 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA James Loeb Lecture New England Ancient Historians Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Thu., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Campus Center, 10th Floor, Amherst Room, Amherst, MA 01002 Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross) "The Political Power of the Middle Republican Army" Commentator: Will Broadhead (Associate Professor of History, MIT) 5:30 PM: reception—complimentary wine, beer, and appetizers 6:30 PM: dinner (cash bar available) 7:30–9:30 PM: speaker and commentator Registration required by Wednesday, October 23: https://www.neahc.us/registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/u…RfE4EtWLOwc-eWcIeKs&e=>. New England Ancient Historians Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neah… www.neahc.us<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ne… November 2019 Flavian (Re)Configurations: Civic Ideals and Urban Realities<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar… Fri., Nov. 8, 3 – 6 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Integrative Learning Center S331, UMass Amherst, 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst MA 01003 Speakers: Salvador Bartera (Mississippi State University) Virginia Closs (UMass Amherst) Steven Ellis (University of Cincinnati) Elizabeth Macauly-Lewis (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Eric Poehler (UMass Amherst) Sponsored by UMass Amherst Department of Classics and College of Humanities and Fine Arts. More information: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa@classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512) www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u… [Flavian (Re)Configurations: Civic Ideals and Urban Realities] The 12th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Sat., Nov. 9 "Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment" Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) and Mr. Marquis "I AM" McCray www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e… Brent Seales (University of Kentucky)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar… Thu., Nov. 14, 5 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Clapp Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 "The Digital Restoration Initiative: Reading the Invisible Library" Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Book Studies Program Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Thu., Nov. 21, 5:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Venantius Fortunatus" April 2020 Vesta Curtis (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t… Wed., Apr. 22 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture July 2020 Classical Association of New England Summer Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar… Mon., July 13 – Sat., July 18 BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Providence, RI 02912 On the theme "The Empire and the Individual" graduate credit available For more information and registration details, go to www.caneweb.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.… Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>. caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__canewe… View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Subscribe to calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>. 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