Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #7 (10/21/05) 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 Fri., Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union, Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA The Ernest R. Graham Lecture in Ancient Architecture Peter Richardson (University of Toronto) "Herod's Innovative Architecture, between Rome and the Levant" Sponsored by Boston Society of The Archaeological Institute of America Free and open to the public *Mon., Oct. 24, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, Room 318, Cambridge, MA Dr. Stephanie Dalley (The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford) "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon" Tues., Oct 25, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Christian Jacob (EHESS and CNRS, Paris) "Material books, living libraries: games of scholarship in Antonine Rome" Sponsored by the Seminar on the History of the Book and the Department of the Classics Wed., Oct 26, 7:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, 115 Murkland Hall, Durham, NH 8th Annual John C. Rouman Lecture Series Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley College) "Greek Gods, Human Lives" For information/directions: contact Stephen Brunet, sabrunet(a)unh.edu or 603-862-2077 Thurs., Oct 27, 4:00-5:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street, Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture Victor Bers (Yale University) "Greek Tragedy's Exotic and Irrational Entertainment?" For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) The lecture is free and open to all inside and outside the Brandeis community Thurs., Oct. 27, 5:30-9:30 p.m. ST. ANSELM COLLEGE, President's Dining Room, Manchester, NH Matthew P. Gonzales (St. Anselm College) "Binding Ares in Myth and Cult" with comments by a respondent to be announced Wine and cheese at 5:30, Dinner at 6:30, Discussion at 7:30 For more information contact David George (dgeorge(a)anselm.edu; 603-641-7069) or Cynthia Damon (cdamon(a)amherst.edu; 413-542-8126) Mon., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University) "The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife: The Helen Myth in Comparative Perspective" Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA "Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten" A celebration to honor David Mitten's 70th birthday and his retirement after thirty years as Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard University Art Museums Reception and keynote address on Friday evening; symposium on Saturday Contact: Amy Brauer (brauer(a)fas.harvard.edu) or Karen Manning (kmanning(a)fas.harvard.edu), 617-495-3393 See Appendix for details Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6 Hotel Marlowe, 2nd Floor, 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars & Critics (ALSC) Featuring readings by Robert Fagles, and panels on Ancient Poetry & War, Classical Mythology in the K-12 Classroom, and Poetry & Empire For further information, see Appendix below as well as the conference website at http://www.bu.edu/literary/conferences/index.html Mon., Nov. 7, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome Sergio Casali (University of Rome, Tor Vergata) "Killing the Father: Ennius, Naevius, and Virgil's Julian Intertextual Imperialism" Wed. Nov. 9, 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA Dr. Zvi Lederman (Co-director, Beth-Shemesh Excavations [Israel]) "Recent Excavations at Beth-Shemesh: Pigs, Riddles, and Golden Mice--Forging Identity on the Philistine Periphery" For more information, contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu Wed., Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA "Virgil and History" Michael Putnam, (Brown University) Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu) Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs., Nov. 17, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Eran Lupu (George Washington University) "The Hellenization of Palestine: An Epigraphic Perpective" Thurs., Nov 17, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street, Pollack Auditorium, Waltham, MA A Jennifer Eastman Lecture Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland) "Roman Sexualities: Women in Ancient Rome -- Their Image, Reality, and Influence" For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) The lecture is free and open to all inside and outside the Brandeis community Thurs. Nov. 17, 8:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Institute for Archaeology, 70 Waterman St., Providence, RI Catherine Kiessling (Georgetown University) "Portraits in Ancient Greece: An Alternative History" Mon., Nov. 28, 4:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Maurice Rehn (Stanford University) "Antigone and Family Values" Mon., Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA "The Barberini Faun and Hellenistic Royal Fantasy" Jean Sorabella (Adelphi University) Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu) Sponsored by the Department of Classics *Mon., Dec. 12, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome Mark Schiefsky (Harvard University) "Machines and Morals: Technology and its Uses in Ancient Medicine" Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst, MA "Life and Death in Roman Dura-Europus" Simon James, (University of Leicester) Reception following (for directions e-mail swupton(a)amherst.edu) Sponsored by the Department of Classics Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Philip Hardie (University of Oxford) "Virgil's Lucretian Visions" APPENDIX Fri., Nov. 4 - Sat., Nov. 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA "Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gorden Mitten" (see entry above) KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Friday, November 4, 6:00 p.m. Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall "Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Harvard-Vatican Boy" John J. Herrmann, Jr. (Curator of Classical Art, Emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) A reception following the lecture has been generously funded by James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell at the Fogg Art Museum, Calderwood Courtyard SYMPOSIUM: Saturday, November 5, 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall MORNING SESSION: 8:45 - 9:15 a.m.: Complimentary coffee "D.G. Mitten: Curator, Teacher, and Friend" Colette Czapski Hemingway (Writer) "Archaic Hedgehog Aryballos: David Mitten's First Purchase as Curator of Ancient Art" Kimberley Patton (Harvard Divinity School) "'Mistress' Bronzes from the Classical World" Ada Cohen (Dartmouth College) "An Etruscan Twist on the Story of Troilus" Susan Woodford (The British Museum) "Harvard Collects: Four Greek Vases" J. Michael Padgett (Princeton University Art Museum) "Drawing upon Greek Vases: Makron and the Antiphon Painter" Aaron Paul (Independent Curator, Washington, DC) 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch break AFTERNOON SESSION: "Teaching the Art of Curatorship" Henry Kim (The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford) "David G. Mitten: A Keeper" Caroline Houser (Professor Emeritus, Smith College, and Visiting Professor, University of Washington) "The Minoan Bronze Votive Statuette of a Woman at the Harvard University Art Museums" Sean Hemingway (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) "Geometric Incised Personal Ornaments at Harvard" Michael Bennett (The Cleveland Museum of Art) Fri., Nov. 4 - Sun., Nov. 6 ALSC Conference (see entry above) CONFERENCE PROGRAM: FRIDAY, NOV. 4 10 a.m. Registration Begins 2:00-3:45 p.m. Panel One: Ancient Poetry and War. Chair: Helene Foley (Barnard College) Neil Bernstein (Ohio University): "Eyes Wide Shut: Virgil, Statius, and the Aestheticization of Martial Violence" Brooke Holmes (Princeton University): "Catachreses: Epic Pain and the Wound of Agamemnon" Stephen Owen (Harvard University): "Ordering Violence: Combat in Ancient Chinese Literature" 4:00-5:30 p.m.: Readings "The Last Hours of Troy" Robert Fagles (Emeritus, Princeton University) reads from his version of Virgil's *Aeneid* "Borges the Poet" Robert Mezey (Emeritus, Pomona College) reads from his own translations of Borges' poetry, and from Borges translations by the late Dick Barnes 6:00-7:00 p.m.: Reception, with address by ALSC President Rosanna Warren 8:30-10:30 p.m. Viewing of the Egyptian film *Miramar*, based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz (or of *Palace Walk*, or of another screenplay based on a Mahfouz novel) 8:30-10:00 p.m. ALSC Coffeehouse, with Lee Oser (College of the Holy Cross) presiding Papers, to be more or less immediately followed by an Open Mike, when our members are invited to read or recite for the pleasure of it SATURDAY, NOV. 5 8:30-10:15 a.m.: CONCURRENT SEMINARS Seminar One: Poetic Translation in a Global Context Chair: Christopher Maurer (Boston University) Seminar Two: Experimental Poetics, 1580 to the Present Chair: Stephen Cushman (University of Virginia) Seminar Three: Writing About Cities - The New Urban Literature Chair: Phillip Lopate (Hofstra University) 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Panel Two: Mythology in the K-12 Classroom. Chair: Howard Gardner (Harvard Graduate School of Education) Liz Craig-Olins (Newton North High School): "Adventure, Reflection and Transformation" Lucy Robb (The Park School): "Greek Mythology and the Nine Year Old: A Perfect Fit" Helaine L. Smith (The Brearley School, NYC): "Hera's Beguilements and Hephaestus' Skill: Teaching Mythology from Primary Sources: Three Sample Curricula" 1:30-3:15 p.m. Panel Three: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz. Chair: Roger Allen (University of Pennsylvania) Mona El-Sherif (University of California, Berkeley): "The Writing of Tradition and Masculinity in the Canon of Arabic literature: a Comparative Study of Taha Husayn, Tawfiq al-Hakim, and Mahfouz" Walid Hamarneh (University of Western Ontario): "Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo: The Private/Public Nexus" Shakir Mustafa (Boston University): "Mahfouz's Parables and the Contemporary Arabic Novel" 3:30-5:15 p.m. Panel Four: Writing in the Wake of the Quixote. Chair: Roberto Gonzalez-Echevarria (Yale University) Carmen Boullosa (The City College of New York): "Suing Miguel de Cervantes" Laura Jane Ress (Boston University): "Tristram Shandy and the Knight of the Mournful Countenance" Michael Scham (University of St. Thomas): "Quixotic Communitas and Redemption in Nabokov's *Lolita*" 8 p.m. Dinner, followed by guest speaker Norman Mailer's conversation with the scholar, archivist, and bibliographer J. Michael Lennon from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania SUNDAY, NOV. 6 8:30-10:15 a.m. Panel Five: Poetry and Empire. Chair: Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston University) Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University): "Czeslaw Milosz and the Mystery of the Missing 'Second World'" Richard K. Cross (University of Maryland, College Park): "The Breaking of Nations: Scotland, Czechoslovakia, and the Poetry of Edwin Muir" Irena Grudzinska Gross (Boston University): "Joseph Brodsky and Empire" 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Panel Six: New Approaches to Modernism. Chair: Ronald Bush (Oxford University) Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan): "Monstrous Modernism: Metamorphoses of *The Dybbuk*" Christine Froula (Northwestern University): "Modernism and Worldliness" Vicki Mahaffey (University of Pennsylvania): "Challenging Fictions: The Reader's Stake in Modern Literature" 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.