Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2018
Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard University)
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Tue., Feb. 20, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"What is Schedography?"
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Jan Bloemendal (Princeton University)
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Thu., Feb. 22, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Multi-Lingualism in Early Modern Europe: Readings of the Praise of Folly"
GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and
Beyond"
Anthony D'Elia (Queen's University)
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Thu., Feb. 22, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Stokes Hall South 461, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut
Hill, MA 02467
Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series
"The Renaissance of Bloody Sports in Fifteenth-Century Italy"
From elite tournaments and duels to boxing matches and
bull fights, the
spectacle of violent sport was a central part of the Renaissance.
Greek
athletic ideals reappeared in treatises on education and noble virtues.
Rulers were praised for their athleticism, wrestling, and dancing. The need
for physical exercise became prominent in Renaissance medical, political,
and moral treatises. Population increases and political instability also
led to a democratization of sport as mass entertainment and a vehicle for
social control. The Renaissance not only reintroduced classical sport into
society but also gave birth to modern notions of sport. Drawing on the
writing of such prominent humanists as Petrarch, Boccaccio, Vergerio,
Castiglione, and Mercuriale, Prof. D'Elia recreates a little known chapter
in the history of Renaissance literature and culture.
For further information: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu)
www.bc.edu.
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Emily Hauser (Harvard Society of Fellows)
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Mon., Feb. 26, 4 - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"Women's Myths, Women's Voices: Recovering the Women of Greek Myth in
Contemporary Fiction"
The Study Group on Myth and Religion is sponsored by the BU Center for the
Humanities.
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University
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Sara Forsdyke (University of Michigan)
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Mon., Feb. 26, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Hauser Hall Rm. 102, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Slave Agency in Ancient Greece
John Oakley (College of William & Mary)
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Tue., Feb. 27, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall, 11
Barrett Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002
"Daily Life on Athenian Vases"
www.amherst.edu.
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Emily Hauser (Harvard Society of Fellows)
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Wed., Feb. 28, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Singer/man: The craft of (male) authorship from Homer to Plato"
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
March 2018
Courtney Tomaselli (Harvard University)
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Wed., Mar. 7, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
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Thu., Mar. 8, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Classical Studies Department, 294 High Street,
Middletown, CT 06459
"Fake Olds: History and alternative facts in classical Athens"
www.wesleyan.edu.
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Deborah Beck (The University of Texas, Austin)
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Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303,
third floor. 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fathers, Sons, and Similes in Homer Odyssey 16"
In this lecture Professor Beck explores the father-son relationship between
Odysseus and Telemachus as well as Laertes through similes, which feature
powerful and moving perspectives on the disruption of their relationships.
Directions to Event:
www.brandeis.edu
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Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light
refreshments will follow from 6:00-6:30 p.m.
More info: Professor Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Martin Hallmansecker (University of Oxford)
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Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections"
David Goldstein (UCLA)
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Fri., Mar. 9, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Head directionality as diachronic epiphenomenon: The case of archaic
Indo-European conjunction"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University)
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Wed., Mar. 21, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts"
Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and
medieval contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds.
Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture.
Mildenberg Lecture
www.harvardartmuseums.org.
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Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard University)
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Fri., Mar. 23, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"On the history of Germanic *ga-"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
New England Ancient History Colloquium
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Thu., Mar. 29, 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Willits-Hallowell Center, 26 Park St, South Hadley,
MA 01075
Joseph McAlhany of the Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, is offering his paper,
"One Head Is Better than Three: Varro's So-Called Trikaranos." for
discussion. Britta Ager of the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, will
provide the commentary' Registration and libations 5:30 -6:30, dinner
6;30-7:30, comment and discussion, 7:30-9:30. More information:<
allen.m.ward(a)att.net>gt;.
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Marcus Folch (Columbia University)
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Fri., Mar. 30, 4 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens"
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
April 2018
Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Harvard University)
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Mon., Apr. 2, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Nathan Sivin (UPenn)
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Wed., Apr. 4, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others"
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
Joseph Nagy (Harvard University)
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Fri., Apr. 6, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Some lonely Indo-European fathers, sons, and brothers in myth"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Stephen Kidd (Brown University)
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Mon., Apr. 16, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Paidia: The Concept of Play in Ancient Greece"
brown.academia.edu.
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Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics>
Brent Vine (UCLA)
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Tue., Apr. 17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: TBA
James Loeb Lecture
Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto)
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Thu., Apr. 19, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
Topic: The politics of the Presocratics
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
John Zaleski (Harvard University)
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Tue., Apr. 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
May 2018
Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)
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Mon., May 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Discussion of Cartledge's book, *Democracy*
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Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard
University).
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