Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #33 (5/6/05) 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 *Thurs., May 12, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA Dr. Alfredo Mederos (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and Harvard University) "Beyond Sun's Gates: Phoenicians in the Atlantic" *Wed., May 18, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Stud, Princetony) "Exegesis and Science: The Interpretation of Scientific and Medical Texts in the Hellenistic Period" Thurs., May 19, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Barbara Borg (University of Exeter) "Monuments for Eternity or Brilliant Performance? Changes in the Representational Behaviour of the Roman Elite in the Third Century AD" LECTURE CANCELLED: Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History Christian Jacob (NRS and EHESS, Paris) "From texts to books: circulation and authority of the written word in Greek culture" Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad) "The Looting of the Iraq Museum" See Appendix for details APPENDIX Thurs., June 2, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Donny George (Iraq Museum, Baghdad) "The Looting of the Iraq Museum" The Director of the Iraq Museum, Dr. Donny George, will present an illustrated lecture on the current status of material looted from the Iraq Museum, half of which is still missing today. Dr. George will discuss the ongoing efforts to restore the objects damaged during the war and its aftermath, and to recover the objects still missing. Dr. George will also talk about the new publication, *The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia*, which presents the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia and the story of the development of civilization. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. 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.