Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2021
Harvard Forum on Cultural
Heritage<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Apr. 6, 10 – 11 a.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
"The National Museum of Afghanistan—Retrieving the Past, Securing the Future"
Speakers:
* Deborah Klimburg-Salter (Professor of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria/
Assoc. Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University)
* Philippe Delanghe (Head of Cultural Unit, UNESCO, Kabul, Afghanistan)
* Mohammad Fahim Rahimi (Director of the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul)
This event will take place online via Zoom. It is open and free to all, but
registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
is required.
Until its destruction during the decades-long war, the National Museum of Afghanistan in
Kabul was considered one of the most important museums in Asia. Tens of thousands of
unique excavated objects illuminated more than 5,000 years of Afghan history. The progress
of the restoration of the museum in all its areas has been remarkable. But continuing
violence and severe deficits in financial and human resources represent serious
obstacles.
This roundtable conversation will address the present situation of the museum, the
priorities of its director and staff, and visions for its future. The speakers will
discuss the museum's immediate and longer-term goals in capacity building and the
preservation of the country’s archaeological heritage, and they will address ways in which
international specialists can assist with these efforts.
This is first in a series of events organized by the Forum on Cultural Heritage at
Harvard, which aims to create a (for now virtual) meeting place for members of the
university community and others who share a concern for the preservation of cultural,
especially archaeological, heritage around the world.
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Nicole Spigner (Northwestern
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 6, 5:30 – 8 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Zoom
"Niobe in Noir: The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley & Cordelia Ray"
A talk on Black New Women’s Literature and Ovidian Transformation
Nicole Spigner is Assistant Professor in African American Studies at Northwestern
University. She will speak on her current research, an examination of works by black women
authors who rewrote Ovidian forms and plot lines and redefined black feminine identity as
a dynamic process of transformation.
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Eliza Givens
Excavations and Research at
Sardis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Apr. 7, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS - ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF SARDIS, Virtual lecture; online via
Zoom
Excavations and Research at Sardis
Join us for the biennial lecture on research and discoveries at Sardis, one of the great
ancient cities of western Turkey from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. While the
pandemic prevented a full field season in 2020, a virtual Sardis season in Cambridge and
limited fieldwork in Turkey contributed to the publication of two long-awaited monographs
and advanced the conservation and preservation of this beautiful site. Director Nicholas
Cahill will report on recent work and discoveries from the 2019 and 2020 seasons and will
discuss future prospects.
Led by:
Nicholas Cahill, Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and Director, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
This talk will take place online via Zoom. Free admission, but registration is required.
Image: The site of the Lydian palace (Field 49), with the acropolis in the background,
from the excavations at Sardis in Summer 2019. © Archaeological Exploration of
Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Sardis Biennial Lecture
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[Excavations and Research at Sardis]
Reconstruction Cultural Transmission and Evolution through Genetic
Models<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Apr. 8, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Zoom (MIT)
Presented by: Natalie DiMattia, Luke Giuntoli, Augusta Holyfield, Sophia Sarro, and
Anne-Catherine Schaaf, members of the Holy Cross College Manuscripts, Inscriptions and
Documents Club
"As part of the Homer Multitext project, we are studying the history of two sets of
texts that cannot be accounted for by stemmatic models of textual transmission. The first
is the Iliad. Originating in traditional oral poetry, our Iliads do not depart from a
single origin and show more variation introduced through transmission. Instead, the
earliest versions show the greatest variety: transmission has in fact acted to normalize
the original multiformity of the poem. The second group of texts we study are the
scholarly notes, called scholia, that accompany the Iliad in our earliest manuscripts.
Some of their content goes back to the great scholars of the library of Alexandria in the
third and second centuries BCE, but their material was constantly reworked and recombined
so that here too we cannot model their history as a tidy rooted tree. We will present our
work experimenting with new metrics for comparing these texts and applying genetic
algorithms to our models."
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required.
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[Reconstruction Cultural Transmission and Evolution through Genetic Models]
Classical Studies Graduate
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Sat., Apr. 10, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Zoom, organized by Boston University
13th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Conference
"A Traveller in an Antique Land: Travel and Traveling in the Ancient World"
Keynotes:
Professor William E. Mierse (University of Vermont)
Professor Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
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[Classical Studies Graduate Conference]
John Duffy (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 14, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Zoom
"The Man and the Mask: Michael Psellos on the Περὶ ἑρμηνείας of Aristotle"
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required.
John Duffy
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41st Medieval and Renaissance
Forum<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Fri., Apr. 16 – Sat., Apr. 17
Virtual Event (organized by Keene State College)
"Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
Please submit abstracts and full contact information on this Google
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Abstract deadline: January 15, 2021; presenters and early registration: March 15, 2021
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26th Annual Boston Area Roman Studies
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 23, 1 – 4:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Zoom
The 26th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
To be held over Zoom
"Systems of Knowledge in Republican Rome"
Presentations
Diana Spencer, University of Birmingham
" Varro's strategies of quotation in De Lingua Latina"
Hannah Čulík-Biard, Boston University
"Cicero on Fiction"
Katharina Volk, Columbia University
"Necromancers in the Senate"
The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge, but you must
pre-register to attend. Register here:
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Arthur Peterson
Kathy Eden (Columbia
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 26, 5 p.m.
Zoom, hosted by MIT
"The Shifting Status of Conjecture from Law to Literature"
Abstract: Traditionally ascribed to Hermagoras (2nd C BCE) for use in the law courts and
later developed by, among others, Cicero and Quintilian as the infrastructure of
argumentation, the so-called status system, with its three foundational
questions—conjectural (“did it happen?” [sitne]), definitional (“what happened?” [quid
sit]), and qualitative (“what kind of action was it?” [quale sit])—leaves a deep and
pervasive impact on the analysis of human agency from antiquity to the early modern
period. Focusing on the first of the three status, the conjectural, and more precisely on
its two main topics, will and power (voluntas and potestas), this talk will chart their
itinerary both in theory and practice from legal through theological to literary
discourse, with special attention to Augustine and Petrarch.
Additional
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in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the meeting.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
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[Kathy Eden (Columbia University)]
Curtis Dozier (Vassar
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Apr. 27, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard University (Zoom)
"Pharos—Doing Justice to the Classics: A Workshop"
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required.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical
Traditions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditio…
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John Mulhall (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 28, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom
"Islam and the Prophet in the Scientific Translations of the Twelfth Century:
Accuracy and Accommodation"
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required.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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July 2021
Classical Association of New England Summer
Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Tue., July 13 – Thu., July 15 and
Tue., July 20 – Thu., July 22
Zoom
On the theme “Power and the Individual in the Ancient Mediterranean World”
The 2021 CANE Summer Institute will be held virtually over Zoom, covering 6 days over 2
weeks, July 13-15 and July 20-22.
graduate credit available
For more information and registration details, go to
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Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at
summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>
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Amanda Loud (summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>)
[Classical Association of New England Summer Institute]
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