Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(11/20/09)
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Wed., Dec. 2, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
Evie Holmberg (Hellenic College)
"How Far Can A Restoration Go? Art and Deception in Reconstructing the
Beauty of the Past."
Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact
Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu or 617-353-2427.
Thurs., Dec. 3, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane 101, 48 College St., Providence, RI
Departmental Lecture
Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University)
"Mythopoiesis in a Fallen World: Catullus 64 and the Impossibility of
Narrative Reliability"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Thurs., Dec. 3, 7:00 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE School of Theology and Ministry, Rm 100
Prof. Emerita Linda Seidel (University of Chicago)
"The Bones of Lazarus: Sacred Journeys in Romanesque Architecture"
Gretchen Reeves Kelley Lecture
Contact: Susan Kaup Kelley suskaup(a)mac.com; Melinda Donovan donovamn(a)bc.edu
Fri. – Sat., Dec. 4 and 5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The Modern Greek Studies Program, The Department of the Classics
Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative
Featuring Roderick Beaton, Paolo Cesaretti, Carolina Cupane, Niels
Gaul, Thomas Hägg, Jeffrey Hamburger, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael
Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Ioli Kalevrezou, Paul Magdalino, Ulrich
Moennig, Massimo Peri, Panagiotis Roilos, and Jan Ziolkowski.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/conference-program.pdf
Sat., Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 202 Harvard Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies
(Part of the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and
Early Modern Greek Fictional Narrative, December 4-5)
Conference Keynote Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford
University)
"Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative"
The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and
the Department of the Classics.
Sun., Dec. 6, 10:00 a.m.
TEMPLE EMANUEL, Gann Chapel, 385 Ward St., Newton, MA
Dr. Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston
University
"The Grinch that Stole Hanukkah: Modernizing the Temple in the Second
Century BCE"
Dr. Bernard Schwartz Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Rabbi Marshall
Lifson Library, and presented in collaboration with Adult Learning at
Temple Emanuel.
www.templeemanuel.com
Mon., Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main Street,
Providence, RI
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-second annual Latin
Carol Celebration, a program of readings and songs in the spirit of
the season, conducted entirely in Latin. (English translations of the
readings will be provided.)
*Tues., Dec. 8, 2-4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Prof. David Ganz (King's College, London)
"Harvard's Earliest Latin Manuscripts"
Professor Ganz is an expert on medieval paleography and Carolingian
manuscripts, and will hold a one-day Houghton Library Workshop on
"Harvard's Earliest Latin Manuscripts" at the Houghton Library.
Students and colleagues interested in attending should notify Jeffrey
Hamburger at <jhamburg(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>; first come, first served, but
with preference given to members of the Harvard community (enrollment
limited to 15).
*Tues., Dec. 8, 6 p.m.
Brian Breed (UMass Amherst)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Horace and the grammarians: Literary history in Satires 1"
Breed is an Associate Professor of Classics at UMass Amherst.
Thurs., Dec. 10, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jochen Sander, Städel Museum and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
"Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of
the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna"
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture
A recent cleaning and technical analysis has transformed our
understanding of this late painting by the early Netherlandish artist
Rogier van der Weyden. The speaker will discuss the ways in which new
information affects our view of the artist's later development and his
place in art history. Free admission. For more information, please
contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison(a)harvard.edu
.
The Busch-Reisinger Museum Lectures, sponsored by the European Friends
of the Museum, present important speakers on topics of central and
northern European art.
APPENDIX:
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.
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