Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #2 (9/15/06) 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., Sept. 22, 4:00 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, 407 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT Topics in Classical Studies Raffaella Cribiore (Columbia University) "Lucian, Libanius, and the Short Road to Rhetoric" *Wed., Oct. 4, 7:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA "The Journey to Recover the Stolen Treasures of Baghdad" Matthew Bogdanos (Author and Manhattan District Attorney) Book-signing to follow (Thieves of Baghdad, chronicling the recovery of over 5000 antiquities) Tickets: $15 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $18 (non-MFA members); MFA admission not required Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box office (617-369-3306) Thurs., Oct. 5, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Nancy Stephenson Nichols Lecture Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford) "Greeks Going East" Fri., Oct. 6 - Sat., Oct. 7 YALE UNIVERSITY, 102 Linsly-Chittenden Hall, High Street, New Haven, CT "The Romans in Asia," a conference celebrating the revival of numismatics at Yale and the acquisition of the collection of Peter R. and Leonore Franke. The conference will feature papers by Michel Amandry (Paris), Francois de Callatay (Brussels), Peter R. Franke (Munich), Ann Johnston (Cambridge), Christopher Jones (Harvard), Dietrich Klose (Munich), Katherine Welch (NYU-IFA), Greg Woolf (St. Andrews) and William E. Metcalf (Yale). Free and open to the public. For more information go to http:// www.yale.edu/classics/news.html Wed. Oct. 11, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Peter derManuelian (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) "Excavations at the Giza Pyramids: Old Digs, New Technologies" Reception preceding lecture at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge For more information contact Dena Davis at 617-495-4631 or <davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu> *Tues., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. NEWTON FREE LIBRARY, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre, MA Sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Dr. Richard Pearson (Independent Scholar) "The Tomb Burials of Japan and Korea, 250 to 600 A.D. - A Story of Gold Crowns, Swords, and Warrior Figures" Fri., Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 203, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics T. V. Buttrey (University of Cambridge) "Understanding the Oedipus Rex" This lecture will last 2 hours, followed at 4:00 p.m. by refreshments and discussion *Sun., Oct. 22, 2:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Robots and Ancient Shipwrecks in the Deep Aegean Sea" Tickets: $10 (MFA members, seniors, and students); $13 (non-MFA members); MFA admission not required Tickets available online at www.mfa.org or by calling the Remis box office (617-369-3306) *Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Northampton, MA Susan Alcock (Artemis, and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University) Lehmann Lecture: "A River Runs Through It: The Vorotan Project, Southern Armenia" 8:45 Reception in the Atrium For more information contact Scott Bradbury <sbradbury(a)mac.com> *Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland) "Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman Alexandria" Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office on the day of the event. 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.