Boston Area Classics Calendar
November 2017
Gareth Williams (Columbia
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Nov. 13, 4 - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology Building, Room 625, 745 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, MA 02215
"Eschatology in Seneca: The Senses of an Ending"
What happens to us in death? Seneca, like many philosophical thinkers before him,
reflected hard on what awaits us after we depart, and this talk seeks to illuminate some
of the creative ways in which he broaches this time-honored topic.
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of
Classical Studies. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University
www.bu.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
[Gareth Williams (Columbia University)]
Emily Katz Anhalt (Sarah Lawrence
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Nov. 13, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Department of Classics, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
"Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths"
Marden Nichols (Georgetown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Nov. 13, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Painterly Deception in Roman Comedy"
www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
Zacharoula Petraki (University of
Crete)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Nov. 14, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
"Hideous Bodies, Deified Heroes in Sophocles and Plato"
www.wesleyan.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww…
**José Luis García-Ramón (University of
Cologne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 14, 6 - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Ancient Greek Anthroponymy, Phraseology, and Indo-European Phraseology"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
*Gideon Avni (Israel Antiquities Authority & Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 16, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for the Environment, Seminar Room 440 (4th Floor), 26
Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'An Early Islamic Agricultural Revolution?' New Light on the
Transformation of Agricultural and Irrigation Technologies in the late Roman and Islamic
Near East"
Included will be a discussion on projects of OSL dating fields, the early Islamic
agricultural estates, the mechanism of introduction and diffusion of qanats in the Near
East and beyond (north Africa, Iran and the east), in relation to the main issues raised
by Andrew Watson's pioneering research.
Sponsored by The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP); The
Department of the Classics, & The Department of History.
history.fas.harvard.edu.<https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/sohp-earl…
[Gideon Avni (Israel Antiquities Authority & Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew
University)]
Erin Thompson (John Jay College of Criminal
Justice)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Nov. 16, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Clickbait: Thoughts on the Ethics of Digitizing Cultural Heritage"
Thompson's talk will analyze potential downsides to digital reconstructions of
threatened cultural heritage, focusing on the lack of control offered to local residents
over the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of digitized sites, and the way this
"digital colonialism" sometimes mirrors that of past image-making by Western
visitors to these sites.
web.wellesley.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__w…
Charles Stewart (University College
London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Nov. 16, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge,
MA, 02138
"The Varieties of Historical Experience"
This lecture is open to the public.
Eric Cline (The George Washington
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 16, 5 - 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed"
In this illustrated lecture, based on Professor Eric H. Cline's book of the same
title (1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed), Professor Cline explores why the Bronze
Age came to an end and whether the collapse of those ancient civilizations might hold some
warnings for our current society.
Directions to Event:
www.brandeis.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww…
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@brandeis.edu<mailto:aoko@brandeis.edu>).
*Rocco Palermo (University of
Groningen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Mon., Nov. 20, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Connecting the Dots. Field Survey and the Archaeology of North Mesopotamia between
East and West"
GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections"
*Richard F. Thomas (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Nov. 20, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room), Cambridge, MA 02138
Richard Thomas, the George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, on
his new book Why Bob Dylan Matters
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
[Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University)]
*Lau Chong-Fuk (The Chinese University of Hong
Kong)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Mon., Nov. 27, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge MA, 02138
Two Approaches to the Categories of Thought and Reality
Chair/discussant: Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy,
Brown University)
Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Are there any fundamental forms of thought that are valid across different cultures and
represent the basic structure of reality? This question has been addressed by philosophers
from the ancient to modern time with their theories of categories. Among the most
influential ones are Aristotle and Kant's theories. Both of them take a
logico-linguistic analysis of the form of rational discourse as an important clue to the
ontological problem of the structure of existence, endorsing a kind of isomorphism between
language/thought and reality. However, it is questionable whether their theories are
limited by or biased towards the structure of Indo-European languages? There is an
alternative approach by another philosopher, Hegel, who rejects the possibility of
deriving the structure of reality from basic logico-linguistic forms. By accepting the
inevitable cultural-historical conditions of human thought, Hegel's theory of
categories can be viewed as an open and dynamic system. The talk will review and compare
the above two approaches with an attempt to draw interesting implications for some
contemporary problems.
harvard-yenching.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3…
*Supratik Baralay (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Nov. 27, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Hellenistic Kingdoms and Historical Difference"
GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections"
Katharina Volk (Columbia
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Nov. 28, 4:30 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Astronomy
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
Scott Kennedy (Ohio State University/Dumbarton
Oaks)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Wed., Nov. 29, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, HARVARD YARD, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Joshua Katz (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 30, 4:30 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and
Beyond"
December 2017
Joe Wolf (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Dec. 1, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Celtic toponymy: Computational approaches and the ancient place-names of Europe and
Anatolia"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Bruce Gordon (Yale
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Dec. 6, 5 - 7 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520
"Blessed Jerome": The Fate of the Vulgate in the Reformation
Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Dec. 7, 12 - 1 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Room 133 Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Cultural Politics of Phantasia: Late Antique and Byzantine Developments"
Please RSVP by 4 December to Hannah Weaver
(hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu<mailto:hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu>)
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval Studies
medieval.fas.harvard.edu.<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upco…
Matilde Serangeli (University of
Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Dec. 8, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Linguistic remarks on South-West Anatolian inscriptions"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Alexander Forte (Colgate
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Dec. 13, 2 - 3:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Analogy and techne.
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
January 2018
Deconstructing the Open Greek and Latin Project: The First Thousand Years of
Greek<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Wed., Jan. 3, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY. Medford Campus, Eaton Hall Room 206, Medford, MA 02155
An AIA-SCS Pre-Meeting Workshop, presented in coordination with the SCS.
Interested in open access, the digital humanities, or conducting digital scholarship in
your research and/or teaching? Aren't sure what these topics have to do with
classics or archaeology, or even how to get started? Then, please consider joining us
next January 3 at the AIA-SCS pre-meeting workshop "Deconstructing the Open Greek and
Latin Project"!
In this workshop, partners from the Perseus Digital Library, the Harvard Library and
Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the
University of Leipzig, Mount Allison University, and the University of Virginia Library
will come together to demonstrate research tools, explain how to involve students in
digital scholarship, provide open data for hands-on exploration from the Open Greek and
Latin Project, as well as create a growing and supportive open access community.
Tools and technologies we'll work with include GitHub, Oxygen, TEI-XML and EpiDoc
Registration is offered on a "first-come first-served" basis and the workshop is
offered free-of-charge with a registration deadline of Friday, November, 3, 2017.
sites.tufts.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sit…
February 2018
Emily Wilson (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Mon., Feb. 5, 2 - 3 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
https://www.classics.upenn.edu/people/emily-wilson<https://urldefense.pr…
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Dean Hammer (Franklin & Marshall
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Feb. 15, 4 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: TBA
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
Jan Bloemendal (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
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"
March 2018
*Martin Hallmansecker (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
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"
Alan M. Stahl (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 21, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBD
Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture.
Mildenberg Lecture
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