Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #24 (2/18/05) 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 Wed. Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Yenching Library Building, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA Co-sponsored by the Peabody and Semitic Museums Edward L. Ochsenschlager (Brooklyn College) "The Ancient Marsh Arabs: Finding the Past in the Present" Reception immediately following lecture at the Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue *Wed., Feb. 23, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Peter Frankopan (University of Oxford) "Disfunction within the Imperial Family in Byzantium: The Case of the Komnenoi" *Mon., Feb. 28, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Medieval Studies Daniel Caner (University of Connecticut and Dumbarton Oaks) "Wealth, Holiness, and Material Blessings in Early Byzantium" Mon., Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT Archaeological Institute of America -- New Haven Society John H. Oakley (The College of William and Mary) "Imaging Death in Classical Athens: Athenian White Lekythoi" For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu) Mon., Mar. 14, 8:00 p.m. TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT Hartford Society, AIA Lecture Camilla McKay (Yale University) "Pottery, Trade, and History in Late Medieval Greece" Tues., March 15, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) "De-orientalizing Prometheus: The Culture Hero in Mesopotamia and Greece" For more information: Michael Satlow (401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu) Fri., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Patricia Easterling (University of Cambridge) "The Death of Oedipus and What Happened Next" *Fri., Mar. 18, 5:30 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology Sponsored by The Archaeological Institute of America, Boston Society Anthony Tuck (Tufts University) "Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles in Etruria and Beyond" Free and open to the public; MFA admission not required Wed., Mar. 23, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA A Five College Classics Departments Lecture R. Ross Holloway (Brown University) "The Tomb of the Diver at Paestum" Reception following For further information contact Sara Upton, swupton(a)amherst.edu Thurs., Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center, 855 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Carlos Norena (Yale University) "From Model to Master: Local Constructions of the Emperor in the West" Commentator: Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) Wine and cheese at 5:30, dinner at 6:30, paper at 7:30 For further information: Allen M. Ward, ward(a)uconnvm.uconn.edu Fri., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Leo Mildenberg Lecture Brooks Emmons Levy (Princeton University) "Holy Shekels: the Currency of Jerusalem's Temple Tax" Free admission: a reception will follow Mon., Apr. 18, 8:00 p.m. TRINITY COLLEGE, Life Sciences Auditorium, Hartford, CT Hartford Society, AIA Lecture Elaine K. Gazda (University of Michigan) "Water Colors of the Villa of the Mysteries by Maria Barosso: Archaeology, Art, and Politics of Italy of the 1920s" Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium Burkhard Meissner (Brown University) "Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents, Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation" For more information: Michael Satlow (401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu) *Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion" Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston University's Humanities Foundation For registration and other information see <http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/> or contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof. Patricia Larash (plarash(a)bu.edu) See Appendix for details Tues., Apr. 26, 4:30 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, Old Art Gallery 200, 56 High Street, New Haven, CT Archaeological Institute of America - New Haven Society Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan) "The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Contexts and Meanings" For more information: Richard A. Grossmann (rag33(a)pantheon.yale.edu) Tues., Apr. 26, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series: "Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate" Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley) Lecture 1: "Before Excavation: Legends and their Reception" *Wed., Apr. 27 [time TBA] HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA [specific location TBA] English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History of the Book Seminar Seth Lehrer (Stanford University) "Aesop in the Middle Ages: Authority and Authorship in the History of Children's Literature" Thurs., Apr. 28, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series: "Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate" Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley) Lecture 2: "The Lydian City" Mon., May 2, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series: "Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate" Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley) Lecture 3: "Between East and West: from Persia to Rome" (NOTE: THIS LECTURE IS ON A MONDAY) Thurs., May 5, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series: "Sardis, an Ancient City in Asia Minor. The Gifts of Fortune and Fate" Crawford H. Greenewalt (University of California, Berkeley) Lecture 4: "Golden Sunset, Furious Afterglow: Late Antiquity and Beyond" Wed., May 18, 5:00 p.m. 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" APPENDIX *Fri., Apr. 22, 3:45 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA Boston Area Roman Studies Conference on "Reading Imperial Religion" Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston University's Humanities Foundation Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston University) "Religion and Power in the Early Empire" James Rives (York University) "Reason and Revelation in Apuleius" Joseph Pucci (Brown University) "Catullus Among the Christians" A reception and dinner will conclude the conference For registration and other information see <http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/> or contact the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2427) or Prof. Patricia Larash (plarash(a)bu.edu) 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.