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*Mon., Feb. 4
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Medieval Studies Seminar
"De ratione temporum; or, Why Should We Be 'Medieval'?"
Panelists: Ibtissam Bouachrine (Smith College), Kathleen Davis (University of Rhode
Island), Richard Payne (Mt. Holyoke College), and James Simpson (Harvard University)
Chair: Daniel Smail (Harvard University)
Mon., Feb. 4
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall room 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02906
Ian Moyer (University of Michigan)
"A polis of priests? Ptolemaic priestly decrees and the politics of
translation"
Free and open to the public.
*Wed., Feb. 6
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Cillian O'Hogan (University of Waterloo)
"Art and text in Prudentius and Paulinus of Nola"
*Wed., Feb. 13
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University)
"Lucretian models of satire: Trouble at sea and the Nature of Things"
*Thurs., Feb. 14
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02906
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Center for Ancient World Studies)
"How to protect your grave – Funerary Inscriptions in Greco-Roman Asia Minor"
Free and Open to the Public. For more information visit
http://www.facebook.com/classicsbrown
*Wed., Feb. 20
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Kates Room, 201 Warren House, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackie Elliott (University of Colorado at Boulder)
"Re-centering Rome: cosmology, divine intervention, and the operation of the natural
world in Ennius' poetic history"
Wed., Feb. 20
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 41 Wyllys Room 112, Middletown, CT
Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law School)
"What Can Ancient Greece Teach Us About Contemporary Institutional Design?"
Cosponsored by the Allbritton Center for Public Life and the Department of Classical
Studies
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics
Thurs., Feb. 28
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075
John Clarke (University of Texas, Austin)
"Archaeology and the Digital Humanities: Going Hi-Tech with the Ancient Roman Villa
at Oplontis (50 BC-AD 79)"
Sponsored by the Amy M. Sacker Fund, Department of Art and Art History
Thurs., Mar. 7
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum lecture hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138
Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University)
"Kings, Emperors, Gods: What Coins Tell Us about Sardis"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Coins from the reign of Croesus to that of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Paleologos
have been found in the modern excavations of Sardis, in Turkey. We will explore what
images the changing dynasties at Sardis put on their coins, and why we find coins in the
ruins of many different buildings, such as the ancient temple of Diana, the synagogue, the
Imperial Temple, the theater, and the houses of Sardis.
For more information, visit our website:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/kings-emperors-gods-what-coins-te…
*Thurs., Mar. 14
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Nicholas D. Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Sardis Biennial Lecture: "New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey"
In the last two years, archaeological research by the Harvard-Cornell expedition at
Sardis, in western Turkey, has produced a wealth of surprising discoveries. This lecture
will present these new findings, including excavation in the area believed to be the palace
of Croesus and of his predecessors, the wealthiest kings of the 7th and 6th centuries BC.
New analyses of the world’s first coins, minted at Sardis, force us to reconsider the
origin of coinage, and excavations in the Hellenistic and Roman temple of Artemis—the
fourth-largest Ionic temple in the world—reveal previously unsuspected phases in the
history of this fascinating building. For more information visit our website:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar
*Thurs., Apr. 11
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room 522, 675 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston, MA 02215
Morag Kersel (DePaul University)
"The Lure of the Relic: Collecting the Holy Land"
This lecture examines the collecting of archaeological artifacts from the Holy Land, the
effect of this activity on the archaeological landscape, and the biographies of objects
within the antiquities trade.
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the
Department of Archaeology at Boston University.
Apr. 15, 16, 18, 19
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lecture Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
Apr. 15: "Doing (different) things with music"
Apr. 16: "Whose music? Local, ethnic, and class distinctions"
Apr. 18: "The gender of music"
Apr. 19: "Human musicality and the origins of species"
*Mon., Apr. 22
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Kresge Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
"Did the Ancient Mysteries Influence Early Christianity?"
*Wed., Apr. 24
YALE UNIVERSITY, TBA, New Haven, CT 06511
New England Ancient History Colloquium, Spring 2013 Meeting
Roberta Stewart (Dartmouth College) will make available for discussion her paper
"Priesthoods, Emperors, and Coins." William Metcalf (Yale University) will do
the commentary. For further information contact Allen Ward <allen.m.ward(a)att.net>et>.
*Fri., Apr. 26
4 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall (first floor, School of Law), 765 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference
Theme: "Imagining Roman Power"
Speakers: Emma Dench (Harvard University), Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (Boston University), Josiah
Osgood (Georgetown University)
Titles TBA
Dinner to follow the conference. INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: Contact Stacy Fox, Dept
of Classical Studies, Boston University, sfox(a)bu.edu / 617-353-2427.
*Fri., Apr. 26
Time TBA
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
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