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*Tue, Apr 22: Anastasia Drandaki (University of Washington)
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
HELLENIC COLLEGE HOLY CROSS, Archbishop Iakovos Library Reading Room, 50
Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA 02445
"Deserts, Rivers and Mountains: Nature and Divinity in Byzantine Pilgrimage
Art"
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contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac(a)hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center
for Byzantine Art and Culture, for additional information.
**Tue, Apr 22 through Fri, Apr 25: Jackson Lectures: John Haldon (Princeton
University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson or Sever (see below), Harvard Yard, Cambridge,
MA, 02138
Goldilocks in Byzantium: The Paradox of East Roman Survival
4/22: 1. A time of crisis, five questions, and the way forward. Emerson
Hall, Room 210, 5:15 p.m.
4/23: 2. Beliefs, narratives and social identities. Emerson Hall, Room 210,
4:15 p.m.
4/24: 3. The environmental factor. Sever Hall, Room 113, 4:15 p.m.
4/25: 4. Organisation, cohesion and survival. Emerson Hall, Room 210, 4:15
p.m.
Poster:
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Thu, Apr 24: Denise Demetriou (Michigan State University)
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski 107, Paino Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA 01002
"Beyond Polis Religion: Aphrodite in Multiethnic Settlements"
Denise Demetriou is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State
University. Her book, "Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean:
The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia" was published by
Cambridge University Press in 2012.
This lecture is sponsored by the Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful
World and the Department of Classics at Amherst College, and is free and
open to the public. Campus map:
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Thu, Apr 24: Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College, CUNY)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Herter Hall 301 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
"Teaching Latin: A Look Ahead"
**Fri, Apr 25: Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) 2014: From
Infant to Citizen
3:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall, School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue,
1st Floor, Boston, MA 02215
Keith Bradley (Notre Dame): "Learning Virtue: Aeneas, Ascanius, and
Augustus"
Lauren Caldwell (Wesleyan): "Becoming Cloelia: The Education of Roman Girls"
James Uden (BU): "Childhood Education in Imperial Rome: Plutarch,
Quintilian, Juvenal"
The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge.
Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must
pre-register. The dinner charge is $30.00 ($20 for graduate students with
school ID) and the registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 18,
2014.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/about/the-2014-boston-area-roman-studies-confere…
**Mon, Apr 28: Fikret Yegül (UCSB)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"A Victor's Message: The Talking Column of the Temple of Artemis at
Sardis"
Loeb Lecture
*Tue, Apr 29: International Dance Day
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South, Belfer Room S020, 1730 Cambridge St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Real Colegio
Complutense present a dance studies panel:
"Dance/Transit/Displacement: Perspectives on Cross-temporal Reenactments,
Cosmopolitan Modernisms and Diasporic Bodies"
Featuring presentations by:
Michelle Clayton (Brown University)
"Modernism's Moving Bodies: Travel, Dance, Latin America"
Zoa Alonso (RCC Harvard)
"Peplum Choreographies: Translating Ancient Rome in Ballet and Contemporary
Dance"
Lester Tomé (Smith College, DRCLAS Harvard)
"All the World's a Stage: Cuban Dancers, Labor Migration and Global Ballet
(1990s to today)"
Moderated: Grette Vidal (Harvard University)
http://drclas.harvard.edu/events/drclas-dance
*Fri, May 2: Richard Seaford (University of Exeter)
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art, Room 110, 64 College St., Providence, RI 02912
"Money and Athenian Tragedy"
http://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147cc4-45172aa0-0145-19ad6ffd-0000…
Mon, May 5: Harvard-Yale Conference in Book History
YALE UNIVERSITY, TBA, New Haven, CT
Sponsored by the Yale Program in the History of the Book and the Seminar in
the History of the Book at the Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard)