Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #18 (1/27/06) 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 *Thurs., Feb. 2, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Panel Discussion, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Professors Paul Morrison (English), Ibrahim Sundiata (History), Jonathan Unglaub (Fine Arts), and Cheryl Walker (Classics), Brandeis University "HBO's ROME Series: A Panel Discussion on its Historic Figures and its Message" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information, contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html) Thurs., Feb. 9, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) "The Virtues of Violence: The Spectacles of the Roman Amphitheatre" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html) Thurs., Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525, Boston, MA Professor Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester) "Aristotelian Substance, Functional Unity, and Embedded Matter" Commentary by Mary Louise Gill (Brown/Radcliffe) For more information, contact David Roochnik (roochnik(a)bu.edu) Wed. Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Dr. Kathryn Bard and Dr. Rodolpho Fattovich (Boston University and University of Naples) "Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in Wadi Gawasis" Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue For more information, contact Dena Davis at davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu (617-495-4631) Mon., Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m. MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA Five College Lecture in Classical Archaeology "New Discoveries at Aphrodisias" Christopher Ratte (New York University) Reception following; for more information contact Geoffrey Sumi (gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu) Sponsored by the Five College Classics Departments Thurs., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley) "Some Aspects of Rhetoric and Character in Euripides" Reception following Sponsored by the Department of Classics *Wed., Mar. 1, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA Yelena Baraz (Trinity College) "From the Academy to the Forum: Cicero's Philosophical Politics" Reception to follow Free and open to the public For further information, contact Sara Upton <swupton(a)amherst.edu> Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Philip Hardie (University of Oxford) "Virgil's Lucretian Visions" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics *Thurs., Mar. 16, 7:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Walsh Function Room, Chestnut Hill, MA Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute) "Introspection, Plotinian and Augustinian" Commentary by John Kenney (St. Michael's, VT) For more information, contact Gary Gurtler, gurtlerg(a)bc.edu Tues., Mar. 28, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA Ralph J. Hexter (Hampshire College) "Stories of War and Return" — The Nostoi Project For further information please contact Robert Meagher <remHA(a)hampshire.edu> Sponsored by Hampshire College, The Nostoi Project Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks) "Suicide in Byzantium" Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA Simon James (University of Leicester) "Desert Fortress: Life and Violent Death in Roman Dura-Europos, Syria" Reception following Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass. Society Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture Christof Boehringer (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the University of Göttingen, Germany) "Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of Sicily" *Fri., Apr. 21, 3:45 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA The Twelfth Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference Denis Feeney (Princeton University), "Founding and Re-founding the City of Rome" Ann Vasaly (Boston University), "Characterization and Complexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy" Tony Woodman (University of Virginia), "Mutiny and Madness: Annals 1.16-51" A reception and dinner will conclude the conference. For registration and other information see http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or contact Prof. Pat Larash or Mr. Ben Thompson at the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2426 or romstud(at)bu.edu) Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston University's Humanities Foundation Mon., Apr. 24, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Hermann Parzinger (German Archaeological Institute) "Monumental Kurgans in the Siberian Steppe: The Scythian Elite Burial from Arzhan in Tuva" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard Art Museums, and the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of London) Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion For more information, contact Cynthia Damon, <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>du>, 413-542-8126 Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m. SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA 16th Annual Lehmann Lecture Susan Rotroff (Washington University) "Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens" Reception following Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass. Society *Thurs., May 18, 7:30 p.m. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy David Reeve (UNC, Chapel Hill) "Plato's Goat-Stags: Philosophers and Cities in the *Republic*" Commentary by Mark McPherran (U Maine, Farmington) For more information, contact Margaret Graver, margaret.r.graver(a)dartmouth.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.