Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #11 (11/26/08)
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Mon., Dec. 1, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Ellen F. Morris (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World)
"The Practical and Political Employment of Prisoners of War in Mid-
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Mon., Dec. 1, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Aldo Corcella (Università degli studi della Basilicata)
"Lost in Translation: Heliodorus Back to Syria"
Tues., Dec. 2, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Dept. of Classical Studies, Room 409, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Stephen Trzaskoma (University of New Hampshire)
"Interpretation and Intertexts in Chariton: The Case of Tragedy"
*Wed., Dec. 3, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Classical Traditions
Michèle Lowrie (New York University)
"Foundation and Closure"
Thurs., Dec. 4, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
James P. Allen (Brown University)
"The Advent of Ancient Egyptian Literature"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Thurs., Dec. 4, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Clemente Marconi (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
"Temple B at Selinus and the Polychromy of Ancient Greek Architecture"
Reception to follow; free and open to the public
Thurs., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Gerard House, Room 119, 54 College Street,
Providence, RI
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Dimitri El Murr (Universite Paris, Sorbonne)
"Politics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman"
Commentator: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Mon., Dec. 8, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Cambridge, MA
Josef Wegner (University of Pennsylvania)
"Excavations at South Abydos: Archaeological Perspectives on Egyptian
Society during the Late Middle Kingdom"
Part of the FAS faculty search in Egyptology
Mon., Dec. 8, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 1: "Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Mon., Dec. 8, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main
Street, Providence, RI
Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-first annual program
of readings and songs in the
spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin. Admission is free;
street parking is available; the event
lasts a little more than an hour; all are welcome. For more
information see
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/events/latincarolservice.html
Tues., Dec. 9, 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 2: "How Casaubon Read Jewish Texts"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Wed., Dec. 10, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 3: "Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish
Setting"
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Thurs., Dec. 11, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lecture Series
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental
Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 4: "The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from Jews"
Reception to follow lecture
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fri., Dec. 12 - Sun., Dec. 14
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 3rd
floor,
172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI
Ancient Studies Conference
"Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World"
For details see
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies/events/
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Wed., Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard Art Museum)
"Persepolis: Royal City of Ancient Persia"
Cities: Their Art & Architecture lecture series: Individual lectures
$18 (Members $12) or series of six
lectures $90 (Members $60). Space is limited, and registration is
strongly encouraged. Please call
617-495-4544 for more information or visit:
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/events/lectures.html
.
APPENDIX:
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.