Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2018
Recycling, Revision, and Relocation in the Middle
Ages<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Fri., Feb. 9
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lamont Library Forum Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
A day-long symposium, featuring a keynote address by Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley
Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University and Director of the Dumbarton
Oaks Research Library and Collection. Co-sponsored with the Department of English,
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Celtic Languages and
Literatures, the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, and the Harvard
Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities. For the full schedule and to register, click
here<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/RRRMA>MA>.
medieval.fas.harvard.edu.<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/RRRMA>
Dean Hammer (Franklin & Marshall
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Feb. 15, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Roman Republic and the Crisis of American Democracy: Echoes of the Past"
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin -
Madison)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Feb. 15, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Vergil via Ovid on the Semiotics of Augustan Victory"
www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
[Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin - Madison)]
Kimberly Bowes
(
UPenn)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Feb. 15, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
"The Archaeology of Poverty: How poor were Roman peasants? Did they get
poorer?"
Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at
Harvard<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/>
sohp.fas.harvard.edu.<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/event/sohp-lecture-ki…
[Kimberly Bowes (UPenn)]
*Leah Whittington
(
Harvard)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Feb. 15, 6 - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Textual Repair: Humanism, Lost Texts, and the Renaissance Pursuit of
Completeness"
*Stefan Höfler (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Feb. 16, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Performatives in the past: The 'tragic aorist' in Latin and
Proto-Indo-European"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Feb. 20, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"What is Schedography?"
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Jan Bloemendal (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Feb. 22, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Multi-Lingualism in Early Modern Europe: Readings of the Praise of Folly"
GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and
Beyond"
*Emily Hauser (Harvard Society of
Fellows)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Feb. 26, 4 - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"Women's Myths, Women's Voices: Recovering the Women of Greek Myth in
Contemporary Fiction"
Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World, sponsored by the BU Center for the
Humanities.
Sara Forsdyke (University of
Michigan)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Mon., Feb. 26, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Hauser Hall Rm. 102, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Slave Agency in Ancient Greece
John Oakley (College of William &
Mary)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Tue., Feb. 27, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall, 11 Barrett
Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002
"Daily Life on Athenian Vases"
www.amherst.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
Emily Hauser (Harvard Society of
Fellows)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Feb. 28, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Singer/man: The craft of (male) authorship from Homer to Plato"
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
March 2018
Courtney Tomaselli (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 7, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Johanna Hanink (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 8, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Classical Studies Department, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
06459
"Fake Olds: History and alternative facts in classical Athens"
www.wesleyan.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww…
Deborah Beck (The University of Texas,
Austin)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, third
floor. 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fathers, Sons, and Similes in Homer Odyssey 16"
In this lecture Professor Beck explores the father-son relationship between Odysseus and
Telemachus as well as Laertes through similes, which feature powerful and moving
perspectives on the disruption of their relationships.
Directions to Event:
www.brandeis.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www…Pw3WR_0oM2pQjRehTuU&e=>.
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments will follow
from 6:00-6:30 p.m.
More info: Professor Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
(aoko@brandeis.edu<mailto:aoko@brandeis.edu>).
Martin Hallmansecker (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections"
*David Goldstein
(
UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Fri., Mar. 9, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Head directionality as diachronic epiphenomenon: The case of archaic Indo-European
conjunction"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Alan M. Stahl (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 21, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts"
Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval
contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds.
Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture.
Mildenberg Lecture
www.harvardartmuseums.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
*Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 23, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"On the history of Germanic *ga-"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
*New England Ancient History
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Mar. 29, 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Willits-Hallowell Center, 26 Park St, South Hadley, MA
01075
Joseph McAlhany of the Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, is offering his paper, "One Head
Is Better than Three: Varro's So-Called Trikaranos." for discussion. Britta Ager
of the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, will provide the commentary' Registration and
libations 5:30 -6:30, dinner 6;30-7:30, comment and discussion, 7:30-9:30. More
information:<allen.m.ward@att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>>.
New England Ancient History Colloquium
*Marcus Folch (Columbia
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 30, 4 - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens"
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
April 2018
Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 2, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Nathan Sivin
(
UPenn)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Apr. 4, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others"
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
*Joseph Nagy (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Apr. 6, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Some lonely Indo-European fathers, sons, and brothers in myth"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics"
Brent Vine
(
UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Tue., Apr. 17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: TBA
James Loeb Lecture
John Zaleski (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
May 2018
Paul Cartledge (University of
Cambridge)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Mon., May 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Discussion of Cartledge's book,
Democracy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.ou…X8UtgbZdTrxxb2a_Kho&e=>.
Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University).
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