Boston Area Classics Calendar 2008/2009: #14 (1/23/09) **PLEASE NOTE** WE HAVE ADDED A GOOGLE CALENDAR LISTING FOR THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR. YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bostonclassics%40gmail.com&ctz… USERS OF ICAL CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSTON AREA CLASSICS CALENDAR USING THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bostonclassics%40gmail.com/public/basic… 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. 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PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Mon., Jan. 26, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Shadi Bartsch (Brown University) "Metaphor in Senecan Philosophy" *Wed., Feb. 4, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA Frank Nisetich (Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston) "Homer Aloud and Well: Style and Theme in Recitation" Refreshments will be served For more information, contact Stacy Fox at 617-353-2426; sfox(a)bu.edu *Thurs., Feb. 5, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Marcelo Boeri (University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile; visiting scholar, Brown University) "Happiness and 'Attaining Happiness': Eudaimonism in the Light of Stoic Ontology" *Mon., Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, MacMillan Hall, Room 117, 167 Thayer Street, Providence, RI Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture Raymond Westbrook (Johns Hopkins University) "The Early History of Law: A Theoretical Essay" Mon., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA Balmuth Lecture Series Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archeaology, University of Oxford) "The Archaeology of Economic Institutions" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth Tues., Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA Balmuth Lecture Series Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archeaology, University of Oxford) "Roman Technology: The Possibilities and Limits for Preindustrial Growth" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth Wed., Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA Balmuth Lecture Series Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archeaology, University of Oxford) "Before the Pin Factory: Division of Labour and Mass Production" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth *Thurs., Feb. 26, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA Isabella Sandwell (Bristol University) "The Emperor Julian on Religious Identity and Religious Difference" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Thurs., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium 206, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA Balmuth Lecture Series Andrew Wilson (Institute of Archeaology, University of Oxford) "Mining, Metal Supply, and the Supply of Money" Sponsored by the Department of Classics Underwritten and funded by the family and friends of Miriam S. Balmuth *Mon., Mar. 9, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library, Cambridge, MA Mary A. Rouse (UCLA) "A Princely Gift: The French Translation of Vegetius, 1284-1300" Reception follows in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library Sponsored by the Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, in collaboration with the Houghton Library, Harvard University *Tues., Mar. 10, 6:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Jonathan Edmonson (York University, Canada) "A Tale of Two Colonies in Roman Spain: Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and Metellinum (Medellín)" *Wed., Mar. 11, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks) "A Dossier for Canonization in 14th Century Byzantium: The Miracles of Gregory Palamas" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics *Thurs., Mar. 12, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA Houghton Library Workshop* Richard Rouse (UCLA) "Florilegia & Glosses: Books for Reference rather than Reading" *N.B. This is a workshop for which one has to register in advance. Places are strictly limited to 12, and priority will be given to members of the Harvard community. If interest warrants, we will schedule a second session on Tuesday, March 10, but only once the Thursday session is fully subscribed. Please indicate your interest by e-mailing Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger at: jhamburg(a)fas.harvard.edu . *Mon., Mar. 16, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus) "'Towards a Higher Vision' and 'Into the Depths of Words': The Aesthetics of Layering in Byzantine Art and Literature" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics *Thurs., Mar. 19, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, Middle Gallery, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Medieval Studies Lecture, co-sponsored by Classics Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus) "From Persia to the Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond" *Tues., Mar. 31, 4:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Comparative Literature Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Classics Charles Butterworth (University of Maryland) "What Might We Learn from al-Farabi about Plato and Aristotle with Respect to Lawgiving?" *Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Classical Studies Symposium "In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in Euripides' Hecuba" Buffet refreshments available throughout 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 see http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html); for ticket information see http://www.brandeis.edu/btc/tickets.html A Jennifer Eastman '68 Event, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies See Appendix for details *Tues., Apr. 14, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Eva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary) "Women in Roman Private Legal Documents" *Tues., Apr. 14, 6:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Gerhard Thur (Universities of Graz and Vienna, Austria) "Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens" *Mon., Apr. 20, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Departmental Lecture Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting scholar at Brown) "Socrates' Unconventional Eros" *Fri., Apr. 24, 3:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA BU Annual Roman Studies Conference and Dinner "Novel Ideas" Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University), "Petronius and the Greek Novel" Niall Slater (Emory University), "Various Asses" Judith Perkins (St. Joseph College), "Imagined Communities in Ancient Fictions" For further information contact Prof. Ann Vasaly (vasaly(a)bu.edu) or Ms. Stacy Fox (sfox(a)bu.edu) or call 617 353 2427 Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the BU Humanities Foundation APPENDIX: *Thurs., Apr. 2, 2:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Classical Studies Symposium "In Naming You I Name Myself": Words, Wrath, and Retribution in Euripides' Hecuba" Event I: 2:00 p.m. "'What's Hecuba to him...?' The Dangerous Grief of Euripides' Hecuba" Helene Foley, (Barnard College Classics and Ancient Studies) Event II: 3:10 p.m. "Euripides' Hecuba: The Limits of Sympathy, Past and Present" Eirene Visvardi (Brandeis Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ancient Greek Theater) Event III: 4:10 p.m. A Demonstration of Dramatic Method in Ancient Greek Theater Participants: Eric H. Hill (Brandeis Theater Arts), with actors from the April 2009 Brandeis production of Euripides' Hecuba Event IV: 5:10 p.m. Round Table Discussion with the Audience Participants: Professors Helene Foley (Barnard Classics), Eric H. Hill (Brandeis Theater Arts), Eirene Visvardi (Brandeis Classical Studies), and Leonard C. Muellner (Brandeis Classical Studies) N.B.: Following the Symposium: A Brandeis Department of Theater Arts Production at The Mainstage Theater, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA, 8:00 p.m. Euripides' Hecuba Directed and adapted for the stage by Eric H. Hill, Sherman Chair of the Brandeis Department of Theater Arts; Translated from the Ancient Greek by Professors Leonard Muellner and Eirene Visvardi, with the Fall Term 2008 students of GRK 115b 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.