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*Thurs., Sept. 19
6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania)
"Aischrology in Old Comedy and the Question of 'Ritual Obscenity'"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
*Thurs., Sept. 19
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-Harvard
Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard Divinity School) and John Herrmann (Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston)
"More Lucky Wearers: The Magic of Portable Inscriptions"
*Tues., Sept. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)
"Translations from Greek into Arabic and Latin during the Middle Ages: Searching for
the Classical Tradition"
*Tues., Sept. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
School of Theology Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Peter Rhodes (Durham University)
"Directions in the Study of Athenian Democracy"
A lecture in the Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World series at Boston
University. Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the
Department of Classical Studies.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on this lecture or on
the Study Group, please visit our website:
http://www.bu.edu/classics/about/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth-in-th…
*Tues., Sept. 24
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, 161 Presidents' Drive, Amherst,
MA 01003
Tessa Rajak (University of Reading)
"Josephus: Everybody's Historian"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
*Wed., Sept. 25
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall, Room 310, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peter Meineck (New York University)
Neuroscience and Greek Tragedy
Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop.
*Mon., Oct. 7
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS (Center for Government and International Studies) 1730 Cambridge
Street, S-010 Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University Standing Committee on Archaeology: Fall lecture and reception
Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Former
President of the German Archaeological Institute)
"Burial Rites and the Representation of Power: New Insights from Monumental Kurgans
of the Scythians in the Eurasian Steppe"
http://archaeology.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68827&pageid=icb…
The lecture will be followed by a reception in CGIS South Concourse
*Sat., Oct. 19
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Haldeman Center, Room 041, Hanover NH 03755
Conference: "Mirage/Time: Philology and Post/Humanism"
A full day conference directed by Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature). Cosponsored by
the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dean of Faculty, Department of French and Italian,
Comparative Literature Program and the Department of Classics.
conference
program:http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/docs/mirageprogram.pdf
*Fri., Oct. 25
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Student Union Ballroom, Amherst, MA 01003
Lucilius Colloquium
The Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with the support of
the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Departments of Classics of Amherst
College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Smith College, will host a one-day colloquium on the
theme "Speaking of the Republic: Lucilius and his Contexts," Friday, October 25,
2013. Speakers are Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin), "Colloquial Registers and
Generic Stylization in Lucilius"; Sander Goldberg (UCLA), "Lucilius and the
poetarum seniorum turba"; Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College), "Notes on Meter and
Language in Lucilius"; and Brian Breed (UMass Amherst), "Lucilius'
Books."
The full conference program can be viewed at
http://umass.academia.edu/BrianWBreed/Events.
A registration fee of $20 includes lunch and refreshments. Dinner is also available for an
additional cost.
To register or with any questions, please contact the organizers: Brian Breed
(bbreed(a)classics.umass.edu) and Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu).
*Mon., Oct. 28
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stephen Scully (Boston University)
Aeschylus' Oresteia in Light of Hesiod’s Theogony
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
*Thurs., Nov. 7
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Tuplin (University of Liverpool)
The Arshama Archive
Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop.
*Thurs., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
*Fri., Nov. 22
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, University of London)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture