The Boston Area Classics Calendar for March 24, 2017
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
CONFERENCE hosted by Theater and Dance at Amherst College
AMHERST COLLEGE, Holden Theater in Webster Hall, 200 College St, Amherst, MA 01002
Ongoing through Sat., Mar. 25, 2017
��Re-imagining the Greeks: Contemporary and Cross-cultural Approaches to Greek Tragedy��
Each day will be devoted to a different region of the world, and its cultural relationship
with the ancient Greeks. The first day will be about Japanese adaptations, the second
about Black interpretations (African and American), and the third about American
adaptations. The conference will combine scholarly discussions, workshops, non-western
performative approaches. And live performances. Participation in the workshops is open to
students and professionals with experience in performing.
More info:
www.amherst.edu��<https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/theat…
*Shane Bobrycki (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 27, 2017, 12 p.m.
"Plus quam civile bellum in Isidore of Seville"
Please RSVP by March 23 to Hannah Weaver
(hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu<mailto:hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu>).
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval Studies
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu��<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harva…
*Lisa Fagin Davis (The Medieval Academy)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 27, 2017, 5 p.m.
"Broken Books: Digital Methods for Reconstructing Dismembered Manuscripts"
Cosponsored by the History of the Book seminar
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval Studies
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu��<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harva…
*Ra'anan Boustan (UCLA) and Karen Brit
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Mar. 28, 2017, 4:15 �C 6 p.m.
"Greek Kings and Judaean Priests in the Late Antique Synagogue: The Newly Discovered
'Elephant Mosaic' at Huqoq (Israel)"
Event Series: Harvard Medieval History Graduate Workshop
More info:
medieval.fas.harvard.edu��<http://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upco…
Paolo Vison�� (University of Kentucky)
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.)
Wed., Mar. 29, 2017, 6 �C 7 p.m.
"From Byrsa to the Tiber: Carthaginian Coins and History"
New evidence from hoards, overstrikings, and excavation finds across the western
Mediterranean in the last 50 years has significantly increased our knowledge of
Carthaginian coins and their circulation patterns in the core regions of the Punic world,
from North Africa to Spain. As mediums of payment, stores of value, and social artifacts,
Carthaginian coins were used in diverse contexts and by different ethnicities.
In this lecture, Paolo Vison��, associate professor at the University of Kentucky at
Lexington, will discuss how these coins provide essential information on the history and
the economy of Carthage, underscoring its connectivity with other Punic centers and its
relations with its Mediterranean neighbors and rivals, particularly Cyrene, Syracuse, and
Rome.
Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will remain open until 8pm.
Free admission. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street,
Cambridge.
To honor the memory of renowned numismatist and scholar Leo Mildenberg (1912�C2001) and
his years of friendship with Harvard University, a fund was established by his friends and
colleagues and endowed in 2005 by his wife, Ilse Mildenberg-Seehausen.
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
More info:
www.harvardartmuseums.org<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/>
Karen Foster (Yale University)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Mar. 30, 2017, 5 �C 7 p.m.
"Monkeys in Aegean Image and Imagination"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and History
*David Ferry (Wellesley College, Emeritus)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
02155
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 4 �C 6 p.m.
Speaker will be reading from his forthcoming translation of Virgil's Aeneid
(University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Study Group on Myth and
Religion in the Ancient World, and the Boston University Department of Classical
Studies.
This event is free and open to the public.
Event Series: Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University
More info:
www.bu.edu��<http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/religion-an…
*Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
UMASS AMHERST, Integrated Learning Center S131, Amherst MA 01003
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 5 �C 6:30 p.m.
��Defeat in the Arena��; the Thirteenth Annual David Grose Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by
the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst.
Free and open to the public. Contact: Lisa Marie Smith
(lisa@classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512)
*Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr College)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Apr. 3, 2017, 6:15 �C 7:45 p.m.
"Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in Byzantium"
Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture at Hellenic College
Holy Cross and the Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
More info:
maryjahariscenter.org<https://maryjahariscenter.org/>
**Elizabeth Irwin (Columbia University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Apr. 4, 2017, 6 �C 8 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Smith Hall, Room 201, 1 College Street Worcester, MA 01610
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 4:30 �C 6:30 p.m.
��Ethnography and history in the Roman world��
Directions:
www.holycross.edu��<http://www.holycross.edu/maps-directions-and-transpo…
Contact Ms. Toni Methe (tmethe@holycross.edu<mailto:tmethe@holycross.edu>) with any
questions.
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
More info:
www.holycross.edu��<http://www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/classics…
**Gasper Begus (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 5 �C 7 p.m.
"A Diachronic Model for Explaining Unnatural Sound Changes��
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics��
Tim Cornell (University of Manchester)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Providence, RI 02912
Wed., Apr. 5, 2017, 5:30 �C 7:30 p.m.
"Cicero on Roman History and Historians"
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Plato��s Timaeus: myth, creation, science
BROWN UNIVERSITY & PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
Fri., Apr. 7 �C Sun., Apr. 9, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30�C9.45 Conference Introduction and welcome: Mary-Louise Gill, Justin Broackes, Colin
Guthrie King
9.45�C11.15 (i) Introduction and the myth of Atlantis (17a�C26e): Christopher ROWE
(Durham University)
11.30�C1 (ii) The status and limits of natural philosophy (26e�C30c): Christine THOMAS
(Dartmouth College)
2�C3.30 (iii) The World-Body (30c�C34a): Dimitri EL MURR (Paris I)
[Providence College, Ruane Center for the Humanities]
4.30�C6 Recollection in the Timaeus: David SEDLEY (University of Cambridge)
Saturday, April 8, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30�C11 (iv) The World-Soul (34a�C38b): Barbara SATTLER (St. Andrew��s)
11.15�C12.45 (v) Time and its instruments (38b�C41d): Colin Guthrie KING (Providence
College)
2�C3.30 (vi) The making of souls (41d�C44d): Hendrik LORENZ (Princeton University)
3.45�C5.15 (vii) Human body and auxiliary causes (44d�C47e): Keith McPARTLAND (Williams
College)
5.30�C7 (viii) Necessity and the receptacle (47e�C53a): Sarah BROADIE (St. Andrew��s)
Sunday, April 9, 2017
[Brown University, Department of Philosophy]
9.30�C11 An Unnoticed Analogy Between the Timaeus and the Laws: Marwan RASHED (Paris
IV)
11.15�C12.45 Necessity in Democritus and the Timaeus: Pierre-Marie MOREL (Paris I)
*Jan-Mathieu Carbon (Center for Hellenistic Studies / Universit�� de Li��ge)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Apr. 10, 2017, 5:30 �C 7:30 p.m.
"Sacrifice ellenik��i nom��i: Meat, Measure, and Meaning""
More info:
www.brown.edu��<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/events/upcoming…
Eric Frederickson (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 103, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 12, 2017, 4 �C 6 p.m.
"Dating (Classical Hebrew) Texts Linguistically: A Bayesian Approach.��
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics��
Thomas Zanker (Amherst College)
TRINITY COLLEGE, Rittenberg Lounge, Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Thu., Apr. 13, 2017, 4:30 �C 6:30 p.m.
"The Golden Age in Augustan Rome"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Tue., Apr. 18, 2017, 4:30 �C 6:30 p.m.
��Late Antiquity and the Invention of Textuality��
More info:
www.wesleyan.edu��<http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/>
*Vyara Kalfina (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
UMASS AMHERST, Integrated Learning Center S240, Amherst MA 01003
Thu., Apr. 20, 2017, 5 �C 6:30 p.m.
��Bulgaria��s Cultural Heritage: Thrace, Greece, Rome.��
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to the public.
Contact: Lisa Marie Smith (lisa@classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>,
413-545-0512)
Brooke Holmes (Princeton)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3 �C 4:30 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop��"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity
and Beyond"
More info:
classics.fas.harvard.edu��<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/gsas-wo…
*23rd Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, MA 02155
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 3:15 �C 5:15 p.m.
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Study Group on Myth and
Religion in the Ancient World, and the Boston University Department of Classical
Studies.
The Boston Area Roman Studies Conference (BARSC) was instituted in 1995 to promote the
study of Latin literature and Roman culture, to increase the visibility of these studies
in the New England scholarly community and to provide a place for area Latinists and
Romanists to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas.
The BARSC is sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for the
Humanities at Boston University and is held annually in April. The conference is open to
anyone interested and is free of charge. Following the conference is a dinner, and those
wishing to attend must pre-register. The dinner charge is $30.00 ($20 for graduate
students with school ID) and the registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 13,
2017.
More info:
www.bu.edu��<http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/the-boston-…
*Curtis Perry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 21, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
"King Lear: Seneca and the Anti-Social"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu��<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harva…
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 103, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 26, 2017, 5 �C 7 p.m.
TBA
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
Adam Gitner (Indiana University, Bloomington)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Wed., May 3, 2017, 4:30 �C 6 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop��"Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity
and Beyond"
*Conference: MATERIA: New Approaches to Material Text in the Roman World (2017)
Thursday, June 1: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
02138
Thu., June 1, 2017, 3 �C 5 p.m.
MATERIA is an annual, one-day symposium of work-in-progress on books, writing, and
material text studies from the world of ancient Rome, broadly conceived. We leave
significant time for each speaker to present his/her findings, and ample time for
questions, feedback, and discussion from the audience and fellow panelists. Audience
members are encouraged to come for the length of the day. Lunch and refreshments will be
provided for all attendees. Please find more details at our webpage:
http://www.materiaconference.net/. You may register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/materia-new-approaches-to-material-text-in-the….
Thursday, June 1, 2017, 3:00�C5:00 (DAY 1 OF 2)
[Houghton Library, Harvard University]
3:00-5:00 | Practical session (optional) - Meet the organizers and speakers and see
classical items from Harvard's collections (attendance limited). Reception to follow.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Program in the History of the Book.
Sponsored by HARVARD UNIVERSITY & MIT
More info:
www.materiaconference.net<http://www.materiaconference.net/>
*Conference: MATERIA: New Approaches to Material Text in the Roman World (2017)
Friday, June 2: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT), Killian Hall (14W-111),
Hayden Library, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
Fri., June 2, 2017, 9 a.m. �C 6:30 p.m.
MATERIA is an annual, one-day symposium of work-in-progress on books, writing, and
material text studies from the world of ancient Rome, broadly conceived. We leave
significant time for each speaker to present his/her findings, and ample time for
questions, feedback, and discussion from the audience and fellow panelists. Audience
members are encouraged to come for the length of the day. Lunch and refreshments will be
provided for all attendees. Please find more details at our webpage:
http://www.materiaconference.net/. You may register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/materia-new-approaches-to-material-text-in-the….
Friday, June 2, 2017, 9:00�C6:30 (DAY 2 OF 2)
[Hayden Library, MIT]
9:00-9:15 | Coffee
9:15-9:30 | Welcome - Stephanie Frampton (MIT)
9:30-10:45 | Session 1 - Joseph Howley (Columbia), TBD
10:45-11:00 | Coffee
11:00-12:15 | Session 2 - Kyle Conrau-Lewis (Yale), TBD
12:15-1:00 | Lunch
1:00-2:15 | Session 3 - Irene Peirano (Yale), TBD
2:15-3:30 | Session 4 - Jane Raisch (Berkeley), TBD
3:30-3:45 | Coffee
3:45-5:00 | Session 5 - Andrew Riggsby (UT Austin), TBD
5:00-6:30 | Keynote Response - Kathy Coleman (Harvard)
Sponsored by HARVARD UNIVERSITY & MIT
More info:
www.materiaconference.net<http://www.materiaconference.net/>
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