Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2019
Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études,
Paris)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Mon., Oct. 7, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Henkelman will be running an Ancient Studies Master Class on the Achaemenid
administration, titled "The Empire at Persepolis/Persepolis in the Empire:
Bureaucracy, Administration, and Institutional Networks."
Dr. Henkelman has suggested participants read his recent publication, "Imperial
Signature and Imperial Paradigm: Achaemenid administrative structure and system across and
beyond the Iranian plateau" (in B. Jacobs, W. Henkelman, and M. Stolper (eds.), Die
Verwaltung im Achämenidenreich: 45-256, Wiesbden, 2017), in advance of the seminar, but
this is not required; if you would like a copy, please email
ancientstudies@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ancientstudies@fas.harvard.edu>.
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series
Brian Daniels (Penn Cultural Heritage
Center)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Oct. 9, 5 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Cultural Recovery in a Time of Violence: Protecting Heritage Sites in Syria"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College
Department of Classical Studies
Vinzenz Brinkmann (Liebieghaus
Skulpturensammlung)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classic…
Fri., Oct. 11, 12 – 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical
Traditions<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-t…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Nadav Asraf (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Oct. 11, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'Word Within a Word': The Syntactical Properties of Word Parts in Ancient
Greek"
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
Alissa Mittnik (Harvard Medical
School)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Oct. 15, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
CGIS South, S020 Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138
"Marriage, mobility and households in Bronze Age Germany: integrating ancient DNA,
isotopes and archaeology."
Showing the power of traditional archaeological and newer archaeoscientific methods to
illuminate life in Bronze Age Germany.
Professor Matthew Liebmann (Archaeology/Anthropology) will comment; a public reception
will follow. The event is co-sponsored by the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past
at Harvard (SoHP), the Standing Committee on Archaeology at Harvard (SCA), and the Max
Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean
(MHAAM).
[Alissa Mittnik (Harvard Medical School)]
Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Application required (deadline September 20th). See website for more details.
Send questions to
digitalmanuscriptediting@gmail.com<mailto:digitalmanuscriptediting@gmail.com>.
Application form:
https://tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting<https://urldefense.proofpoi…_mdtrb4T9fOHPdgAaQA&e=>.
Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University
Digital Scholarship Support Group.
dssg.fas.harvard.edu…<https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/event/digital-editing…
[Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop]
Shelley Haley (Hamilton
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
"Race-ing” the Romans: Uncovering the Racial Constructs of Ancient Rome
Mark Janse (Ghent
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Oct. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
"From Katpatuka to Ionanistan: The Rise, Demise and Reawakening of Cappadocian
Greek"
Followed by the documentary "Last Words" (seriousFilm, 2014)
Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Cappadocia
(Central Turkey) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s.
Cappadocian speakers were forced to emigrate to Greece, where they were resettled in
various locations, especially in Central and Northern Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly
shifted to Standard Modern Greek and/or regional varieties thereof and their language was
thought to be extinct since the 1970s (Ethnologue, 15th edition, 2005). In June 2005, Mark
Janse (Ghent University) and Dimitris Papazachariou (University of Patras) discovered
Cappadocians in Central and Northern Greece who could still speak their native language.
Amongst them are middle-aged, third-generation speakers who take a very positive attitude
towards the language as opposed to their parents and and grandparents. The latter are much
less (if at all) inclined to speak Cappadocian and normally switch to Greek and/or Turkish
in their conversations. In his lecture, Professor Janse will relate the linguistic history
of Cappadocia and the fascinating story of his search und ultimately discovery of the lost
Cappadocian language. The lecture will be followed by the documentary film ‘Last Words’.
Mark Janse (is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent
University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies.
(mark.janse@ugent.be<mailto:mark.janse@ugent.be>)
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Martha Graham Dance
Company<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Dance Theater, 915 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215
The Martha Graham Dance Company’s Artistic Director, Janet Eilber, plus 2 to 4 dancers,
will present a lecture/demonstration of Martha Graham’s dance interpretation of three
heroines from Greek tragedy: Medea, Clytemnestra, and Jocasta.
Tickets are free. To reserve tickets please visit:
www.eventbrite.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A_…
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
[Martha Graham Dance Company]
Mark Janse (Ghent
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 22, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Linguistic Convergence in Asia Minor: The Internal Development of Agglutinative
Inflections in Cappadocian Greek"
Mark Janse is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent
University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies.
(mark.janse@ugent.be<mailto:mark.janse@ugent.be>)
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__do…
Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Oct. 23, 12 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Colloquium with Sinclair Bell: "Race in the Roman Empire: Black Africans as Subjects
and Objects in Imperial Visual Culture"
Organized by the Hutchins
Center<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair-…
africa.harvard.edu…<https://africa.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-sinclair…
Mark Janse (University of
Ghent)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Oct. 23, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"More Maculate Musings: New Wordplays in Aristophanes' Lysistrata"
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center
for the Humanities
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston
University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
Simona Martorana (Durham
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Oct. 23, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'Writing like a man, becoming-woman’: gender-queerness and literary creation in
the Epistula Sapphus"
GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to
Classics"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/critical-and-compa…
Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong
Kong)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Mon., Oct. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical
Traditions<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-t…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom (Davis Center for
Historical Studies, Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
earlymod.fas.harvard.edu<https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/>
Alex Purves
(
UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Wed., Oct. 30, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
New England Ancient Historians
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Campus Center, 10th Floor, Amherst Room, Amherst,
MA 01002
Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross)
"The Political Power of the Middle Republican Army"
Commentator: Will Broadhead (Associate Professor of History, MIT)
5:30 PM: reception—complimentary wine, beer, and appetizers
6:30 PM: dinner (cash bar available)
7:30–9:30 PM: speaker and commentator
Registration required by Wednesday, October 23:
https://www.neahc.us/registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/u…TaGkArOLAWbS52MHgvg&e=>.
New England Ancient Historians
Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neah…
www.neahc.us<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ne…
November 2019
“From Homer to History with the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center. Recent results from
Bronze Age
Investigations”<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-ca…
Fri., Nov. 1, 1 – 5 p.m.
CGIS South: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138
German and U.S. team members from the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the
Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) will present some of our most
remarkable discoveries from archaeoscience.
Followed by a public reception.
Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient
Mediterranean<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.a…
www.archaeoscience.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https…
[“From Homer to History with the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center. Recent results from
Bronze Age Investigations”]
Lukas Kahl (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Nov. 1, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
Jeff Bourns (Northeastern
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 7, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
Flavian (Re)Configurations: Civic Ideals and Urban
Realities<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Fri., Nov. 8, 3 – 6 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Integrative Learning Center S331, UMass Amherst, 650
N Pleasant St, Amherst MA 01003
Speakers:
Salvador Bartera (Mississippi State University)
Virginia Closs (UMass Amherst)
Steven Ellis (University of Cincinnati)
Elizabeth Macauly-Lewis (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Eric Poehler (UMass Amherst)
Sponsored by UMass Amherst Department of Classics and College of Humanities and Fine
Arts.
More information: Lisa Marie Smith
(lisa@classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>, 413-545-0512)
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.u…
[Flavian (Re)Configurations: Civic Ideals and Urban Realities]
The 12th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Sat., Nov. 9
"Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment"
Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) and Mr. Marquis "I AM"
McCray
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.e…
Sarah Derbew (Harvard Society of
Fellows)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Nov. 13, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"Sun-kissed Greeks: Theorization of Blackness in Ancient Greek Literature"
Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston
University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
Brent Seales (University of
Kentucky)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Thu., Nov. 14, 5 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Clapp Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"The Digital Restoration Initiative: Reading the Invisible Library"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley College Book
Studies Program
Michael Weiss (Cornell
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Nov. 15, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen,
Germany)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Nov. 21, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Venantius Fortunatus"
Julia Sturm (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Nov. 22, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
April 2020
Vesta Curtis (British
Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
July 2020
Classical Association of New England Summer
Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Mon., July 13 – Sat., July 18
BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Providence, RI 02912
On the theme "The Empire and the Individual"
graduate credit available
For more information and registration details, go to
www.caneweb.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.…
Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at
summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__canewe…
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