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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.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 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 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Gregory Clark (The University of the South)
"Beyond Use: A Digital Tool for the Analysis of Late Medieval Manuscript Books of
Hours"
An abstract is available at the Medieval Studies website:
http://medieval.fas.harvard.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Art and Architecture
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
*Thurs., Oct. 10
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, New England Ancient History Colloquium (NEAHC), 160 Pearl St.,
Fitchburg, MA 01420
Andrew Johnston (Yale University)
"Local Cult and Local Identity in Roman Gaul: an Adventure in Microhistory"
John Bodel (Brown University), Commentator
For more information and registration, contact Allen Ward:
allen.m.ward@att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>
*Wed., Oct. 16
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2, downstairs auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Andrea Berlin (Boston University)
"The Real World of the Maccabees"
Free and open to the public. Reception open to all from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. after the
lecture, also in Lown 2.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Program in the History of Ideas
For more information about the lecture, visit our website:
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/classics/news/index.html
For questions, contact Heidi McAllister
(hmcallis@brandeis.edu<mailto:hmcallis@brandeis.edu>) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(aoko@brandeis.edu<mailto:aoko@brandeis.edu>).
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<http://www.…
**Fri., Oct. 25
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center 917, 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@classics.umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@classics.umass.edu>) and Rex Wallace
(rwallace@classics.umass.edu<mailto:rwallace@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)
Loeb Lecture
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