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*Wed., Oct. 2
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Pendleton Hall West 212, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Jeffrey Royal (East Carolina University)
"Naval Warfare in the 3rd C BCE: Warships, Rams, and Tactics"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the
Wellesley Department of Classical Studies. Dr. Royal holds the 2013 McCann Taggart
Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology, named in honor of Wellesley alumna Anna Marguerite
McCann Taggart. For parking information, please see
http://web.wellesley.edu/map/
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(a)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(a)brandeis.edu) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(aoko(a)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
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(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
*Fri., Nov. 1
8:45 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Knafel Center, Gymnasium, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Inaugural Conference of the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past
Speakers: Kyle Harper (Classics, University of Oklahoma); Johannes Krause (Institute of
Scientific Archaeology, University Tübingen); Daniel E. Lieberman (Human and Evolutionary
Biology, Harvard University; Michael McCormick (History, Harvard); Ian Morris (Classics
and History, Stanford University); David Reich (Genetics, Harvard Medical School); Pardis
Sabeti (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard, and Broad Institute at MIT and
Harvard); Noreen Tuross (Human and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard).
Sponsors: Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, Department of the Classics,
Standing Committee on Archaeology. More information:
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/shp/blog/announcement-inaugural-conference-h….
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.
*Fri., Nov. 8, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat., Nov. 9, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Relics, Lives, and Beneficial Tales in Byzantium and Beyond: a conference in honor
of John Duffy"
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collections.
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.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, University of London)
"Legal Cultures in Justinianic Constantinople"
Loeb Lecture
*Thurs., Dec. 5
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture: New Takes on the Ancient and Byzantine Worlds
Gudrun Bühl (Curator and Museum Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection);
Susan B. Matheson (Curator of Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery); and Joseph A.
Greene (Assistant Director, Harvard Semitic Museum). Respondent: Laura Nasrallah (Harvard
Divinity School).
The Harvard Art Museums are not alone in renewing their permanent exhibition galleries.
This evening brings together representatives of three university museums to talk about
recent or planned reinstallations of galleries dedicated to the ancient and Byzantine
worlds. Their presentations will provide a glimpse of the factors that influence how
museums reinvent themselves and will highlight different ways of making objects from the
past speak to the present. A faculty response and a panel discussion will follow.
Free admission. Reception to follow lecture; complimentary parking for lecture at the
Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street.
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/new-takes-ancient-and-byzantine-w…
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