Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2018
Alceste (Harvard University
Choir)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Sat., Oct. 20, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
The Harvard University Choir presents a concert performance of Gluck’s ALCESTE (1776).
Inventive orchestration, thrilling choruses, and dramatic solo writing abound in this
heart-wrenching take on Euripides. The concert features Hailey Fuqua in the title role,
Jonas Budris ’06 as Admète, and Sumner Thompson as the High Priest; the period instrument
orchestra Grand Harmonie is conducted by Edward Elwyn Jones. Free admission.
Harvard World Wide Week—The Classical World and the Pilgrimage to Santiago in Comparative
Perspective: Anthropology, Art and the Harvard
Legacy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Oct. 23, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA
Speakers:
Francisco Prado-Vilar (Director of Cultural and Artistic Projects at RCC; Scientific
Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Program for the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela)
Diego Chapinal-Heras (RCC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the Classics at Harvard
University)
The phenomenon of pilgrimage has had a fundamental role in the development of western and
non-western civilisations, facilitating cultural and artistic exchange, and promoting
economic growth and social mobility. Focusing on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela,
this workshop seeks to explore the impact of this phenomenon in the construction of Europe
analysing, from a comparative perspective, its importance in Antiquity and in the Middle
Ages. As it will emerge from this discussion, there exist numerous elements of connection
between pilgrimage in the Greco-Roman world and in the Christian Middle Ages, with
surprising modes of continuity in art, literature, and myth. It was precisely at Harvard,
with the monumental work of A. Kingsley Porter (Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage
Roads, 12 vols. [1923]) where these aspects of medieval pilgrimage began to be considered
in their full implications emphasising their importance to understand contemporary
society, by comparing them with the way movement and multi-culturalism contributed to the
creation of the dynamism of the American melting-pot.
Sponsors: RCC; Cultural and Artistic Projects at RCC; Department of the Classics at
Harvard University.
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Nadav Asraf (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 23, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Room 110, Cambridge, MA 02138
"'When I leave the beautiful and severe Hellenism': On Cavafy's
Translations into Hebrew"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and
Culture<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-l…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Hannah Čulik-Baird (Boston
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Oct. 24, 5 – 7 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Room 303, Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education,
Waltham, MA 02453
"Loss and Recovery of Knowledge at Rome"
How well do the Romans know their own history? In a world where records of the past rot
away, are eaten by worms, mice, larvae, are accidentally or deliberately set on fire, how
is a Roman of the late Republic supposed to understand Rome's past? In the De Lingua
Latina(5.5), Varro wrote: uetustas pauca non deprauat, multa tollit; “there is little that
time does not distort, much it obliterates completely.” Join me in an exploration of the
challenges faced by Romans interested in understanding their city's history, and what
kind of strategies they developed to recover "lost" knowledge.
Reception to follow immediately after the talk from 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Open to the public. Free parking. For a campus map and parking information, please see
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Contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallis@brandeis.edu<mailto:hmcallis@brandeis.edu>) or
Sybil Schlesinger (sybilsch@brandeis.edu<mailto:sybilsch@brandeis.edu>) with any
questions.
Justin Slocum-Bailey (UMASS
Boston)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Oct. 24, 5 – 8 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON, University Hall, University Drive North, Dorchester, MA 02125
Engaging the Whole Reader: “Active Latin” as a bridge between student and text
What does it take to become a reader of a language? What does it take to become a reader
of Latin in particular, and how can we create environments and tasks that help learners
become comfortable, skilled, joyful Latin readers? Join us to consider these questions and
to experience an array of research-informed, classroom-tested pedagogical techniques and
tasks that build toward Latin literacy from day one of instruction.
Sarah Spence (Medieval Academy of
America)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Oct. 24, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 90 George Street, Room 208, Providence, RI 02912
“‘The little of our earthly trust’: Vergil's Aeneid and the Geography of Loss”
Sarah Spence is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at
the University of Georgia and Editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
The Michael C.J. Putnam Lecture
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Archaeological Exploration of
Sardis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Fri., Oct. 26, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its founding in 1958 by Harvard and Cornell Universities, the Archaeological
Exploration of Sardis has excavated, conserved, and published on aspects of the ancient
city of Sardis in western Turkey from prehistoric through Islamic periods. The expedition
is one of the longest running international projects sponsored at Harvard and is one of
the oldest classical archaeological projects in the Mediterranean. Harvard students who
participate in the program gain academic, professional, and cultural experience while
contributing to archaeological research, conservation efforts, presentations, and
publications related to the site.
As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2018, this event brings together the museums staff
and Harvard faculty and students involved in the project to discuss their work and to
illuminate how team members from various fields and institutions around the world
collaborate to advance research about Sardis. Speakers will include Nicholas Cahill, field
director of the Sardis expedition and the Simona and Jerome Chazen Distinguished Chair in
Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Adrian Stähli, professor of classical
archaeology in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University; Susanne Ebbinghaus,
the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and
Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums; Frances Gallart Marques, the Frederick
Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art at the Harvard Art Museums; and Bahadır
Yıldırım, expedition administrator for Sardis at the Harvard Art Museums.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via
the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 2:30pm.
Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served
basis.
The excavation at Sardis is conducted with the permission and support of the Ministry of
Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. Current conservation work at Sardis is also
supported by an award provided by the United States Government, Department of State, U.S.
Embassy Ankara.
Worldwide Week at Harvard 2018 (October 22–26, 2018) showcases the remarkable breadth of
Harvard’s global engagement. During Worldwide Week, Harvard schools, research centers,
departments, and student organizations host academic and cultural events with global or
international themes.
Internship
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November 2018
*GLASSICS*<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d129770952>
Thu., Nov. 1, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Chris Cochran (Harvard University)--"Gay Reception of Petronius in the #metoo
Era"
Miriam Kamil (Harvard University)--"Straightening the Classics: The Censorship of
Homoeroticism in the Traditions of Sappho and Catullus"
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
Denise Eileen McCoskey (Miami
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 1, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 90 George Street, Room 208, Providence, RI 02906
“‘Race Mixing’ & The Fall of Rome: The Role of Eugenics In Early 20th Century
Classical Scholarship”
Eugenics, a doctrine originating in the work of Francis Galton at the end of the 19th
century, proposed that selective breeding could be used to ensure the general
“improvement” of human populations. This lecture examines the ways eugenics and
associated concepts like “race mixing” and “race-suicide” were applied to various ancient
phenomena, such as the so-called “fall of Rome,” by American classicists of the early
twentieth-century.
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Symposium—Between Art and Asset: Silver Vessels from Antiquity to
Today<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Sat., Nov. 3, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Silver vessels have been prized possessions in many cultures, both ancient and modern.
Some of the most elaborate vessels in the Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World:
Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings exhibition are fashioned from silver. What makes
this material attractive for artists, and what makes drinking from silver vessels pleasant
to the palate? Which intangible qualities have promoted the material’s use? How has
appreciation of the vessels been influenced by the fact that silver often served as
bullion and coins—and hence could be “cashed in”? This symposium will bring together art
historians, a conservator, a numismatist, and a silversmith to explore these and related
questions, including the function and uses of precious metal vessels, the role of
craftsmanship, the symbolic qualities of silver, and silver’s relationship to other luxury
materials. The presentations will focus on the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, the
Byzantine world, China, and the Americas.
Speakers:
Angela Chang, Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Head of the Objects Lab, and Assistant
Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art
Museums
Henry Colburn, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Near Eastern Art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eurydice Georganteli, Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture and Medieval Studies in
the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University
Kenneth Lapatin, Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Ethan Lasser, Theodore Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art and Head of the Division of
European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums
François Louis, Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies at the Bard Graduate
Center
Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Adam Whitney, Silversmith
The symposium will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via
the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 9:30am.
Free admission, but seating is limited.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
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The Odyssey in Song: A Folk Opera by Joe
Goodkin<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Mon., Nov. 5, 5 – 7 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Room 002, Lown Center, Waltham, MA, 02453
Joe Goodkin's Odyssey is a 30 minute original musical performance of 24 original
songs with lyrics inspired by Odysseus' famous exploits. It represents in a
contemporary musical mode both the abridged plot and the performance circumstances of
Homer's original oral composition of The Odyssey. A discussion will follow the
performance. Joe has performed his Odyssey over 270 times in 36 U.S. states and Canada,
and has been honored with several ASCAP Composers awards.
Reception to follow immediately after the talk from 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Open to the public. Free parking. For a campus map and parking information, please see
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww…
Contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallis@brandeis.edu<mailto:hmcallis@brandeis.edu>) or
Sybil Schlesinger (sybilsch@brandeis.edu<mailto:sybilsch@brandeis.edu>) with any
questions.
www.joesodyssey.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__…
Classics and Modern Politics: Book
Discussion<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Nov. 8, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Readings TBA
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
Alain Schnapp (Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics…
Wed., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson 101, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
Pierre Destrée (University of Louvain & Princeton, Seeger Center for Hellenic
Studies)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Nov. 15, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Aristotle on the Value of Comedy”
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Jay Jasanoff (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Nov. 16, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/calenda…
Christopher Star (Middlebury
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 27, 4 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
"The Final Age Has Come: Nero, Seneca and the End of the World"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
Nina Papathanasopoulou (Connecticut
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Nov. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Serpent Heart: Animality, Jealousy, and Transgression in Martha Graham's Medea (Cave
of the Heart)”
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…
R. R. R. Smith (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Nov. 29 – Fri., Nov. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
December 2018
Mirte Liebregts (Radboud University Nijmegen, The
Netherlands)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
Tue., Dec. 4, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
Classics and Contemporary Critical
Issues<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Dec. 6, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic TBA
GSAS Workshop "Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues"
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Dec. 7, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
Nino Luraghi (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Dec. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Peloponnesian Peace"
March 2019
Bernard Frischer (Indiana
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 13
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Rome Reborn"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
Catherine Grandjean (Université de Tours,
France)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Mar. 26, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The coinage of the Achaian koinon, between federal authority and civic autonomy.”
Ancient galleries open until 8 p.m.
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
April 2019
New England Ancient History
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Apr. 11
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Faculty Club, Room 205, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
UMass Classics
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 26, 3 – 6:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room (Tenth Floor), Amherst, MA
"Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Ancient Historiography in Honor of
Professor Elizabeth Keitel"
3:00 to 6:30 p.m. - followed by banquet (details TBA).
Speakers:
1) Jane Chaplin (Middlebury), When Historians Make History
2) Timothy Joseph (Holy Cross), Ubique lamenta: The place of lament in Latin epic and
historiography
3) Christina Kraus (Yale), Multiplying disasters: the many-fronted, multiplex bellum in
Livy 5
4) John Marincola (FSU), Asinius Pollio and the Roman Revolution.
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