Boston Area Classics Calendar
November 19, 2010
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Mon., Nov. 22
4:15 p.m. – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Katharine Park (Harvard University)
"The Science of the Senses: Observation and Experience in Medieval
Europe"
Tues., Nov. 23
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA
Ezra S. Marcus (Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies University of
Haifa, Israel)
"Maritime Trade and Coastal Settlement at Middle Bronze Age IIa Tel
Ifshar, Israel"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum, Harvard Near East
Society. For more information please call email
Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Mon., Nov. 29
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD DIVINITY School, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-
Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Prof. Max Deeg (Cardiff University, Wales)
"The 'Brilliant Teaching': The Rise and Fall of
'Nestorianism' (Jingjiao) in Tang China"
For more information, please, contact Karen Manning (Karen_Manning(a)harvard.edu
) or Annewies van den Hoek (ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu).
Tues., Nov. 30
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Herbert Golder (Boston University)
"Medea's Afterlife in Film"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Tues., Nov. 30
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G12, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Emma Dench (Harvard University)
Jennifer Eastman lecture
"Who did the Romans think they were?"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
For more information or directions, please contact Heidi McAllister
(hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu
) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Thurs., Dec. 2
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Peter Machinist (Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, NELC, Harvard)
“The Alphabet: its Origins and Early History” Visible Language Lecture
series, Peabody Museum
**Friday-Sunday, December 3-5
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Conference: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of
Milman Parry and Albert Lord
Organized by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard
University
Some 30 scholars from around the world will present papers on
theoretical and practical aspects of the study of oral traditions.
This conference is free and open to the public. Please e-mail
singersandtales(a)chs.harvard.edu
to register, and see the following website for more information:
http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=3141
*Friday-Sunday, December 3-5
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient
World, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Symposium--Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics
Keynote Address: Matthew W. Stolper (U. Chicago) - "Crises of the
Persepolis Fortification Archive"
Rhode Island Hall, room 108
December 3, 2010 5:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
http://proteus.brown.edu/archaeologiesoftext/Home
*Fri., Dec. 3
5:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient
World, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI
02912
Matthew W. Stolper (University of Chicago)
Keynote Address for Symposium
"Crises of the Persepolis Fortification Archive"
http://proteus.brown.edu/archaeologiesoftext/Home
Mon., Dec. 6
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Providence, RI 02912
63rd Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present its sixty-third annual program
of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely
in Latin.
Thurs., Feb. 17
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Constanze Güthenke (Princeton University)
"The Language of Classical Scholarship: Philology, Empathy, and
Wilamowitz' Plato"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Mon., Mar. 7
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Harvard University, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Title: TBA
Sat., Mar. 26
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall (School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue), Boston, MA 02215
Boston Univ. Grad. Conference
Keynote speaker: Ellen Greene (University of Oklahoma)
3rd Annual Boston University Department of Classics Graduate Conference
"Quis spectatores spectabit?: Voyeurism and Spectatorship in Antiquity"
Funded by the Department of Classical Studies and the Boston
University Humanities Foundation. The deadline for submission of
abstracts will be December 21, 2010. Time subjected to change. For
more information, please email bugradconference(a)gmail.com.
April 11, 12, 14, and 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
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