*Boston Area Classics Calendar*
*Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)*
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 103 Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Sep. 11, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
"Ancient Judaism: An Ethnicity or a Religion?"
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
*Nancy Gish (University of Southern Maine)*
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Sep. 15, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
"A Modern *Aeneid*": Eliot, Virgil, and Abandoned Women"
Cosponsored by the Modernism Seminar
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modernism>.
Seminar Chair: John Hamiltonjhamilt(a)fas.harvard.edu
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
*Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine) *HARVARD
UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Sep. 21, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Τhe Dissonance of Ludic Poetics in Greek
Wedding Song Tradition: A Workshop on the 'Interdiscursivity' between the
Epithalamia and the Laments in Greek Antiquity"
Free and open to the public.
Seminar Chair: Vassiliki Rapti (rapti(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics>
*Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Wed., Sep. 23, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
"Revisiting Approaches to Ethnicity"
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
*Symposium and Annual Meeting*
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, School of Arts and Sciences, Ruane Center for the
Humanities, Providence, RI 02918
Sat., Sep. 26, 2015, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Arthur Urbano (Providence College): "Wisdom Made Visible: Iconography and
the Fashioning of Philosophical Culture in Late Antiquity"
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University & Princeton University): "Catacomb
Religion: Uncovering Ordinary Christianity in the Centuries Before and
After Constantine"
John R. Levison (Southern Methodist University): "The Historical Roots of
Early Christian Pneumatology"
Lee M. Jefferson and Thomas McCollough (Centre College): "The Christian
Veneration Complex at Khirbet Qana"
Event Series: International Catacomb Society
More info:
www.catacombsociety.org…
<http://www.catacombsociety.org/2015/09/01/program-for-ics-symposium-and-annual-meeting/>
*Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) *COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus
Center--Fourth Floor (Suite A), 1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
"Caesar: the historian and his self-portrait"
*Renate Schlesier (Freie Universität Berlin) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
Topic: Aphrodite in Sappho's Poetry
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
*Noel Lenski (Yale University) *WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Middletown, CT
Thu., Oct. 1, 2015
The speaker will present his paper, "The Settlement of the Visigoths in
Gaul in 418 C.E. and Its Relation to Earlier Barbarian Settlements in the
Roman Empire," with commentary from Richard Lim (Smith College).
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
*Gil Renberg (Harvard University) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
02138
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
*Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University) *HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 0505 Menschel
Hall (Lower Level), 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
"*Trimalchio ad nauseam*: Roman Art as a Tyranny of Bad Taste?"
Ruth Bielfeldt, Harvard’s Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the
Humanities, takes the lavish dinner party of the Roman freedman
Trimalchio—described in Petronius’s Satyricon—as the starting point for a
critical look at wall paintings and other domestic art of early Imperial
Rome. Are excess and mishmash always bad, or does Trimalchio’s desire to
turn the world into an overstuffed dish offer a key to a different
understanding of Roman tastes and aesthetics?
Free admission. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street,
Cambridge.
Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which
was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends
of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the
fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to
the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
Event Series: M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
*Julia Hejduk (Baylor University) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
02138
Tue., Nov. 17, 2015
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
*Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Villa) *WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106
Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 5 p.m.
Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Annual Art Lecture
"Why Fakes Matter: Authenticity in Ancient Art"
This presentation takes up the controversial issue of fakes in ancient art
and asks what they can tell us about how we understand and define
authenticity today.
*Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
*Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Plutarch, Lucian and the Sixth Century BC"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient
Greek and Rome
*Hans Beck (McGill University) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 7, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Topic: Greek koinon
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
*Johannes Nollé (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des
Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS,
Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Title: TBA
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
*Ann Kuttner (University of Pennsylvania) *HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 8, 2016, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Subject: ethnicity and material culture
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
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