Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 2019
Krešimir Vuković (Catholic University of Croatia)
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Mon., Sep. 9, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The River and the City: Myths of the Tiber in Roman Space and Literature”
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-greece-and-rome>
Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)
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Tue., Sep. 10, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Were Barbarians Barbaric?"
Scholars have normally taken this concept as a prime marker of the
perceived ethnic divide between Greeks and aliens. This paper sets the
“barbarian” in a very different frame and questions the image of natural
inferiority and subhuman character.
This event is free and open to the public, a light reception will follow,
and there will be photography. You can find more information on the
Classics Department website.
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Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)]
Reception for "Art at the Greek Institute"
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Sun., Sep. 15, 4 – 7 p.m.
THE GREEK INSTITUTE, 1038 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Exhibit September 15th through October 30th. Reception September 15th 4 to
7 p.m.
Composite photographs of past and present at the most iconic sites of
Athens. Free admission, books and prints for sale. Richard W. Moore,
photographer.
[image: Reception for "Art at the Greek Institute"]
The Parthenon of Makronisos: Re-educating the Greeks during the Cold War
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Mon., Sep. 16, 6 – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Screening of the film “Like Stone Lions at the Gateway into Night”
(directed by Olivier Zuchuat; France, Switzerland and Greece, 2012, 87
min., in Modern Greek, with English subtitles), introduced by Adrian Stähli
(Harvard University).
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
Evina Sistakou (University of Thessaloniki)
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Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
Helena González-Vaquerizo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
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Wed., Sep. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Warren House, Room 201, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Kazantzakis’ *Odyssey*: A (Post)Modern(ist) Sequel"
Should we consider Nikos Kazantzakis’ *magnum opus*, *The Odyssey* (1938),
a dead end in his career or its very starting point? Whereas today a
growing number of critics acknowledge modernist and even postmodernist
elements in the author’s novelistic work and thought, it still needs to be
proven not only that such elements do exist in *The Odyssey*, but that the
poem is the source of Kazantzakis’ later (post)modernism. The aim of my
presentation is to provide evidence for this and to propose an
interpretation of *The Odyssey *as an epic in the process of becoming a
novel, in fact, a (post)modernist novel. Such an interpretation will
illustrate major aspects not only of *The Odyssey* itself but also of the
overall development of Kazantzakis' literary work.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and Culture
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-and-culture>
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<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/modern-greek-literature-and-culture>
October 2019
Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
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Thu., Oct. 3, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Ancient Studies Visitors Series
Vinzenz Brinkmann (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung)
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Fri., Oct. 11, 12 – 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop
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Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Application required (deadline September 20th). See website for more
details.
Send questions to digitalmanuscriptediting(a)gmail.com. Application form:
https://tinyurl.com/digitalmanuscriptediting
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Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard
University Digital Scholarship Support Group.
dssg.fas.harvard.edu…
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Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop]
Shelley Haley (Hamilton College)
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Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
"Race-ing” the Romans: Uncovering the Racial Constructs of Ancient Rome
Mark Janse (Ghent University)
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Mon., Oct. 21, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Janse (Ghent University)
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Tue., Oct. 22, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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Mon., Oct. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions>
Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom
(Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University)
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Tue., Oct. 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA
02138
"*Mancipia Indica*: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
earlymod.fas.harvard.edu
Alex Purves (UCLA)
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Wed., Oct. 30, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium
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Thu., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Campus Center, 10th Floor, Amherst
Room, Amherst, MA 01002
Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross)
"The Political Power of the Middle Republican Army"
5:30: drinks and appetizers
6:30: dinner
7:30–9:30: speaker and commentator
Registration required (details to follow)
New England Ancient History Colloquium
November 2019
The 12th Annual Boston University Classical Studies Graduate Student
Conference
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Sat., Nov. 9
"Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment"
Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University) and Mr. Marquis "I
AM" McCray
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Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany)
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Thu., Nov. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Venantius Fortunatus"
April 2020
Vesta Curtis (British Museum)
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Wed., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
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