Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 2018
Texts, Authors, and Readers: a conference in honor of Richard
Tarrant<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Fri., Sep. 21 – Sat., Sep. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
Friday 21 September
SESSION I Presider: David Elmer, Harvard University
1:00 Welcome
1:15-1:45 Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University: Welcome and opening remarks
1:45-2:30 Jeanne Neumann, Davidson College: “Est enim difficilis cura rerum alienarum:
Terence and his contemporary adulescentes”
2:30-3:15 Jarrett Welsh, University of Toronto: “Listening to Roman Comic Verse”
3:15-3:45 break
SESSION II Presider: Jared Hudson, Harvard University
3:45-4:30 Gianpiero Rosati, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: “Pauca meo Stellae…Genres
and poetic models in Statius’ Silva 1.2”
4:30-5:15 Richard Thomas, Harvard University: “Aesthetics, Form and Meaning in the
Georgics”
5:15-6:00 Thomas Jenkins, Trinity University: “Augustan poetry and the Age of Rust: Music
and metaphor in Mitchell’s Hadestown”
Reception to follow at the Harvard Faculty Club, East Dining Room (6-7.30pm). All are
welcome
Saturday 22 September
SESSION III Presider: Leah Kronenberg, Boston University
9:00-9:45 Michael Reeve, University of Cambridge: “Iuppiter imperator?”
9:45-10:30 Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania: “Medius aliqui sensus interuenit: On
(authorial and other) parentheses in Caesar and Tacitus”
10:30-11:00 break
SESSION IV Presider: Stephanie Frampton, MIT
11:00-11:45 Rebecca Benefiel, Washington and Lee University: “Editing ancient
handwriting”
11:45-12:30 Alison Keith, University of Toronto: “Epicurean Postures in Martial, Epigrams
10.47—48”
12:30–2:00 lunch
SESSION V Presider: Julia Dyson Hejduk, Baylor University
2:00-2:45 Gareth Williams, Columbia University: “Ax of Love: Clytemnestra’s Motivation for
Murder in Seneca’s Agamemnon’
2:45-3:30 James Ker, University of Pennsylvania: “It’s the Animae, Stupid: The End of
Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam”
3:30-4:15 Lauren Curtis, Bard College: “Causation and complaint in Ovid’s exile poetry”
4:15-4:30 break
SESSION VI Presider: Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University
4:30-5:15 Irene Peirano Garrison, Yale University: “Nescit quod bene cessit relinquere:
Ovid the rhetorician”
5:15-6:00 Frank Coulson, The Ohio State University: “Ceyx and Alcyone in the medieval
school tradition on Ovid”
Jason Pedicone (Paideia
Institute)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Tue., Sep. 25, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Mather Hall, Rittenberg Lounge, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT
06106
"How to Build a Humanities Start-Up: Social Entrepreneurship and the Future of the
Liberal Arts"
Kirk Ormand (Oberlin
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Sep. 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho”
The Department of Classics cordially invites you to join us for “Women In and Out of Time:
Atalanta and Sappho,” a lecture presented by Kirk Ormand from Oberlin College. Prof.
Ormand will be speaking on Thursday, September 27, 2018 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm in Rhode
Island Hall, Room 108.
Kirk Ormand is the Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College. He is the
author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999), The Hesiodic
Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (2014),and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient
Greece and Rome (2018); editor of A Companion to Sophocles (2012) and co-editor (with Ruby
Blondell) of Ancient Sex: New Essays (2015). He has published articles on Homer, Hesiod,
Hipponax, Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, Lucan, the Greek novel, Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven,
and Michel Foucault.
www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/events>
October 2018
Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Contexts and
Meanings<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Oct. 2, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge, MA
02138
Robert Koehl, of Hunter College, and Kimberley Patton, of Harvard, will explore why animal
shapes were such popular forms for ancient vessels.
In this lecture, leading scholars will offer perspectives on the social and symbolic
importance of the vessels featured in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from
the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, on view September 7, 2018
through January 6, 2019.
Following their presentations, Koehl and Patton will be joined in conversation by 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. Ebbinghaus curated the
Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via
the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at
the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Following the lecture, guests are invited to view the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition on
Level 3 until 8 p.m.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhib…
Martin Revermann (University of
Toronto)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Oct. 4, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
“Translation Prefaces”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center
for the Humanities
Documentary Screening: The Lost City of Cecil B.
DeMille<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Oct. 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Filmmaker Peter Brosnan, lead archaeologist Colleen Hamilton, and executive producer
Francesca Silva will be in attendance for the screening of The Lost City of Cecil B.
DeMille. There will be a panel/Q&A after the screening.
New England Ancient History
Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Thu., Oct. 11, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Smith House, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Registration information:
lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu<mailto:lauren.caldwell@trincoll.edu>
Timothy Joseph of College of the Holy Cross will offer for discussion his paper
"Lucan, Carthage, and Roman Historical Epic," with commentary from Andrew
Johnston of Yale University
New England Ancient History Colloquium
*Thomas Biggs (University of
Georgia)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Oct. 18, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
“Civil War, Sovereignty, and the Poetic ‘State of Exception’ in Lucan’s Bellum Civile”
www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/academics-…
*Sarah Spence (Medieval Academy of
America)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Oct. 24, 5:30 – 7:30 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. Her work
has focused on the poetry of Vergil and on the process of poetic adaptation and reception
of the classics in the Middle Ages and beyond. She is the author of three monographs and
several edited volumes as well as many articles and reviews. Founding editor of Literary
Imagination, the review of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, she
has also served as editor of Vergilius (the journal of the Vergilian Society of America)
and, currently, Speculum, the flagship journal of the Medieval Academy of America. In 2014
she published, with Elizabeth Wright and Andrew Lemons, a translation and commentary on
Latin poems written about the 1571 Battle of Lepanto during the first year following the
battle. She is currently completing a book on the poetic treatment of the island of Sicily
in works from Cicero to Dante.
www.brown.edu…<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/academics-…
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.
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calen…
Nadav Asraf (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 30, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, 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…
November 2018
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
This symposium will bring together art historians, a conservator, a numismatist, and a
silversmith to explore the enduring appeal of silver.
Alain Schnapp (Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics…
Wed., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
James Loeb Lecture
*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)”
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center
for the Humanities
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
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, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
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