Boston Area Classics Calendar 2007/2008: #9 (11/9/07) This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to an address dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of as word-processor file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK. Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued the following week. Please circulate as widely as possible. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008 HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor Galleries, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity See Appendix for details on Gallery Talks and Symposium Fri., Nov. 9, 12:30-1:30 p.m. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Brunswick, ME Mary-Kay Gamel (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Greece: Past into Present" lecture series "Revising 'Authenticity' in Staging Ancient Mediterranean Drama" Common Hour Lecture, with additional sponsorship from the Niarchos Foundation Sat., Nov. 10 - Sun., Nov. 11 AMHERST COLLEGE and THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST, Amherst, MA "See How I Rip Myself!" Rome and its Civil Wars Keynote Address: T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter) "The Two-Headed State: How Romans Explained Civil War" For registration, speakers, and program see http://www.umass.edu/ civilwars/ Tues., Nov. 13, 5:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Gregory Jusdanis (Ohio State University) "Does Greek Speak the Language of World Literature?" Co-sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program and the Greek Study Group at the Center for European Studies *Tues., Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. WHEATON COLLEGE, Knapton Lecture, 26 E. Main Street, Norton, MA Joseph Leichter (independent scholar) "Arabic Mathematics and Renaissance Astronomy: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Theorem on Rectilinear Motion as Evidence of Arabic Influence on Copernicus" Reception to follow For further information contact Joel C. Relihan (508-286-3662 or jrelihan(a)wheatonma.edu) Free and open to the public (for directions: http:// www.wheatoncollege.edu/about/travel.html) Mon., Nov. 26, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion David Konstan (Brown University) "Assuaging Rage: Remorse, Repentance, and Forgiveness in the Classical World" Thurs., Nov. 29, 5:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Olin-Sang 104, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Classical Studies Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Adam Kolman Marshak (Brandeis University) "The Pathways and Palaces of Herod the Great: Excavating Hellenistic History in Ancient Judaea" Reception to follow, with light refreshments For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry(a)brandeis.edu) Free and open to the public (for directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/ overview/directions.html) Thurs., Nov. 29, 5:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall, Room 104, Cambridge, MA Joan Connelly (New York University) "Visual Space / Ritual Space and the Agency of the Greek Priestess" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Tues., Dec. 4, 4:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Classical Traditions Timothy Rood (University of Oxford) "A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque" MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Fall 2007 Gallery Report Due to ongoing construction at the museum, some Classical installations have been temporarily de-installed. We expect that as the fall term begins, the following galleries will be OPEN on a regular basis: East Greek Art (1A11); Etruscan Art (1A01); Archaic Greek Art (1A06 and 1A04b); Classical Greek Art (2A02); Roman Art (2A06); and Art of the Eastern Roman Empire, including the Antioch Marine mosaic (2A07). We hope to have the gallery of South Italian/ Hellenistic Art (2A12), which abuts the construction site, re-opened as soon as possible. We thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have questions about particular pieces, you can reach the Classical offices at (617) 369-3259. APPENDIX: Sat., Sept. 22, 2007 - Jan. 20, 2008 HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 4th Floor Galleries, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Exhibition: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity GALLERY TALKS: Sun., Nov.18, 2:00 p.m. Sun., Jan. 20, 2:00 p.m. Andreya Mihaloew, PhD candidate, Department of the Classics Thurs., Dec.13, 2:00 p.m. Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and polychrome Asian sculpture, with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of Japanese art Sat., Dec. 15, 11:30 a.m. Emily Gangemi, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern and PhD candidate, Department of the Classics Thurs., Jan. 10, 2:00 p.m. Color in ancient sculpture with Susanne Ebbinghaus, and photography, with Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography SYMPOSIUM: December 7-8 "Superficial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture" M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall Fri., Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m. Keynote lecture "Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity" Vinzenz Brinkmann Director of the Antiquities Collection, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt 7:00-8:00 p.m. Reception Sat., Dec. 8, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. Coffee 9:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard University Art Museums "New Research on the Polychromy of Roman Statuary" Mark B. Abbe, Research Scholar, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Was Traditional Chinese Sculpture Ever Unadorned?" Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University 11:00 a.m. Coffee break 11:15 a.m. "Questions about Painted Sculpture in South India" Padma Kaimal, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Colgate University "Mesoamerican Technicolor: Recreating and Preserving a Vivid Past" Barbara W. Fash, Director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 12:30 p.m. Lunch break 2:00 p.m. "Difficult: Some Remarks on the Rise of Monochrome Sculpture in the Renaissance" Frank Fehrenbach, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University 2:45-4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion Mark B. Abbe, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Barbara W. Fash, Frank Fehrenbach, Padma Kaimal, Eugene Wang Wheelchair access: to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the elevator to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic Museum at Harvard.