Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2022
Alexander O'Hara (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Mar. 28, 5:15 p.m.
MIT, Building E51, E51-095, Cambridge, MA
"The Irish at the Carolingian Court and the Europeanization of Europe"
Note: Attendees who are not members of the MIT Community on COVID Pass must contact
tranvoj@mit.edu<mailto:tranvoj@mit.edu> for a Tim Ticket. More info on COVID-19
protocol here:
covidapps.mit.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__c…
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
[Alexander O'Hara (Harvard University)]
Reading Greek Tragedy Online Live: Sophocles’
Philoctetes<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 30, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hilles Cinema, Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard St,
Cambridge, MA (and live-streamed over YouTube)
Reading Greek Tragedy Online has been bringing ancient Greek tragedies to life through
performance and discussion to worldwide audiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This
dynamic reading of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, a play in which themes of disease and isolation
loom large, will be the first in the series with a live, in-person audience. The
performance will be directed by Paul O’Mahony of Out of Chaos Theatre and interspersed
with discussion between faculty and students, facilitated by Professor Joel Christensen of
Brandeis University. The entire event will be simultaneously live-streamed over YouTube.
chs.harvard.edu…<https://chs.harvard.edu/programs/reading-greek-tragedy-…
[Reading Greek Tragedy Online Live: Sophocles’ Philoctetes]
April 2022
Aurelio Conference in Honor of Jeffrey
Henderson<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Fri., Apr. 1, 2 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, MA 02215 (behind Marsh Chapel)
Conference Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Reception Time: 6 p.m. EST
Dinner Time: 7:15 p.m. EST
The program for the 2022 Conference is as follows:
Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University
'The Homeric Helen as Weaver and Spinner'
Helene Foley, Barnard College
‘Euripidaristophanizing’
Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
‘Greek Comedy and the Question of Seriousness: Some New Approaches’
Steven D. Smith, Hofstra University
‘A Maculate Muse in Byzantium: Four Epigrams by Agathias of Myrina (AP 9.642-644, 662)’
The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Registration in advance
of the conference is encouraged, with walk-ins welcome.
To attend the dinner, dinner registration and a small fee are required by March 25th,
2022. Dinner registration will open soon. For more information and to register for the
conference and/or dinner, please visit:
https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/aurelioconference/<https://urlde…
The Aurelio Conference is sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities,
the Boston University Department of Classical Studies, and the William Goodwin Aurelio
Professorship.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 5, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker
Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (1 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Epic Maroons"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a
historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value,
broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of
some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the
enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering
paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more
with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a
political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture
Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
Katherine Schwab (Fairfield
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Polychromy, New (and Old) Technologies, and the Parthenon Metopes
Dr. Katherine Schwab will speak on a selection of Parthenon metopes to analyze
technologies, past and present, to better understand the original compositions and their
polychromatic appearance. The original ninety-two carved marble panels displayed four
major mythological battles prominently positioned above the columns on all four sides of
the temple. Today we have a greatly altered impression due to their current state of
damage and location. From graphite drawings to Virtual Reality, we are in a position to
better understand these nearly life-sized compositions that formed the public face of
Athena’s temple on the Athenian Acropolis.
The event is sponsored by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program
will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a
negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is
required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 6, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker
Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (2 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Zealots"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a
historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value,
broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of
some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the
enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering
paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more
with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a
political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture
Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
Lawrence Kim (Trinity
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Apr. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 109, Providence, RI
"Why Do We Call Early Greek Poetry ‘Archaic'?"
docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__do…
[Lawrence Kim (Trinity University)]
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 7, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, on Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (3 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Let Met Clear My Throat"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvar…
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a
historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value,
broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of
some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the
enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering
paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more
with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a
political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture
Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
Christian Thomsen (University of
Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 12, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 (and on Zoom)
TBA
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD
Book launch for The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Text Editing
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Apr. 21, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rebecca Miller Ammerman (Colgate
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
On Sacred Ground: Interpreting Votive Images at Metaponto in Southern Italy
The chora or territory lying beyond the walls of the urban center of Metaponto has been
the focus of pioneering archaeological fieldwork for more than half a century. Metaponto’s
chora may thus rightly boast to be the most thoroughly investigated of any city-state in
the ancient Greek world. This path-breaking research on the dynamic landscape of the
countryside forms the backdrop to Dr. Ammerman’s study of the statuettes and relief
plaques made of baked clay that generations of worshippers dedicated as votive offerings
at the rural sanctuary of Pantanello. Dr. Ammerman will illustrate the different angles
from which she has analyzed this large assemblage of figured terracottas in order to shed
light on the nature of the cult practiced at Pantanello and the concerns that worshippers
hoped would be addressed by the patron deity of the sanctuary to whom they made their
votive gift. Dr. Ammerman's Lecture is made possible by the Amherst College
Department of Classics and the Lamont Lecture Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program
will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a
negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is
required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern
Egypt<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Thu., Apr. 21, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & CULTURE, HARVARD MUSEUM OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (Zoom)
The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt (Virtual Lecture)
Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even
the familiar illustrations from children’s books and magazines showing kilted workers on
the Nile toiling away on their kings’ great monuments. But what is the relationship
between these images—along with the deep history they evoke and the processes of discovery
that made them visible—and the history of modern Egypt? In this talk, Wendy Doyon will
discuss the relationship between state, archaeology, and labor in Mehmed (or Muhammad)
Ali’s Egypt—an autonomous khedival, or viceregal, state within the late Ottoman Empire—and
explain how the power of the Egyptian state in the nineteenth century was built, in large
part, on the creation of modern antiquities land and the organization of Egyptian workers
as state assets controlled by Mehmed Ali Pasha and his dynasty-building successors.
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science &
Culture
hmsc.harvard.edu…<https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/power-antiquity-making-…
hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu<mailto:hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu>
[Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt]
Text Editing
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Apr. 22, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
Zoom
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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