Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #11 (11/17/06) 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 Sun., Nov. 19, 2:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture Marjorie Venit (University of Maryland) "Images of the Afterlife in the Monumental Tombs of Greco-Roman Alexandria" Free; MFA admission not required. Please note that tickets are required for free programs and are available at the Remis box office on the day of the event. Tues., Nov. 21, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Sponsored by the Harvard Semitic Museum, History of Art and Architecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ancient Egypt Research Associates Barry Kemp (University of Cambridge) "Life and Religion at Tell el-Amarna" Reception preceding at 6:00 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue For more information contact Dena Davis (davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4631) Free and open to the public Tues., Nov. 28, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Nikos Poulopoulos (Harvard University) "Barbarians Ante Portas: Cavafy as a Social Psychologist" Thurs., Nov. 30, 3:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Golding 103, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA A Classical Studies Colloquium Series Lecture sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies Yumna Khan (Brandeis University) "The Mythical Mystery Tour of Dionysius of Alexandria" Light refreshments will be served For more 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 go to http:// www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Library, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Fall Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Speaker: Barbara Kellum (Smith College) "Freedmen, Fortune, and Empire: the Representational Strategies of Freedmen in the Roman World" Respondent: Ellen Perry (College of the Holy Cross) Schedule: 5:30 Drinks, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion For more information contact Kathleen Coleman (kcoleman(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2024) *Tues., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall 105, Cambridge, MA The Twentieth Nicholas E. Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies Theodore Antoniou (Boston University) "Music in Greece and the World Today" Mon., Feb. 26, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University (617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu) Tues., Feb. 27, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University (617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu) Wed., Feb. 28, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University (617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu) Thurs., Mar. 1, time TBA TUFTS UNIVERSITY, exact location TBA, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Aristotle on Political Animals" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University (617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu) APPENDIX: 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.