Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 9, 2011
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Thurs., Sept. 22
1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393
Christopher Krebs (Harvard University)
"A Brief History of a Most Dangerous Book"
Thurs., Sept. 22
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peter Pesic (St. John's College)
"Persona, law, and divinity: the classical origins and implications of the concept of
personhood"
Fri., Sept. 23
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave. (School of Theology Building) Lindsay/Arrowsmith
Library, Rm 409, Boston, MA 02215
Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago, Divinity School)
Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions,
University of Chicago, Divinity School)
"The Gold Ring as Witness to Fidelity, with reference to Terence's 'The
Mother-in-Law'"
For more information, please contact Melissa at mjoseph(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427
Refreshments will be served
Mon., Oct. 3
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
William Johnson (Duke University)
"Publishing without Publishers: Books, Publication, and Community in Rome and
Today," Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminars on Ancient Greece and Rome and
on the History of the Book
Mon., Oct. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University)
"A Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Stoicism, Natural Law and the Decline of Classical Prudence in
Enlightenment Politics"
Sat., Nov. 5
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 02115
SYMPOSIUM: Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, A Symposium will be held on Saturday, November 5th from
10:30 to 4:30 in Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in conjunction with the
exhibition (Torf Gallery, October 26, 2011 – February 20, 2011), the first devoted to the
ancient goddess. An international team of experts, drawn largely from the contributors to
the catalogue of the same title (available in the MFA bookshop and online), will present
papers on different aspects of this complicated goddess: her cults and ancestors, the
philosophy of beauty, and Eros. The symposium is funded by the Estelle Shohet Brettman
Lecture Series supported by the International Catacomb Society. It is free and open to the
public.
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.
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