Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2018
*Homerathon: A Marathon Reading of The
Odyssey<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Mon., Feb. 5, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Arts Cafe, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Come read The Odyssey with us!
Beginning with the Ancient Greek, traveling book by book through centuries of
translations, and ending with Prof. Emily Wilson's newest rendition, read by the
translator herself. All readers will have the chance to win a signed copy of Prof.
Wilson's translation! Sign up to read:
https://arts-hum.wixsite.com/homerathon
Event sponsored by The Division of Arts & Humanities and the Department of The
Classics
arts-hum.wixsite.com.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3…
[Homerathon: A Marathon Reading of The Odyssey]
Emily Wilson (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Mon., Feb. 5, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Translating the Odyssey: Why and How"
https://www.classics.upenn.edu/people/emily-wilson<https://urldefense.pr…
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
MorgantinaVR: Visualizing Material Culture in Virtual and Augmented
Reality<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Feb. 7, 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cabot Science Library, Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA
02138
Please join us for the first event of 2018 in the Digital Futures Discovery Series, a
year-long program led by Harvard's Digital Futures Consortium that explores the
ongoing transformation of scholarship through innovative technology. Alex Walthall (UT
Austin, Harvard University) and Luke Hollis (Archimedes Digital) will present
MorgantinaVR, a product of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese
Project.
Digital Futures Discovery
Series<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.digitalfu…
www.digitalfuturesconsortium.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/u…
[MorgantinaVR: Visualizing Material Culture in Virtual and Augmented Reality]
Recycling, Revision, and Relocation in the Middle
Ages<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Fri., Feb. 9
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lamont Library Forum Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
A day-long symposium, featuring a keynote address by Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley
Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University and Director of the Dumbarton
Oaks Research Library and Collection. Co-sponsored with the Department of English,
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Celtic Languages and
Literatures, the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, and the Harvard
Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities. For the full schedule and to register, click
here<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/RRRMA>MA>.
medieval.fas.harvard.edu.<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/RRRMA>
Dean Hammer (Franklin & Marshall
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Feb. 15, 5 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Roman Republic and the Crisis of American Democracy: Echoes of the Past"
GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome"
Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin -
Madison)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Feb. 15, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912
"Vergil via Ovid on the Semiotics of Augustan Victory"
www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
[Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin - Madison)]
Kimberly Bowes
(
UPenn)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Feb. 15, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
"The Archaeology of Poverty: How poor were Roman peasants? Did they get
poorer?"
Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at
Harvard<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/>
sohp.fas.harvard.edu.<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/event/sohp-lecture-ki…
[Kimberly Bowes (UPenn)]
Jan Bloemendal (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Feb. 22, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Multi-Lingualism in Early Modern Europe: Readings of the Praise of Folly"
GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and
Beyond"
*Sara Forsdyke (University of
Michigan)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Mon., Feb. 26, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Hauser Hall Rm. 102, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Slave Agency in Ancient Greece
*John Oakley (College of William &
Mary)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Tue., Feb. 27, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall, 11 Barrett
Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002
"Daily Life on Athenian Vases"
www.amherst.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww…
Emily Hauser (Harvard Society of
Fellows)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Feb. 28, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Singer/man: The craft of (male) authorship from Homer to Plato"
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
March 2018
*Courtney Tomaselli (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 7, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
*Johanna Hanink (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 8, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Classical Studies Department, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
06459
"Fake Olds: History and alternative facts in classical Athens"
www.wesleyan.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ww…
Deborah Beck (The University of Texas,
Austin)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, third
floor. 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fathers, Sons, and Similes in Homer Odyssey 16"
In this lecture Professor Beck explores the father-son relationship between Odysseus and
Telemachus as well as Laertes through similes, which feature powerful and moving
perspectives on the disruption of their relationships.
Directions to Event:
www.brandeis.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www…hFKhB0OfSjR5mPobJZM&e=>.
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments will follow
from 6:00-6:30 p.m.
More info: Professor Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
(aoko@brandeis.edu<mailto:aoko@brandeis.edu>).
Martin Hallmansecker (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Mar. 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
GSAS Workshop "East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections"
Alan M. Stahl (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 21, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts"
Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval
contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds.
Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture.
Mildenberg Lecture
www.harvardartmuseums.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
April 2018
*Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 2, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Nathan Sivin
(
UPenn)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Apr. 4, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others"
GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and
Practice"
*Brent Vine
(
UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Tue., Apr. 17
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: TBA
James Loeb Lecture
*John Zaleski (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Byzantine Studies Colloquium
May 2018
*Paul Cartledge (University of
Cambridge)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Mon., May 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Discussion of Cartledge's book,
Democracy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.ou…vupWPVr0NQSFbLZQ06Q&e=>.
Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University).
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