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Mon., Apr. 15
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall, Room 101, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lectures Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
1. "Doing (different) things with music"
Mon., Apr. 15
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Warren House, Kates Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford University)
"Greek History in the Dutch Republic: rewriting the ancient past in the early
seventeenth century"
In conjunction with the Mahindra Humanities Center colloquium "The Discovery of the
Classical World(s)"
Tues., Apr. 16
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lectures Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
2. "Whose music? Local, ethnic, and class distinctions"
Thurs., Apr. 18
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski, Amherst, MA 01002
Gregory Staley (University of Maryland)
"Making Oedipus Roman"
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures
Thurs., Apr. 18
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lectures Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
3. "The gender of music"
*Thurs., Apr. 18
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Holger Zellentin (University of Nottingham)
Graduate International Colloquium
"Jesus and Ritual Purity in the Apostolic Literature and in the Qur'an"
A Graduate International Colloquium sponsored by the Office of International Affairs, the
Departments of Comparative Literature, Classics, Religious Studies, and the Joukowsky
Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
*Thurs., Apr. 18
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, Andover-Harvard Theological Library (3rd
flr), 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sarah Byers (Boston College)
"The Psychology of Compassion: Stoicism in the City Of God 9.5"
*Fri., Apr. 19
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Comparative Literature Seminar Room, Dana Palmer House, 16 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Securitas: A Roman Discourse"--chaired by John Hamilton (Harvard University)
Seminar on Classical Traditions
Victoria Rimell (La Sapienza, University of Rome)
"Security and Rape: The Case of Statius' Achilles"
Michèle Lowrie (University of Chicago)
"Cura and Cosmos in Vergil's Georgics"
Hosted by the Seminar on "Classical Traditions" (Mahindra Humanities Center) and
the Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
flyer:
http://bit.ly/12Ilm8N
Fri., Apr. 19
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Seminar Room 200 725 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, MA 02215
Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina)
"Court and Exile: The Poetry of Ovid and Yu Xin"
http://www.bu.edu/premodern/
**Fri., Apr. 19
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall, Room 101, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Griffith (University of California, Berkeley)
Jackson Lectures Series: "Music and Difference in Ancient Greece"
4. "Human musicality and the origins of species"
Reception to follow on the 2nd floor of Boylston Hall.
Mon., Apr. 22
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mahindra Humanities Center, Kresge Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
"Did the Ancient Mysteries Influence Early Christianity?"
*Tues., Apr. 23
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)
Title TBA
Wed., Apr. 24
YALE UNIVERSITY, TBA, New Haven, CT 06511
New England Ancient History Colloquium, Spring 2013 Meeting
Roberta Stewart (Dartmouth College) will make available for discussion her paper
"Priesthoods, Emperors, and Coins." William Metcalf (Yale University) will do
the commentary. For further information contact Allen Ward <allen.m.ward(a)att.net>et>.
**Thurs., Apr. 25
3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Goldfarb Library (Rapaporte Treasure Hall), 415 South Street,
Waltham, MA 02454
Spring Symposium, Department of Classical Studies and Theater Arts
Theme: "Athenian Tragic Theater in Modern Performance: Euripides’ Orestes and
Iphigenia in Tauris"
Casey Dué Hackney (University of Houston), "Savage Greeks in Foreign Lands: Greeks
and Barbarians in the Tragedies of Euripides” (Martin Weiner Lecture);
Eric H. Hill (Brandeis University) and graduate actors, "A Demonstration of Dramatic
Method in Athenian Theater";
Leonard C. Muellner and Eric H. Hill (Brandeis University), Casey Dué Hackney (University
of Houston), and students in Advanced Greek 115B and Athenian Tragic Theater in Modern
Performance, "Round Table Discussion with the Audience"
Reception to follow the symposium in the Treasure Hall. Opening night performance (8:00
p.m.) of the two plays, Orestes and Iphigenia in Tauris, on the Mainstage of Spingold
Theater at Brandeis. For tickets and information:
http://www.brandeis.edu/arts/btc/1213season/visionsofanancientdreamer.html. Parking in
"Tower Lot." Free and Open to the Public.
For other information please contact: Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (aoko-(a)brandeis.edu) or
Heidi McAllister, 781-736-2180, (hmcallis(a)brandeis.edu).
*Thurs., Apr. 25
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 213, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University)
Title TBA
Thurs., Apr. 25
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania)
"Divination in the Ancient World: A Cognitive Approach"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu) or see
http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/.
Fri., Apr. 26
4 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall (first floor, School of Law), 765 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference
Theme: "Imperium Romanum: Domination and its Challenges"
Emma Dench (Harvard University), "Imaging Roman Power"
Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (Boston University), "Representing Leaders--from Republic to
Empire"
Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University), "How do Civil Wars End? Some Roman
Answers"
Dinner to follow the conference. INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: Contact Stacy Fox, Dept
of Classical Studies, Boston University, sfox(a)bu.edu / 617-353-2427.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/about/the-2013-boston-area-roman-studies-confere…
Fri., Apr. 26
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
Mon., Apr. 29
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Andrew Laird (University of Warwick)
"The Renaissance in Mexico"
Harvard Early Modern Colloquium
*Thurs., May 2
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 213, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stratis Papaioannou (Brown University)
"Signature and Voice: The Byzantine Author"
*Tues., May 7
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
"Grammar, genre and patronage in twelfth-century Constantinople: A scientific
paradigm and its implications"
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