Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 7, 2011
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Tues., Feb. 8
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Andover Hall, Sperry Room, 45 Francis Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Eliezer Oren (Ben-Gurion University)
"Canaanite Temples, Rites and Rituals: New Archaeological Evidence
from Tel Haror, Israel"
Lecture jointly presented by The Semitic Museum, Harvard Near East
Society. For more information please call (617)495-4631 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu
.
*Thurs., Feb. 10
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)
"Homeless Kings? The Abandonment of Macedonia in Seleucid Royal
Ideology"
*Tues., Feb. 15
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Andrew Monson (NYU)
"From Satrapies to Kingdoms: Persian and Hellenistic Fiscal Regimes"
Tues., Feb. 15
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room
K401, Cambridge, MA 02138
Meredith Martin (Wellesley College)
"Royal Women and Pastoral Architecture in Early Modern France"
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University:
Research Seminar on Cultural Politics
This is open to the public.
Thurs., Feb. 17
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Constanze Güthenke (Princeton University)
"The Language of Classical Scholarship: Philology, Empathy, and
Wilamowitz' Plato"
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
*Thurs., Feb. 17
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-
Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Daniel F. Caner (University of Connecticut)
"Martyr Narratives and the Christianization of the Sinai Peninsula:
Ps.-Nilus’ Narrations"
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP
Patristica Bostoniensia is a colloquium of the BOSTON THEOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE, an association of nine theological schools in the Greater
Boston area. For more information, please, contact Annewies van den
Hoek, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138,
or visit the website at
http://www.bostontheological.org/academic/patristica_bostoniensia.htm
*Fri., Feb. 18
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
Liz Young (Wellesley College)
"Toward a Poetics of Plunder: The Task of Translation in Catullus 64"
Refreshments will be served.
Sat., Feb. 26
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient
World, 60 George Street Providence, RI 02912
Brown University symposium
BIG: Monumentality and Meaning in the Ancient World--A Cross-
Disciplinary Symposium
Not everything big is a monument, and not all monuments are big. This
cross-disciplinary symposium seeks to address monumentality and
meaning in the ancient world, with notable scholars in the fields of
anthropology, archaeology, classics, and art history. We hope to
explore the balance between cross-cultural monumentality and
historically particular memory, and the relation between size and
commemoration in past monumental thinking. See the program here:
http://proteus.brown.edu/big2011/8475
*Tues., Mar. 1
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Giuseppe Labua (University of Rome, La Sapienza_
"Between Poetry and Politics: Horace and the East"
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Thurs., Mar. 3
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room
K401, Cambridge, MA 02138
Alessandro Duranti (University of California at Los Angeles)
"On the future of Anthropology: Financial, Political, and Ethical
Challenges in a Rapidly Changing Environment"
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University:
Research Seminar on Cultural Politics. This is open to the public.
**Mon., Mar. 7
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Harvard University, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
"Futures past in ancient historiography: Xenophon's Anabasis"
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Wed., Mar. 9
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College)
"Voluptuous Possessions: Reconstituting the Rural Villas at Boscoreale"
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Reception to follow. Open to the public. Free parking.
Contact: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister
(hmallis(a)brandeis.edu) for additional information.
**Fri. and Sat., March 18 and 19
BROWN UNIVERSITY, The Joukowksy Institute for Archaeology and the
Ancient World, 60 George Street, Providence RI 02912
Brown University conference
The Archaeology of Italy: the State of the Field 2011
Corinna Riva (University College London)
This conference will begin on Friday evening with a keynote address,
and continue through Saturday with panel discussions of the current
state of Italianate archaeology.
contact: Jeffrey Becker (Jeffrey_Becker(a)Brown.edu); 401-863-2008
*Tues., Mar. 22
4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, Providence, RI 02912
A Symposium Honoring the Career of Kurt Raaflaub
"From Description to Conceptualization, Analysis, and Theory: Early
Greek Reflections on Politics and Government in Their Larger
Mediterranean Context."
Responses by James Allen (Brown), Peter Funke (Münster), Peter
Machinist (Harvard), Josiah Ober (Stanford), Saul Olyan (Brown). Smith-
Buonanno 106.
**Tues., Mar. 22
5:10 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities G03, 415 South
Street, Waltham, MA 02454
D. Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross)
"Scholars and Texts from Hipparchus to Google Books"
Jennifer Eastman Lecture Series
Reception to follow. Open to the public. Free parking.
Contact: Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister
(hmallis(a)brandeis.edu) for additional information.
Sat., Mar. 26
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barristers Hall (School of Law, 765 Commonwealth
Avenue), Boston, MA 02215
Boston Univ. Grad. Conference
Keynote speaker: Ellen Greene (University of Oklahoma)
3rd Annual Boston University Department of Classics Graduate Conference
"Quis spectatores spectabit?: Voyeurism and Spectatorship in Antiquity"
Funded by the Department of Classical Studies and the Boston
University Humanities Foundation. The deadline for submission of
abstracts will be December 21, 2010. Time subjected to change. For
more information, please email bugradconference(a)gmail.com.
Thurs., Mar. 31
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room
K401, Cambridge, MA 02138
Veena Das (The Johns Hopkins University)
"A Very Quarrelsome Man: Cultural Politics of Dirt, Locally Embedded
Publics and a So-Called Leader of the Free World"
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University:
Research Seminar on Cultural Politics. This is open to the public.
Fri., Apr. 1
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences Room 522, 675
Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Ronald Stroud (University of California, Berkeley)
“Magic and Religion in Ancient Corinth”
A Norton Lecture of the Archaeological Institute of America; co-
sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America and the Boston University Department of Archaeology
*Thurs., Apr. 7
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Earth Sciences Building 107 (Paino), Amherst MA 01002
Sarah H. Nooter '01 (University of Chicago)
"Oedipus, Song, and the Gods"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eastman Fund. For
directions see
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html or e-mail
swupton(a)amherst.edu
Thurs., Apr. 7
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room
K401, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jing Tsu (Yale University)
"Literary Governance and Global Chinese Literature"
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University:
Research Seminar on Cultural Politics. This is open to the public.
Mon., Tues., Thurs., and Fri., April 11, 12, 14, and 15 at 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lectures
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Titles and location TBA
*Mon., Apr. 18
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Smith-Buonanno 106, Providence, RI 02912
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Lecture
"Ancient Scholarship in the Printing House: The Culture of Correction
in Renaissance Europe"
*Thurs., Apr. 21
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence, RI 02912
Barbara Graziosi (Durham University)
"Divine inspiration and narrative technique in the Iliad"
Fri., Apr. 29
4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 5th
floor 02215
Boston University Roman Studies Conference: Presenting the Past
Presentations:
Andrew Feldherr (Princeton University)
"Vergil's Salian Fugue: Excavating Roman Epic in Evander's Rome"
Ann Vasaly (Boston University)
"The 'Archaeology' of Early Rome: Livy and his Predecessors"
Lisa Mignone, Brown University
"Land Confiscations in 456 BCE? Rethinking the Lex Icilia,"
Dinner will to follow the conference.
Registration: Stacy Fox, sfox(a)bu.edu
Information: Tel.: 617-353-2426
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m. and
Sat., Apr. 30, 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
Friday, April 29, 6 pm
Saturday, April 30, 8:30 – 6:30 pm
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Symposium
In 2005 the Harvard Art Museums acquired the coin collection of the
German archaeologist and art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978).
Her work on Hellenistic and Roman sculpture and on the Roman Theater
remains fundamental. This symposium around her coin collection will
bring together art historians, historians and numismatists of
different backgrounds and interests from the US and from Europe. It
will focus on the interrelation of coins and sculpture with an
emphasis on the development of Greek portraits and portraits of the
Roman empresses, as well as on designs personifications. Organized by
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Asian
and Mediterranean Division.
Speakers include Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University), Carmen
Arnold-Biucchi (Harvard Art Museums), Martin Beckman (University of
Western Ontario), Larissa Bonfante (Emerita, New York University),
Barbara Borg (University of Exeter), Karsten Dahmen (Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin), Peter F. Mittag (University of Cologne), Matthias Recke
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen), and William E. Metcalf (Yale
University).
Mon., May 2
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Francis Goelet Professor of
Medieval History)
"Digital Atlas"
*Thurs., May 5
6:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, Newton, MA 02467
Boston College Symposium
"THE MEANING OF DREAMS in a Scientific Age"
Advances in the neuroscience of dreaming have fundamentally altered
how we understand our dreams and their significance. In this cross-
disciplinary symposium, a psychiatrist (J. Allan Hobson), Jungian
therapist (William Ventimiglia), and classicist and historian of ideas
(David Konstan) will offer their perspectives on the "meaning" of
dreams and what they can tell us about ourselves in light of these
advances. Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts (Boston
College).
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