Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010
(2/12/10)
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**Tues., Feb. 16, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
"The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years--and the
Next Five Hundred Plus"
Professors Stephanie Kamath (Univ. of Massachusetts, Dep. of English),
Luis Girón-Negrón (Harvard, Dep. of Lit. and Comp. Lit), Richard
Thomas (Harvard, Dep. of the Classics), and Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard,
Dep. of the Classics) present and discuss the Virgilian Tradition:
aspects and approaches.
Presented by The Classical Traditions Seminar
Tues., Feb. 16, 8:00-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford, MA
Reinhard Foertsch, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Institute of
Archaeology, University of Cologne)
"The Discourse of Space"
A Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture in the Classical Culture as Digital
Information, Languages of Materiality for 2010
For further Information, visit our website at
http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures
or email david.proctor(a)tufts.edu
Tues., Feb. 17, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262),
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Ruth Phillips (William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of
Canadian Studies; Professor of Art History, School for Studies in Art
and Culture; Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture, Carleton
University, Ottawa
"Artistic Primitivism and the Emergence of Indigenous Modernisms:
Western Discourse, Global Diaspora"
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Cultural Politics Seminar
Wed., Feb. 17, 8:00-9:30 p.m.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, 170 Packard Ave., Medford, MA
Reinhard Foertsch, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Institute of
Archaeology, University of Cologne)
"The Inoperability of Culture"
A Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture in the Classical Culture as Digital
Information, Languages of Materiality for 2010
For further Information, visit our website at
http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/balmuthlectures
or email david.proctor(a)tufts.edu
Wed., Feb. 24, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 133, 12
Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Alexander Kitroeff, Associate Professor of History (Haverford College)
"Greece's 'Great Idea' & the Politics of Cultural Nationalism in
the
1850s"
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
This is open to the public.
You can access this information by visiting the official website of
the Program of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard at the following link:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html
*Thursday, February 25, 4:15 p.m.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 200 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT
Ann Hanson (Yale University)
"Is there a Healer in the House? Therapies and recipes from Greek and
Roman Antiquity"
Sponsored by the Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski (dsierpinski(a)wesleyan.edu
) or see
https://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/
Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:00 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Dewey Common Room, Dewey Hall, Northampton, MA
Christopher Trinacty (Amherst College)
"Another Oedipus: The Reception of the Oedipus Myth by Seneca and Ted
Hughes"
Sponsored by: Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
For further information please contact nshumate(a)email.smith.edu.
Thurs., Feb. 25, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pearlman Lounge, 415 South St., Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical
Studies at Brandeis University
Ann Vasaly, Associate Professor of Classical Studies (Boston University)
"Livy's Early Books: The Voice of the People"
It is often taken for granted that, in his history, Livy consistently
expressed his fear and mistrust of the masses and hostility toward
popular leaders. Professor Vasaly will challenge that notion by
reexamining the historian's depiction of the populus in the crucial
years of the Republic.
Reception to follow.
For further Information, please contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow
(781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) or Heidi McAllister (781-736-2180
or hmcallister(a)brandeis.edu).
Free and open to the public (for directions:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
Fri., Feb. 26, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
David Sider (New York University)
"Ancient Views of the Book"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Wed., Mar. 3, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
In-Sight Lecture Series
Amy Brauer (Harvard Art Museum)
"Mosaic of Two Figures Seated on a Couch"
In the 1930s excavations along the banks of the Orontes River (modern
Asi) in Turkey uncovered nearly 300 mosaic pavements from the ancient
city of Antioch. Depicting interiors, landscapes, classical figures,
and decorative devices, they provide a sample of the pictorial arts of
the Roman East. This fragmentary mosaic floor representing two figures
lay for years crated and nearly forgotten in the subbasement storage
rooms of the Harvard Art Museum. Its recent conservation reveals much
about Roman domestic arts, ancient manufacturing, and modern salvation
techniques.
In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently, a new lecture series,
explores individual works of art from a variety of global traditions.
Approaching each work from multiple perspectives, we examine
techniques, contexts, and stories that have shaped it, and its
significance to the Art Museum. Tickets are $18 (members of Harvard
Art Museum $12, students with valid ID $8, Harvard students free on a
first-come, first-served basis). Space is limited, and registration is
encouraged. Please call 617-495-4544 or email artmuseum_membership(a)harvard.edu
for further information. Complimentary parking at Broadway Garage.
*Tues, Mar. 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Tau Zeta Epsilon House, Wellesley, MA
Amy Cohen (Associate Professor of Classics, Randolph College)
"Ancient Theatrical Masks in Performance"
For further Information email bburns(a)wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/CampusMaps/
*Tues. Mar. 9, 7:00 p.m.,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity
School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
The Semitic Museum presents a lecture by:
Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)
Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in "The Land of Palistin": Recent
Discoveries at
Tell Tayinat on the Plain of Antioch
A reception is to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Semitic Museum Galleries
on the 2nd floor at 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge. For more information
please call (617) 495-463 or email Semiticm(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Thurs., Mar. 18, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, Room 525, 745
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Jacob Howland (Professor of Philosophy, University of Tulsa)
"Plato and the Talmud"
For further information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu.
Fri., March 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University)
"Harems and Harridans? Gender and Narrative in Herodotus"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
**Wed., Mar. 31, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tom Glick (Boston University)
"The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval
Spain"
Medieval Seminar at Harvard University
Wed., Mar. 31, 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum, 438 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Patrice Calvel, Architect in Chief, Historic Monuments in France
"Splendors and Highlights of Stained Glass at Chartres: Restoration,
Newest Techniques and Latest Discoveries"
Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, under the
patronage of The French Consul General Christophe Guilhou, with
participation of Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of Art & Architecture,
Harvard University; Servane de Layre-Matheus, President, Chartres
Sanctuaire du Monde (
http://www.chartres-csm.org/); and Monika Riely,
President, American Friends of Chartres (
http://friendsofchartres.org/).
Thurs., Apr. 1, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115 (Pruyne Lecture Room), Amherst,
MA
S. Thomas Parker (History, North Carolina State University)
"Aila: A Roman Port on the Red Sea"
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western
Massachusetts Society, and the Department of Classics. For further
information contact Geoffrey Sumi gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu.
https://www.amherst.edu/map/camp_map-1-1.html
Fri., Apr. 2, Time TBA
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: TBD
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Fri., April 2, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
Rm 409, Boston, MA
Marco Formisano (Humboldt University)
"On the Margins. Studying non-central authors in Latin Literature"
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Melissa at josephmv(a)bu.edu
.
Thurs., Apr. 15, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
N. Keith Rutter (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
"Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily"
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of
western Sicily--Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks--in the 5th century
BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities
from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to
suggest an openness in relations.
Reception to follow; free and open to the public.
Mon., Apr. 19, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
Title: TBA
Seminar for Ancient Greece and Rome
Tues, Apr. 20, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
R.R.R. Smith (University of Oxford)
"The Blue Horse from Aphrodisias"
Fri., Apr. 23, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Adriano La Regina (La Sapienza University and National Institute of
Archaeology and History of Art, Rome)
Domus Aurea: Nero's "Golden House" in Rome
Professor La Regina, for many years the Superintendent of Antiquities
for the City of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor
Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the
surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other
buildings, and consider the transformation of this controversial
structure under later emperors.
The George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture
This lecture is cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Harvard Art Museum. Admission is free and the lecture is open
to the public.
*Thurs., Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, The Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker 114
(Kresge Room), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Peter Garnsey (Professor, University of Cambridge)
"Bones and History"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
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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