Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2021
Conference: Virgilian Space and Places (Day
2)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumba…
Sat., Oct. 16, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, 144 Hicks Way (Friday at the Old Chapel) and 150 Hicks Way (Saturday at
South College E470), Amherst, MA 01002 OR via Zoom
The Departments of Classics at Amherst College and UMass Amherst, supported by the Lamont
Fund, are hosting a conference on “Virgilian Space and Places” Friday, October 15
(3:30-6:30 p.m.) and all day Saturday, October 16 (9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.). The speakers are
Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU/Siena), Brian Breed (UMass), Cynthia Damon (Penn), Elena Giusti
(Warwick), Alison Keith (Toronto), Micah Myers (Kenyon), Aaron Seider (Holy Cross), Sarah
Spence (Georgia), Richard Thomas (Harvard), Graham Zanker (Canterbury/Adelaide), and Tom
Zanker (Amherst). All sessions will allow for both in-person and virtual attendance.
The event is free and open to the public but registration is required both for in-person
attendance (on a space-available basis and as campus Covid-19 protocols allow) and to
receive a link to participate remotely via Zoom. Early registration is encouraged (by
October 1 if ordering lunch on Saturday).
www.umass.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
Brian Breed (bbreed@umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@umass.edu>) and Tom Zanker
(azanker@amherst.edu<mailto:azanker@amherst.edu>)
Kendra Eshelman (Boston
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Oct. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"Unlettered in Paradise: Non-Readers in Early Christian Reading Culture
Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient
World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_cl…
Alex Forte (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Oct. 18, 5 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Zoom)
"Ancient Voices and Cultural (Meta-)Theory"
In this talk, Alex offers an ethically oriented analysis of how one might analyze the
concept of “culture” using two ritual texts from the ancient world. First, how should one
account for the presence of an Indic god of fire in a ritual text from the Hittite capital
Hattusa in north-central Anatolia? Second, how might one understand an ancient Greek
inscription suggesting that a priest of the Eleusinian mysteries speaks with the voice of
his legendary ancestor? What model(s) of “culture” best account for these texts?
Zoom
registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zo…
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zo…
[Alex Forte (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)]
Jeremy Swist (Brandeis
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 19, 5 p.m.
Zoom. See registration link.
"Fascist Receptions of Antiquity in Metal Music"
Since its genesis a half-century ago, heavy metal music and the counterculture that formed
around it has generally defined itself through transgressive sounds, words, and images as
expressions of rebellion against modern and contemporary systems of order, conformity, and
control. Often complementary to metal’s core antagonisms to modernity are romanticizing
appeals to a premodern past, including ancient Greece and Rome. A small but influential
minority of European metal artists push transgression to extremes by flirting with or
fully embracing fascist imagery and ideology, and in the process replicating and
perpetuating fascist and white supremacist manipulations of a classical antiquity they
dream of resurrecting through apocalyptic war and genocide. Fascistic metal artists, many
of whom are connected to extremist and terrorist groups and individuals, charismatically
offer to thousands of tolerant and susceptible consumers harmful distortions of the
classical past. In this talk I not only critique these artists' appropriations of
classical history and culture in light of the far-right’s general reception thereof, but I
also highlight positive solutions from within the global metal scene to challenge these
hateful usurpations of the ancient world.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and
Receptions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditio…
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
[Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University)]
Eric Driscoll (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Oct. 20, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Zoom
"'So as to make it an island': Isthmos Walls and the Geographical Imaginary
of the Peloponnese"
Register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zo…
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
November 2021
Caitlin Gillespie (Brandeis
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Nov. 8, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 685–725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"The Mind, Once Manly, Now Effeminate: Gender and the Failure of Language in
Sallust"
Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient
World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_cl…
December 2021
Kelly Dugan (Trinity
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Dec. 1, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Patrice Rankine (University of
Chicago)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Dec. 1, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Online. See registration link.)
Professor Rankine is the author of Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and
African American Literature. Faculty and students are encouraged to read his article in
advance of the talk: “The Classics, Race, and Community-Engaged or Public Scholarship”
(2019)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ev…9tDR-L3tGFFkvcsqlRk&e=>.
Co-sponsors: Classics Department, the Core Curriculum, African American Studies and the
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
February 2022
Maurizio Bettini (University of
Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
March 2022
Patrick Finglass (University of
Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
Topic TBA
Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient
World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_cl…
April 2022
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Zoom (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
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