Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #20 (2/10/06) This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to an address dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of as word-processor file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK. Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued the following week. Please circulate as widely as possible. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry *Fri., Feb. 10, 4:00 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, 401 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT Roman Topics Seminar Christopher Krebs (Harvard University) "Fighting for Moral Health: Two Metaphors in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae" Mon., Feb. 13, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Dee Clayman (Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate School) "Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram" Wed., Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Dr. Kathryn Bard and Dr. Rodolpho Fattovich (Boston University and University of Naples) "Seaport of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Recent Excavations in Wadi Gawasis" Reception preceding at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue For more information, contact Dena Davis at davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu (617-495-4631) Thurs., Feb. 16, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Ellen Rosand (Yale University) "In Defense of Seneca" For further details see www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr Mon., Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m. MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA Five College Lecture in Classical Archaeology "New Discoveries at Aphrodisias" Christopher Ratte (New York University) Reception following; for more information contact Geoffrey Sumi (gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu) Sponsored by the Five College Classics Departments *Wed., Feb. 22, 4:00 p.m. RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, 34 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA Fellowship Program Mary-Louise Gill (Brown University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) "Plato on Models and Trees" Thurs., Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley) "Some Aspects of Rhetoric and Character in Euripides" Reception following Sponsored by the Department of Classics Thurs., Feb. 23, 5:30 pm, BROWN UNIVERSITY, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Natalia Lozovsky (California) "Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns" *Mon., Feb. 27, 4:00-6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA Myth and Religion Study Group Benjamin Foster (Yale University) and Alice Slotsky (Brown University) "The Babylonian Epic of Creation" Light refreshments will be served For more information, contact Sal at salvy(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2427 Wed., Mar. 1, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Babbott Room of the Octagon, Amherst, MA Yelena Baraz (Trinity College) "From the Academy to the Forum: Cicero's Philosophical Politics" Reception to follow Free and open to the public For further information, contact Sara Upton <swupton(a)amherst.edu> *Thurs., Mar. 2, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 114, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Alex Sens (Georgetown University) "tipte genos toumon zeteis: The Batrachomyomachia, Hellenistic Epic Parody, and Early Epic" Thurs., Mar. 9, 4:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Burkhard Meissner (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg/Brown University) "Between Values and Reality: The Experience of War in the Hellenistic Period" Mon., Mar. 13, 5:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Philip Hardie (University of Oxford) "Virgil's Lucretian Visions" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics Mon., Mar. 13, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania) "Juno's Aeneid Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent" Thurs., Mar. 16, 7:30 p.m. BOSTON COLLEGE, Walsh Function Room, Chestnut Hill, MA Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute) "Introspection, Plotinian and Augustinian" Commentary by John Kenney (St. Michael's, VT) For more information, contact Gary Gurtler, gurtlerg(a)bc.edu Fri., Mar. 17 - Sun., Mar. 19 BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street, Providence, RI A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies "Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient Civilizations" Further information, contact Maria Sokolova (401-863-1994; Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.edu) See Appendix for details Tues., Mar. 28, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA Ralph J. Hexter (Hampshire College) "Stories of War and Return" - The Nostoi Project For further information please contact Robert Meagher <remHA(a)hampshire.edu> Sponsored by Hampshire College, The Nostoi Project Tues., Apr. 4, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Alan Griffiths (University College, London) "The Odyssey and Oddities of Catullus 4" Wed., Apr. 5, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina and Dumbarton Oaks) "Suicide in Byzantium" Thurs., Apr. 6, Brown-Yale Meeting at Yale (Details to be announced. For more information, please contact Ruthann Whitten at Ruthann_Whitten(a)brown.edu) Adele Scafuro (Brown University) "Athenian Decrees for Trial in Literary and Epigraphic Documents" Comments by Victor Bers (Yale University) Mon., Apr. 10, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Amherst, MA Simon James (University of Leicester) "Desert Fortress: Life and Violent Death in Roman Dura-Europos, Syria" Reception following Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass. Society Mon., Apr. 10, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Jeffrey Wills (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine) "Why is Vergil an Alexandrian? The Maximization of Minimalism" Tues., Apr. 18, 4:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Providence, RI Erwin Cook (Trinity University) "Nestor's Big Adventure: Making Sense of Iliad, Book 8" *Tues., Apr. 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Goddard Chapel, Medford, MA Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman World" David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester) Lecture 1: "From Imperium to Imperialism: Writing the Roman Empire" For information, contact R. Bruce Hitchner, Chair, Department of Classics at 617-627-3213 or by email, bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth *Wed., Apr. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman World" David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester) Lecture 2: "Ruling Regions, Exploiting Resources" For information, contact R. Bruce Hitchner, Chair, Department of Classics at 617-627-3213 or by email, bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth Thurs., Apr. 20, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Lecture Christof Boehringer (Curator Emeritus of the Collection of the University of Gottingen, Germany) "Signing and Non-Signing Engravers in the Classical Greek Coinage of Sicily" *Thurs., Apr. 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman World" David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester) Lecture 3: "Power, Sex, and Empire" For information, contact R. Bruce Hitchner, Chair, Department of Classics at 617-627-3213 or by email, bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth Fri., Apr. 21, 3:45 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union's Faculty Dining Room, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA The Twelfth Annual Boston Area Roman Studies Conference Denis Feeney (Princeton University), "Founding and Re-founding the City of Rome" Ann Vasaly (Boston University), "Characterization and Complexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy" Tony Woodman (University of Virginia), "Mutiny and Madness: Annals 1.16-51" A reception and dinner will conclude the conference. For registration and other information see http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/roman/ or contact Prof. Pat Larash or Mr. Ben Thompson at the Department of Classical Studies (617-353-2426 or romstud(at)bu.edu) Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and Boston University's Humanities Foundation Mon., Apr. 24, 6:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture Hermann Parzinger (German Archaeological Institute) "Monumental Kurgans in the Siberian Steppe: The Scythian Elite Burial from Arzhan in Tuva" Sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Harvard Art Museums, and the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America *Mon., Apr. 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 001 Braker Hall, Medford, MA Balmuth Lectures: "Experiencing Empire: Power and Identity in the Roman World" David J. Mattingly (University of Leicester) Lecture 4: "Identity and Discrepancy" For information, contact R. Bruce Hitchner, Chair, Department of Classics at 617-627-3213 or by email, bruce.hitchner(a)tufts.edu Sponsored by the Department of Classics and generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth Tues., Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, College Street (Rt 9), Amherst, MA Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Emma Dench (Harvard University and Birkbeck College, University of London) Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion For more information, contact Cynthia Damon, <cdamon(a)amherst.edu>du>, 413-542-8126 Wed., Apr. 26, 5:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, 54 College Street, Room 119, Providence, RI Brad Inwood (University of Toronto) "Why Physics? Stoic Views on the Contributions of Natural Science to Human Happiness" Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m. SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA 16th Annual Lehmann Lecture Susan Rotroff (Washington University) "Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens" Reception following Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass. Society Thurs., May 18, 7:30 p.m. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy David Reeve (UNC, Chapel Hill) "Plato's Goat-Stags: Philosophers and Cities in the Republic" Commentary by Mark McPherran (U Maine, Farmington) For more information, contact Margaret Graver, margaret.r.graver(a)dartmouth.edu APPENDIX: Fri., Mar. 17-Sun., Mar. 19 BROWN UNIVERSITY, Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street, Providence, RI A Faith and Fred Sandstrom Conference in Ancient Studies "Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World in Ancient Civilizations" Friday, March 17, 4-7:30 Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): "Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings" Christopher Minkowski (Oxford University): "Populating the Terrain: Indian Anthropologies and Their Spatial Dimension" Kim Plofker (Amsterdam): "Humans, Ancestors, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India" Saturday, March 18, 9-1 Gerald Moers (University of Goettingen): "The World and the Geography of Otherness in Ancient Egyptian Culture" Michael Loewe (Cambridge University): "Early Imperial China and Its Knowledge of the Outside World" John Henderson (Louisiana State University): "Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China" Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu (Brown University): "Perceptions of Real Space and Imagined Landscape in Early Western Han" Saturday, March 18, 2:30-6:30 Susan G. Cole (State University of New York, Buffalo): "Women, Beasts, and Barbarians: Mapping the Outsider" James Romm (Bard College): "When Worlds Collide: The Europe-Asia Antithesis in Classical and Early Medieval Thought" Trevor Murphy (University of California, Berkeley): "Horror in Pliny's Natural History" Richard Talbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "The Roman World View: Beyond Recovery?" Sunday, March 19, 9:30-12:30 Daniela Dueck (Bar Ilan University): "Strabo and the Geographical Narrative" Emilie Savage-Smith (Oxford University): "The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the World" E. B. Berry (University of California, Berkeley): "Isolation Does Not Preclude Cosmoplitanism: Paradoxes in Classical (and later) Japanese History" Sunday, March 19, 2-6:30 Barbara Mundy (Fordham University): "New World Renaissance: Imperial and Local Geography in Mesoamerica before the Conquest" Catherine Julien (Western Michigan University): "Geography, Ethnography, and the World of the Sixteenth-Century Andes" Denis Cosgrove (University of California, Los Angeles): Comments Organizers: Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard Talbert Sponsors and Funding: Faith and Fred Sandstrom, the Programs in Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, the John Carter Brown Library, the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, the Departments of Classics, Egyptology and Ancient West Asian Studies, and History, the Royce Family Fund for Teaching Excellence, the Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts, the Charles P. Sisson II Memorial Lectureship, the Bruce M. Bigelow Class of 1955 Lecture Series. Further information, contact Maria Sokolova (401-863-1994; Maria_Sokolova(a)Brown.edu) 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.