The Boston Area Classics Calendar for September 18, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Sep. 21, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Τhe Dissonance of Ludic Poetics in Greek
Wedding Song Tradition: A Workshop on the 'Interdiscursivity' between the
Epithalamia and the Laments in Greek Antiquity"
Free and open to the public.
Seminar Chair: Vassiliki Rapti
(rapti@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rapti@fas.harvard.edu>)
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Sep. 23, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
"Revisiting Approaches to Ethnicity"
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
Erasing the Past: Da’esh and the Crisis of Antiquities Destruction
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, Davis Museum 106 Central Street, Wellesley MA 02481
Thu., Sep. 24, 2015, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Speakers include: Clemens Reichel (University of Toronto); Salam Al-Kuntar (University of
Pennsylvania); Jeremy Hutton (University of Wisconsin); Stephennie Mulder (University of
Texas); and Hugh Eakin (New York Review of Books)
Sponsored by the Departments of Religion and History, Wellesley College
Contact info: esilver@wellesley.edu<mailto:esilver@wellesley.edu>;
grogers@wellesley.edu<mailto:grogers@wellesley.edu>
**Public Symposium
INTERNATIONAL CATACOMB SOCIETY at PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, School of Arts and Sciences, Ruane
Center for the Humanities, Providence, RI 02918
Sat., Sep. 26, 2015, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Arthur Urbano (Providence College): "Wisdom Made Visible: Iconography and the
Fashioning of Philosophical Culture in Late Antiquity"
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University & Princeton University): "Catacomb
Religion: Uncovering Ordinary Christianity in the Centuries Before and After
Constantine"
John R. Levison (Southern Methodist University): "The Historical Roots of Early
Christian Pneumatology"
Lee M. Jefferson and Thomas McCollough (Centre College): "The Christian Veneration
Complex at Khirbet Qana"
Event Series: International Catacomb Society
More info:
www.catacombsociety.org…<http://www.catacombsociety.org/2015/09/01/progr…
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center--Fourth Floor (Suite A), 1 College St,
Worcester, MA 01610
Mon., Sep. 28, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
"Caesar: the historian and his self-portrait"
**Renate Schlesier (Freie Universität Berlin)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Sappho's Family: Constructs Ancient and Modern"
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture
*Ann Koloski-Ostrow (Brandeis University)
METROPOLITAN WATERWORKS MUSEUM, Overlook Gallery, 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02467
Wed., Sep. 30, 2015, 7 - 9 p.m.
"The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water
Systems"
Classical archaeologist and author, Dr. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow will discuss her new book
on the complex systems that ancient Romans engineered for managing public health and
hygiene in their cities. Through the lens of the archaeological record, including
artifacts, ancient graffiti, and literture of the day, Dr. Koloski-Ostrow will examine new
research that reveals the secret history of these little-known, but essential, parts of
Roman life.
Open to the Public, on street parking, reception, book signing, and light refreshments in
the main rooms of the museum.
http://waterworksmuseum.org/
Noel Lenski (Yale University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, TBA, Middletown, CT
Thu., Oct. 1, 2015
The speaker will present his paper, "The Settlement of the Visigoths in Gaul in 418
C.E. and Its Relation to Earlier Barbarian Settlements in the Roman Empire," with
commentary from Richard Lim (Smith College).
Event Series: New England Ancient History Colloquium
*From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: A Conference on Religion and Archaeology
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Andover Hall, Cambridge MA 02138
Thu., Oct 1, 2015 - Fri., Oct 2. 2015
Cyprus was an important hub of commerce and thought in the Roman and early Christian
periods and beyond. This interdisciplinary conference convenes archaeologists and scholars
of Cyprus with scholars of the New Testament, Early Christianity, and the religions of
antiquity. It brings together the study of history, literature, and material remains in
order to understand the interplay between society, politics, economics, theology,
philosophy, and practice in late antique Cyprus.
Keynote: Henry Maguire (Professor Emeritus, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University),
"The gods, Christ, and the emperor in the Late Antique art of Cyprus."
(Sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, The A. G. Leventis Foundation, Princeton
University, and the Battelle Memorial Institute)
Register at:
https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9TDsGsGXpLm0qMd
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cyprus2015/
*Professor Peter Davis (University of Adelaide, Australia)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Theology, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
02215
Wed., Oct. 7, 2015, 4 - 6 p.m.
"Free Speech in Virgil and Ovid"
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth…
Gabriel Zoran (University of Haifa, Israel)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, third floor, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
Tue., Oct. 13, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
"Text, Medium, and Imitation in Aristotle and Plato
A book presentation of Bodies of Speech: Text and Textuality in Aristotle"
Free admission. Open to the public. Light Refreshments.
*Tina Ross (Archaeological Illustrator)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA
02453
Sat., Oct. 17, 2015, 2 - 5 p.m.
Archaeological Illustration Workshop
Introduction to tools and techniques; hands on drawing exercises; understanding artifact
types
Sponsored by Brandeis University Department of Classical Studies Archaeological Institute
of America, Boston Society
No drawing experience necessary. All are welcome.
RSVP: bburns(a)wellesley.edu
*Clifford Ando (University of Chicago)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Reading Room 303, third floor, Mandel Center for the Humanities, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 5 -6:30 p.m.
"They have eyes, but do not see: Contexts of idolatry from Isaiah to
Augustine"
Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Reception with light refreshments
6:00 - 6:30 p.m. in same room.
For Directions see:
http://www.brandeis.edu/about/visiting/directions.html
Gil Renberg (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 0505 Menschel Hall (Lower Level), 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
"Trimalchio ad nauseam: Roman Art as a Tyranny of Bad Taste?"
Ruth Bielfeldt, Harvard’s Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, takes
the lavish dinner party of the Roman freedman Trimalchio—described in Petronius’s
Satyricon—as the starting point for a critical look at wall paintings and other domestic
art of early Imperial Rome. Are excess and mishmash always bad, or does Trimalchio’s
desire to turn the world into an overstuffed dish offer a key to a different understanding
of Roman tastes and aesthetics?
Free admission. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was
established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M.
Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present
outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston
communities.
Event Series: M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
More info:
www.harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
*Laurie Rush (Army Archaeologist at Fort Drum, NY)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 725 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, Room CAS 221
Thu., Nov. 5, 2015
Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas
Co-Sponsors: Boston University Archaeology Department and the Boston Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America
http://omeka.wellesley.edu/bostonaiaa
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Nov. 17, 2015
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Villa)
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Collins Cinema, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 5 p.m.
Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Annual Art Lecture
"Why Fakes Matter: Authenticity in Ancient Art"
This presentation takes up the controversial issue of fakes in ancient art and asks what
they can tell us about how we understand and define authenticity today.
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Feb. 29, 2016, 5 – 7 p.m.
"Plutarch, Lucian and the Sixth Century BC"
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome
Hans Beck (McGill University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Mar. 7, 2016, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Topic: Greek koinon
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
Johannes Nollé (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen
Archäologischen Instituts)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Title: TBA
Event Series: Mildenberg Lecture
Ann Kuttner (University of Pennsylvania)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Apr. 8, 2016, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Subject: ethnicity and material culture
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Ethnicity in the Ancient World"
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