Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #14 (11/24/04) 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 *Wed., Dec 1, 5:00-6:00 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street, Shiffman 219, Waltham, MA A Martin Weiner Lecture Kenneth Rothwell (University of Massachusetts, Boston) "Democracy: Greece, Rome, and America" For further information: Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or JBarry(a)brandeis.edu), or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) *Thurs., Dec. 2, 4:30 p.m. YALE UNIVERSITY, Phelps 407, New Haven, CT The Harvard Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics Eric Robinson (Harvard University) "Argos and the Struggle for Peloponnesian Democracy" *Fri., Dec. 3, 4:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lindsay/Arrowsmith Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA Myth and Religion Study Group John Carlevale (Berea College) "'I Went to an Orgy and I Couldn't Cut It': The Dionysian Revival in Sixties Fiction" For more information, please contact Sal Sordillo: 617-353-2427, salvy(a)bu.edu. Mon., Dec. 6, 8:00-9:15 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church of America, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI Sponsored by the Department of Classics Latin Carol Celebration Free admission; open to the public Thurs., Dec. 9, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Renate Schlesier (Freie Universitaet, Berlin) "Dionysos in the Underworld: The Problem of the Bacchic Mysteries" Thurs., Dec. 9, 8:00 p.m. WESTON JESUIT SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, 5 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA Boston Area Patristics Group (Patristica Bostoniensia) Laura Nasrallah (Harvard Divinity School) "Empire and Apocalypse in Thessaloniki: Interpreting the Early Christian Rotunda (Church of St. George)" For more information, contact Annewies van den Hoek (ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu, 617-495-4265) Tues., Dec. 14, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, Sperry Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Sponsored by the Semitic Museum Mark Lehner (Giza Plateau Mapping Project) "Excavations at Giza 2004: The City of the Pyramids Expands" Reception preceding lecture at 6:15 at Semitic Museum, 2nd floor, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge For more information, call Dena Davis, 617 495-4631, davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu Wed., Feb. 9, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street, Shiffman 201, Waltham, MA The First Annual Jennifer Eastman Lecture in Classical Studies Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) "The Three Songs of Demodokos in *Odyssey* viii: A Reassessment" For further information: Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or JBarry(a)brandeis.edu) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko(a)brandeis.edu) Tues., Feb. 15, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, title TBA For more information: Michael Satlow (401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu) Tues., March 15, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) "De-orientalizing Prometheus: The Culture Hero in Mesopotamia and Greece" For more information: Michael Satlow (401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(a)Brown.edu) Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium Burkhard Meissner (Brown University) "Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents, Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation" For more information: Michael Satlow (401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow(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.