The Boston Area Classics Calendar for March 6, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry
*Mon Mar 9: Margaret Mullett (Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks)
5:30 p.m. (recption preceding at 4:30 p.m.)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 110, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Byzantium on the Move: Mobile Empire, Traveling Textiles"
The 2015 Harvard Medieval Material Cultures Lecture and Workshop
Mon Mar 9: Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Bartlett Hall 65, Amherst MA 01003
“Song 17 of Sappho revisited (in the light of new supplements).”
The 11th annual David Grose Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics at
UMass Amherst.
For more information contact Brian Breed (bbreed(a)classics.umass.edu)
Tue Mar 10: Ray Starr, Professor of Classical Studies (Wellesley College)
5:15 p.m.
MIT, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/)
"Reading Bronze and The Text on It: The Res gestae divi Augusti in Rome"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
*Wed Mar 11: Gudrun Buehl, Anne Driesse, Katherine Eremin, Eurydice Georganteli, Brandie
Ratliff, Georgina Rayner, and Elizabeth Williams
10:30 a.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Art Study Center, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
"Interwoven: Textiles from the Medieval Mediterranean"
A workshop exploring the uses and meanings of textiles in the Byzantine, Islamic, and
Latin Mediterranean basin. Materials drawn from the rich collections of the Harvard Art
Museums.
Note: space is limited; to reserve a space, please contact dana_ciccotello(a)harvard.edu by
March 9.
*Wed Mar 11: Kristine M. Trego (Bucknell University)
5 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Beneski Earth Sciences Building, #107 (Paino)
"Ancient Shipping and Underwater Archaeology in the Mediterranean"
Sponsored by the Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful World, the Archaeological
Institute of America, Western MA Society, and the Department of Classics at Amherst
College.
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/classics/classics_lectures
**Wed Mar 11: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Changing Concpeptions of the Roman empire - atrophy and the alternatives"
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop: "Territories
of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Graduate Student Coordinators: Charles Bartlett, cbartlett(a)fas.harvard.edu; Anthony
Shannon, ashannon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Thu Mar 12: Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago)
5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, Inn & Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell,
MA 01852
2nd Annual Zamanakos Lecture in Hellenic Studies: “Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora,
Ancient and Modern”
Contact: paul_keen(a)uml.edu
Thu Mar 12 to Fri Mar 13: CON-IH 15--Transitions: States and Empires in the Longue Durée
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International
History (Con-IH) has become an annual event, organized by graduate students in
International History at Harvard University. Please visit the conference website,
http://con-ih.com,http://con-ih.com, for more information, and please email any enquiries
to the organizing committee at ConIH(a)fas.harvard.edu.
*Fri Mar 13: Niels Gaul (Central European University, Budapest; Dumbarton Oaks)
4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Three Steps Towards Comparing Networks of Learning in Byzantium and the ‘Latin’
West, c.900–1200"
*Thu Mar 19: Jessica Moss (New York University)
4 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, STH Room 508, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
"Aristotle's Casual Compatibilism: Responsibility in Nicomachean Ethics III.”
Department of Philosophy
For more information contact roochnik(a)bu.edu
Mon Mar 23: Stefan Ritter, Professor of Classical Archaeology (Ludwig-Maximilian
University Munich)
6 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Buildings on Roman Coins: The Visualization of Urban Atmosphere in Roman Art"
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will be open for one hour.
Free parking available in Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue Mar 24: Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Loeb Lecture
Tue Mar 24: Sean Kelly (Harvard University)
7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Techne, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cognitive Theory and the Arts
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts
Wed Mar 25: Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
6 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Sardis Biennial Lecture: New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey”
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
Thu Mar 26: The Second Annual “Lectures in Modern Philhellenism”: The Modern West: Have We
Lived up to the Standards of Ancient Greece?
7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Photonics Building Room 206, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA
02215
Lecturers: Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies);
Professor Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts University); Professor Stephanie Nelson (Boston
University); Professor Loren J. Samons (Boston University)
Sponsored by Ifigenia Kanara (Consul General of Greece in Boston), Boston University
Philhellenes, Boston University Department of Classical Studies, Boston University Core
Curriculum
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/lectures-in-philhellenism/
**Fri Mar 27: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Horace's Hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19): Poetics and Politics"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…
Wed Apr 1 (rescheduled from Wed Feb 11): Mary-Louise Gill, Professor of Classics and
Philosophy (Brown University)
5:15 p.m.
MIT, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/)
"True Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato's 'Phaedrus'"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
*Tue Apr 7: Ufuk Kocabaş (Istanbul University)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Building, Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
02138
“Theodosian Harbor Excavations and 37 Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı in
Istanbul-Turkey”
Sponsored by: Consulate General of Turkey in Boston and Harvard University’s Department of
History of Art + Architecture, Standing Committee on Archaeology, and Standing Committee
on Medieval Studies
A reception before the lecture will take place at 4:30 in the Sackler Building lobby.
**Thu Apr 9: NEAHC Meeting; Speaker: Joseph McDonald (Wheaton College)
5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Aquinas Lounge, Providence, RI 02918
"Reading Religious Transgression in Thucydides’ Delion Debate (Thuc. 4.
89-101)"
The New England Ancient Historians Colloquium: a meeting of professors and graduate
students of ancient history for dinner and discussion of paper by Joseph McDonald (Wheaton
College). Proffesor Jay Samons (Boston University) will give commentary on the paper.
http://www.providence.edu/history/Pages/calendar.aspx#/?i=1
Fri Apr 10: 20th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY ROMAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, TBD, Boston MA 02215
"Public Life of Roman Women"
Amy Richlin (UCLA): "Slave-women and Freedwomen: Political Culture from Below in the
200s BCE"
Patricia Johnson (BU): "The Female Kin of Sempronius Tuditanus: A Prosopography of
Women’s Political Engagement"
Barbara Gold (Hamilton College): "Perpetua and the Women of the Novel and the
Apocryphal Acts: How Public and Private Interact"
Papers will be followed by dinner (optional)
http://www.bu.edu/classics/events-news/the-2014-boston-area-roman-studies-c…
Mon Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (J. Paul Getty Museum)
6 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury"
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Following the lecture, select galleries related to the talk will be open for one hour.
Free parking available in Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue Apr 14; Wed, Apr 15; Thu Apr 16; Fri, Apr 17: Barbara Borg (University of Exeter)
5 to 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jackson Lecture Series
Four lectures: Titles TBA
Wed Apr 15: Thomas Forrest Kelly, Professor of Music (Harvard University)
5:15 p.m.
MIT, Building E51-275, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/)
"Capturing Music: The Story of Medieval Notation"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Fri Apr 17: Elizabeth M. Greene (University of Western Ontario)
4:30-6:00 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
"Soldiers' Families in the Military Communities of the Western Roman
Empire"
This presentation addresses the evidence for the presence and social role of women and
families in Roman military communities in the western Roman provinces.
Mon Apr 27: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)
6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
“The Warren Cup - Ancient or Modern? Problems of Method and Interpretation”
Tue Apr 28: Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)
4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
“The Paradigm of Textual Criticism: Its Use and Abuse in Classical Archaeology”
**Wed Apr 29: Prof. Dr. Frank Ruehli, Director, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
(University of Zurich)
4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Hall 201, Harvard Yard. Cambridge, MA 02138
"Of mummies and skeletons: when the dead teach the living"
http://www.iem.uzh.ch/people/frankruehli.html
*Mon Jul 13 to Sat Jul 18: Classical Association of New England Summer Institute at Brown
University
BROWN UNIVERSITY, TBA
A week-long experience for middle school, high school or college teachers of Latin, Greek,
English, History, or related disciplines, undergraduates, graduate students, and devoted
lifelong learners. The CANE Summer Institute provides an enriching educational experience
of a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, and special events while also
offering ample opportunity for collegial interaction between participants.
Contact: CANE.Summer.Institute.2015(a)gmail.com
More information on lectures and courses at
http://caneweb.org/new/?page_id=165
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