The Boston Area Classics Calendar for October 9, 2015
PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to an existing entry
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.
*Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard Divinity School)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY/BOSTON PATRISTICS GROUP, Andover-Harvard Theological Library (third
floor), Rabinowitz Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
“Female Splendor: the Role and Meaning of Twelve Women Saints
in the Apse of the Euphrasian Basilica of Poreč (ancient Parentium)”
*Kristina Milnor (Barnard College)
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Demerrit Hall 112, 9 Library Way Durham, NH 03824
Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
“Girls Gone Good: Experiencing Female Virtue in the Roman House”
John C. Rouman Lecture
Free and open to the public.
More info:
cola.unh.edu…<http://cola.unh.edu/chi/event/girls-gone-good-experiencing…
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@wellesley.edu<mailto:bburns@wellesley.edu>
Franziska Naether (University of Leipzig)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Thompson Room (Rm. 110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Tue., Oct. 20, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
"Casino Royale in Ancient Skyscrapers? On Recent Finds from Roman Tower Houses in
Tuna el-Gebel (Egypt)"
Co Sponsored by the the Ludics Seminar and Harvard Classics
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics
More info:
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvar…
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
www.brandeis.edu…<http://www.brandeis.edu/about/visiting/directions.html…
Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, List Art Building, Room 110, 64 College Street, Providence, RI 02912
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
"Epigraphies of Appropriation: Classical Greek Sculptors in the Roman World"
More info:
www.brown.edu…<http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/brown.edu.a…
Gil Renberg (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
Topic TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
*Isabel Köster (Holy Cross)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, Room 320, 1 College St, Worcester, MA
01610
Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m.
"How to destroy your enemies in ancient Rome: Cicero and the language of curse
tablets"
Sofia Nikolaidou (Author)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2 Arrow Street, Room 408, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
“Then there were tanks, Now there are banks”
A Conversation on the Novel "The Scapegoat" between author Sofia Nikolaidou and
translator Karen Emmerich, moderated by Vassiliki Rapti
Onassis Foundation University Seminar Series
Event Series: Onassis Foundation University Seminar Series
*Madeleine Goh (Harvard University)
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 113 Downey House, 294 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Fri., Oct. 30, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
“Chariot Warfare in Homer”
Sponsored by Classical Studies Department
For more information please contact Debbie Sierpinski
(dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu<mailto:dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu>)
More info:
www.wesleyan.edu…<http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics>
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…<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calend…
Laurie Rush (Army Archaeologist at Fort Drum, NY)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 725 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, Room CAS 221
Thu., Nov. 5, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m.
"Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas"
Co-Sponsors: Boston University Archaeology Department and the Boston Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America
More info:
omeka.wellesley.edu…<http://omeka.wellesley.edu/bostonaia>
"A colloquium on “Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination”
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 10th Floor, Campus Center, Amherst, MA 01002
Sat., Nov. 7, 2015, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Speakers are Brigitte Libby (Harvard University), “Out of the Ashes: Rome’s Beginnings at
Troy”; Tom Zanker (Amherst College), “Horace and the Rhetoric of Decline”; Virginia Closs
(University of Massachusetts Amherst), “The Unmaking of Rome: Clades Publica and
Censorship in Senecan Thought”; Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania), “The Sacks of
Rome”; Andrew Johnston (Yale University), “Ruin, Reconstruction and History”; Jessica
Clark (Florida State University), “The Spoils of War: Victory as Urban Disaster”;
Elizabeth Keitel (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Caesar and the Urbs Capta at
Massilia”; and Honora Chapman (California State University, Fresno), “Josephus’ Memory of
Jerusalem: A Study in Urban Disaster.”
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the College of Humanities of Fine Arts
More info:
www.umass.edu…<https://www.umass.edu/classics/disaster>
Albert Harrill (Ohio State University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School,
Andover Hall, Sperry Room
45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m.
"Paul in Rome?"
Event Series: Brown Lecture Series
Julia Hejduk (Baylor University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Nov. 17, 2015
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
Meredith Safran (Trinity College)
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center; Fourth Floor (Suite A); 1 College St,
Worcester, MA 01610
Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
"Romulus and the 'difficult task' : a folk motif in Livy's
'Sabine women' episode (AUC I.9-13)"
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.
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
Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Mar. 1, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Roman Religions: Narrative, Innovation, and
Subjectivity
Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sat., Mar. 5, 2016
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)
Event Series: Biennial Harvard Graduate Student Conference
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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