Roman Dance Cultures in Context

2016 Apr 06

Dancing Bodies, Learned Ladies, and Elastic Moralities in Ancient Rome

4:15pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Smith College. Neilson Library Browsing Room

RCC is pleased to announce this talk by RCC Fellow Zoa Alonso Fernández, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of the Classics at Harvard University.

Abstract: Taking into account a series of Latin elegiac poems and satiric epigrams as well as funerary inscriptions from the Early Imperial...

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2015 Oct 31

V Workshop. Thiasos: Early-career Working Group in Classics

10:00am to 2:00pm

Location: 

Boylston Hall 237. Department of the Classics. Harvard Yard

RCC is pleased to advertise this session of the ongoing seminar by "Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics." The group includes faculty and affiliated postdoctoral fellows at the department of the Classics at Harvard University and Bard College.

As part of this session, participants will discuss papers that have been pre-circulated in advance.

Participants:

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2015 Jun 25

IV Workshop. Thiasos: Early-career Working Group in Classics

12:30pm

Location: 

Boylston Hall (TBD). Department of the Classics. Harvard Yard

RCC is pleased to advertise this session of the ongoing seminar by "Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics." The group includes faculty and affiliated postdoctoral fellows at the department of the Classics at Harvard University and Bard College.

This event is not open to the public.

Speakers/ Participants:

  • Zoa Alonso Fernández. RCC Fellow. Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of the...
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2015 Apr 04

III Workshop. Thiasos: Early-career Working Group in Classics

12:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

207 Boylston Hall. Department of the Classics. Harvard Yard

RCC is pleased to advertise this session of the ongoing seminar by "Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics." The group includes faculty and affiliated postdoctoral fellows at the department of the Classics at Harvard University and Bard College. This event is not open to the public.

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2014 Dec 13

II Workshop. Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics

1:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

207 Boylston Hall. Department of the Classics. Harvard Yard

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2015 Jan 23

Readings in Greek and Roman Dance: from Plato to Macrobius

Registration Closed 9:00am to 11:00am

Location: 

RCC, 26 Trowbridge. Cambridge MA 02138

Graeco-Roman authors have provided interesting sources for the study of Ancient dance. In this session students will be able to discuss the value of texts as means to approach embodiment and kinesthesia. They will also investigate the differences between the Greek culture of dance and that of the Romans.... Read more about Readings in Greek and Roman Dance: from Plato to Macrobius

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2014 Sep 29

Ludi, Ludic, Ludicrous: Choreographing Rome from Spartacus to Caligula

6:30pm

Location: 

Mahindra Humanities Center. Barker Center. Room 133.

RCC Fellow, Zoa Alonso Fernández, will be presenting this talk on ludics and dance.

The Seminar Ludics is chaired by Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard and Vassiliki Rapti, preceptor in Modern Greek and at Harvard University. It focuses on the concepts of play and games, widely interpreted. It aims at fostering an open dialogue among scholars who are interested in exploring the ludic principle across a...

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