Boston Area Classics Calendar
November 2022
Philipp Stockhammer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Nov. 14, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South: Belfer Case Study Room, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street in Cambridge, MA
Prof. Philipp Stockhammer, archaeologist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and Deputy Director for MHAAM in Germany, will present his latest discoveries with MHAAM about family, foods, and health in Bronze Age Greece. This talk will be followed by a public reception!
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[Philipp Stockhammer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean)]
Lecture: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Nov. 15, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Decolonizing Archeological Archives: Paul Collart Works in Palmyra and the Social Impact of the Collari-Palmyra Project"
Open to the public.
Organized by the Forum on Cultural Heritage at Harvard
[Lecture: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne)]
A. E. Stallings<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 16, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Integrative Learning Center 240, 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst MA 01003
"Myth as Method: an American Poet in Greece, through modern Crises"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics at UMass Amherst with the support of the Departments of Classics at Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges.
A. E. Stallings is an American poet and translator who lives in Athens, Greece. She has published four volumes of poetry (most recently Like, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and has a selected poems (This Afterlife) forthcoming in December from FSG. She has also published three volumes of verse translation, including Lucretius' The Nature of Things, Hesiod's Works and Days, and the Pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. She is currently working on a Georgics for Liveright. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2015, she has run a poetry for refugee women at the Melissa Network for Migrant Women in Athens.
Contact: Brian Breed (bbreed(a)umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@umass.edu>)
María Luisa Aguilar García (University of Valencia and Collegium Latinitatis)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Nov. 29, 3 – 4 p.m.
Remote, via Zoom
"Learning vocabulary in a second language: what it is, how it works, which strategies can lead to a rich and stable vocabulary knowledge"
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UMass Boston SLA and Classics Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.umb.edu_classics…>
blogs.umb.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.umb.edu_classics…>
Contact: Christopher Cochran (Christopher.Cochran(a)umb.edu<mailto:Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu>)
March 2023
Alexander Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Mar. 1
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Also sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Diagrams Across Disciplines: History, Theory, Practice<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/diagrams-across-discipl…>.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Rosalind Thomas (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 1
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 2
Reception to follow lecture.
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Mar. 27, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 3
Jackson Lecture Series
Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin-Madison)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 28, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Sardis Biennial Lecture, 2021-2022
Join us for the biennial lecture on research and discoveries at Sardis, one of the great ancient cities of western Türkiye from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The Sardis Expedition is one of the longest running international projects sponsored at Harvard and is one of the oldest classical archaeological projects in the Mediterranean. Director Nicholas Cahill will report on recent work and discoveries from the 2021 and 2022 field seasons and will discuss future endeavors.
Led by:
Nicholas Cahill, Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
Work by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958. This biennial lecture series presents the latest research from the site to the Harvard and greater Boston communities.
Sardis Biennial Lecture
Contact: am_sardis(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_sardis@harvard.edu>
Rosalind Thomas (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Mar. 29, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 4
Jackson Lecture Series
April 2023
A Symposium: Antiochus III’s Edict(s) to Jerusalem: Between Imperial Stress and Local Agency<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 20 – Fri., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street,, Cambridge, MA 02138
Rotem Avneri Meir and Julia Rhyder (co-organizers)
See website<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochus-iiis-edicts-to-jerusal…> for details.
cjs.fas.harvard.edu…<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochus-iiis-edicts-to-jerusal…>
A Symposium in Honor of Ioli Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 28 – Sun., Apr. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.com_-3Fq-3D…>
Students and colleagues will gather to celebrate the career of Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art, Harvard University. The symposium will feature papers by her students. This event is free and open to the public.
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