Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Under the Great Mother's Sway: An Excursion Through Martial Book Three"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
[Tom Sapsford (Boston College)]
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall Room 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Exploring the Social Dynamics of Production in the Blacksmith’s Workshop at Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano, Italy)”
Amy Russell (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive (3rd floor, opposite end of hallway & through doors by stairwell), Cambridge, MA 02139
"Gender and belonging: women as members of the political community, through a Roman lens"
From myth to contract theory to the Third Reich, understandings of the notion of political community have often been expressed by calling back to its origins. Historians of the distant past are well qualified to talk about origin myths: the populus Romanus is the blueprint for many later notions of the sovereign People. But how does a group of individuals coalesce into a community, and how is that process gendered? I will explore the relationship between gender and the populus in Republican Rome, before mobilizing feminist approaches to explore how the legal and symbolic moves that define We the People have historically encoded violence against women; nevertheless, the past also offers ideas for alternative ways to think about what it means to belong to a political community.
Amy Russell is a Roman political and cultural historian, with particular interests in Republican political culture, space, and gender. Her next major work will be a monograph on the institutional and cultural role of the populus Romanus, for which her preparations have included new collaborations with political scientists, historians, and lawyers on the construction of peoplehood across time and space.
Image: Nicholas Poussin, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women” (1634-5)
A battle with men grabbing women, who are black and white contrasting a mostly orange, beige image of the struggle.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
calendar.mit.edu…<https://calendar.mit.edu/event/amsgenderandbelonging>
Contact: lit(a)mit.edu<mailto:lit@mit.edu>
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 1, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Room B36, Boston, MA 02215
"Latin poetry across languages: micro-negotiating classical tradition, with Joachim Du Bellay and John Milton"
Description: A try-out of material from my soon-to-be-completed Latin Poetry across Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition (working title), framed with remarks on the book’s era-straddling plan. I will lead off with some observations about the poetic interaction of Latin and Greek in the ancient Roman world (from Part I of my book), focusing on paradoxical elements in that much-studied relationship. Then, moving forward in time, I will sample two early modern case studies from Part II, ‘Readings between Latin and vernacular’: (a) ‘Du Bellay in Rome, between Latin and French’ (drawing on that poet’s French Antiquitez de Rome and his Latin elegy Romae descriptio, both from the 1550s), and (b), more briefly, ‘Reverse-engineering Milton’ (in which, against the background of Milton’s 1645 double book of Poems English and Latin, I conjure up a virtual Latin ‘twin’ for the great epic which Milton did not write in Latin, Paradise Lost. Poetic conversations throughout will be driven by close engagement across space and time with (especially) Horace, Ovid and Virgil.
Sponsors: This event has been generously funded by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/new-approaches/>
www.bu.edu…<https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/new-approaches/>
Contact: classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 14, 6 – 8 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, 255 Coburn Hall, 850 Broadway St, Lowell, MA 01854
"Athens in America: Ancient Greece and the Making of the New Nation"
In the decades between the death of George Washington and the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, America’s nation makers became infatuated with a dream of Greece.
This lecture will reconsider the American “Greek Revival” and its enduring significance, in the context of both the recent bicentennial of the Greek Revolution and the upcoming commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.
This event is sponsored by the UML History Department and the College of Fine Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
A reception follows the talk and off-campus guests can park in the Wilder Lot at 3 Solomont Way, Lowell, MA 01854
www.uml.edu…<https://www.uml.edu/hellenic-studies/zamanakos-endowed-lecture.aspx>
Contact: Jane Sancinito, Jane_Sancinito(a)uml.edu<mailto:Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu>
Skye Shirley (University College London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 19, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON, Integrated Science Center, 3rd Fl., Room 3300, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125
"When your Latin Teacher is a Statue: Marta Marchina (1600-1646) and Pasquino"
A research talk sponsored by the Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies and the UMass Boston Department of Classics and Religious Studies.
This event is free and open to all. A livestream on Zoom will be available. Use this link to register for the Zoom livestream<https://umassboston.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YoAZuALOQ2ucskzhbFVN1A>.
Contact: Christopher Cochran (Christopher.Cochran(a)umb.edu<mailto:Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu>)
[Skye Shirley (University College London)]
Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University; Visiting Professor of Classics at Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 22, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
TBD
Title TBD.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Virtual Lecture (Zoom)
Title TBD
Sponsors: Boston University Classical Studies, Core Curriculum, and the African American & Black Diaspora Studies Program.
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving Forward<https://www.bu.edu/classics/dei/lecture-series/>
www.bu.edu…<https://www.bu.edu/classics/dei/lecture-series/>
Contact: classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
April 2024
Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Parrhesia<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 3, 3 – 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Room 110, Cambridge, MA 02138
A discussion featuring the first amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, documentary film-maker Yael Melamede, and others.
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 16, 5 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Sun., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.aah2024.org<https://www.aah2024.org/>
BU Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 27
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"From Life to Literature? Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman Literature"
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge)
See a full Call for Papers at the link below.
classicalstudies.org…<https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-boston-university-graduate-studen…>
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Under the Great Mother's Sway: An Excursion Through Martial Book Three"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
[Tom Sapsford (Boston College)]
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall Room 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
Amy Russell (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive (3rd floor, opposite end of hallway & through doors by stairwell), Cambridge, MA 02139
"Gender and belonging: women as members of the political community, through a Roman lens"
From myth to contract theory to the Third Reich, understandings of the notion of political community have often been expressed by calling back to its origins. Historians of the distant past are well qualified to talk about origin myths: the populus Romanus is the blueprint for many later notions of the sovereign People. But how does a group of individuals coalesce into a community, and how is that process gendered? I will explore the relationship between gender and the populus in Republican Rome, before mobilizing feminist approaches to explore how the legal and symbolic moves that define We the People have historically encoded violence against women; nevertheless, the past also offers ideas for alternative ways to think about what it means to belong to a political community.
Amy Russell is a Roman political and cultural historian, with particular interests in Republican political culture, space, and gender. Her next major work will be a monograph on the institutional and cultural role of the populus Romanus, for which her preparations have included new collaborations with political scientists, historians, and lawyers on the construction of peoplehood across time and space.
Image: Nicholas Poussin, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women” (1634-5)
A battle with men grabbing women, who are black and white contrasting a mostly orange, beige image of the struggle.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
calendar.mit.edu…<https://calendar.mit.edu/event/amsgenderandbelonging>
Contact: lit(a)mit.edu<mailto:lit@mit.edu>
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 1, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Room B36, Boston, MA 02215
"Latin poetry across languages: micro-negotiating classical tradition, with Joachim Du Bellay and John Milton"
Description: A try-out of material from my soon-to-be-completed Latin Poetry across Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition (working title), framed with remarks on the book’s era-straddling plan. I will lead off with some observations about the poetic interaction of Latin and Greek in the ancient Roman world (from Part I of my book), focusing on paradoxical elements in that much-studied relationship. Then, moving forward in time, I will sample two early modern case studies from Part II, ‘Readings between Latin and vernacular’: (a) ‘Du Bellay in Rome, between Latin and French’ (drawing on that poet’s French Antiquitez de Rome and his Latin elegy Romae descriptio, both from the 1550s), and (b), more briefly, ‘Reverse-engineering Milton’ (in which, against the background of Milton’s 1645 double book of Poems English and Latin, I conjure up a virtual Latin ‘twin’ for the great epic which Milton did not write in Latin, Paradise Lost. Poetic conversations throughout will be driven by close engagement across space and time with (especially) Horace, Ovid and Virgil.
Sponsors: This event has been generously funded by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/new-approaches/>
www.bu.edu…<https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/new-approaches/>
Contact: classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 14, 6 – 8 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, 255 Coburn Hall, 850 Broadway St, Lowell, MA 01854
"Athens in America: Ancient Greece and the Making of the New Nation"
In the decades between the death of George Washington and the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, America’s nation makers became infatuated with a dream of Greece.
This lecture will reconsider the American “Greek Revival” and its enduring significance, in the context of both the recent bicentennial of the Greek Revolution and the upcoming commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.
This event is sponsored by the UML History Department and the College of Fine Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
A reception follows the talk and off-campus guests can park in the Wilder Lot at 3 Solomont Way, Lowell, MA 01854
www.uml.edu…<https://www.uml.edu/hellenic-studies/zamanakos-endowed-lecture.aspx>
Contact: Jane Sancinito, Jane_Sancinito(a)uml.edu<mailto:Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu>
Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Virtual Lecture (Zoom)
Title TBD
Sponsors: Boston University Classical Studies, Core Curriculum, and the African American & Black Diaspora Studies Program.
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving Forward<https://www.bu.edu/classics/dei/lecture-series/>
www.bu.edu…<https://www.bu.edu/classics/dei/lecture-series/>
Contact: classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
April 2024
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 16, 5 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Sun., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.aah2024.org<https://www.aah2024.org/>
BU Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 27
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"From Life to Literature? Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman Literature"
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge)
See a full Call for Papers at the link below. We are accepting abstracts until February 9, 2024.
classicalstudies.org…<https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-boston-university-graduate-studen…>
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails.
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2024
Book Launch and Discussion for "Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens," Seth Estrin (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Feb. 5, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Building, Lower Lecture Hall, Department of History of Art and Architecture, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Grief Made Marble (Yale University Press, 2023), Seth Estrin (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University) offers a new account of the relationship between art and emotion in ancient Greece through a revelatory study of the sculpted funerary monuments of Classical Athens. He is joined in discussion by Yukio Lippit (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University), Kathleen Coleman (Department of the Classics, Harvard University), and Nathan Arrington (Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University).
haa.fas.harvard.edu…<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-launch-and-discussion-grief-made-mar…>
[Book Launch and Discussion for "Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens," Seth Estrin (Harvard University)]
Delphi, the Navel of the World: Connecting Antiquity with the Future<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Feb. 8, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
CONSULATE GENERAL OF GREECE IN BOSTON, 86 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108
The Consulate General of Greece in Boston and the European Cultural Centre of Delphi cordially invite you to the presentation "Delphi, the Navel of the World: Connecting Antiquity with the Future."
Speakers:
Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; President of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University: Director of the Weatherhead Center for international Affairs
Reception to follow.
[Delphi, the Navel of the World: Connecting Antiquity with the Future]
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 1, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Room B36, Boston, MA 02215
"Latin poetry across languages: micro-negotiating classical tradition, with Joachim Du Bellay and John Milton"
Description: A try-out of material from my soon-to-be-completed Latin Poetry across Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition (working title), framed with remarks on the book’s era-straddling plan. I will lead off with some observations about the poetic interaction of Latin and Greek in the ancient Roman world (from Part I of my book), focusing on paradoxical elements in that much-studied relationship. Then, moving forward in time, I will sample two early modern case studies from Part II, ‘Readings between Latin and vernacular’: (a) ‘Du Bellay in Rome, between Latin and French’ (drawing on that poet’s French Antiquitez de Rome and his Latin elegy Romae descriptio, both from the 1550s), and (b), more briefly, ‘Reverse-engineering Milton’ (in which, against the background of Milton’s 1645 double book of Poems English and Latin, I conjure up a virtual Latin ‘twin’ for the great epic which Milton did not write in Latin, Paradise Lost. Poetic conversations throughout will be driven by close engagement across space and time with (especially) Horace, Ovid and Virgil.
Sponsors: This event has been generously funded by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/new-approaches/>
www.bu.edu…<https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/new-approaches/>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Virtual Lecture (Zoom)
Title TBD
Sponsors: Boston University Classical Studies, Core Curriculum, and the African American & Black Diaspora Studies Program.
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving Forward<https://www.bu.edu/classics/dei/lecture-series/>
www.bu.edu…<https://www.bu.edu/classics/dei/lecture-series/>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
April 2024
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 16, 5 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Sun., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.aah2024.org<https://www.aah2024.org/>
BU Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 27
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"From Life to Literature? Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman Literature"
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge)
See a full Call for Papers at the link below. We are accepting abstracts until February 9, 2024.
classicalstudies.org…<https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-boston-university-graduate-studen…>
buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails.
View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>.
Submit events using our event submission form<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission>.
Contact calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu> with questions or additions/corrections.
Boston Area Classics Calendar
December 2023
Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Dec. 2
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Early Greek Art Gallery, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
In celebration of Kore 670, a stunning archaic Greek statue now on view in Gallery 213, see live performances by Emerson College students and area high school students adapting excerpts from ancient Greek tragedies. From Elektra and Antigone to Cassandra and Iphigenia, women featured prominently in ancient Greek theater, yet their roles were performed by men. In three 20-minute performances, students studying theater actively disrupt that traditional practice, revealing how gender bias��both in the ancient world and now��is hardly a new concept.
Saturday, December 2
11:00�C11:20 a.m.
1:00�C1:20 p.m.
2:00�C2:20 p.m.
www.mfa.org��<https://www.mfa.org/event/special-event/activating-kore-670-womens-voices-a…>
Danny Cashman | dcashman(a)mfa.org<mailto:dcashman@mfa.org>
[Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy]
Gallery Talk: Visible and Invisible Colors in Ancient Greek and Roman Art (Chinese) ���Č��[������Ҋ�c����Ҋ��ɫ��<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Dec. 5, 12:30 �C 1 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This event requires registration; see further details below.
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Which colors did ancient Greek and Roman artists use, and how have we discovered their choices? What is polychromy, and how does it influence our understanding of the ancient world? This talk explores both the overt and covert colors within our ancient art collection, with a special emphasis on Greek vase paintings, marble sculpture, and Roman wall paintings.
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Led by:
Vivian Jin, Ph.D. candidate, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; and graduate student intern, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums
Gallery talks are limited to 18 people and registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form<https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=99&CAT…>, beginning at 10am the day of the talk.
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Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.
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The Harvard Art Museums are now offering free admission<https://harvardartmuseums.org/visit/policies/ticketing-information> every day, Tuesday through Sunday. Please see the museum visit page<https://harvardartmuseums.org/visit/policies/general-policies> to learn about our general policies for visiting the museums.
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The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu> at least 48 hours in advance.
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Screening of Michael Cacoyannis' film "The Trojan Women"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Dec. 5, 6 �C 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium (Room 110), Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Featuring introductory remarks by Professor Panagiotis Roilos: "On Trauma in Ancient Greek Tragedy"
Harvard Greek Film Society
dourou(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:dourou@fas.harvard.edu>
[Screening of Michael Cacoyannis' film "The Trojan Women"]
Benjamin Dunning (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Dec. 8, 12 �C 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
New Ancient Music for Euripides�� Helen<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Dec. 8, 6 �C 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 110 (Fong Auditorium), Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join us for an evening of revived ancient Greek choral music, performed by The Call of Kinnaru! This band uses replica instruments to perform ��new ancient music,�� choral dramatic songs revived using a blend of philology and original composition according to carefully researched ancient principles. Before the performance, Professor Naomi Weiss will give an introduction.
Band:
John Franklin (lyre, kinnaru)
Julia Irons (voice)
Rachel Fickes (aulos, lyre)
Jamie Levis (framedrums)
Reception to follow.
[New Ancient Music for Euripides�� Helen]
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 �C 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
April 2024
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 �C 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 �C 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 �C Mon., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
associationofancienthistorians.org<https://associationofancienthistorians.org/>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
November 2023
Sonia Sabnis (Reed College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Nov. 10, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Room 224
"W.E.B. Du Bois and the Citationality of Ancient Greece & Rome"
Description: Du Bois’ interest in and use of sources from ancient Greece and Rome has been a hot topic in recent years, evidenced by a special volume of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2019) and a conference at Penn State (2021). In the concluding essay of the former, Patrice Rankine noted “the need to postpone the word citation, given the difficulty of locating Du Bois’ exact sources of influence” and the accompanying turn to Gates’s theory of “Signifyin(g).” In this lecture, I use archival resources to survey Du Bois’ citations of ancient Greece and Rome. While citations of Greek and Roman sources are minimal features within Du Bois’ enormous oeuvre, they are prominent in his understanding of history and humanism in education. At the same time, Du Bois’ classical references suggest an ironic relationship to the citationality of Greece and Rome in mainstream white media, one that is supported by more acerbic writings by Du Bois’ NAACP colleague (and Yale classics major) William Pickens. Du Bois and Pickens’ particular brand of citation adds breadth to our understanding of exclusionary practices of the past.
Sponsors: Boston University Department of Classical Studies, Core Curriculum, Department of African American & Black Diaspora Studies, and the Boston University Center for Humanities
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving Forward<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_de…>
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Sonia Sabnis (Reed College)]
Niek Janssen (Amherst College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 15, 4:45 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room B18, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"Making Fit: Parody and Decorum in Greco-Roman Literature"
Description: The concepts of decorum and to prepon pervade Greco-Roman ethical and aesthetic thought. Yet ancient theorists from Plato to Dionysius, Cicero, Horace, and Quintilian struggle to articulate what "appropriateness" is and how it is grounded. By confronting these theorists with parodic and comedic texts, which stand in a double, transgressive-yet-conservative relationship to decorum, I argue that this inarticulability is a feature, not a bug, of the concept. Texts like Hegemon's Parodies, Plautus' Asinaria, and the Pseudo-Virgilian Culex reveal the instability of decorum as a basis for normative thought--as a principle for aesthetic judgment and social inclusion/exclusion.
Sponsors: BU Department of Classical Studies & The Boston University Center for the Humanities
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Niek Janssen (Amherst College)]
Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 30, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Octagon 200 (Babbott Room), 220 St. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
"Songs of Praise for Mortals: What They Can and Cannot Do"
classics(a)amherst.edu<mailto:classics@amherst.edu>
Niels Kuehlert (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 30, 5 p.m.
Via Zoom
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-workshop>
December 2023
Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Dec. 2
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Early Greek Art Gallery, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
In celebration of Kore 670, a stunning archaic Greek statue now on view in Gallery 213, see live performances by Emerson College students and area high school students adapting excerpts from ancient Greek tragedies. From Elektra and Antigone to Cassandra and Iphigenia, women featured prominently in ancient Greek theater, yet their roles were performed by men. In three 20-minute performances, students studying theater actively disrupt that traditional practice, revealing how gender bias—both in the ancient world and now—is hardly a new concept.
Saturday, December 2
11:00–11:20 a.m.
1:00–1:20 p.m.
2:00–2:20 p.m.
www.mfa.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_spec…>
Danny Cashman | dcashman(a)mfa.org<mailto:dcashman@mfa.org>
[Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy]
Screening of Michael Cacoyannis' film "The Trojan Women"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Dec. 5, 6 – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium (Room 110), Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Featuring introductory remarks by Professor Panagiotis Roilos: "On Trauma in Ancient Greek Tragedy"
Harvard Greek Film Society
dourou(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:dourou@fas.harvard.edu>
[Screening of Michael Cacoyannis' film "The Trojan Women"]
Benjamin Dunning (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Dec. 8, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
April 2024
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Mon., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
associationofancienthistorians.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__associationofancienthi…>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
November 2023
Eric Driscoll (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Nov. 7, 5 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, Room 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
"Hellenism, Archaeology, Apocalypse"
This talk offers a reading of Kostas Vrettakos’s 1980 documentary short, The Layer of Destruction, in the context of the modern Greek archaeological and folkloric imaginaries. In the 1970s, Greece constructed a dam across the Mornos river, near the southern end of the Pindus Mountains, to create a reservoir that would supply Athens with drinking water. Today, below the waters of this artificial lake lie the remains of an ancient city, Kallipolis or Kallion. In Layer of Destruction, Vrettakos creates a lyrical memorial for Kallion by depicting his visits to the excavations conducted in the late 1970s as the reservoir’s rising waters threatened and eventually covered the site. In the Greek national narrative, archaeological excavation is conceived as an additive process that recovers what Yannis Hamilakis calls “fragments of national memory” and thereby restitutes missing fragments of a collective history. But in Vrettakos’s film, archaeology emerges instead as a form of destruction, a force that—in the language of Jacob Taubes—reinserts time into eternity and suggests that “the order of the world is gripped by death,” that “time… moves toward an end.” Recovering artefacts does not fully recuperate memory or revivify lost time, but in fact accelerates their ultimate loss. What does it mean to see national archaeology as destructive, self-contradictory, and apocalyptic rather than triumphant and restorative?
Bio: Eric Driscoll is a Hellenist, classical archaeologist, and historian of the ancient Mediterranean world. He studied Classics at the University of Chicago and holds a PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley. Before moving to Cambridge in 2021 to teach at Harvard and now at MIT, where he is Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval Studies, Eric lived in Greece for five years, including two spent serving as the Assistant Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
calendar.mit.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__calendar.mit.edu_event…>
[Eric Driscoll (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)]
II Edition of the RCCHU Ancient History International Seminars<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 8, 4 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RCCHU Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA, and over Zoom
PANEL III. Section 1. Ancient Rome
Sponsors: Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University; University of Cordoba; Complutense University of Madrid; Harvard University; University of Seville
rcc.harvard.edu…<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/panel-iii-section-1-ancient-rome>
Organizer: Unai Iriarte Asarta (uiriarte(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:uiriarte@fas.harvard.edu>)
Jorge Wong Medina (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 9, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Contraction and Diectasis in Homeric Diction"
Sonia Sabnis (Reed College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Nov. 10, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Room 224
"W.E.B. Du Bois and the Citationality of Ancient Greece & Rome"
Description: Du Bois’ interest in and use of sources from ancient Greece and Rome has been a hot topic in recent years, evidenced by a special volume of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2019) and a conference at Penn State (2021). In the concluding essay of the former, Patrice Rankine noted “the need to postpone the word citation, given the difficulty of locating Du Bois’ exact sources of influence” and the accompanying turn to Gates’s theory of “Signifyin(g).” In this lecture, I use archival resources to survey Du Bois’ citations of ancient Greece and Rome. While citations of Greek and Roman sources are minimal features within Du Bois’ enormous oeuvre, they are prominent in his understanding of history and humanism in education. At the same time, Du Bois’ classical references suggest an ironic relationship to the citationality of Greece and Rome in mainstream white media, one that is supported by more acerbic writings by Du Bois’ NAACP colleague (and Yale classics major) William Pickens. Du Bois and Pickens’ particular brand of citation adds breadth to our understanding of exclusionary practices of the past.
Sponsors: Boston University Department of Classical Studies, Core Curriculum, Department of African American & Black Diaspora Studies, and the Boston University Center for Humanities
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving Forward<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_de…>
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Sonia Sabnis (Reed College)]
Niek Janssen (Amherst College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 15, 4:45 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room B18, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"Making Fit: Parody and Decorum in Greco-Roman Literature"
Description: The concepts of decorum and to prepon pervade Greco-Roman ethical and aesthetic thought. Yet ancient theorists from Plato to Dionysius, Cicero, Horace, and Quintilian struggle to articulate what "appropriateness" is and how it is grounded. By confronting these theorists with parodic and comedic texts, which stand in a double, transgressive-yet-conservative relationship to decorum, I argue that this inarticulability is a feature, not a bug, of the concept. Texts like Hegemon's Parodies, Plautus' Asinaria, and the Pseudo-Virgilian Culex reveal the instability of decorum as a basis for normative thought--as a principle for aesthetic judgment and social inclusion/exclusion.
Sponsors: BU Department of Classical Studies & The Boston University Center for the Humanities
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Niek Janssen (Amherst College)]
December 2023
Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Dec. 2
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Early Greek Art Gallery, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
In celebration of Kore 670, a stunning archaic Greek statue now on view in Gallery 213, see live performances by Emerson College students and area high school students adapting excerpts from ancient Greek tragedies. From Elektra and Antigone to Cassandra and Iphigenia, women featured prominently in ancient Greek theater, yet their roles were performed by men. In three 20-minute performances, students studying theater actively disrupt that traditional practice, revealing how gender bias—both in the ancient world and now—is hardly a new concept.
Saturday, December 2
11:00–11:20 a.m.
1:00–1:20 p.m.
2:00–2:20 p.m.
www.mfa.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_spec…>
Danny Cashman | dcashman(a)mfa.org<mailto:dcashman@mfa.org>
[Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy]
Screening of Michael Cacoyannis' film "The Trojan Women"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Dec. 5, 6 – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium (Room 110), Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Featuring introductory remarks by Professor Panagiotis Roilos: "On Trauma in Ancient Greek Tragedy"
Harvard Greek Film Society
dourou(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:dourou@fas.harvard.edu>
[Screening of Michael Cacoyannis' film "The Trojan Women"]
Benjamin Dunning (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Dec. 8, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
April 2024
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Mon., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
associationofancienthistorians.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__associationofancienthi…>
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