"The Latest from Hades: Menippean Dispatches from the Other Side"
Faculty Speaker Series with Dr. Joel Relihan

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Dr. Joel C. Relihan, Professor and Chair of Classics at Wheaton College, will give a talk based on his recently published book, Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies. Dr. Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Professor of Religion, will moderate the Q&A.

Live captioning will be available to all attendees. If you require additional accommodations for this event, contact Megan Brooks at brooks_megan@wheatoncollege.edu by November 3, 2021.

The Greek Revolution (1821)—to a great extent inspired by the American and the French Revolutions—had a remarkable impact on geopolitical developments in Europe in the second quarter of the 19th century and beyond. This event at Harvard commemorates the bicentennial of that major incident in European history, while also addressing significant social, geopolitical, and cultural challenges and opportunities that Greece and Europe are facing today.

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Introductory Remarks:
 
Professor Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs; Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
 
Professor Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature; Founder and Director of the Delphi Academy of European Studies: Harvard and the Greek Revolution
 
Greetings from representatives of Boston’s Consular corps:
 
Consul General of France in Boston , Arnaud Mentré
British Consul General in Boston, Peter Abbott
Consul General of Haiti in Boston, Hans Charles
Consul General of Portugal in Boston, João Pedro de Vasconcelos Fins do Lago
Consul General of Greece in Boston, Stratos Efthymiou
 
Keynote speech:
 
Ambassador Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
President of "Greece 2021" Committee
Former Vice-Chair of HKS Dean’s Council, member of the Dean’s Council Leadership Circle 
 
200 Years of Modern Greece – History Shows the Path to the Future

The event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the George Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies, and the Consulate General of Greece in Boston.
 
In compliance with Harvard requirements, all guests and participants are required to wear masks.

Reconsidering the Greek Revolution 4: Women of the Greek Revolution in 19th and 20th-Century Poetry (in Greek)
Eri Stavropoulou is the Professor of Modern Greek Literature, Emerita, at the University of Athens.
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"Reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto’s Musical Instruments"

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Susanne Gänsicke is a Senior Conservator and ​​the Head of Antiquities Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Double reed pipes, known as auloi, were popular musical instruments in the ancient Mediterranean. In 1921, archaeologists exploring the necropolis of Meroë (northern Sudan)—as part of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition—found a large collection of auloi in the pyramid of Nubian Queen Amanishakheto. Susanne Gänsicke will discuss the discovery’s importance and what it reveals about the connections between Nubia and the Mediterranean world as well as the significance of far-reaching musical traditions. She will also share recent efforts to conserve and reconstruct these ancient musical instruments.

Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture