Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
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-gr…
[Tom Sapsford (Boston College)]
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of
Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
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-calend…
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&g…
Contact: lit@mit.edu<mailto:lit@mit.edu>
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington,
Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
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@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Johanna Hanink (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
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-lect…
Contact: Jane Sancinito, Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu<mailto:Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu>
Skye Shirley (University College
London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
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@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-calend…
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-gr…
Samuel Agbamu (University of
Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
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@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
April 2024
Free Speech, the First Amendment, and
Parrhesia<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
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?tr…
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?…
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-gr…
Martin Hinterberger (University of
Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
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?t…
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-calenda…
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-u…
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of
Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
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