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-calend…
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-d…
[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?tr…
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?…
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-gr…
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of
Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
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?…
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@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?…
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@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
April 2024
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. We are accepting abstracts until February 9,
2024.
classicalstudies.org…<https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-boston-u…
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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