Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2022
Claude Calame (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Mon., Oct. 17, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Choral performances of young women and (homo)erotic ritual poetry: back to
Alcman's and Sappho’s songs"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Kristina Chew (Rutgers
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 18, 5 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology (STH B23), 745 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA
Kristina Chew, Associate Teaching Professor at Rutgers University, will show how
translating Catullus offers a new understanding of his poetry and his translations.
Boston University: New Approaches to
Classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu…
contact: James Uden: uden@bu.edu<mailto:uden@bu.edu>
Interrogating the
Classics<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Oct. 19, 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell
Street, Providence, RI 02906
Brown Arts Institute’s Interrogating the Classics Series continues!
Rachel Christopher (Assistant Professor of the Practice, Theatre Arts and Performance
Studies), Shey Rivera Ríos (AntigonX, 2021), Annie Saunders (Our Country, co-creator and
performer) and B. Wolff (Our Country, co-creator and director) discuss the process of
interpreting and adapting classical works for our complex times. The conversation will be
moderated by Avery Willis Hoffman, Artistic Director, Brown Arts Institute and Professor
of the Practice of Arts and Classics.
Registration is encouraged, but not required.
Presented by Brown Arts Institute, with support from the Department of Classics and the
Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies.
events.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__e…
[Interrogating the Classics]
Kimberly Cassibry (Wellesley
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Oct. 21, 4 – 5:15 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Herter Hall, Room 227, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst,
MA 01003
“Seeing the Roman Empire through Ancient Souvenirs"
Kimberly Cassibry is an Associate Professor of Art at Wellesley College.
sponsored by the UMass Amherst Classics Department
tramsby@umass.edu<mailto:tramsby@umass.edu>
Greta Galeotti (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Oct. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 335, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The Ionic iterative-preterites: some questions about their epic development."
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
linguistics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/i…
Zrinka Stahuljak
(
UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Mon., Oct. 24, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
MIT, Building 14, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
"Medieval Fixers: History, Literature, and the Politics of Translation"
Ever since the western involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, and then Syria, the term “fixer”
became commonplace. It designates almost exclusively men who perform a range of services
for foreign journalists and armies. Acting as interpreters, local informants, guides,
drivers, mediators, brokers, these men are intermediaries, enablers who possess multiple
skills and bodies of knowledge. Fixers existed already in the Middle Ages, in situations
of multilingual encounter, such as crusades, pilgrimages, proselytization, trade,
translation. Fixers are the invisible men and women of history, then as now. This talk
aims to restore their presence in a productive conversation between the fixers of the past
and of the present. To look at history, literature, and politics through the lens of
fixers changes our relationship to the world and how we structure it, and invites
reflection on 'intermediary states.’
Open and free to public.
Non-MIT community members should register in MIT’s Tim Tickets
system<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__visitors.mit…
in order to get access to building.
Presented by the MIT Global France Seminar. Additional sponsors: French+ Initiative, MIT
Literature, MIT Global Languages, Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium
calendar.mit.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__c…
[Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)]
Jeffrey Murray, 'Classics in Natal,
1843-2000'<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-ca…
Wed., Oct. 26, 12:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge, MA
02138
This event will be in-person & live-streamed on
YouTube<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_BX…jx_jxJ0T-YceM_WdR-Q&e=>.
Jeffrey
Murray<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jeffrey-murray> is the
Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
New England Ancient History Colloquium Fall
2022<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Wed., Oct. 26, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Waltham, MA 02453
We are pleased to announce the fall meeting of the New England Ancient History Colloquium
(NEAHC). On the evening of October 26th, Brandeis University will host a meeting to
discuss a pre-circulated paper by Professor Roberta Stewart of Dartmouth College entitled,
“Coping with the Lot,” followed by comments from Professor Dominic Machado of the College
of the Holy Cross.
Registration information will be sent before the end of September. Brandeis will host a
reception, followed by dinner and discussion. Links to Professor Stewart’s paper will be
sent two weeks in advance of the meeting.
Brandeis is easily accessible by car and public transportation. Parking is available on
campus near the location of the meeting. Further details on catering choices and location
will be provided on the registration form.
We hope you will consider joining us on campus! This event will be hybrid, and those who
attend online will be able to join in the conversation and question period.
To join the NEAHC mailing list, please write to:
classics_department@brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu>
New England Ancient Historians
Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neah…
Contact: Caitlin Gillespie and Cheryl Walker (Brandeis University)
Inspiring Greek Women Writers and the Importance of Their
Translation<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Oct. 28, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, PHO 206. 8, St Mary's St, Boston, MA
Join us for an afternoon discussion of the life and works of two prominent Greek authors,
Amanda Michalopoulou and Kallia Papadaki, and a celebration of the importance of women
writers to contemporary cultural life in Greece. The authors will read from their works,
and Prof. Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University of Greece) will moderate a discussion and Q
& A. All attendees will have a chance to meet the authors and experts at a reception
afterwards. This event is free and open to students, scholars, and the general public.
Tickets available through
Eventbrite<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.even…sWO4RmXHVD8_iR8R9GE&e=>.
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
Contact: classics@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Inspiring Greek Women Writers and the Importance of Their Translation]
Rita Copeland (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Mon., Oct. 31, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 110 (the Thompson Room), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Author Rita Copeland, Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and
Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of
Pennsylvania, discusses her new book Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle
Ages (Oxford University Press, 2022) with Nicholas Watson, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot
Professor of English Literature and Chair of the Committee on Medieval Studies. This event
is part of the Medieval Studies Seminar's 2022-2023 series Re-Writing the Middle
Ages.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval
Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/medieval-studies>
medieval.fas.harvard.edu…<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahindr…
Contact: Sean Gilsdorf (gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu>)
November 2022
Ancient Studies Visitors Series: Carolina López-Ruiz (University of
Chicago)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 1, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
“The Recovery of a Phoenician Intellectual History: Problems and Insights”
Details to follow.
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors
Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
John DeVoy (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Nov. 9, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Xwedodah: Zoroastrian Incest from Herodotus to Heraclius"
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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-cal…
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!
sohp.fas.harvard.edu…<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming>
Lecture: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne) and Thomas Sagory (French Ministry of
Culture)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 15, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Syrian archaeological archives and cultural heritage
Open to the public.
Organized by the Forum on Cultural Heritage at Harvard
María Luisa Aguilar García (University of Valencia and Collegium
Latinitatis)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
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.e…
blogs.umb.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blog…
Contact: Christopher Cochran
(Christopher.Cochran@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?trum…
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-ac…ce>.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
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?t…
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?t…
Mon., Mar. 27, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 3
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
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?tr…
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…
for details.
cjs.fas.harvard.edu…<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochu…
A Symposium in Honor of Ioli
Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
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.co…
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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